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To amend title 38, United States Code, to make certain improvements to the comprehensive service programs for homeless veterans.

Bill: 111-hr-2735
Sponsor: Rep. Rodriguez, Ciro D. [D-TX-23]
Introduced: 2009-06-04 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Veterans' loans, housing, homeless programs

Summary:
action_date: 2009-06-04
text: 
Allows homeless veterans' comprehensive services grant funds to be used to provide funding for service center staff.
 
Revises provisions concerning payments for providing services for homeless veterans to direct the Secretary of Veterans Affairs (VA) to annually increase the rate of such payment to reflect anticipated changes in the cost of furnishing services, and to take into account the cost of providing services in a particular geographic area.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-10-22
text: Forwarded by Subcommittee to Full Committee (Amended) by Voice Vote .
action_date: 2009-10-22
text: Subcommittee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
action_date: 2009-10-01
text: Subcommittee Hearings Held.
action_date: 2009-06-05
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2009-06-04
text: Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2009-06-04
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-06-04
text: Introduced in House
CLEAN-UP Act

Bill: 111-hr-2736
Sponsor: Rep. Sarbanes, John P. [D-MD-3]
Introduced: 2009-06-04 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management
Performance measurement
Public contracts and procurement

Summary:
action_date: 2009-06-04
text: 
Correction of Long-Standing Errors in Agencies' Unsustainable Procurements Act of 2009 or the CLEAN-UP Act - Requires executive agencies to ensure that: (1) inherently governmental functions, functions closely related to such functions, and mission-essential functions are performed by federal employees; (2) other functions are performed by the more efficient form of personnel, whether federal employees, contractors, or military personnel; and (3) consideration is given to using federal employees to perform new functions on a regular basis. 
 
Requires each agency head to submit to the Director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB): (1) an annual report on service contracts for new work; (2) a Functions At Risk Report that describes those functions required to be performed by federal employees that are actually performed by contractors (requires agencies to reduce the total number of contractor employees described in that Report by 70% within six years); and (3) a strategic human capital plan to ensure the capability of the agency's federal employee workforce to perform agency functions. Prohibits an agency from conducting a public-private competition for any function that such plan identifies as experiencing a gap in its federal employee workforce.
 
 
Requires agencies subject to the Federal Activities Inventory Reform Act of 1998 (other than the Department of Defense [DOD]) to: (1) submit an annual inventory of activities performed pursuant to contracts for services; (2) review those contracts and identify activities that should be considered for conversion to performance by civilian employees; and (3) develop a plan for such conversion by June 30 of the following year. 
 
Authorizes agency heads to expedite the hiring of certain professionals in shortage category positions. 
 
Requires the Director to: (1) develop guidelines for the establishment of business process re-engineering projects; and (2) conduct annual performance reviews of such projects that are ongoing. 
 
Sets forth revisions, requirements, and restrictions applicable to studies and public-private competitions for the conversion of agency functions to contractor performance pursuant to OMB Circular A-76.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-06-26
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Government Management, Organization, and Procurement.
action_date: 2009-06-04
text: Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.
action_date: 2009-06-04
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E1326)
action_date: 2009-06-04
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-06-04
text: Introduced in House
Child Protection Compact Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-2737
Sponsor: Rep. Smith, Christopher H. [R-NJ-4]
Introduced: 2009-06-04 in the House
Policy area: International Affairs
Subjects: Child safety and welfare
Congressional oversight
Crimes against children
Criminal investigation, prosecution, interrogation
Foreign aid and international relief
Human rights
Human trafficking
International law and treaties
Youth employment and child labor

Summary:
action_date: 2009-06-04
text: 
Child Protection Compact Act of 2009 - Authorizes the Secretary of State, through the Ambassador-at-Large of the Department of State's Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons, to provide assistance (grants, cooperative agreements, or contracts) for an eligible country with a significant prevalence of trafficking in children that enters into a Child Protection Compact with the United States to support policies and programs to eradicate the trafficking of children.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-06-04
text: Referred to the House Committee on Foreign Affairs.
action_date: 2009-06-04
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-06-04
text: Introduced in House
To amend title 38, United States Code, to provide travel expenses for family caregivers accompanying veterans to medical treatment facilities.

Bill: 111-hr-2738
Sponsor: Rep. Teague, Harry [D-NM-2]
Introduced: 2009-06-04 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Disability and paralysis
Family relationships
Transportation costs
Veterans' medical care

Summary:
action_date: 2009-06-04
text: 
Directs the Secretary of Veterans Affairs (VA) to reimburse family caregivers of disabled veterans for travel expenses, including lodging and subsistence, in connection with authorized VA treatment for such veterans.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-06-18
text: Subcommittee Hearings Held.
action_date: 2009-06-05
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2009-06-04
text: Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2009-06-04
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-06-04
text: Introduced in House
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-hr-2739
Sponsor: Rep. Thompson, Mike [D-CA-1]
Introduced: 2009-06-04 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Business investment and capital
Fruit and vegetables
Income tax deductions

Summary:
action_date: 2009-06-04
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: 2009-06-04
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2009-06-04
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-06-04
text: Introduced in House
IDEA Fairness Restoration Act

Bill: 111-hr-2740
Sponsor: Rep. Van Hollen, Chris [D-MD-8]
Introduced: 2009-06-04 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Civil actions and liability
Disability and paralysis
Elementary and secondary education
Evidence and witnesses
Legal fees and court costs
Special education

Summary:
action_date: 2009-06-04
text: 
IDEA Fairness Restoration Act - Amends the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act to include expert witness fees, including the reasonable costs of any test or evaluation necessary for the preparation of the parent or guardian's case in the action or proceeding, within the definition of &quot;attorneys' fees&quot; that may be awarded to the prevailing party in a civil action brought under such Act.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-07-23
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education.
action_date: 2009-06-04
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and Labor.
action_date: 2009-06-04
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E1310-1311)
action_date: 2009-06-04
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-06-04
text: Introduced in House
To authorize the extension of nondiscriminatory treatment (normal trade relations treatment) to the products of Azerbaijan.

Bill: 111-hr-2742
Sponsor: Rep. Wexler, Robert [D-FL-19]
Introduced: 2009-06-04 in the House
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Asia
Azerbaijan
Europe
Normal trade relations, most-favored-nation treatment

Summary:
action_date: 2009-06-04
text: 
Authorizes the President to extend nondiscriminatory treatment (normal trade relations treatment) to the products of Azerbaijan.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-06-04
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2009-06-04
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-06-04
text: Introduced in House
Automobile Dealer Economic Rights Restoration Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-2743
Sponsor: Rep. Maffei, Daniel B. [D-NY-25]
Introduced: 2009-06-08 in the House
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: Bankruptcy
Contracts and agency
Government lending and loan guarantees
Manufacturing
Motor vehicles
Retail and wholesale trades

Summary:
action_date: 2009-06-08
text: 
Automobile Dealer Economic Rights Restoration Act of 2009 - Prohibits an automobile manufacturer (manufacturer) in which the federal government has an ownership interest, or which receives loans from the federal government, from depriving an automobile dealer (dealer) of its economic rights. Requires the manufacturer to honor those rights as they existed for Chrysler LLC and General Motors Corporation dealers prior to the commencement of the bankruptcy cases of each corporation, including dealer rights to recourse under state law.
 
Requires the appropriate manufacturer to restore the franchise agreement between the dealers and Chrysler LLC or General Motors that was in effect prior to the commencement of their respective bankruptcy cases, and to take assignment of such agreements.
 
States that nothing in this Act is intended to make null and void the transfer of substantially all the assets of such corporations.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-06-09
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR H6314-6315)
action_date: 2009-06-08
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2009-06-08
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-06-08
text: Introduced in House
Equal Rights for Health Care Act Title 42

Bill: 111-hr-2744
Sponsor: Rep. Richardson, Laura [D-CA-37]
Introduced: 2009-06-08 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Disability and health-based discrimination
Health care coverage and access
Health programs administration and funding
Medical research
Minority health
Racial and ethnic relations
Research administration and funding
Sex, gender, sexual orientation discrimination
Women's health

Summary:
action_date: 2009-06-08
text: 
 Equal Rights for Health Care Act Title 42 - Prohibits discrimination on the basis of sex, race, color, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, or disability status against any person in the United States under any health care service or research program or activity receiving federal financial assistance.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-06-09
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2009-06-08
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2009-06-08
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-06-08
text: Introduced in House
TARP Repayment and Termination Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-2745
Sponsor: Rep. Hensarling, Jeb [R-TX-5]
Introduced: 2009-06-08 in the House
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: Bank accounts, deposits, capital
Financial crises and stabilization
Securities

Summary:
action_date: 2009-06-08
text: 
TARP Repayment and Termination Act of 2009 - Amends the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008 (EESA) to grant any financial institution that received or receives assistance under the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) the right to repay all of it immediately if the institution will be well capitalized after such repayment and has made any payment due to the Secretary of the Treasury by reason of receiving such assistance.
 
Allows bank holding companies assessed under the Supervisory Capital Assessment Program (SCAP) to repay all of their TARP assistance immediately if the Secretary determines that they meet specified criteria, including the ability, along with their subsidiary banks, to meet all ongoing funding requirements and obligations to counterparties while reducing reliance on government capital and the Temporary Liquidity Guarantee Program (TLGP).
 
Directs the Secretary to notify financial institutions unable to repay their TARP assistance of detailed steps to take to put themselves in a position to make such repayment.
 
Gives financial institutions making a full repayment of TARP assistance the right to repurchase preferred shares purchased or held by the Secretary as a result of the Secretary's exercise of warrants at the same price paid by the Secretary for such shares or warrants.
 
Requires the Secretary to liquidate at the market price warrants associated with repaid TARP assistance.
 
 
Eliminates the Secretary's authority to extend TARP beyond its termination date.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-06-08
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2009-06-08
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-06-08
text: Introduced in House
To amend title 49, United States Code, to allow for additional transportation assistance grants.

Bill: 111-hr-2746
Sponsor: Rep. Carnahan, Russ [D-MO-3]
Introduced: 2009-06-08 in the House
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Climate change and greenhouse gases
Energy efficiency and conservation
Public transit
Transportation programs funding
Urban and suburban affairs and development

Summary:
action_date: 2009-06-08
text: 
Expands the urbanized area formula grants program to include public transit projects: (1) in urbanized areas with a population of at least 200,000, and urbanized areas with a population of between 200,000 and 400,000, if the state or regional authority that provides public transportation for the area operates less than 100 buses in fixed-route service in the area during peak service hours; and (2) in urbanized areas with graduated populations of between 400,000 and capping out at 1 million or more. Establishes certain grant limits for such projects.
 
Revises grant eligibility requirements for FY2010-FY2015 for such projects in urbanized areas with a population of at least 200,000. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-06-09
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Highways and Transit.
action_date: 2009-06-08
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2009-06-08
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-06-08
text: Introduced in House
Rural Technology Development and Outreach Act

Bill: 111-hr-2747
Sponsor: Rep. Halvorson, Deborah L. [D-IL-11]
Introduced: 2009-06-08 in the House
Policy area: Commerce
Subjects: Advanced technology and technological innovations
Advisory bodies
Business investment and capital
Disability and paralysis
Minority and disadvantaged businesses
Product development and innovation
Research administration and funding
Research and development
Rural conditions and development
Small business
Technology transfer and commercialization
Veterans' education, employment, rehabilitation
Women in business

Summary:
action_date: 2009-06-08
text: 
Rural Technology Development and Outreach Act - Amends provisions of the Small Business Act relating to the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program and the Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) Program to direct the Administrator of the Small Business Administration (SBA) to make grants to organizations to: (1) conduct outreach efforts to increase participation in such programs; and (2) provide application, entrepreneurial, and business skills support to prospective program participants. Requires organizations receiving such funds to direct activities toward small businesses: (1) located in areas that are underrepresented in SBIR and STTR programs; or (2) owned and controlled by women, service-disabled veterans, and minorities. Directs the Administrator to establish an advisory board to carry out authorized activities. Provides a two-year period for each grant award.
 
Requires federal agencies, in making SBIR and STTR grant awards, to prioritize applications so as to increase the number of recipients from rural areas.
 
Directs each federal agency conducting an SBIR program to: (1) receive consent to identify the small business applicant to appropriate local and state economic development organizations; and (2) encourage partnerships between SBIR awardees and prime contractors, venture capital investment companies, business incubators, and larger businesses for the purpose of facilitating the progress of SBIR awardees to the third phase of the program.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-06-11
text: Forwarded by Subcommittee to Full Committee by Voice Vote .
action_date: 2009-06-11
text: Subcommittee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
action_date: 2009-06-08
text: Referred to House Science and Technology
action_date: 2009-06-08
text: Referred to the Committee on Small Business, and in addition to the Committee on Science and Technology, 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: 2009-06-08
text: Referred to House Small Business
action_date: 2009-06-08
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Contracting and Technology .
action_date: 2009-06-08
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-06-08
text: Introduced in House
Retirement Security Needs Lifetime Pay Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-2748
Sponsor: Rep. Pomeroy, Earl [D-ND-At Large]
Introduced: 2009-06-08 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Employee benefits and pensions
Income tax exclusion
Life, casualty, property insurance

Summary:
action_date: 2009-06-08
text: 
Retirement Security Needs Lifetime Pay Act of 2009 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) allow an exclusion from gross income for 50% of lifetime income payments from certain annuity contracts, up to $10,000; (2) exclude longevity insurance benefits from employee benefit plan minimum distribution requirements; and (3) allow a tax exclusion for amounts received as an annuity under any portion of an annuity, endowment, or life insurance contract. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-06-08
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2009-06-08
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-06-08
text: Introduced in House
Automobile Dealer Economic Rights Restoration Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-2750
Sponsor: Rep. LaTourette, Steven C. [R-OH-14]
Introduced: 2009-06-08 in the House
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: Bankruptcy
Contracts and agency
Manufacturing
Motor vehicles
Retail and wholesale trades

Summary:
action_date: 2009-06-08
text: 
Automobile Dealer Economic Rights Restoration Act of 2009 - Prohibits any automobile manufacturer in which the federal government has an economic interest from depriving an automobile dealer of its economic rights as they existed prior to the commencement of a bankruptcy case by the manufacturer, including the dealer's rights to recourse under state law.
 
Requires such manufacturers to restore the franchise agreements with dealers that were in effect prior to the bankruptcy case.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-06-08
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2009-06-08
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-06-08
text: Introduced in House
Parent's Right to Know Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-2752
Sponsor: Rep. Akin, W. Todd [R-MO-2]
Introduced: 2009-06-08 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Child health
Family planning and birth control
Family relationships

Summary:
action_date: 2009-06-08
text: 
Parent's Right to Know Act of 2009 - Prohibits any funds appropriated for carrying out federal family planning programs from being made available to any family planning project if any service provider in the project knowingly provides contraceptive drugs or devices to a minor, unless: (1) such provider has given actual written notice to a custodial parent or legal guardian at least five business days prior to providing the drugs or prescription devices; (2) the minor has written consent of a parent or legal guardian; (3) the minor is emancipated; or (4) a court has directed that the minor may receive such drugs or prescription devices. 
 
Requires providers to certify to the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) compliance with this Act.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-06-09
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2009-06-08
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2009-06-08
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-06-08
text: Introduced in House
To delay the implementation of new Medicare hospital geographic wage reclassification criteria until the Secretary of Health and Human Services issues a proposal to revise the hospital wage index classification system that addresses certain considerations.

Bill: 111-hr-2753
Sponsor: Rep. Berry, Marion [D-AR-1]
Introduced: 2009-06-08 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Health facilities and institutions
Hospital care
Medicare
Wages and earnings

Summary:
action_date: 2009-06-08
text: 
Prohibits the Secretary of Health and Human Services from applying, during a specified period, certain revised Medicare average hourly wage comparison reclassification criteria to a &quot;subsection (d) hospital&quot; seeking reclassification of its wage index during such period. 
 
(Generally a subsection (d) hospital is an acute care hospital, particularly one that receives payments under Medicare's inpatient prospective payment system (IPPS) when providing covered inpatient services to eligible beneficiaries.)
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-06-08
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2009-06-08
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-06-08
text: Introduced in House
Nurse-Managed Health Clinic Investment Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-2754
Sponsor: Rep. Capps, Lois [D-CA-23]
Introduced: 2009-06-08 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Health care coverage and access
Health facilities and institutions
Health programs administration and funding
Health promotion and preventive care
Mental health
Nursing

Summary:
action_date: 2009-06-08
text: 

 

 

 

 
Nurse-Managed Health Clinic Investment Act of 2009 - Amends the Public Health Service Act to direct the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) to award grants for operating nurse-managed health clinics. Defines &quot;nurse-managed health clinic&quot; as a nurse-practice arrangement that provides primary care or wellness services to underserved or vulnerable populations regardless of insurance status or ability to pay and that is associated with an educational institution, health center, or social services agency. Requires the Secretary to provide technical assistance and services to such clinics in meeting the requirements of this Act and to develop and implement a plan for evaluating such clinics. 
 



Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-06-09
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2009-06-08
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2009-06-08
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-06-08
text: Introduced in House