A bill to amend the Social Security Act to require automatic sprinkler systems in all nursing facilities and intermediate care facilities certified for participation in the medicare or medicaid program, and to provide for direct low-interest Federal loans to assist such facilities in constructing or purchasing and installing automatic sprinkler systems.
1977-06-01: Referred to House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce.
World War I Pension Act
1977-06-02: Referred to House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
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.
1977-07-12: Measure passed House, roll call #406 (403-0).
Wildlife on Federal Lands Trapping Act
1977-06-20: Referred to House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce.
A bill to amend section 226 of the Social Security Act to make inapplicable, in the case of individuals suffering from multiple sclerosis, the present requirement that an individual under age 65 must have been entitled to benefits based on disability for at least 24 consecutive months in order to qualify for medicare benefits.
1977-06-24: Referred to House Committee on Ways and Means.
A bill to amend title 38, United States Code, to increase the rates of vocational rehabilitation, educational assistance, and special training allowance paid to eligible veterans and persons.
1977-06-29: 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 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 section 541 of title 28 of the United States Code to change the term of office and the manner of appointment and removal of U.S. attorneys and to repeal section 546 (relating to temporary appointments to vacancies by courts) of such title.
1977-07-13: Referred to House Committee on the Judiciary.
A bill to amend the Social Security Act to provide medicare benefits for individuals who require total parenteral nutrition (TPN) as a result of intestinal surgery.
1977-07-13: Referred to House Committee on Ways and Means.
Public Transportation Tax Incentive Act
1977-07-14: Referred to House Committee on Ways and Means.
A bill to require that all reports concerning certain sales of meat and meat food products meet standards set by the Secretary of Agriculture concerning accuracy and completeness.
1977-07-15: Referred to House Committee on Agriculture.
A bill to amend the National Housing Act to provide for the insurance of graduated payment mortgages.
1977-07-15: Referred to House Committee on Banking, Finance and Urban Affairs.
National School-Age Mother and Child Health Act
1977-07-20: Referred to House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce.
A bill to require the Office of Management and Budget to provide information on the formulas and assumptions used in the distribution of domestic assistance.
1977-07-28: Referred to House Committee on Government Operations.
Congressional Pay Raise Deferral Act
1977-08-01: Referred to House Committee on Post Office and Civil Service.
A bill to regulate commerce by establishing national goals for the effective, fair, inexpensive, and expeditious resolution of controversies involving consumers.
1977-08-01: Referred to House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce.
Public Housing Security Act
1977-08-03: Referred to House Committee on Banking, Finance and Urban Affairs.
Agency Responsiveness Act
1977-08-03: Referred to House Committee on Government Operations.
GI Bill Improvement Act of 1977
1977-11-23: Public Law 95-202.