Campaign Financing Act
1977-03-16: Referred to House Committee on House Administration.
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 be identified as having been imported; to require the inspection of imported dairy products and that such products comply with certain minimum standards of sanitation; to require that the cost of conducting such tests, inspections, and identification procedures on imported meat and meat food products and on dairy products, as the case may be, be borne by the exporters of such articles.
1977-03-21: Referred to House Committee on Agriculture.
Equity in Social Security for Individuals and Families Act
1977-03-22: Referred to House Committee on Ways and Means.
A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code to decrease the limitation on deduction for medical expenses to 2 percent of adjusted gross income, to eliminate the 1-percent limitation on deductions for drugs and medicine and to include the entire deduction for medical insurance within the 2-percent limitation.
1977-03-22: Referred to House Committee on Ways and Means.
A bill to amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to remove all limits on the number of home health visits for which payment may be made under both part A and part B (eliminating the requirement of prior hospitalization in the case of home health care under part A), to include additional types of services as home health care, to provide coverage for preventive care under part B, to provide coverage for services furnished in outpatient rehabilitation facilities and elderly day care centers, to improve the administration of the medicare program.
1977-03-22: Referred to House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce.
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 programs 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.
1977-03-22: Referred to House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce.
A bill to amend the Older Americans Act of 1965 to provide grants to organizations for providing legal assistance to poor, elderly individuals in connection with their entitlement to home health services under titles XVII, XIX, and XX of the Social Security Act.
1977-03-22: Referred to House Committee on the Judiciary.
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.
1977-03-22: Referred to House Committee on Ways and Means.
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.
1977-03-22: Referred to House Committee on Banking, Finance and Urban Affairs.
Medicare Long-Term Care Act
1977-03-22: 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.
1977-03-22: Referred to House Committee on Ways and Means.
A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1954 to exempt from excise tax certain buses purchased by nonprofit organizations or by other persons for exclusive use in furnishing transportation for State or local governments or nonprofit organizations.
1977-03-22: Referred to House Committee on Ways and Means.
Older Americans Health Services Act
1977-03-22: Referred to House Committee on Ways and Means.
A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1954 to provide that the amount of the charitable deduction allowable for expenses incurred in the operation of a highway vehicle will be determined in the same manner as the business deduction for such expenses.
1977-03-22: 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.
1977-03-22: Referred to House Committee on Appropriations.
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.
Regulatory Reform Act
1977-03-02: Referred to House Committee on Rules.