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Healthy Hospitals Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-3104
Sponsor: Rep. Murphy, Tim [R-PA-18]
Introduced: 2009-06-26 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Government information and archives
Health care quality
Health facilities and institutions
Health information and medical records
Infectious and parasitic diseases

Summary:
action_date: 2009-06-26
text: 
Healthy Hospitals Act of 2009 - Amends the Public Health Service Act to require a hospital or ambulatory surgical center (hospital), in accordance with Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reporting protocols of the National Healthcare Safety Network, to report to the Network data on each health care-associated infection occurring in the hospital and patient demographic information that may affect such data.
 
Requires the Secretary of Health and Human Services to promptly post data reported on the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) public Internet site in a manner that promotes the comparison of data on each health care-associated infection: (1) among hospitals; and (2) by patient demographic information.
 
Directs the Secretary, for each year for which such data is reported, to submit to Congress a report that summarizes: (1) the number and types of health care-associated infections reported in hospitals; (2) factors that contribute to the occurrence of such infections; (3) the number of certified infection control professionals on staff; (4) the total increases or decreases in health care costs that resulted from changes in infection rates; and (5) recommendations for best practices to eliminate such infections.
 
Authorizes the Secretary to impose a civil penalty of up to $5,000 for each knowing violation of the reporting requirement by a hospital.
 
Expresses the sense of Congress that health care providers and facilities should take measures to reduce the rate of occurrence of health care-associated infections to zero.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-07-07
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2009-06-26
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2009-06-26
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-06-26
text: Introduced in House
Turn on the Pumps Act

Bill: 111-hr-3105
Sponsor: Rep. Nunes, Devin [R-CA-21]
Introduced: 2009-06-26 in the House
Policy area: Water Resources Development
Subjects: California
Endangered and threatened species
Water use and supply
Wildlife conservation and habitat protection

Summary:
action_date: 2009-06-26
text: 
Turn on the Pumps Act - Prohibits the Bureau of Reclamation or any state agency in California operating a water project in coordination with the Central Valley Project from restricting operations pursuant to any biological opinion issued under the Endangered Species Act, if such restrictions would result in levels of export less than the historical maximum level of export.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-12-02
text: Motion to Discharge Committee filed by Mr. Nunes. Petition No: 111-8. (<a href="http://clerk.house.gov/111/lrc/pd/Petitions/Dis8.htm">Discharge petition</a> text with signatures.)
action_date: 2009-06-26
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2009-06-26
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-06-26
text: Introduced in House
Hazardous Waste Electronic Manifest Establishment Act

Bill: 111-hr-3106
Sponsor: Rep. Price, David E. [D-NC-4]
Introduced: 2009-06-26 in the House
Policy area: Environmental Protection
Subjects: Accounting and auditing
Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Advisory bodies
Business records
Computers and information technology
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
Government information and archives
Government trust funds
Hazardous wastes and toxic substances
Public contracts and procurement
Transportation safety and security
User charges and fees

Summary:
action_date: 2009-06-26
text: 
Hazardous Waste Electronic Manifest Establishment Act - Amends the Solid Waste Disposal Act to require the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to establish a hazardous waste electronic manifest system that may be used by a hazardous waste generator or transporter, an owner or operator of a hazardous waste treatment, storage, recycling, or disposal facility, or any other person that: (1) is required to use a manifest to comply with any federal or state requirement to track the shipment, transportation, and receipt of hazardous waste or other material shipped from the generation site to an off-site facility for treatment, storage, disposal, or recycling; and (2) elects to use the system to complete and transmit an electronic manifest format; or (3) submits to the system for data processing purposes a paper copy of the manifest (or data from such a paper copy).
 
 Authorizes the Administrator to: (1) impose service fees on users to pay for developing, operating, maintaining, and upgrading the system, including any costs incurred in collecting and processing data from any paper manifest submitted to the system after the date on which the system enters operation; (2) deposit the fees into the Hazardous Waste Electronic Manifest System Fund (established by this Act); and (3) enter into information technology contracts with appropriate entities for the provision of system-related services.
 
Requires the Administrator to: (1) establish the Hazardous Waste Electronic Manifest System Advisory Board; and (2) carry out this Act in each state unless the state program is fully authorized to do so. 
 
