Veterans Administration Medical Facilities Acquisition Act
1977-03-14: Referred to House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
A bill to amend title 38 of the United States Code to clarify the requirement that medical services be provided by the Veterans' Administration in certain cases.
1977-03-14: Referred to House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
Veterans' Administration Programs Extension Act of 1978
1978-10-26: Public Law 95-520.
A bill to amend the Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967 to provide that all Federal employees described in section 15 of such act shall be covered under the provisions of such act regardless of their age.
1977-03-16: Referred to House Committee on Education and Labor.
A bill to amend the Social Security Act to provide for inclusion of the services of licensed (registered) nurses under medicare and medicaid.
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 warning to employers of 25 or fewer regular employees for the first instance violations, and to bar the assessment of penalties where fewer that 10 violations are cited.
1977-03-22: Referred to House Committee on Education and Labor.
A bill to amend section 112 of title 28 of the United States Code to divide the eastern judicial district of New York into two divisions.
1977-03-22: Referred to House Committee on the Judiciary.
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 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.
1977-03-22: Referred to House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce.
A bill to establish within the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare a Home Health Clearinghouse to provide elderly persons with a single place where they can obtain complete information on the Federal health programs available to them, and to create within the Department an Assistant Secretary for Elderly Health with responsibility for all health and health-related matters involving the elderly.
1977-03-22: Referred to House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce.
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.
1977-03-22: Referred to House Committee on Ways and Means.
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.
1977-03-22: Referred to House Committee on Banking, Finance and Urban Affairs.
Medicare Long-Term Care Act
1977-03-22: Referred to House Committee on Ways and Means.
A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1954 to exempt from excise tax certain buses purchased by nonprofit organizations or by other persons for exclusive use in furnishing transportation for State or local governments or nonprofit organizations.
1977-03-22: Referred to House Committee on Ways and Means.
A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1954 to provide that the amount of the charitable deduction allowable for expenses incurred in the operation of a highway vehicle will be determined in the same manner as the business deduction for such expenses.
1977-03-22: Referred to House Committee on Ways and Means.
A bill to amend the Social Security Act to provide that any patient of a long-term care institution participating in the medicare or medicaid program, or otherwise receiving funds under that act, shall have the right to terminate his or her contract with such institution upon giving reasonable advance notice, and to expressly prohibit such an institution from requiring any patient to turn over to it any income received by him or her after such notice is given.
1977-03-22: 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 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, and for other purposes.
1977-03-22: Referred to House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce.
A bill to amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to include dental care, eye care, hearing aids, physical checkups, and foot care among the items and services for which payment may be made under the supplementary medical insurance program, and to provide safeguards against consumer abuse in the provision of these items and services.
1977-03-22: Referred to House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce.
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.
1977-03-22: Referred to House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce.
A bill to amend title 5 of the United States Code to establish a uniform procedure for congressional review of agency rules which may be contrary to law or inconsistent with congressional intent, to expand opportunities for public participation in agency rulemaking.
1977-03-24: Referred to House Committee on Rules.
Concurrent resolution expressing the sense of the Congress in opposition to the grant of blanket amnesty or pardon for Vietnam-related draft or military absence offenses.
1977-01-11: Referred to House Committee on the Judiciary.