A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1954 to provide that the amount of the charitable deduction allowable for expenses incurred in the operation of a highway vehicle will be determined in the same manner as the business deduction for such expenses.
1977-03-22: Referred to House Committee on Ways and Means.
A bill to amend the Older Americans Act of 1965 to provide grants to organizations for providing legal assistance to poor, elderly individuals in connection with their entitlement to home health services under titles XVIII, XIX, and XX of the Social Security Act.
1977-03-22: Referred to House Committee on the Judiciary.
A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1954 to exclude from gross income the interest on series E United States savings bonds received by individuals who have attained age 65.
1979-02-28: Referred to House Committee on Ways and Means.
National Aquaculture Development Act
1975-02-05: Referred to House Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries.
A bill to insure that each admission to the service academies shall be made without regard to a candidate's sex, race, color, or religious beliefs.
1975-02-27: Referred to House Committee on Armed Services.
A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1954 to allow individuals a refundable tax credit for a portion of the rent which they pay on their principal residences and which is attributable to real property taxes.
1979-02-15: Referred to House Committee on Ways and Means.
A bill to amend the Food Stamp Act of 1977 to eliminate certain restrictions on excess shelter expense deductions with respect to households which are composed entirely of persons who are age 65 or older or who are recipients of benefits under title XVI of the Social Security Act.
1979-02-13: Referred to House Committee on Agriculture.
A bill to establish within the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare a Home Health Clearinghouse to provide elderly persons with a single place where they can obtain complete information on the Federal health programs available to them, and to create within the Department an Assistant Secretary for Elderly Health with responsibility for all health and health-related matters involving the elderly.
1977-03-22: Referred to House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce.
Public Participation in Federal Agency Proceedings Act
1977-03-14: Referred to House Committee on the Judiciary.
A bill to amend title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 to prohibit sex discrimination on the basis of pregnancy.
1977-03-15: Referred to House Committee on Education and Labor.
Older Americans Health Services Act
1977-03-22: Referred to House Committee on Ways and Means.
A bill to amend the Social Security Act to provide that any patient of a long-term care institution participating in the medicare or medicaid program, or otherwise receiving funds under that act shall have the right to terminate his or her contract with such institution upon giving reasonable advance notice, and to expressly prohibit such an institution from requiring any patient to turn over to it any income received by him or her after such notice is given.
1977-03-22: Referred to House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce.
A bill to amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to remove all limits on the number of home health visits for which payment may be made under both part A and part B (eliminating the requirement of prior hospitalization in the case of home health care under part A), to include additional types of services as home health care, to provide coverage for preventive care under part B, to provide coverage for services furnished in outpatient rehabilitation facilities and elderly day care centers, to improve the administration of the medicare program.
1977-03-22: Referred to House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce.
A bill making a supplemental appropriation for payments under home health services grants and making an appropriation for payments under multipurpose senior center grants.
1977-03-22: Referred to House Committee on Appropriations.
A concurrent resolution expressing the sense of the Congress that Andrei Sakharov should be released from internal exile, and urging the President to protest the continued suppression of human rights in the Soviet Union.
1980-01-29: Referred to House Committee on Foreign Affairs.
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.
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.
1977-03-22: Referred to House Committee on Ways and Means.
A resolution to amend the rules of the House of Representatives to change the name of the Committee on International Relations to the Committee on Foreign Affairs.
1979-02-05: Measure passed House.
A bill to amend the Federal Nonnuclear Energy Research and Development Act of 1974 to provide for cooperative programs with less-developed countries for the development of unconventional energy technologies.
1977-03-31: Referred to House Committee on International Relations.
Concurrent resolution authorizing and directing the Joint Study Committee on Budget Control to report legislation to the Congress no later than June 1, 1973, providing procedures for improving congressional control of budgetary outlay and receipt totals, the operation of a limitation on expenditures and net lending commencing with the fiscal year beginning July 1, 1973, and for limiting the authority of the President to impound or otherwise withhold funds authorized and appropriated by the Congress.
1973-04-12: Referred to House Committee on Rules.