A resolution authorizing the President to proclaim the week beginning October 3, 1976, and ending October 9, 1976, as "National Volunteer Firemen Week".
1976-08-26: Referred to House Committee on Post Office and Civil Service.
Black Lung Benefits Reform Act
1975-01-14: Referred to House Committee on Education and Labor.
A bill to amend title II of the Social Security Act to provide that an individual may qualify for disability insurance benefits and the disability freeze if he has 40 quarters of coverage, regardless of when such quarters were earned.
1975-01-20: Referred to House Committee on Ways and Means.
A bill to amend title II of the Social Security Act to eliminate the 5-month waiting period for disability benefits to liberalize the earnings test, to permit adopted children to qualify for benefits without regard to certain time requirements, to eliminate the reconsideration stage in benefit determination, to provide for the issuance of duplicate benefit checks where the initial checks are lost or delayed, and to provide for expedited benefit payments to disability beneficiaries.
1975-01-23: Referred to House Committee on Ways and Means.
Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act
1975-01-23: Referred to House Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs.
A bill to repeal the earnings limitation of the Social Security Act.
1975-01-28: Referred to House Committee on Ways and Means.
A bill to amend the Employment Act of 1946 with respect to stability of the general price level.
1975-01-29: Referred to House Committee on Government Operations.
A bill designate the Federal Office building to be located in Carbondale, Ill., the "Kenneth J. Gray Federal Building".
1975-02-05: Referred to House Committee on Public Works and Transportation.
A bill to designate the John C. Kluczynski Federal Building.
1975-08-09: Public law 94-84.
A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1954 to provide a basic $5,000 exemption from income tax, in the case of an individual or a married couple, for amounts received as annuities, pensions, or other retirement benefits.
1975-03-05: Referred to House Committee on Ways and Means.
A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1954 to raise the estate tax exemption from $60,000 to $185,000.
1975-03-05: Referred to House Committee on Ways and Means.
A bill to amend title 38, United States Code, to provide hospital and medical care to certain members of the armed forces of nations allied or associated with the United States in World War I or World War II.
1975-03-17: Referred to House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
A bill to provide that certain rural hospitals shall be exempt for a period of 18 months from the requirements and provisions of title XI of the Social Security Act relating to professional standards review organizations and from the 1972 amendments of titles XVIII, XIX, and V of such act (and the recently approved regulations relating thereto) on utilization review and utilization control under the medicare, medicaid, and maternal and child health programs; and to provide for a 6 month study of alternative methods of utilization review and utilization control for such hospitals.
1975-03-21: Referred to House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce.
American Folklife Preservation Act
1975-03-25: Referred to House Committee on House Administration.
A bill to amend the Regional Rail Reorganization Act of 1973 to authorize financial assistance under section 211 to a railroad which is in reorganization under section 77 of the Bankruptcy Act.
1975-04-10: Referred to House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce.
A bill to provide for the duty-free entry of binder twine and baler twine made of man-made fibers.
1975-05-20: Referred to House Committee on Ways and Means.
A bill to amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to require the continued application of the nursing salary cost differential which is presently allowed in determining the reasonable cost of inpatient nursing care for purposes of reimbursement to providers under the medicare program.
1975-06-05: Referred to House Committee on Ways and Means.
A bill to protect the economic rights of labor in the building and construction industry by providing for equal treatment of craft and industrial workers.
1975-06-20: Referred to House Committee on Education and Labor.
Broadcast License Renewal Act
1975-07-31: Referred to House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce.
A bill to amend title 4 of the United States Code to make it clear that Members of Congress may not, for purposes of State income tax laws, be treated as residents of any State other than the State from which they were elected.
1975-08-01: Referred to House Committee on the Judiciary.