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United States · United States Congress · 29 April 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 · 29 April 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 · 29 April 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 · 29 April 1975
Requires under the Social Security Act that in order for States to be eligible for payments pursuant to title XIX (Medicaid) of the Act, that they must have in effect an agreement with the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare in which the State agrees to carry out a specified inspection program. Directs the Secretary to prescribe such inspection program with respect to public and private nursing and intermediate care facilities to determine if such facilities meet standards affecting the well-being of the patients. Stipulates that the inspection program will include: (1) inspections at least once every three months; (2) making the results of such inspection public; and (3) notification to the facility of any noncompliance with applicable standards. Requires in such agreement with the Secretary that such State undertake to enforce the rights enumerated by this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 29 April 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 · 29 April 1975
Requires under titles XVIII (Medicare) and XIX (Medicaid) of the Social Security Act that only registered professional nurses or licensed practical nurses may set up or distribute medications in skilled nursing facilities.
United States · United States Congress · 29 April 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 · 29 April 1975
Revises titles XVIII (Medicare) and XIX (Medicaid) of the Social Security Act to make unlawful the offer or receipt of consideration for the referral of patients, clients, or customers. Establishes a fine up to $10,000 and/or a jail term of up to one year for violation of this provision.
United States · United States Congress · 29 April 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 · 29 April 1975
Provides for the updating of safety provisions in skilled nursing facilities under title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act.
United States · United States Congress · 29 April 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 to be 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 · 29 April 1975
Allows the States to use supplementary security income payments plus a State supplement of not less than $100 per resident per month to provide care for residents in nonmedical shelter care facilities, if such residents are ambulatory and need only minimum supervision.
United States · United States Congress · 29 April 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 · 29 April 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 · 29 April 1975
Requires under title XVIII (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 · 29 April 1975
Requires minimum ratios for nursing home personnel to patients, and for supervisory nurses to total nurses under titles XVIII (Medicare) and XIX (Medicaid) of the Social Security Act.
United States · United States Congress · 29 April 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 · 29 April 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; and (4) provide for a 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 · 25 April 1975
Authorizes to be appropriated to the President for fiscal year 1975, to remain available until expended, $50,000,000 for the purpose of providing humanitarian assistance to refugees and other needy people who are victims of the conflict in Cambodia. Requires the President to transmit to the Speaker of the House of Representatives and the Committee on Foreign Relations of the Senate a report describing fully and completely: (1) the amount of each type of economic assistance provided under this Act; (2) the expected recipients of such assistance; (3) the names of all organizations and agencies involved in the distribution of such assistance; and (4) the means with which such distribution is carried out.
United States · United States Congress · 24 April 1975
Offender Employment and Training Act - Title I: Federal Penal or Correctional Institutions - Authorizes the National Institute of Corrections from a fund to be established called the Federal Employment and Training Fund, to make grants and loans to, or contract with qualified applicants, establish within or without any Federal penal or correctional institution projects for the purpose of training or employing offenders. Stipulates that no loan or grant shall be made unless the National Institute of Corrections first determines that: (1) offenders shall receive wages at a rate not less than similar workers in the locality; (2) any products or services may be sold just as if non-offenders provided them; (3) the offenders are likely by reason of their involvement in such projects to find employment following their release; (4) benefits, such as unemployment compensation, are available to offenders and non-offenders alike; and (5) deductions from gross wages shall not exceed 80 percent of gross wages. Authorizes annual appropriations to the fund to make its income not less than $10,000,000 in any fiscal year. Provides for the monitoring and evaluation of any project entered into pursuant to this Act by the Comptroller General of the National Institute of Corrections.
United States · United States Congress · 24 April 1975
Provides, under the Voting Rights Act of 1965, that no citizen of the United States who is otherwise qualified to vote in any Federal election shall be denied the right to vote in such election on account of his having been convicted of any crime, if he has served the sentence imposed as punishment therefor, completed any term of parole imposed in connection with such conviction, and is no longer under the jurisdiction of the court with respect to such conviction.
United States · United States Congress · 24 April 1975
Requires that time spent on parole by Federal offenders be credited toward the running of such offenders' sentences if their parole is subsequently revoked.
United States · United States Congress · 24 April 1975
Requires that time spent on parole by District of Columbia offenders be credited toward the running of such offenders' sentences if their parole is subsequently revoked.
United States · United States Congress · 21 April 1975
State Lottery Exemption Act - Exempts State-conducted lotteries, sweepstakes, and wagering pools, as well as vending machines maintained by State agencies for such purposes, from the wagering tax imposed by the Internal Revenue Code.
United States · United States Congress · 17 April 1975
National Venereal Disease Prevention and Control Amendments - States that it is the purpose of this Act to establish, under the National Venereal Disease Prevention and Control Act, a national program for the prevention and control of venereal disease. Authorizes to be appropriated $12,000,000 for fiscal year 1976 and for each of the next four fiscal years for grants to States for projects for the prevention and control of venereal disease. Authorizes to be appropriated $30,000,000 for fiscal year 1976 and for each of the next four fiscal years for grants to States to establish and maintain adequate public health programs for the diagnosis and treatment of venereal disease. Authorizes to be appropriated $45,000,000 for fiscal year 1976 and for each of the next four fiscal years for grants to States for venereal disease surveillance activities and casefinding and case followup activities respecting venereal disease.
United States · United States Congress · 17 April 1975
Federal Handgun Control Act - Defines the term "handgun" as a firearm designed or redesigned to be fired by the use of a single hand, including the parts from which a firearm can be assembled. Excludes antique firearms from the term. Makes it unlawful for any person to import, manufacture, sell, buy, transfer, receive, or transport any handgun which the Secretary of the Treasury has determined to be unsuitable for lawful purposes. States that a handgun which has a barrel of less than six inches in length shall not be approved for lawful purposes. Exempts from the provisions of this Act handguns sold or delivered to designated research facilities and duly commissioned law enforcement officers. Exempts firearms which are designated as curios or relics, and also occasional, sporadic sales by a licensed collector who is not a dealer. Prohibits any person other than a licensed importer, licensed dealer, or licensed manufacturer from knowingly possessing or transferring any handgun unless it is registered with the Secretary under this Act. Permits the Secretary to enter into grant agreements with State agencies who agree to carry out the registration requirements of this Act for handguns within the State. Authorizes appropriations of sums necessary to enable the Secretary to make such grants. Provides that the application for registration shall be filed in such form as the Secretary shall by regulation prescribe, including: (1) the name and address of the applicant; (2) the number of the Federal handgun license issued to the applicant pursuant to this section; (3) the name of the manufacturer, the caliber or gage, the model and the type, and the serial number of the handgun; and (4) the date, place, name and address, of the person from whom the handgun was obtained. Specifies registration fees to be paid by applicants. Makes ineligible for registration any person who: (1) is under 18 years of age; (2) is, because of alcoholism, drug addiction, or mental disease or defect, an individual who cannot possess or use handguns safely or responsibly; (3) has been convicted in any court of a crime punishable by imprisonment for a term exceeding one year; (4) is a fugitive from justice; or (5) is not qualified under all appliable Federal, State, and local laws to register a handgun. Requires notice to the Secretary from a person to whom a handgun registration certificate has been issued under this section if such person changes his address, or transfers possession of a registered handgun. Makes similar provisions for obtaining a Federal handgun license for a handgun and ammunition of a caliber other than .22 rimfire. States that information required to be included in any application, certificate, or license submitted to or issued by the Secretary under this Act shall not be disclosed by him except to the National Crime Information Center established by the FBI, and to law enforcement officers requiring such information in pursuit of their official duties. Prescribes penalties for violations of this Act. Authorizes the payment of compensation for the reasonable value of handguns voluntarily transferred to law enforcement agencies. Provides that the Secretary may prescribe such other rules and regulations as he deems reasonably necessary to carry out the provisions of this Act. Permits the Secretary to declare periods of amnesty for the registration of handguns under this Act or the transfer of handguns to any law enforcement agency. Specifies the effective dates of the provisions of this Act. Authorizes such appropriations as necessary to carry out the purposes of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 17 April 1975
Authorizes and requests the President to issue annually a proclamation designating the first week in May of each year as "Survival Week", in order to focus attention upon the importance of environmental awareness.
United States · United States Congress · 15 April 1975
Federal Grant and Cooperative Agreement Act - Declares the purposes of this Act to be: (1) to characterize Federal/non-Federal relationships in the acquisition of property and services and in the furnishing of assistance by the Federal Government; and (2) to establish Government-wide standards for selection of appropriate legal instruments to achieve uniformity in the use by the executive agencies of such instruments, a clear definition of the relationships they reflect, and a better understanding of the responsibilities of the parties. Requires each executive agency to use a procurement contract as the legal instrument reflecting a relationship between the Federal Government and a State or local government or other recipient whenever the principal purpose of the agreement is the acquisition, by purchase, lease, or barter, of property or services for the direct benefit or use of the Federal Government. Requires each executive agency to use a grant agreement as the legal instrument reflecting a relationship between the Federal Government and a State or local government or other recipient whenever the principal purpose of the relationship is the transfer of money, property, services, or anything of value to the State or local government; and whenever no substantial involvement is anticipated between the executive agency, acting for the Federal Government, and the State or local government or other recipient during performance of the contemplated activity. Requires each executive agency to use a cooperative agreement as the legal instrument reflecting a relationship between the Federal Government and a State or local government or other recipient whenever the principal purpose of the relationship is the transfer of money, and whenever substantial involvement is anticipated between the executive agency, acting for the Federal Government, and the State or local government or other recipient during performance of the comtemplated activity. Directs the Director of the Office of Management and Budget, in cooperation with the executive agencies, to undertake a study to develop a better understanding of alternative means of implementing Federal assistance programs, and to determine the feasibility of developing a comprehensive system of guidance for Federal assistance programs.
United States · United States Congress · 15 April 1975
Export Reorganization Act - Declares it to be the sense of Congress that it is in the interest of the economy and effectiveness of the executive branch, and in the interest of the effectiveness of congressional oversight, to reorganize and centralize certain export licensing functions of the Government in a single agency to which all persons and commercial interests seeking to engage in foreign commerce can apply. States that the licensing of nonmilitary nuclear facilities, material, and technology for export should be made contingent upon a determination that safeguards against theft, diversion and sabotage in recipient nations are at least substantially comparable to the safeguards which are required to obtain a commercial nuclear license in the United States. Transfers to the Secretary of Commerce (1) functions presently performed by the Secretary of State as relate to the approval for export of arms, ammunition, and implements of war; (2) functions of the Secretary of the Treasury under the Trading with the Enemy Act; (3) functions of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission as relate to the issuance of export licenses for atomic energy facilities or materials; and (4) functions of the Administrator of the Energy Research and Development Administration as relate to the approval for export of nonmilitary atomic energy technology. Transfers to the Secretary of State specified functions relating to the development of international agreements for cooperation on atomic energy facilities or materials for use for nonmilitary purposes and nonmilitary atomic energy technology. Authorizes appropriations of sums necessary to establish a training program for persons from countries purchasing atomic energy facilities, to teach the most advanced techniques and technology for materials accounting and physical security. Directs the Commission to furnish a nuclear proliferation assessment statement to the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency for each nuclear materials export license application. Requires the Commission to prepare and transmit to the President and the Congress a report on the safeguards, guidelines and regulations for atomic energy facilities or materials for use for nonmilitary purposes established by the United States and by the International Atomic Energy Agency, with such recommendations for upgrading the safeguards as the Commission deems advisable. Authorizes appropriations of sums necessary to carry out such study. Provides that orders and actions issued pursuant to the functions transferred under this Act shall be subject to judicial review to the same extent as they were immediately prior to such transfer.
United States · United States Congress · 9 April 1975
Endorses the continued presence of the United Nations peacekeeping forces in the Middle East. Urges the extension of the United Nations Emergency Force on the Israeli-Egyptian border and the United Nations Disengagement Forces on the Israeli-Syrian Borders.
