Labor Reform Act
1977-09-27: Referred to House Committee on Education and Labor.
A bill to provide for loans for the establishment and/or construction of municipal, low-cost, nonprofit clinics for the spaying and neutering of f dogs and cats.
1977-09-29: Referred to House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce.
Full Employment and Balanced Growth Act
1977-09-30: Referred to House Committee on Education and Labor.
A bill to amend the Social Security Act to direct the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare to develop and provide for the enforcement of standards relating to the rights of patients on certain medical facilities.
1977-09-29: Referred to House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce.
A bill to amend the Local Public Works Capital Development and Investment Act of 1976 to authorize Funds for certain smaller cities and townships.
1977-10-06: Referred to House Committee on Public Works and Transportation.
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.
1977-10-20: Referred to House Committee on Ways and Means.
Older Americans Health Services Act
1977-10-20: Referred to House Committee on Ways and Means.
A bill making a supplemental appropriation for payments under home health service grants and making an appropriation for payments under multipurpose senior center grants.
1977-10-20: Referred to House Committee on Appropriations.
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.
1977-10-20: Referred to House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce.
A bill to promote the provision and availability of necessary health services for the elderly by expanding existing programs of grants for home health services, requiring the inclusion of specified preventive and home health services under the medicaid program and making various improvements in the administration of such program, providing assistance to demonstration and pilot projects for home health and supportive services (including demonstration grants for community care), and authorizing grants for annual health fairs and mobile geriatric health units.
1977-10-20: Referred to House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce.
Geriatric Health Personnel Training Act
1977-10-20: Referred to House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce.
A bill to amend title XX of the Social Security Act to provide for the reallotment of unused social services funds, in any fiscal year, to States which will use such funds during the succeeding year in furnishing services aimed at preventing or reducing inappropriate institutional care by making home or community care available; to provide additional Federal matching for multipurpose senior center programs; and to provide for the standardization of eligibility requirements for the funding of senior centers.
1977-10-20: Referred to House Committee on Ways and Means.
Medicare Long-Term Care Act
1977-10-20: 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.
1977-10-20: Referred to House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce.
Nursing Home Reform Act
1977-10-20: Referred to House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce.
A bill to amend the National Housing Act and other acts for the purpose of providing assistance for outpatient geriatric clinics and for multipurpose senior centers.
1977-10-20: Referred to House Committee on Banking, Finance and Urban Affairs.
Long Term Care Services Act
1977-10-20: Referred to House Committee on Ways and Means.
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.
1977-10-20: Referred to House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce.
Consumer Representation and Reorganization Act
1977-10-25: Referred to House Committee on Government Operations.
Consumer Representation and Reorganization Act
1977-10-20: Referred to House Committee on Government Operations.