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To extend the temporary suspension of duty on certain liquid-filled glass bulbs.

Bill: 111-hr-3673
Sponsor: Rep. Schwartz, Allyson Y. [D-PA-13]
Introduced: 2009-09-29 in the House
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Tariffs

Summary:
action_date: 2009-09-29
text: Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to extend the temporary suspension of duty on liquid-filled glass bulbs designed for sprinkler systems and other release devices.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-09-29
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2009-09-29
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-09-29
text: Introduced in House
Milk Import Tariff Equity Act

Bill: 111-hr-3674
Sponsor: Rep. Welch, Peter [D-VT-At Large]
Introduced: 2009-09-29 in the House
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Agricultural trade
Tariffs
Trade agreements and negotiations

Summary:
action_date: 2009-09-29
text: 
Milk Import Tariff Equity Act - Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to impose tariff-rate quotas (quantitative import limits) and provide various duty rates on certain casein, caseinates, milk protein concentrate, and other casein derivatives and glues imported into the United States (except imports from a country which has entered into a free trade agreement with the United States).
 
Authorizes the President to: (1) enter into a trade agreement with a foreign country to grant new concessions as compensation in order to maintain the general level of reciprocal and mutually advantageous concessions; and (2) proclaim any necessary modification or continuance of any existing duty, or continuance of existing duty-free or excise treatment, or any quantitative limitation. Sets forth certain limits on the reduction of duties on such products.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-09-29
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2009-09-29
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-09-29
text: Introduced in House
National Quality Cancer Care Demonstration Project Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-3675
Sponsor: Rep. Davis, Artur [D-AL-7]
Introduced: 2009-09-30 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Cancer
Health care quality
Long-term, rehabilitative, and terminal care
Medicare

Summary:
action_date: 2009-09-30
text: 
National Quality Cancer Care Demonstration Project Act of 2009 - Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services to establish a quality cancer care demonstration project for the purpose of establishing quality metrics and aligning payment incentives under title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act in the areas of treating planning and follow-up cancer care for Medicare beneficiaries with cancer.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-10-01
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2009-09-30
text: Referred to House Ways and Means
action_date: 2009-09-30
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: 2009-09-30
text: Referred to House Energy and Commerce
action_date: 2009-09-30
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-09-30
text: Introduced in House
Improving Methods to Promote Regular Occurrences of the Verification of Employability Status Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-3676
Sponsor: Rep. Broun, Paul C. [R-GA-10]
Introduced: 2009-09-30 in the House
Policy area: Immigration
Subjects: Border security and unlawful immigration
Computers and information technology
Foreign labor
Foreign language and bilingual programs
Fraud offenses and financial crimes
Government information and archives

Summary:
action_date: 2009-09-30
text: 
Improving Methods to Promote Regular Occurrences of the Verification of Employability Status Act of 2009 - Amends the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996 to eliminate the pilot program status of the E-verify (employment authorization) program, thus making the program permanent.
 
Revises confirmation provisions. Adds provisions respecting fraudulent documentation and sanctions. Provides that information posters required to be displayed shall be written only in English.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-11-16
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Workforce Protections.
action_date: 2009-10-19
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration, Citizenship, Refugees, Border Security, and International Law.
action_date: 2009-09-30
text: Referred to House Education and Labor
action_date: 2009-09-30
text: Referred to House Judiciary
action_date: 2009-09-30
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, 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: 2009-09-30
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-09-30
text: Introduced in House
Save Our Seniors' Social Security Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-3677
Sponsor: Rep. Granger, Kay [R-TX-12]
Introduced: 2009-09-30 in the House
Policy area: Social Welfare
Subjects: Appropriations
Financial crises and stabilization
Railroads
Social security and elderly assistance
Transportation employees

Summary:
action_date: 2009-09-30
text: 
Save Our Seniors' Social Security Act of 2009 - Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to disburse a $280 payment to each individual who, for any of the months of December 2009, January 2010, or February 2010, is entitled to a Social Security or railroad retirement benefit payment.
 
Rescinds certain appropriations under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 to offset the increase in spending resulting from this Act. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-10-01
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Railroads, Pipelines, and Hazardous Materials.
action_date: 2009-09-30
text: Referred to House Appropriations
action_date: 2009-09-30
text: Referred to House Transportation and Infrastructure
action_date: 2009-09-30
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committees on Transportation and Infrastructure, and Appropriations, 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: 2009-09-30
text: Referred to House Ways and Means
action_date: 2009-09-30
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-09-30
text: Introduced in House
To amend title 49, United States Code, to modify the authority of the Assistant Secretary of Homeland Security (Transportation Security Administration) to issue regulations and security directives using emergency procedures.

Bill: 111-hr-3678
Sponsor: Rep. Mica, John L. [R-FL-7]
Introduced: 2009-09-30 in the House
Policy area: Emergency Management
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Department of Homeland Security
Transportation safety and security

Summary:
action_date: 2009-09-30
text: 
Revises the authority of the Assistant Secretary of Homeland Security (Transportation Security Administration [TSA]) to immediately issue, rescind, and revise regulations and security directives to protect transportation security during an emergency. Requires the Assistant Secretary to issue such emergency regulations and directives, instead, in cases of imminent threat of finite duration.
 
Declares that review of emergency regulations and directives by the Transportation Security Oversight Board (authorized by existing law) shall determine, specifically, if a regulation or security directive is needed to respond to an imminent threat of finite duration.
 
Revises factors the Assistant Secretary must consider in issuing, rescinding, or revising a regulation or security directive. Requires the Assistant Secretary to consider whether a regulation or security directive will remain in force for more than a 90-day period, and whether it will require revision in the subsequent 90-day period.
 
Authorizes the Assistant Secretary, if it is not feasible to make such an estimate, to waive requirements for an analysis of whether the estimated costs of such regulations and directives are excessive in contrast to the number of lives save by the regulations or directives.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-10-06
text: Provisions of measure incorporated into H.R. 2200 as an amendment during House consideration on and adopted by a recorded vote of 219 yeas and 211 noes (Roll Call Vote No. 304)..
action_date: 2009-10-06
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Transportation Security and Infrastructure Protection.
action_date: 2009-09-30
text: Referred to the House Committee on Homeland Security.
action_date: 2009-09-30
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-09-30
text: Introduced in House
ACORN Act

Bill: 111-hr-3679
Sponsor: Rep. McCollum, Betty [D-MN-4]
Introduced: 2009-09-30 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Appropriations
Corporate finance and management
Drug safety, medical device, and laboratory regulation
Elections, voting, political campaign regulation
Fraud offenses and financial crimes
Marketing and advertising
Prescription drugs
Public contracts and procurement
Public participation and lobbying

Summary:
action_date: 2009-09-30
text: 
Against Corporations Organizing to Rip-off the Nation Act or the ACORN Act - Prohibits the federal government from awarding contracts, grants, or other agreements to, providing any other federal funds to, or engaging in activities that promote, any corporation or company that has been found guilty of a felony criminal violation under federal or state law, that had its state corporate charter terminated due to its failure to comply with federal or state lobbying disclosure requirements, or that employs or otherwise retains a director, officer, or executive of the corporation or company who has been found guilty of a felony in relation to the individual's conduct for that company, during the five-year period following such conviction or charter termination.
 
Prohibits such a corporation or director, officer, or executive, during such period, from: (1) contributing funds to a candidate for federal office, federal political action committee, or federal or state political party; or (2) using more than $1 million in any calendar year to lobby Congress or federal employees.
 
Includes Pfizer, Pharmacia & Upjohn Company Inc., and any Pfizer related affiliate as covered companies for purposes of this Act.
 
Requires the Federal Acquisition Regulation to be revised to carry out the provisions of this Act relating to contracts. Authorizes the President to waive a prohibition under this Act in the national interest.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-10-23
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Government Management, Organization, and Procurement.
action_date: 2009-09-30
text: Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.
action_date: 2009-09-30
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR H10489-10490)
action_date: 2009-09-30
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-09-30
text: Introduced in House
Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander Health Data Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-3680
Sponsor: Del. Bordallo, Madeleine Z. [D-GU-At Large]
Introduced: 2009-09-30 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Alaska Natives and Hawaiians
American Samoa
Caribbean area
Government studies and investigations
Guam
Hawaii
Health care coverage and access
Health care quality
Health information and medical records
Health promotion and preventive care
Marshall Islands
Micronesia
Minority health
Northern Mariana Islands
Virgin Islands

Summary:
action_date: 2009-09-30
text: 
Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander Health Data Act of 2009 - Amends the Public Health Service Act to direct the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) to: (1) develop and implement an ongoing and sustainable national strategy for identifying and evaluating the health status and health care needs of NHOPI (Native Hawaiians and Other Pacific Islanders) populations living in the continental United States, Hawaii, American Samoa, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, the Federated States of Micronesia, Guam, the Republic of Palau, and the Republic of the Marshall Islands; and (2) conduct a preliminary health survey to identify the major regions of such areas in which NHOPI people reside, including data the Secretary determines to be useful in determining health status and health care needs or required for developing or implementing the national strategy.
 
