United States · United States Congress · 16 June 1975
Broadcast License Renewal Act - Requires the Federal Communications Commission to establish procedures to be followed by licensees of broadcasting stations to ascertain throughout the terms of their licenses the needs, views, and interests of their viewers. Sets the term of a broadcast station license, or renewal, at five years and for any other class of station at five years. Provides that any license granted may, upon its expiration, be renewed, if the Commission finds that the public interest, convenience, and necessity would be served by the renewal of such license. Requires that in considering any application for renewal of a broadcast license, the Commission shall not consider: (1) the ownership interests or official connections of the applicant in other stations or other communications media or other businesses; or (2) the participation of ownership in the management of the station for which such application has been filed, unless the Commission has adopted rules prohibiting such ownership interests or activities or prescribing management structures, as the case may be, and given the renewal applicant a reasonable opportunity to conform with such rules. Directs the Commission to prescribe procedures to encourage licensees of broadcasting stations and persons raising significant issued regarding the operations of such stations to conduct, during the term of the licenses for such stations, good faith negotiations to resolve such issues. Directs the Federal Communications Commission to conduct a study to determine how it might expedite the elimination of those regulations of broadcast licensees required by the Communications Act of 1934 which do not serve the public interest and to make annual reports of the results of such study (including any recommendations for legislation) to the Committee on Commerce of the Senate and the Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce of the House of Representatives.
United States · United States Congress · 11 June 1975
Title I : Increases the authorizations of specified appropriations, under the Land and Water Conservation Fund Act, for land and water conservation funds. Sets additional requirements on the State grant programs administered under such Act. Title II : Establishes the historic preservation fund in the Treasury. Provides that during the period commencing July 1, 1975, and ending June 30, 1989, there shall be covered into such fund $75,000,000 for fiscal year 1976; $75,000,000 for fiscal year 1977; and $100,000,000 for fiscal year 1978 and each fiscal year thereafter, from revenues due to the United States under the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act and the rental and sale of public lands for lease under Federal law (30 U.S.C. 191).
United States · United States Congress · 6 June 1975
Revises the Fisherman's Protective Act by directing the Secretary of Commerce, before the close of the ninety-day period after the date of the enactment of this Act, to identify any foreign enterprise engaging in commercial whaling. States that the names of such enterprises shall be published in the Federal Register. States that it shall be unlawful for any article produced or distributed by such enterprise to be imported into the United States. Provides that such sanctions shall continue until the foreign enterprise concerned has ceased to engage in commercial whaling. Provides that any action by such an enterprise to dismantle or convert any vessel used in commercial whaling shall be deemed to be prima facie evidence that such enterprise has ceased to engage in commercial whaling. Specifies that the sanctions shall continue to apply to any such enterprise which transfers whaling equipment to another enterprise which is engaged in whaling.
United States · United States Congress · 22 May 1975
Authorizes the President to call a White House Conference on Long-Term Care in 1976. Directs the Conference to consider methods to : (1) make long-term health care available to those who need it; (2) provide alternatives to nursing home placement; (3) improve the quality of care offered in long-term care facilities; (4) provide for appropriate training of personel; and (5) finance the necessary benefits structure to make long-term care a right of all Americans. Requires that the Conference submit a final report to the President not later than one hundred and twenty days following the date on which the Conference is called. Authorizes the Secretary of Health Education, and Welfare to establish an Advisory Committee to the Conference composed of not more than twenty-eight professionals and public members. Authorizes the appropriation of $500,000 to carry out the provisions of this joint resolution.
United States · United States Congress · 21 May 1975
Authorizes interest subsidy payments under the National Housing Act to assist nursing homes in repair and renovation in order to comply with Federal standards if the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare certifies that such facilities are otherwise in substantial compliance with such standards.
United States · United States Congress · 21 May 1975
Title I: Survey And Certification, Ratesetting And Audit, And General Regulation Of Long-Term Care Facilities Under Medicaid Programs - Requires that a State plan for medical assistance must provide that no skilled nursing facility may receive payments under such plan unless and until it is approved to receive payments under title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act. Provides that such State plan require that the State agency have the power to terminate reimbursement to a skilled nursing or intermediate care facility which violates its provider agreement. Requires such State plan to include that the inspection and medical review shall serve as the basis for determining the overpayment to such facility, and the amount such agency must refund. Requires such State plan to provide that any skilled nursing facility receiving payments under the plan be required to maintain with the State agency a bond to anticipate any and all claims for overpayment. Title II: Medical, Psychological, And Social Assessment Of Patients In Need Of Long-Term Care Under Medicare And Medicaid Programs - Requires that for payment of services furnished and individual under the Medicare and Medicaid programs that a physicain's certification be based on such patient assessment criteria as the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare may require. Provides that a State plan msut include a regular program of medical review utilizing such criteria as required by the Secretary of meeting their health care needs through alternative institutional or noninstitutional services.
United States · United States Congress · 21 May 1975
Authorizes the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare to make grants under the Public Health Service Act to colleges and universities to assist them in the establishment and operation of programs for the training of physicians' assistants. Authorizes appropriations of $10,000,000 annually commencing with fiscal year 1974 to carry out the provisions of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 21 May 1975
Authorizes the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare to make grants to assist schools of medicine in the establishment and operation, within such schools, of conintuing education programs in geriatrics for physicians.
United States · United States Congress · 21 May 1975
Requires any nursing home, which provides services under State plans approved under title XIX (Medicaid) of the Social Security Act, fully to disclose to the State licensing agency the identity of each person who has any ownership interest in such home or is the owner (in whole or in part) of any mortgage, deed of trust, note, or other obligation secured (in whole or in part) by such home.
United States · United States Congress · 21 May 1975
Authorizes the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare to make grants to schools of medicine to train veterans, with appropriate experience as paramedical personnel, to serve as medical assistants in long-term health care facilities. Authorizes appropriations of $2,500,000 for fiscal year 1974 and $5,000,000 for each of the next three fiscal years to carry out the provisions of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 21 May 1975
Authorizes an experimental program under the Social Security Act to provide for care for elderly individuals in their own homes. Authorizes appropriations of such sums as may be necessary carry out the purposes of this Act for fiscal year 1975 and for each fiscal year thereafter.
United States · United States Congress · 21 May 1975
Authorizes the Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare to make grants to assist schools of medicine in the establishment and operation, within such schools, of departments of geriatrics. Stipulates that such grants shall not be made to more than six schools of medicine and the amount of such grants to any school of medicine for any year shall not exceed $500,000. Authorizes to be appropriated for each fiscal year such sums as may be necessary to carry out the provisions of this section.
United States · United States Congress · 21 May 1975
Authorizes the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare to provide grants for the planning, development, construction, and rehabilitation of nursing homes in black and minority communities under the Public Health Service Act. Authorizes to be appropriated such sums as may be necessary to carry out the provisions of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 21 May 1975
Campuses for the Elderly Act - Authorizes the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare to institute a program under which qualified organizations, public and private, will submit plans for the development of carefully conceived and innovative projects to meet the special health care, housing, and related needs of elderly persons in the campus-type setting. Provides that from the plans submitted the Secretary shall select which he determines are most promising in furtherance of the objectives of this Act. Authorizes the Secretary to make, and contract to make, interest subsidy payments to the holder of any mortgage covering a project designed in accordance with a plan selected under this Act. Provides that as a condition for receiving such a subsidy the owner shall operate the project in accordance with such requirements as the Secretary may prescribe. Authorizes to be appropriated such sums as may be necessary to make such payments. Requires an evaluation of such projects not later than two years after their implementation to determine their effectiveness and suitability in meeting the needs of elderly persons. Provides that such evaluation shall be made by a committee consisting of the following members: (1) three members of the Congress to be appointed jointly by the President of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Represenatives; and (2) six members to be appointed by the Secretary of which three shall be representative of the medical profession and three shall be persons who have had experience in the administration of health-care facilities, both proprietary and nonproprietary. Provides that the Committee shall submit to the Secretary for transmittal to the Congress a report with respect to its findings and recommendations not later than six months after the date on which the committee is fully organized. Authorizes to be appropriated such sums (not to exceed $70,000) as may be necessary to carry out this evaluation.
