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Liver Research Enhancement Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-1128
Sponsor: Rep. Lynch, Stephen F. [D-MA-9]
Introduced: 2009-02-23 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Department of Health and Human Services
Digestive and metabolic diseases
Executive agency funding and structure
Health programs administration and funding
Medical research
National Institutes of Health (NIH)
Research administration and funding

Summary:
action_date: 2009-02-23
text: 
Liver Research Enhancement Act of 2009 - Amends the Public Health Service Act to establish the National Center on Liver Disease Research in the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases to ensure the development of increased understanding of, and better treatments and cures for, liver disease.
 
Requires the Director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to establish the Liver Disease Research Advisory Board to: (1) advise and assist the Director of the Center concerning matters relating to liver disease research; and (2) develop the Liver Disease Research Action Plan to identify scientific opportunities and priorities of liver disease research. 
Requires the Director of each institute or center within NIH to allocate for liver disease research amounts necessary to: (1) fund existing scientific research opportunities; and (2) carry out the recommendations of the Plan.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-02-24
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2009-02-23
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2009-02-23
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-02-23
text: Introduced in House
Whatever It Takes To Rebuild Act

Bill: 111-hr-1130
Sponsor: Rep. Maloney, Carolyn B. [D-NY-14]
Introduced: 2009-02-23 in the House
Policy area: Emergency Management
Subjects: Disaster relief and insurance
Government lending and loan guarantees
Interest, dividends, interest rates
Intergovernmental relations
State and local finance

Summary:
action_date: 2009-02-23
text: 
Whatever It Takes to Rebuild Act - Amends the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act to: (1) authorize the President to make disaster loans to any state government that suffers a substantial loss of tax and other revenue as a result of a major disaster and demonstrates a need for financial assistance in order to perform its governmental functions; (2) repeal the $5 million cap for disaster loans; and (3) exempt a disaster loan made to a state or local government that suffers a substantial loss of revenues as a result of a major disaster the President determines to be a catastrophic event from the percentage of the annual state or local government operating budget limitations and from the payment of any interest or principal.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-02-24
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Economic Development, Public Buildings and Emergency Management.
action_date: 2009-02-23
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2009-02-23
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E299)
action_date: 2009-02-23
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-02-23
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to extend and modify the railroad track maintenance credit.

Bill: 111-hr-1132
Sponsor: Rep. Pomeroy, Earl [D-ND-At Large]
Introduced: 2009-02-23 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Income tax credits
Railroads

Summary:
action_date: 2009-02-23
text: 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) increase the allowable amount of the railroad track maintenance tax credit; (2) revise the types of expenditures eligible for such credit; and (3) extend such credit through 2012.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-02-23
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2009-02-23
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-02-23
text: Introduced in House
Family Telephone Connection Protection Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-1133
Sponsor: Rep. Rush, Bobby L. [D-IL-1]
Introduced: 2009-02-23 in the House
Policy area: Science, Technology, Communications
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Competition and antitrust
Correctional facilities and imprisonment
Federal Communications Commission (FCC)
Telecommunication rates and fees
Telephone and wireless communication

Summary:
action_date: 2009-02-23
text: 
Family Telephone Connection Protection Act of 2009 - Amends the Communications Act of 1934 to direct the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to consider the following types of regulation of inmate telephone service: (1) prescribing a maximum uniform per-minute rate (paid to telephone service providers); (2) prescribing a maximum uniform service connection or other per-call rate; (3) prescribing variable maximum rates depending on factors such as carrier costs or the size of the correctional facility; (4) requiring providers of inmate telephone service to offer both collect calling and debit account services; (5) prohibiting the payment of commissions by such providers to administrators of correctional facilities; and (6) requiring such administrators to allow more than one service provider at a facility so that prisoners have a choice.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-02-24
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Communications, Technology, and the Internet.
action_date: 2009-02-23
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2009-02-23
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-02-23
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow the credit for nonbusiness energy property for 2008.

