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High Quality Teaching Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-2755
Sponsor: Rep. Davis, Susan A. [D-CA-53]
Introduced: 2009-06-08 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Academic performance and assessments
Education of the disadvantaged
Education programs funding
Educational technology and distance education
Elementary and secondary education
Higher education
Licensing and registrations
Performance measurement
Teaching, teachers, curricula
User charges and fees

Summary:
action_date: 2009-06-08
text: 
High Quality Teaching Act of 2009 - Amends the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to direct the Secretary of Education to award competitive five-year grants to up to 250 local educational agencies (LEAs) to recruit, support, and retain highly qualified and effective teachers through participation in the Targeted High Need Initiative program of the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards.
 
Gives priority to LEAs that have: (1) the highest number of disadvantaged students; (2) the highest number of schools identified for school improvement, corrective action, or restructuring; and (3) the lowest number of teachers certified by the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards.
 
Requires LEAs to use such grants to: (1) partner with institutions of higher education or other appropriate entities in conducting grant activities; (2) provide teachers participating in the Targeted High Need Initiative program with training, mentoring, and technological resources; (3) cover the assessment fee for teachers who apply for certification by such Board and agree to teach at the participating school for at least three years after their certification; (4) provide specified monetary awards to teachers and their sponsoring schools after completion of the Targeted High Need Initiative program; and (5) conduct an independent evaluation of such program's affect on teaching quality and student performance. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-07-23
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education.
action_date: 2009-06-08
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and Labor.
action_date: 2009-06-08
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E1341)
action_date: 2009-06-08
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-06-08
text: Introduced in House
Veterans Home Loan Refinance Opportunity Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-2756
Sponsor: Rep. Davis, Susan A. [D-CA-53]
Introduced: 2009-06-08 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Housing finance and home ownership
Income tax exclusion
Inflation and prices
Interest, dividends, interest rates
Securities
Veterans' loans, housing, homeless programs

Summary:
action_date: 2009-06-08
text: 
Veterans Home Loan Refinance Opportunity Act of 2009 - Amends Internal Revenue Code provisions relating to tax-exempt veterans' mortgage bonds to permit: (1) proceeds from such bonds to refinance residences of veterans (currently, bond financing limited to new mortgages); (2) an annual inflation adjustment after 2010 to the amounts of veterans' mortgage bonds that states may issue; and (3) an increase from 1.125 % to 1.50% in the amount by which interest on veterans' mortgages may exceed the yield on a bond issue. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-06-08
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2009-06-08
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E1341)
action_date: 2009-06-08
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-06-08
text: Introduced in House
Consumer Assistance Rebate for Energy Act

Bill: 111-hr-2757
Sponsor: Rep. Kind, Ron [D-WI-3]
Introduced: 2009-06-08 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Air quality
Climate change and greenhouse gases
Income tax rates
Pollution liability
Social security and elderly assistance
Tax administration and collection, taxpayers
Unemployment
User charges and fees

Summary:
action_date: 2009-06-08
text: 
Consumer Assistance Rebate for Energy Act - Requires any federal climate change law to return to the American people all proceeds from the sale of allowances or credits, from a tax or fee imposed on greenhouse gas emissions, or from other means through reductions in individual taxes, increases in social security or unemployment benefits, and other direct means.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-06-08
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2009-06-08
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-06-08
text: Introduced in House
Medicare Specialty Care Improvement and Protection Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-2758
Sponsor: Rep. Kind, Ron [D-WI-3]
Introduced: 2009-06-08 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Department of Health and Human Services
Disability and paralysis
Executive agency funding and structure
Government studies and investigations
Health care quality
Long-term, rehabilitative, and terminal care
Medicaid
Medicare

Summary:
action_date: 2009-06-08
text: 
Medicare Specialty Care Improvement and Protection Act of 2009 - Amends part C (Medicare+Choice) of title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act (SSA) to extend through December 31, 2013, the authority to restrict enrollment for specialized Medicare Advantage (MA) plans for special needs individuals (SNPs).
 
Extends such authority through December 31, 2015, in the case of a SNP designated as a Fully Integrated Dual Eligible Special Needs Plan..
 
 
Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) to evaluate the MA and the health status risk adjustment payment mechanisms in order to resolve plan payment inequities relative to Medicare fee-for-service payments for high-risk, high cost beneficiaries. Directs the Secretary, using the results of the evaluation, to refine the risk adjustment payment mechanism for such beneficiaries. 
 
