A bill for the relief of Father Jose Antonio Esquivel.
1979-01-25: Referred to House Committee on the Judiciary.
A bill to amend the Tariff Schedules of the United States to repeal the special tariff treatment accorded to articles assembled abroad with components produced in the United States.
1979-01-25: Referred to House Committee on Ways and Means.
A bill to amend title 5, United States Code, to make Inauguration Day a legal public holiday.
1979-01-25: Referred to House Committee on Post Office and Civil Service.
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 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.
Geriatric Health Personnel Training Act of 1979
1979-01-15: Referred to House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce.
Medicare Deductible and Coinsurance Reduction Act of 1979
1979-01-15: 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 services provided in a rehabilitation facility for the blind, and for services furnished to blind individuals by mobility therapists and rehabilitation teachers.
1979-01-15: Referred to House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce.
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.
Medicare Nursing Home Availability Act of 1979
1979-01-15: 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.
1979-01-15: 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.
1979-01-15: Referred to House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce.
Medicare Long Term Care Act 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.
Age Discrimination in Federal Employment Act of 1979
1979-01-15: Referred to House Committee on Post Office and Civil Service.
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.
1979-01-15: Referred to House Committee on Ways and Means.
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.
1979-01-15: Referred to House Committee on Ways and Means.
Long Term Care Services Act of 1979
1979-01-15: Referred to House Committee on Ways and Means.
Health Maintenance Organization Amendments of 1979
1979-01-15: Referred to House Committee on Ways and Means.