Electric Vehicle Research, Development, and Demonstration Act
1975-04-21: Referred to House Committee on Science and Technology.
A bill to provide additional humanitarian assistance authorizations for South Vietnam and Cambodia for the fiscal year 1975.
1975-04-21: Referred to House Committee on International Relations.
A bill to prohibit further military assistance to the Government of South Vietnam.
1975-04-22: Referred to House Committee on International Relations.
Flexible Hours Act
1975-04-24: Referred to House Committee on Post Office and Civil Service.
A bill to require unannounced State inspections of public and private extended care facilities, skilled nursing homes, and intermediate care facilities and to require State enforcement of guarantees of rights of the patients in such facilities.
1975-04-28: Referred to House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce.
Foreign Discriminatory Commercial Practices Act
1975-04-28: Referred to House Committee on International Relations.
A bill to amend the Food Stamp Act of 1964 to provide for improved and more extensive means of distributing food stamp informational materials, to improve the application procedure for food stamp applicants, and to provide special assistance in areas of high unemployment.
1975-04-28: Referred to House Committee on Agriculture.
A bill to amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to authorize the provision of intermediate care services under medicare.
1975-04-29: Referred to House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce.
A bill to require physician visits to patients in skilled nursing facilities at least once every 30 days.
1975-04-29: Referred to House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce.
A bill to provide for the modification of the medicare reimbursement formula to allow small hospitals in rural areas with low occupancy to provide long-term care but only in those areas where there are no appropriate nursing home beds available.
1975-04-29: Referred to House Committee on Ways and Means.
A bill to amend titles 18 and 19 of the Social Security Act to require minimum ratios for nursing home personnel to patients and for supervisory nurses to total nurses.
1975-04-29: Referred to House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce.
A bill to amend section 213 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1954 with respect to certain nursing home expenses.
1975-04-29: Referred to House Committee on Ways and Means.
A bill to amend titles 18 and 19 of the Social Security Act to require that only licensed personnel may set up or distribute medications in skilled nursing facilities.
1975-04-29: Referred to House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce.
A bill to amend title 18 of 19 of the Social Security Act to require nursing homes to post their current license, medicare/medicaid certification, a list of owners of the facility, the names of staff, a patient's bill of rights as well as a description of services offered by the facility and the facility's charges therefor.
1975-04-29: Referred to House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce.
A bill to amend title 18 and 19 of the Social Security Act to require skilled nursing facilities to employ at least one registered nurse 24 hours per day, 7 days a week.
1975-04-29: Referred to House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce.
A bill to require admissions contracts between nursing homes participating in Federal programs and the patients they serve.
1975-04-29: Referred to House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce.
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 House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce.
A bill to amend title 18 and 19 of the Social Security Act to require skilled nursing facilities to provide medically related social services.
1975-04-29: Referred to House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce.
A bill to require that a State plan under title 19 must be ratified by both the State's legislative and executive branch before being presented to the Secretary for his approval; to require that such plans be posted and available to the public; to require the Secretary to annually review a State's compliance with such plan and to publish performance ratings for the States and creating a cause of action allowing title 19 recipients individually or as a class to bring suit against a State for specific performance when a State fails to comply with the provisions of its plan.
1975-04-29: Referred to House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce.
Voting Rights for the Elderly and the Handicapped Act
1977-04-06: Referred to House Committee on House Administration.