Consumer Food Labeling Act
1979-01-15: Referred to House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce.
A joint resolution designating February 19, 1980, as "Iwo Jima Commemoration Day".
1980-02-28: Public Law 96-196.
A bill to increase alternatives to institutionalization for senior citizens.
1979-01-18: 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.
1979-01-15: Referred to House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce.
A bill to amend title XVI of the Social Security Act to provide that an individual who applies for supplemental security income benefits on the basis of disability shall be considered presumptively disabled if he has received social security or supplemental security income benefits as a disabled individual within the preceding five years.
1979-04-02: Referred to House Committee on Ways and Means.
A bill to amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to provide for the enforcement of standards relating to the rights of patients in certain medical facilities.
1979-01-15: Referred to House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce.
A bill to amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to provide for the coverage of certain psychologists' services under the supplementary medical insurance benefits program established by part B of such title.
1979-02-21: Referred to House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce.
A bill to amend the Consumer Credit Protection Act to prohibit discrimination on the basis of geography in the issuance and use of credit cards.
1979-01-18: Referred to House Committee on Banking, Finance and Urban Affairs.
A bill to amend title XIX of the Social Security Act to permit States to establish flexible income contribution and resource standards for couples in which one spouse is in a nursing home.
1979-03-28: Referred to House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce.
A joint resolution congratulating the Order of the Sons of Italy in America for their seventy-fifth anniversary and wishing the Order of the Sons of Italy in America success in future years and proclaiming June 22, 1980, as "National Italian-American Day".
1980-06-09: Referred to House Committee on Post Office and Civil Service.
A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1954 to allow the charitable deduction to taxpayers whether or not they itemize their personal deductions.
1979-02-01: Referred to House Committee on Ways and Means.
A resolution condemning the use of poison gas in Laos.
1979-10-17: Referred to House Committee on Foreign Affairs.
A joint resolution to provide for the designation of a week as "National Lupus Week".
1979-08-13: Public Law 96-50.
A concurrent resolution to express the sense of Congress that a United Nations special investigatory commission should be established to secure a full accounting of Americans listed as missing in Southeast Asia.
1979-07-18: Measure passed Senate, in lieu of S.Con.Res. 17.
Federal Nonsmokers Protection Act of 1979
1979-01-15: Referred to House Committee on Public Works and Transportation.
National Service Act
1979-02-15: Referred to House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
A concurrent resolution expressing the sense of Congress that the Secretary of Defense should not choose a site for the launching base for the MX intercontinental missile that would result in the destruction or idling of productive farmland and the displacing of farmers and ranchers from their homes and land.
1979-01-25: Referred to House Committee on Armed Services.
A resolution condemning the use of chemical agents in Indochina.
1979-12-13: Referred to House Committee on Foreign Affairs.
A resolution amending clause 6 of Rule XI of the Rules of the House with respect to staffing of the Select Committee on Aging.
1979-03-01: Referred to House Committee on Rules.
A bill to establish the "United States Holocaust Memorial Council.".
1980-10-07: Public Law 96-388.