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To amend the Wilderness Act to allow recreation organizations consisting of hikers or horseback riders to cross wilderness areas on established trails, and for other purposes.

Bill: 111-hr-2809
Sponsor: Rep. Lamborn, Doug [R-CO-5]
Introduced: 2009-06-10 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Outdoor recreation
Parks, recreation areas, trails
Travel and tourism
Wilderness and natural areas, wildlife refuges, wild rivers, habitats

Summary:
action_date: 2009-06-10
text: 
Amends the Wilderness Act to grant members of recreation organizations the right to cross wilderness areas on established trails without restriction as part of a journey along a connecting system of trails across public, private, or wilderness area lands, so long as such travel is conducted within a day and is completed without unreasonable delay. Defines a &quot;recreation organization.&quot; 
 
Authorizes agencies administering wilderness areas to limit the exercise of such right within any specific area to not more than 10 wilderness crossings annually. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-06-15
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests and Public Lands.
action_date: 2009-06-10
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2009-06-10
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-06-10
text: Introduced in House
Public Health Workforce Investment Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-2810
Sponsor: Rep. Matsui, Doris O. [D-CA-5]
Introduced: 2009-06-10 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Academic performance and assessments
Administrative remedies
Department of Health and Human Services
Education programs funding
Government information and archives
Health care coverage and access
Health personnel
Health programs administration and funding
Licensing and registrations
Medical education
Social work, volunteer service, charitable organizations
Student aid and college costs
Teaching, teachers, curricula

Summary:
action_date: 2009-06-10
text: 
Public Health Workforce Investment Act of 2009 - Amends the Public Health Service Act to require the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) to establish the Public Health Workforce Scholarship Program to assure an adequate supply of public health professionals to eliminate critical public health workforce shortages in federal, state, local, and tribal public health agencies and centers by offering four-year scholarships in return for employment at such agencies and centers. 
 
Requires the Secretary to establish the Public Health Workforce Loan Repayment Program to provide for the repayment of loans incurred by individuals in the pursuit of the relevant public health workforce educational degree or certificate in exchange for working at public health agencies or centers for at least three years.
 
Requires the Secretary to award grants to public health agencies that receive public health cooperative agreements from HHS to operate state, local, and tribal public health workforce loan repayment programs.
 
Authorizes the Secretary to make grants to, or enter into contracts with, any eligible entity to award scholarships to eligible individuals to enroll in degree or professional training programs for the purpose of enabling mid-career professionals in the public health workforce to receive additional training in the field of public health.
 
Requires the Director of the Office of Personnel Management (OPM), in cooperation with the Secretary, to ensure that included in the OPM website there is an online catalogue, or a link to an online catalogue, of public health workforce employment opportunities in the federal government.
 
Requires the Secretary to award competitive grants to establish or maintain Academic Health Departments to provide for collaboration between the academic and practice aspects of public health.
 
Sets forth licensure or certification exam requirements for social workers participating in the National Health Service Corps Loan Repayment program.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-06-11
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2009-06-10
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2009-06-10
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-06-10
text: Introduced in House
To amend title 18, United States Code, to include constrictor snakes of the species Python genera as an injurious animal.

Bill: 111-hr-2811
Sponsor: Rep. Meek, Kendrick B. [D-FL-17]
Introduced: 2009-06-10 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Reptiles
Trade restrictions

Summary:
action_date: 2009-06-10
text: 
Amends the federal criminal code to add the constrictor snake of the species Python genera to the list of injurious species that are prohibited from being shipped or imported into the United States.

action_date: 2010-12-21
text: 
Amends the federal criminal code to add the Burmese Python of the species Python molurus bivittatus and the African Rock Python of the species Python sebae to the list of injurious species that are prohibited from being shipped or imported into the United States. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-12-21
text: Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 409.
action_date: 2010-12-21
text: Reported (Amended) by the Committee on Judiciary. H. Rept. 111-693.
action_date: 2010-12-21
text: Reported (Amended) by the Committee on Judiciary. H. Rept. 111-693.
action_date: 2009-11-06
text: Subcommittee Hearings Held.
action_date: 2009-07-29
text: Ordered to be Reported (Amended) by Voice Vote.
action_date: 2009-07-29
text: Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
action_date: 2009-07-28
text: Forwarded by Subcommittee to Full Committee by Voice Vote .
action_date: 2009-07-28
text: Subcommittee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
action_date: 2009-07-23
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.
action_date: 2009-06-10
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2009-06-10
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-06-10
text: Introduced in House
Western Hemisphere Travel Initiative Improvement Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-2812
Sponsor: Rep. Ortiz, Solomon P. [D-TX-27]
Introduced: 2009-06-10 in the House
Policy area: Immigration
Subjects: Administrative remedies
Citizenship and naturalization
Department of State
Evidence and witnesses
Racial and ethnic relations
Visas and passports

