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 II of the Social Security Act so as to remove the limitation upon the amount of outside income which an individual may earn while receiving benefits thereunder.
1979-03-01: Referred to House Committee on Ways and Means.
A bill to amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to authorize payment under the supplementary medical insurance program for preventive services furnished in the screening, testing, diagnosis, and treatment of individuals for hypertension.
1979-03-01: Referred to House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce.
A bill to amend section 317 of the Public Health Service Act to provide for services for the treatment of hypertension under preventive health services grants.
1979-03-01: Referred to House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce.
Fair Housing Amendments Act of 1979
1979-03-01: Referred to House Committee on the Judiciary.
Medicare Home Health Amendments of 1979
1979-03-01: Referred to House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce.
Senior Citizens Health Insurance Reform Act of 1979
1979-03-05: Referred to House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce.
Drug Benefits for the Aged Act of 1979
1979-03-01: Referred to House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce.
A bill to provide payment for drugs and biologicals under part B of the medicare program and with respect to post-hospital home health services.
1979-03-01: Referred to House Committee on Ways and Means.
A bill to provide health and social services in a congregate setting in federally assisted housing projects for the elderly and handicapped.
1979-03-01: Referred to House Committee on Banking, Finance and Urban Affairs.
A bill to eliminate the benefit reduction which is provided for supplemental security income recipients in certain long-term care institutions when such institutions do not meet the standards established by States under section 1616(e) of the Social Security Act, to authorize payments to States to cover the cost of training and compensating personnel to inspect such institutions, and for other purposes.
1979-03-01: Referred to House Committee on Ways and Means.
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.
1979-03-01: Referred to House Committee on Ways and Means.
Social Security Administration Act
1979-03-01: Referred to House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce.
Foreign Service Retirement Amendments of 1979
1979-03-07: Referred to House Committee on Foreign Affairs.
A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1954 to provide individuals a refundable credit against income tax for maintaining a household a member of which is an individual who has attained the age of 65.
1979-03-07: Referred to House Committee on Ways and Means.
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.
Elephant Protection Act of 1979
1979-03-13: Referred to House Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries.
Domestic Violence Prevention and Services Act
1980-12-09: Similar provisions inserted in S. 3259 as passed Senate.
Peace Corps Reform Act
1979-03-15: Referred to House Committee on Foreign Affairs.
A bill to permit civil suits under section 1979 of the Revised Statutes (42 U.S.C. 1983) against any person acting under color of any law or custom of the District of Columbia who subjects any person within the jurisdiction of the District of Columbia to the deprivation of any right, privilege, or immunity secured by the Constitution and laws.
1979-12-29: Public Law 96-170.