A bill to amend title 38 of the United States Code to remove the time limitations within which programs of education for veterans must be completed.
1979-01-15: Referred to House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
A bill to amend title XVI of the Social Security Act to provide for the exclusion from income, for purposes of determining eligibility and amount of benefits under the supplemental security income program, of certain earned income received by reason of employment in a sheltered work setting.
1979-01-15: Referred to House Committee on Ways and Means.
A bill to amend the worker adjustment assistance provisions of the Trade Act of 1974 in order to repeal the requirement that workers may not be covered under certification of eligibility to apply for such assistance unless they are totally or partially separated from adversely affected employment within one year before the date of petitioning for such certification.
1979-01-15: Referred to House Committee on Ways and Means.
A bill to amend title 38 of the United States Code relating to the recognition of representatives of the Polish Legion of American Veterans as claims agents for claims arising under laws administered by the Veterans' Administration.
1979-01-15: Referred to House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1954 to exempt from Federal income taxation a trust established by a taxpayer for the purpose of providing care for certain mentally incompetent relatives of the taxpayer.
1979-01-15: Referred to House Committee on Ways and Means.
A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1954 to provide that the special expenses incurred in maintaining a retarded or handicapped individual shall be allowable as a medical deduction without regard to the 3-percent floor.
1979-01-15: Referred to House Committee on Ways and Means.
A bill to amend title XVI of the Social Security Act to provide that payments of tuition, fees, or other training costs by any person for a mentally retarded adult individual attending a school for the retarded shall not be treated as income of such individual in determining his or her eligibility for supplemental security income benefits.
1979-01-15: Referred to House Committee on Ways and Means.
A bill to amend title XVI of the Social Security Act to provide for the exclusion from income, for purposes of determining eligibility and amount of benefits under the supplemental security income program, of income received by reason of employment in a sheltered work setting.
1979-01-15: Referred to House Committee on Ways and Means.
A bill to provide financial aid to local fire departments in the purchase of advanced firefighting equipment.
1979-01-15: Referred to House Committee on Science and Technology.
A bill to amend title XVI of the Social Security Act to provide that increases in social security benefits shall be disregarded in determining an individual's eligibility for supplemental security income benefits, and to provide that support and maintenance furnished a mentally retarded individual living in another person's household shall not constitute income to him for supplemental security income benefit purposes.
1979-01-15: Referred to House Committee on Ways and Means.
A bill to amend title 38, United States Code, to increase from one year to seven years the period after a veteran is separated from military service during which development of Parkinson's disease will be presumed to be service-connected.
1979-01-15: Referred to House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1954 to exempt farmers from the highway use tax on heavy trucks used for farm purposes.
1979-01-15: Referred to House Committee on Ways and Means.
A bill to amend title 38, United States Code, to include insomnia within the list of chronic diseases for which compensation may be provided under such title for a service-connected disability.
1979-01-15: Referred to House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
A bill to amend title II of the Social Security Act to provide for the computation of benefits thereunder on the basis of the worker's three years of highest earnings.
1979-01-15: Referred to House Committee on Ways and Means.
A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1954 to permit a taxpayer to deduct certain expenses paid by him for special education furnished to a child or other minor dependent who is physically or mentally handicapped.
1979-01-15: Referred to House Committee on Ways and Means.
Soft Drink Interbrand Competition Act
1979-01-15: Referred to House Committee on the Judiciary.
A bill to amend the Agricultural Act of 1970 for the purpose of authorizing the Secretary of Agriculture to include hay as a disaster reserve; and for other purposes.
1979-01-15: Referred to House Committee on Agriculture.
A bill to amend the Federal Civil Defense Act of 1950 to authorize appropriations for the purposes of such Act for fiscal years 1980 through 1986.
1979-01-15: Referred to House Committee on Armed Services.
A bill to direct the Secretary of Defense to make veterans with service-connected disabilities and their surviving spouses eligible for commissary and post-exchange privileges.
1979-01-15: Referred to House Committee on Armed Services.
A bill to award one preference point to National Guard and Armed Forces Reserve veterans applying for employment in the competitive service.
1979-01-15: Referred to House Committee on Post Office and Civil Service.