Edward Beard

HR 8402 — A bill to amend the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 to authorize $25,000,000 for disaster assistance for the victims of the recent earthquakes in southern Italy.

HR 7653 — A bill to provide for the issuance of a commemorative postage stamp in honor of Father Michael J. McGivney, founder of the Knights of Columbus.

HR 7582 — A bill for the relief of William J. Games.

HR 7446 — A bill to amend title XIX of the Social Security Act to increase the personal needs allowance for institutionalized recipients to thirty dollars per individual and sixty dollars per couple.

HR 6896 — A bill to amend the Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970 to require employers to inform their employees regarding hazards associated with the handling and use of chemical substances, and for other purposes.

HR 6840 — Asbestos Control Act of 1980

HR 6789 — A bill to amend title II of the Social Security Act to discontinue the payment of student benefits to children beyond the high school level.

HR 6660 — Alternate Energy Commercialization Act of 1980

HR 6435 — A bill to amend title XVI of the Social Security Act to increase the amount of earnings to be disregarded in determining an individual's eligibility for supplemental security income benefits and in computing the amount of such benefits.

HR 6321 — A bill to amend title 38, United States Code, to increase the size of the estate permitted to incompetent institutionalized veterans who receive certain Federal benefits.

HR 6143 — A bill to amend the Social Security Amendments of 1972 to extend for an additional year the program of 100 percent reimbursement of States for sums expended for inspection of institutions providing long-term care to recipients of medical assistance.

HR 6013 — A bill to amend the Federal Water Pollution Control Act to revise the allotment formula for grants for construction of treatment works.

HR 5793 — A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1954 to exclude from gross income the interest on deposits in certain savings institutions.

HR 5744 — A bill for the relief of Lawrence Lau, Marilyn Lau.

HR 5702 — A bill to establish a Federal program to assist small businesses by increasing their role in federally funded research and development.

HR 5629 — A bill to reduce the disability limitation and to eliminate the time limit imposed by the "Vietnam Era Readjustment Assistance Act of 1974" so that more disabled veterans may benefit from affirmative action programs.

HR 5482 — National Workers Compensation Standards Act of 1979

HR 5372 — A bill to amend the Emergency Petroleum Allocation Act of 1973 to reestablish price and allocation controls on home heating oil and other middle distillates.

HR 5311 — Buy American Amendments of 1979

HR 4950 — A bill for the relief of Maria Iannone Zannella.

HR 4840 — A bill to amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to provide for surveys of skilled nursing and intermediate care facilities and civil penalties for deficiencies uncovered in such surveys, and for other purposes.

HR 4756 — A bill for the relief of Mrs. Maria T. DeGoncalves Teves.

HR 4671 — Oil Industry Nationalization Act

HR 4422 — Federal Petroleum Production Control Act

HR 4366 — A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1954 to provide for cost-of-living adjustments in the individual tax rates, in the amount of the zero bracket amount, and in the amount of the personal exemptions.

HR 4062 — A bill to amend the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act with respect to the labeling of foods which are manufactured or produced outside the United States.

HR 3921 — Domestic Violence Assistance Act of 1978

HR 3760 — A bill to provide chiropractic treatment when requested for veterans eligible for outpatient medical care.

HR 3759 — A bill to prohibit the transport in any vehicle of any funds, securities, or other things of value, which are insured by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, the Federal Savings and Loan Insurance Corporation, or the National Credit Union Administration, unless the windows and body of such vehicle are bulletproof and there is a bulletproof partition behind the driver's seat of such vehicle.

HR 3761 — A bill to amend title 18, United States Code, to provide a penalty for armed Robbery of controlled substances from federally registered manufacturers, distributors, and dispensers of such substances.

HR 3668 — A bill to extend Federal controls with regard to oil prices.

HR 3419 — A bill to amend section 122(i)(2) of the Comprehensive Employment and Training Act to provide for certain waivers where necessary to carry out the purposes of that section.

HR 3176 — A bill to amend section 312 of the Immigration and Nationality Act to permit individuals to be naturalized if they can demonstrate an understanding of a language other than English.

HR 2993 — A bill to amend the Rhode Island Indian Claims Settlement Act to provide an exemption from taxes with respect to the settlement lands and amounts received by the State Corporation, and to provide a deferral of capital gains with respect to the sale of settlement lands.

HR 2726 — Federal Boxing Control Act of 1979

HR 2619 — A bill to authorize the construction of a dike for flood control purposes in Warwick, Rhode Island.

HRES 480 — A resolution urging the Attorney General to revoke immediately student visas held by Iranian citizens who participate in political demonstrations in the United States and to require that all Iranian citizens in the United States submit to the Immigration and Naturalization Service a statement of their intention to respect the laws of the United States.

HRES 432 — A resolution expressing the sense of the House of Representatives that the remains of an unknown American who lost his life while serving in the Armed Forces of the United States during the Vietnam era should be located at the earliest opportunity in order that such remains may, with all appropriate honor and ceremony, be buried in the Memorial Amphitheater of the National Cemetery at Arlington, Virginia.

HCONRES 400 — A concurrent resolution expressing the sense of Congress with respect to the withholding of income tax on interest and dividend payments.

HCONRES 125 — A concurrent resolution expressing the sense of the Congress that steps should be taken to create an international oil-purchasing cartel to protect the interests of oil-dependent nations.

HCONRES 109 — A concurrent resolution to express the sense of the Congress that children possess both fundamental human rights and rights attributable to their status as children, and to call for the enactment of Federal and State laws to implement such rights to the fullest extent possible and to grant children additional rights equivalent to the rights now possessed only by adults.

HR 14780 — A bill to condition U.S. membership in the International Criminal Police Organization upon such organization agreeing to comply with the provisions of the United States Code relating to the protection of individual privacy from misuse of Government records.

HR 13540 — A bill to provide compensation for losses incurred as a result of hog cholera controls imposed by the Department of Agriculture.

HR 13193 — A bill to amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to include, as a home health service, nutritional counseling provided by or under the supervision of a registered dietitian.

HR 12759 — A bill to amend the Tariff Schedules of the United States to repeal the special tariff treatment accorded to articles assembled abroad with components produced in the United States.

HR 12299 — A bill to amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to authorize payment under the medicare program for certain services performed by chiropractors.

HR 11922 — A bill to authorize recomputation at age 60 of the retired pay of members and former members of the uniformed services whose retired pay is computed on the basis of pay scales in effect prior to January 1, 1972.

HR 11957 — A bill to require the National Railroad Passenger Corporation to provide public notice of discontinuance of rail service.

HR 11814 — A bill to amend title 38 of the United States Code to require the Administrator of Veterans' Affairs to furnish flags at the burial of certain members or former members of the U.S. Merchant Marine.

HR 11687 — A bill to amend title 38 of the United States Code to make certain that recipients of veterans' pension and compensation will not have the amount of such pension or compensation reduced because of increases in monthly social security benefits.

HR 11640 — A bill to increase from 10 to 15 years the period during which veterans and certain wives and widows of veterans are eligible for educational assistance.

HR 11639 — A bill to amend the Civil Service Retirement Act.

HR 10668 — A bill to amend title II of the Social Security Act to increase the amount of outside earnings permitted each year from $2,520 per year to $6,000 per year without deductions from benefits thereunder.

HR 10300 — A bill to amend title 38 of the United States Code to provide that no reduction be made in plot or interment allowances paid by the administrator of Veterans' Affairs to reimburse costs assumed by State or local governments in the case of veterans buried in cemeteries which are owned by State or local governments and used solely or primarily for the interment of veterans.

HR 8733 — A bill to amend title XIX of the Social Security Act to require the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare to conduct an annual audit of each hospital, nursing home, and other institutional facility participating in the medicaid program and each State or local agency distributing medicaid funds, and to amend title XVIII of such act to require annual audits of providers of services under the medicaid program.

HR 8419 — A bill to require unannounced State inspection of public and private extended care facilities, skilled nursing homes, and intermediate care facilities and to require State enforcement of guarantees of rights of the patients in such facilities.

HR 8418 — A bill to require unannounced State inspections of public and private extended care facilities, skilled nursing homes, and intermediate care facilities and to require State enforcement of guarantees of rights of the patients in such facilities.

HR 8417 — A bill to prohibit discriminatory employment practices with respect to physically handicapped persons.

HR 8164 — A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1954 to exempt from income tax any pension or annuity received under a public retirement system.

HR 8028 — A bill to prohibit discriminatory employment practices with respect to physically handicapped persons.

HR 7944 — A bill to amend the U. S. Housing Act of 1937, and the National Housing Act, to provide that future social security benefit increases shall be disregarded in determining eligibility for admission to or occupancy of low-rent public housing or the rent which an individual or family must pay for such housing, and that such increases shall also be disregarded in determining rents in other federally-assisted housing and eligibility for (and the amount of) other Federal housing subsidies.

HR 7526 — A bill to prohibit the denial or abridgement of the right of former criminal offenders to vote in elections for Federal officers.

HR 7120 — A bill to provide useful work to unemployed individuals in activities which promote the public welfare.

HR 6861 — A bill to require States to enforce guarantees of rights of patients in facilities providing inpatient care and treatment for mental illness, mental retardation, alcohol or drug abuse, or a similar condition.

HR 6396 — A bill to require the Administrator of Veterans' Affairs to acquire the Rhode Island Veterans' Cemetery.

HR 6395 — A bill to require unannounced State inspections of public and private extended care facilities, skilled nursing homes, and intermediate care facilities and to require State enforcement of guarantees of rights of the patients in such facilities.

HR 6093 — A bill for the relief of Maria D'Arpino.

HR 6018 — A bill to amend the Urban Mass Transportation Act of 1964 to require that no urban mass transportation project be approved by the Secretary of Transportation unless the applicant for the project gives satisfactory assurances that free transportation service will be provided to elderly and handicapped persons during nonpeak hours.