United States · United States Congress · 7 April 1975
Intergovernmental Countercyclical Assistance Act - Declares it to be the policy of the United States and the purpose of this Act to make State and local government budget-related actions more consistent with Federal Government efforts to stimulate national economic recovery; to enhance the stimulative effect of a Federal Government income tax reduction; and to enhance the job creation impact of Federal Government public service employment programs. Authorizes the Secretary of the Treasury to make emergency support grants to State and local governments to carry out the purposes of this legislation. Authorizes for each of 12 succeeding calendar quarters (beginning with the first calendar quarter after the date of enactment of this Act) $500,000,000 when the national seasonally adjusted unemployment rate reaches 6 percent plus an additional $250,000,000 for each whole percentage point over 6 percent of the national seasonally adjusted unemployment rate for the preceding calendar quarter. Provides that no funds would be authorized for any calendar quarter during which the national unemployment rate was under 6 percent. Provides that the Secretary of the Treasury shall reserve one-third of the authorized funds for distribution to State governments and two-thirds of the authorized funds for distribution to local governments. Directs the allocation of assistance to State governments. Specifies State allocations would be made two-thirds on the basis of its unemployment and one-third on the basis of its adjusted taxes. States that in each case, the particular State's unemployment (in numbers) and its taxes raised would be compared to national totals, with the unemployment percentage weighted double. Provides for the allocation to local governments which would be made according to the same formula as for State governments. Provides that grants under this program should be used for the maintenance of basic services ordinarily provided by the State and local governments and that State and local governments shall not use funds received under this Act for the acquisition of supplies and materials or for construction unless essential to maintain basic services. Establishes an application procedure for State governments and identifiable local governments eligible to receive assistance under this Act. Requires that each application shall: (1) include the applying government's program for maintenance, to the extent practicable, of levels of employment and basic services that it customarily provides; (2) in the case of a State government, provide assurance that it will not reduce the total amount of financial assistance, in dollars, which it provides to local governments within its boundaries; (3) provide that necessary fiscal control and fund accounting procedures will be established to assure proper disbursal, and accounting for, Federal funds paid to State and local governments under this Act; (4) provide that reasonable reports will be furnished as the Secretary of the Treasury may require and that the Secretary of the Treasury has access to the records he needs to verify those reports; (5) provide that the nondiscrimination requirements of this legislation will be complied with; (6) provide that labor standards and wage requirements of this Act be complied with; (7) provide that the Act's requirements that governments receiving assistance under this Act report tax changes and changes in levels of services provided to the Secretary of the Treasury be complied with; and (8) provide that all funds received under this Act be expended by the recipient State or local government within 12 months of the time it is received. Provides that applications for payment of funds to other local governments shall be filed by the States. Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to approve any application which meets the requirements of this Act within 30 days and to not finally disapprove, in whole or in part, any application for an emergency support grant under this Act without first affording the State or local government reasonable notice and an opportunity for a hearing. Requires that no person shall, on the grounds of race, color, national origin, or sex be excluded from participation in, be denied the benefits of, or be subject to discrimination under, any program or activity funded in whole or in part with employment made available under this Act. States that laborers and mechanics employed by contractors on all substantial repair renovation construction programs funded under this Act be paid wages at rates not less than those prevailing on similar projects in the locality as determined by the Secretary of Labor under the Davis-Bacon Act. Directs that each State or local government which receives a grant under this Act shall report to the Secretary, within 30 days, any increase or decrease in any tax which it imposes and substantial reductions in employment levels or in services which that jurisdiction provides. Gives the Secretary of the Treasury the authority to make payments from the funds authorized under this Act. Provides that no fund be paid to any State or local government under this Act for any calendar quarter if the unemployment rate within that jurisdiction during the previous calendar quarter was less than 6 percent. Requires the Secretary of the Treasury to withhold funds from any jurisdiction which fails to comply substantially with any of the provisions set forth in the application it submitted for funds under this Act. Requires the Secretary of the Treasury to report as soon as practical after the end of each calendar quarter on the implementation of the program. Authorizes the Secretary of the Treasury, after consultation with the Secretary of Labor, to prescribe such rules as may be necessary to carry out this Act. Provides the Secretary of the Treasury with the authority to use services and facilities of any agency of the Federal government and of any other public agency or institution in accordance with appropriate agreements and to pay for such services either in advance or by way of reimbursement as may be agreed upon.
United States · United States Congress · 26 March 1975
Women's Equal Educational Opportunity Act - Requires, under the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) of 1965, that State plans for Title II school library and textbook grants set forth nonsexist criteria to be used in the selection of library resources, textbooks and other instructional materials provided under Title II. Requires that such State plans provide assurances that Federal funds made available under such Act for any fiscal year shall be used, on a priority basis and where possible, in the acquisition of non-sexist library resources, textbooks and other instructional materials. Allows funds under ESEA's Title III (Supplementary Educational Centers and Service) to be used for demonstration projects promoting new approaches to expand educational opportunities for women, including comprehensive physical education programs and sports activities for women. States that not less than 15 percent of the funds granted under ESEA in any fiscal year shall be used for programs or projects designed to meet the special educational needs of women. Allows, under ESEA's Title V (Grants to Strengthen State Departments of Education), funds apportioned to the States to be used for programs promoting equal educational opportunities for women, the elimination, reduction or prevention of sex discrimination in education and public information activities to increase the awareness of educational personnel and the public concerning problems relating to sex discrimination. Requires that in using funds reserved for special projects to develop State leadership in education, priority consideration be given to projects designed to increase the proportion of women in leadership positions. Authorizes funds for the improvement of post-secondary education activities designed to improve the status of women in post-secondary education. Specifies programs to meet the needs of women as one of the methods by which the National Institute of Education shall seek to improve education. Requires, under the Higher Education Act (HEA) of 1965, that consideration be given to the capability and willingness of institutions of higher education to provide effective community service programs designed to improve the status of women. Expands the uses of HEA funds to include programs designed to increase the proportion of women serving as school administrators, and programs to train teachers and other personnel. Expands the criteria for making leadership development awards to include encouraging the participation of women in vocational education administration, and fields traditionally dominated by the opposite sex. Increases, under the Voacational Education Act (VEA) of 1963, the eligible purposes of grants for State vocational education programs to include the training of students of both sexes for occupations dominated by the other sex. Requires that State plans consider the need to ensure the training of students for occupations traditionally dominated by one sex. Expands VEA programs to include occupational aspirations and opportunities by eliminating barriers based on sex. Requires that State plans under VEA include provisions for all persons who have use for skills relating to the establishment and maintenance of the home. Includes, under VEA, the development and dissemination of vocational educational materials which increase awareness of the changing role of women in the world of work and also requires that curriculum materials developed or disseminated under VEA be fee of sex biases.
United States · United States Congress · 26 March 1975
Right to Financial Privacy Act - States that the purposes of this Act are to protect and preserve the confidential relationship between financial institutions and their customers and the constitutional rights of those customers, and promote commerce by prescribing policies and procedures to insure that customers have the same right to protection against unwarranted disclosure of customer records as if the records were in their possession. Prohibits any Federal agency or employee, or any State or local government from obtaining copies of, access to, or the information contained in, the financial records of any customer from a financial institution unless the financial records are described with particularity and: (1) such customer has authorized such disclosure in accordance with this Act; (2) such financial records are disclosed in response to an administrative subpena or summons; (3) such financial records are disclosed in response to a court order; or (4) such financial records are disclosed in response to a judicial subpena. States that no financial institution may provide a Federal agency or employee, or any State or local government, copies of or the information contained in the financial records of any customer except in accordance with the requirements of this Act. Sets forth provisions governing customer authorization, administrative subpenas and summons and judicial subpenas. Provides that the Secretary of the Treasury may not require an institution to maintain any financial records or to transmit any reports relating to customers unless: (1) such records are required for use by a supervisory agency in the supervision of that institution; or (2) such records are required to be maintained by the Internal Revenue Code. Prescribes civil and criminal penalties for violation of the provisions of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 26 March 1975
Designates the week beginning April 7, 1975, as "National Drafting Week".
United States · United States Congress · 26 March 1975
Designates the second week in May as "Municipal Clerks' Week".
United States · United States Congress · 21 March 1975
Open Communications Act - States that each agency official of the Federal Government shall prepare a record of communications maintained for summary disclosure for each oral or written communication initiated by persons outside the agency during the pre-adjudicative stages of an agency proceeding or pertaining to a substantive policy matter before the agency, except any such communication from informants or members of the working press. Provides for public filing of such communications within 5 days of receipt. Provides criminal penalties for officials of agencies who violate the filing requirements of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 20 March 1975
Revises the Federal Property and Administrative Services Act of 1949 by authorizing the Administrator of General Services to enter into multiyear contracts through use of the automatic data processing fund and to incur or authorize obligations in excess of the amount available in the fund, with specified exceptions.
United States · United States Congress · 20 March 1975
Sets forth standards, relating to the rights of patients under the General Provisions of the Social Security Act, to be met by intermediate care facilities participating in programs under title XVIII (Medicare) and title XIX (Medicaid) of such Act. Provides that the statement of rights required to be adopted by such facilities shall include guarantees: (1) that the patient's civil and religious liberties will not be infringed; (2) that the patient has the right to private communications with his physician, attorney, or any other person; and (3) that the patient has the right to have privacy in treatment and in caring for personal needs and confidentiality in the treatment of personal and medical records.
United States · United States Congress · 20 March 1975
Revises title XI (General Provisions), title XVIII (Medicare), and title XIX (Medicaid) of the Social Security Act to make permanent specified provisions relating to inspections of long-term care institutions, including skilled nursing facilities. Provides for the publication of specified information regarding such institutions, and requires that such institutions provide training for their nonprofessional employees as a condition of participation in the medicare and medicaid programs.
United States · United States Congress · 20 March 1975
Provides grants to long-term care facilities under the Social Security Act. Directs that grants defray 100 percent of the reasonable cost incurred by such facilities in establishing and carrying out a rehabilitative services program for inpatients. Authorizes appropriations for each fiscal year of such sums as are necessary to carry out the provisions of this Act. Withholds, under titles XVIII (Medicare) and XIX (Medicaid) of the Social Security Act, Federal funds from long-term care facilities which do not have in effect a rehabilitative services program.
United States · United States Congress · 20 March 1975
Directs the Secretary of Defense to establish a number of military discharge review boards. Sets forth the qualifications, terms of office, and rates of compensation for members of such boards. Makes it the duty of the boards to review any discharge of dismissal from the Armed Forces granted under less than honorable conditions to any person who served on active duty. Requires that in reviewing the discharge of dismissal of any former member of the Armed Forces, a review board shall determine whether such discharge was fair and equitable, taking into consideration all of the circumstances of the case. Requires that in making such determination a review board shall consider specified mitigating circumstances. Sets forth the conduct and procedures for discharge hearings. Directs the Secretary of Defense to formulate and carry out a public information program designed to inform former members of the Armed Forces of the new discharge review provided for in this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 20 March 1975
States that as a condition of approval of a State plan under title XIX (Medicaid) of the Social Security Act, the requirement is imposed that: (1) in determining, for purposes of the administration of the State plan, the need for continued care in a particular skilled nursing facility or intermediate care facility (which provides services for which payment may be made under the State plan) of an individual who is entitled to medical assistance under the State plan, and has, for a period of 120 days or more, been an inpatient of such facility, a determination which would result in discharge or transfer from such facility shall be made only if in the judgment of a physician, after consultation with other appropriate professional personnel, such discharge or transfer would be in the best interest of such individual's physical and mental health; (2) in making such judgment and such determination proper consideration shall be given, not only to the mental and physical condition of such individual, but also to the capability of the facility to meet his particular needs, and to the impact which discharge or transfer from the particular facility would, as a practical matter, have on his general well-being in light of his age, length of stay in the facility, family situation, mental attitude, and other relevant factors; and (3) the State agency shall take appropriate affirmative action to assure that any individual discharged or transferred from a facility shall have the benefit of a planned program of information and counseling concerning such discharge or transfer designed to assist him in adjusting to the change in his care and surroundings and to minimize the personal stress which may accompany such change. Requires the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare to conduct, on a continuing basis in all States with plans approved under this title, investigative and oversight activities designed to determine whether there exists any basis to support a finding: (1) that the plan has been so changed that it no longer complies with the provisions of this title; and (2) that in the administration of the plan there is a failure to comply substantially with any such provision. Provides that when such activities result in observations indicating that there does exist a reasonable basis for such a finding, the Secretary shall call upon the State agency to appear at a public hearing, scheduled so as to allow reasonable notice to the State agency, to give an accounting of its administration of the plan with respect to those matters in which the Secretary has found indications of noncompliance.
United States · United States Congress · 20 March 1975
Authorizes the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, in consultation with the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare, under the National Housing Act, to provide insurance for loans to finance improvements to long-term care facilities required to correct deficiencies identified in State surveys and Federal certification procedures.
United States · United States Congress · 20 March 1975
Provides for the establishment, under title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act, of a Nursing Home Affairs Advisory Council to advise the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare on ways to improve the quality of care provided by long-term care facilities receiving payments under this title or title XIX (Medicaid).
United States · United States Congress · 20 March 1975
Revises the provisions of the Older Americans Act relating to long-term care facilities to place special emphasis on the establishment and expansion of home health services and to strengthen access by the community to long-term care facilities. Requires State agencies to establish and maintain an ombudsman office which will receive and investigate complaints from residents, patients, and the relatives and friends of residents and patients in long- term care facilities.
United States · United States Congress · 20 March 1975
Authorizes the President to designate the period from June 8, 1975, through June 15, 1975, as "National Wheelchair Athletes' Week".
United States · United States Congress · 13 March 1975
Expresses the sense of the Senate that the President submit to the Congress a plan for: (1) maintaining close watch over investigations of nursing home abuses; (2) reporting to local, State and Federal law enforcement and health care officials on possible linkages between scandals or problems in or among the States or localities; and (3) developing better care and cost controls. Establishes a mulitagency task force to implement the plan and to report regularly to the Congress upon its progress.
United States · United States Congress · 12 March 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 · 12 March 1975
Requires any nursing home, which provides services under State plans approved under title XIX (Medicaid) of the Social Security Act, to fully 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 · 12 March 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 1976 and $5,000,000 for each of the next three fiscal years to carry out the provisions of this Act.