Solar Tax Incentives Act
1975-04-08: Referred to Senate Committee on Finance.
A bill to amend title 38 of the United States Code to provide that veterans' pension and compensation will not be reduced as a result of certain increases in monthly social security benefits.
1975-04-10: Referred to Senate Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
State Lottery Exemption Act
1975-04-21: Referred to Senate Committee on Finance.
American Folklife Preservation Act
1975-05-01: Referred to Senate Committee on Rules and Administration.
A bill exempting State lotteries from certain Federal prohibitions, and for other purposes.
1975-04-30: Referred to Senate Committee on Finance.
Emergency Rail Transportation Improvement and Employment Act
1975-10-23: Measure passed House, amended, in lieu of H.R. 8672.
A bill to amend title II of the Social Security Act to eliminate the special dependency requirements for entitlement to husband's and widower's insurance benefits, to provide benefits for widower fathers with minor children, 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, and to permit the payment of benefits to a married couple on their combined earnings record where that method of computation provides a higher combined benefit.
1975-05-13: Referred to Senate Committee on Finance.
National Oil Pollution Liability and Compensation Act
1975-05-15: Referred to Senate Committee on Public Works.
A bill to authorize the One Hundred and First Airborne Division Association to erect a memorial in the District of Columbia or its environs.
1976-02-06: Public law 94-211.
A bill to authorize the Secretary of Agriculture to carry out rural conservation employment projects in rural areas of substantial unemployment.
1975-06-11: Referred to Senate Committee on Agriculture and Forestry.
A bill to amend the Federal Energy Administration Act of 1974 in order to encourage electric generating utilities to use the lowest cost fuels consonant with environmental requirements.
1975-06-12: Referred to Senate Committee on Commerce.
A bill to amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to require the continued application of the nursing salary cost differential which is presently allowed in determining the reasonable cost of inpatient nursing care purposes of reimbursement to providers under the Medicare program.
1975-06-10: Referred to Senate Committee on Finance.
Health Maintenance Organization Amendments
1976-06-14: Measure indefinitely postponed in Senate, H.R. 9019 passed in lieu.
A bill to amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to authorize payment under the supplementary medical insurance program for optometric and medical vision care.
1975-06-26: Referred to Senate Committee on Finance.
A bill to amend title 39, United States Code, to assure that certain publications of institutions of higher education continue to qualify as second-class mail.
1975-06-25: Referred to Senate Committee on Post Office and Civil Service.
A bill to prohibit the use of dogs by the Department of Defense in connection with the research, testing, development, or evaluation of radioactive, chemical, or biological warfare agents, and to require the Department of Defense to develop and use, where feasible, alternative, nonanimal methods of experimentation.
1975-07-10: Referred to Senate Committee on Armed Services.
A bill to amend the Small Business Act to establish within the Small Business Administration a new direct low-interest loan program to assist homeowners and builders in purchasing and installing solar heating (or combined solar heating and cooling) equipment.
1975-07-10: Referred to Senate Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs.
Conservation and Solar Energy-Federal Buildings Act
1975-07-10: Referred to Senate Committee on Public Works.
Solar Energy Equipment Loan Act
1975-07-23: Referred to Senate Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs.
A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1954, and the Tax Reduction Act of 1974, to make permanent certain changes made by such act in the Internal Revenue Code which affect small businesses.
1975-07-21: Referred to Senate Committee on Finance.