Taiwan Relations Act
1979-04-10: Public Law 96-8.
A bill to amend title 18, United States Code, to increase the term of imprisonment for certain offenses relating to carrying or using firearms, to eliminate eligibility for parole with respect to such term, and to require that such term be served before and consecutively to any related sentence of imprisonment.
1979-02-28: Referred to House Committee on the Judiciary.
A bill to amend title II of the Social Security Act so as to remove the limitation upon the amount of outside income which an individual may earn while receiving benefits thereunder.
1979-03-01: Referred to House Committee on Ways and Means.
Drug Benefits for the Aged Act of 1979
1979-03-01: 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 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, and authorizing grants for annual health fairs and mobile geriatric health units, and for other purposes.
1979-03-01: Referred to House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce.
A bill to amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to authorize payment under the supplementary medical insurance program for preventive services furnished in the screening, testing, diagnosis, and treatment of individuals for hypertension.
1979-03-01: Referred to House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce.
Agricultural Land Protection Act
1980-02-07: Measure failed of passage in House, roll call #37 (177-210).
Social Security Administration Act
1979-03-01: Referred to House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce.
A bill to amend the Social Security Act and the Internal Revenue Code of 1954 to provide for Federal participation in the costs of the old-age, survivors, and disability insurance program and the medicare program, with appropriate reductions in social security taxes to reflect such participation, and with a substantial increase in the amount of an individual's annual earnings which may be counted for benefit and tax purposes.
1979-03-01: Referred to House Committee on Ways and Means.
A bill to eliminate the benefit reduction which is provided for supplemental security income recipients in certain long-term care institutions when such institutions do not meet the standards established by States under section 1616(e) of the Social Security Act, to authorize payments to States to cover the cost of training and compensating personnel to inspect such institutions, and for other purposes.
1979-03-01: Referred to House Committee on Ways and Means.
A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1954 to provide that wood or coal burning stoves and furnaces will be eligible for the residential energy credit.
1979-10-11: Referred to House Committee on Ways and Means.
A bill to amend the Commodity Credit Corporation Charter Act to create within the CCC a National Grain Board, to provide the highest possible prices in foreign markets for American agricultural producers, and to provide price and supply stability in domestic markets.
1979-03-15: Referred to House Committee on Agriculture.
Citizens Postal Rate Relief Act of 1979
1979-03-14: Referred to House Committee on Post Office and Civil Service.
A bill to repeal section 19 of Public Law 95-142.
1979-04-30: Referred to House Committee on Ways and Means.
A bill to provide for Congressional review of proposed changes in postal services.
1979-03-07: Referred to House Committee on Post Office and Civil Service.
A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1954 to provide individuals a refundable credit against income tax for maintaining a household a member of which is an individual who has attained the age of 65.
1979-03-07: Referred to House Committee on Ways and Means.
A bill to provide for the issuance of a commemorative postage stamp in honor of General Casimir Pulaski and Americans of Polish descent.
1979-03-06: Referred to House Committee on Post Office and Civil Service.
A bill to amend the Clean Air Act.
1979-03-07: Referred to House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce.
Peace Corps Reform Act
1979-03-15: Referred to House Committee on Foreign Affairs.
A bill to provide for the issuance of a special postage stamp in commemoration of the life and work of Dr. Enrico Fermi.
1975-03-24: Referred to House Committee on Post Office and Civil Service.