Requires a designated facility that receives waste, in cases in which the state in which waste is generated or transported to such facility requires that the waste be tracked through a hazardous waste manifest, to: (1) complete the facility portion of the applicable manifest; (2) sign and date the facility certification; and (3) submit to the system a final copy of the manifest.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-07-07
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Environment.
action_date: 2009-06-26
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2009-06-26
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-06-26
text: Introduced in House
Stop Nuclear Assistance to State Sponsors of Terrorism Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-3107
Sponsor: Rep. Ros-Lehtinen, Ileana [R-FL-18]
Introduced: 2009-06-26 in the House
Policy area: International Affairs
Subjects: Arms control and nonproliferation
Asia
Congressional oversight
Foreign aid and international relief
International law and treaties
International organizations and cooperation
Multilateral development programs
North Korea
Nuclear power
Nuclear weapons
Sanctions
Terrorism
United Nations

Summary:
action_date: 2009-06-26
text: 
Stop Nuclear Assistance to State Sponsors of Terrorism Act of 2009 - Prohibits funds from any U.S. assessed or voluntary contribution to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) from being used to support assistance provided by the IAEA through its Technical Cooperation Program to any country, including North Korea, that is: (1) a state sponsor of terrorism; or (2) in breach of or noncompliance, or under investigation for breach or noncompliance, with its obligations regarding IAEA safeguards, specified treaties, or the U.N. Charter or relevant U.N. resolutions. 
 
Directs the Secretary of State to withhold specified voluntary and assessed IAEA contribution amounts.
 
Authorizes the waiver of such withholding if: (1) the IAEA has suspended all Program assistance to such countries; or (2) the President certifies that such countries no longer pose a threat to U.S. security and allies.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-06-26
text: Referred to the House Committee on Foreign Affairs.
action_date: 2009-06-26
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-06-26
text: Introduced in House
Medication Therapy Management Benefits Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-3108
Sponsor: Rep. Ross, Mike [D-AR-4]
Introduced: 2009-06-26 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Health care costs and insurance
Health care coverage and access
Health care quality
Medicaid
Medicare
Performance measurement
Prescription drugs

Summary:
action_date: 2009-06-26
text: 
Medication Therapy Management Benefits Act of 2009 - Amends part D (Voluntary Prescription Drug Benefit Program) of title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act (SSA) to require that the medication therapy management (MTM) services prescription drug plan (PDP) sponsors offer to targeted beneficiaries include: (1) an annual comprehensive medication review furnished person-to-person by a licensed pharmacist; (2) at least quarterly targeted medication reviews, also furnished person-to-person by a licensed pharmacist; and (3) followup interventions, person-to-person or through other interactive means, on a schedule and frequency recommended by the prescriber or a licensed pharmacist.
 
Increases the number of diseases and conditions for which beneficiaries may be targeted for MTM services.
 
Requires a PDP sponsor to identify a process, subject to approval by the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS), that allows pharmacists or other qualified providers to identify enrollees for MTM interventions where such individuals are not targeted beneficiaries or are not otherwise offered MTM services.
 
Requires any MTM program to offer both comprehensive and targeted medication reviews to individuals dually eligible for both Medicare and Medicaid (under SSA title XIX), regardless of whether they are MTM-targeted beneficiaries.
 
Requires a PDP sponsor to offer any willing pharmacy in its network the ability to provide MTM services.
 
Requires the PDP sponsor to reimburse pharmacists and other entities furnishing MTM services based on the resources used and the time required to provide such services. 
 
Directs the Secretary to: (1) establish measures and standards for data collection by PDP sponsors to evaluate performance of pharmacies and other entities in furnishing MTM services; and (2) support the continued development and refinement of performance measures.
 
Provides pharmacies and other entities that furnish MTM services with additional incentive payments based on their performance in meeting quality measures established under this Act.
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-07-07
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2009-06-26
text: Referred to House Ways and Means
action_date: 2009-06-26
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: 2009-06-26
text: Referred to House Energy and Commerce
action_date: 2009-06-26
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-06-26
text: Introduced in House
FACE Act

Bill: 111-hr-3110
Sponsor: Rep. Watson, Diane E. [D-CA-33]
Introduced: 2009-06-26 in the House
Policy area: Immigration
Subjects: Adoption and foster care
Citizenship and naturalization
Immigration status and procedures

Summary:
action_date: 2009-06-26
text: 
Foreign Adopted Children Equality Act or the FACE Act - Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to set forth automatic citizenship criteria for a child adopted outside the United States by a U.S. citizen parent. 
 
Deems such an adopted child to be a U.S. citizen at birth.
 
Deems to be a U.S. citizen at birth, after the approval of an application filed within the United States or with a U.S. Embassy, a person who: (1) is older than 18 years of age; (2) was born outside the United States and was adopted by a U.S. citizen parent before such person reached 18 years of age; and (3) was adopted under 16 years of age and has lived with the adoptive parents for at least two years, was abused, or is an orphan who was under 16 years of age at the time an immediate relative status petition was filed on his or her behalf.
 