Bill: 111-hr-1134
Sponsor: Rep. Sensenbrenner, F. James, Jr. [R-WI-5]
Introduced: 2009-02-23 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Energy efficiency and conservation
Income tax credits

Summary:
action_date: 2009-02-23
text: 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow the tax credit for nonbusiness energy property for property placed in service in 2008.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-02-23
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2009-02-23
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-02-23
text: Introduced in House
Save Our Small and Seasonal Businesses Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-1136
Sponsor: Rep. Stupak, Bart [D-MI-1]
Introduced: 2009-02-23 in the House
Policy area: Immigration
Subjects: Foreign labor
Visas and passports

Summary:
action_date: 2009-02-23
text: 
Save Our Small and Seasonal Businesses Act of 2009 - Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to exempt certain returning H-2B aliens (temporary nonagricultural worker) from annual numerical limitations. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-03-16
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration, Citizenship, Refugees, Border Security, and International Law.
action_date: 2009-02-23
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2009-02-23
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-02-23
text: Introduced in House
Athletic Trainers' Equal Access to Medicare Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-1137
Sponsor: Rep. Towns, Edolphus [D-NY-10]
Introduced: 2009-02-23 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Allied health services
Home and outpatient care
Medicare

Summary:
action_date: 2009-02-23
text: 
Athletic Trainers' Equal Access to Medicare Act of 2009 - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to provide for: (1) access to outpatient occupational and physical therapy services provided incident to a physician's professional services if furnished by an educated or credentialed therapist who does not have a license; and (2) coverage of certified athletic trainer services under part B (Supplementary Medical Insurance) of Medicare, including those provided in rural health clinics and federally qualified health centers. 
 

 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-02-24
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2009-02-23
text: Referred to House Ways and Means
action_date: 2009-02-23
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: 2009-02-23
text: Referred to House Energy and Commerce
action_date: 2009-02-23
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-02-23
text: Introduced in House
To require the Federal Government to reimburse a State or local government for financial losses incurred when an employee of the State or local government who performs public safety or first responder duties and who is also a member of a reserve component of the uniformed services is called or ordered to active duty for a period of more than 30 days.

Bill: 111-hr-1138
Sponsor: Rep. Weiner, Anthony D. [D-NY-9]
Introduced: 2009-02-23 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Emergency medical services and trauma care
Fires
Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management
Health personnel
Intergovernmental relations
Law enforcement officers
National Guard and reserves
State and local finance

Summary:
action_date: 2009-02-23
text: 
Requires the Secretary of the military department concerned, at the request of a state or local government that has one or more first responder employees who are also members of a reserve component and absent from their employment as first responders under a call or order to serve on active duty for more than 30 days, to reimburse the state or local government by the amount actually paid by the state or local government to such employees during their absence. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-03-17
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Military Personnel.
action_date: 2009-02-23
text: Referred to the House Committee on Armed Services.
action_date: 2009-02-23
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-02-23
text: Introduced in House
Home Energy Assistance Targeted for Seniors Act

Bill: 111-hr-1140
Sponsor: Rep. Weiner, Anthony D. [D-NY-9]
Introduced: 2009-02-23 in the House
Policy area: Energy
Subjects: Energy assistance for the poor and aged

Summary:
action_date: 2009-02-23
text: 
Home Energy Assistance Targeted for Seniors Act - Amends the Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Act of 1981 to rename it the Low-Income and Senior Home Energy Assistance Act of 1981. 
 
Redefines low-income households as households with incomes which do not exceed that of state median income, with at least 50% of the household income attributable to persons who are at least 65 years old.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-03-30
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Healthy Families and Communities.
action_date: 2009-02-24
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Environment.
action_date: 2009-02-23
text: Referred to House Education and Labor
action_date: 2009-02-23
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on 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: 2009-02-23
text: Referred to House Energy and Commerce
action_date: 2009-02-23
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-02-23
text: Introduced in House
For the relief of Zdenko Lisak.

Bill: 111-hr-1141
Sponsor: Rep. LaTourette, Steven C. [R-OH-14]
Introduced: 2009-02-23 in the House
Policy area: Private Legislation

Summary:
action_date: 2009-02-23
text: Provides for the relief of Zdenko Lisak.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-03-10
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration, Citizenship, Refugees, Border Security, and International Law.
action_date: 2009-02-23
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2009-02-23
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-02-23
text: Introduced in House
Alopecia Areata Medicaid Improvement and Parity Act

Bill: 111-hr-1142
Sponsor: Rep. Eshoo, Anna G. [D-CA-14]
Introduced: 2009-02-24 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Health technology, devices, supplies
Immunology and vaccination
Medicaid
Musculoskeletal and skin diseases

Summary:
action_date: 2009-02-24
text: 
Alopecia Areata Medicaid Improvement and Parity Act - Amends title XIX (Medicaid) of the Social Security Act with respect to inpatient hospital services to require states to provide hair prostheses under the Medicaid program for: (1) individuals diagnosed with alopecia areata universalis or alopecia areata totalis; or (2) individuals whose attending physician certifies in writing the medical necessity of that proposed course of rehabilitative treatment.
 

 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-02-25
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2009-02-24
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2009-02-24
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-02-24
text: Introduced in House
DRILL NOW Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-1143
Sponsor: Rep. Poe, Ted [R-TX-2]
Introduced: 2009-02-24 in the House
Policy area: Energy
Subjects: Air quality
Alternative and renewable resources
Energy research
Energy revenues and royalties
Government trust funds
Intergovernmental relations
Marine and coastal resources, fisheries
Oil and gas
Presidents and presidential powers, Vice Presidents
Research administration and funding
Research and development
State and local finance
State and local government operations

Summary:
action_date: 2009-02-24
text: 
Developing Resources Immediately and Long-Term through Leases on Our Nation's Offshore Waters Act of 2009 or DRILL NOW Act of 2009 - Amends the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act (OCSLA) to revoke existing presidential authority to withdraw any unleased lands of the outer Continental Shelf (OCS) from disposition for exploration, development, or production of oil and gas, except as necessary for national security.
 
Prohibits the President from making any such withdrawals.
 
Authorizes a state governor to petition the Secretary of the Interior to issue leases for oil and natural gas exploration and extraction in any area within 50 miles of the coastline of the state and the lateral seaward boundaries of the state extended.
 

 
Prohibits the Secretary from approving a petition for a drilling activity: (1) unless the state enacts a statute authorizing the issuance of leases; (2) if it would conflict with a military operation or national security; or (3) in any area withdrawn for national security purposes.
 
Instructs the Secretary of the Treasury to deposit 30% of qualified revenues into a separate Clean and Alternative Energy Fund in the Treasury, to be made available to the Secretary of Energy for grants for research and development of clean and alternative energy.
 
Requires the Secretary of the Treasury to: (1) deposit into the Clean and Alternative Energy Fund 30% of any funds that would be received by the United States as royalties under any existing federal OCS oil and gas lease of an area located within 50 miles of the coastal zone of the states of Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, or Alabama; and (2) pay 40% of such funds in proportional amounts to states with respect to which a lease tract is located in such an area.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-02-27
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources.
action_date: 2009-02-24
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2009-02-24
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-02-24
text: Introduced in House
Fulfilling the Potential of Women in Academic Science and Engineering Act

Bill: 111-hr-1144
Sponsor: Rep. Johnson, Eddie Bernice [D-TX-30]
Introduced: 2009-02-24 in the House
Policy area: Science, Technology, Communications
Subjects: Government information and archives
Government studies and investigations
Higher education
Research administration and funding
Science and engineering education
Sex, gender, sexual orientation discrimination
Teaching, teachers, curricula
Women's employment
Women's rights

Summary:
action_date: 2009-02-24
text: 
Fulfilling the Potential of Women in Academic Science and Engineering Act - Requires the Director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy to develop a policy for federal science agencies to carry out a program of workshops that educate specified federally funded researchers about methods that minimize the effects of gender bias in the evaluation of federal research grants and in the related academic advancement of the recipients of these grants. 

Requires the support of at least one workshop every two years among the federal science agencies in the major science and engineering disciplines.

Authorizes federal science agencies to carry out such program by making grants to eligible organizations as described in this Act. 

Requires the Director to transmit a report evaluating such program's impact in reducing gender bias towards women engaged in research funded by the federal government. 

Requires the Director to develop a policy to extend research grant support and provide interim technical support for federally funded researchers who are caregivers. Requires transmission of a copy of such policy to specified congressional committees. 

Requires federal science agencies to collect specified standardized annual data for all applications for research and development grants to institutions of higher education and to submit the data collected to the National Science Foundation (NSF). Makes the NSF responsible for storing and publishing all such grant data. 

Requires annual publication of a list of the institutions of higher education science and engineering departments represented by individuals who attend the workshops described above. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-02-25
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Research and Science Education.
action_date: 2009-02-24
text: Referred to the House Committee on Science and Technology.
action_date: 2009-02-24
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-02-24
text: Introduced in House
American Sovereignty Restoration Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-1146
Sponsor: Rep. Paul, Ron [R-TX-14]
Introduced: 2009-02-24 in the House
Policy area: International Affairs
Subjects: International organizations and cooperation
Military command and structure
United Nations

Summary:
action_date: 2009-02-24
text: American Sovereignty Restoration Act of 2009 - Repeals the United Nations Participation Act of 1945 and other specified related laws. Directs the President to terminate U.S. participation in the United Nations, including any organ, specialized agency, commission, or other affiliated body. Requires closure of the U.S. Mission to the United Nations. 
Prohibits: (1) the authorization of funds for the U.S. assessed or voluntary contribution to the United Nations; (2) the authorization of funds for any U.S. contribution to any U.N. military operation; and (3) the expenditure of funds to support the participation of U.S. Armed Forces as part of any U.N. military or peacekeeping operation. Bars U.S. Armed Forces from serving under U.N. command.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-02-24
text: Referred to the House Committee on Foreign Affairs.
action_date: 2009-02-24
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-02-24
text: Introduced in House
Child Protection Reauthorization Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-1149
Sponsor: Rep. Brown-Waite, Ginny [R-FL-5]
Introduced: 2009-02-24 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Child health
Crimes against children
Criminal justice information and records
Department of Justice
Executive agency funding and structure
Government information and archives
Health programs administration and funding
Juvenile crime and gang violence
Law enforcement administration and funding
Mental health
Sex offenses

Summary:
action_date: 2009-02-24
text: 
Child Protection Reauthorization Act of 2009 - Amends the Adam Walsh Child Protection and Safety Act of 2006 to extend through FY2012 funding under such Act for: (1) the Sex Offender Management Assistance (SOMA) program; (2) federal assistance to states for enforcing sex offender registration requirements; (3) pilot programs for monitoring sex offenders; (4) grants to combat sexual abuse of children; (5) the Jessica Lunsford address verification grant program; and (6) the program for safe surrender of fugitives.

Amends the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 to extend through FY2012 funding for: (1) sex offender apprehension grants; and (2) juvenile sex offender treatment grants. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-03-16
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.
action_date: 2009-02-24
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2009-02-24
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-02-24
text: Introduced in House
Laboratory Surge Capacity Preparedness Act

Bill: 111-hr-1150
Sponsor: Rep. Carney, Christopher P. [D-PA-10]
Introduced: 2009-02-24 in the House
Policy area: Emergency Management
Subjects: Health facilities and institutions
Health programs administration and funding
Homeland security
Infectious and parasitic diseases
Medical research
Medical tests and diagnostic methods
Research administration and funding
Terrorism

Summary:
action_date: 2009-02-24
text: 
Laboratory Surge Capacity Preparedness Act - Directs the Secretary of Homeland Security to award grants to regional biocontainment laboratories for maintaining surge capacity that can be used to respond to acts of bioterrorism or outbreaks of infectious diseases. Authorizes the Secretary to award such a grant only if the laboratory agrees to allow the Secretary and other relevant federal agencies to inspect laboratory facilities.
 
Requires the Secretary to report to Congress on: (1) activities undertaken to integrate the network of regional biocontainment laboratories with the laboratory response network of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC); and (2) the extent to which additional Biosafety Level 3 laboratories are needed to fulfill the nation's laboratory surge capacity needs.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-03-02
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Emergency Communications, Preparedness, and Response.
action_date: 2009-02-25
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Commerce, Trade and Consumer Protection.
action_date: 2009-02-24
text: Referred to House Homeland Security
action_date: 2009-02-24
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Homeland Security, 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: 2009-02-24
text: Referred to House Energy and Commerce
action_date: 2009-02-24
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-02-24
text: Introduced in House