A bill to amend section 8e of the Agricultural Adjustment Act, as reenacted and amended by the Agricultural Marketing Agreement Act of 1937, to provide that when papayas produced in the United States are made subject to any regulation with respect to grade, size, quality, or maturity, imported papayas shall be made subject to the same regulation.
1979-05-16: Referred to Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry.
A bill to amend the Social Security Act to provide for inclusion of the services of licensed registered nurses under medicare and medicaid.
1979-04-25: Referred to Senate Committee on Finance.
Minority Concerns Act of 1979
1979-04-09: Referred to Senate Committee on Labor and Human Resources.
A bill to direct the Secretary of the Army to determine the validity of the claims of certain Filipinos who assert that they performed military service on behalf of the United States during World War II, and for other purposes.
1979-04-05: Referred to Senate Committee on Armed Services.
A bill to authorize the Secretary of the Navy to convey certain real property in the State of Hawaii to the present lessees of such real property.
1979-04-09: Referred to Senate Committee on Armed Services.
Native Hawaiian Education Act
1979-11-13: Referred to House Committee on Education and Labor.
A bill to direct the Secretary of the Navy to develop the technology necessary for clearing unexploded ordnance from land and waters with certain characteristics in order to determine the feasibility and cost of clearing the island of Kahoolawe, Hawaii, and adjacent waters of ordnance and other debris.
1979-04-05: Referred to Senate Committee on Armed Services.
A bill to authorize the Secretary of the Army to make available to the State of Hawaii certain physical facilities not needed by the Army at Fort DeRussy, Hawaii, for the establishment of a mental health clinic in such facilities.
1979-04-05: Referred to Senate Committee on Armed Services.
A bill to amend title II of the Social Security Act to provide benefits for widowed fathers with minor children, and to make certain other changes so that benefits for husbands, widowers, and fathers will be payable on the same basis as benefits for wives, widows, and mothers.
1979-04-05: Referred to Senate Committee on Finance.
A bill to authorize appropriations for the fiscal years 1980 and 1981 under the International Investment Survey Act of 1976, and for other purposes.
1979-05-17: Measure passed Senate.
A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1954 to increase the amount of the credit for the elderly and to adjust the adjusted gross income limitation.
1979-03-26: Referred to Senate Committee on Finance.
A bill to amend titles XVIII and XIX of the Social Security Act to provide for inclusion of services rendered by a certified nurse-midwife under the medicare and medicaid programs.
1979-03-14: Referred to Senate Committee on Finance.
A bill to amend title 5, United States Code, to provide for access to a certified nurse-midwife without prior referral in the Federal employee health benefits program.
1979-03-14: Referred to Senate Committee on Governmental Affairs.
A bill to amend section 1002 of title 38, United States Code, to authorize the burial in a national cemetery of the parents of certain members of the Armed Forces who die in active service.
1979-02-22: Referred to Senate Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
A bill to amend section 1003 of title 38, United States Code, relating to memorial areas and appropriate memorials to honor the memory of certain deceased members of the Armed Forces whose remains were buried at sea, have not been identified, or were nonrecoverable.
1979-02-22: Referred to Senate Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
A bill to amend chapter 34 of title 38, United States Code, to authorize the Administrator of Veterans' Affairs to extend, under certain circumstances, the period within which a veteran must complete a program of education under such chapter.
1979-02-22: Referred to Senate Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
A bill to amend title I of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 and the Internal Revenue Code of 1954 to prohibit the reduction of disability payments under employer-maintained disability compensation plans whenever certain social security benefit payments are increased.
1979-02-22: Referred to Senate Committee on Labor and Human Resources.
A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1954 to expand the category of targeted groups for whom the new employee credit is available to include displaced homemakers.
1979-02-22: Referred to Senate Committee on Finance.
A bill to amend title 38, United States Code, to provide that the Administrator of Veterans' Affairs may furnish outpatient dental services and treatment for a non-service-connected disability to any war veteran who has a service-connected disability of 80 per centum or more.
1979-02-22: Referred to Senate Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
A bill to amend title 10, United States Code, to authorize former members of the armed forces who are totally disabled as the result of a service-connected disability to travel on military aircraft in the same manner and to the same extent as retired members of the armed forces are permitted to travel on such aircraft.
1979-02-22: Referred to Senate Committee on Armed Services.