Franchise Reform Act
1979-02-21: Referred to House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce.
A bill to require that imported meat and meat food products made in whole or in part of imported meat be subjected to certain tests and that such meat or products to be labeled "imported" at all stages of distribution until delivery to the final consumer; to require that the cost of conducting such tests, inspections, and identification procedures on imported meat and meat food products be borne by the exporters of such articles; to require certain eating establishments, which serve imported meat, to inform customers of this fact; and for other purposes.
1979-02-21: Referred to House Committee on Agriculture.
A bill to amend the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 to require as a condition of assistance under such Act that law enforcement agencies have in effect a binding law enforcement officers' bill of rights.
1979-02-27: Referred to House Committee on the Judiciary.
Meat Import Act of 1979
1979-12-31: Public Law 96-177.
A bill to amend title 18, United States Code, to increase the term of imprisonment for certain offenses relating to carrying or using firearms, to eliminate eligibility for parole with respect to such term, and to require that such term be served before and consecutively to any related sentence of imprisonment.
1979-02-28: Referred to House Committee on the Judiciary.
Act to Combat International Terrorism
1979-09-11: Reported to House from the Committee on Public Works and Transportation with amendments, H. Rept. 96-424 (Part I).
A concurrent resolution expressing the sense of the Congress that if the United States does not participate in the 1980 Summer Olympic games, the members of the United States Olympic Team should be awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, or other recognition as the President deems appropriate.
1980-01-24: Referred to House Committee on Post Office and Civil Service.
A bill to make permanent the exemption of gasohol from the Federal motor fuels excise taxes, and for other purposes.
1979-09-14: Referred to House Committee on Ways and Means.
A concurrent resolution authorizing a statue of Frederick Douglass to be placed in the Capitol.
1980-02-26: Referred to House Committee on House Administration.
A bill to provide health and social services in a congregate setting in federally assisted housing projects for the elderly and handicapped.
1979-03-01: Referred to House Committee on Banking, Finance and Urban Affairs.
A bill to promote the provision and availability of necessary health services for the elderly by 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, and authorizing grants for annual health fairs and mobile geriatric health units, and for other purposes.
1979-03-01: Referred to House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce.
Medicare Home Health Amendments of 1979
1979-03-01: Referred to House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce.
Financial Sponsorship of Immigrants Act
1979-03-01: Referred to House Committee on the Judiciary.
Senior Citizens Health Insurance Reform Act of 1979
1979-03-05: Referred to House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce.
Buy American Act of 1979
1979-03-06: Referred to House Committee on Government Operations.
Foreign Service Retirement Amendments of 1979
1979-03-07: Referred to House Committee on Foreign Affairs.
A bill to eliminate the benefit reduction which is provided for supplemental security income recipients in certain long-term care institutions when such institutions do not meet the standards established by States under section 1616(e) of the Social Security Act, to authorize payments to States to cover the cost of training and compensating personnel to inspect such institutions, and for other purposes.
1979-03-01: Referred to House Committee on Ways and Means.
A bill to amend the Social Security Act and the Internal Revenue Code of 1954 to provide for Federal participation in the costs of the old-age, survivors, and disability insurance program and the medicare program, with appropriate reductions in social security taxes to reflect such participation, and with a substantial increase in the amount of an individual's annual earnings which may be counted for benefit and tax purposes.
1979-03-01: Referred to House Committee on Ways and Means.
A bill to amend section 15d of the Tennessee Valley Authority Act of 1933 to increase the amount of bonds which may be issued by the Tennessee Valley Authority.
1979-10-22: Measure laid on table in House, S. 436 passed in lieu.
A bill to provide for the establishment of the George W. Norris Home National Historic Site in the State of Nebraska, and for other purposes.
1976-09-08: Referred to House Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs.