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.
1977-02-09: Referred to House Committee on Ways and Means.
A bill to amend the Federal Water Pollution Control Act relating to the period of time for which certain funds allotted to States for the construction of treatment works shall remain available.
1977-02-09: Referred to House Committee on Public Works and Transportation.
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.
1977-02-09: Referred to House Committee on Banking, Finance and Urban Affairs.
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 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.
1977-02-16: Referred to House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce.
A bill to amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to authorize payment under the supplementary medical insurance program for optometric and medical vision care.
1977-02-16: Referred to House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce.
A bill to amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to authorize payment under the medicare program for certain services performed by chiropractors.
1977-02-16: Referred to House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce.
A bill to provide for certain additions to the Tinicum National Environmental Center.
1977-02-16: Referred to House Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries.
A bill to incorporate the United States Submarine Veterans of World War II.
1977-02-16: Referred to House Committee on the Judiciary.
A bill to provide for termination of investment insurance and guaranties issued by the Overseas Private Investment Corporation in any case in which the investor makes a significant payment to an official of a foreign government for the purpose of influencing the actions of such government.
1977-02-16: Referred to House Committee on International Relations.
Full Employment and Balanced Growth Act
1977-02-17: Referred to House Committee on Education and Labor.
A bill to provide that the changes made by the Tax Reform Act of 1976 to the exclusion for sick pay shall only apply to taxable years beginning after December 31, 1976.
1977-02-22: Referred to House Committee on Ways and Means.
Emergency Stamp Assistance Act
1977-02-23: Referred to House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce.
National Home Health Care Act
1977-02-23: Referred to House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce.
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 the certain services under the Older Americans Act of 1965 be delivered by personnel trained in the field of aging and to encourage the development of training programs in the field of aging under the Higher Education Act of 1965.
1977-02-28: Referred to House Committee on Education and Labor.
Regulatory Reform Act
1977-03-02: Referred to House Committee on Rules.
Displaced Homemakers Act
1977-03-02: Referred to House Committee on Education and Labor.
A bill to amend the Fair Packaging and Labeling Act to require that packaged consumer commodities be labeled to show their selling price.
1977-03-02: Referred to House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce.
Concurrent resolution authorizing a bust or statue of Martin Luther King, Jr., to be placed in the Capitol.
1977-01-17: Referred to House Committee on House Administration.