A bill to provide reduced rates for nonprofit senior citizens organizations.
1981-05-26: Executive Comment Received From Postal Service.
A bill to repeal the Gun Control Act of 1968.
1981-02-19: Referred to Subcommittee on Crime.
A bill to amend title 38 of the United States Code to remove the time limitation within which programs of education for veterans must be completed.
1981-01-05: Referred to House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
A bill to remove from the Supreme Court of the United States and the district courts of the United States jurisdiction over any case relating to voluntary prayer in any public school or public building.
1981-07-23: Subcommittee Hearings Held.
A bill to amend the Federal Civil Defense Act of 1950 to allow Federal civil defense funds to be used by local civil defense agencies for natural disaster relief, and for other purposes.
1981-02-02: Referred to Subcommittee on Military Installations and Facilities.
A bill to amend the Public Health Service Act to authorize the Secretary of Health and Human Services to provide assistance for the treatment of epilepsy.
1981-02-06: Referred to Subcommittee on Health and the Environment.
Mail Delivery to Physically Handicapped Act of 1981
1981-02-12: Executive Comment Requested from OMB, Postal Service.
A bill to amend title II of the Social Security Act to provide that an individual 's entitlement to benefits thereunder shall continue through the month of his or her death (without affecting any other person's entitlement to benefits for that month), in order to provide such individual's family with assistance in meeting that extra death-related expenses.
1981-02-02: Referred to Subcommittee on Social Security.
A bill to amend title II of the Social Security Act to provide that the automatic cost-of-living increases in benefits which are authorized thereunder may be made on a semiannual basis (rather than only on an annual basis as at present).
1981-02-02: Referred to Subcommittee on Social Security.
A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1954 to provide that the requirement that unemployment compensation be reduced by certain retirement benefits will not apply to social security and railroad retirement benefits.
1981-10-28: Subcommittee Hearings Held.
A bill to amend the Railroad Retirement Act of 1974 to change benefit eligibility requirements so that individuals who have completed 30 years of service as an employee and have attained the age of 55 years are eligible and so that certain other individuals who have attained the age of 55 years and are related to employees are also eligible.
1981-02-06: Referred to Subcommittee on Commerce, Transportation and Tourism.
A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1954 to increase to $1,200 the personal income tax exemptions of a taxpayer (including the exemption for a spouse, the exemptions for dependents, and the additional exemptions for old age and blindness).
1981-01-05: Referred to House Committee on Ways and Means.
A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1954 to provide to individuals who have attained the age of 62 a refundable credit against income tax for increases in real property taxes and utility bills.
1981-01-05: Referred to House Committee on Ways and Means.
A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1954 to exempt nonprofit volunteer firefighting or rescue organizations from the Federal excise taxes on gasoline, diesel fuel, and certain other articles and services.
1981-01-05: Referred to House Committee on Ways and Means.
A bill to amend title 10, United States Code, to allow supplies under the control of departments and agencies within the Department of Defense to be transferred to the Federal Emergency Management Agency as if it were within the Department of Defense and to amend the Federal Civil Defense Act of 1950 to authorize the Federal Emergency Management Agency to loan to State and Local governments property transferred to such agency from other Federal agencies as excess property.
1981-02-02: Referred to Subcommittee on Military Installations and Facilities.
A bill to amend part B of title XI of the Social Security Act to assure appropriate participation by professional registered nurses in the peer review, and related activities authorized thereunder.
1981-02-06: Referred to Subcommittee on Health and the Environment.
A joint resolution designating the month of February of each year as "American History Month".
1982-02-22: Referred to House Committee on Post Office and Civil Service.
A joint resolution proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States to provide that appropriations made by the United States shall not exceed its revenues, except in time of war or threat of war as determined by the Congress; and to provide for the systematic paying back of the national debt.
1982-08-18: See H.J.Res.350.
A concurrent resolution expressing the sense of the Congress that funding for community service employment programs for senior citizens for fiscal year 1983 and subsequent fiscal years should be provided at levels sufficient to maintain or increase the number of employment positions provided under such programs.
1982-05-07: Referred to Subcommittee on Select Education.