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424 records where Rep. Satterfield, David E., III [D-VA-3] is listed as a sponsor, author, or other actor. Search with topics and years
United States · United States Congress · 20 April 1978
Increases from $250 to $350 the burial and funeral expense allowance which may be paid by the Veterans' Administration on behalf of certain deceased veterans.
United States · United States Congress · 20 April 1978
Provides for a burial allowance of $150 to be paid by the Veterans' Administration: (1) to any State or political subdivision thereof for burying a veteran in any cemetery owned by the State or subdivision if such cemetery or section thereof is used solely for the interment of veterans; or (2) to a person prescribed by the deceased veteran if burial is in a cemetery other than the kind described.
United States · United States Congress · 20 April 1978
Directs the Secretary of Defense to place a memorial plaque in the Trophy Hall of the Memorial Amphitheater at Arlington National Cemetery to pay tribute to those members of the armed force who served in Southeast Asia during the Vietnam era. Directs the Secretary, to honor those members who lost their lives in Southeast Asia, to display near such plaque the medals, ribbons, and decorations associated with service in Southeast Asia during the Vietnam era.
United States · United States Congress · 20 April 1978
Removes the requirement that a veteran die in the service in order to be entitled to a memorial headstone or marker when the veteran's remains have not been recovered or identified or have been buried at sea.
United States · United States Congress · 20 April 1978
Declares that certain proposed regulations of the Department of the Treasury regarding centralized firearms sales recordkeeping and other firearms control measures exceed the Departments' authority, and directs that the regulations be withdrawn.
United States · United States Congress · 13 April 1978
Authorizes and requests the Presidents to designate the week beginning on November 19, 1978, as "National Family Week."
United States · United States Congress · 11 April 1978
Provides for the continuation of the Administrator of Veterans' Affairs authority to furnish private hospital care to certain veterans living in a State, territory, Commonwealth, or possession of the United States not contiguous to the forty-eight contiguous States.
United States · United States Congress · 11 April 1978
Increases from $500 to $1,000 the amount by which the annual income of certain disabled veterans may exceed the maximum annual income limitation for pensions without such veterans losing the right to continue to receive drugs and medication from the Veterans' Administration.
United States · United States Congress · 11 April 1978
Extends the authorization of appropriations for grants to States for the construction of State home facilities for furnishing nursing home care to veterans.
United States · United States Congress · 11 April 1978
Extends outpatient dental services and treatment for a non-service-connected disability to any war veteran who has a service-connected disability of 100 percent.
United States · United States Congress · 11 April 1978
Extends the authorization of appropriations to fiscal year 1984 for grants to medical schools and other health manpower institutions affiliated with the Veterans' Administration.
United States · United States Congress · 11 April 1978
Extends to fiscal year 1981 the authorization of appropriations to carry out a pilot program for the exchange of medical information between Veterans' Administration facilities and the medical community.
United States · United States Congress · 11 April 1978
Establishes a ten-year program of preventive health care services within the Veterans' Administration. Directs the Administrator of Veterans' Affairs to design and conduct a health maintenance pilot program to demonstrate the medical advantages and cost-effectiveness of providing such services to veterans.
United States · United States Congress · 11 April 1978
Extends until September 30, 1983 the authority: (1) of the Administrator of Veterans' Affairs to maintain an office in the Republic of the Philippines; (2) of the President to authorize the Administrator to enter into contracts with the Veterans' Memorial Medical Center to pay for hospital care and medical services to Commonwealth Army veterans and new Philippine Scouts for service-connected disabilities; (3) to make payments for such care and services; and (4) to appropriate specified sums for the training of health service personnel, for new equipment and the rehabilitation of the Veterans' Memorial Medical Center.
United States · United States Congress · 11 April 1978
Amends the Veterans' Administration Physician and Dentist Pay Comparability Act of 1975 to extend to fiscal year 1979 the authority of the Administrator of Veterans' Affairs to enter into special pay agreements with physicians and dentists employed by the Veterans' Administration Department of Medicine and Surgery.
United States · United States Congress · 20 March 1978
Designates specified lands within the George Washington National Forest in the State of Virginia as wilderness.
United States · United States Congress · 15 March 1978
Expresses the condemnation by the Congress of the March 11, 1978, attack on Israel by the Palestine Liberation Organization, and the expressed intention of the PLO to continue such attacks and to disrupt the peace efforts between Israel and Egypt. Requests the President to make the disapproval of the Congress known to governments approving the PLO attack. Expresses Congressional approval of the peace efforts between Israel and Egypt. Urges other Middle East countries to join such efforts. Declares negotiation to be the best way to bring peace to the Middle East.
United States · United States Congress · 27 February 1978
Authorizes and requests the President to designate annually a week in the first ten days of May as "Pacific/Asian American Heritage Week."
United States · United States Congress · 22 February 1978
Amends Title II (Old-Age, Survivors, and Disability Insurance) of the Social Security Act to eliminate as a basis of eligibility for child's insurance benefits the provision that a stepchild must be living with a stepparent at the time of such child's application for benefits.
United States · United States Congress · 25 January 1978
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to provide that artistic compositions, copyrights, and the like shall not be included in the estate tax valuation of the creator's estate.
United States · United States Congress · 19 January 1978
Directs the payment of expenses, not to exceed $500,000, for investigations and studies to be conducted by the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
United States · United States Congress · 15 December 1977
Declares that there be no reduction of customs duties on textile, apparel, or fiber products and that such products be excluded from the current Tokyo Round of Multilateral Trade Negotiations in Geneva.
United States · United States Congress · 27 October 1977
Confidentiality of Medical Records Act - Prohibits an officer, employee, or agent of the United States or of any Professional Standards Review Organization from inspecting or requiring the disclosure of any individually identifiable medical records unless: (1) the individual (or his agent) who is the subject of the records authorizes inspection or disclosure; (2) such inspection or disclosure is made upon the request of a State official who is authorized under State law to inspect or require the disclosure of such records or of the chief public health official of a State if such official is not specifically prohibited from inspecting or requiring the disclosure of such records under State law; (3) such inspection or disclosure is necessary to meet a medical emergency which poses an immediate threat to human life. Exempts from the coverage of such Act medical records relating to care paid for or provided by an agency of the United States to the extent inspection or disclosure of such records is required: (1) by medical personnel to provide such medical care; (2) by a Professional Standards Review Organization to carry out its review of medical services; (3) to verify payment for medical care; or (4) to investigate or prosecute fraud or abuse in the provision of, or payment for such medical care. Exempts further such medical records to the extent that inspection or disclosure of such records is authorized under Title 10 (Armed Forces) and 38 (Veterans' Benefits) of the United States Code or is required pursuant to a lawful court order or subpoena. Authorizes inspection or disclosure of an individual's medical records only if he (or his agent), in a signed and dated statement, (1) authorizes such inspection or disclosure for a specified period of time; (2) identifies the records that may be inspected or disclosed; (3) specifies the purposes for which the records may be inspected or disclosed; (4) specifies the agencies which may inspect the records. Prescribes criminal penalties for intentional violations of such Act and permits injunctive relief for violations or threatened violations.
United States · United States Congress · 25 October 1977
Authorizes and requests the President to designate the second full week in October 1978 as "National Legal Secretaries' Court Observance Week."
United States · United States Congress · 19 October 1977
Establishes the Yorktown Bicentennial Commission to plan and coordinate the commemoration of the bicentennial of the surrender of Lord Cornwallis at Yorktown. Requires such Commission to submit annual reports to the Congress. Stipulates that such Commission's existence shall terminate no later than December 31, 1983.
United States · United States Congress · 6 October 1977
Amends the National Trails System Act by requiring the Secretary of the Interior to study the feasibility of designating the Overmountain Men Victory Trail in the States of Tennessee, North Carolina, and South Carolina, as a national scenic trail.
United States · United States Congress · 27 September 1977
Expresses the sense of the Congress that any right to, title to, or interest in the property of the United States Government agencies in the Panama Canal Zone or any real property and improvements thereon located in the zone should not be conveyed, relinquished, or otherwise disposed of to any foreign government without specific authorization of such conveyance, relinquishment, or other disposition by any Act of Congress.
United States · United States Congress · 2 August 1977
GI Bill Improvements Act - Title I: GI Bill Rate Increases - Increases the rates of educational assistance, vocational rehabilitation subsistence, survivors' and dependents' educational assistance, flight training, correspondence course, and on-the-job training assistance allowances, and of education loans. Title II: Educational Assistance Program Adjustments - Excludes from the computation, pursuant to the "85-15" rule, of the percentage of students in a course who are receiving Government educational assistance those students whose fees are paid by Federal agencies other than the Veterans' Administration. Exempts from the two-year minimum period of operation rule courses offered on or immediately adjacent to a military base which are available to civilians as well as to active duty military personnel and their dependents, but only when such courses are offered outside the United States. Permits waiver of the two-year minimum period of operation rule for courses offered by branches or extensions of specified educational institutions where the Administrator finds it to be in the best interest of the eligible veteran and the Federal Government. Authorizes the Administrator to permit a person's educational progress to extend a reasonable time beyond the approved length of time without being declared unsatisfactory progress. Lowers from 30 percent to ten percent the disability rating necessary to qualify a disabled veteran for employment and training assistance. Title III: Effective Date - Makes October 1, 1977, the effective date of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 2 August 1977
Denies veterans' benefits retroactively to any individual whose entitlement is based on an upgraded discharge under specified revised standards not made applicable to all persons administratively discharged or released from active military service under less than honorable conditions. Requires the board of review to make a separate determination whether an upgraded individual would have been awarded an upgraded discharge under discharge review standards made applicable to all persons administratively discharged under less than honorable conditions. Entitles to veterans' benefits any individual whose upgraded discharge would have been awarded under previous unrevised review standards. Denies, as of the date of enactment, benefits for any disability incurred or aggravated during a period of service from which a veteran was discharged by reason of a bad conduct discharge. States that the Administrator of Veterans' Affairs should promulgate any new or revised regulations providing any unique or special advantage to veterans who have received upgraded discharges under revised standards, or otherwise make any special distinction between such veterans and other veterans. Expresses the sense of Congress that the President should take all necessary action to provide that less than honorable discharges and releases of former members of the Armed Forces with respect to any period of war be reviewed under specified revised standards, if they have not been so reviewed previously.
United States · United States Congress · 28 July 1977
Denies veterans' benefits retroactively to any individual whose entitlement is based on an upgraded discharge under specified revised standards not made applicable to all persons administratively discharged or released from active service under less than honorable conditions. Requires the board of review to make a separate determination whether an upgraded individual would have been awarded an upgraded discharge under discharge review standards made applicable to all persons administratively discharged under less than honorable conditions. Entitles to veterans' benefits any individual whose upgraded discharge would have been awarded under previous unrevised review standards. Denies benefits as of the date of enactment for any disability incurred or aggravated during a period of service from which a veteran was discharged by reason of a bad conduct discharge. States that the Administrator of Veterans' Affairs should not promulgate any new or revised regulations providing any unique or special advantage to veterans who have received upgraded discharges under revised standards, or otherwise make any special distinction between such veterans and other veterans. Expresses the sense of Congress that the President should take all necessary action to provide that less than honorable discharges and releases of former members of the Armed Forces with respect to any period of war be reviewed under specified revised standards, if they have not been so reviewed previously.
United States · United States Congress · 26 July 1977
Directs the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare to have conducted studies on: (1) toxic or carcinogenic substances in food; and (2) saccharin and other nonnutritive sweeteners. Requires the Secretary to complete such studies within one year and submit reports to the Senate Committee on Human Resources and the House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce. Prohibits the Secretary from banning or restricting the sale of saccharin for 18 months.
United States · United States Congress · 25 July 1977
Directs the Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare to conduct a study to assess (1) current technical capabilities to predict the toxic or carcinogenic effect on humans of substances which have induced cancer in animals; (2) public health benefits and risks of food containing such substances; (3) existing means of evaluating such benefits and risks, and the validity of such analysis; (4) instances in which restrictions on such substances do not accord with benefit-risk analysis; and (5) the relationship between Federal regulatory policies concerning the use of such substances for food and nonfood purposes. Directs the Secretary to request the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences, or other public or private nonprofit organizations, to conduct the study. Directs the Secretary to conduct a study of saccharin and other nonnutritive sweeteners to determine (1) any impurities in saccharin; (2) the toxic and carcinogenic effects of such impurities; and (3) the health benefits of saccharin and other nonnutritive sweeteners. Requires the Secretary to report to the House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce and to the Senate Committee on Human Resources (1) the results of the saccharin study within one year; and (2) the results of the food additives study within 18 months. Prohibits the Secretary from restricting (except for labeling requirements allowed under the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act) the sale or distribution of saccharin, or any food, drug, or cosmetic containing saccharin for 18 months. Authorizes the Secretary to promulgate regulations requiring (1) retail establishments where saccharin, or any drug, food, or cosmetic containing saccharin, is sold to display prominently, during the 18 month period beginning on the date of enactment of this Act, a notice of saccharin's possible health risks; and (2) advertising (printed or electronic) of such saccharin products to contain a statement of the possible health risks of saccharin.
United States · United States Congress · 20 July 1977
Expresses the disapproval of Congress regarding the Federal motor vehicle safety standard transmitted to Congress on June 30, 1977.
United States · United States Congress · 11 July 1977
Designates specified lands within the National Forest System in the State of Virginia as wilderness.
United States · United States Congress · 30 June 1977
Amends the Veterans' Administration Physician and Dentist Pay Comparability Act of 1975 to extend from September 30, 1977, to September 30, 1978 the authority of the Veterans' Administration to enter into special pay agreements with physicians and dentists employed in the Department of Medicine and Surgery. Permits such physicians and dentists to enter into new agreements with the Veterans' Administration for up to four years of additional service in the Department upon completion of the initial period of service.
United States · United States Congress · 30 June 1977
Amends the Veterans' Administration Physician and Dentist Pay Comparability Act of 1975 to extend from September 30, 1977, to September 30, 1978 the authority of the Veterans' Administration to enter into special pay agreements with physicians and dentists employed in the Department of Medicine and Surgery. Permits such physicians and dentists to enter into new agreements with the Veterans' Administration for up to four years of additional service in the Department upon completion of the initial period of service.
United States · United States Congress · 15 June 1977
Restores posthumously full rights of United States citizenship to Jefferson Davis, effective December 5, 1868.
United States · United States Congress · 13 June 1977
Directs the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences to conduct a one-year review and evaluation of all available information respecting the toxicity and carcinogenicity of food additives. Directs that the study include: (1) information respecting the ability to predict the effect on humans of food additives found to cause cancer in animals; and (2) information regarding the desirability of weighing risk and benefits when making regulatory decisions respecting such additives. Requires the Institute to report the results of such evaluation to the Congress and the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare. Directs the Secretary to permit the continued use of saccharin as a food, food additive, drug, or cosmetic for the 18-month period following enactment of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 10 June 1977
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to repeal the carryover basis provisions enacted by the Tax Reform Act which provide that beneficiaries receiving property from a decedent's estate will retain the decedent's basis in the property. Restores prior law which "stepped up" or "stepped down" the property's basis to its market value at the time of death without imposing tax consequences on the appreciation or depreciation the property underwent while held by the decedent.
United States · United States Congress · 9 June 1977
Provides that the income tax treatment of certain transportation expenses between the taxpayer's residence and place of work shall be determined without regard to Revenue Ruling 76-453 or any other ruling, regulation or decision reaching the same result.
United States · United States Congress · 8 June 1977
Stipulates that the recalling to duty and assignment on a full-time basis of any retired member of the armed forces to the American Battle Monuments Commission shall not be chargeable against the authorized end strengths and grade limitations of the Department of Defense or the military departments concerned nor to any administrative ceiling established by the Secretary of Defense.
United States · United States Congress · 8 June 1977
Authorizes the Administrator of Veterans' Affairs to assist in acquiring specially adapted housing for those veterans who have a permanent and total service-connected disability due to the loss, or loss of use, of one upper and one lower extremity, such as to preclude locomotion without the aid of braces, crutches, canes, or a wheelchair.
United States · United States Congress · 1 June 1977
Excludes from eligibility for food stamps under the Food Stamp Act of 1964 any household whose principal wage earner is on strike for the duration of such strike. Excepts a household from this exclusion if it was participating in the food stamp program immediately prior to the start of such strike, or if any of its members is subject to an employer's lockout.
United States · United States Congress · 26 May 1977
Authorizes the President of the United States to issue a proclamation designating May 13 of each year as "American Business Day."
United States · United States Congress · 5 May 1977
Authorizes the President of the United States to designate the week beginning on the Sunday preceding the fourth Thursday in November of each year as "National Family Week".
United States · United States Congress · 27 April 1977
Amends the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to allow the use of a food additive for dietary management of health disorders or disease, even though such additive is found to induce cancer in animals, if the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare determines the benefits to human health of such use outweigh the risks. Directs the Secretary to take into account in making such a determination (1) all scientific data and information on the additive; (2) the scientific validity, analysis, and other conditions concerning the animal testing of such additive; and (3) current knowledge about the reliability of predicting cancer in humans from use of an additive found to induce cancer in animals.
United States · United States Congress · 25 April 1977
Amends the Rules of the House of Representatives to transfer the responsibility for investigating Communist and subversive organizations affecting the internal security of the United States to a standing Committee on Internal Security established by this Resolution. Confers upon such committee the responsibility for investigating all organizations within the United States aimed at overthrowing or altering the Government of the United States by force, insurrection or other unlawful means or inciting or employing violence to obstruct the authority of the Federal Government with respect to matters of internal security of the United States.
United States · United States Congress · 6 April 1977
Amends the Water Resources Development Act of 1976 to delete the requirement that construction of the Potomac River water diversion structure in Maryland and Virginia not conflict with the report of the Secretary of the Army, acting through the Chief of Engineers, on such project.
United States · United States Congress · 5 April 1977
Denies veterans' benefits to an individual whose discharge from military service during the Vietnam era under less than honorable conditions is administratively upgraded, under temporarily revised standards, to discharge under honorable conditions; but only when such veteran's claim for benefits is based solely on such upgraded discharge. Requires the Secretary of the armed service concerned to provide the Administrator of Veterans' Affairs with appropriate records indicating the initial issuance of any discharge or release active service which is upgraded.
United States · United States Congress · 29 March 1977
Amends the Controlled Substances Act to extend for three years the authorization for appropriations for the Department of Justice to carry out the control and enforcement provisions of such Act.