A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1954 to provide that the amount of the charitable deduction allowable for expenses incurred in the operation of a highway vehicle will be determined in the same manner as the business deduction for such expenses.
1977-03-22: Referred to House Committee on Ways and Means.
A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1954 to allow a deduction to taxpayers who contribute the right to use certain real property to charitable organizations for outpatient geriatric clinics or for multipurpose senior centers.
1977-03-22: Referred to House Committee on Ways and Means.
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.
1977-03-22: Referred to House Committee on Ways and Means.
Nursing Home Reform Act
1977-03-22: Referred to House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce.
Older Americans Health Services Act
1977-03-22: Referred to House Committee on Ways and Means.
Geriatric Health Personnel Training Act
1977-03-22: Referred to House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce.
A bill making a supplemental appropriation for payments under home health service grants and making an appropriation for payments under multipurpose senior center grants.
1977-03-22: Referred to House Committee on Appropriations.
Long Term Care Services Act
1977-03-22: Referred to House Committee on Ways and Means.
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.
1977-03-22: 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 expanding existing programs of grants for home health services, 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 (including demonstration grants for community care), and authorizing grants for annual health fairs and mobile geriatric health units.
1977-03-22: Referred to House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce.
A bill to amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to include dental care, eye care, hearing aids, physical checkups, and foot care among the items and services for which payment may be made under the supplementary medical insurance program, and to provide safeguards against consumer abuse in the provision of these items and services.
1977-03-22: Referred to House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce.
A bill to amend title XIX of the Social Security Act to provide that medicaid is a payor of last resort and to permit recovery by States from certain estates of medicaid expenses incurred by individuals before reaching the age of 65.
1977-03-22: Referred to House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce.
A bill to amend the National School Lunch Act with respect to the summer food service program for children.
1977-03-23: Referred to House Committee on Education and Labor.
A bill to amend title 5, United States Code, to provide that any Federal employee who, at the time of retirement, does not elect a reduced annuity in order to provide a survivor annuity to a spouse or other person may make such an election within 1 year after retiring.
1977-03-23: Referred to House Committee on Post Office and Civil Service.
A bill to amend title 5, United States Code, to provide that any Federal employee who, at the time of retirement, does not elect a reduced annuity in order to provide a survivor annuity to a spouse or other person may make such an election within 1 year after retirement, whichever is later.
1977-03-28: Referred to House Committee on Post Office and Civil Service.
National Home Health Care Act
1977-03-28: Referred to House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce.
Accelerated Depreciation Allowance Act
1977-03-28: Referred to House Committee on Ways and Means.
A bill to amend the Social Security Act to improve the survey and certification process, rate-setting and fiscal audit methods, and general regulation of nursing homes and intermediate care facilities under the medicaid program, and to provide for medical, psychological, and social assessment of long-term care patients under both the medicare and medicaid programs.
1977-03-28: Referred to House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce.
A bill to provide that certain persons who were originally appointed as SSI hearing examiners under pre-1976 provisions of title XVI of the Social Security Act shall without restriction be deemed appointed as administrative law judges.
1977-10-31: Reported to House from the Committee on Ways and Means with amendment, H. Rept. 95-617 (Part II).
Ocean Dumping Amendments Act
1977-03-31: Referred to House Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries.