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Rep. Keys, Martha E. [D-KS-2]

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  • · House of Representatives · present
  • D · D · present

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Bill· HRH.R. 14313 (95th)referred

Good Samaritan Act

United States · United States Congress · 12 October 1978

Good Samaritan Act - Declares: (1) that any physician, registered nurse, or aircraft employee who, in good faith and with a reasonable belief that immediate medical attention is necessary, renders emergency care to an injured or ill person aboard an aircraft within the special aircraft jurisdiction of the United States shall not be liable for any civil damages as a result of any act or omission by such individual in rendering such care, except for any act or omission amounting to gross negligence or willful or wanton misconduct; and (2) that any such individual shall not be liable for any such act or omission in rendering continued emergency care to the injured or ill person during transportation from the aircraft to a medical facility for further treatment or care.

Resolution· HCONRESH.Con.Res. 736 (95th)referred

A resolution expressing the sense of Congress that the Secretary of Defense should not choose a site for the launching base for the intercontinental missile that would result in the destruction or idling of productive farmland and the displacing of farmers and ranchers from their homes and land.

United States · United States Congress · 5 October 1978

Declares it the sense of Congress that, in selecting a site to be used as a launching base for the MX intercontinental missile, the Secretary of Defense should exempt from consideration areas where the siting of such a missile would result in the destruction or idling of productive farmland and the displacing of farmers and ranchers from their homes and land.

Resolution· HCONRESH.Con.Res. 733 (95th)referred

A resolution establishing the Claude Pepper Senior Citizen Congressional Intern Program.

United States · United States Congress · 5 October 1978

Establishes the Claude Pepper Senior Citizen Congressional Intern program which authorizes each Member of Congress to hire each year one senior citizen intern to serve within the District of Columbia for one of two two-week periods. Specifies that such intern shall be compensated at a rate not to exceed $300 per week.

Bill· HRH.R. 14159 (95th)reported

A bill relating to the interim treatment of controversies involving whether certain individuals are employees for purposes of the employment taxes.

United States · United States Congress · 25 September 1978

Provides that an individual shall not be treated as an employee for purposes of the employment tax if a taxpayer did not treat him as an employee for any period prior to January 1, 1980, and had no reasonable basis for so doing. Sets forth criteria for determining whether a taxpayer had a reasonable basis for not treating an individual as an employee. Prohibits the Internal Revenue Service from issuing regulations or rulings before January 1, 1980, regarding the employment status of any individual for purposes of the employment tax.

Resolution· HRESH.Res. 1361 (95th)referred

A resolution to amend the rules of the House of Representatives.

United States · United States Congress · 20 September 1978

Amends the Rules of the House of Representatives to require that remarks of Members made on the floor of the House or submitted for inclusion in the Congressional Record, including revisions and extensions, be relevant to governmental matters.

Bill· HRH.R. 14115 (95th)referred

Soft Drink Interbrand Competition Act

United States · United States Congress · 19 September 1978

Soft Drink Interbrand Competition Act - Declares that exclusive territorial arrangements made as a part of a licensing agreement for the manufacture, distribution, or sale of a trademarked soft drink product are lawful under the antitrust laws provided such product is in substantial and effective competition with other products of the same general class.

Bill· HRH.R. 14056 (95th)referred

Sunset Program Reauthorization and Evaluation Act

United States · United States Congress · 12 September 1978

Sunset Program Reauthorization and Evaluation Act - Title I: Reauthorization of New Budget Authority - Requires Government programs to be evaluated pursuant to a specified schedule to determine whether each such program should be continued, terminated, or altered (reauthorization review). Prohibits the authorization of new budget authority for a period of more than ten years. Prohibits the authorization of new budget authority for any program for which there has not been conducted a reauthorization review. Requires the Director of the Congressional Budget Office, in consulation with the Comptroller General and the Director of the Congressional Research Service, to compile a list of programs subject to a reauthorization date for which new budget authority was not authorized. Title II: Program Inventory - Requires the Comptroller General to compile an inventory of Federal programs including a description of such programs covering specified topics. Title III: Program Review and Evaluation - Requires each House of Congress to select from the programs scheduled for reauthorization review in any given year a number of programs for comprehensive reauthorization review. Requires the President and each congressional committee to recommend such programs. Title IV: Citizens' Commission on the Organization and Operation of Government - Establishes an independent Citizen's Commission on the Organization and Operation of Government to study the organization and operation of Federal agencies and to recommend ways to improve the efficiency and operations of such agencies. Requires the Commission to submit its final report by July 1, 1983, and terminates the Commission 90 days after the submission of such report. Title V: Miscellaneous - Requires the Comptroller General to furnish Congress with the results of prior audits and reviews of programs being reviewed under this Act. Requires all agencies which are exempt from reauthorization review to submit a status report to Congress.

Bill· HJRESH.J.Res. 1133 (95th)referred

A resolution raising the price support levels for milk, wheat, corn, soybeans, and cotton to 90 per centum of the respective parity prices therefor, and for other purposes.

United States · United States Congress · 11 September 1978

Amends the Agricultural Act of 1949 to raise the price support levels for milk, wheat, corn, soybeans, and cotton to 90 percent of their respective parity prices. Reduces the price levels at which producers participating in the wheat and feed grains storage program: (1) may redeem and market commodities securing price support loans (from between 140 to 160 percent of their respective parity prices to 100 percent); and (2) must repay such loans (from 175 to 110 percent of their respective parity prices).

