A bill to promote the use of energy conservation, solar energy, and total energy systems in Federal buildings.
1977-03-14: Referred to House Committee on Public Works and Transportation.
Reorganization Act
1977-03-29: Measure laid on table in House, S. 626 passed in lieu.
A bill to amend title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 to prohibit sex discrimination on the basis of pregnancy.
1977-03-15: Referred to House Committee on Education and Labor.
A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1954 to deny any deduction for amounts paid or incurred by an employer pursuant to an employee health or accident plan if such plan does not provide certain pregnancy benefits.
1977-03-16: Referred to House Committee on Ways and Means.
A bill to amend the Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967 to provide that all Federal employees described in section 15 of such act shall be covered under the provisions of such act regardless of their age.
1977-03-16: Referred to House Committee on Education and Labor.
A bill to amend the Arms Export Control Act to provide the Congress with an opportunity to disapprove proposed transfers from the recipient country to another country of defense articles or related training or other defense services supplied by the United States.
1977-03-17: Referred to House Committee on International Relations.
Equity in Social Security for Individuals and Families Act
1977-03-22: Referred to House Committee on Ways and Means.
A bill to amend the National Housing Act and other Acts for the purpose of providing assistance for outpatient geriatric clinics and for multipurpose senior centers.
1977-03-22: Referred to House Committee on Banking, Finance and Urban Affairs.
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 organizations for outpatient geriatric clinics or for multipurpose senior centers.
1977-03-22: Referred to House Committee on Ways and Means.
Older Americans Health Services Act
1977-03-22: 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.
1977-03-22: Referred to House Committee on Appropriations.
A bill to amend the Social Security Act to provide that any patient of a long-term care institution participating in the medicare or medicaid program, or otherwise receiving funds under that act, shall have the right to terminate his or her contract with such institution upon giving reasonable advance notice, and to expressly prohibit such an institution from requiring any patient to turn over to it any income received by him or her after such notice is given.
1977-03-22: Referred to House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce.
Veterans Administration Administrative Procedure and Judicial Review Act
1977-03-22: Referred to House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
A bill to promote the provision and availability of necessary health services for the elderly by expanding existing programs of grants for home health services, requiring the inclusion of specified preventive and home health services under the medicaid program and making various improvements in the administration of such program, providing assistance to demonstration and pilot projects for home health and supportive services (including demonstration grants for community care), and authorizing grants for annual health fairs and mobile geriatric health units.
1977-03-22: Referred to House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce.
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 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.
1977-03-22: Referred to House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce.
A bill to amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to include dental care, eye care, hearing aids, physical checkups, and foot care among the items and services for which payment may be made under the supplementary medical insurance program, and to provide safeguards against consumer abuse in the provision of these items and services.
1977-03-22: Referred to House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce.
A bill to amend title XIX of the Social Security Act to provide that medicaid is a payor of last resort and to permit recovery by States from certain estates of medicaid expenses incurred by individuals before reaching the age of 65.
1977-03-22: Referred to House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce.
A bill to amend the Older Americans Act of 1965 to provide grants to organizations for providing legal assistance to poor, elderly individuals in connection with their entitlement to home health services under titles XVIII, XIX, and XX of the Social Security Act.
1977-03-22: Referred to House Committee on the Judiciary.
A bill to amend title XX of the Social Security Act to provide for the reallotment of unused social services funds, in any fiscal year, to States which will use such funds during the succeeding year in furnishing services aimed at preventing or reducing inappropriate institutional care by making home or community care available; to provide additional Federal matching for multipurpose senior center programs; and to provide for the standardization of eligibility requirements for the funding of senior centers.
1977-03-22: 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.