Veterans' Administration Medical Facilities Acquisition Act
1976-03-24: Referred to House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
Public Works and Economic Development Act Amendments
1976-04-01: Referred to House Committee on Public Works and Transportation.
Small Business Revitalization Act
1976-04-06: Referred to House Committee on Ways and Means.
Victims of Crime Act
1976-04-09: Referred to House Committee on the Judiciary.
A bill to revise chapter 99 of title 18 of the United States Code to provide for the punishment of sexual assaults in the special jurisdiction of the United States.
1976-04-27: Referred to House Committee on the Judiciary.
Olympic Winter Games Authorization Act
1976-04-30: Referred to House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce.
A bill to amend the Regional Rail Reorganization Act of 1973 to authorize States to acquire certain rail properties from the Consolidated Rail Corporation.
1976-05-05: Referred to House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce.
A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1954 to provide income tax incentives for the modification of certain facilities and vehicles so as to remove architectural and transportational barriers to the handicapped and elderly.
1976-05-07: Referred to House Committee on Ways and Means.
A bill to amend chapter 37 of title 38, United States Code, to increase the limitations with respect to direct housing loans to veterans to $29,000, to permit up to 50 percent of the amount of any mobile home loan to be guaranteed under such chapter, and to provide for the continuation of the direct loan revolving fund.
1976-05-18: Measure laid on table in House, S. 2529 passed in lieu.
A bill to amend title 39, United States Code, to require the U.S. Postal Service to evaluate and examine specific criteria whenever the closing of a post office is considered, to provide for a public hearing whenever the U.S. Postal Service considers closing any post office.
1976-05-19: Referred to House Committee on Post Office and Civil Service.
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.
1976-06-01: Referred to House Committee on Ways and Means.
A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1954 to allow a deduction to taxpayers who contribute the right to use certain real property to charitable organizations for outpatient geriatric clinics or for multipurpose senior centers.
1976-06-01: Referred to House Committee on Ways and Means.
A bill to promote the provision and availability of necessary health services for the elderly by expanding existing programs of grants for home health services, 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 (including demonstration grants for community care), and authorizing grants for annual health fairs and mobile geriatric health units.
1976-06-01: Referred to House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce.
A bill to amend the National Housing Act and other acts for the purpose of providing assistance for outpatient geriatric clinics and for multipurpose senior centers.
1976-06-01: Referred to House Committee on Banking, Currency and Housing.
Older Americans Health Services Act
1976-06-01: Referred to House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce.
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 may 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 and various related items and services 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.
1976-06-01: Referred to House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce.
A bill to incorporate the Gold Star Wives of America.
1976-06-02: Referred to House Committee on the Judiciary.
Veterans Disability Compensation and Survivor Benefits Act of 1976
1976-09-30: Public law 94-433.
Veterans and Survivors Pension Adjustment Act of 1976
1976-09-30: Public law 94-432.
A bill to amend the John F. Kennedy Center Act to authorize funds for repair, reconstruction.
1976-10-01: Senate disagreed to certain House amendment to Senate amendmen.