A bill to amend the Library Services and Construction Act to extend the authorizations of appropriations contained in such act.
1977-03-08: Referred to House Committee on Education and Labor.
Oil Spill Removal Research, Development, and Demonstration Act
1977-03-08: Referred to House Committee on Science and Technology.
National Aquaculture Organic Act
1977-03-09: Referred to House Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries.
A bill to encourage the use of transportation modes other than personal motor vehicles for travel to and in national parks.
1977-03-10: Referred to House Committee on Public Works and Transportation.
Tanker Safety Act
1977-03-10: Referred to House Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries.
Public Participation in Federal Agency Proceedings Act
1977-03-14: Referred to House Committee on the Judiciary.
Investment Tax Credit Act
1977-03-14: Referred to House Committee on Ways and Means.
A bill to amend the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act to insure that leases of the Outer Continental Shelf for the recovery of oil and gas are issued only to citizens of the United States.
1977-03-15: Referred to House Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs.
Senior Citizen Higher Education Opportunity Act
1977-03-15: Referred to House Committee on Education and Labor.
A bill to amend the Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967 to provide that all Federal employees described in section 15 of such act shall be covered under the provisions of such act regardless of their age.
1977-03-16: Referred to House Committee on Education and Labor.
A bill to increase for a five-year period the duty on certain hand tools.
1977-03-21: Referred to House Committee on Ways and Means.
A bill to amend the Social Security Act to provide for inclusion of the services of licensed (registered) nurses under medicare and medicaid.
1977-03-22: Referred to House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce.
A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1954 to allow a taxpayer to deduct, or to claim a credit for, amounts paid as tuition to provide an education for himself, for his spouse, or for his dependents.
1977-03-22: Referred to House Committee on Ways and Means.
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 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 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.
1977-03-22: Referred to House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce.
A bill to establish within the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare a Home Health Clearinghouse to provide elderly persons with a single place where they can obtain complete information on the Federal health programs available to them, and to create within the Department an Assistant Secretary for Elderly Health with responsibility for all health and health-related matters involving the elderly.
1977-03-22: Referred to House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce.
A bill to amend the Older Americans Act of 1965 to provide grants to organizations for providing legal assistance to poor, elderly individuals in connection with their entitlement to home health services under titles XVIII, XIX, and XX of the Social Security Act.
1977-03-22: Referred to House Committee on the Judiciary.
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.
1977-03-22: Referred to House Committee on Ways and Means.
Medicare Long-Term Care Act
1977-03-22: Referred to House Committee on Ways and Means.
A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1954 to exempt from excise tax certain buses purchased by nonprofit organizations or by other persons for exclusive use in furnishing transportation for State or local governments or nonprofit organizations.
1977-03-22: Referred to House Committee on Ways and Means.
A bill to amend the National Housing Act and other Acts for the purpose of providing assistance for outpatient geriatric clinics and for multipurpose senior centers.
1977-03-22: Referred to House Committee on Banking, Finance and Urban Affairs.