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Key Legislation
KHS Key Legislation
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| National Labor Relations Act (1935) | An act to protect the rights of employees and employers by encouraging collective bargaining. Limits actions of employers against employees who strike, unionize, or engage in collective bargaining. Use elections to determine union representation. |
| Pendleton Civil Service Act (1883) | An act which made political appointments to be made based upon predetermined standards of merit rather than patronage |
| Social Security Act (1935) | An act to provide for the general welfare. Establishing a system of Federal old-age benefits. Collecting money for aged persons, blind persons, dependent and crippled children, maternal and child welfare, and public health. |
| The Taft-Hartley Act/Labor-Management Relations Act (1947) | This act monitors labor unions activities and power. It prohibited multiple types of strikes, boycotts, money donations by unions to federal campaigns, and closed shops. It listed the unfair labor practices that were to be prohibited. |
| War Powers Resolution (1973) | an act that describes how the pres. must proceed for the deployment, terminating, and consulting of U.S. armed forces not authorized by Con. and it describes time limits on the pres. to do so. (Such as 48 hrs. or 60 days). |
| Title IX of the Educational Amendment (1972) | Prohibits discrimination of gender in any federally funded education program or activity, cannot discriminate against pregnant students, sports programs, courses, marital status, or parental status. |
| Voting Rights Act (1965) | An act to ban voting discrimination practices, prevented state (mostly the south) from requiring literacy test to vote, established extensive federal oversight of elections, enforces the 15th amendment |
| Congressional Budget Impoundment and Control Act (1985) aka Gramm-Rudman-Hollings | Congressional Budget Impoundment and Control Act (1985) An act which made the president unable to impound funds, and formed the House and Senate Budget Committees, which limits appropriation of funds until Congress “reconciles” the rev. with exp. |
| Motor Voter Act (1993) | It is also called the National Voter Registration Act. It required state governments to allow qualified people to register to vote when they applied for or renewed their driver’s licenses or when they applied for welfare. |
| Communications Decency Act (1996) | An act that regulated or censored pornographic or obscene material on the internet. (some restrictions violated Free Speech) It also upholds the illegal status of both slander and libel. |
| Bi-Partisan Campaign Finance Reform Act (2001) | An act to ban soft money contributions to national parties, limit soft money contributions to state and local parties (only for party building), raise individual limits from $1000 to $2000 and restrict independent expenditures. |
| Servicemen's Readjustment Act (G.I. Bill) (1944) | This act provided ways of getting upper education, loans to start businesses and purchase homes, and unemployment compensation for one year for returning veterans from WWII. It now assists veterans of other wars and during peacetime. |
| Freedom of Information Act (1966) | It requires all government agencies to publish information that is available to the public about its rules of procedure and general functions. It attempted to bring up confidence in government by making government proceedings public. |
| Indian Civil Rights Act (1968) | Guaranteed Native Americans the same rights as Americans, prohibited discrimination concerning the sale, rental, and financing based on race, religion, national origin, sex, handicap and family status, also provided protection for civil rights workers. |
| Homeland Security Act (2002) | This act was put in place after 9-11 to organize a government that was not prepared to defend our nation from terrorist attacks. It dramatically restructured the U.S. government. It combined 20 federal agencies into one Homeland Security Department. |
| The Civil Rights Act 1964 | an act that stopped major discrimination against blacks and women. It ended racial segregation, ended unequal voting application, and it protected citizens and their rights through the 14th and 15th amendment. |
| Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 | It gave Americans with disabilities the right to have service and employment opportunities, public accommodations, telephone service, and more. The disabled were meant to be treated equal with the Act. |
| Endangered Species Act (1973) | This act states that the U.S. Fish and wildlife services can fund and help any projects to benefit the endangered species and their environments. It also prohibited harvesting any of these threatened or endangered animals. |
| Age discrimination in Employment Act (1967) | This act doesn’t allow employment discrimination for people over the age of 40. It also does not let discrimination toward workers in any way while already working too. It tries to benefit employers and employees. |
| Pregnancy Disability Act (1978) | Bans discrimination against pregnant women; this act was put in place due to the amendment of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. This act says that all women affected by pregnancy or related medical conditions should receive equal treatment. |
| National Environmental Policy Act (1969) | An act that estab. a national environmental policy by assuring that all 3 branches of gov consider the environment before taking any federal action that significantly affects the environment,& requires bus. to go thru EAS, EIS when obtaining a permit. |
| Clean Air Act (1970) | This act made it so that American’s had clean and safe air to breath. It also helped to protect against ozone, lead, sulfur dioxide. The act made limits on pollution from cars and power plants. |
| Clean Water Act (1972) | This act made a basic structure for regulating pollutants in water. It also worked towards eliminating toxic pollutants in toxic amounts in fresh water as well as salt water. |
| Welfare Reform Act – TANF (1996) | An act to help the poor with employment, give fed cash assistance to poor, required recipients to begin working after two years of receiving benefits, placed a lifetime limit of five years on receiving fed money, enhanced enforcement of child support. |
| Civil Rights Act (1866) | An act to declare that all persons born in the U.S. were now citizens, without regard to race, color, or previous condition. Have all natural rights as being born in the U.S. Those who denied these rights to people were convicted of a misdemeanor. |
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