A bill to amend the Safe Drinking Water Act to provide for the protection of aquifers which are the sole or principal source of drinking water for public water systems.
1984-09-13: For Further Action See H.R.5959.
A bill to prohibit the designation of countries as beneficiary developing countries under title V of the Trade Act of 1974 unless adequate protection is provided for United States trademarks.
1983-11-29: Referred to Subcommittee on Trade.
Fire Island National Seashore Amendments of 1984
1984-10-17: Became Public Law No: 98-482.
A bill to eliminate import quotas on sugar.
1983-12-20: Executive Comment Received From ITC.
Tax Equity Act of 1983
1983-07-18: Referred to House Committee on Ways and Means.
Medicare Mental Illness Non-Discrimination Act
1983-06-21: Referred to Subcommittee on Health and the Environment.
A bill to provide that no further reviews of disability cases shall be carried out under the continuing eligibility review program under title II or XVI of the Social Security Act until the Congress has specifically addressed the problems involved and has taken such action as may be necessary to eliminate such problems and otherwise improve the program.
1983-05-23: Referred to Subcommittee on Public Assistance and Unemployment Compensation.
A bill to expand the eligibility of handicapped and other institutionalized individuals for training provided under the Job Training and Partnership Act.
1983-05-20: Referred to Subcommittee on Employment Opportunities.
A bill to reduce temporarily the duty on caffeine.
1983-06-23: Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
A bill to amend title 23, United States Code, to require the Secretary of Transportation to reduce the apportionments of certain Federal-aid highway funds to any State in which highway motor vehicles displaying a handicapped parking sticker issued by any other State are not allowed to park in the parking spaces in which highway motor vehicles displaying a handicapped parking sticker issued by such State are allowed to park.
1983-08-08: Unfavorable Executive Comment Received From DOT.
A bill to provide that any award by the Veterans' Administration of compensation for a disease or disability in a veteran resulting from exposure to Agent Orange shall be retroactive to the date the veteran first applied to the Veterans' Administration for compensation for such disease of disability.
1983-02-10: Referred to House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
National Heritage Resource Act of 1983
1983-02-07: Referred to House Committee on Ways and Means.
A bill to amend title III of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to provide for one or more National Centers for Personal Computers in Education.
1984-05-03: Subcommittee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
Housing Finance Opportunity Act of 1983
1984-06-27: See H.R.4170.
A bill to amend the Tax Equity and Fiscal Responsibility Act of 1982 to exclude public employee pension benefit plans from the operation of Section 235.
1983-02-02: Referred to House Committee on Ways and Means.
A bill to amend title 38, United States Code, to waive the one-year limitation on claims for compensation from the Veterans' Administration for disabilities and diseases incurred in or aggravated by military service in the case of claims by veterans who served in Southeast Asia during the Vietnam era for compensation for disabilities resulting from exposure to the phenoxy herbicide known as agent orange or other phenoxy herbicides.
1983-02-01: Referred to House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1954 to modify the credit allowed for expenses for household and dependent care services necessary for gainful employment to include credit to individuals for expenses for the care of a mentally or physically handicapped child of such individual and to provide for the exemption from taxation of trusts established to provide care for such children except to the extent of distributions and to provide a deduction for contributions to such trusts.
1983-01-25: Referred to House Committee on Ways and Means.
A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1954 to provide for the establishment of the deduction of contributions to parents and students' savings accounts for educational purposes.
1983-01-25: Referred to House Committee on Ways and Means.
Medicare Mental Illness Non-Discrimination Act
1983-02-02: Referred to Subcommittee on Health and the Environment.
A joint resolution expressing opposition to the mining of the ports of Nicaragua.
1984-04-20: Referred to Subcommittee on Western Hemisphere Affairs.