A bill to amend the Food Stamp Act of 1977 to eliminate certain restrictions on excess shelter expense deductions with respect to households which are composed entirely of persons who are age 62 or older or who are recipients of benefits under title XVI of the Social Security Act and to allow deductions for certain medical and dental expenses in the computation of incomes for such households.
1979-03-06: Referred to House Committee on Agriculture.
Foreign Service Retirement Amendments of 1979
1979-03-07: Referred to House Committee on Foreign Affairs.
A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1954 to provide individuals a refundable credit against income tax for maintaining a household a member of which is an individual who has attained the age of 65.
1979-03-07: Referred to House Committee on Ways and Means.
Meat Import Act of 1979
1979-12-31: Public Law 96-177.
Independent Local Newspaper Act of 1979
1979-03-08: Referred to House Committee on Ways and Means.
A bill to prohibit electric and gas utilities from charging higher rates to residential customers who conserve energy or utilize alternative energy sources, and for other purposes.
1979-03-12: Referred to House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce.
A bill to amend the Ports and Waterways Safety Act of 1972 to provide for the award of matching grants to municipalities and public agencies in the United States to enable those authorities to protect deep- draft commercial ports and land areas adjacent to those ports from fires, explosions, or other incidents causing damage in those ports, and for other purposes.
1979-07-10: Reported to House from the Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries with amendment, H. Rept. 96-324 (Part I).
Domestic Violence Prevention and Services Act
1980-12-09: Similar provisions inserted in S. 3259 as passed Senate.
National Infant Screening Act of 1979
1979-03-15: Referred to House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce.
Small Business Employee Ownership Act
1979-03-19: Referred to House Committee on Small Business.
A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1954 to subject foreign investors to the capital gains tax on gain from the sale or exchange of certain farmland and other rural land located in the United States.
1979-03-20: Referred to House Committee on Ways and Means.
A bill to direct the Secretary of the Army to study and recommend to Congress the extent of non-Federal cooperation that should be required for retaining works for dredged material at water resources development projects under the jurisdiction of the Secretary of the Army.
1979-03-20: Referred to House Committee on Public Works and Transportation.
Product and Professional Liability Insurance Tax Equity Act of 1979
1979-03-27: Referred to House Committee on Ways and Means.
An act to assist the States in developing fish and wildlife conservation plans and actions, and for other purposes.
1980-09-29: Public Law 96-366.
A bill to Incorporate the American Council of Learned Societies.
1979-03-28: Referred to House Committee on the Judiciary.
A bill to amend the Civil Rights Act of 1964 to make it an unlawful employment practice to discriminate against individuals who are physically handicapped because of such handicap.
1979-03-29: Referred to House Committee on Education and Labor.
A bill to amend title XVI of the Social Security Act to provide that an individual who applies for supplemental security income benefits on the basis of disability shall be considered presumptively disabled if he has received social security or supplemental security income benefits as a disabled individual within the preceding five years.
1979-04-02: Referred to House Committee on Ways and Means.
A bill to amend the Federal Aviation Act of 1958 to prohibit the Secretary of Transportation and the Administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration from issuing any rule, regulation, or order relating to certain aspects of the control of navigable airspace.
1979-04-05: Referred to House Committee on Public Works and Transportation.
A bill to repeal section 3402(q) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1954 which requires, for income tax purposes, amounts to be withheld from certain gambling winnings.
1979-04-10: Referred to House Committee on Ways and Means.
A concurrent resolution to create the Claude Pepper Senior Citizen Intern Program.
1979-01-15: Referred to House Committee on House Administration.