Requires the Secretary to provide bonus payments to account for added SNP costs associated with additional benefit, care management, reporting, and other requirements established by Congress and the Secretary in excess of other MA plans.
 
Requires the Secretary to take into account specified factors, including dual eligibility (for both Medicare and SSA title XIX [Medicaid] benefits) and geographic cost differences, with respect to the bid structure for SNPs.
 
Requires the Secretary to have in place a process under which the Secretary designates dual eligible SNPs as Fully Integrated Dual Eligible Special Needs Plans for the purpose of advancing fully integrated Medicare and Medicaid benefits and services for dual eligible beneficiaries, including state-designated Dual subsets.
 

 
Directs the Secretary to establish or designate an Office on Medicare/Medicaid Integration.
 
Requires the Medicaid plan to provide that an individual who has attained age 65, and has been determined for 12 consecutive months to be a full-benefit dual eligible individual, to be presumed to remain eligible for benefits under the plan without any need for further redetermination or recertification.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-06-09
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2009-06-08
text: Referred to House Ways and Means
action_date: 2009-06-08
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Ways and Means, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2009-06-08
text: Referred to House Energy and Commerce
action_date: 2009-06-08
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-06-08
text: Introduced in House
Waiving the cost-share requirement under the Staffing for Adequate Fire and Emergency Response grant program for grants awarded during fiscal year 2008.

Bill: 111-hr-2759
Sponsor: Rep. Kirkpatrick, Ann [D-AZ-1]
Introduced: 2009-06-08 in the House
Policy area: Emergency Management
Subjects: Fires
Intergovernmental relations
State and local finance

Summary:
action_date: 2009-06-08
text: 
Amends the Federal Fire Prevention and Control Act of 1974 to make the cost-share requirement for grants to fire departments to increase the number of firefighters under such Act inapplicable for grants awarded during FY2008. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-06-09
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR H6316)
action_date: 2009-06-08
text: Referred to the House Committee on Science and Technology.
action_date: 2009-06-08
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-06-08
text: Introduced in House
To sever United States' government relations with the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma until such time as the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma restores full tribal citizenship to the Cherokee Freedmen disenfranchised in the March 3, 2007, Cherokee Nation vote and fulfills all its treaty obligations with the Government of the United States, and for other purposes.

Bill: 111-hr-2761
Sponsor: Rep. Watson, Diane E. [D-CA-33]
Introduced: 2009-06-08 in the House
Policy area: Native Americans
Subjects: Civil actions and liability
Congressional oversight
Federal-Indian relations
Gambling
Government studies and investigations
Indian claims
Indian social and development programs
Oklahoma

Summary:
action_date: 2009-06-08
text: 
Severs the United States relations with the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma until the Cherokee Nation is meeting all of its treaty obligations and other federal statutory obligations, including all obligations with the Treaty of 1866 and has restored the rights of Cherokee Freedmen disenfranchised from the Cherokee Nation in the March 3, 2007, Cherokee Nation vote to remove them from the Cherokee Nation. 

Requires a report from the Government Accountability Office (GAO) on the Cherokee Nation's expenditure of federal funds, as well as other specified reports from federal agencies, the Secretary of the Interior, and the National Indian Gaming Commission.

Suspends the Cherokee Nation's authority to conduct gaming operations until it is in compliance with all treaty and other obligations with the United States.

Grants any Cherokee Freedman a private right to bring actions for injunctive relief, declaratory relief, or monetary damages against the Cherokee Nation, officials of the Cherokee Nation, or federal officials. 

Directs the Attorney General to issue a finding on whether the federal civil rights of the Cherokee Freedmen have been violated by the Cherokee Nation and/or the Department of the Interior.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-08-19
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights, and Civil Liberties.
action_date: 2009-06-08
text: Referred to House Judiciary
action_date: 2009-06-08
text: Referred to the Committee on Natural Resources, 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: 2009-06-08
text: Referred to House Natural Resources
action_date: 2009-06-08
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-06-08
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide that the exception from the treatment of publicly traded partnerships as corporations for partnerships with passive-type income shall not apply to partnerships directly or indirectly deriving income from providing investment adviser and related asset management services.

