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A bill to enable State homes to furnish nursing home care to parents any of whose children died while serving in the Armed Forces.

Bill: 111-s-1450
Sponsor: Sen. Ensign, John [R-NV]
Introduced: 2009-07-14 in the Senate
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Long-term, rehabilitative, and terminal care
Veterans' medical care

Summary:
action_date: 2009-07-14
text: 
Authorizes the Secretary of Veterans Affairs (VA) to permit a state home to provide VA nursing home care to parents who had any children who died while serving in the Armed Forces.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-07-14
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2009-07-14
text: Introduced in Senate
COMBAT PTSD Act

Bill: 111-s-1452
Sponsor: Sen. Schumer, Charles E. [D-NY]
Introduced: 2009-07-14 in the Senate
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Disability and paralysis
Mental health
Military operations and strategy
Veterans' pensions and compensation

Summary:
action_date: 2009-07-14
text: 
Compensation Owed for Mental Health Based on Activities in Theater Post-traumatic Stress Disorder Act or COMBAT PTSD Act - Defines &quot;combat with the enemy,&quot; for purposes of proof of service-connection for veterans' disability compensation, as service on active duty: (1) in a theater of combat operations during a period of war; or (2) in combat against a hostile force during a period of hostilities.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-07-14
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2009-07-14
text: Introduced in Senate
Bureau of Reclamation Fish Recovery Programs Reauthorization Act of 2009

Bill: 111-s-1453
Sponsor: Sen. Bingaman, Jeff [D-NM]
Introduced: 2009-07-14 in the Senate
Policy area: Animals
Subjects: Arizona
Colorado
Energy revenues and royalties
Lakes and rivers
New Mexico
Utah
Wildlife conservation and habitat protection
Wyoming

Summary:
action_date: 2009-07-14
text: 
Bureau of Reclamation Fish Recovery Programs Reauthorization Act of 2009 - Extends through FY2023 (under current law, FY2011) the authority of the Secretary of the Interior to use power revenues collected pursuant to the Colorado River Storage Project Act for annual base funding for implementation of the endangered fish recovery implementation programs for the Upper Colorado and San Juan River Basins.

action_date: 2010-03-02
text: 

(This measure has not been amended since it was introduced. The summary of that version is repeated here.)

 
Bureau of Reclamation Fish Recovery Programs Reauthorization Act of 2009 - Extends through FY2023 (under current law, FY2011) the authority of the Secretary of the Interior to use power revenues collected pursuant to the Colorado River Storage Project Act for annual base funding for implementation of the endangered fish recovery implementation programs for the Upper Colorado and San Juan River Basins.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-03-02
text: Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 292.
action_date: 2010-03-02
text: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Reported by Senator Bingaman without amendment. With written report No. 111-142.
action_date: 2010-03-02
text: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Reported by Senator Bingaman without amendment. With written report No. 111-142.
action_date: 2009-12-16
text: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Ordered to be reported without amendment favorably.
action_date: 2009-07-23
text: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources Subcommittee on Water and Power. Hearings held. With printed Hearing: S.Hrg. 111-91.
action_date: 2009-07-14
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. (text of measure as introduced: CR S7483)
action_date: 2009-07-14
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S7482)
action_date: 2009-07-14
text: Introduced in Senate
SAFE AIR Act of 2009

Bill: 111-s-1454
Sponsor: Sen. McCaskill, Claire [D-MO]
Introduced: 2009-07-14 in the Senate
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Aviation and airports
Congressional oversight
Department of Transportation
Drug, alcohol, tobacco use
Transportation employees
Transportation safety and security

Summary:
action_date: 2009-07-14
text: 
Safe Aviation Facilities Ensure Aircraft Integrity and Reliability Act of 2009 or the SAFE AIR Act of 2009 - Requires the Administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to: (1) issue regulations requiring maintenance work on passenger aircraft to be performed by certain authorized individuals; (2) certify to Congress that the FAA has inspected each foreign repair station that has performed work on U.S. air carrier aircraft or components at least twice in the preceding year and tested persons who perform safety-sensitive functions at such stations for use of alcohol or controlled substances; and (3) develop a plan to identify all maintenance providers (other than repair stations or air carriers) that have performed maintenance work on such aircraft. 
 
Prohibits the Administrator from certifying a foreign repair station unless it complies with certain final security regulations.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-07-14
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
action_date: 2009-07-14
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to amend title 36, United States Code, to grant a Federal charter to the Military Officers Association of America, and for other purposes.

Bill: 111-s-1455
Sponsor: Sen. Nelson, Bill [D-FL]
Introduced: 2009-07-14 in the Senate
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Federally chartered organizations
Military personnel and dependents
Social work, volunteer service, charitable organizations

Summary:
action_date: 2009-07-14
text: 
Grants a federal charter to the Military Officers Association of America (a nonprofit corporation and incorporated under the laws of the Commonwealth of Virginia). 
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-07-14
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2009-07-14
text: Introduced in Senate
Land-In-Trust Schools and Local Governments Equitable Compensation Act

Bill: 111-s-1456
Sponsor: Sen. Schumer, Charles E. [D-NY]
Introduced: 2009-07-14 in the Senate
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Education programs funding
Elementary and secondary education
Indian lands and resources rights
Intergovernmental relations
State and local finance
State and local taxation

Summary:
action_date: 2009-07-14
text: 
Land-In-Trust Schools and Local Governments Equitable Compensation Act - Directs the Secretary of the Interior to pay each local educational agency and local government annually such amounts as are necessary to ensure that the agency and local government receive full payment for the amount of property tax revenues lost as a result of lands in their jurisdiction being held in trust by the United States for the benefit of a federally recognized Indian tribe or an individual Indian.
 
Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to transfer the necessary amounts directly to the Secretary of Interior from the Treasury's general fund without further appropriation.
 
Allows such an agency or local government, notwithstanding those requirements, to enter into a written agreement with the Secretary of the Interior, the appropriate state, and, if appropriate, any federally recognized Indian tribe or individual Indian under which all parties agree that the amounts shall be: (1) waived in whole or in part; (2) limited for an agreed upon number of years; or (3) otherwise adjusted, including the timing of any payment or payments.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-07-14
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
action_date: 2009-07-14
text: Introduced in Senate
Federal Reserve Credit Facility Review Act of 2009

Bill: 111-s-1457
Sponsor: Sen. Collins, Susan M. [R-ME]
Introduced: 2009-07-15 in the Senate
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: Bank accounts, deposits, capital
Business records
Congressional oversight
Credit and credit markets
Federal Reserve System
Financial crises and stabilization
Financial services and investments
Government studies and investigations

Summary:
action_date: 2009-07-15
text: 
Federal Reserve Credit Facility Review Act of 2009 - Authorizes the Comptroller General to conduct reviews and onsite examinations of: (1) any credit facility established by the Federal Reserve Board or any federal reserve bank; and (2) such credit facility's establishment as the lender of last resort (including providing credit under enhancements to traditional lending facilities and credit facilities).
 
Cites the credit facilities to which this Act applies. Grants the Comptroller General access to all records and property of any such credit facility, including its officers, employees, contractors, and other agents and representatives.
 
Sets forth the powers of the Comptroller to implement this Act.
 
Requires the Comptroller General to report to Congress on each review conducted.
 
Terminates such authorization five years after enactment of this Act.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-07-15
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.
action_date: 2009-07-15
text: Introduced in Senate
Families for Orphans Act of 2009

Bill: 111-s-1458
Sponsor: Sen. Landrieu, Mary L. [D-LA]
Introduced: 2009-07-16 in the Senate
Policy area: International Affairs
Subjects: Adoption and foster care
Advisory bodies
Child care and development
Department of State
Executive agency funding and structure
Family relationships
Foreign aid and international relief
Government studies and investigations

Summary:
action_date: 2009-07-16
text: 
Families for Orphans Act of 2009 - Establishes within the Department of State the Office for Orphan Policy Diplomacy and Development which shall support: (1) the preservation and reunification of families; and (2) the provision of permanent parental care for orphans.
 
Directs the President to establish the Policy Coordinating Committee which shall monitor and support international efforts in family preservation, family reunification, and permanent parental care for orphans.
 
Authorizes the President to provide assistance to foreign countries: (1) for family preservation, family reunification, and orphan care efforts; and (2) to meet minimum standards required for such assistance. 
 
Authorizes the Secretary of State to make grants to nongovernmental agencies to promote permanent parental care for orphans.
 
