A bill to authorize the Secretary of State to prescribe the fee for execution of an application for a passport and to continue to transfer to the U.S. Postal Service the execution fee for each application accepted by that Service.
PL 93-417 (H.R.15172), enacted 09/17/1974

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PUBLIC LAW 93-418-SEPT. 18, 1974 
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SEC. 28. (a) Except as otherwise provided by this section this Act 
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shall take effect on the date of enactment and be applicable to any note. 
injury or death occurring on or after such effective date. The amend-
ments made by sections 1 (b) and (c), 2, 3, 7 (a) and (b), 8 (a) and 
(b), 9,16 (a) and (b), 17,19,20, 21, 22,24, and 25 shall be applicable 
to cases where the injury or death occurred prior to the date of enact-
ment but the provisions of these sections shall be applicable only to a 
period beginnmg on or after the date of enactment. 
(b) Section 11 of this Act shall become effective 60 days from ^^^.^^'^ ^
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enactment and be applicable to any injury occurring on or after such 
effective date. 
Approved September 7, 1974. 
Public Law 93-417 
A N A C T 
September 17, 1974 
To authorize the Secretary of State to prescribe the fee for execution of an 
[H. R. 15172] 
application for a passport and to continue to transfer to the United States 
Postal Service the execution fee for each application accepted by that Service. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled, That section 1 of 
secretary of 
the Act of June 4, 1920 (22 U.S.C. 214), is amended to read as follows: 
Pa^ssport fees. 
"SECTION 1. There shall be collected and paid into the Treasury of 
the United States quarterly a fee of $10 for each passport issued and 
a fee in an amount prescribed by the Secretary of State by regulation 
for executing each application for a passport. Nothing contained in 
this section shall be construed to limit the right of the Secretary of 
State by regulation (1) to authorize State officials to collect and retain 
the execution fee, or (2) to transfer to the United States Postal-Service 
the execution fee for each application accepted by that Service. No 
passport fee shall be collected from an officer or employee of the United 
States proceeding abroad in the discharge of official duties, or from 
members of his immediate family; from an American seaman who 
requires a passport in connection with his duties aboard an American 
flag-vessel; or from a widow, child, parent, brother, or sister of a 
deceased member of the Armed Forces proceeding abroad to visit 
the grave of such member. No execution fee shall be collected for an 
application made before a Federal official by a person excused from 
payment of the passport fee imder this section.". 
Approved September 17, 1974. 
Public Law 93-418 
J O I N T R E S O L U T I O N 
September 18, 1974 
Authorizing the President to proclaim the period of September 15, 1974, through [H. J. Res. 1070] 
October 15, 1974, as "Johnny Horizon '76 Clean Up America Month". 
Resolved hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the United 
States of America in Congress assembled^ That the President is hereby , Johnny Horizon 
authorized and requested to issue a proclamation designating the A^meH«^Month. 
period of September 15, 1974, through October 15, 1974, as "Johnny 
Designation 
Horizon '76 Clean Up America Month", and calling upon the people ^"'hori^ation. 
of the United States to observe such period with appropriate activities. 
Approved September 18, 1974.