Sludge Management Act of 1979
1979-01-15: Referred to House Committee on Public Works and Transportation.
Nuclear Energy Reappraisal Act
1979-01-15: Referred to House Committee on International Relations (Subsequently: Foreign Affairs).
A bill to amend title 38 of the United States Code in order to waive the payment of premiums for National Service Life Insurance by certain persons who have attained age 70.
1979-01-15: Referred to House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
A bill to amend the Trade Act of 1974.
1979-01-15: Referred to House Committee on Ways and Means.
Antirecession Supplementary Fiscal Assistance Amendments of 1979
1979-01-15: Referred to House Committee on Government Operations.
A bill to amend the Equal Credit Opportunity Act to prohibit discrimination against any applicant for credit on the basis of the geographical location of the applicant's residence.
1979-01-15: Referred to House Committee on Banking, Finance and Urban Affairs.
A bill to amend the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 to require that certain information with respect to unobligated balances of budget authority be included in the report accompanying the first concurrent resolution on the budget each year (as well as in the annual reports submitted by other committees to the Budget Committees of the House and Senate, and in the President's annual budget).
1979-01-15: Referred to House Committee on Rules.
Congressional Award Program Act
1979-01-15: Referred to House Committee on Education and Labor.
A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1954 to allow a deduction of not more than $1,500 for amounts paid or incurred for maintaining a household a member of which is a dependent of the taxpayer who has attained the age of 65.
1979-01-15: Referred to House Committee on Ways and Means.
Youth Internships in the Field of Aging Act
1979-01-15: Referred to House Committee on Education and Labor.
Drug Benefits for the Aged Act of 1979
1979-01-15: Referred to House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce.
Older Americans Civil Rights Act of 1979
1979-01-15: Referred to House Committee on the Judiciary.
Medicare Nursing Home Availability Act of 1979
1979-01-15: Referred to House Committee on Ways and Means.
Medicare Long Term Care Act of 1979
1979-01-15: Referred to House Committee on Ways and Means.
Solar Energy Bank Act
1979-11-15: Reported to House from the Committee on Banking, Finance and Urban Affairs with amendment, H. Rept. 96-625.
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.
1979-01-15: Referred to House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce.
A bill to further amend the Older Americans Act of 1965, as amended, to establish a program under which institutions of higher education may receive grants to defray 55 per centum of the tuition costs of older persons attending such institutions on a tuition-free basis, and for other purposes.
1979-01-15: Referred to House Committee on Education and Labor.
A bill to amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to provide for the enforcement of standards relating to the rights of patients in certain medical facilities.
1979-01-15: Referred to House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce.
A bill to amend the Domestic Volunteer Service Act of 1973 to provide that volunteers serving in the Service Corps of Retired Executives may provide services to certain home health agencies.
1979-01-15: Referred to House Committee on Education and Labor.
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.