United States · United States Congress · 21 May 1975
Elderly Day Care Center Act - Revises title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to include "elderly care center" in the definition of "provider of service."
United States · United States Congress · 21 May 1975
National Home Health Care Act - Broadens the coverage of home health services under the supplementary medical insurance (Medicare) program of of the Social Security Act and removes the 100-visit limitation presently applicable to the home health service program. Extends the coverage of posthospital home health services to include payment for items and services which the indiviudal could otherwise obtain in a skilled nursing facility. Requires the inclusion of home health services in a State's medicaid program under the Social Security Act and permits the payment of rent under such program for elderly persons who would otherwise require nursing home care. Provides expanded Federal funding for congregate housing for the displaced and the elderly by increasing the amount available for such housing under the low income housing program. Establishes, in the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, a home health patient ombudsman, who shall be appointed and provided with adequate staff and facilities by the Secretary. Makes it the duty and responsibility of the ombudsman to monitor specified programs under the Social Security and the various medical assistance programs under the State plans approved pursuant to such Act, and to maintain such oversight of those programs and their operation and administration as may be necessary to: (1) assure that home health patients under such programs are receiving the care to which they are entitled, (2) provide safeguards against over-charging for home health services, (3) identify abuses against home health patients, (4) receive, handle, and expedite complaints by home health patients, (5) recommend to the Secretary any changes in the regulations affecting home health services which may appear necessary or desirable, and (6) take appropriate action (including the transmission of findings to the Attorney General) with respect to abuses and violations of law affecting the provision or receipt of home health services under such programs. Makes the children over 18 of parents receiving nursing and home health care assistance under the medicaid program liable for a specified portion of the expenses of such assistance, depending upon the income of such child. Permits the waiver of such obligation in any case where the State agency determines, in accordance with regulations prescribed by the Secretary, that the imposition of such obligation or the making of such collection would impose undue hardship. Provides that any amount collected from or otherwise paid by any person in satisfaction of any obligation imposed by this section shall constitute a medical expense paid or incurred by such person for purposes of deductions under the Internal Revenue Code ot 1954.
United States · United States Congress · 21 May 1975
Authorizes the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare, under title XX of the Social Security Act, to provide for a system of inspections of State inspection and enforcement mechanisms with regard to facilities receiving payments under the Medicare and Medicaid programs.
United States · United States Congress · 21 May 1975
National Home Health Care Act - Broadens the coverage of home health services under the supplementary medical insurance (Medicare) program of of the Social Security Act and removes the 100-visit limitation presently applicable to the home health service program. Extends the coverage of posthospital home health services to include payment for items and services which the indiviudal could otherwise obtain in a skilled nursing facility. Requires the inclusion of home health services in a State's medicaid program under the Social Security Act and permits the payment of rent under such program for elderly persons who would otherwise require nursing home care. Provides expanded Federal funding for congregate housing for the displaced and the elderly by increasing the amount available for such housing under the low income housing program. Establishes, in the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, a home health patient ombudsman, who shall be appointed and provided with adequate staff and facilities by the Secretary. Makes it the duty and responsibility of the ombudsman to monitor specified programs under the Social Security and the various medical assistance programs under the State plans approved pursuant to such Act, and to maintain such oversight of those programs and their operation and administration as may be necessary to: (1) assure that home health patients under such programs are receiving the care to which they are entitled, (2) provide safeguards against over-charging for home health services, (3) identify abuses against home health patients, (4) receive, handle, and expedite complaints by home health patients, (5) recommend to the Secretary any changes in the regulations affecting home health services which may appear necessary or desirable, and (6) take appropriate action (including the transmission of findings to the Attorney General) with respect to abuses and violations of law affecting the provision or receipt of home health services under such programs. Makes the children over 18 of parents receiving nursing and home health care assistance under the medicaid program liable for a specified portion of the expenses of such assistance, depending upon the income of such child. Permits the waiver of such obligation in any case where the State agency determines, in accordance with regulations prescribed by the Secretary, that the imposition of such obligation or the making of such collection would impose undue hardship. Provides that any amount collected from or otherwise paid by any person in satisfaction of any obligation imposed by this section shall constitute a medical expense paid or incurred by such person for purposes of deductions under the Internal Revenue Code ot 1954.
United States · United States Congress · 21 May 1975
Makes it an unfair labor practice under the National Labor Relations Act to discharge or otherwise discriminate against an employee because he has given testimony before any standing, special, or select committee of Congress, or in any proceeding before any agency or department of the Federal Government.
United States · United States Congress · 21 May 1975
Provides, under the Public Health Service Act, that the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare may make grants to and enter into contracts with public or nonprofit private entities for the purposes of developing or operating programs for the training of nurse practicioners with special emphasis on nursing homes and the care of the aged. States that on or before March 1, 1975, after consultation with appropriate educational organizations and professional nursing and medical organizations, the Secretary shall prescribe program guidelines for nurse practicioners. Sets forth minimum guidelines, including a program of classroom instruction and supervised clinical practice aimed toward preparing nurses to deliver primary health care. Authorizes to be appropriated for the purposes of making payments under grants and contracts $5,000,000 for fiscal year 1975 and $7,500,000 for fiscal year 1976.
United States · United States Congress · 21 May 1975
Provides educational and performance requirements for long-term care facility personnel compensated with Federal funds who are responsible for determining whether such institutions comply with health and safety standards required under title XIX (Medicaid) of the Social Security Act.
United States · United States Congress · 21 May 1975
Nursing Home Personnel In-Service Training Act - Authorizes the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare to make grants, not to exceed $100,000 per grant, to assist public or nonprofit private schools of nursing to meet the costs of developing short-term in-service training programs for nurses aids and orderlies for nursing homes. Provides that such programs shall emphasize the special problems of geriatric patients. Authorizes to be appropriated $1,000,000 for fiscal year 1975, and $1,000,000 for fiscal year 1976, to carry out the purposes of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 21 May 1975
Provides for the making of direct loans at 4 percent or the current market interest rate, whichever is lower, under the Public Health Service Act, for the construction and rehabilitation of nursing homes owned and operated by churches and other nonprofit organizations. Authorizes to be appropriated such sums as may be necessary to carry out the provisions of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 21 May 1975
Provides, under the Social Security Act, for the establishment of an Inspector General for health administration. Authorizes the Inspector General to suspend any regulation, practice, or procedure found not to be in compliance with the provisions or purposes of the Medicare or Medicaid programs. Authorizes the Inspector General to make confidential expenditures of up to $50,000 in any fiscal year to make inspections, audit, or reviews in furtherance of the purposes of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 21 May 1975
Provides 100 percent Federal funding of financial audits of skilled nursing and intermediate care facilities participating in the medicaid program conducted by State personnel pursuant to the Social Security Act.
United States · United States Congress · 21 May 1975
Provides for the making of grants under the Public Health Service Act to public or nonprofit colleges and universities to assist them in establishing graduate programs for nurses in geriatrics and gerontology.
United States · United States Congress · 21 May 1975
Authorizes medicare or medicaid patients individually or as a class to bring suit under the Social Security Act for specific performance, without regard to the $10,000 jurisdictional amount, in Federal district court against a long-term care facility which is in violation of its provider agreement.
United States · United States Congress · 21 May 1975
Requires nursing homes participating in Federal programs pursuant to title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to have in effect procedures to prevent epidemic diseases and accidents and for reporting them immediately to appropriate authority and next of kin of patients involved in any untoward incident affecting health and safety.
United States · United States Congress · 21 May 1975
Provides criminal penalties under title XIX (Medicaid) of the Social Security Act for: (1) the solicitation or acceptance of any gift, money, or consideration over and above the rates established by the States; or (2) the acceptance of any gift, money, or donation, as a precondition of admitting a patient to a long-term care facility.
United States · United States Congress · 21 May 1975
Authorizes the States to incorporate financial incentives for good care within the context of their cost-related reimbursement formulae under the Medicare and Medicaid programs of the Social Security Act, effective July 1, 1976.
