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Interagency Cooperation Commission Act

Bill: 111-hr-2207
Sponsor: Rep. Forbes, J. Randy [R-VA-4]
Introduced: 2009-04-30 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Advisory bodies
Budget process
Computers and information technology
Congressional oversight
Defense spending
Department of Defense
Executive agency funding and structure
Government buildings, facilities, and property
Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management
Government information and archives
House of Representatives
Legislative rules and procedure
Military operations and strategy
Military procurement, research, weapons development
Performance measurement
Public contracts and procurement
Senate

Summary:
action_date: 2009-04-30
text: 
Interagency Cooperation Commission Act - Establishes the Interagency Cooperation Commission to examine the long-term global challenges facing the United States and develop legislative and administrative proposals to improve interagency cooperation.

Requires the Commission to: (1) address the role and impact in facilitating or impeding interagency cooperation of a variety of budgetary, planning, and operational factors; and (2) examine interdepartmental cooperation within the Department of Defense (DOD), including the common organizational structures, reference materials, and budget processes, and examine the value of such structures as models for broader government commonality.
 
 Lists as the subjects of required assessments: (1) past examples of successful and unsuccessful interagency cooperation; (2) the impact of the Goldwater-Nichols Act within DOD; (3) the effectiveness of current interagency structures and processes to engage in strategic planning and oversee and implement long-term United States policy in global affairs; (4) simulation-based assessments of global scenarios the United States may face in the long-term; and (5) the legal decision-making authority and resources needed in each department and at the highest levels of government to execute reforms proposed by the Commission.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-06-26
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Government Management, Organization, and Procurement.
action_date: 2009-04-30
text: Referred to House Rules
action_date: 2009-04-30
text: Referred to the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, and in addition to the Committee on Rules, 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: 2009-04-30
text: Referred to House Oversight and Government Reform
action_date: 2009-04-30
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-04-30
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to exclude from income and employment taxes real property tax abatements for seniors and disabled individuals in exchange for services.

Bill: 111-hr-2208
Sponsor: Rep. Frank, Barney [D-MA-4]
Introduced: 2009-04-30 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Aging
Disability and paralysis
Employment taxes
Income tax exclusion
State and local taxation

Summary:
action_date: 2009-04-30
text: 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow individuals who have attained age 60 or are disabled an exemption from income and employment taxes for real property tax abatements received under a state or local program in which such individuals have provided services in exchange for such abatements.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-04-30
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2009-04-30
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-04-30
text: Introduced in House
Restoring the Partnership for County Health Care Costs Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-2209
Sponsor: Rep. Hastings, Alcee L. [D-FL-23]
Introduced: 2009-04-30 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Child health
Correctional facilities and imprisonment
Health care costs and insurance
Health care coverage and access
Medicaid
Medicare
Poverty and welfare assistance

Summary:
action_date: 2009-04-30
text: 
Restoring the Partnership for County Health Care Costs Act of 2009 - Amends titles XVIII (Medicare), XIX (Medicaid), and XXI (State Children's Health Insurance Program) (SCHIP) of the Social Security Act (SSA) to allow benefits under such titles for persons in custody in a public institution pending disposition of charges.
 
States that, in the case of an otherwise eligible individual (or eligible spouse of such an individual) who is in custody pending disposition of charges, any benefits under SSA title XVI (Supplemental Security Income) (SSI) which are otherwise otherwise payable shall: (1) be withheld until the individual is no longer either in custody pending disposition of charges or an inmate of a public institution; or (2) be paid to the individual's estate, if the individual dies before the pending charges are disposed of or while the individual is an inmate of a public institution.
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-05-04
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2009-04-30
text: Referred to House Ways and Means
action_date: 2009-04-30
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: 2009-04-30
text: Referred to House Energy and Commerce
action_date: 2009-04-30
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E1028-1029)
action_date: 2009-04-30
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-04-30
text: Introduced in House
Southern Nevada Higher Education Land Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-2210
Sponsor: Rep. Heller, Dean [R-NV-2]
Introduced: 2009-04-30 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Educational facilities and institutions
Higher education
Land transfers
Military facilities and property
Nevada

Summary:
action_date: 2009-04-30
text: 
Southern Nevada Higher Education Land Act of 2009 - Directs the Secretary of the Interior to convey three parcels of Bureau of Land Management (BLM) land to: (1) the Nevada System of Higher Education for the Great Basin College and the College of Southern Nevada; and (2) the System for the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. 
 
