A resolution authorizing and requesting the President to designate the seven-day period beginning on May 28, 1979, as "Vietnam Veterans Week".
1978-10-04: Referred to House Committee on Post Office and Civil Service.
Biomedical Research Extension Act
1977-02-16: Referred to House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce.
Health Services Extension Act
1977-02-16: Referred to House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce.
A bill to provide for the transfer of Old Cape Henry Lighthouse, the DeGrasse Monument, the Overlook, and the Old Railroad Station at Fort Story, Va., to the Department of the Interior for inclusion in the Colonial National Historical Park.
1977-03-02: Referred to House Committee on Armed Services.
An Act to amend the Public Health Service Act to extend through the fiscal year ending September 30, 1978, the assistance programs for health services research; health statistics; comprehensive public health services; hypertension programs; migrant health; community health centers; medical libraries; cancer control programs; the National Cancer Institute; heart, blood vessel, lung, and blood disease prevention and control programs; the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute; National Research Service Awards; population research and voluntary family planning programs; sudden infant death syndrome; hemophilia; national health planning and development; and health resources development; to amend the Community Mental Health Centers Act to extend it through the fiscal year ending September 30, 1978; to extend the assistance programs for home health services; and for other purposes.
1977-08-01: Public Law 95-83.
Health Services Extension Act
1977-04-01: Referred to Senate Committee on Human Resources.
A bill to provide for the designation of the libraries of accredited law schools as depository libraries of Government publications.
1977-03-22: Referred to House Committee on House Administration.
Food Additive Safety Amendments
1977-03-22: Referred to House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce.
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 violation, and to bar the assessment of penalties where fewer than 10 violation are cited.
1977-03-22: Referred to House Committee on Education and Labor.
Mobile Source Emission Control Amendments
1977-03-28: Referred to House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce.
A bill to amend the Controlled Substances Act to extend for 3 fiscal years the authorization of appropriations under that Act for the expenses of the Department of Justice in carrying out that Act.
1977-10-18: Public Law 95-137.
A bill to amend section 181 (a) (2) of the Water Resources Development Act of 1976.
1977-04-06: Referred to House Committee on Public Works and Transportation.
A bill to amend title 38 of the United States Code to assist veterans with a permanent and total service-connected disability due to the loss or loss of use of one upper and one lower extremity to acquire specially adapted housing.
1977-07-12: Measure passed House, roll call #406 (403-0).
A bill relating to the assignment of retired military personnel to the American Battle Monuments Commission.
1977-07-12: Measure passed House.
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.
1977-06-13: Referred to House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce.
A bill to designate certain lands within the national forest system as wilderness.
1977-07-11: Referred to House Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs.
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 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; and to prohibit the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare from taking certain action restricting the continued use of saccharin as a food, food additive, drug, and cosmetic for 18 months.
1977-07-26: Referred to House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce.
A bill to deny entitlement to veteran's benefits to certain persons who would otherwise become so entitled solely by virtue of the administrative upgrading under temporarily revised standards of less than honorable discharges for service during the Vietnam era.
1977-07-28: Referred to House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
A concurrent resolution requesting that the President withdraw the instruments of ratification of the Panama Canal treaties.
1979-03-15: Referred to House Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries.