Equity in Social Security for Individuals and Families Act
1977-03-22: Referred to House Committee on Ways and Means.
A bill to amend the Social Security Act to provide for inclusion of the services of licensed (registered) nurses under medicare and medicaid.
1977-03-22: Referred to House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce.
A bill to provide for the designation of the libraries of accredited law schools as depository libraries of Government publications.
1977-03-22: Referred to House Committee on House Administration.
A bill to amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to include dental care, eye care, hearing aids, physical checkups, and foot care among the items and services for which payment may be made under the supplementary medical insurance program, and to provide safeguards against consumer abuse in the provision of these items and services.
1977-03-22: Referred to House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce.
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.
1977-03-22: Referred to House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce.
Nursing Home Reform Act
1977-03-22: Referred to House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce.
A bill to amend section 1979 of the Revised Statutes (42 U.S.C. 1983) to permit suits against bodies politic and the District of Columbia with respect to certain violations of civil rights.
1977-03-23: Referred to House Committee on the Judiciary.
Endangered American Wilderness Act
1977-03-23: Referred to House Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs.
A bill to amend the Social Security Act to improve the survey and certification process, rate-setting and fiscal audit methods, and general regulation of nursing homes and intermediate care facilities under the medicaid program, and to provide for medical, psychological, and social assessment of long-term care patients under both the medicare and medicaid programs.
1977-03-28: Referred to House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce.
Food Additive Safety Amendments
1977-03-29: Referred to House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce.
A bill to amend the Arms Export Control Act to require the President to provide certain information to the Congress with respect to any proposed major arms sales to a country which is not a member of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization and to provide the Congress with 30 days of continuous session in which to disapprove proposed arms sales.
1977-03-28: Referred to House Committee on International Relations.
Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act
1977-03-28: Referred to House Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs.
A bill to amend the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 to encourage greater emphasis on the production and conservation of energy in developing countries through the development and utilization of unconventional energy technologies.
1977-03-31: Referred to House Committee on International Relations.
A bill to amend the Federal Nonnuclear Energy Research and development Act of 1974 to provide for cooperative programs with less-developed countries for the development of unconventional energy technology.
1977-03-31: Referred to House Committee on International Relations.
A bill to promote the use of energy conservation, solar energy, and total energy, and total energy systems in Federal buildings.
1977-03-31: Referred to House Committee on Public Works and Transportation.
A bill to repeal Federal provisions of law establishing agricultural programs concerning the marketing of and price support for tobacco.
1977-04-04: Referred to House Committee on Agriculture.
Agricultural Solar Energy Research, Development, and Demonstration Act
1977-03-31: Referred to House Committee on Agriculture.
Voting Rights for the Elderly and the Handicapped Act
1977-04-06: Referred to House Committee on House Administration.
A bill to carry out the principles of the Helsinki Final Act pertaining to freedom of travel and emigration, by providing that aliens who are associated with certain political organizations or who advocate certain political beliefs shall not be ineligible to receive visas and excluded from admission into the United States, or deported from the United States, because of such association or beliefs.
1977-04-19: Referred to House Committee on the Judiciary.
A joint resolution to authorize and request the President to proclaim the week of September 16 through 22, 1979, as "National Meals on Wheels Week".
1979-03-05: Referred to House Committee on Post Office and Civil Service.