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| 94-hr-15843 | 94 | hr | 15843 | National School-Age Mother and Child Health Act | Health | 1976-10-01 | 1976-10-01 | Referred to House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce. | House | Rep. Baucus, Max [D-MT-1] | MT | D | B000243 | 0 | National School-Age Mother and Child Health Act - Amends the Public Health Service Act to authorize the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare to make grants to designated State agencies to meet part of the cost of planning and coordinating services for school age girls and their children. Sets forth requirements which the State plans must meet before receiving such grants, including: comprehensive health care to school-age girls (associated with the continuation of pregnancy) and to their children, family planning and counseling, infant and child day care and a coordinated program of social services. Prohibits the collection by, or submission to the Federal or State Government of identifying information of persons receiving services under this program. Authorizes the appropriation of $30,000,000 for fiscal year 1977 and for each of the next two succeeding fiscal years to carry out the purposes of this Act. Establishes a unit within the Maternal and Child Health Service of the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare to administer and coordinate the program established by this Act. | 2025-09-02T18:49:59Z | |
| 94-s-3897 | 94 | s | 3897 | Comprehensive Maternal and Child Health Protection Act | Health | 1976-10-01 | 1976-10-01 | Referred to Senate Committee on Labor and Public Welfare. | Senate | Sen. Hart, Gary W. [D-CO] | CO | D | H000287 | 0 | Comprehensive Maternal and Child Health Protection Act - Establishes a comprehensive system of health care services for children and pregnant women. Title I: Comprehensive Maternal and Child Health Protection Benefits - Provides that every pregnant woman and every child residing in the United States who is a legal resident or a citizen of the United States or the spouse of a legal resident or a citizen of the United States shall be eligible for benefits under this Act. Entitles an eligible child under this Act to receive from his provider either directly or indirectly all health care services related to the diagnosis and treatment of any disease, injury, or disability, as well as any other health care services necessary for the adequate protection, maintenance, or restoration of his mental and physical health. Specifies that women eligible under this title shall be provided all health care services related to the diagnosis and treatment of pregnancy, disease or injury during pregnancy which could threaten the healthy development of the unborn child; and any injury, disability, or disease relating to or resulting from pregnancy that occurs during the 12 weeks immediately following the termination of a pregnancy, including but not limited to the mental well-being of the woman. Sets forth requirements for participating providers. Establishes guidelines for the method and amount of payment to providers. Establishes in the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare a Maternal and Child Health Protection Board to be composed of five members. Directs the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare, acting through the Board, to establish capitation rates to be paid to participating providers, to establish standards and qualifications for participating providers, and to monitor and study the operation of the provisions of this Act with special emphasis with regard to the provision of health services to eligible persons. Establishes the position of Executive Director of the Maternal and Child Health Protection Boar… | 2025-09-02T18:52:38Z | |
| 94-hr-15776 | 94 | hr | 15776 | Comprehensive Right-to-Quality Medical Care Act | Health | 1976-09-30 | 1976-09-30 | Referred to House Committee on Rules. | House | Rep. Crane, Philip M. [R-IL-12] | IL | R | C000873 | 5 | Comprehensive Right-to-Quality Medical Care Act - Requires that any Federal officer or agency proposing any health care regulation submit such regulation to each House of Congress together with a report containing a full explanation thereof. Allows either House of Congress to keep the proposed regulation from becoming effective by adopting a resolution disapproving the regulation because: (1) it contains provisions contrary to law; (2) it is inconsistent with the intent of Congress; or (3) it goes beyond the mandate of the legislation which it is designed to implement or in the administration of which it is designed to be used. Establishes rules for the consideration of any resolution regarding such proposed regulations. Requires the head of any Federal agency or department, at least 60 days prior to the initial publication of any health cost regulation, to submit notice of intended publication and the text of such regulation to the appropriate committees of the House of Representatives and the Senate. Amends the Social Security Act to repeal specified Medicare utilization review provisions, specified utilization review provisions and maternal and child health programs, and specified professional standards review provisions. Guarantees the confidentiality of medical records of any patient whose medical or dental care is not paid by the Federal Government, under a Federal program, or by any program receiving Federal financial assistance, unless such patient has authorized such disclosure. | 2025-09-02T18:50:01Z | |
| 94-hr-15733 | 94 | hr | 15733 | Comprehensive Medical Practice Act | Health | 1976-09-28 | 1976-09-28 | Referred to House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce. | House | Rep. Maguire, Andrew [D-NJ-7] | NJ | D | M000058 | 4 | Comprehensive Medical Practice Act - Amends the Public Health Service Act to add "Title XVII - Comprehensive Medical Practices." Defines a 'comprehensive medical practice' as a legal entity which: (1) provides medical services through health professionals licensed to practice medicine or osteopathy, a specified number of whom engage in family medicine, primary pediatrics, or primary internal medicine; (2) offers a comprehensive variety of medical services reasonably expected to meet the majority of medical needs of the area it serves; (3) offers each patient an individual health professional primarily responsible for the continuity of care of such individual by the entity; (4) shares equipment, facilities, and persnonnel among its member; (5) meets applicable accreditation standards; and (6) maintains an information program for the residents of its service area, such program fully disclosing the services offered, the fees charged, and the method of resolving billing or medical services grievances. Authorizes the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare to make grants to entities for activities to determine the feasibility of developing, operating, or expanding comprehensive medical practices. Authorizes the Secretary to make grants, contracts, and loan guarantees for planning, initial development, and initial operation costs for such practices. Establishes in the Treasury a loan guarantee fund to be available to the Secretary without fiscal year limitation for the discharge of the Secretary's loan guarantee responsibilities under this Act. Authorizes the appropriation, from time to time, of such amounts as may be necessary for purposes of such fund. Establishes in the Treasury a loan fund to be available to the Secretary without fiscal year limitation to enable the Secretary to make loans under this Act. Authorizes the appropriation of specified sums in fiscal years 1978 through 1980 to carry out the provisions of this Act. Authorizes the Secretary to make available to insurers reinsurance against claim… | 2025-09-02T18:49:59Z | |
| 94-hr-15737 | 94 | hr | 15737 | Biomedical Research and Medical Technology Protection Act | Health | 1976-09-28 | 1976-09-28 | Referred to House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce. | House | Rep. Waxman, Henry A. [D-CA-24] | CA | D | W000215 | 6 | Biomedical Research and Medical Technology Protection Act - Amends the Public Health Service Act to establish the National Commission on the Implications of Biomedical Research and Medical Technology. States that the President by and with the advice and consent of the Senate shall appoint 15 members from individuals engaged in the advancement of biomedical research and from sectors of society affected by advances in such research. Provides that such members shall serve for a term of four years. Directs the Commission to undertake continuing and periodic studies to analyze and evaluate the ethical, social, medical, economic, and legal implications of advances in biomedical research and medical technology. Specifies that the Commission's studies shall include the following: (1) the development of a model research subjects' bill of rights; (2) a review and evaluation of current laws and practices affecting the rights of patients in hospitals, nursing homes, and other health care institutions; (3) a study of the public implications of Federal financing under title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act; (4) a review of practices governing maintenance of medical records on subjects of biomedical and behavioral research; (5) an evaluation of the need for and recommendations concerning the development of uniform medical records systems; (6) a review of the appropriateness of current laws and practices governing the conduct of clinical testing of drugs, devices, and diagnostic techniques and therapeutic procedures; and (7) a study of the public implications of research in genetics, including research on DNA recombinance. Provides that the Commission shall advise, consult with, and make recommendations to, Federal agencies concerning the support and application of biomedical research and advances in medical technology. Directs the Commission to publish an annual report summarizing the activities and studies conducted by the Commission during the preceding year. | 2025-09-02T18:49:59Z | |
| 94-hr-15705 | 94 | hr | 15705 | National Digestive Diseases Act | Health | 1976-09-27 | 1976-09-27 | Referred to House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce. | House | Rep. Gude, Gilbert [R-MD-8] | MD | R | G000513 | 0 | National Digestive Diseases Act - Directs the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare to establish a National Commission on Digestive Diseases. Directs the Commission to develop and recommend a long-range plan for the use of national resources to deal with digestive diseases, such plan to include provisions for: (1) research studies into the biological process related to digestive diseases; (2) investigations into the epidemiology, etiology, diagnosis, treatment, prevention, and control of such diseases; (3) development of coordinated health care systems to combat digestive diseases; and (4) education and training of scientists, clinicians, educators, and allied health professionals in fields related to digestive diseases. Directs the Commission to make a final report to Congress within 18 months of its initial meeting, such report to include the projected costs of implementing programs to combat digestive diseases, legislative recommendations, and a long-range plan for dealing with such diseases. Authorizes the appropriation of $1,500,000, without fiscal year limitation, to carry out the purposes of the Commission set forth in this Act. Directs the Secretary to establish a Coordinating Committee for Digestive Diseases to improve coordination among Federal agencies in the research, training, control, and treatment of digestive diseases. | 2025-09-02T18:49:59Z | |
| 94-hr-15641 | 94 | hr | 15641 | Arthritis, Diabetes, and Digestive Disease Amendments | Health | 1976-09-20 | 1976-09-20 | Referred to House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce. | House | Rep. Rogers, Paul G. [D-FL-11] | FL | D | R000401 | 11 | Arthritis, Diabetes, and Digestive Disease Amendments - Title I: Arthritis and Related Musculoskeletal Diseases - Amends the Public Health Service Act to repeal the authority of the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare to make grants to establish and support projects for the development and demonstration of methods for arthritis prevention. Stipulates that projects for the development and demonstration of arthritis screening, detection, and referral methods shall emphasize new and improved methods for dissemination of information to the general public. Authorizes the appropriation of $3,000,000 for fiscal year 1978, $4,000,000 for fiscal year 1979, and $5,000,000 for fiscal year 1980 for arthritis screening, detection, and referral data system demonstration projects. Amends the Public Health Service Act to require that arthritis centers established under such Act conduct arthritis research training programs for physicians and other health professionals. Authorizes the appropriation of $18,700,000 for fiscal year 1978, $19,000,000 for fiscal year 1979, and $20,000,000 for fiscal year 1980 to arthritis centers for arthritis screening, detection, and referral demonstration projects. Directs the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare to establish a National Arthritis Advisory Board to: (1) review and evaluate the Arthritis Plan formulated under the National Arthritis Act of 1974; and (2) assure the most effective utilization and organization of arthritis resources. Makes provision for staffing and compensation of the Board. Authorizes the appropriation of $100,000 each year for fiscal years 1978, 1979, and 1980 to carry out the activities of the Board. Title II: Diabetes - Directs the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare to establish a National Diabetes Advisory Board to insure the implementation of the long-range plan formulated by the National Commission on Diabetes under the National Diabetes Mellitus Research and Education Act to combat diabetes. Specifies 11 Federal health officers as memb… | 2025-09-02T18:49:53Z | |
| 94-hr-15595 | 94 | hr | 15595 | A bill to repeal titles XV and XVI of the Public Health Service Act. | Health | 1976-09-16 | 1976-09-16 | Referred to House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce. | House | Rep. Steelman, Alan [R-TX-5] | TX | R | S000841 | 0 | Repeals the National Health Planning and Resources Development Act of 1974. | 2024-08-01T19:33:27Z | |
| 94-hr-15599 | 94 | hr | 15599 | National School-Age Mother and Child Health Act | Health | 1976-09-16 | 1976-09-16 | Referred to House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce. | House | Rep. Reuss, Henry S. [D-WI-5] | WI | D | R000165 | 0 | National School-Age Mother and Child Health Act - Amends the Public Health Service Act to authorize the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare to make grants to designated State agencies to meet part of the cost of planning and coordinating services for school age girls and their children. Sets forth requirements which the State plans must meet before receiving such grants, including: comprehensive health care to school-age girls (associated with the continuation of pregnancy) and to their children, family planning and counseling, infant and child day care and a coordinated program of social services. Prohibits the collection by, or submission to the Federal or State Government of identifying information of persons receiving services under this program. Authorizes the appropriation of $30,000,000 for fiscal year 1977 and for each of the next two succeeding fiscal years to carry out the purposes of this Act. Establishes a unit within the Maternal and Child Health Service of the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare to administer and coordinate the program established by this Act. | 2025-09-02T18:49:53Z | |
| 94-hr-15543 | 94 | hr | 15543 | National Commission for the Protection of Human Subjects of Biomedical and Behavioral Programs Act | Health | 1976-09-13 | 1976-09-13 | Referred to House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce. | House | Rep. Rogers, Paul G. [D-FL-11] | FL | D | R000401 | 7 | National Commission for the Protection of Human Subjects of Biomedical and Behavioral Programs Act - Amends the Public Health Service Act by establishing the National Commission for the Protection of Human Subjects of Biomedical and Behavioral Programs. Specifies that the 12 members of the Commission shall be appointed by the President from individuals distinguished in specified fields including medicine, law, ethics, theology, philosophy, and the humanities with no more than five members being selected from individuals who are or have been engaged in biomedical or behavioral research involving human subjects. Provides that the Commission may undertake, or contract for the undertaking of, studies on the protection of human subjects of biomedical and behavioral programs and on research activities (such as research on recombinant DNA) which have or are likely to have significant implications for human health, as it deems appropriate. Requires the Commission's study to include the following: (1) identification of the basic ethic principles which should underlie the conduct of biomedical and behavioral research involving human subjects; (2) identification of the requirements for an individual who is a child, prisoner, member of the Armed Forces, institutionalized because of mental illness retardation, or his legal representative, to give informed consent to such individual's participation in biomedical and behavioral research conducted, supported or regulated by a Federal agency; (3) a study of past, present, and projected research in the modification of any living organism or virus by insertion of recombinant DNA molecules, the ethical, social, legal, and economic implications of such research; and the potential hazards posed by such research to the research personnel, the human subjects of such research, and the public at large; (4) a study of the scope and extent of personal injuries to, or death of, human subjects in the course of biomedical and behavioral research; (5) an identification of the basic ethical pr… | 2025-09-02T18:49:47Z | |
| 94-hr-15523 | 94 | hr | 15523 | A bill to amend the Public Health Service Act to provide special allowances to certain physicians employed by the United States in order to enhance the recruitment and retention of such physicians. | Health | 1976-09-10 | 1976-09-10 | Referred to House Committee on Post Office and Civil Service. | House | Rep. Lott, Trent [R-MS-5] | MS | R | L000447 | 0 | Amends the Public Health Service Act to entitle physicians employed by the Federal Government to a professional allowance in addition to basic pay. Authorizes Federal agencies to enter into service agreements with prospective government physicians whereby the Physician is paid a bonus of up to $5,800 annually in return for agreeing to work a specified number of years in such agency. | 2024-08-01T19:33:20Z | |
| 94-hr-15500 | 94 | hr | 15500 | National Diabetes Advisory Board Act | Health | 1976-09-09 | 1976-09-09 | Referred to House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce. | House | Rep. Carter, Tim Lee [R-KY-5] | KY | R | C000201 | 5 | National Diabetes Advisory Board Act - Directs the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare to establish a National Diabetes Advisory Board to insure the implementation of the long-range plan formulated by the National Commission on Diabetes to combat diabetes. Specifies seven Federal health officers as members of the Board, in addition to seven health professionals and five members of the general public to be appointed by the Secretary. Makes provision for staffing and compensation. Authorizes the Board to enter into contracts or other arrangements, or to take such other action as may be necessary to carry out its functions. Authorizes the Board to engage in and sponsor activities, collect data, and provide technical assistance as it deems necessary and advisable in the performance of its functions. Requires the Board to submit simultaneously to the President and Congress an Annual Diabetes Report describing Board activities in the prior year and progress made in diabetes research, treatment, and education with specific reference to the long-range plan to combat diabetes mellitus and suggesting recommended future expenditures and legislation. Authorizes the appropriation of $500,000 for fiscal year 1976 and such sums as are necessary for each of the four fiscal years thereafter. Authorizes the Secretary to make distinguished scientist awards to individual scientists who have shown continuous and outstanding productivity in diabetes research for the purpose of continuing such research. Limits the amount of each grant to no more than $35,000 per year. Authorizes the appropriation of specified amounts for the purpose of making such grants in fiscal years 1976-1980. Authorizes, under the Public Health Service Act, the appropriation of specified sums in fiscal years 1977-1981 for the purpose of making grants to centers for research and training in diabetes mellitus and related endocrine and metabolic disorders. | 2025-09-02T18:49:47Z | |
| 94-hr-15504 | 94 | hr | 15504 | A bill to repeal title XV and XVI of the Public Health Services Act. | Health | 1976-09-09 | 1976-09-09 | Referred to House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce. | House | Rep. Teague, Olin E. [D-TX-6] | TX | D | T000110 | 0 | Repeals the National Health Planning and Resources Development Act of 1974. | 2024-08-01T19:33:18Z | |
| 94-hr-15472 | 94 | hr | 15472 | Biomedical Research and Medical Technology Protection Act | Health | 1976-09-08 | 1976-09-08 | Referred to House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce. | House | Rep. Waxman, Henry A. [D-CA-24] | CA | D | W000215 | 0 | Biomedical Research and Medical Technology Protection Act - Amends the Public Health Service Act to establish the National Commission on the Implications of Biomedical Research and Medical Technology. States that the President by and with the advice and consent of the Senate shall appoint 15 members from individuals engaged in the advancement of biomedical research and from sectors of society affected by advances in such research. Provides that such members shall serve for a term of four years. Directs the Commission to undertake continuing and periodic studies to analyze and evaluate the ethical, social, medical, economic, and legal implications of advances in biomedical research and medical technology. Specifies that the Commission's studies shall include the following: (1) the development of a model research subjects' bill of rights; (2) a review and evaluation of current laws and practices affecting the rights of patients in hospitals, nursing homes, and other health care institutions; (3) a study of the public implications of Federal financing under title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act; (4) a review of practices governing maintenance of medical records on subjects of biomedical and behavioral research; (5) an evaluation of the need for and recommendations concerning the development of uniform medical records systems; (6) a review of the appropriateness of current laws and practices governing the conduct of clinical testing of drugs, devices, and diagnostic techniques and therapeutic procedures; and (7) a study of the public implications of research in genetics, including research on DNA recombinance. Provides that the Commission shall advise, consult with, and make recommendations to, Federal agencies concerning the support and application of biomedical research and advances in medical technology. Directs the Commission to publish an annual report summarizing the activities and studies conducted by the Commission during the preceding year. | 2025-09-02T18:49:47Z | |
| 94-hr-15414 | 94 | hr | 15414 | National School-Age Mother and Child Health Act | Health | 1976-09-02 | 1976-09-02 | Referred to House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce. | House | Rep. Nolan, Richard M. [D-MN-6] | MN | D | N000127 | 0 | National School-Age Mother and Child Health Act - Amends the Public Health Service Act to direct the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare to make grants to designated State agencies to meet part of the cost of planning and coordinating services for school age girls and their children. Sets forth requirements which the State plans must meet before receiving such grants, including: comprehensive health care to school-age girls (associated with the continuation of pregnancy) and to their children, family planning and counseling, infant and child day care and a coordinated program of social services. Prohibits the collection by, or submission to, the Federal or State Government of identifying information of persons receiving services under this program. Authorizes the appropriation of $30,000,000 for fiscal year 1978 and for each of the next two succeeding fiscal years to carry out the purposes of this Act. Establishes a unit within the Maternal and Child Health Service of the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare to administer and coordinate the program established by this Act. | 2025-09-02T18:49:47Z | |
| 94-hr-15346 | 94 | hr | 15346 | Arthritis, Diabetes, and Digestive Disease Amendments | Health | 1976-08-31 | 1976-08-31 | Referred to House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce. | House | Rep. Rogers, Paul G. [D-FL-11] | FL | D | R000401 | 11 | Arthritis, Diabetes, and Digestive Disease Amendments - Title I: Arthritis and Related Musculoskeletal Diseases - Amends the Public Health Service Act to repeal the authority of the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare to make grants to establish and support projects for the development and demonstration of methods for arthritis prevention. Stipulates that projects for the development and demonstration of arthritis screening, detection, and referral methods shall emphasize new and improved methods for dissemination of information to the general public. Authorizes the appropriation of $3,000,000 for fiscal year 1978, $4,000,000 for fiscal year 1979, and $5,000,000 for fiscal year 1980 for arthritis screening, detection, and referral data system demonstration projects. Amends the Public Health Service Act to require that arthritis centers established under such Act conduct arthritis research training programs for physicians and other health professionals. Authorizes the appropriation of $18,700,000 for fiscal year 1978, $19,000,000 for fiscal year 1979, and $20,000,000 for fiscal year 1980 to arthritis centers for arthritis screening, detection, and referral demonstration projects. Directs the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare to establish a National Arthritis Advisory Board to: (1) review and evaluate the Arthritis Plan formulated under the National Arthritis Act of 1974; and (2) assure the most effective utilization and organization of arthritis resources. Makes provision for staffing and compensation of the Board. Authorizes the appropriation of $100,000 for fiscal year 1978 and such sums as may be necessary for each of the following two fiscal years to carry out the activities of the Board. Title II: Diabetes - Directs the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare to establish a National Diabetes Advisory Board to insure the implementation of the long-range plan formulated by the National Commission on Diabetes under the National Diabetes Mellitus Research and Education Act to combat diab… | 2025-09-02T18:49:47Z | |
| 94-hr-15312 | 94 | hr | 15312 | A bill to repeal titles XV and XVI of the Public Health Service Act. | Health | 1976-08-30 | 1976-08-30 | Referred to House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce. | House | Rep. Davis, Mendel J. [D-SC-1] | SC | D | D000125 | 0 | Repeals the National Health Planning and Resources Development Act of 1974. | 2024-08-01T19:33:10Z | |
| 94-hr-15328 | 94 | hr | 15328 | National Diabetes Advisory Board Act | Health | 1976-08-30 | 1976-08-30 | Referred to House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce. | House | Rep. Matsunaga, Spark M. [D-HI-1] | HI | D | M000250 | 0 | National Diabetes Advisory Board Act - Directs the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare to establish a National Diabetes Advisory Board to insure the implementation of the long-range plan formulated by the National Commission on Diabetes to combat diabetes. Specifies seven Federal health officers as members of the Board, in addition to seven health professionals and five members of the general public to be appointed by the Secretary. Makes provision for staffing and compensation. Authorizes the Board to enter into contracts or other arrangements, or to take such other action as may be necessary to carry out its functions. Authorizes the Board to engage in and sponsor activities, collect data, and provide technical assistance as it deems necessary and advisable in the performance of its functions. Requires the Board to submit simultaneously to the President and Congress an Annual Diabetes Report describing Board activities in the prior year and progress made in diabetes research, treatment, and education with specific reference to the long-range plan to combat diabetes mellitus and suggesting recommended future expenditures and legislation. Authorizes the appropriation of $500,000 for fiscal year 1976 and such sums as are necessary for each of the four fiscal years thereafter. Authorizes the Secretary to make distinguished scientist awards to individual scientists who have shown continuous and outstanding productivity in diabetes research for the purpose of continuing such research. Limits the amount of each grant to no more than $35,000 per year. Authorizes the appropriation of specified amounts for the purpose of making such grants in fiscal years 1976-1980. Authorizes, under the Public Health Service Act, the appropriation of specified sums in fiscal years 1977-1981 for the purpose of making grants to centers for research and training in diabetes mellitus and related endocrine and metabolic disorders. | 2025-09-02T18:49:42Z | |
| 94-hr-15285 | 94 | hr | 15285 | National Diabetes Advisory Board Act | Health | 1976-08-26 | 1976-08-26 | Referred to House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce. | House | Rep. Nix, Robert N. C. [D-PA-2] | PA | D | N000113 | 0 | National Diabetes Advisory Board Act - Directs the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare to establish a National Diabetes Advisory Board to insure the implementation of the long-range plan formulated by the National Commission on Diabetes to combat diabetes. Specifies seven Federal health officers as members of the Board, in addition to seven health professionals and five members of the general public to be appointed by the Secretary. Makes provision for staffing and compensation. Authorizes the Board to enter into contracts or other arrangements, or to take such other action as may be necessary to carry out its functions. Authorizes the Board to engage in and sponsor activities, collect data, and provide technical assistance as it deems necessary and advisable in the performance of its functions. Requires the Board to submit simultaneously to the President and Congress an Annual Diabetes Report describing Board activities in the prior year and progress made in diabetes research, treatment, and education with specific reference to the long-range plan to combat diabetes mellitus and suggesting recommended future expenditures and legislation. Authorizes the appropriation of $500,000 for fiscal year 1976 and such sums as are necessary for each of the four fiscal years thereafter. Authorizes the Secretary to make distinguished scientist awards to individual scientists who have shown continuous and outstanding productivity in diabetes research for the purpose of continuing such research. Limits the amount of each grant to no more than $35,000 per year. Authorizes the appropriation of specified amounts for the purpose of making such grants in fiscal years 1976-1980. Authorizes, under the Public Health Service Act, the appropriation of specified sums in fiscal years 1977-1981 for the purpose of making grants to centers for research and training in diabetes mellitus and related endocrine and metabolic disorders. | 2025-09-02T18:49:43Z | |
| 94-hr-15137 | 94 | hr | 15137 | National Voluntary Medical and Hospital Services Insurance Act | Health | 1976-08-10 | 1976-08-10 | Referred to House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce. | House | Rep. Lagomarsino, Robert J. [R-CA-19] | CA | R | L000020 | 0 | National Voluntary Medical and Hospital Services Insurance Act - Creates the National Voluntary Medical and Hospital Services Insurance Agency to operate a National Voluntary Medical and Hospital Services Insurance Plan with funds supplied by voluntary subscriptions and matching United States Treasury funds, to pay all reasonable costs of all medically necessary and appropriate medical and hospital services for all voluntary enrollees. Authorizes the appropriation of $50,000,000 for the first calendar year after this Act becomes effective for the Agency to carry out its duties under this Act. Directs that payment be made by the plan to or on behalf of every enrollee for all legal, appropriate, and professionally recognized and medically necessary service provided as a personal professional service by or under the direct supervision of a licensed medical doctor, whenever performed. Specifies services excluded from benefits of the plan. Requires premium payments in the amount of 18 dollars per month for each adult and one-half of the amount for each child. Stipulates that subscribers with a total earned and unearned family income of less than $12,000 per year shall be entitled to have their premiums calculated at 1.8 percent of such income for each child enrollee. Prohibits the use of more than three percent of all premiums received for the payment of costs of the plan other than benefits. Stipulates that the Agency shall affix a fee to every professionally recognized diagnostic and therapeutic medical service procedure or treatment and laboratory pathological test and procedure that is proportionate to the customary and reasonable fee for such service in each general area of the United States. Enumerates, with respect to claims for the benefits of this plan, the form of, items of information to be contained in, and procedures for auditing, assessment, and payment of, such claims. Authorizes the Agency to temporarily or permanently exclude any enrollee or provider of services found to have made any false claim for… | 2025-09-02T18:49:42Z | |
| 94-hr-15100 | 94 | hr | 15100 | National Diabetes Advisory Board Act | Health | 1976-08-09 | 1976-08-09 | Referred to House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce. | House | Rep. Carter, Tim Lee [R-KY-5] | KY | R | C000201 | 18 | National Diabetes Advisory Board Act - Directs the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare to establish a National Diabetes Advisory Board to insure the implementation of the long-range plan formulated by the National Commission on Diabetes to combat diabetes. Specifies seven Federal health officers as members of the Board, in addition to seven health professionals and five members of the general public to be appointed by the Secretary. Makes provision for staffing and compensation. Authorizes the Board to enter into contracts or other arrangements, or to take such other action as may be necessary to carry out its functions. Authorizes the Board to engage in and sponsor activities, collect data, and provide technical assistance as it deems necessary and advisable in the performance of its functions. Requires the Board to submit simultaneously to the President and Congress an Annual Diabetes Report describing Board activities in the prior year and progress made in diabetes research, treatment, and education with specific reference to the long-range plan to combat diabetes mellitus and suggesting recommended future expenditures and legislation. Authorizes the appropriation of $500,000 for fiscal year 1976 and such sums as are necessary for each of the four fiscal years thereafter. Authorizes the Secretary to make distinguished scientist awards to individual scientists who have shown continuous and outstanding productivity in diabetes research for the purpose of continuing such research. Limits the amount of each grant to no more than $35,000 per year. Authorizes the appropriation of specified amounts for the purpose of making such grants in fiscal years 1976-1980. Authorizes, under the Public Health Service Act, the appropriation of specified sums in fiscal years 1977-1981 for the purpose of making grants to centers for research and training in diabetes mellitus and related endocrine and metabolic disorders. | 2025-09-02T18:49:35Z | |
| 94-hr-15120 | 94 | hr | 15120 | Comprehensive Medical Practice Act | Health | 1976-08-09 | 1976-08-09 | Referred to House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce. | House | Rep. Maguire, Andrew [D-NJ-7] | NJ | D | M000058 | 1 | Comprehensive Medical Practice Act - Amends the Public Health Service Act to add "Title XVII - Comprehensive Medical Practices." Defines a 'comprehensive medical practice' as a legal entity which: (1) provides medical services through health professionals licensed to practice medicine or osteopathy, a specified number of whom engage in family medicine, primary pediatrics, or primary internal medicine; (2) offers a comprehensive variety of medical services reasonably expected to meet the majority of medical needs of the area it serves; (3) offers each patient an individual health professional primarily responsible for the continuity of care of such individual by the entity; (4) shares equipment, facilities, and persnonnel among its member; (5) meets applicable accreditation standards; and (6) maintains an information program for the residents of its service area, such program fully disclosing the services offered, the fees charged, and the method of resolving billing or medical services grievances. Authorizes the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare to make grants to entities for activities to determine the feasibility of developing, operating, or expanding comprehensive medical practices. Authorizes the Secretary to make grants, contracts, and loan guarantees for planning, initial development, and initial operation costs for such practices. Establishes in the Treasury a loan guarantee fund to be available to the Secretary without fiscal year limitation for the discharge of the Secretary's loan guarantee responsibilities under this Act. Authorizes the appropriation, from time to time, of such amounts as may be necessary for purposes of such fund. Establishes in the Treasury a loan fund to be available to the Secretary without fiscal year limitation to enable the Secretary to make loans under this Act. Authorizes the appropriation of specified sums in fiscal years 1978 through 1980 to carry out the provisions of this Act. Authorizes the Secretary to make available to insurers reinsurance against claim… | 2025-09-02T18:49:35Z | |
| 94-s-3735 | 94 | s | 3735 | National Swine Flu Immunization Program of 1976 | Health | 1976-08-05 | 1976-08-12 | Public law 94-380. | Senate | Sen. Kennedy, Edward M. [D-MA] | MA | D | K000105 | 6 | (Measure passed Senate, amended) National Influenza Program - Amends the Public Health Service Act to direct the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare to establish, conduct, and support activities necessary to carry out a national influenza immunization program. Directs the Secretary to make quarterly reports to Congress on the administration of such activities. Directs the Secretary to conduct a study of the scope and extent of liability for personal injuries arising out of immunization programs and of alternative approaches to providing protection against such liability and compensation for such injuries. Requires the Secretary to report the results of such study, along with legislative recommendations, to Congress within one year of enactment of these provisions. Makes the United States liable with respect to claims for personal injury or death resulting from the administration of vaccine under the immunization program. Establishes procedures under which all such claims will be asserted directly against the United States and makes such procedures the exclusive legal remedy. | 2025-04-21T12:24:17Z | |
| 94-hr-15043 | 94 | hr | 15043 | Comprehensive Right-to-Quality Medical Care Act | Health | 1976-08-04 | 1976-08-04 | Referred to House Committee on Rules. | House | Rep. Crane, Philip M. [R-IL-12] | IL | R | C000873 | 19 | Comprehensive Right-to-Quality Medical Care Act - Requires that any Federal officer or agency proposing any health care regulation submit such regulation to each House of Congress together with a report containing a full explanation thereof. Allows either House of Congress to keep the proposed regulation from becoming effective by adopting a resolution disapproving the regulation because: (1) it contains provisions contrary to law; (2) it is inconsistent with the intent of Congress; or (3) it goes beyond the mandate of the legislation which it is designed to implement or in the administration of which it is designed to be used. Establishes rules for the consideration of any resolution regarding such proposed regulations. Requires the head of any Federal agency or department, at least 60 days prior to the initial publication of any health cost regulation, to submit notice of intended publication and the text of such regulation to the appropriate committees of the House of Representatives and the Senate. Amends the Social Security Act to repeal specified Medicare utilization review provisions, specified utilization review provisions and maternal and child health programs, and specified professional standards review provisions. Guarantees the confidentiality of medical records of any patient whose medical or dental care is not paid by the Federal Government, under a Federal program, or by any program receiving Federal financial assistance, unless such patient has authorized such disclosure. | 2025-09-02T18:49:39Z | |
| 94-hr-15049 | 94 | hr | 15049 | A bill to repeal titles XV and XVI of the Public Health Service Act. | Health | 1976-08-04 | 1976-08-04 | Referred to House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce. | House | Rep. McDonald, Lawrence P. [D-GA-7] | GA | D | M000413 | 1 | Repeals the National Health Planning and Resources Development Act of 1974. | 2024-08-01T19:32:57Z | |