Directs the Secretary to: (1) initiate a study to identify global best practices for preserving and reunifying families and providing permanent parental care for orphans; and (2) carry out a global best practices pilot program.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-07-16
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations.
action_date: 2009-07-16
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S7587, S7642-7643)
action_date: 2009-07-16
text: Introduced in Senate
Health Care Choice Act of 2009

Bill: 111-s-1459
Sponsor: Sen. DeMint, Jim [R-SC]
Introduced: 2009-07-16 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Accounting and auditing
Government information and archives
Health care costs and insurance
Insurance industry and regulation
Intergovernmental relations
State and local government operations

Summary:
action_date: 2009-07-16
text: 
Health Care Choice Act of 2009 - Amends the Public Health Service Act to provide that the laws of the state designated by a health insurance issuer (primary state) shall apply to individual health insurance coverage offered by that issuer in the primary state and in any other state (secondary state), but only if the coverage and issuer comply with the conditions of this Act.
 
Exempts issuers from any secondary state's laws that would prohibit or regulate the operation of the issuer in such state, subject to certain restrictions imposed by such state.

Specifies the notice that an issuer must provide in any insurance coverage offered in a secondary state and at renewal of the policy.
 
Requires each issuer issuing individual health insurance coverage in both primary and secondary states to submit to the insurance commissioners of such states: (1) a copy of the plan of operation or feasibility study; (2) written notice of any change in its designation of its primary state and of its compliance with all the laws of the primary state; and (3) a quarterly financial statement.
 
Prohibits an issuer from offering, selling, or issuing individual health insurance coverage in a secondary state if the state insurance commissioner does not use a risk-based capital formula for the determination of capital and surplus requirements for all issuers.

Gives sole jurisdiction to the primary state to enforce the primary state's covered laws in the primary state and any secondary state. 

Requires the Comptroller General to study and report to Congress on the effect of this Act on specified health insurance issues.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-07-16
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2009-07-16
text: Introduced in Senate
Building Student Success Act of 2009

Bill: 111-s-1460
Sponsor: Sen. Brown, Sherrod [D-OH]
Introduced: 2009-07-16 in the Senate
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Academic performance and assessments
Education of the disadvantaged
Education programs funding
Government information and archives
Higher education
Performance measurement
School administration
Vocational and technical education

Summary:
action_date: 2009-07-16
text: 
Building Student Success Act of 2009 - Amends the Higher Education Act of 1965 to direct the Secretary of Education to allot matching grants to states so each can fund: (1) a comprehensive effort by an experienced nonprofit or public entity to assist selected open enrollment institutions (community colleges or institutions of higher education that accept any student who applies for admission) in devising, implementing, monitoring, and evaluating strategies to improve their students' success; and (2) a rigorous, external evaluation of such effort.
 
Allots grant funds to states on the basis of each state's share of residents who are enrolled in open enrollment institutions and residents aged 15 through 44 who are impoverished.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-07-16
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2009-07-16
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to treat trees and vines producing fruit, nuts, or other crops as placed in service in the year in which it is planted for purposes of special allowance for depreciation.

Bill: 111-s-1461
Sponsor: Sen. Boxer, Barbara [D-CA]
Introduced: 2009-07-16 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Business investment and capital
Fruit and vegetables
Income tax deductions

Summary:
action_date: 2009-07-16
text: 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to treat trees or vines producing fruit, nuts, or other crops as placed in service in the year in which they are planted for purposes of the additional 50% bonus depreciation allowance. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-07-16
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2009-07-16
text: Introduced in Senate
Everson Walls and Ron Springs Gift for Life Act of 2009

Bill: 111-s-1463
Sponsor: Sen. Burris, Roland [D-IL]
Introduced: 2009-07-16 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Congressional oversight
Department of Health and Human Services
Executive agency funding and structure
Government information and archives
Government studies and investigations
Health information and medical records
Health programs administration and funding
Organ and tissue donation and transplantation
Right of privacy

Summary:
action_date: 2009-07-16
text: 
Everson Walls and Ron Springs Gift for Life Act of 2009 - Amends the Public Health Service Act to direct the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS), acting through the Administrator of the Health Resources and Services Administration, to establish a National Organ and Tissue Donor Registry Resource Center, which shall: (1) advance the development, expansion, and evaluation of state organ and tissue donor registries; (2) facilitate timely access to, and the exchange of accurate donor information between, such registries; (3) ensure that registries funded through this Act comply with applicable requirements; (4) provide technical assistance to states for such registries; and (5) maintain a registry information clearinghouse to collect, synthesize, and disseminate best practices information.
 
