Every law Congress has passed

774 laws of the 93rd Congress, 1973–1975

1. An Act For the relief of Rosa Ines D’Elia.

   Private Law 93-25 · 87 Stat. 1105 · December 5, 1973 · Private law · Original text

2. An Act For the relief of Jose Carlos Recalde Martorella.

   Private Law 93-26 · 87 Stat. 1106 · December 5, 1973 · Private law · Original text

3. An Act For the relief of Anka Kosanovic.

   Private Law 93-27 · 87 Stat. 1106 · December 5, 1973 · Private law · Original text

4. An Act For the relief of Mrs. Enid R. Pope.

   Private Law 93-28 · 87 Stat. 1106 · December 5, 1973 · Private law · Original text

5. An Act For the relief of Mrs. Bruna Turni, Graziella Turni, and Antonello Turni.

   Private Law 93-29 · 87 Stat. 1107 · December 5, 1973 · Private law · Original text

6. An Act For the relief of Edith E. Carrera.

   Private Law 93-30 · 87 Stat. 1107 · December 5, 1973 · Private law · Original text

7. An Act For the relief of Mr. Jose Antonio Trias.

   Private Law 93-31 · 87 Stat. 1107 · December 5, 1973 · Private law · Original text

8. An Act To amend title 38, United States Code, to increase the monthly rates of disability and death pensions and dependency and indemnity compensation, and for other purposes.

   Public Law 93-177 · 87 Stat. 694 · December 6, 1973 · Original text

9. An Act For the relief of Edgar P. Faulkner and Hay H. New.

   Private Law 93-32 · 87 Stat. 1107 · December 8, 1973 · Private law · Original text

10. An Act For tile relief of Hazel IV. Law non and Lloyd C. Johnson.

    Private Law 93-33 · 87 Stat. 1108 · December 8, 1973 · Private law · Original text

11. An Act For the relief of Joseph C. Leeba.

    Private Law 93-34 · 87 Stat. 1108 · December 8, 1973 · Private law · Original text

12. An Act For the relief of Cornelius S. Ball, Victor F. Mann, Junior, George J. Posner, Dominick A. Sgammato, and James H. Walsh.

    Private Law 93-35 · 87 Stat. 1108 · December 8, 1973 · Private law · Original text

13. An Act For the relief of James Evans, published of the Colfax County Press, and Morris Odvarka.

    Private Law 93-36 · 87 Stat. 1109 · December 8, 1973 · Private law · Original text

14. An Act For the relief of Eugenia C. Lyttle.

    Private Law 93-37 · 87 Stat. 1109 · December 8, 1973 · Private law · Original text

15. An Act For the relief of Luther V. Winstead.

    Private Law 93-38 · 87 Stat. 1110 · December 8, 1973 · Private law · Original text

16. An Act To insure that the compensation and other emoluments attached to the Office of Attorney General are those which were in effect on January 1, 1969.

    Public Law 93-178 · December 10, 1973

17. An Act To establish the American Revolution Bicentennial Administration, and for other purposes.

    Public Law 93-179 · 87 Stat. 697 · December 11, 1973 · Original text

18. An Act For the relief of First Lieutenant John P. Dunn, Army of the United States, retired.

    Private Law 93-39 · 87 Stat. 1110 · December 11, 1973 · Private law · Original text

19. An Act For the relief of Master Sergeant Eugene J. Mikulenka, United States Army (retired).

    Private Law 93-40 · 87 Stat. 1110 · December 12, 1973 · Private law · Original text

20. An Act For the relief of James E. Fry, Junior, and Margaret E. Fry.

    Private Law 93-41 · 87 Stat. 1111 · December 12, 1973 · Private law · Original text

21. An Act For the relief of Manuel H. Silva.

    Private Law 93-42 · 87 Stat. 1111 · December 12, 1973 · Private law · Original text

22. An Act For the relief of William M. Starrs.

    Private Law 93-43 · 87 Stat. 1112 · December 12, 1973 · Private law · Original text

23. Joint Resolution Authorizing the securing of storage space for the United States Senate, the United States House of Representatives, and the Office of the Architect of the Capitol.

    Public Law 93-180 · 87 Stat. 704 · December 13, 1973 · Original text

24. An Act For the relief of George Downer and Victor L. Jones.

    Private Law 93-44 · 87 Stat. 1112 · December 13, 1973 · Private law · Original text

25. An Act To amend title 5, United States Code, to Improve the administration of the leave system for Federal employees.

    Public Law 93-181 · 87 Stat. 705 · December 14, 1973 · Original text

26. Emergency Daylight Saving Time Energy Conservation Act of 1973

    An Act To provide for daylight saving time on a year-round basis for n two-year trial period, and to require the Federal Communications Commission to permit certain daytime broadcast stations to operate before local sunrise.

    Public Law 93-182 · 87 Stat. 707 · December 15, 1973 · Original text

27. An Act To name the headquarters building in the Geological Survey National Center under construction in Reston, Virginia, as the “John Wesley Powell Federal Building”.

    Public Law 93-183 · 87 Stat. 709 · December 15, 1973 · Original text

28. An Act To provide for the conveyance of certain mineral rights in and under lands in Onslow County, North Carolina.

    Public Law 93-184 · 87 Stat. 710 · December 15, 1973 · Original text

29. An Act To provide for increasing the amount of interest paid on the permanent fund of tire United States Soldiers’ and Airmen’s Home.

    Public Law 93-185 · 87 Stat. 712 · December 15, 1973 · Original text

30. An Act Designating the Texarkana Dam and Reservoir on the Sulphur River as the “Wright Patman Dam and Lake.”

    Public Law 93-186 · 87 Stat. 713 · December 15, 1973 · Original text

31. An Act To name a Federal office building in Dallas, Texas, the “Earle Cabell Federal Building”.

    Public Law 93-187 · 87 Stat. 713 · December 15, 1973 · Original text

32. United Nations Environment Program Participation Act of 1973

    An Act To provide for participation by the United States in the United Nations environment program.

    Public Law 93-188 · 87 Stat. 713 · December 15, 1973 · Original text

33. An Act For the relief of Ossie Emmons and others.

    Private Law 93-45 · 87 Stat. 1112 · December 15, 1973 · Private law · Original text

34. An Act For the relief of John B. Clayton.

    Private Law 93-46 · 87 Stat. 1113 · December 15, 1973 · Private law · Original text

35. An Act For the relief of Swiff-Train Company.

    Private Law 93-47 · 87 Stat. 1114 · December 15, 1973 · Private law · Original text

36. Foreign Assistance Act of 1973

    An Act To amend the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961, and for other purposes.

    Public Law 93-189 · 87 Stat. 714 · December 17, 1973 · Original text

37. An Act To confer jurisdiction upon the district court of the United States of certain civil actions brought by the Senate Select Committee on Presidential Campaign Activities, and for other purposes.

    Public Law 93-190 · 87 Stat. 736 · December 18, 1973 · Original text

38. An Act To amend title 39, United States Code, to clarify the proper use of the franking privilege by If embers of Congress, and for other purposes.

    Public Law 93-191 · 87 Stat. 737 · December 18, 1973 · Original text

39. Departments of Labor, and Health, Education, and Welfare Appropriation Act, 1974

    An Act Making appropriations for the Departments of Labor, and Health, Education, and Welfare, and related agencies, for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1974, and for other purposes.

    Public Law 93-192 · 87 Stat. 746 · December 18, 1973 · Original text

40. An Act To amend the International Travel Act of 1981 to authorize appropriations for fiscal years 1974, 1975, and 1976, and for other purposes.

    Public Law 93-193 · 87 Stat. 765 · December 19, 1973 · Original text

41. Choctaw-Chickasaw-Cherokee Boundary Dispute Act

    An Act To determine the rights and interests of the Choctaw Nation, the Chickasaw Nation, and the Cherokee Nation in and to the bed of the Arkansas River below the Canadian Fork and to the eastern boundary of Oklahoma.

    Public Law 93-195 · 87 Stat. 769 · December 20, 1973 · Original text

42. Joint Resolution Relative to the convening of the second session of the Ninety-third Congress.

    Public Law 93-196 · 87 Stat. 770 · December 20, 1973 · Original text

43. Menominee Restoration Act

    An Act To repeal the Act terminating Federal supervision over the property and members of the Menominee Indian Tribe of Wisconsin; to reinetltute the Menominee Indian Tribe of Wisconsin as a federally recognised sovereign Indian tribe; and to restore to the Menominee Tribe of Wisconsin those Federal services furnished to American Indians because of their status as American Indians; and for other purposes.

