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 title XIX of the Social Security Act to provide that medicaid is a payor of last resort and to permit recovery by States from certain estates of medicaid expenses incurred by individuals before reaching the age of 65.
1977-03-22: Referred to House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce.
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 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.
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.
Nursing Home Reform Act
1977-03-22: Referred to House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce.
Geriatric Health Personnel Training Act
1977-03-22: Referred to House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce.
Long Term Care Services Act
1977-03-22: Referred to House Committee on Ways and Means.
A bill to make it an unfair practice for any retailer to increase the price of certain consumer commodities once he marks the price on any such consumer commodity, and to permit the Federal Trade Commission to order any such retailer to refund any amounts of money obtained by so increasing the price of such consumer commodity.
1977-03-24: Referred to House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce.
A bill to amend the Social Security Act to improve the survey and certification process, rate-setting and fiscal audit methods, and regulation of nursing homes and intermediate care facilities under the medicaid program, and to provide for medical, psychological, and social assessment of long-term care patients under both the medicare and medicaid programs.
1977-03-28: Referred to House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce.
Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act
1977-03-28: Referred to House Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs.
A bill to amend part B of title XI of the Social Security Act to assure appropriate participation by professional registered nurses in the peer review, and related activities authorized thereunder.
1977-03-29: Referred to House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce.
Petroleum Marketing Practices Act
1977-03-30: Referred to House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce.
A bill to amend the act of October 2, 1968, an act to establish a Redwood National Park in the State of California.
1977-03-30: Referred to House Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs.
Child Abuse Prevention Act
1977-03-31: Referred to House Committee on the Judiciary.
A bill to authorize the Comptroller General to audit the programs, activities, and financial operations of the Federal National Mortgage Association, and to amend certain housing laws for the purpose of improving Federal programs which insure home mortgages.
1977-03-31: Referred to House Committee on Banking, Finance and Urban Affairs.
A bill to repeal Federal provisions of law establishing agricultural programs concerning the marketing of and price support for tobacco.
1977-04-04: Referred to House Committee on Agriculture.
Foster Care and Adoption Reform Act
1977-03-31: Referred to House Committee on Ways and Means.
Child Exploitation Prevention Act
1977-04-04: Referred to House Committee on Education and Labor.
A bill to amend title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 to prohibit sex discrimination on the basis of pregnancy.
1978-07-18: Measure laid on table in House, S. 995 passed in lieu.