A bill to enact a moratorium on the regulations of the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare for regulations for intermediate care facilities for the mentally retarded under title XIX of the Social Security Act.

Stipulates that no regulation, or modification of a regulation, concerning intermediate care facilities for the mentally retarded promulgated by the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare pursuant to the Medicaid provisions of the Social Security Act after January 1, 1974 shall be effective prior to July 1, 1976 unless such regulation has been approved by the Committee on Ways and Means of the House of Representatives and the Committee on Finance of the Senate.