National Home Health Care Act
1976-05-27: 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.
Older Persons Comprehensive Counseling Assistance Act
1976-06-01: Referred to House Committee on Education and Labor.
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 organization for outpatient geriatric clinics or for multipurpose senior centers.
1976-06-01: Referred to House Committee on Ways and Means.
A bill making a supplemental appropriation for payments under home health service grants and making an appropriation for payments under multipurpose senior center grants.
1976-06-01: Referred to House Committee on Appropriations.
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.
Medicare Long-Term Care Act
1976-06-01: Referred to House Committee on Ways and Means.
Sequoia National Park Enlargement Act
1976-06-03: Referred to House Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs.
A bill to amend title II of the Social Security Act to provide for the entitlement of disabled widows and widowers to unreduced widow's and widower's insurance benefits without regard to age.
1976-06-02: Referred to House Committee on Ways and Means.
A bill to amend the Public Health Service Act to provide assistance for the planning and development of schools of veterinary medicine.
1976-06-16: Referred to House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce.
A bill to expand the medical freedom of choice of consumers by amending the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to provide that drugs will be regulated under that act solely to assure their safety.
1976-06-16: Referred to House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce.
A bill to amend title VIII of the act commonly called the Civil Rights Act of 1968 with respect to the awarding of attorney's fees and the authority of the Department of Housing and Urban Development to initiate a civil action to enforce the provisions of such title.
1976-06-22: Referred to House Committee on the Judiciary.
A bill to amend the Clean Air Act to require the protection of passengers of schoolbuses and certain other vehicles from concentrations of carbon monoxide within the vehicle.
1976-06-25: Referred to House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce.
National Earthquake Hazards Reduction Conference Act
1976-07-01: Referred to House Committee on Science and Technology.
Endangered American Wilderness Act
1976-07-20: Referred to House Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs.
Maternal and Child Health Care Act
1976-07-22: Referred to House Committee on Ways and Means.
A bill to make supplemental appropriations to the Postal Service Fund to insure a sound financial transition for the Postal Service, and for other purposes.
1976-07-30: Referred to House Committee on Appropriations.
A bill to provide capitation grants to medical, osteopathic, and dental schools for increasing the enrollment of students from disadvantaged backgrounds.
1976-08-10: Referred to House Committee on Education and Labor.
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.
1976-08-10: Referred to House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce.