A joint resolution authorizing the President to proclaim the second Sunday in October of each year as National Grandparent's Day.
1979-02-21: Referred to House Committee on Post Office and Civil Service.
A concurrent resolution expressing the sense of the Congress that April 22, 1980, should be celebrated as "Earth Day, 1980".
1980-04-02: Referred to Senate Committee on the Judiciary.
A bill to amend title 38 of the United States Code to make certain that recipients of veterans' pension and compensation will not have the amount of such pension or compensation reduced, or entitlement thereto discontinued, because of certain increases in monthly benefits under the Social Security Act and other Federal retirement programs.
1977-03-03: Referred to House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
Veterans Administration Administrative Procedure and Judicial Review Act
1977-03-22: Referred to House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
A bill to remove the limitation on the amount authorized to be appropriated under the Volunteers in the National Forests Act of 1972.
1977-03-22: Referred to House Committee on Agriculture.
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.
1977-03-09: Referred to House Committee on Ways and Means.
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.
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.
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.
Older Americans Health Services Act
1977-03-22: Referred to House Committee on Ways and Means.
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 concurrent resolution expressing the sense of the Congress that the Secretary of Energy should not promulgate any Federal emergency energy conservation plan which would harm recreational boating.
1980-02-27: 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 the Internal Revenue Code of 1954 to provide that the amount of the charitable deduction allowable for expenses incurred in the operation of a highway vehicle will be determined in the same manner as the business deduction for such expenses.
1977-03-22: Referred to House Committee on Ways and Means.
A bill to establish within the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare a Home Health Clearinghouse to provide elderly persons with a single place where they can obtain complete information on the Federal health programs available to them, and to create within the Department an Assistant Secretary for Elderly Health with responsibility for all health and health-related matters involving the elderly.
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 section 218 of the Social Security Act to include New Jersey in the list of States which may establish a divided retirement system for purposes of providing social security coverage of State and local employees under Federal-State agreements.
1977-03-22: Referred to House Committee on Ways and Means.
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.
An Act to amend the acts of August 11, 1888, and March 2, 1919, pertaining to carrying out projects for improvements of rivers and harbors by contract or otherwise, and for other purposes.
1978-04-26: Public Law 95-269.
Water Resources Development Act
1974-03-07: Public law 93-251.