A bill to deny entitlement to veteran's benefits to certain persons who would otherwise become so entitled solely by virtue of the administrative upgrading under temporarily revised standards of less than honorable discharges for service during the Vietnam era.
1977-09-12: Measure laid on table, S. 1307 passed in lieu.
A bill to amend title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 to prohibit sex discrimination on the basis of pregnancy.
1977-08-03: Referred to House Committee on Education and Labor.
GI Bill Improvement Act of 1977
1977-11-23: Public Law 95-202.
Social Security Rights Act
1977-08-03: Referred to House Committee on Ways and Means.
A bill to require the Office of Management and Budget to provide information on the formulas and assumptions used in the distribution of domestic assistance.
1977-08-04: Referred to House Committee on Government Operations.
A bill to amend the Appalachian Regional Development Act of 1965 to permit an extension of the period of assistance for child development programs while a study is conducted on methods of phasing out Federal assistance to these programs.
1977-11-18: Public Law 95-193.
Older Americans Long-Term Care Act
1977-08-05: Referred to House Committee on Ways and Means.
World War I Pension Act
1977-09-08: Referred to House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
A bill expressing the sense of the Congress that the proposed toll increases on the St. Lawrence Seaway are excessive and should not be adopted.
1977-09-23: Referred to House Committee on Public Works and Transportation.
A bill to protect the constitutional rights of citizens of the United States and to prevent unwarranted invasion of their privacy by prohibiting the use of the polygraph for certain purposes.
1977-09-27: Referred to House Committee on the Judiciary.
Buy American Act Amendments
1977-10-04: Referred to House Committee on Government Operations.
A bill to amend the Tariff Schedules of the United States to establish a temporary tariff rate quota for certain iron and steel articles in order to stimulate fair and free competition in the world steel trade.
1977-10-04: Referred to House Committee on Ways and Means.
A bill to amend section 111 of title 23, United States Code, relating to agreements for the use of and access to the rights-of-way of the Interstate System.
1977-10-17: Referred to House Committee on Public Works and Transportation.
Senior Citizen Higher Education Opportunity Act
1977-10-26: Referred to House Committee on Education and Labor.
A bill to amend the Social Security Act and the Internal Revenue Code of 1954 to provide for Federal participation in the costs of the old-age, survivors, and disability insurance program and the medicare program, with appropriate reductions in social security taxes to reflect such participation, and with a substantial increase in the amount of an individual's annual earnings which may be counted for benefit and tax purposes.
1978-02-02: Referred to House Committee on Ways and Means.
Veterans and Survivors Pension Improvement Act
1978-02-09: Referred to House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1954 to provide tax relief to small businesses by establishing a graduated income tax rate for corporations.
1978-02-09: Referred to House Committee on Ways and Means.
A bill to exercise the power of the Congress under article IV of the Constitution to declare the effect of certain State Judicial proceedings respecting the custody of children.
1978-03-06: Referred to House Committee on the Judiciary.
A bill to amend the Older Americans Act of 1965 to require the Commissioner on Aging to establish a special grant program to enable States to establish community long-term care initiatives to assess the needs of chronically ill or disabled older persons for services and to provide for the efficient delivery of such services to such older persons.
1978-03-09: Referred to House Committee on Education and Labor.
Concurrent resolution authorizing a bust or statue of Martin Luther King, Jr., to be placed in the Capitol.
1977-01-31: Referred to House Committee on House Administration.