    Public Law 93-197 · 87 Stat. 770 · December 22, 1973 · Original text

44. Military Construction Appropriation Act, 1974

    An Act Making appropriations for military construction for the Department of Defense for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1874, and for other purposes.

    Public Law 93-194 · 87 Stat. 766 · December 23, 1973 · Original text

45. District of Columbia Self-Government and Governmental Reorganization Act

    An Act To reorganize the governmental structure of the District of Columbia, to provide a charter for local government in the District of Columbia subject, to acceptance by a majority of the registered qualified electors in the District of Columbia, to delegate certain legislative powers to the local government, to implement certain recommendations of the Com mission on the Organization of the Government of the District of Columbia, and for other purposes.

    Public Law 93-198 · 87 Stat. 774 · December 24, 1973 · Original text

46. Emergency Security Assistance Act of 1973

    An Act To provide emergency security assistance authorizations for Israel and Cambodia.

    Public Law 93-199 · 87 Stat. 836 · December 26, 1973 · Original text

47. An Act To amend section 40b of the Bankruptcy Act (11 (U.S.C. 68(b)) to remove the restriction on change of salary of full-time referees.

    Public Law 93-200 · 87 Stat. 838 · December 27, 1973 · Original text

48. An Act To amend section 303(b) of the Interstate Commerce Act to remove certain restrictions upon the application and scope of the exemption provided therein, and for other purposes.

    Public Law 93-201 · 87 Stat. 838 · December 27, 1973 · Original text

49. An Act To postpone the implementation of the Headstart fee schedule.

    Public Law 93-202 · 87 Stat. 838 · December 28, 1973 · Original text

50. Comprehensive Employment and Training Act of 1973

    An Act To assure opportunities for employment and training to unemployed and underemployed persons.

    Public Law 93-203 · 87 Stat. 839 · December 28, 1973 · Original text

51. An Act To amend section 232 of the National Housing Act to authorize insured loans to provide tire safety equipment for nursing homes and intermediate care facilities.

    Public Law 93-204 · 87 Stat. 883 · December 28, 1973 · Original text

52. Endangered Species Art of 1973

    An Act To provide for the conservation of endangered and threatened species of fish, wildlife, and plants, and for other purposes.

    Public Law 93-205 · 87 Stat. 884 · December 28, 1973 · Original text

53. An Act To authorize the Secretary of the Interior to enter into agreements with non-Federal agencies for the replacement of the existing American Falls Dam, Minidoka project, Idaho, and for other purposes.

    Public Law 93-206 · 87 Stat. 904 · December 28, 1973 · Original text

54. An Act To amend the Federal Water Pollution Control Act, as amended.

    Public Law 93-207 · 87 Stat. 906 · December 28, 1973 · Original text

55. An Act To amend chapter 36 of ratio 38, United States Code, to authorize the Administrator of Veterans’ Affairs to continue making educational assistance and subsistence allowance payments to eligible veterans and eligible persons during periods that the educational institutions in which they are enrolled are temporarily closed pursuant to a policy proclaimed by the President or because Of emergency conditions.

    Public Law 93-208 · 87 Stat. 907 · December 28, 1973 · Original text

56. An Act To amend section 4082(c) of title 18, United States Code, to extend the limits of confinement of Federal prisoners.

    Public Law 93-209 · 87 Stat. 907 · December 28, 1973 · Original text

57. An Act The amend section 291(h) of the Central Intelligence Agency Retirement Act of 1634 for Certain Employees, relating to cost-of-living Increases, and to increase the pay and allowances of certain officers of the Armed Forces whose pay and allowances are not subject to adjustment to reflect changes in the Consumer Price Index.

    Public Law 93-210 · 87 Stat. 908 · December 28, 1973 · Original text

58. Joint Resolution To provide for the establishment of the Lyndon Baines Johnson Memorial Grove on the Potomac.

    Public Law 93-211 · 87 Stat. 909 · December 28, 1973 · Original text

59. An Act To authorize the disposal of zine from the national stockpile and the supplemental stockpile.

    Public Law 93-212 · 87 Stat. 909 · December 28, 1973 · Original text

60. An Act To amend title 37, United States Code, to authorize travel and transportation allowances to certain members of the uniformed services in connection with leave.

    Public Law 93-213 · 87 Stat. 910 · December 28, 1973 · Original text

61. An Act To authorize the disposal of copper from the national stockpile and the supplemental stockpile.

    Public Law 93-214 · 87 Stat. 910 · December 28, 1973 · Original text

62. An Act To name the United States courthouse and Federal office building under construction in New Orleans, Louisiana, as the “Hale Boggs Federal Building”, and for other purposes.

    Public Law 93-215 · 87 Stat. 911 · December 28, 1973 · Original text

63. An Act To authorize the disposal of silicon carbide from the national stockpile and the Supplemental stockpile.

    Public Law 93-216 · 87 Stat. 911 · December 28, 1973 · Original text

64. An Act To provide for the naming of the lake to be created by the Buchanan Dam, Chowchilla River, California.

    Public Law 93-217 · 87 Stat. 912 · December 28, 1973 · Original text

65. An Act To authorize the disposal of opium from the national stockpile.

    Public Law 93-218 · 87 Stat. 912 · December 28, 1973 · Original text

66. An Act To authorize the disposal of molybdenum from the national stockpile, and for other purposes.

    Public Law 93-219 · 87 Stat. 912 · December 28, 1973 · Original text

67. An Act To authorize the disposal of aluminum from the national stockpile and for other purposes.

    Public Law 93-220 · 87 Stat. 913 · December 28, 1973 · Original text

68. An Act For the relief of Maria Lourdes Rios.

    Private Law 93-48 · 87 Stat. 1114 · December 28, 1973 · Private law · Original text

69. An Act For the relief of Isabel Eugenia Serrane Macias Ferrier.

    Private Law 93-49 · 87 Stat. 1114 · December 28, 1973 · Private law · Original text

70. An Act To provide for the striking of medals rsauiueiuuratlng the International Exposition on Environment at Spokane, Washington, in 1974.

    Public Law 93-221 · 87 Stat. 913 · December 29, 1973 · Original text

71. Health Maintenance Organization Act of 1973

    An Act To amend the Public Health Service Act to provide assistance and encouragement for the establishment and expansion of health maintenance organizations, and for other purposes.

    Public Law 93-222 · 87 Stat. 914 · December 29, 1973 · Original text

72. An Act To amend the District of Columbia Minimum Wage Act so as to enable airline employees to exchange days at regular rates of compensation, and for other purposes.

    Public Law 93-223 · 87 Stat. 936 · December 29, 1973 · Original text

73. federal Financing Bank Act of 1973

    An Act To establish a Federal Financing Bank, to provide for coordinated and more efficient financing of Federal and federally assisted borrowings from the public, and for other purposes.

    Public Law 93-224 · 87 Stat. 937 · December 29, 1973 · Original text

74. An Act To continue mandatory price support for tung nuts only through the 1976 crop.

    Public Law 93-225 · 87 Stat. 942 · December 29, 1973 · Original text

75. Joint Resolution To provide for a feasibility study and to accept a gift from the United States Capitol Historical Society.

    Public Law 93-226 · 87 Stat. 943 · December 29, 1973 · Original text

76. An Act To provide for the striking of medals in commemoration of the one hundredth anniversary of the statehood of Colorado.

    Public Law 93-227 · 87 Stat. 944 · December 29, 1973 · Original text

77. An Act To repeal the provisions of the Agriculture and Consumer Protection Act of 1973 which provide for payments to farmers in the event of crop failures with respect to crops planted In lieu of wheat or feed grains.

    Public Law 93-228 · 87 Stat. 944 · December 29, 1973 · Original text

78. An Act To amend chapter 33 of title 28 of the District of Columbia Code, relating to usury, and for other purposes.

    Public Law 93-229 · 87 Stat. 945 · December 29, 1973 · Original text

79. An Act To amend the Agricultural Adjustment Act, as reenacted and amended by the Agricultural Marketing Agreement Act of 1937, so as to authorize certain grapefruit marketing orders which provide for an assessment against handlers for the purpose of financing a marketing promotion program to also provide for a credit against such assessment in the case of handlers who expend directly for marketing promotion.

    Public Law 93-230 · 87 Stat. 945 · December 29, 1973 · Original text

80. An Act To designate the portion of the project for flood control protection on Chartiers Creek that is within Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, as the “James G. Fulton Flood Protection Project”.