Requires the Secretary to award grants or cooperative agreements to states for the development, enhancement, expansion, and evaluation of organ and tissue donor registries. Sets forth requirements for registries, including that such registries: (1) allow a donor to include a statement or symbol that the donor has made, amended, or revoked an anatomical gift; (2) allow organ procurement organizations to access that information, at or near the donor's death; and (3) bar the use or disclosure of personally identifiable information for any other purpose without the donor's consent.
 
Directs the Comptroller General to report to Congress on the feasibility of establishing a living donor database to track health effects for donors associated with living organ donation.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-07-16
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2009-07-16
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S7643)
action_date: 2009-07-16
text: Introduced in Senate
Nuclear Trafficking Prevention Act

Bill: 111-s-1464
Sponsor: Sen. Casey, Robert P., Jr. [D-PA]
Introduced: 2009-07-16 in the Senate
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Arms control and nonproliferation
Criminal investigation, prosecution, interrogation
Diplomacy, foreign officials, Americans abroad
Jurisdiction and venue
Nuclear weapons
Technology transfer and commercialization
Terrorism
War crimes, genocide, crimes against humanity

Summary:
action_date: 2009-07-16
text: 
Nuclear Trafficking Prevention Act - Declares it to be the policy of the United States that the transfer of a nuclear weapon or device or of nuclear material or technology for terrorist purposes is a crime against humanity and should be punished under customary international criminal law. 
 
Amends the federal criminal code to prohibit the transfer of a nuclear weapon or device, or of nuclear material or sensitive nuclear technology, to any foreign terrorist organization or any other person engaged in terrorist activities. Grants extraterritorial jurisdiction to prosecute violations of this Act. Imposes a fine and minimum prison term of 25 years for violations (life imprisonment for violations resulting in death).
 
Requires the Secretary of State to direct the Permanent Representative of the United States to the United Nations and representatives to bilateral and multilateral fora to seek international recognition that the transfer of nuclear weapons, devices, material, or technology for terrorist purposes is a crime against humanity.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-07-16
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2009-07-16
text: Introduced in Senate
Anthony DeJuan Boatwright Act

Bill: 111-s-1465
Sponsor: Sen. Isakson, Johnny [R-GA]
Introduced: 2009-07-16 in the Senate
Policy area: Families
Subjects: Business records
Child care and development
Consumer affairs
Licensing and registrations
Life, casualty, property insurance
State and local government operations

Summary:
action_date: 2009-07-16
text: 
Anthony DeJuan Boatwright Act - Amends the Child Care and Development Block Grant Act of 1990 to require a state to provide assurances that the state includes, as part of its regulatory process for issuance and renewal of licenses to providers of child care services, a recommendation to each provider that it carry current liability insurance.
 
Requires state plans for the use of child care and development block grant funds to certify that there are in effect state or local health and safety requirements that each child care provider: (1) post publicly and conspicuously in the service area of its premises a notice specifying whether it carries current liability insurance; and (2) give written notice to parents about whether it carries such insurance, obtain the signature of at least one parent per child acknowledging receipt of such notice, and maintain records of such signed notice while a child receives services. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-07-16
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2009-07-16
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S7643-7644)
action_date: 2009-07-16
text: Introduced in Senate
Lance Corporal Josef Lopez Fairness for Servicemembers Harmed by Vaccines Act of 2009

Bill: 111-s-1467
Sponsor: Sen. McCaskill, Claire [D-MO]
Introduced: 2009-07-16 in the Senate
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Health promotion and preventive care
Life, casualty, property insurance
Veterans' medical care

Summary:
action_date: 2009-07-16
text: 
Lance Corporal Josef Lopez Fairness for Servicemembers Harmed by Vaccines Act of 2009 - Prohibits the Secretary of Veterans Affairs (VA) from excluding from coverage under traumatic injury provisions with respect to the Servicemember's Group life Insurance program a member suffering a qualifying loss resulting from an adverse reaction to a vaccination administered by the Department of Defense (DOD), whether voluntarily or involuntarily, for purposes of military accession, training, or deployment. 
 
Makes such amendment retroactive to the establishment of such coverage under the Emergency Supplemental Appropriations Act for Defense, the Global War on Terror, and Tsunami Relief, 2005. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-10-21
text: Committee on Veterans' Affairs. Hearings held. Hearings printed: S.Hrg. 111-264.
action_date: 2009-07-16
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2009-07-16
text: Introduced in Senate