
Bill D. Burlison
Democrat · MI-10 · House of Representatives
57 years in office
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Sponsored Legislation (48)
HR 7813 — A bill to authorize the Secretary of Agriculture to make payments to producers of the 1980 crop of soybeans for losses caused by natural disasters.
Introduced 1980-07-24 · Referred to House Committee on Agriculture.
Agriculture and FoodHR 7731 — A bill terminating the restrictions imposed by the President on exports of agricultural commodities to the Soviet Union.
Introduced 1980-07-02 · Referred to House Committee on Foreign Affairs.
Foreign Trade and International FinanceHR 6305 — A bill to authorize implementation of a flood control project at Sainte Genevieve, Missouri.
Introduced 1980-01-28 · Referred to House Committee on Public Works and Transportation.
Emergency ManagementHR 3544 — A bill to prohibit the Secretary of Agriculture from prohibiting the use of nitrites as a food preservative on the basis of any carcinogenic effect nitrites may be represented to have until a satisfactory substitute preservative is commercially available.
Introduced 1979-04-09 · Referred to House Committee on Agriculture.
HealthHR 2732 — A bill to require the Secretary of the Army to acquire approximately two thousand five hundred acres of land to be used to mitigate certain adverse impacts which will result from the Saint Johns Bayou and New Madrid Floodway, Missouri, flood protection project.
Introduced 1979-03-08 · Referred to House Committee on Public Works and Transportation.
Emergency ManagementHJRES 332 — A joint resolution proposing an amendment to the Constitution to provide for the direct popular election of the President and Vice President of the United States.
Introduced 1979-05-16 · Referred to House Committee on the Judiciary.
Government Operations and PoliticsHJRES 308 — A joint resolution proposing an amendment to the Constitution to provide for the direct popular election of the President and Vice President of the United States.
Introduced 1979-04-30 · Referred to House Committee on the Judiciary.
Government Operations and PoliticsHJRES 299 — A joint resolution proposing an amendment to the Constitution to provide for the direct popular election of the President and Vice President of the United States.
Introduced 1979-04-10 · Referred to House Committee on the Judiciary.
Government Operations and PoliticsHJRES 288 — A joint resolution proposing an amendment to the Constitution to provide for the direct popular election of the President and Vice President of the United States.
Introduced 1979-04-03 · Referred to House Committee on the Judiciary.
Government Operations and PoliticsHJRES 261 — A joint resolution proposing an amendment to the Constitution to provide for the direct popular election of the President and Vice President of the United States.
Introduced 1979-03-20 · Referred to House Committee on the Judiciary.
Government Operations and PoliticsHJRES 254 — A joint resolution proposing an amendment to the Constitution to provide for the direct popular election of the President and Vice President of the United States.
Introduced 1979-03-13 · Referred to House Committee on the Judiciary.
Government Operations and PoliticsHR 15018 — A bill to extend for 1 year the time for entering into a contract under section 106 of the Water Resources Development Act of 1974.
Introduced 1974-05-28 · Referred to House Committee on Public Works.
Transportation and Public WorksHR 12326 — A bill to designate certain lands in the Mingo National Wildlife Refuge, Wayne and Stoddard Counties, Mo., as wilderness.
Introduced 1974-01-29 · Referred to House Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs.
Public Lands and Natural ResourcesHR 12192 — A bill to authorize cooperative operation, maintenance, and repair of the Chester Bridge, Missouri and Illinois, and for other purposes.
Introduced 1974-01-22 · Referred to House Committee on Public Works.
Transportation and Public WorksHR 7540 — A bill to amend the Truth in Lending Act to eliminate the inclusion of agricultural credit;.
Introduced 1973-05-07 · Referred to House Committee on Banking and Currency.
HR 7337 — A bill to amend the Federal Property and Administrative Services Act of 1949 to permit donations of surplus supplies and equipment to certain sheltered workshop programs.
Introduced 1973-04-30 · Referred to House Committee on Government Operations.
DisabledHR 7253 — Wilderness Study Act
Introduced 1973-04-19 · Referred to House Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs.
Public Lands and Natural ResourcesHR 7254 — A bill to further the purposes of the Wilderness Act of 1964 by designating certain lands for inclusion in the National Wilderness Preservation System, and for other purposes.
Introduced 1973-04-19 · Referred to House Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs.
Public Lands and Natural ResourcesHR 7087 — A bill to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to sell reserved mineral interests of the United States in certain land in Missouri to Grace F. Sisler, the record owner of the surface thereof.
Introduced 1973-04-16 · Private Law 93-71.
Private LegislationHR 6698 — A bill to amend the Communication Act of 1934 to establish orderly procedures for the consideration of applications for renewal of broadcast licenses.
Introduced 1973-04-09 · Referred to House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce.
Government Operations and PoliticsHR 3358 — A bill to provide price support for milk at not less than 85 percent of the parity price.
Introduced 1973-01-31 · Referred to House Committee on Agriculture.
Agriculture and FoodHR 2503 — To authorize the Secretary of the Interior to sell reserved mineral interests of the United States in certain land in Missouri to Grace F. Sisler, the record owner of the surface thereto.
Introduced 1973-01-18 · Referred to House Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs.
Private LegislationHR 1694 — For the relief of Ossie Emmons and others.
Introduced 1973-01-09 · Private Law 93-45.
Private LegislationHR 14117 — Consumer Communications Reform Act
Introduced 1976-06-01 · Referred to House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce.
Government Operations and PoliticsHR 12183 — A bill to provide that the President, or any other member of the executive branch of the Federal Government, shall limit or prohibit the export of agricultural tools, materials, and machinery as part of any limitation or prohibition of the export of any agricultural commodity.
Introduced 1976-03-01 · Referred to House Committee on International Relations.
Agriculture and FoodHR 11392 — A bill to amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to authorize payment under the medicare program for certain services performed by chiropractors.
Introduced 1976-01-20 · Referred to House Committee on Ways and Means.
Social WelfareHR 9546 — A bill to amend the U.S. Grain Standards Act for the purpose of providing that inspections made under such act be made by Federal and State employees, and for the purpose of providing, without compensation, inspection and classification services to procedures of grain.
Introduced 1975-09-11 · Referred to House Committee on Agriculture.
Agriculture and FoodHR 9384 — Payments in Lieu of Taxes Act
Introduced 1975-09-05 · Referred to House Committee on Government Operations.
Government Operations and PoliticsHR 6131 — A bill to direct the Commodity Futures Trading Commission to regulate brokers who engage in forward contracting in connection with producers of agriculture crops.
Introduced 1975-04-17 · Referred to House Committee on Agriculture.
Agriculture and FoodHR 5372 — A bill to direct the Commodity Futures Trading Commission to regulate brokers who engage in forward contracting in connection with producers of agriculture crops.
Introduced 1975-03-24 · Referred to House Committee on Agriculture.
Agriculture and FoodHR 4124 — A bill to amend the Flood Disaster Protection Act of 1973 to provide that the prohibition against Federal financial assistance for acquisition or construction purposes in an area having special flood hazards, where the property involved is not covered by flood insurance or the community is not participating in the national flood insurance program, shall be inapplicable if a flood control study or construction program is being carried on in such community.
Introduced 1975-03-04 · Referred to House Committee on Banking, Currency and Housing.
Federal aid programsHR 3931 — A bill to repeal sections 102 and 202 of the Flood Disaster Protection Act of 1973 which make flood insurance coverage and community participation in the national flood insurance program prerequisites for approval of any financial assistance in a flood hazard area.
Introduced 1975-02-27 · Referred to House Committee on Banking, Currency and Housing.
Finance and Financial SectorHR 2975 — A bill to designate certain lands in the Mingo National Wildlife Refuge, Wayne and Stoddard Counties, Mo., as wilderness.
