Product Liability Tax Relief Act
1978-02-01: Referred to House Committee on Ways and Means.
A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1954 to allow taxpayers to treat certain federally required nonproductive expenditures as not chargeable to capital account and as currently deductible.
1978-02-01: Referred to House Committee on Ways and Means.
A bill to amend the Administrative Procedure Act to require the performance and publication of economic impact analyses in the Federal Register for all proposed and final rules which are subject to the provisions of that Act.
1978-02-01: Referred to House Committee on the Judiciary.
A bill to establish a Hubert H. Humphrey Fellowship in Social and Political Thought at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars at the Smithsonian Institution and to establish a trust fund to provide a stipend for such fellowship.
1978-02-06: Referred to House Committee on House Administration.
A bill to amend the Social Security Act and the Internal Revenue Code of 1954 to provide for Federal participation in the costs of the old-age, survivors, and disability insurance program and the medicare program, with appropriate reductions in social security taxes to reflect such participation, and with a substantial increase in the amount of an individual's annual earnings which may be counted for benefit and tax purposes.
1978-02-15: Referred to House Committee on Ways and Means.
A bill to amend the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to provide assistance for the establishment of basic standards of educational proficiency applicable to public school students.
1978-02-15: Referred to House Committee on Education and Labor.
A bill to amend the Older Americans Act of 1965 to require the Commissioner on Aging to establish a special grant program to enable States to establish community long-term care initiatives to assess the needs of chronically ill or disabled older persons for services and to provide for the efficient delivery of such services to such older persons.
1978-02-16: Referred to House Committee on Education and Labor.
Flexible Parity Act
1978-02-21: Referred to House Committee on Agriculture.
A bill to provide for the issuance of a commemorative postage stamp in honor of General Casimir Pulaski and Americans of Polish descent.
1978-02-22: Referred to House Committee on Post Office and Civil Service.
Small Business Tax Reform Act
1978-02-23: Referred to House Committee on Ways and Means.
A bill to provide for the issuance of a commemorative postage stamp in observance of the thirtieth anniversary of the founding of the modern State of Israel.
1978-02-23: Referred to House Committee on Post Office and Civil Service.
A bill to amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to include dental care, eye care, dentures, eyeglasses, and hearing aids among the benefits provided by the insurance program established by part B of such title, and for other purposes.
1978-02-24: Referred to House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce.
A bill to prohibit the Board for International Broadcasting from providing funds or other assistance to Radio Free Europe and Radio Liberty if they allow any Communist country to use their facilities to broadcast.
1978-02-24: Referred to House Committee on International Relations.
A bill to amend title VIII of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to provide grants to public schools to assist the schools in implementing basic standards of educational proficiency, and for other purposes.
1978-03-01: Referred to House Committee on Education and Labor.
A bill to amend section 6(d)(1) of the Food Stamp Act of 1977, and for other purposes.
1978-03-02: Referred to House Committee on Agriculture.
A bill to amend title II of the Social Security Act and the Internal Revenue Code of 1954 to provide that any individual may elect (on an annual basis) to contribute to a private retirement plan rather than participating in the social security program.
1978-03-02: Referred to House Committee on Ways and Means.
Solar Power Satellite Research, Development, and Demonstration Program Act
1978-03-01: Referred to House Committee on Science and Technology.
A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1954 to allow certain married individuals who file separate returns to be taxed as unmarried individuals.
1978-03-03: Referred to House Committee on Ways and Means.
Botulism Prevention Act
1978-03-07: Referred to House Committee on Agriculture.
A bill to amend the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 with respect to the definition of a handicap.
1978-03-07: Referred to House Committee on Education and Labor.