A bill to amend the Social Security Act to require automatic sprinkler systems in all nursing facilities and intermediate care facilities certified for participation in the medicare or medicaid program, and to provide for direct low-interest Federal loans to assist such facilities in constructing or purchasing and installing automatic sprinkler systems.
1979-01-15: Referred to House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce.
Mental Health Amendments of 1979
1979-01-15: Referred to House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce.
A joint resolution 500th Anniversary Celebration Commemorating Christopher Columbus' First Voyage to the Americas.
1979-07-30: Referred to House Committee on Post Office and Civil Service.
A joint resolution to authorize and request the President to issue a proclamation designating June 27, 1980 as "Helen Keller Day".
1979-12-20: Referred to House Committee on Post Office and Civil Service.
A joint resolution to authorize and request the President to issue a proclamation designating the week of April 20, 1980, "National Secretaries Week".
1980-04-15: Referred to House Committee on Post Office and Civil Service.
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 joint resolution to authorize the President to issue a proclamation designating the week beginning November 23, 1980, as "National Family Week".
1979-11-09: Referred to House Committee on Post Office and Civil Service.
Electric Utilities Rate Reform Act of 1979
1979-01-15: Referred to House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce.
A bill to amend the Domestic Volunteer Service Act of 1973 to provide that volunteers serving in the Service Corps of Retired Executives may provide services to certain home health agencies.
1979-01-15: Referred to House Committee on Education and Labor.
Consumer Food Labeling Act
1979-01-15: Referred to House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce.
Tuition Advance Fund Act
1979-01-24: Referred to House Committee on Ways and Means.
A bill to amend title II of the Social Security Act to eliminate the 5-month waiting period which is presently a prerequisite of eligibility for disability insurance benefits or the disability freeze.
1979-01-15: Referred to House Committee on Ways and Means.
A joint resolution designating October 19, 1981, as a Day of National Celebration of the Two Hundredth Anniversary of the American Victory at Yorktown, Virginia.
1980-04-01: Referred to House Committee on Post Office and Civil Service.
Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act
1980-12-02: Public Law 96-487.
A joint resolution congratulating the Order of the Sons of Italy in America for their seventy-fifth anniversary and wishing the Order of the Sons of Italy in America success in future years and proclaiming June 22, 1980, as "National Italian-American Day".
1980-06-09: Referred to House Committee on Post Office and Civil Service.
A bill to amend title 5, United States Code, to provide that any Federal employee who, at the time of retirement does not elect a reduced annuity in order to provide a survivor annuity to a spouse or other person, may make such an election within one year after retiring.
1979-01-15: Referred to House Committee on Post Office and Civil Service.
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).
IRA Employer Plan Coordination Act of 1979
1979-01-15: Referred to House Committee on Ways and Means.
Sunset Act of 1979
1979-01-15: Referred to House Committee on Rules.
A bill to establish an Interagency Task Force on Suburban Development.
1979-10-18: Referred to House Committee on Government Operations.