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Medicare Paramedic Intercept Services Coverage Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-1915
Sponsor: Rep. DeLauro, Rosa L. [D-CT-3]
Introduced: 2009-04-02 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Allied health services
Department of Health and Human Services
Emergency medical services and trauma care
Health care coverage and access
Medicare

Summary:
action_date: 2009-04-02
text: 
 Medicare Paramedic Intercept Services Coverage Act of 2009 - Amends the Balanced Budget Act of 1997 to revise requirements for payment for paramedic intercept service providers in rural communities.
 
Changes from discretionary to mandatory the authority of the Secretary of Health and Human Services, in promulgating regulations for coverage of ambulance services, to cover advanced life support intercept services (ALS intercept services), regardless of the area involved. (Currently they must be provided in a rural area).
 
Includes new conditions of coverage that define ALS intercept services as consisting of a qualified paramedic providing ALS level services in connection with the transport of a patient by an ambulance qualified to provide only a basic life support level of services.
 
Requires that: (1) the entity providing the ambulance transportation be a public, non-profit, or volunteer organization; and (2) the paramedic providing such services is not employed or compensated by the entity providing the ambulance transportation. (Currently the ALS intercept services must be provided under a contract with one or more volunteer ambulance services which are required to be prohibited by state law from billing for any such services.)
 
Requires, in addition, that: (1) such services be medically necessary based on the medical condition for which they are dispatched (currently they must be medically necessary based on the health condition of the individual being transported); and (2) the paramedic providing the intercept services accompanies and provides an ALS assessment or ALS intervention to the patient during the transport.
 
Prohibits the Secretary from taking into account any payments made pursuant to this Act in determining payment amounts under the Medicare ambulance fee schedule, or the aggregate amount of payments under such fee schedule, for any year. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-04-21
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2009-04-02
text: Referred to House Ways and Means
action_date: 2009-04-02
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: 2009-04-02
text: Referred to House Energy and Commerce
action_date: 2009-04-02
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-04-02
text: Introduced in House
Migratory Bird Habitat Investment and Enhancement Act

Bill: 111-hr-1916
Sponsor: Rep. Dingell, John D. [D-MI-15]
Introduced: 2009-04-02 in the House
Policy area: Animals
Subjects: Birds
Postal service
Wildlife conservation and habitat protection

Summary:
action_date: 2009-04-02
text: 
Migratory Bird Habitat Investment and Enhancement Act - Amends the Migratory Bird Hunting and Conservation Stamp Act (commonly known as the Duck Stamp Act) to: (1) increase the price of the Migratory Bird Hunting and Conservation Stamp to $25 for any of hunting years 2010-2016 and $35 per stamp for any hunting year after 2020; and (2) authorize sale of the stamp by official distributors designated by the Secretary of the Interior.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-07-29
text: Ordered to be Reported (Amended) by the Yeas and Nays: 26 - 16.
action_date: 2009-07-29
text: Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
action_date: 2009-07-29
text: Subcommittee on Insular Affairs, Oceans and Wildlife Discharged.
action_date: 2009-05-13
text: Subcommittee Hearings Held.
action_date: 2009-04-13
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Insular Affairs, Oceans and Wildlife.
action_date: 2009-04-02
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2009-04-02
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-04-02
text: Introduced in House
Centennial Historic District Authorization Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-1917
Sponsor: Rep. Fattah, Chaka [D-PA-2]
Introduced: 2009-04-02 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Historic sites and heritage areas
Pennsylvania
Urban and suburban affairs and development

Summary:
action_date: 2009-04-02
text: 
Centennial District Authorization Act of 2009 - Establishes in the City of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the Centennial Historic District (District). 
 
Authorizes the Secretary of the Interior to make grants to, or enter into cooperative agreements with, state or local government agencies, nonprofit entities, and any leaseholders to administer the District. Directs the Secretary to: (1) prepare a plan for the development of historic, architectural, natural, cultural, recreational, and interpretive resources within the District; and (2) make grants for capital improvement projects in the District. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-04-13
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests and Public Lands.
action_date: 2009-04-02
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2009-04-02
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-04-02
text: Introduced in House
Western Hemisphere Energy Security Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-1918
Sponsor: Rep. Flake, Jeff [R-AZ-6]
Introduced: 2009-04-02 in the House
Policy area: Energy
Subjects: Caribbean area
Cuba
Latin America
Oil and gas
Trade restrictions
Travel and tourism

Summary:
action_date: 2009-04-02
text: 
Western Hemisphere Energy Security Act of 2009 - Permits U.S. persons (including agents and affiliates) to: (1) engage in any transaction necessary for exploration and extraction of hydrocarbon resources from any portion of a foreign exclusive economic zone that is contiguous to the exclusive economic zone of the United States; (2) export without license authority all equipment necessary for such exploration or extraction; and (3) import into the United States the hydrocarbon resources and products that are extracted under this Act.
 