| 94-hr-15050 | 94 | hr | 15050 | National Influenza Program | Health | 1976-08-04 | 1976-08-04 | Referred to House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce. | House | Rep. Rogers, Paul G. [D-FL-11] | FL | D | R000401 | 7 | National Influenza Program - Amends the Public Health Service Act to direct the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare to establish, conduct, and support activities necessary to carry out a national influenza immunization program. Directs the Secretary to make quarterly reports to Congress on the administration of such activities. Directs the Secretary to conduct a study of the scope and extent of liability for personal injuries arising out of immunization programs and of alternative approaches to providing protection against such liability and compensation for such injuries. Requires the Secretary to report the results of such study, along with legislative recommendations, to Congress within one year of enactment of these provisions. Makes the United States liable with respect to claims for personal injury or death resulting from the administration of vaccine under the immunization program. Establishes procedures under which all such claims will be asserted directly against the United States and makes such procedures the exclusive legal remedy. | 2025-09-02T18:49:34Z | |
| 94-hr-14822 | 94 | hr | 14822 | Maternal and Child Health Care Act | Health | 1976-07-22 | 1976-07-22 | Referred to House Committee on Ways and Means. | House | Rep. Scheuer, James H. [D-NY-11] | NY | D | S000124 | 18 | Maternal and Child Health Care Act - Title I: General Provisions and Administration - Entitles every individual who is a United State citizen or an alien lawfully admitted for permanent residence, and who is a child or who is pregnant, to have payment made for health care services received by such individual in accordance with this Act. Establishes in the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare a Maternal and Child Health Board. Directs the Board to continuously study the operation of this Act and the most effective methods of providing comprehensive personal health services to mothers and children. Requires the Board to report annually to Congress on its activities. Establishes a National Maternal and Child Health Council to advise the Board on matters of general policy, study the operation of this Act, and recommend changes it deems advisable. Title II: Nature and Scope of Benefits - Sets forth procedures to be used in determining whether insitutions are qualified health services providers under this Act. Includes within covered professional services: (1) preventive children's health services; and (2) professional services for the diagnosis, treatment, or rehabilitation of a child following injury, disability, or disease. Includes within covered inpatient hospital services: (1) emergency medical care for children; (2) inpatient services for a child under the age of 12 in a qualified pediatric unit; (3) inpatient services for a child 12 years of age or older in a qualified hospital; and (4) child inpatient services in a qualified nursing home. Includes the following services within the coverage of this Act: (1) rehabilitative services, encompassing physical therapy and speech therapy; (2) social services; and (3) mental health services, encompassing psychiatric and psychological services furnished to a child in a qualified facility. Includes within coverage drugs and biologicals prescribed for a child who is not an inpatient in a nursing home or hospital if such drug or biological is prescribed to be t… | 2025-09-02T18:49:31Z | |
| 94-hr-14826 | 94 | hr | 14826 | A bill to repeal titles XV and XVI of the Public Health Services Act. | Health | 1976-07-22 | 1976-07-22 | Referred to House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce. | House | Rep. Hall, Tim L. [D-IL-15] | IL | D | H000073 | 0 | Repeals the National Health Planning and Resources Development Act of 1974. | 2024-08-01T19:32:46Z | |
| 94-hr-14743 | 94 | hr | 14743 | National Diabetes Advisory Board Act | Health | 1976-07-20 | 1976-07-20 | Referred to House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce. | House | Rep. Carter, Tim Lee [R-KY-5] | KY | R | C000201 | 8 | National Diabetes Advisory Board Act - Directs the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare to establish a National Diabetes Advisory Board to insure the implementation of the long-range plan formulated by the National Commission on Diabetes to combat diabetes. Specifies seven Federal health officers as members of the Board, in addition to seven health professionals and five members of the general public to be appointed by the Secretary. Makes provision for staffing and compensation. Authorizes the Board to enter into contracts or other arrangements, or to take such other action as may be necessary to carry out its functions. Authorizes the Board to engage in and sponsor activities, collect data, and provide technical assistance as it deems necessary and advisable in the performance of its functions. Requires the Board to submit simultaneously to the President and Congress an Annual Diabetes Report describing Board activities in the prior year and progress made in diabetes research, treatment, and education with specific reference to the long-range plan to combat diabetes mellitus and suggesting recommended future expenditures and legislation. Authorizes the appropriation of $500,000 for fiscal year 1976 and such sums as are necessary for each of the four fiscal years thereafter. Authorizes the Secretary to make distinguished scientist awards to individual scientists who have shown continuous and outstanding productivity in diabetes research for the purpose of continuing such research. Limits the amount of each grant to no more than $35,000 per year. Authorizes the appropriation of specified amounts for the purpose of making such grants in fiscal years 1976-1980. Authorizes, under the Public Health Service Act, the appropriation of specified sums in fiscal years 1977-1981 for the purpose of making grants to centers for research and training in diabetes mellitus and related endocrine and metabolic disorders. | 2025-09-02T18:49:27Z | |
| 94-hr-14744 | 94 | hr | 14744 | A bill to amend the Public Health Service Act to provide that the United States indemnify and hold harmless certain physicians and other health care personnel and health care facilities for civil liability for damages (other than damages for gross negligence) resulting from participation in the nationwide influenza immunization program provided for by Public Law 94-266. | Health | 1976-07-20 | 1976-07-20 | Referred to House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce. | House | Rep. Carter, Tim Lee [R-KY-5] | KY | R | C000201 | 2 | Amends the Public Health Service Act to direct the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare to indemnify physicians, health care personnel, and health facilities providing nonprofit professional services in connection with the national influenza immunization program against civil claims resulting therefrom, except in cases of gross negligence. | 2024-08-01T19:32:46Z | |
| 94-hr-14745 | 94 | hr | 14745 | National Digestive Diseases Act | Health | 1976-07-20 | 1976-07-20 | Referred to House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce. | House | Rep. Carter, Tim Lee [R-KY-5] | KY | R | C000201 | 7 | National Digestive Diseases Act - Directs the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare to establish a National Commission on Digestive Diseases. Directs the Commission to develop and recommend a long-range plan for the use of national resources to deal with digestive diseases, such plan to include provisions for: (1) research studies into the biological process related to digestive diseases; (2) investigations into the epidemiology, etiology, diagnosis, treatment, prevention, and control of such diseases; (3) development of coordinated health care systems to combat digestive diseases; and (4) education and training of scientists, clinicians, educators, and allied health professionals in fields related to digestive diseases. Directs the Commission to make a final report to Congress within 18 months of its initial meeting, such report to include the projected costs of implementing programs to combat digestive diseases, legislative recommendations, and a long-range plan for dealing with such diseases. Authorizes the appropriation of $1,500,000, without fiscal year limitation, to carry out the purposes of the Commission set forth in this Act. Directs the Secretary to establish a Coordinating Committee for Digestive Diseases to improve coordination among Federal agencies in the research, training, control, and treatment of digestive diseases. | 2025-09-02T18:49:28Z | |
| 94-hr-14661 | 94 | hr | 14661 | National School-Age Mother and Child Health Act | Health | 1976-07-01 | 1976-07-01 | Referred to House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce. | House | Rep. Cohen, William S. [R-ME-2] | ME | R | C000598 | 1 | National School-Age Mother and Child Health Act - Amends the Public Health Service Act to authorize the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare to make grants to designated State agencies to meet part of the cost of planning and coordinating services for school age girls and their children. Sets forth requirements which the State plans must meet before receiving such grants, including: comprehensive health care to school-age girls (associated with the continuation of pregnancy) and to their children, family planning and counseling, infant and child day care and a coordinated program of social services. Directs that no identifying information of persons receiving services shall be collected by the Federal or State government. Authorizes the appropriation of $30,000,000 for fiscal year 1976 and for each of the next two succeeding fiscal years to carry out the purposes of this Act. Establishes a unit within the Maternal and Child Health Service of the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare to administer and coordinate the program established by this Act. | 2025-09-02T18:49:27Z | |
| 94-hr-14617 | 94 | hr | 14617 | National Diabetes Advisory Board Act | Health | 1976-06-30 | 1976-06-30 | Referred to House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce. | House | Rep. Kasten, Robert W., Jr. [R-WI-9] | WI | R | K000019 | 0 | National Diabetes Advisory Board Act - Directs the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare to establish a National Diabetes Advisory Board to insure the implementation of the long-range plan formulated by the National Commission on Diabetes to combat diabetes. Specifies seven Federal health officers as members of the Board, in addition to seven health professionals and five members of the general public to be appointed by the Secretary. Makes provision for staffing and compensation. Authorizes the Board to enter into contracts or other arrangements, or to take such other action as may be necessary to carry out its functions. Authorizes the Board to engage in and sponsor activities, collect data, and provide technical assistance as it deems necessary and advisable in the performance of its functions. Requires the Board to submit simultaneously to the President and Congress an Annual Diabetes Report describing Board activities in the prior year and progress made in diabetes research, treatment, and education with specific reference to the long-range plan to combat diabetes mellitus and suggesting recommended future expenditures and legislation. Authorizes the appropriation of $500,000 for fiscal year 1976 and such sums as are necessary for each of the four fiscal years thereafter. Authorizes the Secretary to make distinguished scientist awards to individual scientists who have shown continuous and outstanding productivity in diabetes research for the purpose of continuing such research. Limits the amount of each grant to no more than $35,000 per year. Authorizes the appropriation of specified amounts for the purpose of making such grants in fiscal years 1976-1980. Authorizes, under the Public Health Service Act, the appropriation of specified sums in fiscal years 1977-1981 for the purpose of making grants to centers for research and training in diabetes mellitus and related endocrine and metabolic disorders. | 2025-09-02T18:49:20Z | |
| 94-hr-14569 | 94 | hr | 14569 | A bill to amend the Public Health Service Act to provide that the United States indemnify and hold harmless certain physicians and other health care personnel and health care facilities for civil liability for damages (other than damages for gross negligence) resulting from participation in the nationwide influenza immunization program provide for by Public Law 94-266. | Health | 1976-06-25 | 1976-06-25 | Referred to House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce. | House | Rep. Carter, Tim Lee [R-KY-5] | KY | R | C000201 | 0 | Amends the Public Health Service Act to direct the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare to indemnify physicians, health care personnel, and health facilities providing nonprofit professional services in connection with the national influenza immunization program against civil claims resulting therefrom, except in cases of gross negligence. | 2024-08-01T19:32:36Z | |
| 94-hr-14538 | 94 | hr | 14538 | Maternal and Child Health Care Act | Health | 1976-06-24 | 1976-06-24 | Referred to House Committee on Ways and Means. | House | Rep. Oberstar, James L. [D-MN-8] | MN | D | O000006 | 0 | Maternal and Child Health Care Act - Title I: General Provisions and Administration - Entitles every individual who is a United State citizen or an alien lawfully admitted for permanent residence, and who is a child or who is pregnant, to have payment made for health care services received by such individual in accordance with this Act. Establishes in the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare a Maternal and Child Health Board. Directs the Board to continuously study the operation of this Act and the most effective methods of providing comprehensive personal health services to mothers and children. Requires the Board to report annually to Congress on its activities. Establishes a National Maternal and Child Health Council to advise the Board on matters of general policy, study the operation of this Act, and recommend changes it deems advisable. Title II: Nature and Scope of Benefits - Sets forth procedures to be used in determining whether insitutions are qualified health services providers under this Act. Includes within covered professional services: (1) preventive children's health services; and (2) professional services for the diagnosis, treatment, or rehabilitation of a child following injury, disability, or disease. Includes within covered inpatient hospital services: (1) emergency medical care for children; (2) inpatient services for a child under the age of 12 in a qualified pediatric unit; (3) inpatient services for a child 12 years of age or older in a qualified hospital; and (4) child inpatient services in a qualified nursing home. Includes the following services within the coverage of this Act: (1) rehabilitative services, encompassing physical therapy and speech therapy; (2) social services; and (3) mental health services, encompassing psychiatric and psychological services furnished to a child in a qualified facility. Includes within coverage drugs and biologicals prescribed for a child who is not an inpatient in a nursing home or hospital if such drug or biological is prescribed to be t… | 2025-09-02T18:49:24Z | |
| 94-hr-14551 | 94 | hr | 14551 | National Digestive Diseases Act | Health | 1976-06-24 | 1976-06-24 | Referred to House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce. | House | Rep. Patten, Edward J. [D-NJ-15] | NJ | D | P000106 | 0 | National Digestive Diseases Act - Directs the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare to establish a National Commission on Digestive Diseases. Directs the Commission to develop and recommend a long-range plan for the use of national resources to deal with digestive diseases, such plan to include provisions for: (1) research studies into the biological process related to digestive diseases; (2) investigations into the epidemiology, etiology, diagnosis, treatment, prevention, and control of such diseases; (3) development of coordinated health care systems to combat digestive diseases; and (4) education and training of scientists, clinicians, educators, and allied health professionals in fields related to digestive diseases. Directs the Commission to make a final report to Congress within 18 months of its initial meeting, such report to include the projected costs of implementing programs to combat digestive diseases, legislative recommendations, and a long-range plan for dealing with such diseases. Authorizes the appropriation of $1,500,000, without fiscal year limitation, to carry out the purposes of the Commission set forth in this Act. Directs the Secretary to establish a Coordinating Committee for Digestive Diseases to improve coordination among Federal agencies in the research, training, control, and treatment of digestive diseases. | 2025-09-02T18:49:21Z | |
| 94-s-3614 | 94 | s | 3614 | A bill to permit the United States to provide indemnification against claims for injury related to inoculation with vaccine under a comprehensive nationwide influenza immunization program. | Health | 1976-06-24 | 1976-06-24 | Referred to Senate Committee on Labor and Public Welfare. | Senate | Sen. Javits, Jacob K. [R-NY] | NY | R | J000064 | 0 | Permits the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare to indemnify manufacturers producing vaccines for a comprehensive nationwide influenza immunization program against claims for injury related to innoculation with such vaccines. | 2025-04-21T12:24:17Z | |
| 94-s-3616 | 94 | s | 3616 | All Volunteer Health Manpower Act | Health | 1976-06-24 | 1976-06-24 | Referred to Senate Committee on Labor and Public Welfare. | Senate | Sen. Brock, Bill [R-TN] | TN | R | B000851 | 0 | All Volunteer Health Manpower Act - Title I: Council on Medically Underserved Populations - Directs the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare to appoint a permanent Council on Medically Underserved Populations to consist of ten individuals from outside of the Government who have demonstrated excellence in conducting analyses of the adequacy of health services, facilities, and personnel. Requires the Council to establish criteria for the designation of medically underserved populations. Title II: Service in Underserved Area - Amends the Public Health Service Act to authorize the Secretary to make loans to physicians and dentists: (1) not to exceed $1,000 for a visit to an underserved area; (2) not to exceed $3,000 for equipment approved by the National Health Service Corps for use in an underserved area; and (3) not to exceed $5,000 for the purpose of establishing an office in an underserved area. Directs the Secretary to establish a program to furnish information on all Federal health services programs in underserved areas to each school of medicine, osteopathy, dentistry, nursing, and to the schools which train allied health personnel. Title III: Capitation Incentives - Revises the capitation differential incentives payable to schools of medicine, osteopathy, or dentistry. Title IV: Assistance to Primary Care Personnel - Directs the Secretary to assist private primary health care personnel who desire to establish medical practices in areas designated as underserved where such personnel meet specified requirements. Title V: Tax Credits for Health Professionals Serving in Designated Underserved Areas - Amends the Internal Revenue Code of 1954 to allow health professionals practicing in a designated underserved area a yearly tax credit equal to ten percent of their gross income. | 2025-09-02T18:52:28Z | |
| 94-hr-14522 | 94 | hr | 14522 | National Diabetes Advisory Board Act | Health | 1976-06-23 | 1976-06-23 | Referred to House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce. | House | Rep. Natcher, William H. [D-KY-2] | KY | D | N000009 | 0 | National Diabetes Advisory Board Act - Directs the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare to establish a National Diabetes Advisory Board to insure the implementation of the long-range plan formulated by the National Commission on Diabetes to combat diabetes. Specifies seven Federal health officers as members of the Board, in addition to seven health professionals and five members of the general public to be appointed by the Secretary. Makes provision for staffing and compensation. Authorizes the Board to enter into contracts or other arrangements, or to take such other action as may be necessary to carry out its functions. Authorizes the Board to engage in and sponsor activities, collect data, and provide technical assistance as it deems necessary and advisable in the performance of its functions. Requires the Board to submit simultaneously to the President and Congress an Annual Diabetes Report describing Board activities in the prior year and progress made in diabetes research, treatment, and education with specific reference to the long-range plan to combat diabetes mellitus and suggesting recommended future expenditures and legislation. Authorizes the appropriation of $500,000 for fiscal year 1976 and such sums as are necessary for each of the four fiscal years thereafter. Authorizes the Secretary to make distinguished scientist awards to individual scientists who have shown continuous and outstanding productivity in diabetes research for the purpose of continuing such research. Limits the amount of each grant to no more than $35,000 per year. Authorizes the appropriation of specified amounts for the purpose of making such grants in fiscal years 1976-1980. Authorizes, under the Public Health Service Act, the appropriation of specified sums in fiscal years 1977-1981 for the purpose of making grants to centers for research and training in diabetes mellitus and related endocrine and metabolic disorders. | 2025-09-02T18:49:21Z | |
| 94-hr-14497 | 94 | hr | 14497 | National Health Insurance for Mothers and Children Act | Health | 1976-06-22 | 1976-06-22 | Referred to House Committee on Ways and Means. | House | Rep. Scheuer, James H. [D-NY-11] | NY | D | S000124 | 0 | National Health Insurance for Mothers and Children Act - Title I: General Provisions and Administration - Entitles every individual who is a United States citizen or an alien lawfully admitted for permanent residence, and who is a child or who is pregnant, to have payment made for health care services received by such individual in accordance with this Act. Establishes in the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare a Maternal and Child Health Board. Directs the Board to continuously study the operation of this Act and the most effective methods of providing comprehensive personal health services to mothers and children. Requires the Board to report annually to Congress on its activities. Establishes a National and Child Health Council to advise the Board on matters of general policy, study the operation of this Act, and recommend changes it deems advisable. Title II: Nature and Scope of Benefits - Sets forth procedures to be used in determining whether institutions are qualified health services providers under this Act. Includes within covered professional services: (1) preventive children's health services; and (2) professional services for the diagnosis, treatment, or rehabilitation of a child following injury, disability, or disease. Includes within covered inpatient hospital services: (1) emergency medical care for children; (2) inpatient services for a child 12 years of age or older in a qualified hospital; and (3) child inpatient services in a qualified nursing home. Includes the following services within the coverage of this Act: (1) rehabilative services, encompassing physical therapy and speech therapy; (2) social services; and (3) mental health services, encompassing psychiatric and psychological services furnished to a child in a qualified facility. Includes within the coverage drugs and biologicals prescribed for a child who is not an inpatient in a nursing home or hospital if such drug or biological is prescribed to be taken for longer than four weeks. Includes within coverage devices, app… | 2025-09-02T18:49:24Z | |
| 94-hr-14499 | 94 | hr | 14499 | A bill to enable the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare, to alter the services provided at, transfer control of, or close hospitals of the Public Health Service identified in section 818 of Public Law 93-155. | Health | 1976-06-22 | 1976-06-22 | Referred to House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce. | House | Rep. Staggers, Harley O. [D-WV-2] | WV | D | S000778 | 1 | Authorizes the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare to alter the services provided at, transfer control of, or close specified hospitals of the Public Health Service. | 2024-08-01T19:32:28Z | |
| 94-s-3592 | 94 | s | 3592 | Comprehensive Maternal and Child Health Practice Act | Health | 1976-06-18 | 1976-06-18 | Referred to Senate Committee on Labor and Public Welfare. | Senate | Sen. Javits, Jacob K. [R-NY] | NY | R | J000064 | 2 | Comprehensive Maternal and Child Health Practice Act - Authorizes the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare to make grants to public and nonprofit private entities and enter into contracts with public and private entities for projects: (1) studying the feasibility of developing and operating comprehensive maternal and child health practices or of expanding the operation of existing practices; and (2) establishing or expanding comprehensive maternal and child health practices. Authorizes the Secretary to guarantee to non-Federal lenders payment of the principal of and the interest on loans made to private entities for such projects. Authorizes the Secretary to make loans and loan guarantees for initial operating costs of comprehensive maternal and child health practices. Prohibits the approval of an application for a loan guarantee unless the Secretary determines that the loan terms, conditions, security, and schedule are sufficient to protect the financial interests of the United States and are otherwise reasonable. Establishes in the United States Treasury a loan guarantee fund and a loan fund to be available to the Secretary without fiscal year limitation for the purposes set forth in this Act. Authorizes the appropriation of specified amounts in fiscal years 1978 through 1980 for the purpose of making grants and contracts authorized under this Act. Authorizes the Secretary to make available medical malpractice reinsurance for claims exceeding $100,000 brought against a comprehensive maternal and child health practice. Authorizes the Secretary to institute litigation to recover from any insurer the amount of any unpaid premium lawfully payable by such insurer to the Secretary. Requires each insurer reinsured under these provisions to file with the Secretary: (1) a copy of each annual statement filed with the insurance authority of the State; and (2) information respecting claims asserted by insureds against comprehensive maternal and child health practices and reports of adverse medical incidents … | 2025-09-02T18:52:28Z | |
| 94-s-3593 | 94 | s | 3593 | National Health Insurance for Mothers and Children Act | Health | 1976-06-18 | 1976-06-18 | Referred to Senate Committee on Finance. | Senate | Sen. Javits, Jacob K. [R-NY] | NY | R | J000064 | 2 | National Health Insurance for Mothers and Children Act - Title I: General Provisions and Administration - Entitles every individual who is a United States citizen or an alien lawfully admitted for permanent residence, and who is a child or who is pregnant, to have payment made for health care services received by such individual in accordance with this Act. Establishes in the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare a Maternal and Child Health Board. Directs the Board to continuously study the operation of this Act and the most effective methods of providing comprehensive personal health services to mothers and children. Requires the Board to report annually to Congress on its activities. Establishes a National Maternal and Child Health Council to advise the Board on matters of general policy, study the operation of this Act, and recommend changes it deems advisable. Title II: Nature and Scope of Benefits - Sets forth procedures to be used in determining whether institutions are qualified health services providers under this Act. Includes within covered professional services: (1) preventive children's health services; and (2) professional services for the diagnosis, treatment, or rehabilitation following injury, disability, or disease. Includes within covered inpatient hospital services: (1) emergency medical care for children; (2) inpatient services for a child 12 years of age or older in a qualified hospital; and (3) child inpatient services in a qualified nursing home. Includes the following services within the coverage of this Act: (1) rehabilative services, encompassing physical therapy and speech therapy; (2) social services; and (3) mental health services, encompassing psychiatric and psychological services furnished to a child in a qualified facility. Includes within the coverage drugs and biologicals prescribed for a child who is not an inpatient in a nursing home or hospital if such drug or biological is prescribed to be taken for longer than four weeks. Includes within coverage devices, appli… | 2025-09-02T18:52:25Z | |
| 94-hr-14437 | 94 | hr | 14437 | A bill to permit the United States to provide indemnification against claims for injury related to inoculation with vaccine under a comprehensive nationwide influenza immunization program. | Health | 1976-06-17 | 1976-06-17 | Referred to House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce. | House | Rep. Staggers, Harley O. [D-WV-2] | WV | D | S000778 | 1 | Permits the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare to indemnify manufacturers producing vaccines for a comprehensive nationwide influenza immunization program against claims for injury related to innoculation with such vaccines. | 2024-08-01T19:32:28Z | |
| 94-hr-14409 | 94 | hr | 14409 | A bill to permit the United States to provide indemnification against claims for injury related to inoculation with vaccine under a comprehensive nationwide influenza immunization program. | Health | 1976-06-16 | 1976-06-16 | Referred to House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce. | House | Rep. Carter, Tim Lee [R-KY-5] | KY | R | C000201 | 1 | Permits the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare to indemnify manufacturers producing vaccines for a comprehensive nationwide influenza immunization program against claims for injury related to innoculation with such vaccines. | 2024-08-01T19:32:27Z | |
| 94-s-3573 | 94 | s | 3573 | A bill to repeal titles XV and XVI of the Public Health Service Act. | Health | 1976-06-16 | 1976-06-16 | Referred to Senate Committee on Labor and Public Welfare. | Senate | Sen. Tower, John G. [R-TX] | TX | R | T000322 | 0 | Repeals the National Health Planning and Resources Development Act of 1974. | 2025-04-21T12:24:17Z | |
| 94-hr-14373 | 94 | hr | 14373 | Health Security Act | Health | 1976-06-15 | 1976-06-15 | Referred to House Committee on Ways and Means. | House | Rep. Corman, James C. [D-CA-21] | CA | D | C000780 | 2 | Health Security Act - Title I: Health Security Benefits - Makes every resident of the U.S. (and every non-resident citizen when in the U.S.) eligible for covered services. Permits reciprocal and "buy- in" agreements for groups or non-resident aliens, and in some cases benefits to U.S. residents when visiting in other countries. Entitles every eligible person to have payments made by the Health Security Board for covered services provided within the United States by a participating provider. Extends coverage to all necessary professional services of physicians, wherever furnished, including preventive care, with two restrictions: (1) specialist services are covered only when performed by a qualified specialist except in emergency situations, and generally only on referral from a primary physician; and (2) psychiatric services to an ambulatory patient are covered only for active preventive, diagnostic, therapeutic or rehabilitative service with respect to mental illness. Extends coverage to: (1) comprehensive dental services (exclusive of most orthodontic services) for children under age 15, with the covered age group increasing by two years each year until all those under age 25 are covered; (2) inpatient and outpatient hospital services and services of a home health agency; and (3) pathology and radiology services as parts of institutional services. Limits payment for skilled nursing home care to 120 days per spell of illness, except that such limit may be increased when the nursing home is owned or managed by a hospital and payment for care is made through the hospital budget. Limits the psychiatric hospital benefit to 45 consecutive days of active treatment during a spell of illness. Extends coverage to two categories of drug use: prescribed medicines administered to inpatients or outpatients within participating hospitals; or to enrollees of comprehensive health service organizations, and drugs necessary for the treatment of specified chronic illnesses or conditions requiring long or expensive therapy. Requi… | 2025-09-02T18:49:18Z | |
| 94-hr-14349 | 94 | hr | 14349 | National School-Age Mother and Child Health Act | Health | 1976-06-14 | 1976-06-14 | Referred to House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce. | House | Rep. Cohen, William S. [R-ME-2] | ME | R | C000598 | 1 | National School-Age Mother and Child Health Act - Amends the Public Health Service Act to authorize the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare to make grants to designated State agencies to meet part of the cost of planning and coordinating services for school age girls and their children. Sets forth requirements which the State plans must meet before receiving such grants, including: comprehensive health care to school-age girls (associated with the continuation of pregnancy) and to their children, family planning and counseling, infant and child day care and a coordinated program of social services. Directs that no identifying information of persons receiving services shall be collected by the Federal or State government. Authorizes the appropriation of $30,000,000 for fiscal year 1976 and for each of the next two succeeding fiscal years to carry out the purposes of this Act. Establishes a unit within the Maternal and Child Health Service of the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare to administer and coordinate the program established by this Act. | 2025-09-02T18:49:15Z | |
| 94-hr-14309 | 94 | hr | 14309 | Maternal and Child Health Care Act | Health | 1976-06-10 | 1976-06-10 | Referred to House Committee on Ways and Means. | House | Rep. Scheuer, James H. [D-NY-11] | NY | D | S000124 | 8 | Maternal and Child Health Care Act - Title I: General Provisions and Administration - Entitles every individual who is a United State citizen or an alien lawfully admitted for permanent residence, and who is a child or who is pregnant, to have payment made for health care services received by such individual in accordance with this Act. Establishes in the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare a Maternal and Child Health Board. Directs the Board to continuously study the operation of this Act and the most effective methods of providing comprehensive personal health services to mothers and children. Requires the Board to report annually to Congress on its activities. Establishes a National Maternal and Child Health Council to advise the Board on matters of general policy, study the operation of this Act, and recommend changes it deems advisable. Title II: Nature and Scope of Benefits - Sets forth procedures to be used in determining whether insitutions are qualified health services providers under this Act. Includes within covered professional services: (1) preventive children's health services; and (2) professional services for the diagnosis, treatment, or rehabilitation of a child following injury, disability, or disease. Includes within covered inpatient hospital services: (1) emergency medical care for children; (2) inpatient services for a child under the age of 12 in a qualified pediatric unit; (3) inpatient services for a child 12 years of age or older in a qualified hospital; and (4) child inpatient services in a qualified nursing home. Includes the following services within the coverage of this Act: (1) rehabilitative services, encompassing physical therapy and speech therapy; (2) social services; and (3) mental health services, encompassing psychiatric and psychological services furnished to a child in a qualified facility. Includes within coverage drugs and biologicals prescribed for a child who is not an inpatient in a nursing home or hospital if such drug or biological is prescribed to be t… | 2025-09-02T18:49:17Z | |
| 94-hr-14319 | 94 | hr | 14319 | Clinical Laboratory Improvement Act | Health | 1976-06-10 | 1976-09-20 | Measure failed of passage in House under suspension of rules, roll call #767 (193-188). | House | Rep. Rogers, Paul G. [D-FL-11] | FL | D | R000401 | 9 | (Reported to House from the Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce with amendment, H. Rept. 94-1484) Clinical Laboratory Improvement Act - Amends the Public Health Service Act to require the licensing of clinical laboratories. Sets forth the standards that must be met to receive and maintain such a license. Directs the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare to publish, administer, and enforce national standards for clinical laboratories to assure consistent performance by the laboratories of accurate tests and other procedures. Authorizes the Secretary to delegate regulation and licensing authority to a State if the Secretary determines that such State: (1) has adopted standards for such laboratories and a system of licensure which are no less stringent than the national standards and licensing system; (2) has adopted and is implementing adequate enforcement procedures; (3) will keep records and make reports as the Secretary may require; (4) permits exemptions from the requirements which are no less stringent than exemptions from national standards; and (5) has adopted and can implement adequate procedures for the control of health hazards which may result from an activity of a clinical laboratory. Enumerates conditions under which the Secretary may suspend or revoke the license of a clinical laboratory. Authorizes anyone aggrieved by suspension or revocation of a clinical laboratory license to file a petition for review with the appropriate United States court of appeals. Makes all consequent judgments of such courts subject to review by the Supreme Court. Stipulates that any unlicensed person, required to be licensed under this Act, who solicits or accepts directly or indirectly any specimen for laboratory examination shall be fined not more than $10,000, imprisoned for not more than one year, or both. Stipulates that any owner, operator, or employee of a clinical laboratory who willfully engages in any false, fictitious, or fraudulent billing practice for the purpose of obtaining paymen… | 2025-09-02T18:49:13Z | |
| 94-hr-14209 | 94 | hr | 14209 | National Diabetes Advisory Board Act | Health | 1976-06-04 | 1976-06-04 | Referred to House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce. | House | Rep. Whalen, Charles W., Jr. [R-OH-3] | OH | R | W000317 | 0 | National Diabetes Advisory Board Act - Directs the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare to establish a National Diabetes Advisory Board to insure the implementation of the long-range plan formulated by the National Commission on Diabetes to combat diabetes. Specifies seven Federal health officers as members of the Board, in addition to seven health professionals and five members of the general public to be appointed by the Secretary. Makes provision for staffing and compensation. Authorizes the Board to enter into contracts or other arrangements, or to take such other action as may be necessary to carry out its functions. Authorizes the Board to engage in and sponsor activities, collect data, and provide technical assistance as it deems necessary and advisable in the performance of its functions. Requires the Board to submit simultaneously to the President and Congress an Annual Diabetes Report describing Board activities in the prior year and progress made in diabetes research, treatment, and education with specific reference to the long-range plan to combat diabetes mellitus and suggesting recommended future expenditures and legislation. Authorizes the appropriation of $500,000 for fiscal year 1976 and such sums as are necessary for each of the four fiscal years thereafter. Authorizes the Secretary to make distinguished scientist awards to individual scientists who have shown continuous and outstanding productivity in diabetes research for the purpose of continuing such research. Limits the amount of each grant to no more than $35,000 per year. Authorizes the appropriation of specified amounts for the purpose of making such grants in fiscal years 1976-1980. Authorizes, under the Public Health Service Act, the appropriation of specified sums in fiscal years 1977-1981 for the purpose of making grants to centers for research and training in diabetes mellitus and related endocrine and metabolic disorders. | 2025-09-02T18:49:10Z | |
