A bill to amend title 18 and title 19 of the Social Security Act to require skilled nursing facilities to provide medically related social services.
1975-04-29: Referred to Senate Committee on Finance.
A bill to extend and revise programs for Sickle-Cell Anemia.
1975-05-01: Referred to Senate Committee on Labor and Public Welfare.
A bill to require the immediate reporting of epidemic diseases or accidents in nursing homes participating in Federal programs.
1975-04-29: Referred to Senate Committee on Finance.
A bill to amend the Food Stamp Act.
1975-05-05: Referred to Senate Committee on Agriculture and Forestry.
A bill to amend title 19 of the Social Security Act to require States to establish ombudsman programs to investigate nursing home complaints and represent consumer interests.
1975-04-29: Referred to Senate Committee on Finance.
A bill to make unlawful the solicitation or acceptance of any gift, money or consideration over and above the rates established by the States and to make unlawful the solicitation or acceptance of any gift, money or donation as a precondition of admitting a patient to a long-term care facility.
1975-04-29: Referred to Senate Committee on Finance.
A bill to provide 100 percent Federal funding of financial audits of facilities participating in medicare and medicaid conducted by State personnel.
1975-04-29: Referred to Senate Committee on Finance.
A bill to amend the Social Security Act to improve the survey and certification process, rate-setting and fiscal audit methods, and general regulation of nursing homes and intermediate care facilities under the medicaid program, and to provide for medical, psychological, and social assessment of long-term care patients under both the medicare and medicaid programs.
1975-04-29: Referred to Senate Committee on Finance.
A bill to amend title VII of the Public Health Service Act to provide for the making of grants to appropriate colleges and universities to assist them in establishing graduate programs for nurses in geriatrics and gerontology.
1975-04-29: Referred to Senate Committee on Labor and Public Welfare.
American Folklife Preservation Act
1975-05-01: Referred to Senate Committee on Rules and Administration.
A bill to designate certain lands in the Isle Royale National Park in Michigan as wilderness.
1975-05-07: Referred to Senate Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs.
Home Purchase Tax Rebate Amendments
1975-05-01: Referred to Senate Committee on Finance.
Veterans' Administration Physician Pay Comparability Act
1975-08-01: Measure indefinitely postponed in Senate, H.R. 8240 passed in lieu.
A bill to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to establish the Valley Forge National Historical Park in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
1976-06-11: Measure indefinitely postponed in Senate, H.R. 5621 passed in lieu.
A bill to amend the Federal Crop Insurance Act to establish an independent corporation to carry out the purposes of such Act, to provide for more extensive commodity coverage under such Act.
1975-05-13: Referred to Senate Committee on Agriculture and Forestry.
National Foundation on the Arts and Humanities Amendments
1975-05-22: Referred to Senate Committee on Finance.
Energy Information Act
1975-06-04: Referred to Senate Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs.
A bill to authorize the Secretary of Agriculture to carry out rural conservation employment projects in rural areas of substantial unemployment.
1975-06-11: Referred to Senate Committee on Agriculture and Forestry.
Railroad Facilities Act
1975-06-06: Referred to Senate Committee on Commerce.
A bill to amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to require the continued application of the nursing salary cost differential which is presently allowed in determining the reasonable cost of inpatient nursing care purposes of reimbursement to providers under the Medicare program.
1975-06-10: Referred to Senate Committee on Finance.