Introduced 1975-02-06 · Referred to House Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs.
Public Lands and Natural ResourcesHJRES 785 — Joint resolution proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States relating to the nomination of individuals for election to the Offices of the President and Vice President of the United States.
Introduced 1976-01-29 · Referred to House Committee on the Judiciary.
Constitutional amendmentsHJRES 786 — Joint resolution proposing an amendment to the Constitution to provide for the direct popular election of the President and Vice President of the United States.
Introduced 1976-01-29 · Referred to House Committee on the Judiciary.
Constitutional amendmentsHCONRES 500 — Concurrent resolution relating to the authority of the Federal Trade Commission to prescribe rules preempting State and local laws.
Introduced 1975-12-04 · Referred to House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce.
Intergovernmental relationsHR 10505 — A bill to require that imported meat and meat food products made in whole or in part of imported meat be subjected to certain tests and that such meat or products be identified as having been imported; to require the inspection of imported dairy products and that such products comply with certain minimum standards of sanitation; to require that the cost of conducting such tests, inspections, and identification procedures on imported meat and meat food products and on dairy products, as the case may be, be borne by the exporters of such articles, and for other purposes.
Introduced 1978-01-24 · Referred to House Committee on Agriculture.
Agriculture and FoodHR 10238 — Emergency Farm Act
Introduced 1977-12-06 · Referred to House Committee on Agriculture.
HR 9964 — A bill to require the Secretary of the Army to acquire approximately 2,500 acres of land to be used to mitigate certain adverse impacts which will result from the St. Johns Bayou and New Madrid Floodway, Mo., flood protection project.
Introduced 1977-11-03 · Referred to House Committee on Public Works and Transportation.
Real propertyHR 9829 — A bill to direct the Commodity Futures Trading Commission to regulate brokers who engage in forward contracting in connection with producers of agriculture crops.
Introduced 1977-10-31 · Referred to House Committee on Agriculture.
Agriculture and FoodHJRES 1111 — A resolution raising the price support levels for milk, wheat, corn, soybeans, and cotton to 90 per centum of the respective parity prices therefor, and for other purposes.
Introduced 1978-08-10 · Referred to House Committee on Agriculture.
HJRES 514 — A joint resolution proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States to prohibit automatic increases in compensation payable for goods and services, and other moneys payable for any purpose, by reason of increases in the cost of living.
Introduced 1977-06-13 · Referred to House Committee on the Judiciary.
Economics and Public FinanceHJRES 384 — Joint resolution proposing an amendment to the Constitution to provide for the direct popular election of the President and Vice President of the United States.
Introduced 1977-04-06 · Referred to House Committee on the Judiciary.
Constitutional amendmentsHJRES 397 — Joint resolution proposing an amendment to the Constitution to provide for the direct popular election of the President and the Vice President of the United States.
Introduced 1977-04-20 · Referred to House Committee on the Judiciary.
Government Operations and PoliticsHJRES 281 — A joint resolution proposing an amendment to the Constitution to provide for the direct popular election of the President and Vice President of the United States.
Introduced 1977-02-24 · Referred to House Committee on the Judiciary.
Constitutional amendmentsHJRES 229 — Joint resolution proposing an amendment to the Constitution to provide for the direct popular election of the President and Vice President of the United States.
Introduced 1977-02-02 · Referred to House Committee on the Judiciary.
Government Operations and PoliticsHJRES 228 — Joint resolution proposing an amendment to the Constitution to provide for the direct popular election of the President and Vice President of the United States.
Introduced 1977-02-02 · Referred to House Committee on the Judiciary.
Government Operations and PoliticsHJRES 39 — A resolution proposing an amendment to the Constitution to provide for the direct election of the President and Vice President of the United States.
Introduced 1977-01-04 · Referred to House Committee on the Judiciary.
Government Operations and Politics