Prescription Drug Freshness Act
1977-01-19: Referred to House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce.
A bill to increase for a 5-year period the duty on certain hand tools.
1977-01-20: Referred to House Committee on Ways and Means.
A bill to amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to provide for the coverage of certain psychologists' services under the supplementary medical insurance benefits program established by part B of such title.
1977-01-20: Referred to House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce.
A bill to extend to all unmarried individuals the full tax benefits of income splitting now enjoyed by married individuals filing joint returns; and to remove rate inequities for married persons where both are employed.
1977-01-26: Referred to House Committee on Ways and Means.
Emergency Natural Gas Act
1977-01-26: Referred to House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce.
A bill to amend title VII 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.
1977-01-26: Referred to House Committee on the Judiciary.
A bill to prohibit the use of Federal funds for certain activities designed to support or defeat any legislation or legislative issue on the ballot in any State.
1977-01-31: Referred to House Committee on the Judiciary.
National Meals-on-Wheels Act
1977-02-02: Referred to House Committee on Education and Labor.
A bill to amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to provide coverage for services which may be performed by a dentist on the same basis as presently allowed for physicians under the medicare program, and to authorize payment under such program for all inpatient hospital services furnished in connection with dental procedures requiring hospitalization.
1977-02-02: 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.
1977-02-03: Referred to House Committee on International Relations.
A bill to prohibit travel at Government expense outside the United States by Members of Congress who have been defeated, or who have resigned, or retired.
1977-02-07: Referred to House Committee on House Administration.
A bill to amend title 10, United States Code, to provide for the regionalization and traveling of discharge review panels; to establish guidelines for review and correction of military discharges; to provide for legal counsel for discharge applicants; to provide for the recognition of exemplary post-service conduct through the issuance of an honorable discharge (limited); and to otherwise expand and enhance the effectiveness of the Armed Forces discharge review procedures.
1977-02-08: Referred to House Committee on Armed Services.
A bill to amend title 38 of the United States Code to make certain that recipients of veterans' pension and compensation will not have the amount of such pension or compensation reduced because of increases in monthly social security benefits.
1977-02-08: Referred to House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
A bill to provide that the rate of pay for Members of Congress shall be the rates in effect on September 30, 1976, until such time as they are fixed otherwise by law, and to provide that the pay for certain executive, legislative, and judicial offices and positions may not be increased until a comprehensive code of public conduct has been enacted.
1977-02-08: Referred to House Committee on Post Office and Civil Service.
Public Participation in Federal Agency Proceedings Act
1977-02-09: Referred to House Committee on the Judiciary.
A bill to reestablish the period within which the President may transmit to the Congress plans for the reorganization of agencies of the executive branch of the Government.
1977-02-09: Referred to House Committee on Government Operations.
A bill to protect the economic rights of labor in the building and construction industry by providing for equal treatment of craft and industrial workers.
1977-02-16: Referred to House Committee on Education and Labor.
Federal Employees Political Activities Act
1977-02-16: Referred to House Committee on Post Office and Civil Service.
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.
A bill to amend the Consumer Credit Protection Act to prohibit certain practices in the case of second mortgages which secure residential real property.
1977-02-17: Referred to House Committee on Banking, Finance and Urban Affairs.