Includes within the definition of nonimmigrant an individual brought to the United States as a child to be adopted by a U.S. citizen.
 
Expresses the sense of Congress that the government of each foreign country from which children are adopted by U.S. citizens should provide the adoptive family with birth history documentation. 
 
 
 

 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-08-19
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration, Citizenship, Refugees, Border Security, and International Law.
action_date: 2009-06-26
text: Referred to House Foreign Affairs
action_date: 2009-06-26
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, 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: 2009-06-26
text: Referred to House Judiciary
action_date: 2009-06-26
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-06-26
text: Introduced in House
For the relief of Walter Enrique Lara.

Bill: 111-hr-3111
Sponsor: Rep. Brown, Corrine [D-FL-3]
Introduced: 2009-06-26 in the House
Policy area: Private Legislation

Summary:
action_date: 2009-06-26
text: Provides for the relief of Walter Enrique Lara.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-07-20
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration, Citizenship, Refugees, Border Security, and International Law.
action_date: 2009-06-26
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2009-06-26
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-06-26
text: Introduced in House
To authorize the Secretary of the Department in which the Coast Guard is operating to issue a certificate of documentation for operation in the coastwise trade for the vessel EQUULEUS.

Bill: 111-hr-3112
Sponsor: Rep. Delahunt, Bill [D-MA-10]
Introduced: 2009-06-26 in the House
Policy area: Private Legislation

Summary:
action_date: 2009-06-26
text: 
Authorizes the Secretary of the department in which the Coast Guard is operating, notwithstanding specified provisions, to issue a certificate of documentation with a coastwise endorsement for the motor vessel EQUULEUS (IMO 5146914).


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-06-29
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Coast Guard and Maritime Transportation.
action_date: 2009-06-26
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2009-06-26
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-06-26
text: Introduced in House
Small Business Health Care Affordability Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-3115
Sponsor: Rep. Hodes, Paul W. [D-NH-2]
Introduced: 2009-07-07 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Health care costs and insurance
Income tax credits
Small business

Summary:
action_date: 2009-07-07
text: 
Small Business Health Care Affordability Act of 2009 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow certain small employers (generally, employers of 50 or fewer employees) and their employees tax credits for health insurance costs. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-07-07
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2009-07-07
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-07-07
text: Introduced in House
Georgetowne Houses Preservation Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-3117
Sponsor: Rep. Lynch, Stephen F. [D-MA-9]
Introduced: 2009-07-07 in the House
Policy area: Housing and Community Development
Subjects: Low- and moderate-income housing
Massachusetts
Public housing

Summary:
action_date: 2009-07-07
text: 
Georgetowne Houses Preservation Act of 2009 - Applies this Act to the housing developments known as Georgetowne Houses I and II (covered properties), located in Boston, Massachusetts.
 
 
Requires, upon the expiration of certain use restrictions for the covered properties, the offer of enhanced voucher assistance under the United States Housing Act of 1937 to each eligible low-income or moderate income family who, as of such expiration, is residing in a dwelling unit in the covered properties which is not covered by project-based rental assistance. Grants each such family who chooses to remain in the covered properties three years from the issuance of such enhanced voucher to commence its use.
 
Deems such use restrictions to expire on March 1, 2010, but only if the covered property owner agrees with the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) to maintain the project-based rental assistance for the properties at least another 20 years.
 
Requires determination of the contract rents for dwelling units in such covered properties, until such expiration date, to be based upon the rents for comparable unassisted and unrestricted units in the area in which the covered properties are located. But restricts the rental assistance payments for such project-based units in Georgetowne Houses II, before May 1, 2012, to the rent levels provided under the Emergency Low Income Housing Preservation Act of 1987.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-07-07
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2009-07-07
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-07-07
text: Introduced in House
Making Work Pay Tax Credit Extension Act

Bill: 111-hr-3118
Sponsor: Rep. Murphy, Scott [D-NY-20]
Introduced: 2009-07-07 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Income tax credits
Wages and earnings

Summary:
action_date: 2009-07-07
text: 
Making Work Pay Tax Credit Extension Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to extend through 2011 the refundable tax credit allowed for the lesser of 6.2% of earned income or $400 (making work pay tax credit). 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-07-07
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2009-07-07
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-07-07
text: Introduced in House
Little Shell Tribe of Chippewa Indians Restoration Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-3120
Sponsor: Rep. Rehberg, Denny [R-MT-At Large]
Introduced: 2009-07-07 in the House
Policy area: Native Americans
Subjects: Federal-Indian relations
Indian lands and resources rights
Indian social and development programs
Land transfers
Montana

Summary:
action_date: 2009-07-07
text: 
Little Shell Tribe of Chippewa Indians Restoration Act of 2009 - Extends federal recognition to the Little Shell Tribe of Chippewa Indians of Montana. Makes the Tribe and its members eligible for all services and benefits furnished to federally recognized Indian tribes without regard to the existence of a tribal reservation or the location of the residence of any member on or near any Indian Reservation.
 