Directs the Secretary to enter into an agreement with the Institute of Medicine to conduct a study on: (1) the standards and definitions of health care applied to health care systems in Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands, American Samoa, the U,S. Virgin Islands, Micronesia, Palau, or the Marshall Islands; (2) the status and performance of health care systems in such areas; (3) the effectiveness of donor aid in addressing health care needs and priorities in such areas; and (4) progress toward implementing recommendations of the Institute's Committee on Health Care Services in the United States-Associated Pacific Basin that are set forth in the 1998 report, "Pacific Partnerships for Health; Charting a New Course for the 21st Century."


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-10-01
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2009-09-30
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2009-09-30
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-09-30
text: Introduced in House
Fairness in Health Insurance Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-3681
Sponsor: Rep. Ellison, Keith [D-MN-5]
Introduced: 2009-09-30 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Business records
Department of Health and Human Services
Health care costs and insurance
Health care quality
Health information and medical records
Insurance industry and regulation

Summary:
action_date: 2009-09-30
text: 
Fairness in Health Insurance Act of 2009 - Prohibits a health insurance issuer from offering health insurance coverage unless the issuer demonstrates that such coverage has a medical loss ratio of at least 90%. 
 
Directs the Secretary: (1) to establish a uniform definition of &quot;medical loss ratio&quot; and methodology for calculating it, which shall take into account the circumstances of different plans and activities related to health services, such as chronic disease management and quality assurance; and (2) by December 31, 2010, to develop, publish, and implement the standardized data elements and definitions to be used by health insurance issuers in the reporting of data necessary to calculate such ratio. 
 
Requires each issuer: (1) beginning in plan year 2011, to provide the Secretary with data to enable the Secretary to determine whether the issuer is in compliance with this Act; and (2) to provide payment rebates to enrollees for any plan year in which the coverage has a medical loss ratio below 90%.
 



Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-10-01
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2009-09-30
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2009-09-30
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-09-30
text: Introduced in House
Kelsey Smith Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-3682
Sponsor: Rep. Moore, Dennis [D-KS-3]
Introduced: 2009-09-30 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Business records
Department of Justice
Emergency communications systems
Emergency medical services and trauma care
Fires
Government information and archives
Intergovernmental relations
Internet and video services
Internet, web applications, social media
Law enforcement administration and funding
Law enforcement officers
State and local government operations
Telephone and wireless communication

Summary:
action_date: 2009-09-30
text: 
Kelsey Smith Act of 2009 - Amends the Communications Act of 1934 to require telecommunication carriers to provide, at the request of a law enforcement agency, call location information of users a commercial mobile service or an IP-enabled voice service (e.g., cell phones) to such agencies and other public safety agencies to respond to emergency situations.
 
Directs the Attorney General to: (1) establish a program to provide education and training to state and local law enforcement agencies and officials to collect and use call location information in emergency situations; and (2) develop and disseminate procedures to ensure that such agencies and officials have the necessary contact information to request and obtain call location information. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-10-19
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.
action_date: 2009-10-01
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Communications, Technology, and the Internet.
action_date: 2009-09-30
text: Referred to House Judiciary
action_date: 2009-09-30
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on the Judiciary, 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: 2009-09-30
text: Referred to House Energy and Commerce
action_date: 2009-09-30
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-09-30
text: Introduced in House
Teacher Incentive Fund Act

Bill: 111-hr-3683
Sponsor: Rep. Price, Tom [R-GA-6]
Introduced: 2009-09-30 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Education programs funding
Elementary and secondary education
Performance measurement
Teaching, teachers, curricula
Wages and earnings

Summary:
action_date: 2009-09-30
text: 
Teacher Incentive Fund Act - Amends the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to create a Teacher Incentive Fund program of competitive grants to assist states, local educational agencies (LEAs), and nonprofit organizations to develop, implement, or improve, appraisal and performance-based compensation systems to reward teachers and principals who raise student academic achievement and close the achievement gap, especially in the highest-need schools.
 