Authorizes the Nevada System of Higher Education to use the conveyed federal land for: (1) any purpose related to the establishment, operation, growth, and maintenance of the System; and (2) other related uses, including residential and commercial development that would generally be associated with an institution of higher education. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-05-04
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests and Public Lands.
action_date: 2009-04-30
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2009-04-30
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-04-30
text: Introduced in House
To reauthorize the Neotropical Migratory Bird Conservation Act.

Bill: 111-hr-2213
Sponsor: Rep. Kind, Ron [D-WI-3]
Introduced: 2009-04-30 in the House
Policy area: Animals
Subjects: Birds
Government trust funds
Wildlife conservation and habitat protection

Summary:
action_date: 2009-04-30
text: 
Amends the Neotropical Migratory Bird Conservation Act to authorize appropriations to the Neotropical Migratory Bird Conservation Account for FY2010-FY2015.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-10-28
text: Ordered to be Reported (Amended) by the Yeas and Nays: 26 - 16.
action_date: 2009-10-28
text: Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
action_date: 2009-10-28
text: Subcommittee on Insular Affairs, Oceans and Wildlife Discharged.
action_date: 2009-09-22
text: Subcommittee Hearings Held.
action_date: 2009-05-04
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Insular Affairs, Oceans and Wildlife.
action_date: 2009-04-30
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2009-04-30
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-04-30
text: Introduced in House
Afghan Women Empowerment Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-2214
Sponsor: Rep. Maloney, Carolyn B. [D-NY-14]
Introduced: 2009-04-30 in the House
Policy area: International Affairs
Subjects: Afghanistan
Asia
Foreign aid and international relief
Human rights
International organizations and cooperation
Sex, gender, sexual orientation discrimination
Women's rights

Summary:
action_date: 2009-04-30
text: 
Afghan Women Empowerment Act of 2009 - Expresses the sense of Congress that the protection of the rights of women and girls in Afghanistan and their full participation in the reestablishment of democracy are essential to Afghanistan's reconstruction, and to achieve such reconstruction the U.S. government must commit resources to advance the rights of women throughout Afghanistan. 
 
Amends the Afghanistan Freedom Support Act of 2002 to revise the provisions respecting assistance to women and girls in Afghanistan. Extends funding authority. 
 
Expresses the sense of Congress that the President should: (1) condition the provision of such assistance on the recipient adhering to international standards for women's rights and human rights; and (2) ensure that Afghan women-led nongovernmental organizations with demonstrated experience in delivering services to Afghan women and children receive grants without ethnic, religious, or any other discrimination. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-04-30
text: Referred to the House Committee on Foreign Affairs.
action_date: 2009-04-30
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E1031-1032)
action_date: 2009-04-30
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-04-30
text: Introduced in House
To amend title 49, United States Code, to direct the Assistant Secretary of Homeland Security (Transportation Security Administration) to transfer unclaimed money recovered at airport security checkpoints to United Service Organizations, Incorporated, and for other purposes.

Bill: 111-hr-2216
Sponsor: Rep. Miller, Jeff [R-FL-1]
Introduced: 2009-04-30 in the House
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Aviation and airports
Currency
Military personnel and dependents
Social work, volunteer service, charitable organizations
Transportation safety and security

Summary:
action_date: 2009-04-30
text: 
Directs the Assistant Secretary of Homeland Security (Transportation Security Administration [TSA] ) to transfer annually, without further appropriation, unclaimed money recovered at airport security checkpoints to United Service Organizations (USO), Incorporated, for funding its activities. (Currently, such moneys are retained by the TSA for civil aviation security.)


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-05-26
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Transportation Security and Infrastructure Protection.
action_date: 2009-04-30
text: Referred to the House Committee on Homeland Security.
action_date: 2009-04-30
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-04-30
text: Introduced in House
Student Credit Card Transparency Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-2217
Sponsor: Rep. Murphy, Patrick J. [D-PA-8]
Introduced: 2009-04-30 in the House
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: Business records
Consumer credit
Contracts and agency
Government information and archives
Government studies and investigations
Higher education
Marketing and advertising

Summary:
action_date: 2009-04-30
text: 
Student Credit Card Transparency Act of 2009 - Amends the Truth in Lending Act to require creditors to report annually to the Federal Reserve Board on the terms and conditions of all business, marketing, and promotional agreements and college affinity card agreements with institutions of higher education, or related alumni organizations or foundations, with respect to college student credit cards issued to students at such schools. 
 
