A bill to amend title II of the Social Security Act so as to remove the limitation upon the amount of outside income which an individual may earn while receiving benefits thereunder.
1977-03-22: Referred to House Committee on Ways and Means.
A bill to amend the Social Security Act to provide that any patient of a long-term care institution participating in the medicare or medicaid program, or otherwise receiving funds under that act, shall have the right to terminate his or her contract with such institution upon giving reasonable advance notice, and to expressly prohibit such an institution from requiring any patient to turn over to it any income received by him or her after such notice is given.
1977-03-22: Referred to House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce.
Nursing Home Reform Act
1977-03-22: Referred to House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce.
A bill to promote the provision and availability of necessary health services for the elderly by expanding existing programs of grants for home health services, requiring the inclusion of specified preventive and home health services under the medicaid program and making various improvements in the administration of such program, providing assistance to demonstration and pilot projects for home health and supportive services (including demonstration grants for community care), and authorizing grants for annual health fairs and mobile geriatric health units, and for other purposes.
1977-03-22: Referred to House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce.
Geriatric Health Personnel Training Act
1977-03-22: Referred to House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce.
A bill to amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to include dental care, eye care, hearing aids, physical checkups, and foot care among the items and services for which payment may be made under the supplementary medical insurance program, and to provide safeguards against consumer abuse in the provision of these items and services.
1977-03-22: Referred to House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce.
Long Term Care Services Act
1977-03-22: Referred to House Committee on Ways and Means.
A bill to amend title XIX of the Social Security Act to provide that medicaid is a payor of last resort and to permit recovery by States from certain estates of medicaid expenses incurred by individuals before reaching the age of 65.
1977-03-22: Referred to House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce.
A bill to amend title 5, United States Code, to provide that any Federal employee who, at the time of retirement, does not elect a reduced annuity in order to provide a survivor annuity to a spouse or other person may make such an election within 1 year after retiring.
1977-03-23: Referred to House Committee on Post Office and Civil Service.
Financial Disclosure Act
1977-03-24: Referred to House Committee on the Judiciary.
A bill to amend title 5, United States Code, to provide that any Federal employee who, at the time of retirement, does not elect a reduced annuity in order to provide a survivor annuity to a spouse or other person may make such an election within 1 year after retirement, whichever is later.
1977-03-28: Referred to House Committee on Post Office and Civil Service.
A bill to amend the Social Security Act to improve the survey and certification process, rate-setting and fiscal audit methods, and regulation of nursing homes and intermediate care facilities under the medicaid program, and to provide for medical, psychological, and social assessment of long-term care patients under both the medicare and medicaid programs.
1977-03-28: Referred to House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce.
Accelerated Depreciation Allowance Act
1977-03-30: Referred to House Committee on Ways and Means.
A bill to promote the use of energy conservation, solar energy, and total energy systems in Federal buildings.
1977-03-30: Referred to House Committee on Public Works and Transportation.
Solar and Energy Conservation Commercialization Act
1977-03-31: Referred to House Committee on Small Business.
Agricultural Solar Energy Research, Development, and Demonstration Act
1977-03-31: Referred to House Committee on Agriculture.
A bill to amend the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 to encourage greater emphasis on the production and conservation of energy in developing countries through the development and utilization of unconventional energy technologies.
1977-03-31: Referred to House Committee on International Relations.
A bill to amend the Small Business Act and the Federal Nonnuclear Energy Research and Development Act of 1974 to provide certain assistance to individuals and small business concerns in the areas of solar energy equipment and energy-related inventions.
1977-03-31: Referred to House Committee on Science and Technology.
Renewable Energy and Energy Conservation Act
1977-03-31: Referred to House Committee on Ways and Means.
A bill to amend the Federal Power Act to permit the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to enter into agreements with States under which State authorities may exercise the licensing authority of the Commission with respect to small hydroelectric projects at existing dams, and for other purposes.
1979-04-04: Referred to House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce.