A bill to amend the Railroad Retirement Act of 1974 to eliminate deductions from certain annuities on account of military pensions, disability compensation, and other gratuitous benefits given under other Acts of Congress.
1979-03-19: Referred to House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce.
Federal Nonsmokers Protection Act of 1979
1979-01-15: Referred to House Committee on Public Works and Transportation.
A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1954 to deny any credit for foreign taxes on foreign related oil income.
1979-05-09: Referred to House Committee on Ways and Means.
Mental Health Amendments of 1979
1979-01-15: Referred to House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce.
A bill to amend the Social Security Act to make certain that recipients of supplemental security income benefits, recipients of aid to families with dependent children, and recipients of assistance or benefits under certain other Federal and federally assisted programs will not have the amount of such benefits, aid, or assistance reduced because of post-1974 increases in monthly social security benefits.
1979-01-15: Referred to House Committee on Ways and Means.
A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1954 to allow a deduction of not more than $1,500 for amounts paid or incurred for maintaining a household a member of which is a dependent of the taxpayer who has attained the age of 65.
1979-01-15: Referred to House Committee on Ways and Means.
A bill to authorize the construction and maintenance of the General Draza Mihailovich Monument in Washington, District of Columbia, in recognition of the role he played in saving the lives of approximately five hundred United States airmen in Yugoslavia during World War II.
1979-01-15: 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.
1979-01-15: Referred to House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce.
Sludge Management Act of 1979
1979-01-15: Referred to House Committee on Public Works and Transportation.
A bill to amend the Social Security Act to provide that any patient of a long-term care institution participating in the medicare or medicaid program, or otherwise receiving funds under that Act, shall have the right to terminate his or her contract with such institution upon giving reasonable advance notice, and to expressly prohibit such an institution from requiring any patient to turn over to it any income received by him or her after such notice is given.
1979-01-15: Referred to House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce.
State and Local Government Cost Estimate Act of 1979
1979-04-24: Referred to House Committee on Rules.
Franchise Reform Act
1979-02-21: 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.
1979-01-15: Referred to House Committee on Ways and Means.
A bill to amend title XIX of the Social Security Act to permit one or more county governments in a State to provide for additional medical assistance under the State's medicaid plan.
1979-01-15: Referred to House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce.
National Home Health Clearinghouse Act of 1979
1979-01-15: Referred to House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce.
Nuclear Energy Reappraisal Act
1979-01-15: Referred to House Committee on International Relations (Subsequently: Foreign Affairs).
Drug Benefits for the Aged Act of 1979
1979-01-15: Referred to House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce.
Age Discrimination in Federal Employment Act of 1979
1979-01-15: Referred to House Committee on Post Office and Civil Service.
Sales Representatives Protection Act
1979-02-15: Referred to House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce.
A bill to prevent the unnecessary large-scale killing of birds or mammals.
1977-03-14: Referred to House Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries.