A bill to amend the treatment of earnings under the AFDC program, to increase the amount of the funds available for social services block grants, to make permanent the present temporary provisions authorizing continued payment of SSI benefits to individuals who work despite severe medical impairment, and to make permanent the present temporary provisions authorizing Federal payments for dependent children voluntarily placed in foster care.
1983-11-08: For Further Action See H.R.4327.
A bill to prevent the temporary termination of the Federal Supplemental Compensation Act of 1982.
1983-03-29: Became Public Law No: 98-13.
A bill to recognize the organization known as the Navy Wives Clubs of America.
1984-10-19: Became Public Law No: 98-520.
A bill to modify the Mississippi River and tributaries project to authorize improvements in the Memphis Harbor.
1983-07-27: See H.R.3678.
A bill to amend title 38, United States Code, to extend the period of eligibility for GI Bill educational benefits for certain veterans of the Vietnam era.
1983-03-21: Referred to House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
A joint resolution designating September 5, 1983, as "National Beale Street, Home-of-the-Blues Day" to commemorate the redevelopment of the historic area where W. C. Handy, originator of the famous music form known as the "Blues", composed the "Memphis Blues" some seventy years ago.
1983-05-09: Referred to Subcommittee on Census and Population.
Employment Opportunities for Disabled Americans Act
1986-11-10: Became Public Law No: 99-643.
A bill to amend part A of title IV of the Social Security Act to make it mandatory for States (under the AFDC program) to provide aid with respect to dependent children in two-parent families.
1986-05-05: Referred to Subcommittee on Public Assistance and Unemployment Compensation.
A bill to appropriate funds for the establishment of a cancer research center at the University of Tennessee Center for Health Sciences in Memphis, Tennessee.
1986-04-15: Referred to House Committee on Appropriations.
A bill to restore the social security trust funds and other Federal retirement funds losses resulting from noninvestments, redemptions, and disinvestments in connection with efforts to meet the public debt limit and to require prior approval of the Congress of any further disinvestment of such funds.
1985-11-14: For Further Action See H.R.3721.
A bill to amend the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 to permit employees engaged in law enforcement and fire protection activities to take compensatory time off in lieu of receiving overtime compensation.
1985-10-28: See H.R.3530.
Family Economic Security Act of 1985
1985-06-03: Referred to Subcommittee on Public Assistance and Unemployment Compensation.
A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1954 to require information reporting with respect to airline passes provided under frequent flier or similar programs.
1985-04-29: Referred to House Committee on Ways and Means.
A bill to amend title XVI of the Social Security Act to provide a special increase (over and above the regular cost-of-living adjustment) in the Federal benefit standard under the supplemental security income program.
1985-04-19: Referred to Subcommittee on Public Assistance and Unemployment Compensation.
A bill to amend title 38, United States Code, to extend the period of eligibility for GI bill educational benefits for certain veterans of the Vietnam era.
1985-02-28: Referred to House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1954 to make certain sales of fuel for use in a taxicab exempt from tax, to make permanent the provision for refund of taxes on the sale of fuel for use in a taxicab, and for other purposes.
1985-02-28: Referred to House Committee on Ways and Means.
A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1954 to make permanent the deduction for charitable contributions by nonitemizers.
1985-02-21: Referred to House Committee on Ways and Means.
A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1954 to repeal the contemporaneous recordkeeping requirements enacted by the Tax Reform Act of 1984.
1985-05-16: See H.R.1869.
A resolution expressing the sense of the House of Representatives that the President should support any resolution of the United Nations recommending the imposition of certain economic sanctions against South Africa.
1985-08-09: Referred to Subcommittee on Africa.