A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1954 to allow a deduction to taxpayers who contribute the right to use certain real property to charitable organizations for outpatient geriatric clinics or for multipurpose senior centers.
1976-06-01: Referred to House Committee on Ways and Means.
A bill making a supplemental appropriation for payments under home health service grants and making an appropriation for payments under multipurpose senior center grants.
1976-06-01: Referred to House Committee on Appropriations.
A bill to promote the provision and availability of necessary health services for the elderly by expanding existing programs of grants for home health services, requiring the inclusion of specified preventive and home health services under the medicaid program and making various improvements in the administration of such program, providing assistance to demonstration and pilot projects for home health and supportive services (including demonstration grants for community care), and authorizing grants for annual health fairs and mobile geriatric health units.
1976-06-01: Referred to House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce.
National Home Health Care Act
1976-05-27: Referred to House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce.
Medicare Long-Term Care Act
1976-06-01: Referred to House Committee on Ways and Means.
Natural Gas Act Amendments
1976-05-27: Referred to House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce.
A bill to establish within the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare a Home Health Clearinghouse to provide elderly persons with a single place where they can obtain complete information on the Federal health program available to them, and to create within the Department an Assistant Secretary for Elderly Health with responsibility for all health and health-related matters involving the elderly.
1976-06-01: Referred to House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce.
A bill to amend the Legal Services Corporation Act to provide legal assistance to older persons in connection with their participation in certain health insurance and medical assistance programs under the Social Security Act.
1976-06-01: Referred to House Committee on the Judiciary.
A bill to amend the National Housing Act and other acts for the purpose of providing assistance for outpatient geriatric clinics and for multipurpose senior centers.
1976-06-01: Referred to House Committee on Banking, Currency and Housing.
Older Americans Health Services Act
1976-06-01: Referred to House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce.
A bill to amend the Social Security Act to prohibit nursing homes participating in the medicare or medicaid program, or otherwise receiving funds under that act, from requiring patients to turn over their social security benefit checks after giving reasonable advance notice of their intent to leave such homes.
1976-06-01: Referred to House Committee on Ways and Means.
A bill to amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to remove all limits on the number of home health visits for which payment may be made under both part A and part B (eliminating the requirement of prior hospitalization in the case of home health care under part A), to include additional types of services as home health care, to provide coverage for preventive care and various related items and services under part B, to provide coverage for services furnished in outpatient rehabilitation facilities and elderly day care centers, to improve the administration of the medicare program.
1976-06-01: Referred to House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce.
Sequoia National Park Enlargement Act
1976-06-03: Referred to House Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs.
A bill to amend the Railroad Revitalization and Regulatory Reform Act of 1975 (Public Law 94-210).
1976-06-21: Referred to House Committee on Public Works and Transportation.
Allegheny County Bridge Emergency Assistance Act
1976-06-28: Referred to House Committee on Public Works and Transportation.
A bill to permit the operation in the coastwise trade by a U.S. citizen of the foreign-built passenger vessel Cunard Adventurer, to allow a U.S.-flag passenger service restricted to the intra-Hawaiian Islands cruise trade which would provide employment for American seamen as well as domestic shipyards on the west coast of the United States when such vessel voyages outside the State of Hawaii once a year for required repairs or drydocking when the vessel would be entitled to carry passengers.
1976-06-28: Referred to House Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries.
National Diabetes Advisory Board Act
1976-08-09: Referred to House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce.
A bill to amend the Social Security Act to require automatic sprinkler systems in all nursing facilities and intermediate-care facilities certified for participation in the medicare or medicaid program and to provide for direct low-interest Federal loans to assist such facilities in constructing or purchasing and installing automatic sprinkler systems.
1976-08-10: Referred to House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce.
Youth Opportunities Industrialization Centers Job Creation and Training Act
1976-09-29: Referred to House Committee on Ways and Means.
Concurrent resolution expressing the sense of Congress relating to films and broadcasts which defame, stereotype, ridicule, demean, or degrade ethnic, racial, and religious groups.
1973-01-18: Referred to House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce.