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To amend the Uniformed and Overseas Citizens Absentee Voting Act to enhance and improve certain procedures relating to voting by absent members of the uniformed services, and for other purposes.

Bill: 111-hr-2823
Sponsor: Rep. Coffman, Mike [R-CO-6]
Introduced: 2009-06-11 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Elections, voting, political campaign regulation
Government information and archives
Military personnel and dependents
State and local government operations

Summary:
action_date: 2009-06-11
text: 
 Amends the Uniformed and Overseas Citizens Absentee Voting Act to: (1) require states to accept and process, with respect to any election for federal office, any otherwise valid voter registration application, absentee ballot application, and absentee ballot submitted by an absent uniformed services voter without any requirement for notarization of the document; and (2) permit the submittal of the official post card form (for simultaneous voter registration application and absentee ballot application) by electronic means.
 
Expresses the sense of Congress concerning encouragement by states and the Department of Defense (DOD) of the use of electronic means to submit absentee ballots. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-06-24
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Military Personnel.
action_date: 2009-06-11
text: Referred to House Armed Services
action_date: 2009-06-11
text: Referred to the Committee on House Administration, and in addition to the Committee on Armed 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: 2009-06-11
text: Referred to House Administration
action_date: 2009-06-11
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-06-11
text: Introduced in House
Doctor-Patient Relationship and Research Protection Act

Bill: 111-hr-2824
Sponsor: Del. Christensen, Donna M. [D-VI-At Large]
Introduced: 2009-06-11 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Administrative remedies
Advisory bodies
Department of Health and Human Services
Government information and archives
Health care coverage and access
Health information and medical records
Medical ethics
Medical research
Medicare
Minority health
Public participation and lobbying
Women's health

Summary:
action_date: 2009-06-11
text: 
Doctor-Patient Relationship and Research Protection Act - Amends the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 to: (1) expand the membership of the Federal Coordinating Council for Comparative Effectiveness Research; and (2) require the Council to provide for a public comment period prior to obligating funds for comparative effectiveness research, support increased public awareness of such research, and identify conflicts of interest in appointing members of the Council.
 
Prohibits the Administrator of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services from using federally funded clinical comparative effectiveness research data to make coverage determinations under Medicare for medical treatments, services, and items on the basis of cost.
 
Provides for expedited appeals of Medicare coverage determinations using federally funded comparative effectiveness research. 
 
Denies federal funding for clinical comparative effectiveness research that does not consider racial, ethnic, gender, and geographic differences within patient subpopulations.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-06-24
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Military Personnel.
action_date: 2009-06-12
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2009-06-12
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2009-06-11
text: Referred to House Veterans' Affairs
action_date: 2009-06-11
text: Referred to House Armed Services
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 Committees on Ways and Means, Armed Services, and Veterans' 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: 2009-06-11
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
Safety in Defense Contracting Act

Bill: 111-hr-2825
Sponsor: Rep. Shea-Porter, Carol [D-NH-1]
Introduced: 2009-06-11 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Business ethics
Civil actions and liability
Fraud offenses and financial crimes
Military personnel and dependents
Military procurement, research, weapons development
Public contracts and procurement

Summary:
action_date: 2009-06-11
text: 
Safety in Defense Contracting Act - Requires the Secretary of Defense to debar from contracting with the Department of Defense (DOD) any defense contractor: (1) officially determined to have caused serious injury or death to any civilian or military personnel through gross negligence or reckless disregard for safety, or to have committed fraud; or (2) awarded a subcontract to a subcontractor officially determined to have caused or committed such actions. Directs the Secretary to also debar any subcontractor found to have caused or committed such actions.
 
Requires a five-year minimum period for such a debarment.
 
Authorizes a debarment waiver by the Secretary if it would jeopardize national security.
 