Directs the Comptroller General to review such reports and creditor marketing practices periodically and report to Congress on the affect college affinity card agreements and college student credit card agreements have on credit card debt.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-04-30
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2009-04-30
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-04-30
text: Introduced in House
Parental Consent Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-2218
Sponsor: Rep. Paul, Ron [R-TX-14]
Introduced: 2009-04-30 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Child health
Child safety and welfare
Criminal investigation, prosecution, interrogation
Domestic violence and child abuse
Education programs funding
Elementary and secondary education
Evidence and witnesses
Family relationships
Health programs administration and funding
Medical tests and diagnostic methods
Mental health

Summary:
action_date: 2009-04-30
text: 
Parental Consent Act of 2009 - Prohibits federal funds from being used to establish or implement any universal or mandatory mental health, psychiatric, or socioemotional screening program. 
 
Prohibits federal education funds from being used to pay any local educational agency or other instrument of government that uses the refusal of a parent or legal guardian to provide consent to mental health screening as the basis of a charge of child abuse, child neglect, medical neglect, or education neglect until the agency or instrument demonstrates that it is no longer using such refusal as a basis of such charge.
 
Defines a screening program under this Act as any mental health screening program in which a set of individuals is automatically screened without regard to whether there was a prior indication of a need for mental health treatment, including: (1) any program of state incentive grants to implement recommendations in the July 2003 report of the New Freedom Commission on Mental Health, the State Early Childhood Comprehensive System, grants for TeenScreen, and the Foundations for Learning Grants; and (2) any student mental health screening program that allows mental health screening of individuals under 18 years of age without the express, written, voluntary, informed consent of the parent or legal guardian of the individual involved.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-06-04
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education.
action_date: 2009-05-04
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2009-04-30
text: Referred to House Education and Labor
action_date: 2009-04-30
text: Referred to House Ways and Means
action_date: 2009-04-30
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Ways and Means, 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: 2009-04-30
text: Referred to House Energy and Commerce
action_date: 2009-04-30
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E1036)
action_date: 2009-04-30
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-04-30
text: Introduced in House
Federal Law Enforcement Pension Adjustment Equity Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-2219
Sponsor: Rep. Platts, Todd Russell [R-PA-19]
Introduced: 2009-04-30 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Department of the Interior
Department of the Treasury
Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management
Inflation and prices
Law enforcement officers

Summary:
action_date: 2009-04-30
text: 
Federal Law Enforcement Pension Adjustment Equity Act of 2009 - Amends the Law Enforcement Pay Equity Act of 2000 to apply a prohibition against treatment as an increase in salary, for purposes of increased annuitant pension benefits, of the conversion of positions and members of the U.S. Park Police and the Secret Service Uniformed Division to a new salary schedule, and the associated initial adjustments in basic pay rates, with respect to any payment made before January 1, 2009. (Thus permits cost-of-living adjustments in pension benefits for annuitants of the U.S. Park Police and the U.S. Secret Service Uniformed Division for payments made through calendar 2008.) 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-06-26
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Federal Workforce, Post Office, and the District of Columbia.
action_date: 2009-04-30
text: Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.
action_date: 2009-04-30
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-04-30
text: Introduced in House
Essential Oral Health Care Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-2220
Sponsor: Rep. Ross, Mike [D-AR-4]
Introduced: 2009-04-30 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Dental care
Health care coverage and access
Health programs administration and funding
Health technology, devices, supplies
Medicaid
Poverty and welfare assistance
Social work, volunteer service, charitable organizations
Tax-exempt organizations

Summary:
action_date: 2009-04-30
text: 
Essential Oral Health Care Act of 2009 - Amends title V (Maternal and Child Health Services) of the Social Security Act (SSA) to direct the Secretary of Health and Human Services to award grants to eligible entities to purchase portable or mobile dental equipment and to pay for appropriate operational costs, including direct health care or service delivery costs, for the provision of free dental services to underserved populations that are delivered in a manner consistent with state licensing laws.
 