Bill: 111-hr-2762
Sponsor: Rep. Welch, Peter [D-VT-At Large]
Introduced: 2009-06-08 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Financial services and investments
Income tax rates
Tax administration and collection, taxpayers

Summary:
action_date: 2009-06-08
text: 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to treat as corporations for income tax purposes certain publicly traded partnerships which directly or indirectly derive income or gain from providing services as an investment adviser (as defined by the Investment Advisers Act of 1940) or asset management services.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-06-08
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2009-06-08
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-06-08
text: Introduced in House
For the relief of Llesh Miraj, Enkeleda Miraj, Michaela Miraj, Vanessa Miraj, and Sabrina Miraj.

Bill: 111-hr-2763
Sponsor: Rep. Crowley, Joseph [D-NY-7]
Introduced: 2009-06-08 in the House
Policy area: Private Legislation

Summary:
action_date: 2009-06-08
text: Provides for the relief of Llesh Miraj, Enkeleda Miraj, Michaela Miraj, Vanessa Miraj, and Sabrina Miraj.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-06-15
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration, Citizenship, Refugees, Border Security, and International Law.
action_date: 2009-06-08
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2009-06-08
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-06-08
text: Introduced in House
For the relief of Lilly M. Ledbetter.

Bill: 111-hr-2764
Sponsor: Rep. Woolsey, Lynn C. [D-CA-6]
Introduced: 2009-06-08 in the House
Policy area: Private Legislation

Summary:
action_date: 2009-06-08
text: Provides for the relief of Lilly M. Ledbetter.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-06-15
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration, Citizenship, Refugees, Border Security, and International Law.
action_date: 2009-06-08
text: Referred to House Ways and Means
action_date: 2009-06-08
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: 2009-06-08
text: Referred to House Judiciary
action_date: 2009-06-08
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-06-08
text: Introduced in House
Fracturing Responsibility and Awareness of Chemicals Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-2766
Sponsor: Rep. DeGette, Diana [D-CO-1]
Introduced: 2009-06-09 in the House
Policy area: Environmental Protection
Subjects: Business records
Government information and archives
Hazardous wastes and toxic substances
Oil and gas
Water quality
Water use and supply

Summary:
action_date: 2009-06-09
text: 
Fracturing Responsibility and Awareness of Chemicals Act of 2009 - Amends the Safe Drinking Water Act to: (1) repeal the exemption from restrictions on underground injection of fluids near drinking water sources granted to hydraulic fracturing operations under such Act; and (2) require oil and gas companies to disclose the chemicals used in hydraulic fracturing operations. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-06-10
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Environment.
action_date: 2009-06-09
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2009-06-09
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-06-09
text: Introduced in House
Investing in Tomorrow's Technology Act

Bill: 111-hr-2767
Sponsor: Rep. Graves, Sam [R-MO-6]
Introduced: 2009-06-09 in the House
Policy area: Commerce
Subjects: Advanced technology and technological innovations
Business investment and capital
Product development and innovation
Research administration and funding
Research and development
Small business
Technology transfer and commercialization

Summary:
action_date: 2009-06-09
text: 
Investing in Tomorrow's Technology Act - Amends the Small Business Act to extend through FY2011 the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program and the Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) Program.
 
Provides that, with respect to participation in an SBIR or STTR program: (1) a business that has more than 500 employees shall not qualify as a small business; and (2) in determining whether a small business is independently owned and operated, the Administrator of the Small Business Administration (SBA) shall not consider the business as affiliated with a venture capital operating company if such company does not own 50% or more of the business and the company's employees do not constitute a majority of the business's board of directors.
 
Provides limited conditions under which a small business shall still be considered eligible for SBIR/STTR participation when a venture capital operating company controlled by a business with more than 500 employees has an ownership interest in a small business owned in majority part by venture capital operating companies.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-06-11
text: Forwarded by Subcommittee to Full Committee by Voice Vote .
action_date: 2009-06-11
text: Subcommittee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
action_date: 2009-06-10
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Technology and Innovation.
action_date: 2009-06-09
text: Referred to House Science and Technology
action_date: 2009-06-09
text: Referred to the Committee on Small Business, and in addition to the Committee on Science and Technology, 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: 2009-06-09
text: Referred to House Small Business
action_date: 2009-06-09
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Contracting and Technology .
action_date: 2009-06-09
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-06-09
text: Introduced in House
To declare nuclear energy to be clean energy, for purposes of Federal law.

Bill: 111-hr-2768
Sponsor: Rep. Wamp, Zach [R-TN-3]
Introduced: 2009-06-09 in the House
Policy area: Energy
Subjects: Air quality
Nuclear power

Summary:
action_date: 2009-06-09
text: 
Declares nuclear energy to be clean energy, for purposes of federal law. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-06-10
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Environment.
action_date: 2009-06-09
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2009-06-09
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-06-09
text: Introduced in House
Commercializing Small Business Research and Development Act

Bill: 111-hr-2769
Sponsor: Rep. Bright, Bobby [D-AL-2]
Introduced: 2009-06-09 in the House
Policy area: Commerce
Subjects: Advanced technology and technological innovations
Alternative and renewable resources
Energy research
Health technology, devices, supplies
Medical research
Product development and innovation
Public contracts and procurement
Research administration and funding
Research and development
Small business
Technology transfer and commercialization

Summary:
action_date: 2009-06-09
text: 
Commercializing Small Business Research and Development Act - Amends the Small Business Act to state as the policy of Congress that Small Business Administration (SBA) research and development (R&D) programs should focus on promoting R&D of projects governed by commercial business plans which have significant potential to produce products or services for the marketplace or for acquisition by federal agencies.
 
Includes energy-related and rare disease-related research topics as deserving special consideration under Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program research topics.
 
Includes nanotechnology-related topics within authorized research topics under the SBIR Program and Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) Program.
 
Requires each federal agency that is required to have an SBIR program and that awards annually $5 billion or more in procurement contracts to establish, for FY2010 and thereafter, annual goals for the commercialization of projects funded by SBIR awards.
 
Directs each federal agency required to conduct an SBIR program to establish a commercialization program that supports the progress of SBIR awardees to the third (final) phase. Provides funding for such commercialization programs.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-06-11
text: Forwarded by Subcommittee to Full Committee by Voice Vote .
action_date: 2009-06-11
text: Subcommittee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
action_date: 2009-06-10
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Technology and Innovation.
action_date: 2009-06-09
text: Referred to House Science and Technology
action_date: 2009-06-09
text: Referred to the Committee on Small Business, and in addition to the Committee on Science and Technology, 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: 2009-06-09
text: Referred to House Small Business
action_date: 2009-06-09
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Contracting and Technology .
action_date: 2009-06-09
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-06-09
text: Introduced in House
Military Overpayment Fairness Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-2771
Sponsor: Rep. Shea-Porter, Carol [D-NH-1]
Introduced: 2009-06-09 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Disability assistance
Military personnel and dependents
Social security and elderly assistance
Wages and earnings

Summary:
action_date: 2009-06-09
text: 
Military Overpayment Fairness Act of 2009 - Reduces the maximum amount that may be deducted from the pay of a member of the Armed Forces for recovery of an overpayment of military pay paid to the member from 20% to 10% of the member's pay for that month (unless such member requests collection at an accelerated rate). Requires the Secretary of the military department concerned to consult with the member regarding the repayment rate, taking into account the financial ability of the member to pay and avoiding the imposition of undue hardship on the member and his or her dependents. Provides specified delays in collection of overpayments from members injured or wounded during hostile action or incurring a wound, injury, or illness during active duty in a combat operation or combat zone. Imposes a five-year statute of limitations on the collection of overpayments.
 
Allows for the cancellation of repayment when the Secretary concerned determines that the person: (1) relies on social security benefits or disability compensation for more than half the person's annual income; or (2) would suffer undue hardship in repaying the indebtedness.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-06-24
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Military Personnel.
action_date: 2009-06-09
text: Referred to the House Committee on Armed Services.
action_date: 2009-06-09
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E1355)
action_date: 2009-06-09
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-06-09
text: Introduced in House
Medicare Transitional Care Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-2773
Sponsor: Rep. Blumenauer, Earl [D-OR-3]
Introduced: 2009-06-09 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Health care quality
Home and outpatient care
Hospital care
Medicare

Summary:
action_date: 2009-06-09
text: 
Medicare Transitional Care Act of 2009 - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to provide for coverage under Medicare part B (Supplementary Medical Insurance) of benefits for transitional care services for qualified individuals following discharge from a hospital or critical access hospital.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-06-10
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2009-06-09
text: Referred to House Ways and Means
action_date: 2009-06-09
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Ways and Means, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2009-06-09
text: Referred to House Energy and Commerce
action_date: 2009-06-09
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E1347)
action_date: 2009-06-09
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-06-09
text: Introduced in House