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 and various related items and services 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.
1976-06-01: Referred to House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce.
Estate and Gift Tax Reform Act
1976-06-01: Referred to House Committee on Ways and Means.
Older Persons Comprehensive Counseling Assistance Act
1976-06-01: Referred to House Committee on Education and Labor.
A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1954 to allow a deduction to taxpayers who contribute the right to use certain real property to charitable organization for outpatient geriatric clinics or for multipurpose senior centers.
1976-06-01: Referred to House Committee on Ways and Means.
A bill making a supplemental appropriation for payments under home health service grants and making an appropriation for payments under multipurpose senior center grants.
1976-06-01: Referred to House Committee on Appropriations.
A bill to amend title 38 of the United States Code in order to extend under certain circumstances the delimiting period for completing veterans' education programs and to provide a teach-down period for veterans who have committed themselves to furthering their education.
1976-06-02: Referred to House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
Medicare Long-Term Care Act
1976-06-01: Referred to House Committee on Ways and Means.
A bill to amend the Budget and Accounting Act, 1921, to require that all departmental budget requests made to the Office of Management and Budget with respect to any fiscal year be submitted to the Congress along with the President's Budget for such year, and that officials of the Office of Management and Budget, when requested to do so by the appropriate committees of the Congress, testify before such committees on the President's budget and on such departmental budget requests.
1976-06-03: Referred to House Committee on Government Operations.
National Commitment to Energy Independence using Solar and Geothermal Energy Act.
1976-06-10: Referred to House Committee on Science and Technology.
A bill to grant certain nationals of Chile and the spouses, children, and parents of such nationals status as permanent residents of the United States.
1976-06-15: Referred to House Committee on the Judiciary.
Endangered American Wilderness Act
1976-06-23: Referred to House Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs.
National Meals-on-Wheels Act
1976-06-25: Referred to House Committee on Education and Labor.
A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1954 to provide that the current withholding tables shall remain in effect through August 31, 1976.
1976-06-25: Referred to House Committee on Ways and Means.
Omnibus Energy Conservation Act
1976-07-02: Referred to House Committee on Science and Technology.
Human Resources Demonstration Act
1976-07-01: Referred to House Committee on Education and Labor.
Maternal and Child Health Care Act
1976-07-22: Referred to House Committee on Ways and Means.
A bill to authorize appropriations for purposes of making certain grants under the Indian Elementary and Secondary Assistance Act, the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965, and the Adult Education Act.
1976-07-27: Referred to House Committee on Education and Labor.
A bill to authorize the obligation and expenditure of funds to implement for fiscal year 1977 the provisions of the Treaty of Friendship and Cooperation between the United States and Spain, signed at Madrid on January 24, 1976.
1976-09-14: Measure laid on table in House, S. 3557 passed in lieu.
District of Columbia Retirement Reform Act
1976-09-29: Reported to House from the Committee on the District of Columbia, H. Rept. 94-1728.
A bill to amend title 38 of United States Code in order to provide that the fees payable to agents or attorneys who represent veterans in allowed claims under the veterans laws shall be paid by the Administrator rather than deducted from amounts awarded under the claims.
1976-07-30: Referred to House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.