A bill to amend the Federal Civil Defense Act of 1950 to allow Federal civil defense funds to be used by local civil defense agencies for natural disaster relief, and for other purposes.
1979-01-18: Referred to House Committee on Armed Services.
A bill to limit the jurisdiction of the Supreme Court of the United States and of the district courts to enter any judgment, decree, or order, denying or restricting, as unconstitutional, voluntary prayer in any public school.
1979-01-22: Referred to House Committee on the Judiciary.
A bill to amend section 9441 of title 10, United States Code, to provide for the budgeting by the Secretary of Defense, the authorization of appropriations, and the use of those appropriated funds by the Secretary of the Air Force, for certain specified purposes to assist the Civil Air Patrol in providing services in connection with the noncombatant mission of the Air Force.
1979-01-22: Referred to House Committee on Armed Services.
Small Business Development Center Act of 1979
1979-01-23: Referred to House Committee on Small Business.
Small Business Impact Statement Act of 1979
1979-01-23: Referred to House Committee on Small Business.
A bill to amend the Disaster Relief Act of 1974.
1979-01-24: Referred to House Committee on Public Works and Transportation.
A bill to amend title 38, United States Code, in order to entitle veterans to fifty-four months of educational assistance for all educational programs under chapter 34 of such title, to eliminate the time limitation within which educational assistance must be used, and to restore on behalf of certain veterans educational assistance benefits previously terminated.
1979-01-24: Referred to House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
A bill to amend the Food Stamp Act of 1977 to provide for the acceptance by pharmacies of food stamps in exchange for food supplements prescribed for consumption by cancer patients.
1979-01-24: Referred to House Committee on Agriculture.
A bill to amend chapter 44 of title 18 of the United States Code to extend the mandatory penalty feature of the prohibition against the use of firearms in Federal felonies, and for other purposes.
1979-01-25: Referred to House Committee on the Judiciary.
Public Safety Officers Memorial Scholarship Act
1979-01-25: Referred to House Committee on Education and Labor.
Small Business Tax Relief Act of 1979
1979-01-29: Referred to House Committee on Ways and Means.
A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1954 to treat permanently and totally disabled individuals in the same way as individuals who have attained the age of 55 for purposes of the one-time exclusion of gain from the sale of a principal residence.
1979-01-29: Referred to House Committee on Ways and Means.
A bill to amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to authorize payment under the medicare program for certain services performed by chiropractors.
1979-01-31: Referred to House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce.
A bill to amend title XVI of the Social Security Act to remove certain work disincentives for the disabled under the supplemental security income benefits program.
1979-01-31: Referred to House Committee on Ways and Means.
A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1954 to allow the charitable deduction to taxpayers whether or not they itemize their personal deductions.
1979-02-01: Referred to House Committee on Ways and Means.
Taxpayer Relief Amendments to Panama Treaty Legislation
1979-02-08: Referred to House Committee on Foreign Affairs.
A bill to amend the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 to delay for two years the increases in the minimum wage under that Act scheduled to take effect in 1980 and 1981, to provide a special minimum wage for the limited employment of youth under the age of nineteen, to broaden, the authority for the employment of full-time students at a special minimum wage, and retain the 45 percent tip credit.
1979-02-08: Referred to House Committee on Education and Labor.
A bill to amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to authorize payment under the supplementary medical insurance program for optometric and medical vision care.
1979-02-08: Referred to House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce.
Water Resources Planning Act Amendments of 1979
1979-02-08: Referred to House Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs.
A bill to amend title XVI of the Social Security Act to provide that an individual who applies for supplemental security income benefits on the basis of disability shall be considered presumptively disabled if he has received social security or supplemental security income benefits as a disabled individual within the preceding five years.
1979-04-02: Referred to House Committee on Ways and Means.