Consumer Food Labeling Act
1977-01-19: Referred to House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce.
Price Disclosure Act
1977-01-19: Referred to House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce.
A bill to amend title 5, United States Code, to provide for the establishment of a Special Cost-of-Living Pay Schedule containing increased pay rates for Federal employees in heavily populated cities and metropolitan areas to offset the increased cost of living.
1977-01-19: Referred to House Committee on Post Office and Civil Service.
A bill to amend the Social Security Act to provide for a minimum annual income (subject to subsequent increases to reflect the cost of living) of $3,850 in the case of elderly individuals and $5,200 in the case of elderly couples.
1977-01-19: Referred to House Committee on Ways and Means.
Federal Employees Political Activities Act
1977-01-26: Referred to House Committee on Post Office and Civil Service.
A bill to extend to all unmarried individuals the full tax benefits of income splitting now enjoyed by married individuals filing joint returns; and to remove rate inequities for married persons where both are employed.
1977-01-26: Referred to House Committee on Ways and Means.
Surplus School Conservation Act
1977-01-26: Referred to House Committee on Banking, Finance and Urban Affairs.
Human Resources Development Act
1977-01-27: Referred to House Committee on Education and Labor.
A bill to extend title II of the Public Works Employment Act of 1976 for five additional quarters.
1977-01-27: Referred to House Committee on Government Operations.
A bill to amend title I of the Housing and Community Development Act of 1974 for the purpose of providing that units of general local government receiving grants under the hold-harmless provision of such title shall be entitled, after fiscal year 1977, to continue to receive at least the amount to which they are presently entitled under such provisions.
1977-01-27: Referred to House Committee on Banking, Finance and Urban Affairs.
Economic Development Revenue Bond Act
1977-01-27: Referred to House Committee on Ways and Means.
A bill to amend title II of the Social Security Act to provide special cost-of-living increases in benefits thereunder based on local differentials in the cost of food and other necessities (over and above the regular annual cost-of-living increases in such benefits which are provided under present law on a national basis) for individuals residing in high cost cities and other high cost areas.
1977-01-27: Referred to House Committee on Ways and Means.
Urban Trees Act
1977-02-01: Referred to House Committee on Agriculture.
A bill to amend title II of the Social Security Act to provide that the automatic cost-of-living increases in benefits which are authorized thereunder may be made on a semiannual basis, rather than only on an annual basis as at present.
1977-02-01: Referred to House Committee on Ways and Means.
A bill to designate the birthday of Martin Luther King, Jr., a legal public holiday.
1977-02-02: Referred to House Committee on Post Office and Civil Service.
Medicare-Medicaid Anti-Fraud and Abuse Amendments
1977-02-02: Referred to House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce.
National Meals-on-Wheels Act
1977-02-02: Referred to House Committee on Education and Labor.
A bill to terminate age discrimination in employment.
1977-02-03: Referred to House Committee on Education and Labor.
World War I Pension Act
1977-02-07: Referred to House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
A concurrent resolution to express the sense of Congress that a United Nations special investigatory commission should be established to secure a full accounting of Americans listed as missing in Southeast Asia.
1979-07-18: Measure passed Senate, in lieu of S.Con.Res. 17.