Directs the Secretary, in the case of any defense contractor receiving a level III corrective action request from the Defense Contract Management Agency in a fiscal year, to withhold any contract award or incentive fees for that fiscal year.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-06-11
text: Referred to the House Committee on Armed Services.
action_date: 2009-06-11
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR H6542)
action_date: 2009-06-11
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-06-11
text: Introduced in House
Family Work Flexibility Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-2826
Sponsor: Rep. Bean, Melissa L. [D-IL-8]
Introduced: 2009-06-11 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Commuting
Computers and information technology
Income tax credits

Summary:
action_date: 2009-06-11
text: 
Family Work Flexibility Act of 2009 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow employers a business tax credit for the cost of teleworking equipment used by employees to telework and for expenses to maintain such equipment. Limits the dollar amount of such credit to the lesser of $500 for each teleworking employee or $50,000.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-06-11
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2009-06-11
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-06-11
text: Introduced in House
DTV Transition Assistance Act

Bill: 111-hr-2827
Sponsor: Rep. Butterfield, G. K. [D-NC-1]
Introduced: 2009-06-11 in the House
Policy area: Science, Technology, Communications
Subjects: Broadcasting, cable, digital technologies
Television and film

Summary:
action_date: 2009-06-11
text: 
DTV Transition Assistance Act - Amends the Digital Television Transition and Public Safety Act of 2005 to require the Assistant Secretary for Communication of the Department of Commerce, subject to limitations, to implement and administer a program through which U.S. households may obtain coupons toward the purchase of a television antenna.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-06-12
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Communications, Technology, and the Internet.
action_date: 2009-06-11
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2009-06-11
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-06-11
text: Introduced in House
Recidivism Reduction Act

Bill: 111-hr-2829
Sponsor: Rep. Carson, Andre [D-IN-7]
Introduced: 2009-06-11 in the House
Policy area: Social Welfare
Subjects: Correctional facilities and imprisonment
Disability assistance
Family relationships
Intergovernmental relations
Medicaid
Poverty and welfare assistance
Social security and elderly assistance
State and local government operations

Summary:
action_date: 2009-06-11
text: 
Recidivism Reduction Act - Amends title XVI (Supplemental Security Income for Aged, Blind, and Disabled) (SSI) of the Social Security Act (SSA) to require the reinstatement upon release of an otherwise eligible disabled inmate for SSI benefits which were terminated owing to the inmate's incarceration in a jail, prison, penal institution, or correctional facility for a period of 12 or more consecutive months.
 
Requires the inmate to apply for reinstatement and resumption of such benefits within 36 months after release. Allows application for reinstatement even before release. Permits provisional benefits to such an individual until the application is acted upon.
 
Requires the reinstatement of SSI benefit eligibility for such an individual's spouse if the spouse was previously an SSI-eligible spouse.
 
Amends SSA title II (Old-Age, Survivors, and Disability Insurance Benefits) (OASDI) to direct the Commissioner of Social Security to develop a system for prerelease application for resumption of suspended OASDI disability insurance benefits, or other benefits based on disability.
 
Amends SSA title XIX (Medicaid) to require state Medicaid plans to provide that in the case of any individual enrolled for medical assistance immediately before becoming an inmate of a public institution: (1) the enrollment shall be reinstated upon the individual's release from such institution unless and until there is a determination that the individual is no longer eligible to be so enrolled; and (2) any period of continuous eligibility in effect on the date the individual became such an inmate shall be reinstated as of the release date and the duration of such period shall be determined without regard to the period in which the individual was such an inmate.
 
Increases from 90% to 95% the federal matching rate for any state implementing a Medicaid reinstatement system.
 