HR 5743 — Social Security Recipients Fairness Act

HR 5742 — Social Security Recipients Fairness Act

HR 5233 — A bill to require State inspections of public and private extended care facilities, skilled nursing homes, and intermediate care facilities and to require State enforcement of guarantees of rights of the patients in such facilities.

HR 4121 — A bill to require State inspections of public and private extended care facilities, skilled nursing homes, and intermediate care facilities and to require State enforcement of guarantees of rights of the patients in such facilities.

HJRES 775 — Joint resolution proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States guaranteeing the right of life to the unborn.

HR 12860 — Rhode Island Indian Claims Settlement Act

HR 12252 — A bill to amend title 38 of the United States Code in order to require the Administrator of Veterans' Affairs to pay a $150 allowance to any State or any agency or political subdivision of a State in reimbursement for expenses incurred in the burial of each veteran in any cemetery owned by such State or agency or political subdivision of a State, if the cemetery or section thereof is used solely for the interment of veterans.

HR 12253 — A bill to amend title 38 of the United States Code in order to require the Administrator of Veterans' Affairs to pay a $150 allowance to any State or any agency or political subdivision of a State in reimbursement for expenses incurred in the burial of each veteran in any cemetery owned by such State or agency or political subdivision of a State, if the cemetery or section thereof is used solely for the interment of veterans.

HR 9876 — A bill to amend the Natural Gas Act to provide that no certificate for the construction or extension of any liquefied natural gas facility may be granted unless the State or States in which such facilities are located have been approved by the affected States.

HR 9773 — A bill to amend the Natural Gas Act to provide that no certificate for the construction or extension of any liquefied natural gas facility may be granted unless the State or States in which such facilities are located have been approved by the affected States.

HR 9388 — A bill to establish a program whereby the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development shall make payments for the purpose of assisting certain low-income homeowners in meeting increasing costs related to the operation of their homes.

HR 8712 — National Social Security Lottery Act

HR 8448 — A bill for the relief of Jonathan Joseph Devaux, Donna Marie Devaux, Danielle Jeane Devaux, Christian Neveda Devaux, and Damian Jonathan Devaux.

HR 7655 — A bill to require the Architect of the Capitol to cause all exterior wood surfaces of the U.S. Capitol Building to be suitably painted;

HR 7391 — A bill to amend the Railroad Revitalization and Regulatory Reform Act of 1976 in order to eliminate certain matching requirements in funding of station and fencing improvements in the Northeast Corridor.

HR 7263 — A bill to amend title 38 of the United States Code in order to require the Administrator of Veterans' Affairs to pay a $150 allowance to any State or any agency or political subdivision of a State in reimbursement for expenses incurred in the burial of each veteran in any cemetery owned by such State or agency or political subdivision of a State, if the cemetery or section thereof is used solely for the interment of veterans.

HR 7039 — A bill to prohibit the denial or abridgement of the right of former criminal offenders to vote in elections for Federal office.

HR 6886 — Consumer Communications Reform Act

HR 6887 — A bill to allow nonprofessional employees of educational institutions to receive special unemployment assistance during periods between academic years or terms.

HR 6619 — Prevention of Employment Discrimination Against the Handicapped Act

HR 6288 — A bill to amend the U.S. Housing Act of 1937, and the National Housing Act, to provide that future social security benefit increases shall be disregarded in determining eligibility for admission to or occupancy of low-rent public housing or the rent which an individual or family must pay for such housing, and that such increases shall also be disregarded in determining rents in other federally assisted housing and eligibility for (and the amount of) other Federal housing subsidies.

HR 6014 — World Food Reserve Act

HR 5749 — A bill for the relief of Colleen Kerr, Matthew Philip Kerr, Daniel Robert Kerr, Michael Domenic Kerr, David Charles Kerr, and James Kennedy Kerr.

HR 5676 — Smoker and Nonsmoker Health Protection Act

HR 5277 — Full Opportunity and Social Accounting Act

HR 5297 — Social Security Recipients Fairness Act

HR 4656 — A bill to prohibit the theft of any radio communications device which is licensed by the Federal Communications Commission.

HR 4657 — A bill to amend title 18, United States Code, to prohibit the transportation, sale, or receipt of any stolen radio communications device in interstate or foreign commerce.

HR 3811 — A bill to require the Administrator of Veterans' Affairs to acquire the Rhode Island Veterans' Cemetery.

HR 1620 — A bill to amend title XIX of the Social Security Act to require the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare to conduct an annual audit of each hospital, nursing home, and other institutional facility participating in the medicaid program and each State or local agency distributing medicaid funds, and to amend title XVIII of such Act to require annual audits of providers of services under the medicare program.

HRES 362 — Resolution establishing an allowance for Members of the House of Representatives to defray the cost of toll-free telephone service with respect to communications to the district offices of such Members.