A bill to amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to authorize payment under the supplementary medical insurance program for optometric and medical vision care.
1979-02-08: Referred to House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce.
Robert A. Taft Institute of Government Trust Fund Act
1979-02-15: Referred to House Committee on Education and Labor.
Health Maintenance Organization Amendments of 1979
1979-01-15: Referred to House Committee on Ways and Means.
A bill to amend title XIX of the Social Security Act to permit one or more county governments in a State to provide for additional medical assistance under the State's medicaid plan.
1979-01-15: Referred to House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce.
Mental Health Amendments of 1979
1979-01-15: Referred to House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce.
A bill to promote the provision and availability of necessary health services for the elderly by 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, and authorizing grants for annual health fairs and mobile geriatric health units, and for other purposes.
1979-03-01: Referred to House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce.
A bill to amend the Domestic Volunteer Service Act of 1973 to provide that volunteers serving in the Service Corps of Retired Executives may provide services to certain home health agencies.
1979-01-15: Referred to House Committee on Education and Labor.
Oil and Gas Tax Act of 1979
1979-06-13: Referred to House Committee on Ways and Means.
Cash Discount Act
1980-09-04: Reported to Senate from the Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs with amendment, S. Rept. 96-923.
A bill to amend section 317 of the Public Health Service Act to provide for services for the treatment of hypertension under preventive health services grants.
1979-03-01: Referred to House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce.
Surplus School Conservation Act of 1979
1979-01-24: Referred to House Committee on Banking, Finance and Urban Affairs.
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.
1979-01-15: Referred to House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce.
Hazardous Waste Control Act
1979-01-18: Referred to House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce.
A bill to make improvements in the weatherization program conducted by the Department of Energy.
1979-07-12: Referred to House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce.
A bill to require the Federal Communications Commission to ensure that each community in the United States, regardless of size, is provided with the maximum local full time radio broadcasting service.
1979-02-05: Referred to House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce.
A bill to amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to authorize payment under the medicare program for services provided in a rehabilitation facility for the blind, and for services furnished to blind individuals by mobility therapists and rehabilitation teachers.
1979-01-15: Referred to House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce.
A bill to eliminate the benefit reduction which is provided for supplemental security income recipients in certain long-term care institutions when such institutions do not meet the standards established by States under section 1616(e) of the Social Security Act, to authorize payments to States to cover the cost of training and compensating personnel to inspect such institutions, and for other purposes.
1979-03-01: Referred to House Committee on Ways and Means.
A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1954 to allow the charitable deduction to taxpayers whether or not they itemize their personal deductions.
1979-02-01: Referred to House Committee on Ways and Means.
A joint resolution authorizing the President to proclaim May 1, 1980, "National Bicycling Day".
1980-03-28: Public Law 96-218.
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.
1977-02-24: Referred to House Committee on Ways and Means.