Young Adult Conservation Corps Act
1977-01-31: Referred to House Committee on Education and Labor.
Elementary and Secondary Career Education Act
1977-01-13: Referred to House Committee on Education and Labor.
Regulatory Reform Act
1977-01-13: Referred to House Committee on Rules.
A bill to amend title II of the Social Security Act so as to liberalize the conditions governing eligibility of blind persons to receive disability insurance benefits thereunder.
1977-01-04: Referred to House Committee on Ways and Means.
A bill to amend title II of the Social Security Act to eliminate the reduction in disability insurance benefits which is presently required in the case of an individual receiving workmen's compensation benefits.
1977-01-04: Referred to House Committee on Ways and Means.
A bill to establish an Executive Department to be known as the Department of Education.
1977-01-04: Referred to House Committee on Government Operations.
A bill to amend title II of the Social Security Act to provide that an individual may qualify for disability insurance benefits and the disability freeze if he has 40 quarters of coverage, regardless of when such quarters were earned.
1977-01-04: Referred to House Committee on Ways and Means.
A bill to amend title II of the Social Security Act to make it clear that entitlement of an employee's survivor to an annuity under the Railroad Retirement Act of 1937, without any entitlement to a death payment under such act on account of such employee's death, will not prevent a lump-sum death payment from being made on such employee's wage record under the old-age, survivors, and disability insurance program.
1977-01-04: Referred to House Committee on Ways and Means.
A bill to amend title II of the Social Security Act to increase to $750 in all cases the amount of the lump-sum death payment thereunder.
1977-01-04: Referred to House Committee on Ways and Means.
A bill to amend title II of the Social Security Act to reduce from 60 to 45 the age at which a woman otherwise qualified may become entitled to widow's insurance benefits.
1977-01-04: Referred to House Committee on Ways and Means.
A bill to provide additional assistance to the Energy Research and Development Administration for the advancement of nonnuclear energy research, development, and demonstration.
1977-01-04: Referred to House Committee on Science and Technology.
School Finance Act
1977-01-04: Referred to House Committee on Education and Labor.
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.
1977-01-04: Referred to House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce.
A bill to amend the Railroad Retirement Act of 1974 to provide that any railroad employee may retire on full annuity at age 55 with 30 years' service, and to provide for payment of full spouse's annuities at age 55 (or reduced spouse's annuities at age 52).
1977-01-04: Referred to House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce.
National School Lunch Act and Child Nutrition Amendments of 1977
1977-11-10: Public Law 95-166.
A bill to amend title 38 of the United States Code to provide that monthly social security benefit payments shall not be considered to be income for the purpose of determining eligibility for a pension under that title.
1977-01-04: Referred to House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
A bill to amend title II of the Social Security Act to make it clear that an individual who loses his or her entitlement to child's insurance benefits by reason of marriage may again become entitled to such benefits if divorced (while still otherwise entitled) before attaining age 22.
1977-01-04: Referred to House Committee on Ways and Means.
A bill to amend titles II and XVIII of the Social Security Act to provide medicare coverage for disabled individuals under age 65 from the first month of their entitlement to benefits based on disability, in cases where the individuals involved are becoming re-entitled to such coverage after a previous coverage period which ended during the preceding 5 years.
1977-01-04: Referred to House Committee on Ways and Means.
Career Education Incentive Act
1977-12-13: Public Law 95-207.
Education Amendments of 1978
1978-11-01: Public Law 95-561.