A bill to authorize appropriations for environmental research, development, and demonstration.
1976-05-05: Referred jointly to Senate Committees on Agriculture and Forestry; and Labor and Public Welfare.
A bill to prohibit new rules and regulations from becoming effective under the Food Stamp Act of 1964 until the Congress enacts new legislation with respect to such act.
1976-03-23: Referred to House Committee on Agriculture.
Vocational Education Amendments
1976-08-31: Provisions inserted in S. 2657 as passed House.
Arts, Humanities, and Cultural Affairs Act
1976-03-29: Referred to House Committee on Education and Labor.
Solid Waste Energy and Resource Recovery Act
1976-04-06: Referred to House Committee on Science and Technology.
A bill to amend title II of the Social Security Act to provide for the entitlement of disabled widows and widowers to unreduced widow's and widower's insurance benefits without regard to age.
1976-05-06: Referred to House Committee on Ways and Means.
A bill to amend the Social Security Act to provide for inclusion of the services of licensed (registered) nurses under medicare and medicaid.
1976-05-20: Referred to House Committee on Ways and Means.
Older Persons Comprehensive Counseling Assistance Act
1976-06-01: Referred to House Committee on Education and Labor.
A bill to amend title XX of the Social Security Act to provide for the reallotment of unused social services funds, in any fiscal year, to States which will use such funds during the succeeding year in furnishing services aimed at preventing or reducing inappropriate institutional care by making home or community care available; to provide additional Federal matching for multipurpose senior center programs; and to provide for the standardization of eligibility requirements for the funding of senior centers.
1976-06-01: Referred to House Committee on Ways and Means.
A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1954 to allow a deduction to taxpayers who contribute the right to use certain real property to charitable organizations for outpatient geriatric clinics or for multipurpose senior centers.
1976-06-01: Referred to House Committee on Ways and Means.
A bill making a supplemental appropriation for payments under home health service grants and making an appropriation for payments under multipurpose senior center grants.
1976-06-01: Referred to House Committee on Appropriations.
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.
1976-06-01: Referred to House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce.
National Home Health Care Act
1976-05-27: Referred to House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce.
Medicare Long-Term Care Act
1976-06-01: Referred to House Committee on Ways and Means.
A bill to extend and amend part B of title IV of the Higher Education Act of 1965.
1976-08-31: Provisions inserted in S. 2657 as passed House.
A bill to establish within the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare a Home Health Clearinghouse to provide elderly persons with a single place where they can obtain complete information on the Federal health program available to them, and to create within the Department an Assistant Secretary for Elderly Health with responsibility for all health and health-related matters involving the elderly.
1976-06-01: Referred to House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce.
A bill to amend the Legal Services Corporation Act to provide legal assistance to older persons in connection with their participation in certain health insurance and medical assistance programs under the Social Security Act.
1976-06-01: Referred to House Committee on the Judiciary.
A bill to amend the National Housing Act and other acts for the purpose of providing assistance for outpatient geriatric clinics and for multipurpose senior centers.
1976-06-01: Referred to House Committee on Banking, Currency and Housing.
Older Americans Health Services Act
1976-06-01: Referred to House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce.
A bill to amend the Social Security Act to prohibit nursing homes participating in the medicare or medicaid program, or otherwise receiving funds under that act, from requiring patients to turn over their social security benefit checks after giving reasonable advance notice of their intent to leave such homes.
1976-06-01: Referred to House Committee on Ways and Means.