Summary:
action_date: 2009-06-10
text: 
Western Hemisphere Travel Initiative Improvement Act of 2009 - Directs the Secretary of State to adjudicate U.S. passport applications in an individualized, evidence-based manner.
 
Requires the passport application adjudicatory process to be based on an assessment of individual circumstances and evidence.
 
Prohibits an applicant's race, ethnicity, or ancestry from being taken into account in the passport application adjudicatory process.
 
Requires: (1) an applicant to establish by a preponderance of the evidence that the applicant is a U.S. citizen or national; (2) the preponderance of the evidence standard to be applied in a uniform and consistent manner to all passport applications; and (3) any determination that an applicant has not met the burden of proving U.S. citizenship or nationality by a preponderance of the evidence to be made in writing, state the reasons for the determination, and be provided to the applicant in a timely manner.
 
States that a birth certificate signed by a person authorized under state law to sign such a document, or a previously-issued U.S. passport, shall constitute prima facie evidence of U.S. citizenship or nationality and, absent individualized evidence that a birth did not take place in the United States, shall satisfy the preponderance of the evidence standard.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-06-10
text: Referred to the House Committee on Foreign Affairs.
action_date: 2009-06-10
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-06-10
text: Introduced in House
National Knee and Hip Replacement Registry Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-2813
Sponsor: Rep. Pascrell, Bill, Jr. [D-NJ-8]
Introduced: 2009-06-10 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Congressional oversight
Department of Health and Human Services
Drug safety, medical device, and laboratory regulation
Executive agency funding and structure
Government information and archives
Health care quality
Health information and medical records
Health technology, devices, supplies
Medicare
Product safety and quality
Surgery and anesthesia

Summary:
action_date: 2009-06-10
text: 
National Knee and Hip Replacement Registry Act of 2009 - Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) to establish within the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) a national knee and hip replacement registry for identifying predictors that may lead to poor outcomes in knee and hip replacement surgeries.
 
Directs: (1) the Administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, in coordination with the Director of AHRQ, to develop policies and procedures for the development and maintenance of the registry; (2) the AHRQ and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to use data in the registry and any analysis conducted to monitor and evaluate the safety of knee and hip replacement procedures and devices; and (3) the Comptroller General to report to Congress on the registry's progress.
 
Requires the head of the registry to: (1) collect and store relevant data; (2) provide data to health care providers to allow them to evaluate their performance relative to their peers; (3) provide data to manufacturers of knee and hip replacement prostheses and related products to allow them to evaluate the safety and performance of their products relative to similar products; (4) develop a process to allow outside researchers to apply to use individually identifiable data contained in the registry to conduct longitudinal studies; (5) seek feedback from orthopedic practitioners and providers, product manufacturers, patient and consumer groups, and public health experts and epidemiologists; and (6) publish an annual report.
 
Authorizes: (1) the head of the registry to request data from federal agencies; and (2) the Secretary to modify the information required to be reported under administrative data sets under Medicare to the extent it would result in the reporting of useful information.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-06-11
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2009-06-10
text: Referred to House Ways and Means
action_date: 2009-06-10
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: 2009-06-10
text: Referred to House Energy and Commerce
action_date: 2009-06-10
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-06-10
text: Introduced in House
Reinvest in America's Retirement Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-2814
Sponsor: Rep. Pitts, Joseph R. [R-PA-16]
Introduced: 2009-06-10 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Employee benefits and pensions
Tax administration and collection, taxpayers

Summary:
action_date: 2009-06-10
text: 
Reinvest in America's Retirement Act of 2009 - Amends the Tax Increase Prevention and Reconciliation Act of 2005 to advance the effective date of the repeal of income limitations on conversions to Roth individual retirement accounts (Roth IRAs) to December 31, 2008.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-06-10
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2009-06-10
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-06-10
text: Introduced in House
Anti-Gang Enforcement Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-2815
Sponsor: Rep. Rooney, Thomas J. [R-FL-16]
Introduced: 2009-06-10 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Criminal investigation, prosecution, interrogation
Criminal procedure and sentencing
Department of Justice
Drug trafficking and controlled substances
Juvenile crime and gang violence
Law enforcement administration and funding
Organized crime
Violent crime