| 94-hr-14155 | 94 | hr | 14155 | National Diabetes Advisory Board Act | Health | 1976-06-03 | 1976-06-03 | Referred to House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce. | House | Rep. Carter, Tim Lee [R-KY-5] | KY | R | C000201 | 13 | National Diabetes Advisory Board Act - Directs the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare to establish a National Diabetes Advisory Board to insure the implementation of the long-range plan formulated by the National Commission on Diabetes to combat diabetes. Specifies seven Federal health officers as members of the Board, in addition to seven health professionals and five members of the general public to be appointed by the Secretary. Makes provision for staffing and compensation. Authorizes the Board to enter into contracts or other arrangements, or to take such other action as may be necessary to carry out its functions. Authorizes the Board to engage in and sponsor activities, collect data, and provide technical assistance as it deems necessary and advisable in the performance of its functions. Requires the Board to submit simultaneously to the President and Congress an Annual Diabetes Report describing Board activities in the prior year and progress made in diabetes research, treatment, and education with specific reference to the long-range plan to combat diabetes mellitus and suggesting recommended future expenditures and legislation. Authorizes the appropriation of $500,000 for fiscal year 1976 and such sums as are necessary for each of the four fiscal years thereafter. Authorizes the Secretary to make distinguished scientist awards to individual scientists who have shown continuous and outstanding productivity in diabetes research for the purpose of continuing such research. Limits the amount of each grant to no more than $35,000 per year. Authorizes the appropriation of specified amounts for the purpose of making such grants in fiscal years 1976-1980. Authorizes, under the Public Health Service Act, the appropriation of specified sums in fiscal years 1977-1981 for the purpose of making grants to centers for research and training in diabetes mellitus and related endocrine and metabolic disorders. | 2025-09-02T18:49:09Z | |
| 94-hr-14102 | 94 | hr | 14102 | A bill to promote the provision and availability of necessary health services for the elderly by expanding existing programs of grants for home health services, requiring the inclusion of specified preventive and home health services under the medicaid program and making various improvements in the administration of such program, providing assistance to demonstration and pilot-projects for home health and supportive services (including demonstration grants for community care), and authorizing grants for annual health fairs and mobile geriatric health units. | Health | 1976-06-01 | 1976-06-01 | Referred to House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce. | House | Rep. Pepper, Claude [D-FL-14] | FL | D | P000218 | 18 | Amends the Health Revenue Sharing and Health Services Act to permit the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare to make grants and loans for the initial costs of establishing and operating home health agencies and for expansion of their services. Permits the Secretary to make grants to educational institutions and other public and nonprofit private entities for programs for the training of guidance counselors, social workers, nurses, geriatric specialists, and other home health services personnel. Authorizes the appropriation of specified amounts for fiscal year 1977 for the purpose of making such grants. Amends title XIX (Medicaid) of the Social Security Act to include within its medical coverage: (1) preventive health care, including an annual comprehensive physical examination of older individuals, and diagnostic services; (2) hearing aids, foot care, dental care, and vision aids (including hearing and vision examinations for older individuals); (3) care and services provided by outpatient clinics for the elderly; (4) nutritional counseling; (5) professional guidance and counseling for aged and disabled individuals living alone at home; (6) periodic chore services; and (7) hospital outreach services. Revises such Act to require State comprehensive medical plans to include provisions for intermediate care facility services. Charges the Professional Standards Review Organization with the same responsibility for review of health care services in the case of skilled nursing homes, intermediate care facilities, and other long-term care providers as now required with respect to hospitals. Permits the Secretary to make grants to States to assist them in funding specified demonstration and pilot projects to determine the effectiveness of various home health and supportive services. Permits the Secretary to make grants to political subdivisions of States to enable them to conduct annual health fairs through which individuals over age 60 would be provided free medical checkups. Authorizes the Secretary to make demo… | 2024-08-01T19:32:11Z | |
| 94-hr-14103 | 94 | hr | 14103 | A bill to promote the provision and availability of necessary health services for the elderly by expanding existing programs of grants for home health services, requiring the inclusion of specified preventive and home health services under the medicaid program and making various improvements in the administration of such program, providing assistance to demonstration and pilot projects for home health and supportive services (including demonstration grants for community care), and authorizing grants for annual health fairs and mobile geriatric health units. | Health | 1976-06-01 | 1976-06-01 | Referred to House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce. | House | Rep. Pepper, Claude [D-FL-14] | FL | D | P000218 | 17 | Amends the Health Revenue Sharing and Health Services Act to permit the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare to make grants and loans for the initial costs of establishing and operating home health agencies and for expansion of their services. Permits the Secretary to make grants to educational institutions and other public and nonprofit private entities for programs for the training of guidance counselors, social workers, nurses, geriatric specialists, and other home health services personnel. Authorizes the appropriation of specified amounts for fiscal year 1977 for the purpose of making such grants. Amends title XIX (Medicaid) of the Social Security Act to include within its medical coverage: (1) preventive health care, including an annual comprehensive physical examination of older individuals, and diagnostic services; (2) hearing aids, foot care, dental care, and vision aids (including hearing and vision examinations for older individuals); (3) care and services provided by outpatient clinics for the elderly; (4) nutritional counseling; (5) professional guidance and counseling for aged and disabled individuals living alone at home; (6) periodic chore services; and (7) hospital outreach services. Revises such Act to require State comprehensive medical plans to include provisions for intermediate care facility services. Charges the Professional Standards Review Organization with the same responsibility for review of health care services in the case of skilled nursing homes, intermediate care facilities, and other long-term care providers as now required with respect to hospitals. Permits the Secretary to make grants to States to assist them in funding specified demonstration and pilot projects to determine the effectiveness of various home health and supportive services. Permits the Secretary to make grants to political subdivisions of States to enable them to conduct annual health fairs through which individuals over age 60 would be provided free medical checkups. Authorizes the Secretary to make demo… | 2024-08-01T19:32:11Z | |
| 94-hr-13868 | 94 | hr | 13868 | Comprehensive Medical Practice Act | Health | 1976-05-18 | 1976-05-18 | Referred to House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce. | House | Rep. Maguire, Andrew [D-NJ-7] | NJ | D | M000058 | 0 | Comprehensive Medical Practice Act - Amends the Public Health Service Act to add "Title XVII - Comprehensive Medical Practices." Defines a 'comprehensive medical practice' as a legal entity which: (1) provides medical services through health professionals licensed to practice medicine or osteopathy, a specified number of whom engage in family medicine, primary pediatrics, or primary internal medicine; (2) offers a comprehensive variety of medical services reasonably expected to meet the majority of medical needs of the area it serves; (3) offers each patient an individual health professional primarily responsible for the continuity of care of such individual by the entity; (4) shares equipment, facilities, and persnonnel among its member; (5) meets applicable accreditation standards; and (6) maintains an information program for the residents of its service area, such program fully disclosing the services offered, the fees charged, and the method of resolving billing or medical services grievances. Authorizes the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare to make grants to entities for activities to determine the feasibility of developing, operating, or expanding comprehensive medical practices. Authorizes the Secretary to make grants, contracts, and loan guarantees for planning, initial development, and initial operation costs for such practices. Establishes in the Treasury a loan guarantee fund to be available to the Secretary without fiscal year limitation for the discharge of the Secretary's loan guarantee responsibilities under this Act. Authorizes the appropriation, from time to time, of such amounts as may be necessary for purposes of such fund. Establishes in the Treasury a loan fund to be available to the Secretary without fiscal year limitation to enable the Secretary to make loans under this Act. Authorizes the appropriation of specified sums in fiscal years 1978 through 1980 to carry out the provisions of this Act. Authorizes the Secretary to make available to insurers reinsurance against claim… | 2025-09-02T18:48:58Z | |
| 94-hr-13805 | 94 | hr | 13805 | National Diabetes Advisory Board Act | Health | 1976-05-17 | 1976-05-17 | Referred to House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce. | House | Rep. Alexander, Bill [D-AR-1] | AR | D | A000103 | 0 | National Diabetes Advisory Board Act - Directs the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare to establish a National Diabetes Advisory Board to insure the implementation of the long-range plan formulated by the National Commission on Diabetes to combat diabetes. Specifies seven Federal health officers as members of the Board, in addition to seven health professionals and five members of the general public to be appointed by the Secretary. Makes provision for staffing and compensation. Authorizes the Board to enter into contracts or other arrangements, or to take such other action as may be necessary to carry out its functions. Authorizes the Board to engage in and sponsor activities, collect data, and provide technical assistance as it deems necessary and advisable in the performance of its functions. Requires the Board to submit simultaneously to the President and Congress an Annual Diabetes Report describing Board activities in the prior year and progress made in diabetes research, treatment, and education with specific reference to the long-range plan to combat diabetes mellitus and suggesting recommended future expenditures and legislation. Authorizes the appropriation of $500,000 for fiscal year 1976 and such sums as are necessary for each of the four fiscal years thereafter. Authorizes the Secretary to make distinguished scientist awards to individual scientists who have shown continuous and outstanding productivity in diabetes research for the purpose of continuing such research. Limits the amount of each grant to no more than $35,000 per year. Authorizes the appropriation of specified amounts for the purpose of making such grants in fiscal years 1976-1980. Authorizes, under the Public Health Service Act, the appropriation of specified sums in fiscal years 1977-1981 for the purpose of making grants to centers for research and training in diabetes mellitus and related endocrine and metabolic disorders. | 2025-09-02T18:48:58Z | |
| 94-hr-13794 | 94 | hr | 13794 | A bill to amend the Public Health Service Act to provide authority for special bonuses for certain officers and employees of the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare. | Health | 1976-05-13 | 1976-05-13 | Referred to House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce. | House | Rep. Rogers, Paul G. [D-FL-11] | FL | D | R000401 | 1 | Authorizes the Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare, for the purpose of recruiting and retaining officers and employees of the Department who demonstrate unusual talents and abilities or who have major supervisory duties, to give an annual bonus not to exceed $15,000 to such officers and employees. Restricts the number of recipients to 25 in a fiscal year. | 2024-08-01T19:32:02Z | |
| 94-hr-13621 | 94 | hr | 13621 | Emergency Medical Services Amendments | Health | 1976-05-06 | 1976-05-06 | Referred to House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce. | House | Rep. Mollohan, Robert H. [D-WV-1] | WV | D | M000845 | 1 | Emergency Medical Services Amendments - Extends the authorization for appropriations through fiscal year 1979 for emergency medical service systems under the Public Health Service Act. Revises provisions related to grants and contracts for the establishment, initial operation, expansion, and improvement of such systems and grants and contracts for research in emergency medical techniques. Authorizes the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare to conduct and support programs designed to aid in the treatment and rehabilitation of individuals injured by burns. Directs the Secretary to conduct studies of: (1) the categories of patients which should be included in a uniform reporting system to evaluate the effectiveness of emergency medical service systems in reducing death and disability; and (2) the effectiveness of Federal assistance for communication systems of public safety agencies. | 2025-09-02T18:48:51Z | |
| 94-s-3372 | 94 | s | 3372 | Home Health Extension Act | Health | 1976-05-04 | 1976-05-04 | Referred to Senate Committee on Labor and Public Welfare. | Senate | Sen. Church, Frank [D-ID] | ID | D | C000388 | 0 | Home Health Extension Act - Increases by specified amounts the sums authorized to be appropriated for purposes of demonstrating the establishment and initial operation of public and nonprofit private agencies providing home health services and for the purposes of demonstrating the training of professional and paraprofessional personnel in fiscal year 1976. Authorizes the appropriation of specified amounts for such purposes in fiscal year 1977. | 2025-09-02T18:52:21Z | |
| 94-hr-13428 | 94 | hr | 13428 | National School-Age Mother and Child Health Act | Health | 1976-04-29 | 1976-04-29 | Referred to House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce. | House | Rep. du Pont, Pierre S., IV [R-DE-At Large] | DE | R | D000558 | 0 | National School-Age Mother and Child Health Act - Amends the Public Health Service Act to authorize the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare to make grants to designated State agencies to meet part of the cost of planning and coordinating services for school age girls and their children. Sets forth requirements which the State plans must meet before receiving such grants, including: comprehensive health care to school-age girls (associated with the continuation of pregnancy) and to their children, family planning and counseling, infant and child day care and a coordinated program of social services. Directs that no identifying information of persons receiving services shall be collected by the Federal or State government. Authorizes the appropriation of $30,000,000 for fiscal year 1976 and for each of the next two succeeding fiscal years to carry out the purposes of this Act. Establishes a unit within the Maternal and Child Health Service of the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare to administer and coordinate the program established by this Act. | 2025-09-02T18:48:44Z | |
| 94-hr-13457 | 94 | hr | 13457 | A bill to regulate Defense Department experimental procedures on human subjects. | Health | 1976-04-29 | 1976-04-29 | Referred to House Committee on Armed Services. | House | Rep. Downey, Thomas J. [D-NY-2] | NY | D | D000471 | 0 | Prohibits any research, development or related activities by the Department of Defense or its contracting parties where human subjects are at risk unless the Secretary of Defense determines that the risks to the human subjects are substantially outweighed by the sum of the benefit to the subjects and the importance of the knowledge to be gained. Requires the filing of a report with the Committees on Armed Services of the Congress prior to the beginning of any such experimental procedure setting forth the purpose, risks, procedure, and information sought to be gained from such experiment. Requires the express approval of such Committees before any such experiment may be undertaken. Requires the informed consent of any human subject before participation in such experiment. Allows individuals to withdraw such consent. States that consent shall be deemed withdrawn 30 days after it is given. Sets forth the standards which must be met for informed consent. Prohibits the undue inducement of any individual involuntarily confined in a correctional facility or mental institution to participate in such experimentation. Sets forth the information which must be included in the medical records of all participants in such experimental procedures. Requires the onsite supervision of such experimental procedures by a representative of the Secretary. Requires the submission of a final report to the Secretary and the Senate and House Committees on Armed Services upon the termination of such experiments and the submission of an annual report to the Secretary for experiments of extended duration. Sets forth civil penalties for violations of this Act. | 2025-06-06T14:17:56Z | |
| 94-hr-13468 | 94 | hr | 13468 | National Digestive Diseases Act | Health | 1976-04-29 | 1976-04-29 | Referred to House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce. | House | Rep. Rogers, Paul G. [D-FL-11] | FL | D | R000401 | 0 | National Digestive Diseases Act - Directs the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare to establish a National Commission on Digestive Diseases. Directs the Commission to develop and recommend a long-range plan for the use of national resources to deal with digestive diseases, such plan to include provisions for: (1) research studies into the biological process related to digestive diseases; (2) investigations into the epidemiology, etiology, diagnosis, treatment, prevention, and control of such diseases; (3) development of coordinated health care systems to combat digestive diseases; and (4) education and training of scientists, clinicians, educators, and allied health professionals in fields related to digestive diseases. Directs the Commission to make a final report to Congress within 18 months of its initial meeting, such report to include the projected costs of implementing programs to combat digestive diseases, legislative recommendations, and a long-range plan for dealing with such diseases. Authorizes the appropriation of $1,500,000, without fiscal year limitation, to carry out the purposes of the Commission set forth in this Act. Directs the Secretary to establish a Coordinating Committee for Digestive Diseases to improve coordination among Federal agencies in the research, training, control, and treatment of digestive diseases. | 2025-09-02T18:48:47Z | |
| 94-hr-13270 | 94 | hr | 13270 | National Diabetes Advisory Board Act | Health | 1976-04-26 | 1976-04-26 | Referred to House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce. | House | Rep. Carter, Tim Lee [R-KY-5] | KY | R | C000201 | 13 | National Diabetes Advisory Board Act - Directs the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare to establish a National Diabetes Advisory Board to insure the implementation of the long-range plan formulated by the National Commission on Diabetes to combat diabetes. Specifies seven Federal health officers as members of the Board, in addition to seven health professionals and five members of the general public to be appointed by the Secretary. Makes provision for staffing and compensation. Authorizes the Board to enter into contracts or other arrangements, or to take such other action as may be necessary to carry out its functions. Authorizes the Board to engage in and sponsor activities, collect data, and provide technical assistance as it deems necessary and advisable in the performance of its functions. Requires the Board to submit simultaneously to the President and Congress an Annual Diabetes Report describing Board activities in the prior year and progress made in diabetes research, treatment, and education with specific reference to the long-range plan to combat diabetes mellitus and suggesting recommended future expenditures and legislation. Authorizes the appropriation of $500,000 for fiscal year 1976 and such sums as are necessary for each of the four fiscal years thereafter. Authorizes the Secretary to make distinguished scientist awards to individual scientists who have shown continuous and outstanding productivity in diabetes research for the purpose of continuing such research. Limits the amount of each grant to no more than $35,000 per year. Authorizes the appropriation of specified amounts for the purpose of making such grants in fiscal years 1976-1980. Authorizes, under the Public Health Service Act, the appropriation of specified sums in fiscal years 1977-1981 for the purpose of making grants to centers for research and training in diabetes mellitus and related endocrine and metabolic disorders. | 2025-09-02T18:48:39Z | |