Amends SSA title XIX (Medicaid) to increase the federal medical assistance percentage (FMAP) for states implementing equal access requirements that ensure that individuals enrolled in the state Medicaid plan have access to oral health care services to the same extent as such services are available to the population of the state.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-05-04
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2009-04-30
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2009-04-30
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-04-30
text: Introduced in House
Green Communities Act

Bill: 111-hr-2222
Sponsor: Rep. Schwartz, Allyson Y. [D-PA-13]
Introduced: 2009-04-30 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Building construction
Ecology
Economic development
Energy efficiency and conservation
Environmental technology
Forests, forestry, trees
Housing and community development funding
Land use and conservation
Parks, recreation areas, trails
Public-private cooperation
Urban and suburban affairs and development
Water use and supply

Summary:
action_date: 2009-04-30
text: 
Green Communities Act - Directs the Secretary of Commerce, through the Economic Development Administration, to make grants to municipalities to promote community greening initiatives (defined as programs increasing economic development through environmental improvements). 
 
Directs the Secretary to select 80 municipalities to receive grants. Requires an eligible program partner to develop and plan such an initiative, which may include revitalizing municipal parks and public spaces, tree plantings, green roof construction, and vacant lot management.
 
Directs the Secretary to make grants to, or enter into contracts with, five nonprofit organizations to provide technical assistance and training to eligible program partners in developing, planning, implementing, and assessing initiatives.
 



Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-05-01
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment.
action_date: 2009-05-01
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Economic Development, Public Buildings and Emergency Management.
action_date: 2009-04-30
text: Referred to House Financial Services
action_date: 2009-04-30
text: Referred to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, and in addition to the Committee on Financial Services, 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: 2009-04-30
text: Referred to House Transportation and Infrastructure
action_date: 2009-04-30
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-04-30
text: Introduced in House
Patient Safety and Abuse Prevention Act

Bill: 111-hr-2223
Sponsor: Rep. Sestak, Joe [D-PA-7]
Introduced: 2009-04-30 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Criminal justice information and records
Health personnel
Health programs administration and funding
Intergovernmental relations
Long-term, rehabilitative, and terminal care
Medicaid
Personnel records
State and local government operations

Summary:
action_date: 2009-04-30
text: 
Patient Safety and Abuse Prevention Act - Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services to establish a program to identify efficient, effective, and economical procedures for long-term care facilities or providers to conduct background checks on prospective direct patient access employees on a nationwide basis under similar terms and conditions as the pilot program established under the Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act of 2003. 
 
 Sets forth requirements for states wishing to participate in the program, including requiring: (1) searches of neglect registries and databases; (2) searches of any proceedings that may contain disqualifying information; (3) searches of federal criminal history records, including a fingerprint check; and (4) methods that reduce duplicative fingerprinting.
 
Sets forth program requirements.
 
Requires the Inspector General of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to evaluate the program under this Act.
 
Amends title XIX (Medicaid) of the Social Security Act to require state claims processing and information retrieval systems to incorporate compatible methodologies of the National Correct Coding Initiative administered by the Secretary. Directs the Secretary to identify and notify states as to which methodologies should be incorporated.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-05-04
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2009-04-30
text: Referred to House Ways and Means
action_date: 2009-04-30
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: 2009-04-30
text: Referred to House Energy and Commerce
action_date: 2009-04-30
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-04-30
text: Introduced in House
To amend section 7(a) of the Small Business Act to provide assistance to motor vehicle dealers, and for other purposes.

Bill: 111-hr-2224
Sponsor: Rep. Terry, Lee [R-NE-2]
Introduced: 2009-04-30 in the House
Policy area: Commerce
Subjects: Government lending and loan guarantees
Motor vehicles
Retail and wholesale trades
Small business

Summary:
action_date: 2009-04-30
text: 
Amends the Small Business Act to authorize the Administrator of the Small Business Administration (SBA) to provide loans to motor vehicle dealers for the purchase of inventory. Sets the maximum loan limit at $20 million.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-04-30
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Finance and Tax.
action_date: 2009-04-30
text: Referred to the House Committee on Small Business.
action_date: 2009-04-30
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-04-30
text: Introduced in House
For the relief of Roberto Luis Dunoyer Mejia, Consuelo Cardona Molina, Camilo Dunoyer Cardona, and Pablo Dunoyer Cardona.

Bill: 111-hr-2225
Sponsor: Rep. Hunter, Duncan D. [R-CA-52]
Introduced: 2009-04-30 in the House
Policy area: Private Legislation

Summary:
action_date: 2009-04-30
text: Provides for the relief of Roberto Luis Dunoyer Mejia, Consuelo Cardona Molina, Camilo Dunoyer Cardona, and Pablo Dunoyer Cardona.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-06-15
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration, Citizenship, Refugees, Border Security, and International Law.
action_date: 2009-04-30
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2009-04-30
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-04-30
text: Introduced in House