A bill to direct the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences to conduct a 1-year review and evaluation of all available information respecting the toxicity and carcinogenicity of food additives, including information respecting the ability to predict the effect on humans of food additives found to cause cancer in animals and whether there should be a weighing of risks and benefits in making regulatory decisions respecting such additives, and to direct the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare to permit the continued use of saccharin as a food, food additive, drug, and cosmetic for 18 months.
1977-06-28: Referred to House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce.
A bill to amend title 38, United States Code, to increase the rates of vocational rehabilitation, educational assistance, and special training allowance paid to eligible veterans and persons.
1977-06-29: Referred to House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
A bill to amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to include hearing aids and dentures among the items and services for which payment may be made under the supplementary medical insurance program.
1977-06-30: Referred to House Committee on Ways and Means.
A bill to amend title XVI of the Social Security Act to provide for the payment of a special housing allowance to each recipient of supplemental security income benefits whose housing expenses exceed an amount equal to 25 percent of his or her income, so as to reduce such expenses to that amount.
1977-06-30: Referred to House Committee on Ways and Means.
Olympic Summer Games Authorization Act
1977-07-28: Referred to House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce.
A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1954 to provide for the issuance of nontaxable bonds for the furnishing of electric energy in a taxpayer's service area no greater than a city and a contiguous county.
1977-08-01: Referred to House Committee on Ways and Means.
World War I Pension Act
1977-09-08: Referred to House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
Career Criminals Prosecution Act
1977-09-12: Referred to House Committee on the Judiciary.
A bill to authorize the Secretary of State to acquire a statue or bust of George C. Marshall for placement in the Department of State.
1978-01-24: Referred to Senate Committee on Foreign Relations.
A bill to protect the constitutional rights of citizens of the United States and to prevent unwarranted invasion of their privacy by prohibiting the use of the polygraph for certain purposes.
1977-09-27: Referred to House Committee on the Judiciary.
Bikeway Transportation Act
1977-10-05: Referred to House Committee on Public Works and Transportation.
A bill to amend the Local Public Works Capital Development and Investment Act of 1976 to authorize Funds for certain smaller cities and townships.
1977-10-06: Referred to House Committee on Public Works and Transportation.
A bill to amend the Export Administration Act of 1969 to prohibit exporting to Uganda of goods subject to control under that act.
1977-10-12: Referred to House Committee on International Relations.
A bill to amend the Tariff Schedules of the United States in order to prohibit the importation of coffee which is the product of Uganda.
1977-10-12: Referred to House Committee on Ways and Means.
A bill to amend the Civil Rights Act of 1964 to make it an unlawful employment practice to discriminate against individuals who are physically handicapped because of such handicap.
1977-10-12: Referred to House Committee on Education and Labor.
A bill to prohibit the importation of Ugandan products into the United States.
1977-10-12: Referred to House Committee on Ways and Means.
A bill to amend Title 18 of the United States Code to eliminate racketeering in the sale and distribution of cigarettes.
1977-10-25: Referred to House Committee on the Judiciary.
Psychotropic Substances Act
1977-10-27: Referred to House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce.
A bill to amend the Regional Rail Reorganization Act of 1973 to authorize the Secretary of Transportation to guarantee notes issued to State and local taxing authorities to secure payment of tax obligations owned by a railroad in reorganization.
1977-10-31: Referred to House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce.
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.