Privacy Protection for Rape Victims Act
1977-03-09: Referred to House Committee on the Judiciary.
A bill to provide for the appointment of additional judgeships for the U.S. district courts and courts of appeals.
1977-03-10: Referred to House Committee on the Judiciary.
Department of Energy Organization Act
1977-03-10: Referred to House Committee on Government Operations.
Veterans Judicial Review Act
1977-03-14: Referred to House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
Right to Financial Privacy Act
1977-03-14: Referred to House Committee on Banking, Finance and Urban Affairs.
A bill to authorize additional appropriations for the Department of State for fiscal year 1977.
1977-06-15: Public Law 95-45.
A bill to amend title VII of the Social Security Act to require that social security and supplemental security income benefit checks be mailed in time for delivery prior to the regularly scheduled delivery day whenever that day falls on a Saturday, Sunday, or legal holiday.
1977-03-15: Referred to House Committee on Ways and Means.
A bill to amend the Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967 to provide that all Federal employees described in section 15 of such act shall be covered under the provisions of such act regardless of their age.
1977-03-16: Referred to House Committee on Education and Labor.
Middle-Aged and Older Workers Employment Act
1977-03-17: Referred to House Committee on Post Office and Civil Service.
Comprehensive Youth Employment Act
1977-03-17: Referred to House Committee on Education and Labor.
A bill to require that imported meat and meat food products made in whole or in part of imported meat be subjected to certain tests and that such meat or products be identified as having been imported; to require the inspection of imported dairy products and that such products comply with certain minimum standards of sanitation; to require that the cost of conducting such tests, inspections, and identification procedures on imported meat and meat food products and on dairy products, as the case may be, be borne by the exporters of such articles.
1977-03-21: Referred to House Committee on Agriculture.
A bill to deauthorize the Lafayette Dam and Reservoir, Wabash River, Ind.
1977-03-21: Referred to House Committee on Public Works and Transportation.
A bill to amend the Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970 to exempt employers of 10 or fewer regular employees, to require the issuance of warnings to employers of 25 or fewer regular employees for the first instance violations, and to bar the assessment of penalties where fewer than 10 violations are cited.
1977-03-22: Referred to House Committee on Education and Labor.
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 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 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.
1977-03-22: 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 programs 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.
1977-03-22: Referred to House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce.
A bill to amend the Older Americans Act of 1965 to provide grants to organizations for providing legal assistance to poor, elderly individuals in connection with their entitlement to home health services under titles XVIII, XIX, and XX of the Social Security Act.
1977-03-22: Referred to House Committee on the Judiciary.
A bill to amend title XX of the Social Security Act to provide for the reallotment of unused social services funds, in any fiscal year, to States which will use such funds, during the succeeding year in furnishing services aimed at preventing or reducing inappropriate institutional care by making home or community care available; to provide additional Federal matching for multipurpose senior center programs; and to provide for the standardization of eligibility requirements for the funding of senior centers.
1977-03-22: Referred to House Committee on Ways and Means.
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 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.
Concurrent resolution expressing the sense of the Congress that the President should establish a Presidential task force to achieve the fullest possible accounting of prisoners of war and other individuals missing in Southeast Asia as a result of the Vietnam conflict.
1977-02-22: Referred to House Committee on Armed Services.