Authorizes case management services in order to engage in planning for services following an individual's release from a public institution.
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-06-12
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2009-06-12
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR H6622)
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 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: 2009-06-11
text: Referred to House Ways and Means
action_date: 2009-06-11
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-06-11
text: Introduced in House
Providing Access to Healthcare (PATH) for Veterans Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-2830
Sponsor: Rep. Courtney, Joe [D-CT-2]
Introduced: 2009-06-11 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Hospital care
Long-term, rehabilitative, and terminal care
Unemployment
Veterans' medical care

Summary:
action_date: 2009-06-11
text: 
 Providing Access to Healthcare (PATH) for Veterans Act of 2009 - Requires the Secretary of Veterans Affairs (VA), in furnishing hospital care, medical services, and nursing home care to veterans of a certain priority (in which case the provision of such care and services is discretionary), to give priority to a veteran who has become unemployed during the 12-month period immediately preceding the date on which the veteran receives such care or services.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-06-12
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2009-06-11
text: Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2009-06-11
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-06-11
text: Introduced in House
Young Adult Healthcare Coverage Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-2831
Sponsor: Rep. Dahlkemper, Kathleen A. [D-PA-3]
Introduced: 2009-06-11 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Employee benefits and pensions
Family relationships
Health care costs and insurance
Health care coverage and access

Summary:
action_date: 2009-06-11
text: 
Young Adult Healthcare Coverage Act of 2009 - Amends the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA) and the Public Health Service Act to require a group health plan that provides coverage for dependent children to make available such coverage, at the option of the participant involved, to a participant's child who (but for age) would be treated as a dependent child and who: (1) is under 30 years of age; (2) is not married; (3) has no dependents; (4) is a citizen or national of the United States; and (5) is not provided coverage as a participant, beneficiary, or enrollee under any other creditable coverage.
 
Applies such requirement to individual health insurance coverage.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-06-17
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR H6908)
action_date: 2009-06-12
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2009-06-11
text: Referred to House Education and Labor
action_date: 2009-06-11
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, 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: 2009-06-11
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
Taxpayer Repayment Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-2832
Sponsor: Rep. Edwards, Chet [D-TX-17]
Introduced: 2009-06-11 in the House
Policy area: Economics and Public Finance
Subjects: Bank accounts, deposits, capital
Corporate finance and management
Financial crises and stabilization

Summary:
action_date: 2009-06-11
text: 
Taxpayer Repayment Act of 2009 - Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to develop, and provide Congress with, a strategy and timeline for financial institutions to repay Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) funds.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-06-11
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2009-06-11
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-06-11
text: Introduced in House
To require a minimum loss ratio for 90 percent for health insurance coverage offered through an insurance exchange.

Bill: 111-hr-2833
Sponsor: Rep. Ellison, Keith [D-MN-5]
Introduced: 2009-06-11 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Health care costs and insurance
Insurance industry and regulation

Summary:
action_date: 2009-06-11
text: 
Prohibits any health insurance coverage from being offered through a health insurance exchange unless the coverage is demonstrated to have a medical loss ratio (a ratio of medical expenses paid to premiums received) of at least 90%. Defines &quot;health insurance exchange&quot; to mean a mechanism established or recognized under federal law that provides a coordinated, centralized mechanism for offering for purchase to individuals health insurance coverage from more than one health insurance issuer.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-06-12
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2009-06-11
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2009-06-11
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-06-11
text: Introduced in House
To direct the Administrator of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration to conduct a technological capability assessment, survey, and economic feasibility study regarding recovery of minerals, other than oil and natural gas, from the shallow and deep seabed of the United States.

Bill: 111-hr-2834
Sponsor: Del. Faleomavaega, Eni F. H. [D-AS-At Large]
Introduced: 2009-06-11 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Government studies and investigations
Marine and coastal resources, fisheries
Mining
Technology assessment

Summary:
action_date: 2009-06-11
text: 
Requires the Administrator of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) to conduct and report to Congress on: (1) an assessment of all available domestic technological capabilities required for the location and the efficient and environmentally sound recovery of minerals, other than oil and natural gas, from the shallow and deep seabed of the United States; (2) a survey of the shallow and deep seabed of the United States to identify sites for the recovery of such minerals; and (3) an economic feasibility study on the recovery of such minerals.
 

