Medicare Long-Term Care Act
1977-03-22: Referred to House Committee on Ways and Means.
A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1954 to provide that the amount of the charitable deduction allowable for expenses incurred in the operation of a highway vehicle will be determined in the same manner as the business deduction for such expenses.
1977-03-22: Referred to House Committee on Ways and Means.
Nursing Home Reform Act
1977-03-22: Referred to House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce.
Older Americans Health Services Act
1977-03-22: Referred to House Committee on Ways and Means.
Geriatric Health Personnel Training Act
1977-03-22: Referred to House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce.
A bill making a supplemental appropriation for payments under home health service grants and making an appropriation for payments under multipurpose senior center grants.
1977-03-22: Referred to House Committee on Appropriations.
Long Term Care Services Act
1977-03-22: Referred to House Committee on Ways and Means.
A bill to amend the Social Security Act to provide that any patient of a long-term care institution participating in the medicare or medicaid program, or otherwise receiving funds under that act, shall have the right to terminate his or her contract with such institution upon giving reasonable advance notice, and to expressly prohibit such an institution from requiring any patient to turn over to it any income received by him or her after such notice is given.
1977-03-22: Referred to House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce.
A bill to amend title XIX of the Social Security Act to provide that medicaid is a payor of last resort and to permit recovery by States from certain estates of medicaid expenses incurred by individuals before reaching the age of 65.
1977-03-22: Referred to House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce.
A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1954 to exempt from excise tax certain buses purchased by nonprofit organizations or by other persons for exclusive use in furnishing transportation for State or local governments or nonprofit organizations.
1977-03-22: Referred to House Committee on Ways and Means.
A bill to amend the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 to authorize additional funds for the assistance of the victims of the earthquake occurring on May 6, 1976, in the Friuli region of Italy.
1977-03-23: Referred to House Committee on International Relations.
A bill to make it an unfair practice for any retailer to increase the price of certain consumer commodities once he marks the price on any such consumer commodity, and to permit the Federal Trade Commission to order any such retailer to refund any amounts of money obtained by so increasing the price of such consumer commodity.
1977-03-24: Referred to House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce.
Beverage Container Reuse and Recycling Act
1977-03-24: Referred to House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce.
National Home Health Care Act
1977-03-28: Referred to House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce.
Accelerated Depreciation Allowance Act
1977-03-28: Referred to House Committee on Ways and Means.
A bill to amend the Social Security Act to improve the survey and certification process, rate-setting and fiscal audit methods, and general regulation of nursing homes and intermediate care facilities under the medicaid program, and to provide for medical, psychological, and social assessment of long-term care patients under both the medicare and medicaid programs.
1977-03-28: Referred to House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce.
A bill to provide that certain persons who were originally appointed as SSI hearing examiners under pre-1976 provisions of title XVI of the Social Security Act shall without any restriction be deemed appointed as administrative law judges.
1977-03-29: Referred to House Committee on Ways and Means.
Investment Tax Credit Act
1977-03-29: Referred to House Committee on Ways and Means.
A bill to amend title II of the Social Security Act to increase the amount of outside earnings which (subject to future cost-of-living adjustments) is permitted any individual each year without deductions from benefits thereunder in the case of individuals receiving less than the maximum provided for benefits of the type involved.
1977-03-30: Referred to House Committee on Ways and Means.
A bill to amend title XVI of the Social Security Act to insure that cost-of-living increases in supplemental security income benefits are granted to recipients of such benefits, to prevent reductions in such benefits because of social security benefit increases, to allow recipients of benefits in cash-out States to elect to receive food stamps, to provide for emergency assistance to recipients.
1975-05-07: Referred to House Committee on Ways and Means.