An Act to authorize further appropriations for the Council on Environmental Quality

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An Act to authorize further appropriations for the Council on Environmental Quality

An Act to authorize further appropriations for the Council on Environmental Quality

Act Details

An Act to authorize further appropriations for the Council on Environmental Quality was, as a bill, a proposal (now, a piece of legislation) introduced on 1976-01-29 in the House of Commons and Senate respectively of the 94 United States Congress by Leonor Kretzer Sullivan in relation with: Environmental assessment, Environmental protection, Government operations and politics.

An Act to authorize further appropriations for the Council on Environmental Quality became law (1) in the United States on 1976-05-29

It was referred to the following Committee(s): (2)

House Merchant Marine and Fisheries (HSMM)
Senate Interior and Insular Affairs (SSEG)

Leonor Kretzer Sullivan, member of the US congress
Leonor Kretzer Sullivan, Democrat, Representative from Missouri, district 3

The proposal had the following cosponsors:

Edwin Bell Forsythe, Republican, Representative, from New Jersey, district 13
Robert Louis Leggett, Democrat, Representative, from California, district 4
James Oberstar, Representative, from Minnesota, district 8
Philip Edward Ruppe, Republican, Representative, from Michigan, district 11

Act Overview

Text of the An Act to authorize further appropriations for the Council on Environmental Quality

(Reported to House from the Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries with amendment H. Rept. 94-888) Authorizes appropriations under the Environmental Quality Improvement Act of 1970 for the operations of the Office of Environmental Quality and the Council on Environmental Quality as follows: $2000000 for fiscal year 1976; $500000 for the transition period through September 30 1976; $3000000 for fiscal year 1977; and $3000000 for fiscal year 1978.

Act Notes

  • [Note 1] An Act (like An Act to authorize further appropriations for the Council on Environmental Quality) or a resolution cannot become a law in the United States until it has been approved (passed) in identical form by both the House of Representatives and the Senate, as well as signed by the President (but see (5)). If the two bodys of the Congress versions of an Act are not identical, one of the bodies might decide to take a further vote to adopt the bill (see more about the Congress process here). An Act may be pass in identical form with or without amendments and with or without conference. (see more about Enrollment).
  • [Note 2] Proposals are referred to committees for preliminary consideration, then debated, amended, and passed (or rejected) by the full House or Senate. To prevent endless shuttling of bills between the House and Senate, bills like An Act to authorize further appropriations for the Council on Environmental Quality are referred to joint committees made up of members of both houses.
  • [Note 3] For more information regarding this legislative proposal, go to THOMAS, select “Bill Number,” search on (An Act to authorize further appropriations for the Council on Environmental Quality)
  • [Note 4] An Act to authorize further appropriations for the Council on Environmental Quality. The current official title of a bill is always present, assigned at introduction (for example, in this case, on 1976-01-29) and can be revised any time. This type of titles are sentences.
  • [Note 5] The Act is referred to the appropriate committee by the Speaker of any of the two Houses. Bills are placed on the calendar of the committee to which they have been assigned. See Assignment Process.
  • [Note 6] Regarding exceptions to President´s approval, a bill that is not signed (returned unsigned) by the President can still become law if at lest two thirds of each of the two bodys of the Congress votes to pass it, which is an infrequent case. See also Presidential Veto.
  • [Note 7] Legislative Proposal types can be: hr, hres, hjres, hconres, s, sres, sjres, sconres. A bill originating in the Senate is designated by the letter “S”, and a bill originating from the House of Representatives begins with “H.R.”, followed, in both cases, by its individual number which it retains throughout all its parliamentary process.
  • [Note 8] For information regarding related bill/s to An Act to authorize further appropriations for the Council on Environmental Quality, go to THOMAS.

Analysis

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Environmental assessment
Environmental protection
Government operations and politics

Further Reading

  • “How our laws are made”, Edward F Willett; Jack Brooks, Washington, U.S. G.P.O.
  • “To make all laws : the Congress of the United States, 1789-1989”, James H Hutson- Washington, Library of Congress.
  • “Bills introduced and laws enacted: selected legislative statistics, 1947-1990”, Rozanne M Barry; Library of Congress. Congressional Research Service.

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