A bill to add certain lands to the Boundary Waters Canoe Area, to redesignate such area as the Boundary Waters Wilderness Area, to withdraw certain authorities for timber harvesting and vehicle use within such area, to increase the payments made to counties respecting such area.
1977-02-23: Referred to House Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs.
Comprehensive Veterans Readjustment Assistance Act
1977-02-23: Referred to House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
Federal Employees Flexible and Compressed Work Schedules Act
1977-02-23: Referred to House Committee on Post Office and Civil Service.
A bill to amend title 38 of the United States Code to make certain that recipients of veterans' pension and compensation will not have the amount of such pension of compensation reduced because of increases in monthly social security benefits.
1977-02-24: Referred to House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
A bill to amend the Federal Water Pollution Control Act relating to the period of time for which certain funds allotted to States for the construction of treatment works shall remain available.
1977-02-24: Referred to House Committee on Public Works and Transportation.
Humane Methods of Slaughter Act
1977-02-28: Referred to House Committee on Agriculture.
A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1954 to allow a deduction or credit against tax to individuals and corporations for certain expenses incurred in the conversion of pilot lights to a system of manual ignition in certain gas appliances.
1977-02-28: Referred to House Committee on Ways and Means.
Electric Utilities Rate Reform Act
1977-03-01: Referred to House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce.
A bill to provide an opportunity to individuals to make financial contributions, in connection with the payment of their Federal income tax, for the advancement of the arts and the humanities.
1977-03-01: 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 time of adoption, to eliminate the reconsideration stage in benefit determinations, 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.
1977-03-02: Referred to House Committee on Ways and Means.
Administrative Rule Making Reform Act
1977-03-02: Referred to House Committee on Rules.
Intergovernmental Coordination Act
1977-03-03: Referred to House Committee on Government Operations.
Prescription Drug Labeling Act
1977-03-07: Referred to House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce.
Prescription Drug Freshness Act
1977-03-07: Referred to House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce.
Consumer Food Labeling Act
1977-03-08: Referred to House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce.
Privacy Protection for Rape Victims Act
1977-03-09: Referred to House Committee on the Judiciary.
A bill to amend the United Nations Participation Act of 1945 to halt the importation of Rhodesian chrome.
1977-03-09: Referred to House Committee on International Relations.
Marihuana Control Act
1977-03-09: Referred to House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce.
Ocean Mining Incentive Act
1977-03-14: Referred to House Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries.
Concurrent resolution authorizing a bust or statue of Martin Luther King, Jr., to be placed in the Capitol.
1977-01-31: Referred to House Committee on House Administration.