Amends the Trade Sanctions Reform and Export Enhancement Act of 2000 to instruct the Secretary of the Treasury to authorize under a general license certain travel-related transactions for travel to, from, or within Cuba in connection with exploration and extraction of hydrocarbon resources in any part of a foreign maritime exclusive economic zone that is contiguous to the United States exclusive economic zone.

Includes among persons authorized to travel to Cuba under this Act full-time employees, executives, agents, and consultants of oil and gas producers, distributors, and shippers.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-04-02
text: Referred to the House Committee on Foreign Affairs.
action_date: 2009-04-02
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-04-02
text: Introduced in House
Federal Withholding Tax Repeal Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-1919
Sponsor: Rep. Foxx, Virginia [R-NC-5]
Introduced: 2009-04-02 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Employment taxes
Tax administration and collection, taxpayers

Summary:
action_date: 2009-04-02
text: 
Federal Withholding Tax Repeal Act of 2009 - Repeals provisions of the Internal Revenue Code requiring withholding of income, social security, and railroad retirement taxes from wages. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-04-02
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2009-04-02
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-04-02
text: Introduced in House
United Nations Durban Review Conference (Durban II) Funding Prohibition Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-1920
Sponsor: Rep. Garrett, Scott [R-NJ-5]
Introduced: 2009-04-02 in the House
Policy area: International Affairs
Subjects: Human rights
International organizations and cooperation
Racial and ethnic relations
United Nations

Summary:
action_date: 2009-04-02
text: 
United Nations Durban Review Conference (Durban II) Funding Prohibition Act of 2009 - Prohibits making any funds available to support the 2009 United Nations Durban Review Conference (Durban II Conference) or any other activity relating to the planning, preparation, or implementation of a follow-up meeting to the 2001 United Nations World Conference Against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance (Durban I Conference).
 
Requires the United States to withhold from its assessed contributions to the U.N. regular budget the proportional amount allocated for the Durban II Conference and any other activity relating to the planning, preparation, or implementation of a follow-up meeting to the Durban I Conference.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-04-02
text: Referred to the House Committee on Foreign Affairs.
action_date: 2009-04-02
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-04-02
text: Introduced in House
Energy Regulatory Public Protection Act

Bill: 111-hr-1921
Sponsor: Rep. Gerlach, Jim [R-PA-6]
Introduced: 2009-04-02 in the House
Policy area: Energy
Subjects: Administrative remedies
Department of Energy
Department of Justice
Electric power generation and transmission
Executive agency funding and structure
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC)
Oil and gas
Public participation and lobbying

Summary:
action_date: 2009-04-02
text: 
Energy Regulatory Public Protection Act - Establishes within the Department of Justice an Office of Public Advocate to represent the interests of members of the general public affected by regulatory matters before the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), other FERC-related matters before other federal regulatory agencies, or any court of competent jurisdiction.
 
Makes it the duty of the Office to: (1) receive and assess comments from all interested parties with respect to project applications before FERC; submit such comments to FERC, together with findings and recommendations, regarding the outcome, terms, and conditions of an application for approval; (3) review applicant compliance with FERC orders; (4) seek full compliance with an order through the FERC or a court if the applicant fails to comply and such noncompliance is harmful to the health, safety, and welfare of affected parties; and (5) undertake appeal of any FERC order it deems harmful to the heath, safety, or welfare of affected parties.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-05-26
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Commercial and Administrative Law.
action_date: 2009-04-21
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Environment.
action_date: 2009-04-02
text: Referred to House Judiciary
action_date: 2009-04-02
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: 2009-04-02
text: Referred to House Energy and Commerce
action_date: 2009-04-02
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-04-02
text: Introduced in House
To require the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to hold at least 1 public hearing before issuance of a permit affecting public or private land use in a locality.

Bill: 111-hr-1922
Sponsor: Rep. Gerlach, Jim [R-PA-6]
Introduced: 2009-04-02 in the House
Policy area: Energy
Subjects: Electric power generation and transmission
Land use and conservation
Licensing and registrations
Oil and gas
Public participation and lobbying

Summary:
action_date: 2009-04-02
text: 
Amends the Federal Power Act and the Natural Gas Act to direct the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) to hold at least one public hearing in each affected county and locality before issuing any authorization for action that may affect public or private land use (other than federal land).
 
Requires FERC to hold one additional public hearing after the initial one if the government of such county or locality requests it in order to address an issue not addressed at the initial hearing.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-04-21
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Environment.
action_date: 2009-04-02
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2009-04-02
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-04-02
text: Introduced in House
Fairness in Firearm Testing Act

Bill: 111-hr-1923
Sponsor: Rep. Gingrey, Phil [R-GA-11]
Introduced: 2009-04-02 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Criminal investigation, prosecution, interrogation
Criminal justice information and records
Evidence and witnesses
Firearms and explosives
Internet and video services
Internet, web applications, social media

Summary:
action_date: 2009-04-02
text: 
Fairness in Firearm Testing Act - Amends the Homeland Security Act of 2002 to direct the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF) to make a video recording of the entire process of its examination and testing of an item for the purpose of determining whether the item is a firearm (and if so, the type of firearm) or ammunition. Bars ATF from editing or erasing any such recording.
 
Directs ATF to make available a digital video disc that contains a copy of the recording: (1) at the request of a person who claims an ownership interest in such item; and (2) to a defendant in a criminal proceeding involving such item. Provides that an item which ATF has determined is a firearm or ammunition shall not be admissible as evidence unless: (1) ATF has complied with the requirements of this Act to make its digital video disc available; or (2) such compliance has been waived in writing by the person against whom the item is offered as evidence.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-05-26
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.
action_date: 2009-04-02
text: Referred to House Ways and Means
action_date: 2009-04-02
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, 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: 2009-04-02
text: Referred to House Judiciary
action_date: 2009-04-02
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-04-02
text: Introduced in House
America's Red Rock Wilderness Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-1925
Sponsor: Rep. Hinchey, Maurice D. [D-NY-22]
Introduced: 2009-04-02 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Land transfers
Utah
Water use and supply
Wilderness and natural areas, wildlife refuges, wild rivers, habitats

Summary:
action_date: 2009-04-02
text: America's Red Rock Wilderness Act of 2009 - Designates specified lands in the following areas of Utah as components of the National Wilderness Preservation System: (1) Great Basin; (2) Zion and Mojave Desert; (3) the Grand Staircase-Escalante; (4) Moab-La Sal Canyons; (5) Henry Mountains; (6) Glen Canyon; (7) San Juan-Anasazi; (8) Canyonlands Basin; (9) San Rafael Swell; and (10) Book Cliffs and Uinta Basin. 
Sets forth administrative provisions regarding: (1) filing by the Secretary of the Interior of a map and a legal description of each designated wilderness area with appropriate congressional committees; (2) the exchange of state-owned lands within such areas; (3) federal reservation of water rights; (4) measurement of setbacks for roads with wilderness; (5) authorized livestock grazing; and (6) withdrawal of such lands from disposition under certain public land laws.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-10-01
text: Subcommittee Hearings Held.
action_date: 2009-04-29
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests and Public Lands.
action_date: 2009-04-02
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2009-04-02
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-04-02
text: Introduced in House
Global Warming Education Act

Bill: 111-hr-1926
Sponsor: Rep. Honda, Michael M. [D-CA-15]
Introduced: 2009-04-02 in the House
Policy area: Environmental Protection
Subjects: Advanced technology and technological innovations
Air quality
Alternative and renewable resources
Climate change and greenhouse gases
Education programs funding
Elementary and secondary education
Energy efficiency and conservation
Environmental technology
Government information and archives
Teaching, teachers, curricula

Summary:
action_date: 2009-04-02
text: 
Global Warming Education Act - Requires the National Science Foundation to establish a Global Warming Education Program to: (1) broaden the understanding of human induced global warming, possible long and short-term consequences, and potential solutions; (2) apply the latest scientific and technological discoveries to provide learning opportunities to people; and (3) emphasize actionable information to help people understand and to promote implementation of new technologies, programs, and incentives related to energy conservation, renewable energy, and greenhouse gas reduction.