Directs the Tribe to submit to the Secretary of the Interior a membership roll consisting of all individuals enrolled as members of the Tribe.

Directs the Secretary to acquire trust title to 200 acres of land within the Tribe's service area for the benefit of the Tribe for a tribal land base.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-07-15
text: Committee Hearings Held.
action_date: 2009-07-07
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2009-07-07
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-07-07
text: Introduced in House
To authorize and request the President to award the Medal of Honor to Richard D. Winters, of Hershey, Pennsylvania, for acts of valor on June 6, 1944, in Normandy, France, while an officer in the 101st Airborne Division.

Bill: 111-hr-3121
Sponsor: Rep. Holden, Tim [D-PA-17]
Introduced: 2009-07-07 in the House
Policy area: Private Legislation

Summary:
action_date: 2009-07-07
text: 
Provides for the relief of Richard D. Winters of Hershey, Pennsylvania. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-08-03
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Military Personnel.
action_date: 2009-07-07
text: Referred to the House Committee on Armed Services.
action_date: 2009-07-07
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-07-07
text: Introduced in House
To confer upon the United States Court of Federal Claims jurisdiction to hear, determine, and render final judgment on any legal or equitable claim against the United States to receive just compensation for the taking of certain lands in the State of Missouri, and for other purposes.

Bill: 111-hr-3122
Sponsor: Rep. Carnahan, Russ [D-MO-3]
Introduced: 2009-07-08 in the House
Policy area: Law
Subjects: Government liability
Jurisdiction and venue
Land transfers
Missouri
Parks, recreation areas, trails
Property rights
Specialized courts

Summary:
action_date: 2009-07-08
text: Confers upon the U.S. Court of Federal Claims jurisdiction to hear, determine, and render final judgment on any legal or equitable claim against the United States to receive just compensation for the taking of certain lands in the state of Missouri by reason of the decision and notice of interim trail use or abandonment authorized by the National Trails System Act and decided by the Interstate Commerce Commission (ICC) on March 25, 1992.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-08-19
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration, Citizenship, Refugees, Border Security, and International Law.
action_date: 2009-07-08
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2009-07-08
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-07-08
text: Introduced in House
Health Information Technology (IT) Public Utility Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-3124
Sponsor: Rep. Fudge, Marcia L. [D-OH-11]
Introduced: 2009-07-08 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Child health
Department of Health and Human Services
Executive agency funding and structure
Health care quality
Health facilities and institutions
Health information and medical records
Health programs administration and funding
Long-term, rehabilitative, and terminal care
Performance measurement
Rural conditions and development

Summary:
action_date: 2009-07-08
text: 
Health Information Technology (IT) Public Utility Act of 2009 - Establishes within the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) a Federal Consolidated Health Information Technology Board to facilitate the implementation of electronic health record systems among safety-net health care providers, particularly small, rural providers. Sets forth the duties of the Board, which include: (1) ensuring that there is a constant interoperability between VistA (the software program utilized by the Department of Veterans Affair [VA]) and the RPMS (the Resource and Patient Management System of the Indian Health Service); (2) updating VistA and RPMS open source software on a timely basis; (3) establishing a child-specific electronic health record; and (4) developing and integrating quality and performance measurements.
 
Directs the Board to establish the 21st Century Health Information Technology (HIT) Grant Program to award competitive grants to eligible safety-net health care providers to enable such providers to fully implement VistA or RPMS with respect to the patients served by such providers. Directs the Board to give preference to applicants that: (1) are located in geographical areas that have a greater likelihood of serving the same patients and utilizing interoperability to promote coordinated care management; or (2) demonstrate the greatest need for such award. 
 
Authorizes the Board to award competitive grants to eligible long-term care providers for demonstration projects to implement VistA or RPMS with respect to the individuals served by such providers.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-07-10
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2009-07-09
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2009-07-08
text: Referred to House Natural Resources
action_date: 2009-07-08
text: Referred to House Veterans' Affairs
action_date: 2009-07-08
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Veterans' Affairs, and Natural Resources, 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: 2009-07-08
text: Referred to House Energy and Commerce
action_date: 2009-07-08
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-07-08
text: Introduced in House