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.
1977-03-22: Referred to House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce.
Long Term Care Services Act
1977-03-22: Referred to House Committee on Ways and Means.
A bill to amend title XIX of the Social Security Act to provide that medicaid is a payor of last resort and to permit recovery by States from certain estates of medicaid expenses incurred by individuals before reaching the age of 65.
1977-03-22: Referred to House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce.
A bill to amend section 1979 of the Revised Statutes (42 U.S.C. 1983) to permit suits against bodies politic and the District of Columbia with respect to certain violations of civil rights.
1977-03-23: Referred to House Committee on the Judiciary.
Legal Services Corporation Amendments Act
1977-03-23: Referred to House Committee on the Judiciary.
Endangered American Wilderness Act
1977-03-23: Referred to House Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs.
A bill to provide for a reduction in general diversity of citizenship jurisdiction.
1977-03-23: Referred to House Committee on the Judiciary.
A bill to make it an unfair practice for any retailer to increase the price of certain consumer commodities once he marks the price on any such consumer commodity, and to permit the Federal Trade Commission to order any such retailer to refund any amounts of money obtained by so increasing the price of such consumer commodity.
1977-03-24: Referred to House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce.
A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1954 to allow a deduction for expenses allocable to the use of any portion of a dwelling unit in the trade or business of providing day care services whether or not such portion is exclusively used in such trade or business.
1977-03-28: Referred to House Committee on Ways and Means.
A bill to amend the Social Security Act to improve the survey and certification process, rate-setting and fiscal audit methods, and regulation of nursing homes and intermediate care facilities under the medicaid program, and to provide for medical, psychological, and social assessment of long-term care patients under both the medicare and medicaid programs.
1977-03-28: Referred to House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce.
Beverage Container Reuse and Recycling Act
1977-03-24: Referred to House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce.
Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act
1977-03-28: Referred to House Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs.
Civil Rights Commission Authorization Act of 1977
1977-10-13: Public Law 95-132.
A bill to prohibit State and local law from permitting construction which interferes with sunlight necessary for solar heating and cooling equipment.
1977-03-29: Referred to House Committee on Banking, Finance and Urban Affairs.
A bill to provide that certain persons who were originally appointed as SSI hearing examiners under pre-1976 provisions of title XVI of the Social Security Act shall without any restriction be deemed appointed as administrative law judges.
1977-03-29: Referred to House Committee on Ways and Means.
Drug Enforcement Act
1977-03-30: Referred to House Committee on the Judiciary.
A bill to amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to facilitate the adoption of more than two children.
1977-03-30: Referred to House Committee on the Judiciary.
A bill to amend the act of October 2, 1968, an act to establish a Redwood National Park in the State of California.
1977-03-30: Referred to House Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs.
Petroleum Marketing Practices Act
1977-03-30: Referred to House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce.
Drug Benefits for the Aged Act of 1979
1979-01-15: Referred to House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce.