A bill to direct the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences to conduct a one-year review and evaluation of all available information respecting the toxicity and carcinogenicity of food additives, including information respecting the ability to predict the effect on humans of food additives found to cause cancer in animals and whether there should be a weighing of risks and benefits in making regulatory decisions respecting such additives, and to direct the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare to permit the continued use of saccharin as a food, food additive, drug, and cosmetic for 18 months.
1977-06-27: Referred to House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce.
Human Resources Development Act
1977-08-04: Reported to House from the Committee on Banking, Finance and Urban Affairs, H. Rept. 95-572.
A bill to amend the Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1966 to provide that all Federal employees described in section 15 of such act shall be covered under the provisions of such act regardless of their age.
1977-06-28: Referred to House Committee on Education and Labor.
A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1954 to permit an exemption of the first $5,000 of retirement income received by a taxpayer under a public retirement system or any other system if the taxpayer is at least 65 years of age.
1977-06-30: Referred to House Committee on Ways and Means.
A bill to amend title 38, United States Code, to provide that a member of a Reserve component of the Armed Forces shall not be denied certain employment because of membership in such Reserve component.
1977-06-30: Referred to House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
A bill to amend title XVI of the Social Security Act to provide for the payment of a special housing allowance to each recipient of supplemental security income benefits whose housing expenses exceed an amount equal to 25 percent of his or her income, so as to reduce such expenses to that amount.
1977-06-30: Referred to House Committee on Ways and Means.
A bill to amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to include hearing aids and dentures among the items and services for which payment may be made under the supplementary medical insurance program.
1977-06-30: Referred to House Committee on Ways and Means.
A bill to amend title 38, United States Code, to eliminate the time period in which a veteran has to use his educational benefits.
1977-07-12: Referred to House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
Unemployment Compensation Cost Equalization Act
1977-07-13: Referred to House Committee on Ways and Means.
Investment Policy Act
1977-07-19: Referred to House Committee on Banking, Finance and Urban Affairs.
Defense Economic Adjustment and Recovery Act
1977-07-21: Referred to House Committee on Armed Services.
Unemployment Compensation Reform Act
1977-07-21: Referred to House Committee on Ways and Means.
A bill to amend the Local Public Works Capital Development and Investment Act of 1976 to authorize funds for certain smaller cities and townships.
1977-07-26: Referred to House Committee on Public Works and Transportation.
A bill to increase deposit insurance from $40,000 to $100,000 for accounts which qualify as individual retirement accounts established under qualified (Keogh) plans for the self-employed.
1977-07-27: Referred to House Committee on Banking, Finance and Urban Affairs.
A bill to discourage the use of leg-hold or steel jaw traps on animals in the United States.
1977-07-28: Referred to House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce.
Solar Energy Bank Act
1977-08-02: Referred to House Committee on Banking, Finance and Urban Affairs.
A bill to provide for the regulation of certain detergents in the Great Lakes region of the United States.
1977-08-03: Referred to House Committee on Public Works and Transportation.
A bill to amend title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 to prohibit sex discrimination on the basis of pregnancy.
1977-08-03: Referred to House Committee on Education and Labor.
Social Security Rights Act
1977-08-03: Referred to House Committee on Ways and Means.
Beverage Container Reuse and Recycling Act
1977-08-04: Referred to House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce.