Outstanding Americans Gold Medallion Act
1979-03-29: Referred to House Committee on Banking, Finance and Urban Affairs.
A concurrent resolution authorizing a bust or statue of Martin Luther King, Junior, to be placed in the Capitol.
1979-12-20: Reported to Senate from the Committee on Rules and Administration, S. Rept. 96-543.
North Pacific Fur Seal Protection Act of 1979
1979-07-31: Referred to House Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs.
A bill to designate the birthday of Martin Luther King, Junior, a legal holiday.
1979-01-15: Referred to House Committee on Post Office and Civil Service.
A bill to amend the Trade Expansion Act of 1962 with respect to the powers of the President to impose fees on imports of petroleum and petroleum products.
1980-03-27: Referred to House Committee on Ways and Means.
A bill to amend title V of the Motor Vehicle Information and Cost Savings Act.
1979-08-02: Referred to House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce.
A bill to amend the Civil Rights Act of 1964 to make it an unlawful employment practice to discriminate against individuals who are physically handicapped because of such handicap.
1979-03-29: Referred to House Committee on Education and Labor.
A bill to Incorporate the American Council of Learned Societies.
1979-03-28: Referred to House Committee on the Judiciary.
A bill to amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to include dental care, eye care, hearing aids, physical checkups, and foot care among the items and services for which payment may be made under the supplementary medical insurance program, and to provide safeguards against consumer abuse in the provision of these items and services.
1979-01-15: Referred to House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce.
Age Discrimination in Federal Employment Act of 1979
1979-01-15: Referred to House Committee on Post Office and Civil Service.
A bill to prohibit involuntary terminations by electric and natural gas utilities of service for residential heating and other residential purposes between October 15 of each year and April 14th of the following year and in cases in which such terminations present special dangers to health, and for other purposes.
1979-03-08: 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 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, and authorizing grants for annual health fairs and mobile geriatric health units, and for other purposes.
1979-03-01: Referred to House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce.
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.
1979-01-15: Referred to House Committee on Ways and Means.
A bill to amend the Food Stamp Act of 1977 to eliminate certain restrictions on excess shelter expense deductions with respect to households which are composed entirely of persons who are age 65 or older or who are recipients of benefits under title XVI of the Social Security Act.
1979-02-13: Referred to House Committee on Agriculture.
Long Term Care Services Act of 1979
1979-01-15: 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 joint resolution designating February 19, 1980, as "Iwo Jima Commemoration Day".
1980-02-28: Public Law 96-196.
Fair Housing Amendments Act of 1979
1979-03-01: Referred to House Committee on the Judiciary.
IRA Employer Plan Coordination Act of 1979
1979-01-15: Referred to House Committee on Ways and Means.
A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1954 to encourage the employment of handicapped individuals by providing a tax credit for a certain portion of the wages paid to such individuals.
1977-02-17: Referred to House Committee on Ways and Means.