 
Defines &quot;shallow and deep seabed of the United States&quot; as areas of the seabed contiguous to and within 200 miles of the territorial sea of the United States and the resources of which are subject to its jurisdiction or control. Includes in that definition such areas that are contiguous to and within 200 miles of the territorial sea around any inhabited and uninhabited territory or possession of the United States, including American Samoa, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, Guam, Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, Midway Islands, the Federated States of Micronesia, Palau, Marshall Islands, Midway Islands, Wake Island, Johnston Atoll, Baker, Howland, and Jarvis Islands, Kingman Reef, Navassa Island, Serranilla Bank, Bajo Nuevo Bank, and Palmyra Atoll.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-06-16
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources.
action_date: 2009-06-16
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Insular Affairs, Oceans and Wildlife.
action_date: 2009-06-11
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2009-06-11
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-06-11
text: Introduced in House
Medical Marijuana Patient Protection Act

Bill: 111-hr-2835
Sponsor: Rep. Frank, Barney [D-MA-4]
Introduced: 2009-06-11 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Alternative treatments
Drug trafficking and controlled substances
Drug, alcohol, tobacco use
Intergovernmental relations
Prescription drugs
State and local government operations

Summary:
action_date: 2009-06-11
text: 
Medical Marijuana Patient Protection Act - Transfers marijuana from schedule I to schedule II of the Controlled Substances Act.

Provides that no provision of the Controlled Substances Act or the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act shall prohibit or otherwise restrict, in a state in which marijuana may, under state law, be prescribed or recommended by a physician for medical use: (1) a physician from prescribing or recommending marijuana for medical use; (2) an individual from obtaining, possessing, transporting, manufacturing, or using marijuana in accordance with such a prescription or recommendation; (3) an individual authorized under state law to do so from obtaining, possessing, transporting, or manufacturing marijuana on an authorized patient's behalf; (4) a pharmacy or other entity authorized to do so from obtaining, possessing, or distributing marijuana to such patients; or (5) an entity established by such a state or local government thereof to do so from producing, possessing, or distributing marijuana for such a prescription or recommendation. 
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-06-12
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2009-06-11
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2009-06-11
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-06-11
text: Introduced in House
National Guard and Reservist Suicide Prevention and Community Response Act

Bill: 111-hr-2836
Sponsor: Rep. Hodes, Paul W. [D-NH-2]
Introduced: 2009-06-11 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Health promotion and preventive care
Mental health
National Guard and reserves
Veterans' education, employment, rehabilitation
Veterans' medical care

Summary:
action_date: 2009-06-11
text: 
 National Guard and Reservist Suicide Prevention and Community Response Act - Amends the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2008 to require the Department of Defense (DOD) Office for Reintegration Programs, as part of the Yellow Ribbon Reintegration Program, to establish a program to provide National Guard and Reserve members, their families, and their communities with training in suicide prevention and community healing and response to suicide. (Under current law, suicide prevention activities are one category of activities that may be included in the Office's development of outreach services.)


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-06-24
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Military Personnel.
action_date: 2009-06-11
text: Referred to the House Committee on Armed Services.
action_date: 2009-06-11
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-06-11
text: Introduced in House
Criminal Alien Accountability Act

Bill: 111-hr-2837
Sponsor: Rep. Issa, Darrell E. [R-CA-49]
Introduced: 2009-06-11 in the House
Policy area: Immigration
Subjects: Border security and unlawful immigration
Criminal procedure and sentencing
Smuggling and trafficking

Summary:
action_date: 2009-06-11
text: 
Criminal Alien Accountability Act - Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to establish minimum imprisonment terms for specified categories of aliens subject to criminal fines, imprisonment, or both, for reenrty as removed aliens. (Such provision does not apply to aliens removed for security or terrorist grounds.) 
 
Subjects an individual who knowingly aids or conspires to allow, procure, or permit any such alien to reenter the United States to criminal penalty, the same imprisonment term as applies to the alien so aided, or both.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-07-23
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration, Citizenship, Refugees, Border Security, and International Law.
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