| 94-hr-13265 | 94 | hr | 13265 | A bill to amend the Public Health Service Act to provide additional personnel positions for the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare. | Health | 1976-04-14 | 1976-04-14 | Referred to House Committee on Post Office and Civil Service. | House | Rep. Rogers, Paul G. [D-FL-11] | FL | D | R000401 | 0 | Amends the Public Health Service Act to authorize the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare to create 50 additional positions in the Public Health Service, raising the total number of positions to 200. Requires that not less than 125 positions be for the National Institutes of Health and that not less than 25 be for the entity through which the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act is administered. | 2024-08-01T19:31:42Z | |
| 94-hr-13118 | 94 | hr | 13118 | National Digestive Diseases Act | Health | 1976-04-08 | 1976-04-08 | Referred to House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce. | House | Rep. Carter, Tim Lee [R-KY-5] | KY | R | C000201 | 0 | National Digestive Diseases Act - Directs the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare to establish a National Commission on Digestive Diseases. Directs the Commission to develop and recommend a long-range plan for the use of national resources to deal with digestive diseases, such plan to include provisions for: (1) research studies into the biological process related to digestive diseases; (2) investigations into the epidemiology, etiology, diagnosis, treatment, prevention, and control of such diseases; (3) development of coordinated health care systems to combat digestive diseases; and (4) education and training of scientists, clinicians, educators, and allied health professionals in fields related to digestive diseases. Directs the Commission to make a final report to Congress within 18 months of its initial meeting, such report to include the projected costs of implementing programs to combat digestive diseases, legislative recommendations, and a long-range plan for dealing with such diseases. Authorizes the appropriation of $1,500,000, without fiscal year limitation, to carry out the purposes of the Commission set forth in this Act. Directs the Secretary to establish a Coordinating Committee for Digestive Diseases to improve coordination among Federal agencies in the research, training, control, and treatment of digestive diseases. | 2025-09-02T18:48:37Z | |
| 94-hr-13051 | 94 | hr | 13051 | National Diabetes Advisory Board Act | Health | 1976-04-06 | 1976-04-06 | Referred to House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce. | House | Rep. McDade, Joseph M. [R-PA-10] | PA | R | M000399 | 0 | National Diabetes Advisory Board Act - Directs the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare to establish a National Diabetes Advisory Board to insure the implementation of the long-range plan formulated by the National Commission on Diabetes to combat diabetes. Specifies seven Federal health officers as members of the Board, in addition to seven health professionals and five members of the general public to be appointed by the Secretary. Makes provision for staffing and compensation. Authorizes the Board to enter into contracts or other arrangements, or to take such other action as may be necessary to carry out its functions. Authorizes the Board to engage in and sponsor activities, collect data, and provide technical assistance as it deems necessary and advisable in the performance of its functions. Requires the Board to submit simultaneously to the President and Congress an Annual Diabetes Report describing Board activities in the prior year and progress made in diabetes research, treatment, and education with specific reference to the long-range plan to combat diabetes mellitus and suggesting recommended future expenditures and legislation. Authorizes the appropriation of $500,000 for fiscal year 1976 and such sums as are necessary for each of the four fiscal years thereafter. Authorizes the Secretary to make distinguished scientist awards to individual scientists who have shown continuous and outstanding productivity in diabetes research for the purpose of continuing such research. Limits the amount of each grant to no more than $35,000 per year. Authorizes the appropriation of specified amounts for the purpose of making such grants in fiscal years 1976-1980. Authorizes, under the Public Health Service Act, the appropriation of specified sums in fiscal years 1977-1981 for the purpose of making grants to centers for research and training in diabetes mellitus and related endocrine and metabolic disorders. | 2025-09-02T18:48:32Z | |
| 94-hr-13020 | 94 | hr | 13020 | A bill to amend the provisions of the Public Health Service Act relating to the compensation for professional, scientific, and executive positions within the National Institutes of Health. | Health | 1976-04-05 | 1976-04-05 | Referred to House Committee on Post Office and Civil Service. | House | Rep. Carter, Tim Lee [R-KY-5] | KY | R | C000201 | 0 | Amends the Public Health Service Act to exempt professional, scientific, and executive positions within the National Institutes of Health from the compensation limitations of level V of the Executive Schedule. | 2024-08-01T19:31:26Z | |
| 94-hr-12989 | 94 | hr | 12989 | National Diabetes Advisory Board Act | Health | 1976-04-02 | 1976-04-02 | Referred to House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce. | House | Rep. Carter, Tim Lee [R-KY-5] | KY | R | C000201 | 16 | National Diabetes Advisory Board Act - Directs the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare to establish a National Diabetes Advisory Board to insure the implementation of the long-range plan formulated by the National Commission on Diabetes to combat diabetes. Specifies seven Federal health officers as members of the Board, in addition to seven health professionals and five members of the general public to be appointed by the Secretary. Makes provision for staffing and compensation. Authorizes the Board to enter into contracts or other arrangements, or to take such other action as may be necessary to carry out its functions. Authorizes the Board to engage in and sponsor activities, collect data, and provide technical assistance as it deems necessary and advisable in the performance of its functions. Requires the Board to submit simultaneously to the President and Congress an Annual Diabetes Report describing Board activities in the prior year and progress made in diabetes research, treatment, and education with specific reference to the long-range plan to combat diabetes mellitus and suggesting recommended future expenditures and legislation. Authorizes the appropriation of $500,000 for fiscal year 1976 and such sums as are necessary for each of the four fiscal years thereafter. Authorizes the Secretary to make distinguished scientist awards to individual scientists who have shown continuous and outstanding productivity in diabetes research for the purpose of continuing such research. Limits the amount of each grant to no more than $35,000 per year. Authorizes the appropriation of specified amounts for the purpose of making such grants in fiscal years 1976-1980. Authorizes, under the Public Health Service Act, the appropriation of specified sums in fiscal years 1977-1981 for the purpose of making grants to centers for research and training in diabetes mellitus and related endocrine and metabolic disorders. | 2025-09-02T18:48:33Z | |
| 94-hr-13012 | 94 | hr | 13012 | National Influenza Program | Health | 1976-04-02 | 1976-04-06 | Referred to Senate Committee on Labor and Public Welfare. | House | Rep. Rogers, Paul G. [D-FL-11] | FL | D | R000401 | 1 | National Influenza Program - Amends the Public Health Service Act to direct the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare to establish, conduct, and support needed activities to carry out a national influenza immunization program. Requires the Secretary to make quarterly reports to Congress on the administration of such activities. Authorizes the appropriation of $136,000,000 to carry out the purposes of this Act. | 2025-09-02T18:48:36Z | |
| 94-hr-12955 | 94 | hr | 12955 | Financial Assistance for Health Care Act | Health | 1976-04-01 | 1976-04-01 | Referred to House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce. | House | Rep. Michel, Robert H. [R-IL-18] | IL | R | M000692 | 0 | Financial Assistance for Health Care Act - Declares it the purpose of this Act to assist each State, territory, and the District of Columbia in assuring all residents, particularly low income persons, of access to needed health services of acceptable quality. Title I: Financial Assistance for Health Care - Authorizes the appropriation of specified sums for the purposes of carrying out this title, and sets forth the manner and methods of distribution. Requires each State to expend not less than 90 percent of the amount payable to it to provide personal health services to low- income persons, and not less than five percent on: (1) community health protection; (2) community-based services in mental health, alcoholism, and drug abuse; and (3) developmental disabilities programs. Requires each State to formulate a State health care plan setting forth a description of: (1) State health services activities; (2) the needs of individuals living in rural or medically underserved areas; (3) the supply and distribution of health facilities, services, and manpower; and (4) the relationship of the plan's provisions to its effect on children, the elderly, migrants, the mentally ill, the handicapped, alcoholics, drug abusers, and those suffering from developmental disabilities. Directs that each State plan provide for the administration of a certificate of need program to review the need for new institutional health services. Requires such plan to provide for an annual audit of State expenditures, assessment of the plan's implementation, and a report of such audit and assessment. Directs each State to create two or more sub-State health planning districts, each with a health planning body to develop proposed provisions for inclusion in the State plan. Directs each State receiving financial assistance for health care to certify to the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare that it has a qualified State health care plan. Allows the Secretary, upon determination that the plan fails to comply with requirements, to make no f… | 2025-09-02T18:48:31Z | |
| 94-s-3239 | 94 | s | 3239 | Health Professions Educational Assistance Act | Health | 1976-04-01 | 1976-07-01 | Measure indefinitely postponed in Senate, H.R. 5546 passed in lieu. | Senate | Sen. Kennedy, Edward M. [D-MA] | MA | D | K000105 | 13 | (Measure indefinitely postponed in Senate, H.R. 5546 passed in lieu) Health Professions Educational Assistance Act - =Title I: Extension of Current Authorities Through Fiscal Year 1977= - Amends the Public Health Service Act to extend appropriation authorizations for specified medical training and education programs through fiscal year 1977. Permits a component school or entity to apply directly for a construction grant, if it has the approval of an affiliated, accredited school also participating in the program. Defines the term regional health profession schools as interstate cooperative programs which may involve several schools sharing a curriculum. =Title II: General Provisions= - Requires any entity providing health services to an area where large segments of the population are of limited English-speaking ability to emphasize the recruitment of health personnel speaking the language predominantly spoken by such segments of the population as a prerequisite to receiving assistance under such Act. Directs the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare to encourage the development of cooperative interdisciplinary training among health professions schools, emphasizing the use of the team approach to the delivery of health services and the training and utilization of auxiliary health personnel. Directs the Secretary to establish a program to collect and analyze health professions data. Directs the Secretary to conduct or enter into contracts for the evaluation and projection of the supply and requirements for the health professions by specialty and geographic location. Directs the Secretary to establish by regulation criteria for determining allowable increases in tuition and other educational costs for which he shall be responsible for payment under this Act. Requires the Secretary to conduct a study to determine the national average per student educational cost of providing education programs leading to a degree of doctor of chiropractics. =Title III: Student Assistance= - Limits student m… | 2025-09-02T18:52:16Z | |
| 94-hr-12937 | 94 | hr | 12937 | Maternal and Child Health Care Act | Health | 1976-03-31 | 1976-03-31 | Referred to House Committee on Ways and Means. | House | Rep. Scheuer, James H. [D-NY-11] | NY | D | S000124 | 0 | Maternal and Child Health Care Act - Title I: General Provisions and Administration - Entitles every individual who is a United State citizen or an alien lawfully admitted for permanent residence, and who is a child or who is pregnant, to have payment made for health care services received by such individual in accordance with this Act. Establishes in the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare a Maternal and Child Health Board. Directs the Board to continuously study the operation of this Act and the most effective methods of providing comprehensive personal health services to mothers and children. Requires the Board to report annually to Congress on its activities. Establishes a National Maternal and Child Health Council to advise the Board on matters of general policy, study the operation of this Act, and recommend changes it deems advisable. Title II: Nature and Scope of Benefits - Sets forth procedures to be used in determining whether insitutions are qualified health services providers under this Act. Includes within covered professional services: (1) preventive children's health services; and (2) professional services for the diagnosis, treatment, or rehabilitation of a child following injury, disability, or disease. Includes within covered inpatient hospital services: (1) emergency medical care for children; (2) inpatient services for a child under the age of 12 in a qualified pediatric unit; (3) inpatient services for a child 12 years of age or older in a qualified hospital; and (4) child inpatient services in a qualified nursing home. Includes the following services within the coverage of this Act: (1) rehabilitative services, encompassing physical therapy and speech therapy; (2) social services; and (3) mental health services, encompassing psychiatric and psychological services furnished to a child in a qualified facility. Includes within coverage drugs and biologicals prescribed for a child who is not an inpatient in a nursing home or hospital if such drug or biological is prescribed to be t… | 2025-09-02T18:48:35Z | |
| 94-hr-12867 | 94 | hr | 12867 | A bill to amend the Public Health Service Act to require a study to assess the effect of treatment of juvenile-onset diabetes on the development of microvascular and macrovascular complications. | Health | 1976-03-30 | 1976-03-30 | Referred to House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce. | House | Rep. AuCoin, Les [D-OR-1] | OR | D | A000337 | 0 | Amends the Public Health Service Act to direct the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare to initiate and support a study to assess the effect of treatment of juvenile-onset diabetes on the development of microvascular and macrovascular complications. Requires the Secretary to publish and make available to Congress and the health professions the results of such study. Authorizes the appropriation of such sums as are necessary to carry out this Act for fiscal year 1977 and the next four fiscal years. | 2024-08-01T19:31:16Z | |
| 94-hr-12893 | 94 | hr | 12893 | National Diabetes Advisory Board Act | Health | 1976-03-30 | 1976-03-30 | Referred to House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce. | House | Rep. Quillen, James H. (Jimmy) [R-TN-1] | TN | R | Q000013 | 0 | National Diabetes Advisory Board Act - Directs the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare to establish a National Diabetes Advisory Board to insure the implementation of the long-range plan formulated by the National Commission on Diabetes to combat diabetes. Specifies seven Federal health officers as members of the Board, in addition to seven health professionals and five members of the general public to be appointed by the Secretary. Makes provision for staffing and compensation. Authorizes the Board to enter into contracts or other arrangements, or to take such other action as may be necessary to carry out its functions. Authorizes the Board to engage in and sponsor activities, collect data, and provide technical assistance as it deems necessary and advisable in the performance of its functions. Requires the Board to submit simultaneously to the President and Congress an Annual Diabetes Report describing Board activities in the prior year and progress made in diabetes research, treatment, and education with specific reference to the long-range plan to combat diabetes mellitus and suggesting recommended future expenditures and legislation. Authorizes the appropriation of $500,000 for fiscal year 1976 and such sums as are necessary for each of the four fiscal years thereafter. Authorizes the Secretary to make distinguished scientist awards to individual scientists who have shown continuous and outstanding productivity in diabetes research for the purpose of continuing such research. Limits the amount of each grant to no more than $35,000 per year. Authorizes the appropriation of specified amounts for the purpose of making such grants in fiscal years 1976-1980. Authorizes, under the Public Health Service Act, the appropriation of specified sums in fiscal years 1977-1981 for the purpose of making grants to centers for research and training in diabetes mellitus and related endocrine and metabolic disorders. | 2025-09-02T18:48:31Z | |
| 94-hr-12846 | 94 | hr | 12846 | National Diabetes Advisory Board Act | Health | 1976-03-29 | 1976-03-29 | Referred to House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce. | House | Rep. Keys, Martha E. [D-KS-2] | KS | D | K000162 | 0 | National Diabetes Advisory Board Act - Directs the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare to establish a National Diabetes Advisory Board to insure the implementation of the long-range plan formulated by the National Commission on Diabetes to combat diabetes. Specifies seven Federal health officers as members of the Board, in addition to seven health professionals and five members of the general public to be appointed by the Secretary. Makes provision for staffing and compensation. Authorizes the Board to enter into contracts or other arrangements, or to take such other action as may be necessary to carry out its functions. Authorizes the Board to engage in and sponsor activities, collect data, and provide technical assistance as it deems necessary and advisable in the performance of its functions. Requires the Board to submit simultaneously to the President and Congress an Annual Diabetes Report describing Board activities in the prior year and progress made in diabetes research, treatment, and education with specific reference to the long-range plan to combat diabetes mellitus and suggesting recommended future expenditures and legislation. Authorizes the appropriation of $500,000 for fiscal year 1976 and such sums as are necessary for each of the four fiscal years thereafter. Authorizes the Secretary to make distinguished scientist awards to individual scientists who have shown continuous and outstanding productivity in diabetes research for the purpose of continuing such research. Limits the amount of each grant to no more than $35,000 per year. Authorizes the appropriation of specified amounts for the purpose of making such grants in fiscal years 1976-1980. Authorizes, under the Public Health Service Act, the appropriation of specified sums in fiscal years 1977-1981 for the purpose of making grants to centers for research and training in diabetes mellitus and related endocrine and metabolic disorders. | 2025-09-02T18:48:27Z | |
| 94-hr-12856 | 94 | hr | 12856 | National Diabetes Advisory Board Act | Health | 1976-03-29 | 1976-03-29 | Referred to House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce. | House | Rep. Roybal, Edward R. [D-CA-25] | CA | D | R000485 | 0 | National Diabetes Advisory Board Act - Directs the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare to establish a National Diabetes Advisory Board to insure the implementation of the long-range plan formulated by the National Commission on Diabetes to combat diabetes. Specifies seven Federal health officers as members of the Board, in addition to seven health professionals and five members of the general public to be appointed by the Secretary. Makes provision for staffing and compensation. Authorizes the Board to enter into contracts or other arrangements, or to take such other action as may be necessary to carry out its functions. Authorizes the Board to engage in and sponsor activities, collect data, and provide technical assistance as it deems necessary and advisable in the performance of its functions. Requires the Board to submit simultaneously to the President and Congress an Annual Diabetes Report describing Board activities in the prior year and progress made in diabetes research, treatment, and education with specific reference to the long-range plan to combat diabetes mellitus and suggesting recommended future expenditures and legislation. Authorizes the appropriation of $500,000 for fiscal year 1976 and such sums as are necessary for each of the four fiscal years thereafter. Authorizes the Secretary to make distinguished scientist awards to individual scientists who have shown continuous and outstanding productivity in diabetes research for the purpose of continuing such research. Limits the amount of each grant to no more than $35,000 per year. Authorizes the appropriation of specified amounts for the purpose of making such grants in fiscal years 1976-1980. Authorizes, under the Public Health Service Act, the appropriation of specified sums in fiscal years 1977-1981 for the purpose of making grants to centers for research and training in diabetes mellitus and related endocrine and metabolic disorders. | 2025-09-02T18:48:27Z | |
| 94-s-3194 | 94 | s | 3194 | A bill to amend section 241 of the National Housing Act to provide supplemental loans for hospitals. | Health | 1976-03-23 | 1976-03-23 | Referred to Senate Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs. | Senate | Sen. Williams, Harrison A., Jr. [D-NJ] | NJ | D | W000502 | 0 | Amends the National Housing Act to allow the Federal Housing Administration to insure supplemental loans for hospitals. | 2025-01-14T18:20:21Z | |
| 94-s-3184 | 94 | s | 3184 | Comprehensive Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism Prevention, Treatment, and Rehabilitation Act Amendments of 1976 | Health | 1976-03-19 | 1976-07-26 | Public law 94-371. | Senate | Sen. Hathaway, William D. [D-ME] | ME | D | H000346 | 0 | (Conference report filed in House, H. Rept. 94-1285) Comprehensive Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism Prevention, Treatment, and Rehabilitation Act Amendments - Amends the Comprehensive Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism Prevention, Treatment, and Rehabilitation Act of 1970 to declare it the policy of the United States to approach alcohol abuse and alcoholism from a comprehensive community care standpoint. Authorizes the appropriation of specified amounts in fiscal years 1976 through 1979 for formula grants and for special project grants under such Act. Requires comprehensive State plans to include: (1) an inventory of public and private resources available for the purpose of alcohol abuse and alcoholism treatment, prevention, and rehabilitation; (2) assurance that the State agency will coordinate its planning with local agencies; (3) assurance that State certification, accreditation, or licensure requirements, if any, applicable to alcohol abuse and alcoholism treatment facilities and personnel take into account the special nature of such programs and personnel; (4) assurance that there will be some means of evaluating the effectiveness of treatment or rehabilitation programs funded under such Act; and (5) a requirement that the State agency will review admissions to hospitals and outpatient facilities to assist in determining compliance with such Act. Requires that each State receiving funds under such Act submit a report to the Secretary every third year, assessing progress in implementing its State plan. Expands the purposes for which the Secretary may make grants to public and nonprofit private entities to include alcoholism treatment and prevention services, with emphasis on underserved racial and ethnic minorities, native Americans, youth, female alcoholics, and rural areas. Requires State alcohol abuse programs and the Secretary to give special consideration to alcohol abuse treatment and prevention for women and juveniles, and effectuates such provision with respect to State plan requirements after June 3… | 2025-04-21T12:24:17Z | |
| 94-hr-12624 | 94 | hr | 12624 | A bill to provide for the confidentiality of medical and/or dental records of patients not receiving assistance from the Federal Government. | Health | 1976-03-18 | 1976-03-18 | Referred to House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce. | House | Rep. Crane, Philip M. [R-IL-12] | IL | R | C000873 | 13 | Prohibits the inspection, acquisition, or requisition by officers, employees, agents or departments of the United States of the medical or dental records of patients not receiving assistance from the Federal Government. Imposes penalties for violation of this Act. | 2024-08-01T19:31:06Z | |
| 94-hr-12639 | 94 | hr | 12639 | National Diabetes Advisory Board Act | Health | 1976-03-18 | 1976-03-18 | Referred to House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce. | House | Rep. Risenhoover, Theodore M. [D-OK-2] | OK | D | R000268 | 0 | National Diabetes Advisory Board Act - Directs the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare to establish a National Diabetes Advisory Board to insure the implementation of the long-range plan formulated by the National Commission on Diabetes to combat diabetes. Specifies seven Federal health officers as members of the Board, in addition to seven health professionals and five members of the general public to be appointed by the Secretary. Makes provision for staffing and compensation. Authorizes the Board to enter into contracts or other arrangements, or to take such other action as may be necessary to carry out its functions. Authorizes the Board to engage in and sponsor activities, collect data, and provide technical assistance as it deems necessary and advisable in the performance of its functions. Requires the Board to submit simultaneously to the President and Congress an Annual Diabetes Report describing Board activities in the prior year and progress made in diabetes research, treatment, and education with specific reference to the long-range plan to combat diabetes mellitus and suggesting recommended future expenditures and legislation. Authorizes the appropriation of $500,000 for fiscal year 1976 and such sums as are necessary for each of the four fiscal years thereafter. Authorizes the Secretary to make distinguished scientist awards to individual scientists who have shown continuous and outstanding productivity in diabetes research for the purpose of continuing such research. Limits the amount of each grant to no more than $35,000 per year. Authorizes the appropriation of specified amounts for the purpose of making such grants in fiscal years 1976-1980. Authorizes, under the Public Health Service Act, the appropriation of specified sums in fiscal years 1977-1981 for the purpose of making grants to centers for research and training in diabetes mellitus and related endocrine and metabolic disorders. | 2025-09-02T18:48:20Z | |
| 94-hr-12664 | 94 | hr | 12664 | Emergency Medical Services Amendments | Health | 1976-03-18 | 1976-08-24 | Measure laid on table in House, S. 2548 passed in lieu. | House | Rep. Florio, James J. [D-NJ-1] | NJ | D | F000215 | 12 | Emergency Medical Services Amendments - Extends the authorization for appropriations through fiscal year 1979 for emergency medical service systems under the Public Health Service Act. Revises provisions related to grants and contracts for the establishment, initial operation, expansion, and improvement of such systems and grants and contracts for research in emergency medical techniques. Authorizes the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare to conduct and support programs designed to aid in the treatment and rehabilitation of individuals injured by burns. Directs the Secretary to conduct studies of: (1) the categories of patients which should be included in a uniform reporting system to evaluate the effectiveness of emergency medical service systems in reducing death and disability; and (2) the effectiveness of Federal assistance for communication systems of public safety agencies. | 2025-09-02T18:48:21Z | |
| 94-hr-12675 | 94 | hr | 12675 | A bill to promote the provision and availability of necessary health services for the elderly by expanding existing programs of grants for home health services, requiring the inclusion of specified preventive and home health services under the medicaid program and making various improvements in the administration of such program, providing assistance to demonstration and pilot projects for home health and supportive services (including demonstration grants for community care), and authorizing grants for annual health fairs and mobile geriatric health units. | Health | 1976-03-18 | 1976-03-18 | Referred to House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce. | House | Rep. Pepper, Claude [D-FL-14] | FL | D | P000218 | 5 | Amends the Health Revenue Sharing and Health Services Act to permit the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare to make grants and loans for the initial costs of establishing and operating home health agencies and for expansion of their services. Permits the Secretary to make grants to educational institutions and other public and nonprofit private entities for programs for the training of guidance counselors, social workers, nurses, geriatric specialists, and other home health services personnel. Authorizes the appropriation of specified amounts for fiscal year 1977 for the purpose of making such grants. Amends title XIX (Medicaid) of the Social Security Act to include within its medical coverage: (1) preventive health care, including an annual comprehensive physical examination of older individuals, and diagnostic services; (2) hearing aids, foot care, dental care, and vision aids (including hearing and vision examinations for older individuals); (3) care and services provided by outpatient clinics for the elderly; (4) nutritional counseling; (5) professional guidance and counseling for aged and disabled individuals living alone at home; (6) periodic chore services; and (7) hospital outreach services. Revises such Act to require State comprehensive medical plans to include provisions for intermediate care facility services. Charges the Professional Standards Review Organization with the same responsibility for review of health care services in the case of skilled nursing homes, intermediate care facilities, and other long-term care providers as now required with respect to hospitals. Permits the Secretary to make grants to States to assist them in funding specified demonstration and pilot projects to determine the effectiveness of various home health and supportive services. Permits the Secretary to make grants to political subdivisions of States to enable them to conduct annual health fairs through which individuals over age 60 would be provided free medical checkups. Authorizes the Secretary to make demo… | 2024-08-01T19:31:07Z | |
| 94-hr-12677 | 94 | hr | 12677 | A bill to extend for three fiscal years the programs of assistance under the Comprehensive Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism Prevention, Treatment, and Rehabilitation Act of 1970. | Health | 1976-03-18 | 1976-05-21 | Measure laid on table in House, S. 3184 passed in lieu. | House | Rep. Rogers, Paul G. [D-FL-11] | FL | D | R000401 | 11 | (Reported to House from the Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce with amendment, H. Rept. 94-1092) Amends the Comprehensive Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism Prevention, Treatment, and Rehabilitation Act of 1970 to authorize the appropriation of specified amounts in fiscal years 1976 through 1979 to carry out the purposes of such Act. Authorizes the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare to designate National Alcohol Research Centers for the purpose of interdisciplinary research relating to alcoholism and other alcohol problems. Directs the Secretary to make annual grants to such centers, not in excess of $1,000,000. Requires State alcohol abuse programs and the Secretary to give special consideration to alcohol abuse treatment and prevention for women and juveniles, and effectuates such provision with respect to State plan requirements after June 30, 1976. Entitles alcohol abusers and alcoholics to be treated at outpatient facilities receiving Federal funds for treatment of alcoholism. Requires State alcohol abuse programs to include assurance that there will be some means of evaluating the effectiveness of treatment and rehabilitation programs funded under the Act, and effectuates such provision with respect to State plan requirements after June 30, 1976. Requires that the National Advisory Council on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism approve applications for grants under such Act. Amends the Drug Abuse Office and Treatment Act of 1972 to require State drug abuse programs and the Secretary to give special consideration to drug abuse treatment and prevention for women and juveniles. | 2024-08-01T19:31:07Z | |
| 94-hr-12678 | 94 | hr | 12678 | National Health Promotion and Disease Prevention Act | Health | 1976-03-18 | 1976-04-07 | Measure laid on table in House, S. 1466 passed in lieu. | House | Rep. Rogers, Paul G. [D-FL-11] | FL | D | R000401 | 11 | (Measure laid on table in House, S. 1466 passed in lieu) National Health Promotion and Disease Prevention Act - =Title I: Health Information and Health Promotion= - National Health Information and Health Promotion Act - Amends the Public Health Service Act to add Title XVII (Health Information and Health Promotion). Directs the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare to formulate national goals with respect to health information and health promotion, preventive health services, and education in the appropriate use of health care. Directs the Secretary to undertake and support activities necessary to achieve such goals. Authorizes the appropriation of specified sums for fiscal years 1977 through 1979 to carry out such purposes. Directs the Secretary to monitor proposed Federal legislation and Federal programs, making recommendations on any changes necessary in the interest of public health. Directs the Secretary to conduct research programs in health information and health promotion, preventive health services, and education in the appropriate use of health care, and to determine the best methods of disseminating information about such areas. Directs the Secretary to study environmental, occupational, social, and behavioral factors which affect health. Directs the Secretary to formulate methods of evaluating the costs and effectiveness of activities funded under this title. Directs the Secretary to make a continuing survey of the needs, interest, attitudes, knowledge, and behavior of the American public regarding health and health care. Directs the Secretary to conduct and support, by grant or contract, new and innovative programs in health promotion, preventive health services, and education in the appropriate use of health care, including development of health information and health promotion materials and teaching programs which encompass assistance to health professionals and their patients in selecting and making appropriate use of institutions and alternatives to institutions in the provisi… | 2025-09-02T18:48:21Z | |
| 94-hr-12679 | 94 | hr | 12679 | A bill to amend the Public Health Service Act to extend for three fiscal years assistance programs for health services research and statistics and programs for assistance to medical libraries. | Health | 1976-03-18 | 1976-05-24 | Referred to Senate Committee on Labor and Public Welfare. | House | Rep. Rogers, Paul G. [D-FL-11] | FL | D | R000401 | 11 | Amends the Public Health Service Act to authorize the appropriation of specified sums in fiscal years 1976 through 1979 for the purpose of continuing Federal assistance programs for health services research and statistics and Federal programs for assistance to medical libraries. Directs the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare to use and permit use of Department resources, provide technical assistance and advice, make grants, and enter into contracts for the provision of health services research and health statistics training for the purpose of aiding federally funded projects for health research experiments. | 2025-04-21T12:24:17Z | |
| 94-hr-12547 | 94 | hr | 12547 | Radiation Health and Safety Act | Health | 1976-03-16 | 1976-03-16 | Referred to House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce. | House | Rep. Koch, Edward I. [D-NY-18] | NY | D | K000302 | 11 | Radiation Health and Safety Act - Amends the Public Health Service Act to direct the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare to develop and issue to the States criteria and minimum standards for the accreditation of educational institutions conducting programs for the training of radiologic technologists and minimum criteria for educational institutions conducting programs for the training of medical and dental practitioners. Directs the Secretary to develop and issue to the States criteria and minimum standards for licensure of radiologic technologists. Directs that State and local governments be encouraged to minimize exposure of the public to ionizing from all sources, and establishes procedures for the adoption of appropriate standards. Allows the Secretary to make grants to States in an amount up to two-thirds of the first year and one-third of the second year costs of planning, developing, or establishing programs to carry out the provisions of this Act. Prohibits conducting activities contrary to this Act and subjects violators to a civil penalty of not more than $1,000. Requires the Secretary to submit to Congress an annual report evaluating the implementation of this Act and making recommendations for legislation. | 2025-09-02T18:48:21Z | |
| 94-hr-12550 | 94 | hr | 12550 | A bill to amend the Public Health Service Act to repeal the age limitation on appointments to the Public Health Service. | Health | 1976-03-16 | 1976-03-16 | Referred to House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce. | House | Rep. Mink, Patsy T. [D-HI-2] | HI | D | M000797 | 0 | Amends the Public Health Service Act to repeal the age limitation on appointments to the Public Health Service. | 2024-08-01T19:31:07Z | |
| 94-hr-12569 | 94 | hr | 12569 | National Diabetes Advisory Board Act | Health | 1976-03-16 | 1976-03-16 | Referred to House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce. | House | Rep. Carter, Tim Lee [R-KY-5] | KY | R | C000201 | 5 | National Diabetes Advisory Board Act - Directs the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare to establish a National Diabetes Advisory Board to insure the implementation of the long-range plan formulated by the National Commission on Diabetes to combat diabetes. Specifies seven Federal health officers as members of the Board, in addition to seven health professionals and five members of the general public to be appointed by the Secretary. Makes provision for staffing and compensation. Authorizes the Board to enter into contracts or other arrangements, or to take such other action as may be necessary to carry out its functions. Authorizes the Board to engage in and sponsor activities, collect data, and provide technical assistance as it deems necessary and advisable in the performance of its functions. Requires the Board to submit simultaneously to the President and Congress an Annual Diabetes Report describing Board activities in the prior year and progress made in diabetes research, treatment, and education with specific reference to the long-range plan to combat diabetes mellitus and suggesting recommended future expenditures and legislation. Authorizes the appropriation of $500,000 for fiscal year 1976 and such sums as are necessary for each of the four fiscal years thereafter. Authorizes the Secretary to make distinguished scientist awards to individual scientists who have shown continuous and outstanding productivity in diabetes research for the purpose of continuing such research. Limits the amount of each grant to no more than $35,000 per year. Authorizes the appropriation of specified amounts for the purpose of making such grants in fiscal years 1976-1980. Authorizes, under the Public Health Service Act, the appropriation of specified sums in fiscal years 1977-1981 for the purpose of making grants to centers for research and training in diabetes mellitus and related endocrine and metabolic disorders. | 2025-09-02T18:48:21Z | |
| 94-s-3137 | 94 | s | 3137 | Financial Assistance for Health Care Act | Health | 1976-03-15 | 1976-03-15 | Referred to Senate Committee on Labor and Public Welfare. | Senate | Sen. Curtis, Carl T. [R-NE] | NE | R | C001006 | 0 | Financial Assistance for Health Care Act - Declares it the purpose of this Act to assist each State, territory, and the District of Columbia in assuring all residents, particularly low-income persons, of access to needed health services of acceptable quality. Title I: Financial Assistance for Health Care - Authorizes the appropriation of specified sums for the purposes of carrying out this title, and sets forth the manner and methods of distribution. Requires each State to expend not less than 90 percent of the amount payable to it to provide personal health services to low- income persons, and not less than five percent on: (1) community health protection; (2) community-based services in mental health, alcoholism, and drug abuse; and (3) developmental disabilities programs. Requires each State to formulate a State health care plan setting forth a description of: (1) State health services activities; (2) the needs of individuals living in rural or medically underserved areas; (3) the supply and distribution of health facilities, services, and manpower; and (4) the relationship of the plan's provisions to its effect on children, the elderly, migrants, the mentally ill, the handicapped, alcoholics, drug abusers, and those suffering from developmental disabilities. Directs that each State plan provide for the administration of a certificate of need program to review the need for new institutional health services. Requires such plan to provide for an annual audit of State expenditures, assessment of the plan's implementation, and a report of such audit and assessment. Directs each State to create two or more sub-State health planning districts, each with a health planning body to develop proposed provisions for inclusion in the State plan. Directs each State receiving financial assistance for health care to certify to the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare that it has a qualified State health care plan. Allows the Secretary, upon determination that the plan fails to comply with requirements, to make no f… | 2025-09-02T18:52:15Z | |
| 94-hr-12467 | 94 | hr | 12467 | Mental Health Act | Health | 1976-03-11 | 1976-03-11 | Referred to House Committee on Ways and Means. | House | Rep. Gonzalez, Henry B. [D-TX-20] | TX | D | G000272 | 0 | Mental Health Act - Title I: Mental Health Benefits - Entitles all United States residents and non-resident citizens to mental health benefits under this Act. Enumerates mental health services covered by this Act, stipulating that payments for such services shall be made on the recipient's behalf. Sets forth qualifications of psychiatric hospitals for participation in the program under this Act, including the provision of active diagnostic, therapeutic, and rehabilitative services, and accreditation by the Joint Commission on the Accreditation of Hospitals. Directs that the program under this Act be administered by the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare with the advice and assistance of a Committee on Mental Health responsible for approval of all providers under this Act and the establishment of relevant guidelines and qualifications. Requires the Secretary to conduct a study of the feasibility of establishing a national program of mental health insurance, and to submit a report of the findings to the President and Congress. Creates on the books of the United States Treasury a Federal Mental Health Trust Fund. Appropriates to the fund specified tax revenues. Creates a Board of Trustees of the Trust Fund, with the Secretary of the Treasury as the Managing Trustee, to hold the fund, report annually to Congress on the operation and status of the trust fund, report to Congress when the amount of the fund is unduly small, and review general policies followed in managing the fund. Makes it the duty of the Managing Trustee to invest such portions of the trust fund, according to specified instructions, as are not required to meet current withdrawals. Title II: Mental Health Taxes - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to impose a series of mental health taxes on employees' income, employers, self-employment income, and unearned income. Sets forth rules applicable to the nondeductibility of mental health taxes from the employee's exempt wages. Excludes from an individual's gross income an employer's payment o… | 2025-09-02T18:48:18Z | |
| 94-hr-12263 | 94 | hr | 12263 | National Mental Health and Disability Advocacy Services Act | Health | 1976-03-03 | 1976-03-03 | Referred to House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce. | House | Rep. Florio, James J. [D-NJ-1] | NJ | D | F000215 | 5 | National Mental Health and Disability Advocacy Services Act - Declares it the policy of Congress that persons facing involuntary commitment to a mental or geriatric care facility be given the benefit of due process of law, including but not limited to the right of counsel, in all court and administrative proceedings. Entitles persons so committed seeking release or those alleging deprivation of any constitutional or statutory right to the same safeguards. Requires that an ombudsperson system, to help solve patients' problems which do not involve litigation but necessitate aid, advice, or counseling, be provided and be accessible to all clients of any mental or geriatric care system. Establishes, under the Community Mental Health Centers Act, an Office of Mental Health and Disability Advocacy Services, directing that such Office and the National Institute of Mental Health shall actively seek areas for cooperation in education, training, program, policy and service development, and other related matters. Instructs the Office to enter into contracts with States to assist them in meeting the costs of establishing and maintaining a program of mental health advocacy services, each such program to be under the supervision of a State coordinator. Restricts the amount of any contract entered into to 75 percent of the costs of the program involved. Forbids entering into a contract until it has been submitted to and approved by the Director of the Office. Instructs the State coordinator to set up an office to administer the State program, and directs such office to attempt to establish internship programs with local law schools, graduate schools of social work or psychology, and undergraduate departments of social work or psychology. Grants such office the authority to bring and defend against civil actions for and on behalf of individuals (and classes of individuals) receiving services within the mental health or geriatric care system of the State. Requires that the State program include a mental health, retardation,… | 2025-09-02T18:48:07Z | |
| 94-hr-12233 | 94 | hr | 12233 | Financial Assistance for Health Care Act | Health | 1976-03-02 | 1976-03-02 | Referred to House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce. | House | Rep. Staggers, Harley O. [D-WV-2] | WV | D | S000778 | 1 | Financial Assistance for Health Care Act - Declares it the purpose of this Act to assist each State, territory, and the District of Columbia in assuring all residents, particularly low income persons, of access to needed health services of acceptable quality. Title I: Financial Assistance for Health Care - Authorizes the appropriation of specified sums for the purposes of carrying out this title, and sets forth the manner and methods of distribution. Requires each State to expend not less than 90 percent of the amount payable to it to provide personal health services to low- income persons, and not less than five percent on: (1) community health protection; (2) community-based services in mental health, alcoholism, and drug abuse; and (3) developmental disabilities programs. Requires each State to formulate a State health care plan setting forth a description of: (1) State health services activities; (2) the needs of individuals living in rural or medically underserved areas; (3) the supply and distribution of health facilities, services, and manpower; and (4) the relationship of the plan's provisions to its effect on children, the elderly, migrants, the mentally ill, the handicapped, alcoholics, drug abusers, and those suffering from developmental disabilities. Directs that each State plan provide for the administration of a certificate of need program to review the need for new institutional health services. Requires such plan to provide for an annual audit of State expenditures, assessment of the plan's implementation, and a report of such audit and assessment. Directs each State to create two or more sub-State health planning districts, each with a health planning body to develop proposed provisions for inclusion in the State plan. Directs each State receiving financial assistance for health care to certify to the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare that it has a qualified State health care plan. Allows the Secretary, upon determination that the plan fails to comply with requirements, to make no f… | 2025-09-02T18:48:08Z | |
| 94-hr-12125 | 94 | hr | 12125 | Health Security Act | Health | 1976-02-26 | 1976-02-26 | Referred to House Committee on Ways and Means. | House | Rep. Corman, James C. [D-CA-21] | CA | D | C000780 | 6 | Health Security Act - Title I: Health Security Benefits - Makes every resident of the U.S. (and every non-resident citizen when in the U.S.) eligible for covered services. Permits reciprocal and "buy- in" agreements for groups or non-resident aliens, and in some cases benefits to U.S. residents when visiting in other countries. Entitles every eligible person to have payments made by the Health Security Board for covered services provided within the United States by a participating provider. Extends coverage to all necessary professional services of physicians, wherever furnished, including preventive care, with two restrictions: (1) specialist services are covered only when performed by a qualified specialist except in emergency situations, and generally only on referral from a primary physician; and (2) psychiatric services to an ambulatory patient are covered only for active preventive, diagnostic, therapeutic or rehabilitative service with respect to mental illness. Extends coverage to: (1) comprehensive dental services (exclusive of most orthodontic services) for children under age 15, with the covered age group increasing by two years each year until all those under age 25 are covered; (2) inpatient and outpatient hospital services and services of a home health agency; and (3) pathology and radiology services as parts of institutional services. Limits payment for skilled nursing home care to 120 days per spell of illness, except that such limit may be increased when the nursing home is owned or managed by a hospital and payment for care is made through the hospital budget. Limits the psychiatric hospital benefit to 45 consecutive days of active treatment during a spell of illness. Extends coverage to two categories of drug use: prescribed medicines administered to inpatients or outpatients within participating hospitals; or to enrollees of comprehensive health service organizations, and drugs necessary for the treatment of specified chronic illnesses or conditions requiring long or expensive therapy. Requi… | 2025-09-02T18:48:10Z | |
| 94-hr-12132 | 94 | hr | 12132 | A bill to extend as an emergency measure for 1 year the District of Columbia Medical and Dental Manpower Act of 1970. | Health | 1976-02-26 | 1976-06-04 | Public law 94-308. | House | Del. Fauntroy, Walter E. [D-DC-At Large] | DC | D | F000046 | 10 | (Reported to House from the Committee on the District of Columbia, H. Rept. 94-899) Amends the District of Columbia Medical and Dental Manpower Act to extend through fiscal year 1977 the authority of the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare to make grants to nonprofit medical and dental schools. | 2024-08-01T19:30:44Z | |
| 94-s-3016 | 94 | s | 3016 | Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism Research Act | Health | 1976-02-24 | 1976-02-24 | Referred to Senate Committee on Labor and Public Welfare. | Senate | Sen. Laxalt, Paul D. [R-NV] | NV | R | L000148 | 2 | Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism Research Act - Provides, under the Comprehensive Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism Prevention, Treatment, and Rehabilitation Act, that the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism shall serve as the focal point within the Public Health Service for both basic and applied research in the field of alcoholism, including research on the causes, diagnosis, prevention, treatment, and rehabilitation of alcoholism and alcohol abuse. | 2025-09-02T18:52:09Z | |
| 94-hr-12021 | 94 | hr | 12021 | National Diabetes Advisory Board Act | Health | 1976-02-23 | 1976-02-23 | Referred to House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce. | House | Rep. Carter, Tim Lee [R-KY-5] | KY | R | C000201 | 24 | National Diabetes Advisory Board Act - Directs the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare to establish a National Diabetes Advisory Board to insure the implementation of the long-range plan formulated by the National Commission on Diabetes to combat diabetes. Specifies seven Federal health officers as members of the Board, in addition to seven health professionals and five members of the general public to be appointed by the Secretary. Makes provision for staffing and compensation. Authorizes the Board to enter into contracts or other arrangements, or to take such other action as may be necessary to carry out its functions. Authorizes the Board to engage in and sponsor activities, collect data, and provide technical assistance as it deems necessary and advisable in the performance of its functions. Requires the Board to submit simultaneously to the President and Congress an Annual Diabetes Report describing Board activities in the prior year and progress made in diabetes research, treatment, and education with specific reference to the long-range plan to combat diabetes mellitus and suggesting recommended future expenditures and legislation. Authorizes the appropriation of $500,000 for fiscal year 1976 and such sums as are necessary for each of the four fiscal years thereafter. Authorizes the Secretary to make distinguished scientist awards to individual scientists who have shown continuous and outstanding productivity in diabetes research for the purpose of continuing such research. Limits the amount of each grant to no more than $35,000 per year. Authorizes the appropriation of specified amounts for the purpose of making such grants in fiscal years 1976-1980. Authorizes, under the Public Health Service Act, the appropriation of specified sums in fiscal years 1977-1981 for the purpose of making grants to centers for research and training in diabetes mellitus and related endocrine and metabolic disorders. | 2025-09-02T18:48:01Z | |
| 94-hr-12022 | 94 | hr | 12022 | National Diabetes Advisory Board Act | Health | 1976-02-23 | 1976-02-23 | Referred to House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce. | House | Rep. Carter, Tim Lee [R-KY-5] | KY | R | C000201 | 18 | National Diabetes Advisory Board Act - Directs the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare to establish a National Diabetes Advisory Board to insure the implementation of the long-range plan formulated by the National Commission on Diabetes to combat diabetes. Specifies seven Federal health officers as members of the Board, in addition to seven health professionals and five members of the general public to be appointed by the Secretary. Makes provision for staffing and compensation. Authorizes the Board to enter into contracts or other arrangements, or to take such other action as may be necessary to carry out its functions. Authorizes the Board to engage in and sponsor activities, collect data, and provide technical assistance as it deems necessary and advisable in the performance of its functions. Requires the Board to submit simultaneously to the President and Congress an Annual Diabetes Report describing Board activities in the prior year and progress made in diabetes research, treatment, and education with specific reference to the long-range plan to combat diabetes mellitus and suggesting recommended future expenditures and legislation. Authorizes the appropriation of $500,000 for fiscal year 1976 and such sums as are necessary for each of the four fiscal years thereafter. Authorizes the Secretary to make distinguished scientist awards to individual scientists who have shown continuous and outstanding productivity in diabetes research for the purpose of continuing such research. Limits the amount of each grant to no more than $35,000 per year. Authorizes the appropriation of specified amounts for the purpose of making such grants in fiscal years 1976-1980. Authorizes, under the Public Health Service Act, the appropriation of specified sums in fiscal years 1977-1981 for the purpose of making grants to centers for research and training in diabetes mellitus and related endocrine and metabolic disorders. | 2025-09-02T18:48:01Z | |
| 94-hr-12037 | 94 | hr | 12037 | Tertiary Eye Center Act | Health | 1976-02-23 | 1976-02-23 | Referred to House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce. | House | Rep. Whalen, Charles W., Jr. [R-OH-3] | OH | R | W000317 | 0 | Teritary Eye Center Act - Sets forth the Congressional finding that there is a national need for refurbishing, centralizing, and upgrading tertiary eye care centers. Defines "tertiary eye care center" and other terms for purposes of this Act. Directs the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare to identify tertiary eye care centers that need upgrading and to make grants to accomplish such purpose. Directs the Secretary to create a Tertiary Eye Commission to assess the present state of eye care facilities in the United States, to develop plans for improving and expanding such facilities, and to make grants to public and nonprofit private teritary eye care centers to implement such upgrading. Requires the commission, within two years of enactment of this Act, to submit to the Secretary and the President a final report, and to submit such interim reports as are necessary, with respect to its activities. Authorizes the appropriation of $21,000,000 to carry out the purposes of this Act. | 2025-09-02T18:48:01Z | |
| 94-hr-12000 | 94 | hr | 12000 | National Diabetes Advisory Board Act | Health | 1976-02-19 | 1976-02-19 | Referred to House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce. | House | Rep. Gonzalez, Henry B. [D-TX-20] | TX | D | G000272 | 0 | National Diabetes Advisory Board Act - Directs the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare to establish a National Diabetes Advisory Board to insure the implementation of the long-range plan formulated by the National Commission on Diabetes to combat diabetes. Specifies seven Federal health officers as members of the Board, in addition to seven health professionals and five members of the general public to be appointed by the Secretary. Makes provision for staffing and compensation. Authorizes the Board to enter into contracts or other arrangements, or to take such other action as may be necessary to carry out its functions. Authorizes the Board to engage in and sponsor activities, collect data, and provide technical assistance as it deems necessary and advisable in the performance of its functions. Requires the Board to submit simultaneously to the President and Congress an Annual Diabetes Report describing Board activities in the prior year and progress made in diabetes research, treatment, and education with specific reference to the long-range plan to combat diabetes mellitus and suggesting recommended future expenditures and legislation. Authorizes the appropriation of $500,000 for fiscal year 1976 and such sums as are necessary for each of the four fiscal years thereafter. Authorizes the Secretary to make distinguished scientist awards to individual scientists who have shown continuous and outstanding productivity in diabetes research for the purpose of continuing such research. Limits the amount of each grant to no more than $35,000 per year. Authorizes the appropriation of specified amounts for the purpose of making such grants in fiscal years 1976-1980. Authorizes, under the Public Health Service Act, the appropriation of specified sums in fiscal years 1977-1981 for the purpose of making grants to centers for research and training in diabetes mellitus and related endocrine and metabolic disorders. | 2025-09-02T18:48:01Z | |
| 94-hr-11896 | 94 | hr | 11896 | A bill to provide for the confidentiality of medical and/or dental records of patients not receiving assistance from the Federal Government. | Health | 1976-02-17 | 1976-02-17 | Referred to House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce. | House | Rep. Crane, Philip M. [R-IL-12] | IL | R | C000873 | 2 | Prohibits the inspection, acquisition, or requisition by officers, employees, agents or departments of the United States of the medical or dental records of patients not receiving assistance from the Federal Government. Imposes penalties for violation of this Act. | 2024-08-01T19:30:27Z |
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