    Public Law 93-231 · 87 Stat. 946 · December 29, 1973 · Original text

81. Joint Resolution Authorizing the President to proclaim March 20, 1974, as “Vietnam Veterans Day”.

    Public Law 93-232 · 87 Stat. 946 · December 29, 1973 · Original text

82. An Act For the relief of Claude V. Alcorn and twenty-one others.

    Private Law 93-50 · 87 Stat. 1115 · December 29, 1973 · Private law · Original text

83. An Act To provide a 7-percent increase in social security benefits beginning with March 1974 and an additional 4-percent increase beginning with June 1974, to provide increases in supplemental security income benefits, and for other purposes.

    Public Law 93-233 · 87 Stat. 946 · December 31, 1973 · Original text

84. Flood Disaster Protection Act of 1973

    An Act To expand the national flood insurance program by substantially increasing limits of coverage and total amount of insurance authorized to be outstanding and by requiring known flood-prone communities to participate in the pro-gram, and for other purposes.

    Public Law 93-234 · 87 Stat. 975 · December 31, 1973 · Original text

85. Joint Resolution Extending the dates for the transmission of the 1974 Economic Report and the report of the Joint Economic Committee.

    Public Law 93-235 · 87 Stat. 984 · January 2, 1974 · Original text

86. Regional Rail Reorganization Act of 1973

    An Act To authorize and direct the maintenance of adequate and efficient rail services In the Midwest and Northeast region of the United States, and for other purposes.

    Public Law 93-236 · 87 Stat. 985 · January 2, 1974 · Original text

87. An Act To amend the Small Business Act.

    Public Law 93-237 · 87 Stat. 1023 · January 2, 1974 · Original text

88. Department of Defense Appropriation Act, 1974

    An Act Making appropriations for the Department of Defense for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1974, and for other purposes.

    Public Law 93-238 · 87 Stat. 1026 · January 2, 1974 · Original text

89. An Act To conserve energy on the Nation’s highways.

    Public Law 93-239 · 87 Stat. 1046 · January 2, 1974 · Original text

90. Foreign Assistance and Related Programs Appropriation Act, 1974

    An Act Making appropriations for Foreign Assistance and related programs for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1974, and for other purposes.

    Public Law 93-240 · 87 Stat. 1049 · January 2, 1974 · Original text

91. An Act To amend the Act of March 1ft, 1926 (relating to the Board of Public Welfare in the District of Columbia), to provide for an improved system of adoption of children in the District of Columbia, and for other purposes.

    Public Law 93-241 · 87 Stat. 1057 · January 2, 1974 · Original text

92. An Act To implement the shrimp fishing agreement with Brazil, and for other purposes.

    Public Law 93-242 · 87 Stat. 1061 · January 2, 1974 · Original text

93. An Act To amend the Federal Water Pollution Control Act to establish the ratio for allocation of treatment works construction grant funds, to insure that grants may be given for other than operable units, and to clarify the requirements for development of priorities.

    Public Law 93-243 · 87 Stat. 1069 · January 2, 1974 · Original text

94. An Act To authorize the American Battle Monuments Commission to assume control of overseas war memorials erected by private persons and non-Federal and foreign agencies and to demolish such war memorials in certain Instances.

    Public Law 93-244 · 87 Stat. 1070 · January 2, 1974 · Original text

95. Supplemental Appropriations Act, 1974

    An Act Making supplemental appropriations for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1974, and for other purposes.

    Public Law 93-245 · 87 Stat. 1071 · January 3, 1974 · Original text

96. An Act Designating San Angelo Dam and Reservoir on the North Concho River as the “O. C. Fisher Dam and Lake”.

    Public Law 93-634 · January 3, 1974

97. An Act To amend the Urban Mass Transportation Act of 1964 to permit financial assistance to be famished under that Act for the acquisition of certain equipment which may be used for charter service in a manner which does not foreclose private operators from furnishing such service, and for other purposes.

    Public Law 93-650 · 89 Stat. 2–1 · January 4, 1974 · Original text

98. An Act To increase the contribution of the Government to the costs of health benefits for Federal employees, and for other purposes.

    Public Law 93-246 · January 31, 1974

99. Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act

    An Act To provide financial assistance for a demonstration program for the prevention, identification, and treatment of child abuse and neglect, to establish a National Center on Child Abuse and Neglect, and for other purposes.

    Public Law 93-247 · January 31, 1974

100. Intervention on the High Seas Act

     An Act To implement the International Convention Relating to Intervention on the High Seas in Cases of Oil Pollution Casualties, 1969.

     Public Law 93-248 · February 5, 1974