United States · United States Congress · 21 May 1975
Requires that payment forms submitted from nursing homes for reimbursement under the Medicare and Medicaid programs of the Social Security Act contain warnings with regard to penalties imposed for misrepresentation of the amounts due under such Act.
United States · United States Congress · 21 May 1975
Requires States, under the Medicaid program of the Social Security Act, to establish ombudsman programs to investigate nursing home complaints and represent consumer interests.
United States · United States Congress · 21 May 1975
Provides for the 100 percent Federal financing of the State costs in inspecting nursing homes. Provides for Federal assistance for the States' new enforcement tools such as a citation system and protective custodianship and other alternatives to license revocation.
United States · United States Congress · 21 May 1975
Provides criminal penalties under the Social Security Act for the offer or receipt of consideration for the referral of patients, clients, or customers under the Medicare or Medicaid programs.
United States · United States Congress · 21 May 1975
Requires under titles XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act, that skilled nursing facilities employ at least one registered professional nurse twenty-four hours per day, seven days a week.
United States · United States Congress · 21 May 1975
Requires, under title XCIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act, that nursing homes post their current license, medicare/medicaid certification, a list of owners of the facility, the names of staff, a patient's bill of rights as well as a description of services offered by the facility and the facility's charges therefor.
United States · United States Congress · 21 May 1975
Requires that accurate records of the handling of accounts, personal expense moneys, and valuables of patients receiving benefits under the Medicare program of the Social Security Act be maintained; that a receipt be given and recorded for such items; and that they be kept separate from similar items owned by the facility caring for such patients.
United States · United States Congress · 21 May 1975
Requires State plans under the Medicaid program of the Social Security Act to be ratified by both the State's legislative and executive branch before being presented to the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare for his approval; and requires that such plans be posted and available to the public. Directs the Secretary to annually review a State's compliance with such plan and to publish performance ratings for the States. Creates a cause of action allowing Medicaid recipients individually or as a class to bring suit against a State for specific performance when a State fails to comply with the provisions of its plan.
United States · United States Congress · 21 May 1975
Allows a tax deduction under the Internal Revenue Code for amounts paid during the taxable year by the taxpayer for nursing home expenses for an individual who would be a dependent of such taxpayer if sufficient support were provided.
United States · United States Congress · 21 May 1975
Requires a minimum ratios for nursing home personnel to patients, and for superviosry nurses to total nurses under titles XVIII (Medicare) and XIX (Medicaid) of the Social Security Act.
United States · United States Congress · 21 May 1975
Requires the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare to establish a rating system for nursing homes participating in Medicare and Medicaid programs of the Social Security Act as a guide to consumers. States that such ratings shall be based on surveys available to the Secretary under the Social Security Act.
United States · United States Congress · 21 May 1975
Requires admissions contracts between nursing homes participating in Federal programs and the patients they serve under title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act.
United States · United States Congress · 21 May 1975
Requires physician visits to patients in skilled nursing facilities at least once every thirty days under title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act.
United States · United States Congress · 21 May 1975
Requires under titles XVIII (Medicare) and XIX (Medicaid) of the Social Security Act that only licensed personnel may set up or distribute medications in skilled nursing facilities.
United States · United States Congress · 21 May 1975
Provides for placing responsibility for medical care provided by skilled nursing facilities under the Medicare and Medicaid programs of the Social Security Act in a medical director who is a physician on call in emergencies and who either (1) spends 10 hours a week in each facility for which he is responsible or (2) spends 2 hours per week in such facility and is assisted by a nurse practitioner (whose functions are defined in the Act) who spends at least 20 hours per week at the facility.
United States · United States Congress · 21 May 1975
Authorizes, under the Medicare program of the Social Security Act, the provision of intermediate care services to persons requiring institutional care, but not the degree of care provided by a hospital or skilled nursing facility.
United States · United States Congress · 21 May 1975
Provides for the modification of the medicare reimbursement formula under title XVIII of the Social Security Act to allow small hospitals in rural areas with low occupancy to provide long term care in those areas where there are no appropriate nursing home beds available.
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