A bill to amend the Social Security Act to increase the dollar limitations and Federal medical assistance percentages applicable to the medicaid programs of Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, and Guam.
1978-10-10: Reported to Senate from the Committee on Finance with amendment, S. Rept. 95-1310.
An Act to amend the conditions for schools receiving capitation grants under section 770 of such Act, and for other purposes.
1977-12-19: Public Law 95-215.
A bill to amend the Public Health Service Act to require increases in the enrollment of third-year medical students as a condition to medical school's receiving capitation grants under such Act.
1977-09-23: Referred to House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce.
Drug Safety Amendments
1977-08-05: Referred to House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce.
State Cost Control Plan for Hospitals Act
1977-07-28: Referred to House Committee on Ways and Means.
A bill to amend the Public Health Service Act to require increases in the enrollment of third-year medical students as a condition to medical schools receiving capitation to grants under such Act.
1977-07-25: Referred to House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce.
A bill to amend titles XVIII and XIX of the Social Security Act to provide payment for rural health clinic services.
1977-07-26: Referred to House Committee on Ways and Means.
A bill to amend title 38 of the United States Code to require that Veterans' Administration benefit checks be mailed in time for delivery before the regularly scheduled delivery day whenever that day falls on a Saturday, Sunday, or legal holiday.
1977-07-27: Referred to House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
A bill to provide that individuals who retired on disability before October 1, 1976, shall be entitled to the exclusion for disability payments under section 105(d) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1954 without regard to the income limitation in such section.
1977-07-27: Referred to House Committee on Ways and Means.
A bill to direct an 18 month review and evaluation of all available information respecting the toxicity and carcinogenicity of food additives, including information respecting the ability to predict the effect on humans of food additives found to cause cancer in animals and whether there should be a weighing of risks and benefits in making regulatory decisions respecting such additives; to prohibit the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare from taking certain action restricting the continued use of saccharin as a food, drug, and cosmetic for 18 months; and to authorize the Secretary during those 18 months to require, in retail stores and in advertising, warning notices respecting the potential health risks presented by the use of saccharin.
1977-10-17: Measure laid on table, S. 1750 passed in lieu.
A bill to direct the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences to conduct a one-year review and evaluation of all available information respecting the toxicity and carcinogenicity of food additives, including information respecting the ability to predict the effect on humans of food additives found to cause cancer in animals and whether there should be a weighing of risks and benefits in making regulatory decisions respecting such additives, and to direct the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare to permit the continued use of saccharin as a food, food additive, drug, and cosmetic for 18 months.
1977-07-20: Referred to House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce.
A bill for the relief of Charles P. Bailey.
1977-12-28: Private Law 95-27.
Utilization Control Amendments
1977-06-29: Referred to House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce.
Hospital Cost Containment Act
1977-06-30: Referred to House Committee on Ways and Means.
A bill to direct the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences to conduct a one-year review and evaluation of all available information respecting the toxicity and carcinogenicity of food additives, including information respecting the ability to predict the effect on humans of food additives found to cause cancer in animals and whether there should be a weighing of risks and benefits in making regulatory decisions respecting such additives, and to direct the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare to permit the continued use of saccharin as a food, food additive, drug, and cosmetic for 18 months.
1977-06-27: Referred to House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce.
A bill to amend the Federal Salary Act of 1967 to remove Members of Congress from its provisions; to amend the Legislative Reorganization Act of 1946 to eliminate the cost-of-living adjustment provisions for Members of Congress; to set the salary for Members of Congress at the level in effect before October 1, 1976; and to require that any increase in the level of salary for Members of Congress not take effect until the next Congress.
1977-06-30: Referred to House Committee on Post Office and Civil Service.
A bill to direct the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences to conduct a 1-year review and evaluation of all available information respecting the toxicity and carcinogenicity of food additives, including information respecting the ability to predict the effect on humans of food additives found to cause cancer in animals and whether there should be a weighing of risks and benefits in making regulatory decisions respecting such additives, and to direct the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare to permit the continued use of saccharin as a food, food additive, drug, and cosmetic for 18 months.
1977-06-28: Referred to House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce.
A bill to direct the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences to conduct a one-year review and evaluation of all available information respecting the toxicity and carcinogenicity of food additives, including information respecting the ability to predict the effect on humans of food additives found to cause cancer in animals and whether there should be a weighing of risks and benefits in making regulatory decisions respecting such additives, and to direct the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare to permit the continued use of saccharin as a food, food additive, drug, and cosmetic for 18 months.
1977-06-27: Referred to House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce.
A bill to direct the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences to conduct a one-year review and evaluation of all available information respecting the toxicity and carcinogenicity of food additives, including information respecting the ability to predict the effect on humans of food additives found to cause cancer in animals and whether there should be a weighing of risks and benefits in making regulatory decisions respecting such additives, and to direct the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare to permit the continued use of saccharin as a food, food additive, drug, and cosmetic for 18 months.
1977-06-27: Referred to House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce.
Recombinant DNA Act
1977-06-20: Referred to House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce.