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Medicaid Fraud Reduction Act of 2008

Bill: 110-hr-5757
Sponsor: Rep. Deal, Nathan [R-GA-9]
Introduced: 2008-04-10 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Bank records
Collection of accounts
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Crime and Law Enforcement
Economics and Public Finance
Finance and Financial Sector
Government Operations and Politics
Government publicity
Grants-in-aid
Health care fraud
Intergovernmental fiscal relations
Medicaid
Social Welfare
Welfare eligibility

Summary:
action_date: 2008-04-10
text: 
Medicaid Fraud Reduction Act of 2008 - Amends title XIX (Medicaid) of the Social Security Act (SSA), for purposes of determining or redetermining an individual's Medicaid eligibility, to direct each state to implement an asset verification program requiring Medicaid applicants or recipients to authorize the state to: (1) obtain records from a financial institution; and (2) use them to verify the individual's financial resources.

Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services to provide payments to eligible states to establish and carry out practices to reduce fraud under the state Medicaid program.

Requires the Secretary to report to Congress on the feasibility of, and potential program savings from, implementing an electronic system for verifying asset transfers, particularly of real property, by Medicaid applicants or recipients. Authorizes the Secretary to require states to implement such a system if feasible and cost-effective.

Requires withholding of federal matching payments to states for: (1) failure to implement an asset verification program; and (2) any expenditures other than for compensation of a state employee or payment to a state entity (for instance, expenditures for consultants).

Requires states to submit to the Secretary state plan amendments for creating Internet-based transparency programs to improve public disclosure of Medicaid payments information.

Amends SSA title XI to permit limitations, restrictions, and suspensions of Medicaid eligibility in cases of Medicaid-related civil or criminal fraud or abuse.

Provides for an extended period of one year to recover Medicaid overpayments resulting from fraud or abuse.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-04-14
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2008-04-10
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2008-04-10
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2008-04-10
text: Introduced in House
Reverse Mortgage Proceeds Protection Act

Bill: 110-hr-5758
Sponsor: Rep. Lee, Barbara [D-CA-9]
Introduced: 2008-04-10 in the House
Policy area: Housing and Community Development
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Annuities
Commerce
Consumer protection
Counseling
Department of Housing and Urban Development
Finance and Financial Sector
Financial services
Government Operations and Politics
Health
Home equity conversion
Housing for the aged
Insurance premiums
Labor and Employment
Law
Long-term care insurance
Marketing
Social Welfare

Summary:
action_date: 2008-04-10
text: 
Reverse Mortgage Proceeds Protection Act - Amends the National Housing Act of 1937 to modify the eligibility criteria for insurance of home equity conversion mortgages (reverse mortgages) of elderly home owners.
 
Excludes from the third party adequate counseling requirement counseling by a reverse mortgage lender, servicer or investor, or an entity engaged in the sale of annuities, investments, long-term care insurance, or any other type of financial or insurance product.
 
Repeals the waiver of upfront insurance premiums for mortgages to fund long-term care insurance.
 
Authorizes the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) to use a portion of reverse mortgage insurance premiums to fund mandatory counseling and disclosure activities, including counseling for homeowners who elect not to take out a home equity conversion mortgage.
 
Directs the Secretary to promulgate regulations to protect elderly homeowners from the marketing of financial and insurance products not in their interest, including the marketing or sale of an annuity as a precondition to obtaining a home equity conversion mortgage.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-04-10
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2008-04-10
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2008-04-10
text: Introduced in House
English as the Official Language Act of 2008

Bill: 110-hr-5759
Sponsor: Rep. Broun, Paul C. [R-GA-10]
Introduced: 2008-04-10 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Bilingualism
English language
Government paperwork
Government publications

Summary:
action_date: 2008-04-10
text: 
English as the Official Language Act of 2008 - Requires: (1) English to be the national language of the federal government; and (2) the federal government to preserve and enhance the role of English as the national language.
 
Provides that no person has a right, entitlement, or claim to have the federal government act, communicate, perform or provide services, or provide materials in any language other than English, unless specifically provided by statute.

Makes the English language version of a government form issued in a language other than English the sole authority for legal purposes.

Declares that this Act does not prohibit the use of a language other than English.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-04-10
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and Labor.
action_date: 2008-04-10
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR H2212)
action_date: 2008-04-10
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2008-04-10
text: Introduced in House
Child Protection Reauthorization Act of 2008

Bill: 110-hr-5760
Sponsor: Rep. Brown-Waite, Ginny [R-FL-5]
Introduced: 2008-04-10 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Arrest
Authorization
Child sexual abuse
Crime prevention
Criminal justice information
Department of Justice
Economics and Public Finance
Families
Federal aid to law enforcement
Fugitives from justice
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Juvenile delinquency
Rehabilitation of criminals
Sex offenders

Summary:
action_date: 2008-04-10
text: 
Child Protection Reauthorization Act of 2008 - Amends the Adam Walsh Child Protection and Safety Act of 2006 to extend through FY2011 the authorization of appropriations for: (1) the Sex Offender Management Assistance (SOMA) program; (2) assistance to states for apprehending sex offenders who violate sex offender registration requirements; (3) grants to combat sexual abuse of children; (4) the Fugitive Safe Surrender Program; (5) the pilot program for monitoring sex offenders; and (6) the Jessica Lunsford Address Verification Grant Program. Extends reporting requirements for the last two of such programs.

Amends the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 to extend through FY2011 the authorization of appropriations for grants: (1) to assist states in enforcing sex offender registration requirements; and (2) for juvenile sex offender treatment. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-04-28
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.
action_date: 2008-04-10
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2008-04-10
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2008-04-10
text: Introduced in House
To withhold Federal financial assistance from each country that denies or unreasonably delays the acceptance of nationals of such country who have been ordered removed from the United States and to prohibit the issuance of visas to nationals of such country.

Bill: 110-hr-5761
Sponsor: Rep. Castle, Michael N. [R-DE-At Large]
Introduced: 2008-04-10 in the House
Policy area: Immigration
Subjects: Aliens
Civil actions and liability
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Crime and Law Enforcement
Deportation
Economic assistance
International Affairs
Law
Parties to actions
Repatriation
Victims of crimes
Visas

Summary:
action_date: 2008-04-10
text: 
Amends the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 to prohibit funds from being dispersed to a country that denies or unreasonably delays the acceptance of its citizens, nationals, or residents who have been ordered removed under the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA) from the United States.
 
Amends INA to prohibit visa issuance to citizens, nationals, or residents of such country unless: (1) the country is in full compliance with travel document requirements under this Act; or (2) Congress waives such prohibition.
 
Requires the Secretary of Homeland Security to report to Congress every three months listing countries that deny or delay such repatriation. Imposes assistance and visa prohibitions on a listed country that does not issue appropriate travel documents for such aliens.
 
Authorizes presidential waiver of such assistance and visa prohibitions.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-04-28
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration, Citizenship, Refugees, Border Security, and International Law.
action_date: 2008-04-10
text: Referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, and in addition to the Committees on the Judiciary, and Rules, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2008-04-10
text: Referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, and in addition to the Committees on the Judiciary, and Rules, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2008-04-10
text: Referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, and in addition to the Committees on the Judiciary, and Rules, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2008-04-10
text: Referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, and in addition to the Committees on the Judiciary, and Rules, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2008-04-10
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2008-04-10
text: Introduced in House
Food Safety Recall Information Act

Bill: 110-hr-5762
Sponsor: Rep. DeLauro, Rosa L. [D-CT-3]
Introduced: 2008-04-10 in the House
Policy area: Agriculture and Food
Subjects: Animal diseases
Animals
Bovine spongiform encephalopathy
Business records
Commerce
Dairy industry
Dairy products
Education
Elementary and secondary education
Food industry
Food safety
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Health
Livestock
Meat inspection
Meat packing industry
Poultry
Retail trade
School districts
School lunch program

Summary:
action_date: 2008-04-10
text: 
Food Safety Recall Information Act - Amends the Federal Meat Inspection Act to require that a person that voluntarily recalls a meat product shall, not later than five days after the voluntary recall begins, submit to the Secretary of Agriculture a list of all retail stores or public school districts that are known to have purchased a meat product subject to the voluntary recall.
 
Makes similar amendments to the the Poultry Products Inspection Act and the Egg Products Inspection Act.
 
Amends the Federal Meat Inspection Act to prohibit the use of nonambulatory livestock for human food.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-11-19
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Livestock, Dairy, and Poultry.
action_date: 2008-04-10
text: Referred to the House Committee on Agriculture.
action_date: 2008-04-10
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2008-04-10
text: Introduced in House
To temporarily delay application of proposed changes to the Departmental Appeals Board within the Department of Health and Human Services.

Bill: 110-hr-5763
Sponsor: Rep. Ellison, Keith [D-MN-5]
Introduced: 2008-04-10 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Administrative remedies
Department of Health and Human Services
Government Operations and Politics
Law
Medicaid
Medicare
Social Welfare

Summary:
action_date: 2008-04-10
text: 
Prohibits the Secretary of Health and Human Services from taking any administrative action for one year to finalize or otherwise implement provisions contained in the proposed rule published on December 28, 2007, relating to the Department of Appeals Board established in the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), including provisions allowing the Secretary to review, amend, or reverse Board decisions.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-04-14
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2008-04-10
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Ways and Means, and Education and Labor, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2008-04-10
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Ways and Means, and Education and Labor, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2008-04-10
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Ways and Means, and Education and Labor, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2008-04-10
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Ways and Means, and Education and Labor, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2008-04-10
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2008-04-10
text: Introduced in House
Medicaid Levy Enhancement Act

Bill: 110-hr-5764
Sponsor: Rep. Emanuel, Rahm [D-IL-5]
Introduced: 2008-04-10 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Health
Medicaid
Social Welfare
Tax administration
Tax liens

Summary:
action_date: 2008-04-10
text: 
Medicaid Levy Enhancement Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to impose a continuous levy on payments to Medicaid providers and suppliers for delinquent taxes owed by such providers and suppliers.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-04-10
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2008-04-10
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2008-04-10
text: Introduced in House
Medicare Remote Monitoring Access Act of 2008

Bill: 110-hr-5765
Sponsor: Rep. Eshoo, Anna G. [D-CA-14]
Introduced: 2008-04-10 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Cardiovascular diseases
Case management
Chronically ill
Medicare
Science, Technology, Communications
Social Welfare
Telemedicine

Summary:
action_date: 2008-04-10
text: 
Medicare Remote Monitoring Access Act of 2008 - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to cover remote patient management services for certain chronic health conditions.
 
Directs the Secretary to establish a demonstration project for evaluating the impact and benefits of covering under the Medicare program remote patient management services for certain chronic health conditions. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-04-16
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2008-04-14
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2008-04-10
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Ways and Means, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2008-04-10
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Ways and Means, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2008-04-10
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Ways and Means, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2008-04-10
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2008-04-10
text: Introduced in House
To prohibit the Secretary of the Treasury and the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System from proposing, prescribing, or implementing any regulation under subchapter IV of chapter 53 of title 31, United States Code, and for other purposes.

Bill: 110-hr-5767
Sponsor: Rep. Frank, Barney [D-MA-4]
Introduced: 2008-04-10 in the House
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Department of the Treasury
Federal Reserve System
Gambling
Government Operations and Politics
Law
Negotiable instruments
Sports and Recreation

Summary:
action_date: 2008-04-10
text: 
Prohibits the Secretary of the Treasury and the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System from proposing, prescribing, or implementing any regulation pursuant to the prohibition against acceptance of a financial instrument for unlawful internet gambling, including certain proposed regulations published in the Federal Register on October 4, 2007.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-04-10
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2008-04-10
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2008-04-10
text: Introduced in House
SMASH Act of 2008

