A bill to amend title I of the Housing and Community Development Act of 1974 for the purpose of providing that units of general local government receiving grants under the hold-harmless provision of such title shall be entitled, after fiscal year 1977, to continue to receive at least the amount to which they are presently entitled under such provisions.
1977-01-27: Referred to House Committee on Banking, Finance and Urban Affairs.
Economic Development Revenue Bond Act
1977-01-27: Referred to House Committee on Ways and Means.
A bill to amend title II of the Social Security Act to provide special cost-of-living increases in benefits thereunder based on local differentials in the cost of food and other necessities (over and above the regular annual cost-of-living increases in such benefits which are provided under present law on a national basis) for individuals residing in high cost cities and other high cost areas.
1977-01-27: Referred to House Committee on Ways and Means.
Urban Trees Act
1977-02-01: Referred to House Committee on Agriculture.
A bill to designate the birthday of Martin Luther King, Jr., a legal public holiday.
1977-02-02: Referred to House Committee on Post Office and Civil Service.
National Meals-on-Wheels Act
1977-02-02: Referred to House Committee on Education and Labor.
A bill to amend the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to provide grants to establish demonstration programs to educate, motivate, and encourage secondary school students from disadvantaged backgrounds to pursue professional training at the graduate level in the biomedical sciences.
1977-02-09: Referred to House Committee on Education and Labor.
A bill to amend title VIII of the Act commonly called the Civil Rights Act of 1968 with respect to the awarding of attorney's fees and the authority of the Department of Housing and Urban Development to initiate a civil action to enforce the provisions of such title.
1977-02-09: Referred to House Committee on the Judiciary.
National Vitiligo Control Act
1977-02-16: Referred to House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce.
A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1954 to encourage the employment of handicapped individuals by providing a tax credit for a certain portion of the wages paid to such individuals.
1977-02-17: Referred to House Committee on Ways and Means.
National Consumer Cooperative Bank Act
1977-02-17: Referred to House Committee on Banking, Finance and Urban Affairs.
Full Employment and Balanced Growth Act
1977-02-17: Referred to House Committee on Education and Labor.
A bill to abolish the death penalty under all laws of the United States.
1977-02-23: Referred to House Committee on the Judiciary.
A bill to add certain lands to the Boundary Waters Canoe Area, to redesignate such area as the Boundary Waters Wilderness Area, to withdraw certain authorities for timber harvesting and vehicle use within such area, to increase the payments made to counties respecting such area.
1977-02-23: Referred to House Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs.
A bill to authorize the Secretary of the Treasury to invest public monies.
1977-02-23: Referred to House Committee on Banking, Finance and Urban Affairs.
A bill to amend the United Nations Participation Act of 1945 to halt the importation of Rhodesian chrome.
1977-02-24: Referred to House Committee on International Relations.
A bill to provide a penalty for the robbery or attempted robbery of any controlled substance from any pharmacy.
1977-02-24: Referred to House Committee on the Judiciary.
A bill to provide that social security benefit increases occurring after May 1977 shall not be considered as income or resources for the purposes of determining the eligibility for or amount of assistance which any individual or family is provided under certain Federal housing laws.
1977-02-24: Referred to House Committee on Banking, Finance and Urban Affairs.
A bill to provide a penalty for the robbery or attempted robbery of any controlled substance from any pharmacy.
1977-02-24: Referred to House Committee on the Judiciary.
Concurrent resolution endorsing the publicly declared Vietnam-era reconciliation program of the President-elect and urging the President-elect to extend that program to include all Vietnam-era selective service offenders and all Vietnam-era veterans who received less than honorable discharges or who deserted or were absent without leave during such era.
1977-01-04: Referred to House Committee on Armed Services.