Mental Health Amendments of 1979
1979-01-15: Referred to House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce.
A joint resolution disapproving the imposition, effective March 15, 1980, by the President of fees on the importation of crude oil and gasoline.
1980-06-06: Measure indefinitely postponed in Senate (See H. R. 7428 for similar provisions).
A concurrent resolution authorizing a statue of Frederick Douglass to be placed in the Capitol.
1980-02-26: Referred to House Committee on House Administration.
A joint resolution to provide for the designation of August 31, 1980, as "Working Mother's Day".
1980-08-22: Referred to Senate Committee on the Judiciary.
A concurrent resolution requesting the President of the United States to seek the release of Yuriy Shukhevych.
1980-08-19: Referred to House Committee on Foreign Affairs.
A concurrent resolution expressing the sense of the Congress that the President should convey to the Soviet Government the deep concern of the Congress and the American people for the fate of Raoul Wallenberg and that the United States delegation to the Madrid Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe should urge consideration of the case of Raoul Wallenberg at that meeting by the signatories to the Helsinki Final Act.
1980-08-20: Referred to House Committee on Foreign Affairs.
A bill to amend title XIX of the Social Security Act to make certain that individuals otherwise eligible for medicaid benefits do not lose such eligibility, or have the amount of such benefits reduced, because of increases in monthly social security benefits.
1979-01-15: Referred to House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce.
A resolution providing for the consideration of H.R. 3546, a bill to extend the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act, as amended, for one year.
1979-11-16: Measure passed House, roll call #676 (328-1).
A bill to further amend the Older Americans Act of 1965, as amended, to establish a program under which institutions of higher education may receive grants to defray 55 per centum of the tuition costs of older persons attending such institutions on a tuition-free basis, and for other purposes.
1979-01-15: Referred to House Committee on Education and Labor.
Age Discrimination in Employment Amendments of 1979
1979-01-15: Referred to House Committee on Education and Labor.
A joint resolution authorizing appropriation of funds for acquisition of a monument to Doctor Ralph J. Bunche and installation of such monument in Ralph J. Bunche Park in New York City.
1980-12-15: Public Law 96-529.
A concurrent resolution expressing the sense of the Congress regarding the biennial cost-of-living adjustments for Federal retirees.
1980-06-11: Referred to House Committee on Post Office and Civil Service.
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.
A concurrent resolution to protest the President's use of waiver authority to expedite sale of weapons and military training personnel to the Arab Republic of Yemen and to request a 30-day delay in such sale for Congressional review.
1979-03-15: Referred to House Committee on Foreign Affairs.
A joint resolution designating the week beginning March 8, 1981 as "Women's History Week".
1980-02-27: Referred to House Committee on Post Office and Civil Service.
A joint resolution to provide for designation of the week of September 21-27, 1980 as "National Cystic Fibrosis Week".
1980-06-09: Public Law 96-266.
A bill to amend title XIX of the Social Security Act to permit one or more county governments in a State to provide for additional medical assistance under the State's medicaid plan.
1979-01-15: Referred to House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce.
Civil Rights of Institutionalized Persons Act
1980-05-23: Public Law 96-247.
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.
Concurrent resolution endorsing the publicly declared Vietnam-era reconciliation program of the President-elect and urging the President-elect to extend that program to include all Vietnam-era selective service offenders and all Vietnam-era veterans who received less than honorable discharges or who deserted or were absent without leave during such era.
1977-01-04: Referred to House Committee on Armed Services.