Comprehensive Youth Employment Act
1977-02-01: Referred to House Committee on Education and Labor.
Urban Trees Act
1977-02-01: Referred to House Committee on Agriculture.
A bill to amend title II of the Social Security Act to provide that the automatic cost-of-living increases in benefits which are authorized thereunder may be made on a semiannual basis, rather than only on an annual basis as at present.
1977-02-01: Referred to House Committee on Ways and Means.
A bill to amend title 38 of the United States Code in order to extend specially adapted housing benefits to certain disabled veterans.
1977-02-01: Referred to House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
A bill to designate the birthday of Martin Luther King, Jr., a legal public holiday.
1977-02-02: Referred to House Committee on Post Office and Civil Service.
National Meals-on-Wheels Act
1977-02-02: Referred to House Committee on Education and Labor.
A bill to provide an opportunity to individuals to make financial contributions, in connection with the payment of their Federal income tax, for the advancement of the arts and the humanities.
1977-02-02: Referred to House Committee on Ways and Means.
Medicare-Medicaid Anti-Fraud and Abuse Amendments
1977-02-02: Referred to House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce.
A bill to amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to provide coverage for services which may be performed by a dentist on the same basis as presently allowed for physicians under the medicare program, and to authorize payment under such program for all inpatient hospital services furnished in connection with dental procedures requiring hospitalization.
1977-02-02: Referred to House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce.
A bill to terminate age discrimination in employment.
1977-02-03: Referred to House Committee on Education and Labor.
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.
1977-02-07: Referred to House Committee on Agriculture.
National Employment Priorities Act
1977-02-07: Referred to House Committee on Banking, Finance and Urban Affairs.
A bill to provide that the changes made by the Tax Reform Act of 1976 to the exclusion for sick pay shall only apply to taxable years beginning after December 31, 1976.
1977-02-07: Referred to House Committee on Ways and Means.
A bill to amend title II of the Social Security Act to provide that attorneys' fees allowed in administrative or judicial proceedings under the title (or under title XVIII of such Act), in cases where the claimants are successful, shall be paid by the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare rather than deducted from the amounts awarded claimants.
1977-02-08: Referred to House Committee on Ways and Means.
A bill to prohibit travel at Government expense outside the United States by Members of Congress who have been defeated, or who have resigned, or retired.
1977-02-07: Referred to House Committee on House Administration.
A bill to amend title XVI of the Social Security Act and related laws to extend the supplemental security income benefits program to Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, and Guam on the same basis as the States.
1977-02-08: Referred to House Committee on Ways and Means.
A bill to amend title 38 of the United States Code to make certain that recipients of veterans' pension and compensation will not have the amount of such pension or compensation reduced because of increases in monthly social security benefits.
1977-02-08: Referred to House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
A bill to amend the Federal Aviation Act of 1958 to authorize reduced rate transportation for certain additional persons on a space-available basis.
1977-02-08: Referred to House Committee on Public Works and Transportation.
A bill to amend title 38 of the United States Code in order to provide that the fees payable to agents or attorneys who represent veterans in allowed claims under the veterans laws shall be paid by the Administrator rather than deducted from amounts awarded under the claims.
1977-02-08: Referred to House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1954 to allow a refundable tax credit equal to 50 percent of the wages paid to certain new employees.
1977-02-09: Referred to House Committee on Ways and Means.