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.
Health Maintenance Organization Amendments of 1979
1979-01-15: Referred to House Committee on Ways and Means.
A bill to amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to authorize payment under the supplementary medical insurance program for optometric and medical vision care.
1979-01-15: Referred to House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce.
A bill to amend the Social Security Act to require automatic sprinkler systems in all nursing facilities and intermediate care facilities certified for participation in the medicare or medicaid program, and to provide for direct low-interest Federal loans to assist such facilities in constructing or purchasing and installing automatic sprinkler systems.
1979-01-15: 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.
1979-01-15: Referred to House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce.
Long Term Care Services Act of 1979
1979-01-15: 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 practical nurses under medicare and medicaid.
1979-01-15: Referred to House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce.
A bill to eliminate the offset against social security benefits in the case of spouses and surviving spouses receiving certain Government pensions.
1979-01-15: Referred to House Committee on Ways and Means.
A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1954 to suspend the imposition of interest and to prohibit the imposition of a penalty for failure to pay tax on underpayments of tax resulting from erroneous advice given in writing by the Internal Revenue Service.
1979-01-15: Referred to House Committee on Ways and Means.
A bill to amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to include dental care among the items and services for which payment may be made under the supplementary medical insurance program.
1979-01-18: Referred to House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce.
Foreign Intelligence Information Protection Act of 1979
1979-01-18: Referred to House Select Committee on Intelligence.
A bill to amend the Clean Air Act to postpone for one year the application of certain restrictions to areas which have failed to attain national ambient air quality standards and to delay for one year the date required for adoption and submission of State implementation plans applicable to these areas, and for other purposes.
1979-01-18: 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 medicare program for certain services performed by chiropractors.
1979-01-31: Referred to House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce.
Space Technology for the Elderly Act
1979-02-08: Referred to House Committee on Science and Technology.
A bill to amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to authorize payment under the supplementary medical insurance program for optometric and medical vision care.
1979-02-08: Referred to House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce.
National Economic Development and Public Works Act of 1979
1979-11-14: Measure laid on table in House, S. 914 passed in lieu.
A bill to extend to all unmarried individuals the full tax benefits of income splitting now enjoyed by married individuals filing joint returns; and to remove rate inequities for married persons where both are employed.
1979-02-08: Referred to House Committee on Ways and Means.
A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1954 to allow an individual a deduction for blood donations, and to allow an individual to take such a deduction whether or not he itemizes his deductions.
1979-02-08: Referred to House Committee on Ways and Means.
A bill to amend title 10, United States Code, to allow supplies under the control of departments and agencies within the Department of Defense to be transferred to the Federal Emergency Management Agency as if it were within the Department of Defense and to amend the Federal Civil Defense Act of 1950 to authorize the Federal Emergency Management Agency to loan to State and local governments property transferred to such agency from other Federal agencies as excess property.
1979-02-15: Referred to House Committee on Armed Services.
Disability Tax Surcharge and Rollback Act of 1979
1979-04-02: Referred to House Committee on Ways and Means.