Summary:
action_date: 2009-06-10
text: 
Anti-Gang Enforcement Act of 2009 - Amends the federal criminal code to: (1) prohibit certain criminal street gang crimes, including recruitment of persons into such gangs, participation in such gangs by committing two or more predicate gang crimes, and solicitation to commit a predicate gang crime; (2) impose or increase criminal penalties for committing certain violent crimes in aid of a criminal street gang or racketeering activity, for murder or other violent crimes while committing a drug trafficking crime, and for the use of interstate or foreign commerce facilities in the commission of two or more murders; and (3) provide for forfeiture of property obtained through criminal street gang activity. Defines &quot;criminal street gang&quot; and &quot;predicate gang crime&quot; for purposes of this Act.
 
Directs the U.S. Sentencing Commission to amend its sentencing guidelines to provide an enhancement for crimes committed in furtherance or in aid of criminal street gangs.
 
Directs the Attorney General to: (1) expand the Project Safe Neighborhoods program to require U.S. attorneys to identify, investigate, and prosecute significant criminal street gangs operating within their districts and to coordinate anti-gang activities; and (2) require the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) to increase funding for the Safe Streets Program and to support criminal street gang enforcement teams. Authorizes the Attorney General to hire 94 additional assistant U.S. attorneys for the Project Safe Neighborhoods program.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-07-23
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.
action_date: 2009-06-11
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2009-06-10
text: Referred to House Energy and Commerce
action_date: 2009-06-10
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, 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: 2009-06-10
text: Referred to House Judiciary
action_date: 2009-06-10
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-06-10
text: Introduced in House
States' Right To Innovate in Health Care Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-2816
Sponsor: Rep. Tierney, John F. [D-MA-6]
Introduced: 2009-06-10 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Department of Health and Human Services
Executive agency funding and structure
Health care costs and insurance
Health care coverage and access
Health programs administration and funding
Intergovernmental relations
State and local government operations

Summary:
action_date: 2009-06-10
text: 
States' Right To Innovate in Health Care Act of 2009 - Amends the Social Security Act to add a new title XXII (State Comprehensive Health Care and Cost Containment Demonstration Projects).
 
Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services to establish a state-based Universal Health Care Coverage Commission to participate in the review of state applications for planning and demonstration grants for the development of a cost-effective delivery system of universal, comprehensive health care with simplified administration.
 
Authorizes such grants.
 
Requires a state plan to provide: (1) coverage of all eligible state residents, without regard to employment status, income, health status or preexisting condition, or location of residency within the state; and (2) health benefits that are at least actuarially equivalent to the standard Blue Cross/Blue Shield preferred provider option service benefit plan under the Federal Employees Health Benefit Program.
 
Allows one or more contiguous states in a geographic region to file a joint application for such grants.
 
Authorizes Interstate Compacts of states to conduct joint health care programs under a grant.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-06-11
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2009-06-10
text: Referred to House Oversight and Government Reform
action_date: 2009-06-10
text: Referred to House Education and Labor
action_date: 2009-06-10
text: Referred to House Ways and Means
action_date: 2009-06-10
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Ways and Means, Education and Labor, and Oversight and Government Reform, 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: 2009-06-10
text: Referred to House Energy and Commerce
action_date: 2009-06-10
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-06-10
text: Introduced in House
Breastfeeding Promotion Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-2819
Sponsor: Rep. Maloney, Carolyn B. [D-NY-14]
Introduced: 2009-06-11 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Child health
Department of Health and Human Services
Employment discrimination and employee rights
Health care costs and insurance
Health technology, devices, supplies
Income tax credits
Income tax deductions
Labor standards
Women's employment
Women's health

Summary:
action_date: 2009-06-11
text: 
Breastfeeding Promotion Act of 2009 - Amends the Civil Rights Act of 1964 to include lactation (i.e., breastfeeding or the expressing of milk from the breast) as protected conduct under such Act. 
 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow employers a business-related tax credit for 50% of their qualified breastfeeding promotion and support expenditures, up to $10,000 for any taxable year. Defines &quot;qualified breastfeeding promotion and support expenditures&quot; as business expenses incurred for breast pumps and other equipment specially designed to assist mothers who are breastfeeding their children and for consultation services relating to breastfeeding. Expands the tax deduction for medical expenses to include expenses for breastfeeding equipment and consultation services.
 
Safe and Effective Breast Pumps Act - Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) to: (1) effect a performance standard for breast pumps without regard to their classification under the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act; and (2) issue a compliance policy guide to provide women with information about breast pumps. 
 
Amends the Fair Labor Standards Act to require employers with 50 or more employees to provide their breastfeeding employees with break time and private areas to express breast milk for their nursing children.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-06-12
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Commerce, Trade and Consumer Protection.
action_date: 2009-06-11
text: Referred to House Education and Labor
action_date: 2009-06-11
text: Referred to House Energy and Commerce
action_date: 2009-06-11
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committees on Energy and Commerce, 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: 2009-06-11
text: Referred to House Ways and Means
action_date: 2009-06-11
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E1377)
action_date: 2009-06-11
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-06-11
text: Introduced in House
GPCI Justice Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-2820
Sponsor: Rep. Farr, Sam [D-CA-17]
Introduced: 2009-06-11 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: California
Health care costs and insurance
Health personnel
Medicare

Summary:
action_date: 2009-06-11
text: 
GPCI Justice Act of 2009 - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act, with respect to the geographic practice cost index (GPCI) for adjustments to physician fee schedule areas, to direct the Secretary of Health and Human Services to revise the fee schedule areas for California to use the Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA) iterative Geographic Adjustment Factor methodology, in accordance with specified requirements. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-06-12
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2009-06-11
text: Referred to House Ways and Means
action_date: 2009-06-11
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: 2009-06-11
text: Referred to House Energy and Commerce
action_date: 2009-06-11
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-06-11
text: Introduced in House
To direct the Secretary of the Army to assist entities adversely affected by a Corps of Engineers rehabilitation project relating to the Wolf Creek Dam, Kentucky, and for other purposes.

Bill: 111-hr-2821
Sponsor: Rep. Rogers, Harold [R-KY-5]
Introduced: 2009-06-11 in the House
Policy area: Water Resources Development
Subjects: Dams and canals
Government liability
Kentucky
Lakes and rivers
Navigation, waterways, harbors
Public contracts and procurement
Water use and supply

Summary:
action_date: 2009-06-11
text: 
Directs the Secretary of the Army to modify the terms of lease agreements entered into with owners and operators of marinas at Lake Cumberland, Kentucky, who have been adversely affected by low lake levels resulting from a Corps of Engineers rehabilitation project at Wolf Creek Dam and to suspend lease payments until the ordinary high water mark at the lake has been restored.
 
Requires the Secretary to reimburse: (1) counties in Kentucky for income lost as a result of the suspension of the lease payments; and (2) marinas for expenses determined to have resulted from that project.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-06-12
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment.
action_date: 2009-06-11
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2009-06-11
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E1376)
action_date: 2009-06-11
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-06-11
text: Introduced in House
Public Corruption Prosecution Improvements Act

Bill: 111-hr-2822
Sponsor: Rep. Johnson, Henry C. "Hank," Jr. [D-GA-4]
Introduced: 2009-06-11 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Crimes against property
Criminal investigation, prosecution, interrogation
Criminal procedure and sentencing
Department of Justice
District of Columbia
Evidence and witnesses
Fraud offenses and financial crimes
Government ethics and transparency, public corruption
Law enforcement officers
Organized crime

Summary:
action_date: 2009-06-11
text: 
Public Corruption Prosecution Improvements Act - Amends the federal criminal code to: (1) establish a six-year limitation period for the prosecution of certain public corruption crimes, including bribery, theft of government property, mail fraud, and racketeering; (2) expand the penalties for theft or bribery involving programs receiving federal funds; (3) expand the prohibition against theft of public money or property to include thefts in the District of Columbia; (4) include certain government theft and bribery offenses as predicates for racketeering and money laundering prosecutions and wiretaps; and (5) expand the definition of &quot;official act&quot; for purposes of the crime of bribery of public officials and witnesses. 
 
 
Authorizes appropriations for additional Department of Justice (DOJ) personnel to investigate and prosecute public corruption offenses. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-07-23
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.
action_date: 2009-06-11
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2009-06-11
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-06-11
text: Introduced in House