A bill to extend to all unmarried individuals the full tax benefits of income splitting now enjoyed by married individuals filing joint returns; and to remove rate inequities for married persons where both are employed.
1977-01-26: Referred to House Committee on Ways and Means.
Youth Camp Safety Act
1977-01-26: Referred to House Committee on Education and Labor.
A bill to amend title VII of the act commonly called the Civil Rights Act of 1968 with respect to the awarding of attorney's fees and the authority of the Department of Housing and Urban Development to initiate a civil action to enforce the provisions of such title.
1977-01-26: Referred to House Committee on the Judiciary.
Human Resources Development Act
1977-01-27: Referred to House Committee on Education and Labor.
A bill to extend title II of the Public Works Employment Act of 1976 for five additional quarters.
1977-01-27: Referred to House Committee on Government Operations.
A bill to amend title I of the Housing and Community Development Act of 1974 for the purpose of providing that units of general local government receiving grants under the hold-harmless provision of such title shall be entitled, after fiscal year 1977, to continue to receive at least the amount to which they are presently entitled under such provisions.
1977-01-27: Referred to House Committee on Banking, Finance and Urban Affairs.
Comprehensive Youth Employment Act
1977-02-01: Referred to House Committee on Education and Labor.
A bill to amend title II of the Social Security Act to provide that the automatic cost-of-living increases in benefits which are authorized thereunder may be made on a semiannual basis, rather than only on an annual basis as at present.
1977-02-01: Referred to House Committee on Ways and Means.
Civil Rights Amendments
1977-02-02: Referred to House Committee on Education and Labor.
National Meals-on-Wheels Act
1977-02-02: Referred to House Committee on Education and Labor.
A bill to designate the birthday of Martin Luther King, Jr., a legal public holiday.
1977-02-02: Referred to House Committee on Post Office and Civil Service.
A bill amending the Trading with the Enemy Act to repeal the embargo on United States trade with Vietnam.
1977-02-02: Referred to House Committee on International Relations.
A bill to amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to provide coverage for services which may be performed by a dentist on the same basis as presently allowed for physicians under the medicare program, and to authorize payment under such program for all inpatient hospital services furnished in connection with dental procedures requiring hospitalization.
1977-02-02: Referred to House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce.
A bill to terminate age discrimination in employment.
1977-02-03: Referred to House Committee on Education and Labor.
National Employment Priorities Act
1977-02-07: Referred to House Committee on Banking, Finance and Urban Affairs.
A bill to amend part B of title XI of the Social Security Act to assure appropriate participation by professional registered nurses in the peer review, and related activities authorized thereunder.
1977-02-07: Referred to House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce.
A bill to provide that the changes made by the Tax Reform Act of 1976 to the exclusion for sick pay shall only apply to taxable years beginning after December 31, 1976.
1977-02-07: Referred to House Committee on Ways and Means.
A bill to amend title II of the Social Security Act to provide that attorneys' fees allowed in administrative or judicial proceedings under the title (or under title XVIII of such Act), in cases where the claimants are successful, shall be paid by the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare rather than deducted from the amounts awarded claimants.
1977-02-08: Referred to House Committee on Ways and Means.
A bill to amend title XVI of the Social Security Act and related laws to extend the supplemental security income benefits program to Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, and Guam on the same basis as the States.
1977-02-08: Referred to House Committee on Ways and Means.
Concurrent resolution endorsing the publicly declared Vietnam-era reconciliation program of the President-elect and urging the President-elect to extend that program to include all Vietnam-era selective service offenders and all Vietnam-era veterans who received less than honorable discharges or who deserted or were absent without leave during such era.
1977-01-04: Referred to House Committee on Armed Services.