Bill· HRH.R. 14005 (95th)referred

Court Interpreters Act

United States · United States Congress · 7 September 1978

Court Interpreters Act - Establishes, through the Director of the Administrative Office of the United States Courts, a program to: (1) compile and make available lists of qualified interpreters for non-English speakers and hearing impaired persons (whether or not also speech impaired) and; (2) provide the services of such interpreters free in criminal actions and civil actions initiated by the United States.

Resolution· HRESH.Res. 1329 (95th)referred

A resolution calling upon the President to communicate to the Government of the Soviet Union the concern of the United States that Isaac Zlotver be granted permission to emigrate to Israel in order to be reunited with his family.

United States · United States Congress · 17 August 1978

Urges the President to communicate with the Soviet Union concerning its obligation in accordance with the Helsinki accords to allow Isaac Zlotver to emigrate from the Soviet Union.

Bill· HRH.R. 13828 (95th)referred

A bill relating to the independent contractor status of individuals for employment tax purposes.

United States · United States Congress · 10 August 1978

Directs the Internal Revenue Service not to adopt a position which is inconsistent with a general audit position, a regulation, or a ruling in effect on January 1, 1976, in determining whether an individual is an employee for purposes of social security taxation, unemployment taxation, and income tax withholding. Prohibits the treatment of any individual as an employee of any employer, if such employer consistently treated the individual, in good faith, as an independent contractor in reasonable reliance on either past IRS audit practice, published rulings or judicial precedent, recognized practice in the industry, or long-standing treatment of the individual as an independent contractor.

Bill· HRH.R. 13817 (95th)referred

A bill to amend the Social Security Act with respect to the health programs authorized under it and for other purposes.

United States · United States Congress · 9 August 1978

Amends Title XI (General Provisions and Professional Standards Review) of the Social Security Act to include within the definition of an organization qualified for conditional designation as a Professional Standards Review Organization, an organization of health care practitioners who hold independent hospital admitting privileges and who are invited to become members by the organization. Includes as members of the advisory group for each statewide Professional Standards Review Council at least one registered professional nurse and doctor of dental surgery. Includes one registered professional nurse, one doctor of dental surgery, and one health care practitioner other than a physician in the National Professional Standards Review Council. Establishes an advisory committee to the National Professional Standards Review Council to be made up of representatives of health care practitioners other than physicians. Amends Title XVIII(Medicare) of the Act to authorize a hospital which meets specified conditions to enter into an agreement with the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare under which its inpatient hospital facilities may be used for the furnishing of services of the type which, if furnished by a skilled nursing facility, would constitute post-hospital extended care services. States that payment to any hospital for such services shall be based on the reasonable cost of such services. Sets forth a formula for determining such cost. Sets forth guideleines controlling such agreements. Directs the Secretary to report to Congress concerning such agreements. Amends Title XIX (Medicaid) to provide for payment to be made under a State plan approved under such Title for skilled nursing facility services and intermediate care facility services furnished by a hospital which has in effect an agreement (as set forth above) under Title XVIII. Amends Title XI to require, as a condition for payment to any State under Title V (Maternal and Child Health and Crippled Children's Services) or Title XIX for costs incurred in the performance of audits of certain entities which also provide services under Title XVIII, that the conduct of such audits be coordinated with audits performed with respect to the entity for purposes of Title XVIII. Requires, under Titles V and XIX, that a State plan for medical assistance provide that the records of any entity participating in the plan and providing services reimbursable on a cost-related basis will be audited to insure that proper payments are made under the plan. Requires the Secretary to report to Congress concerning such audits.

Bill· HRH.R. 13683 (95th)referred

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.

United States · United States Congress · 1 August 1978

Amends the Internal Revenue Code to exempt taxpayers from the payment of interest or a penalty on tax deficiencies attributable to erroneous advice obtained in writing from an Internal Revenue Service Officer or employee acting in an official capacity.

Bill· HRH.R. 13576 (95th)referred

IRA-Employer Plan Coordination Act

United States · United States Congress · 24 July 1978

IRA-Employer Plan Coordination Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to extend to participants in tax-exempt employer pension plans the income tax deduction for cash contributions to a retirement savings account. Limits such deduction to the excess of the lesser of $1,500 ($1,750 for spousal plans) or an amount equal to 15 percent of an individual's employment compensation for a taxable year, over the total amount of contributions to a tax-exempt private employer plan to which such individual has a nonforfeitable right to 100 percent of his accrued benefits. Reduces, by five percent, the allowable deduction for participants in a multiemployer defined benefit plan or a church plan. Disallows deductions for employees covered by government plans, owner-employees, officers of corporations maintaining a plan, ten percent shareholders, and individuals who have attained age 70 1/2. Disallows deductions for individuals who are otherwise qualified but who do not conform to methods prescribed by the Secretary of the Treasury for computing the total amount of plan contributions for a taxable year. Sets forth rules for the mandatory distribution of certain amounts from an individual retirement plan when an individual acquires a nonforfeitable right to 100 percent of his accrued benefits under a tax-exempt private employer plan. Requires an individual retirement account to contain a method for determining the taxable year in which specific contributions are made to it and the amount of income and loss which is attributable to a specific contribution for each taxable year.

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