Requires such Program to include: (1) a national information campaign to disseminate information on and promote implementation of the new technologies, programs, and incentives; and (2) a competitive grant program to provide grants to states, municipalities, educational institutions, and other organizations to create materials relevant to global warming and climate science, develop climate science K-12 curriculum and supplementary educational materials, or publish global warming and climate science information.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-04-06
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Research and Science Education.
action_date: 2009-04-02
text: Referred to the House Committee on Science and Technology.
action_date: 2009-04-02
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-04-02
text: Introduced in House
Assuring and Improving Cancer Treatment Education and Cancer Symptom Management Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-1927
Sponsor: Rep. Israel, Steve [D-NY-2]
Introduced: 2009-04-02 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Cancer
Comprehensive health care
Health programs administration and funding
Medical research
Medicare
Nursing
Research administration and funding

Summary:
action_date: 2009-04-02
text: 
Assuring and Improving Cancer Treatment Education and Cancer Symptom Management Act of 2009 - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act, as amended by the Medicare Improvements for Patients and Providers Act of 2008, to provide for Medicare coverage of comprehensive cancer patient treatment education services.
 
Amends the Public Health Service Act to direct the Director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to expand, intensify, and coordinate programs for the conduct and support of research with respect to: (1) improving the treatment and management of symptoms and side effects associated with cancer and cancer treatment; and (2) evaluating the role of nursing interventions in the amelioration of such symptoms and side effects.
 
Requires the NIH Director to make nursing intervention research grants for studying cancer symptom management care and services delivered by registered nurses.
 
Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services to enter into an arrangement under which the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences shall evaluate and report to the Secretary and Congress on the current state of symptom management, patient treatment education, and supportive care given to people with cancer. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-04-21
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2009-04-02
text: Referred to House Ways and Means
action_date: 2009-04-02
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: 2009-04-02
text: Referred to House Energy and Commerce
action_date: 2009-04-02
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-04-02
text: Introduced in House
Home Healthcare Nurse Promotion Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-1928
Sponsor: Rep. Kagen, Steve [D-WI-8]
Introduced: 2009-04-02 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Education programs funding
Health programs administration and funding
Home and outpatient care
Medical education
Nursing
Student aid and college costs
Teaching, teachers, curricula

Summary:
action_date: 2009-04-02
text: 
Home Healthcare Nurse Promotion Act of 2009 - Amends the Public Health Service Act to: (1) define &quot;visiting nurse association&quot; for purposes of the Act; (2) authorize the Secretary of Health and Human Services to make grants to visiting nurse associations to provide training in home health care to nurses who are hired to provide such care and have no recent nursing work experience in home health care; (3) direct the Secretary to establish a pilot program to make grants to accredited schools of nursing to develop and implement curricula on home health care and report to Congress on such pilot program; and (4) extend the nursing workforce development loan repayment and scholarship program to nurses who work for a visiting nurse association.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-04-21
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2009-04-02
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2009-04-02
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-04-02
text: Introduced in House
Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac Investigative Commission Act

Bill: 111-hr-1929
Sponsor: Rep. Kaptur, Marcy [D-OH-9]
Introduced: 2009-04-02 in the House
Policy area: Housing and Community Development
Subjects: Accounting and auditing
Advisory bodies
Bankruptcy
Corporate finance and management
Government corporations and government-sponsored enterprises
Government studies and investigations
Housing finance and home ownership
Securities
Wages and earnings

Summary:
action_date: 2009-04-02
text: 
Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac Investigative Commission Act - Establishes the Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac Investigative Commission to investigate and make recommendations to Congress regarding certain decisions of the Federal National Mortgage Association (Fannie Mae) and the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation (Freddie Mac) (enterprises) that led to financial instability and federal conservatorship.
 
Requires the Commission to analyze specified topics, including: (1) the role of the enterprises in expanding homeownership and in helping housing market recovery; (2) enterprise involvement in the development of faulty risk standards, accounting practices, and the creation and proliferation of the securitized mortgage instrument, and how such instrument affected the solvency of such enterprises; (3) the role of the respective boards of directors in voting for the policies relating to risk assessments, subprime mortgages, and the international securitization of mortgages; and (4) compensation, stock options, and financial benefits that accrued to executive officers and members of the boards of directors.
 
Requires the enterprises and the Director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency to grant the Commission access to requested records and information.
 

 



Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-04-02
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2009-04-02
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-04-02
text: Introduced in House