A bill to amend the Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act.
1977-05-23: Referred to House Committee on Agriculture.
Veterans and Survivors Pension Adjustment Act of 1977
1977-12-02: Public Law 95-204.
A bill to allow service performed by women as members of telephone operating units of the Army Signal Corps during World War I to be considered active duty in the Army for purposes of all laws administered by the Veterans' Administration.
1977-05-25: Referred to House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
World War I Pension Act
1977-06-02: Referred to House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
A bill to have an inscription and appropriate medals, ribbons, and tributes placed upon the crypt at the National Cemetery at Arlington, Va., reserved for an American soldier who lost his life in Southeast Asia during the Vietnam era, and whose identity is unknown.
1977-06-01: Referred to House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
A bill to repeal a restriction on the availability of health care under the civilian health and medical program of the uniformed services (CHAMPUS).
1977-06-02: Referred to House Committee on Appropriations.
A bill to amend title 38 of the United States code to assist veterans with a permanent and total service-connected disability due to the loss or loss of use of one upper and one lower extremity to acquire specially adapted housing.
1977-06-08: Referred to House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
A bill relating to the assignment of retired military personnel to the American Battle Monuments Commission.
1977-07-12: Measure passed House.
A bill to amend title 18 of the United States Code to eliminate racketeering in the sale and distribution of cigarettes.
1977-06-16: Referred to House Committee on the Judiciary.
A bill to amend title I of the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 to authorize programs for the provision of escort services to the elderly in high crime areas.
1977-06-16: Referred to House Committee on the Judiciary.
A bill to amend title 18 of the United States Code to change the applicability of certain provisions now applying only to females so that those provisions apply to both males and females.
1977-06-21: Referred to House Committee on the Judiciary.
Product Liability Insurance Tax Equity Act
1977-06-24: Referred to House Committee on Ways and Means.
A bill to deny entitlement to veterans' benefits to certain persons who would otherwise become so entitled solely by virtue of the administrative upgrading under temporarily revised standards of less than honorable discharges from service during the Vietnam era.
1977-06-27: Referred to House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
A bill to direct the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences to conduct a one-year review and evaluation of all available information respecting the toxicity and carcinogenicity of food additives, including information respecting the ability to predict the effect on humans of food additives found to cause cancer in animals and whether there should be a weighing of risks and benefits in making regulatory decisions respecting such additives, and to direct the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare to permit the continued use of saccharin as a food, food additive, drug, and cosmetic for 18 months.
1977-06-27: Referred to House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce.
A bill to amend the Airport and Airway Development Act of 1970 to require the establishment of a system of automated flight service stations.
1977-06-30: Referred to House Committee on Public Works and Transportation.
Comprehensive Veterans Readjustment Assistance Act
1977-06-30: Referred to House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1954 to allow individuals to compute the amount of the deduction for payments into retirement savings on the basis of the compensation of their spouses.
1977-06-30: Referred to House Committee on Ways and Means.
A bill to repeal the provisions of the Postal Reorganization Act and reenact the former provisions of title 39, United States Code.
1977-07-11: Referred to House Committee on Post Office and Civil Service.
A bill to amend title 39 of the United States Code to prohibit the Postal Service from limiting regular daily mail delivered to fewer than 6 days each week.
1977-07-12: Referred to House Committee on Post Office and Civil Service.
A bill to amend the Airport and Airway Development Act of 1970 to require the establishment of a system of automated flight service stations.
1977-07-13: Referred to House Committee on Public Works and Transportation.