Bill: 110-hr-5769
Sponsor: Rep. Gingrey, Phil [R-GA-11]
Introduced: 2008-04-10 in the House
Policy area: Commerce
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Advertising
Consumer protection
Federal Trade Commission
Government Operations and Politics
Independent regulatory commissions
Law
Science, Technology, Communications
Telemarketing
Telephone
Wireless communication

Summary:
action_date: 2008-04-10
text: 
Stop M-Spam Abuse as a Sales industry Habit Act of 2008 or the SMASH Act of 2008 - Requires the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to issue regulations to revise the Telemarketing Sales Rule to explicitly prohibit, as an abusive telemarketing act or practice, the sending of any electronic commercial message containing an unsolicited advertisement to a telephone number that is assigned to a commercial mobile service and listed on the FTC's do-not-call registry.
 
Prohibits interpreting anything in this Act to preclude or override the applicability of specified provisions of the Communications Act of 1934 or the CAN-SPAM Act of 2003 or rules prescribed under specified provisions of the Telemarketing and Consumer Fraud and Abuse Prevention Act.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-04-14
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Commerce, Trade and Consumer Protection.
action_date: 2008-04-10
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2008-04-10
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2008-04-10
text: Introduced in House
To prohibit the use of Federal funds for a project or program named for an individual then serving as a Member, Delegate, Resident Commissioner, or Senator of the United States Congress.

Bill: 110-hr-5771
Sponsor: Rep. McCaul, Michael T. [R-TX-10]
Introduced: 2008-04-10 in the House
Policy area: Congress
Subjects: Appropriations
Commemorations
Congressional tributes
Economics and Public Finance
Members of Congress
Names

Summary:
action_date: 2008-04-10
text: 
Prohibits the use of federal funds for a project or program named for an individual currently serving as a Member, Delegate, Resident Commissioner, or Senator of the U.S. Congress.
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-04-10
text: Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.
action_date: 2008-04-10
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2008-04-10
text: Introduced in House
To authorize the Secretary of the Interior to enter into a long-term ground lease for the operation and maintenance of Rock Creek, Langston, and East Potomac as golf courses, and for other purposes.

Bill: 110-hr-5773
Sponsor: Del. Norton, Eleanor Holmes [D-DC-At Large]
Introduced: 2008-04-10 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Blacks
Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Commemorations
Commerce
Competitive bidding
Concessions
Discrimination in public facilities
District of Columbia
Economics and Public Finance
Golf
Government Operations and Politics
Government contractors
Historic sites
History
Land transfers
Leases
Minorities
Minority business enterprises
Segregation
Sports and Recreation
Sports facilities
User charges

Summary:
action_date: 2008-04-10
text: 
Directs the Secretary of the Interior, acting through the Director of the National Park Service, to: (1) solicit proposals to procure the lease for the continued operation and maintenance of the Rock Creek, Langston, and East Potomac golf courses in the District of Columbia; and (2) ensure that month-to-month concessions contracts are continued for the operation and maintenance of Rock Creek and Langston golf courses until the lease in force on the date of this Act's enactment for East Potomac expires. 

Requires the lease to include the three golf courses in one lease agreement and mandate that the courses be operated and maintained in a manner that: (1) retains the historic nature of the courses, including an appropriate commemoration of the Langston Golf Course's historic place in African American golf history; (2) ensures that at least two of the courses maintain fees related to use that are affordable; (3) may allow fees collected at one course to subsidize the maintenance and operation of one or more of the others; and (4) allows for a long-term ground lease on the three courses.

 Directs the Secretary to solicit the request for proposals in a manner that: (1) provides that the lease shall be entered into within a specified time frame; and (2) ensures the participation of disadvantaged business enterprises among the equity partners of the sponsors of the proposals.

Makes the National Park Service Concessions Management Improvement Act of 1998 inapplicable to requests for proposals submitted and leases and agreements entered into under this Act.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-04-17
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests and Public Lands.
action_date: 2008-04-10
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2008-04-10
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2008-04-10
text: Introduced in House