Increases required nonfederal contributions to the program, on a graduated basis, from an amount equal 10% of the grant amount received in the first year to 70% of the grant amount received in the grant's fifth and final year. Allows the Secretary of Education to waive such matching requirement for high-need LEAs.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-11-16
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education.
action_date: 2009-09-30
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and Labor.
action_date: 2009-09-30
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-09-30
text: Introduced in House
American Small Business Innovation Act

Bill: 111-hr-3684
Sponsor: Rep. Sestak, Joe [D-PA-7]
Introduced: 2009-09-30 in the House
Policy area: Commerce
Subjects: Appropriations
Business investment and capital
Executive agency funding and structure
Financial services and investments
Government information and archives
Government lending and loan guarantees
Government trust funds
Manufacturing
Securities
Small Business Administration
Small business

Summary:
action_date: 2009-09-30
text: 
 American Small Business Innovation Act - Amends the Small Business Investment Act of 1958 to require (under current law, authorizes) the Administrator of the Small Business Administration (SBA) to participate in the new markets venture capital program (a program under which investment companies provide capital financing to small businesses). Requires a report from the Administrator to Congress evaluating the success of the new markets venture capital program (program).
 
Requires the Administrator, in selecting companies for program participation, to approve at least one company from each SBA geographic region.
 
Requires each conditionally approved company engaged primarily in development of and investment in small manufacturers to raise at least $3 million in capital for such purposes from private investors.
 
Directs the SBA's Chief Counsel for Advocacy to study the availability of equity capital in low-income urban and rural areas.
 
Authorizes the Administrator to make grants to conditionally-approved companies for participation in the program.
 
 Revises the program's operational assistance grant formula.
 
Reauthorizes appropriations to fund debenture guarantees and for operational assistance grants.
 
Establishes the Office of Angel Investment, headed by a Director, to provide support for the development of angel investment opportunities for small businesses.
 
Requires the Director to establish and carry out a program to provide financing to approved angel groups. Establishes an Angel Investment Fund.
 
Requires the Director to establish and maintain a searchable database to assist small businesses in identifying angel investors.
 
Requires the Director to establish and carry out a program to make grants for the development of new or existing angel groups and to increase awareness and education about angel investing.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-09-30
text: Referred to the House Committee on Small Business.
action_date: 2009-09-30
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Finance and Tax.
action_date: 2009-09-30
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-09-30
text: Introduced in House
To authorize appropriations for the Federal Trade Commission for certain international technical assistance activities.

Bill: 111-hr-3686
Sponsor: Rep. Towns, Edolphus [D-NY-10]
Introduced: 2009-09-30 in the House
Policy area: Commerce
Subjects: Competition and antitrust
Consumer affairs
Executive agency funding and structure
Federal Trade Commission (FTC)
Foreign aid and international relief

Summary:
action_date: 2009-09-30
text: 
Authorizes appropriations to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) for FY2010-FY2016 to enhance its provision of international technical assistance regarding foreign consumer protection and competition regimes, including for consultations and meetings hosted by the FTC with foreign government agency officials and appropriate representatives and staff and related necessary administrative and logistical expenses.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-10-01
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Commerce, Trade and Consumer Protection.
action_date: 2009-09-30
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2009-09-30
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E2402)
action_date: 2009-09-30
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-09-30
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to eliminate the diversity immigrant program and to re-allocate those visas to certain employment-based immigrants who obtain an advanced degree in the United States.

Bill: 111-hr-3687
Sponsor: Rep. Issa, Darrell E. [R-CA-49]
Introduced: 2009-10-01 in the House
Policy area: Immigration
Subjects: Foreign labor
Higher education
Immigration status and procedures
Visas and passports

Summary:
action_date: 2009-10-01
text: 
Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to eliminate the diversity immigrant program and provide an equal number of annual immigrant visas (55,000) to certain employment-based aliens who obtain an advanced degree in the United States.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-10-19
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration, Citizenship, Refugees, Border Security, and International Law.
action_date: 2009-10-01
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2009-10-01
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-10-01
text: Introduced in House