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EIGHTY-FIFTH CONGRESS, FIRST SESSION

(Jan. 3, 1957, to Aug. 30, 1957)

Title (with popular name or short title)

To provide a fifteen-month extension of the exsiting corpo-
rate normal-tax rate and of certain excise-tax rates.
Popular name: "Tax Rate Extension Act of 1957".
To consolidate into one Act, and to simplify and make
more uniform, the laws administered by the Veterans'
Administration relating to compensation, pension, hos-
pitalization, and burial benefits, and to consolidate into
one Act the laws pertaining to the administration of the
laws administered by the Veterans' Administration.
Popular name: "Veterans' Benefits Act of 1957".
Relating to the exemption of furlough travel by service
personnel from the tax on the transportation of persons.
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1954 with respect
to the readjustment of tax in the case of certain amounts
received for breach of contract, and to restrict the issu-
ance of certificates for rapid amortization of emergency
facilities.

To amend the Tariff Act of 1930 to provide for the tempo-
rary free importation of certain tanning extracts, and to
amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1954 to suspend
temporarily the tax on the processing of coconut oil.
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1954 to extend the
time within which a minister may elect coverage as a
self-employed individual for social security purposes and
to permit such minister to include, for social security
purposes, the value of meals and lodging furnished him
for the convenience of his employer and the rental value
of the parsonage furnished to him, and for other purposes.

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To amend section 812(e) (1) (D) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1939 with respect to certain decedents who were adjudged incompetent before April 2, 1948.

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To amend scetion 31 of the Organic Act of Guam, and for
other purposes.

To amend section 403 of the Social Security Amendments of
1954 to provide social security coverage for certain em-
ployees of tax-exempt organizations which erroneously
but in good faith failed to file the required waiver certifi-
cate in time to provide for such coverage.
To increase benefits under the Federal Old-Age, Survivors,
and Disability Insurance System, to improve the actuarial
status of the Trust Funds of such System, and otherwise
improve such System: to amend the public assistance and
maternal and child health and welfare provisions of the
Social Security Act; and for other purposes.

Popular name: "Social Security Amendments of 1958".
To consolidate into one Act all of the laws administered by
the Veterans' Administration, and for other purposes.
Short title: "Veterans' Benefits" (Title 38, U.S.C.)
To make technical changes in the Federal excise tax laws,
and for other purposes.

Popular name: "Excise Tax Technical Changes Act of
LOS 1958".

To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1954 to correct
unintended benefits and hardships and to make technical
amendments, and for other purposes.
Popular names:

Title I: "Technical Amendments Act of 1958".
Title II: "Small Business Tax Revision Act of 1958".
Section 94: "Retirement-Straight Line Adjustment
Copco Act of 1958".

To relieve the Surgeons General of the Army and Navy of
certain responsibilities outside the Department of
Defense.

Relating to venue in tax refund suits by corporations.
To extend the Renegotiation Act of 1951 for six months,
and for other purposes.

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EIGHTY-SIXTH CONGRESS, FIRST SESSION

(Jan. 7, 1959, to Sept. 15, 1959)

Popular name: "Tax Rate Extension Act of 1959".
To extend the Renegotiation Act of 1951, and for other
purposes.

To provide a one-year extension of the existing corporate
normal-tax rate and of certain excise-tax rates, and for
other purposes.

To continue until the close of June 30, 1960, the suspension 73: 264
of duties on metal scrap, and for other purposes.
To amend section 2038 of the Internal Revenue Code of
1954 (relating to revocable transfers).

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To allow a deduction, for Federal estate tax purposes, in the
case of certain transfers to charities which are subjected
to foreign death taxes.

Relating to the power of the States to impose net income
taxes on income derived from interstate commerce, and
authorizing studies by congressional committees of mat-
ters pertaining thereto.

To extend the period for filing claims for credit or refund of
overpayments of income taxes arising as a result of rene-
gotiation of Government contracts.

To amend section 4233 of the Internal Revenue Code of
1954 to provide that the exemptions from the admissions
tax for athletic games benefitting crippled or retarded
children shall apply where the participants have recently
attended designated schools or colleges as well as where
they are currently students.

To amend the Federal-Aid Highway Acts of 1956 and 1958
to make certain adjustments in the Federal-aid highway
program, and for other purposes.

Popular name: "Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1959."
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1954 to make
technical changes in certain excise tax laws, and for other
purposes.

To permit the issuance of series E and H United States
savings bonds at interest rates above the existing maxi-
mum, to permit the Secretary of the Treasury to desig-
nate certain exchanges of Government securities to be
made without recognition of gain or loss, and for other
purposes.

To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1954 to provide for
the Presidential appointment of a Chief Counsel for the
Internal Revenue Service, and for other purposes.
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1954 to provide a
personal exemption for children placed for adoption and
to clarify certain provisions relating to the election of
small business corporations as to taxable status.