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Military Families Affordable Homes Act

Bill: 111-s-2827
Sponsor: Sen. Schumer, Charles E. [D-NY]
Introduced: 2009-12-03 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Housing finance and home ownership
Income tax exclusion
Low- and moderate-income housing
Military personnel and dependents
Securities

Summary:
action_date: 2009-12-03
text: 
Military Families Affordable Homes Act - Amends Internal Revenue Code provisions relating to tax-exempt facility bonds to expand the eligibility of military personnel for low-income residential rental housing financed by such bonds.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-12-03
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2009-12-03
text: Introduced in Senate
Endocrine Disruption Prevention Act of 2009

Bill: 111-s-2828
Sponsor: Sen. Kerry, John F. [D-MA]
Introduced: 2009-12-03 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Advisory bodies
Cancer
Department of Health and Human Services
Environmental health
Hazardous wastes and toxic substances
Health promotion and preventive care
Hereditary and development disorders
Medical education
Medical research
National Institutes of Health (NIH)
Sex and reproductive health
Student aid and college costs

Summary:
action_date: 2009-12-03
text: 
Endocrine Disruption Prevention Act of 2009 - Amends the Public Health Service Act to require the Director of the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences to establish the Endocrine Disruption Prevention Program, under which the Director shall: (1) conduct and support multidisciplinary research to improve the understanding of endocrine disruption; and (2) conduct workshops and fora on health effects associated with environmental agents that may affect the endocrine system.
 
Requires the Director to establish an Endocrine Disruption Program Panel, which shall: (1) provide advice to the Director on the conduct and support of research; (2) evaluate existing population-level biomonitoring and biobanking surveillance and research programs and recommend changes needed to develop data on human exposures and effects to support the Program; and (3) develop a list of chemicals of concern for endocrine disruption effects and make findings with respect to such chemicals. Authorizes individuals to petition the Panel to determine whether a chemical should be listed or to revise a finding or determination based on new information. 
 
Requires the Director, if the Panel finds that data are sufficient to determine that there is at least a minimal level of concern associated with a chemical's potential to disrupt the human endocrine system, to transmit the finding, including the routes and sources of exposure to the chemical, to each federal agency with authority to regulate the chemical. Requires each federal agency that receives such a transmission: (1) to reply to the Director describing the agency's regulatory authority, past actions in connection with the chemical, and proposed action to protect human health from the potential endocrine disruption effects of exposure to the chemical; and (2) within one year, to report on the actions taken and future actions proposed by the Agency in response to the Panel's finding.
 
Requires the Director to establish a program to support graduate and postdoctoral training in fields related to the prevention of endocrine disruption.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-12-03
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2009-12-03
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S12324)
action_date: 2009-12-03
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow the cost of labor for building envelope improvements to be included for purposes of the nonbusiness energy property tax credit.

Bill: 111-s-2829
Sponsor: Sen. Wyden, Ron [D-OR]
Introduced: 2009-12-03 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Energy efficiency and conservation
Income tax credits
Residential rehabilitation and home repair
Wages and earnings

Summary:
action_date: 2009-12-03
text: 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code, with respect to the tax credit for nonbusiness energy property expenditures, to include labor costs paid to prepare, assemble, or install any residential energy efficiency improvements eligible for such credit.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-12-03
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. (text of measure as introduced: CR S12324)
action_date: 2009-12-03
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S12324)
action_date: 2009-12-03
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to amend the Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act of 1977 to clarify that uncertified States and Indian tribes have the authority to use certain payments for certain noncoal reclamation projects.

Bill: 111-s-2830
Sponsor: Sen. Bingaman, Jeff [D-NM]
Introduced: 2009-12-03 in the Senate
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Indian lands and resources rights
Land use and conservation
Mining
User charges and fees

Summary:
action_date: 2009-12-03
text: 
Amends the Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act of 1977, with respect to the allocation of surface mining reclamation funds to states and Indian tribes, to modify limitations on the allocation of surface mining reclamation funds to states and Indian tribes to provide for payments for filling voids and sealing tunnels and entryways of noncoal mines as well as coal mines.
 
Requires uncertified states or Indian tribes to use such allocated funds to fill voids and seal tunnels and entryways of noncoal as well as coal mines. (&quot;Uncertified states and Indian tribes&quot; are those which have not certified to the Secretary of the Interior completion of their abandoned coal mine reclamation work.)

action_date: 2010-08-05
text: 
 Amends the Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act of 1977, with respect to the allocation of surface mining reclamation funds to states and Indian tribes, to authorize uncertified states and Indian tribes to use certain unexpended and unappropriated balance amounts for: (1) acid mine drainage abatement and treatment; and (2) noncoal abandoned mine land reclamation. 
 
 Modifies limitations placed upon the allocation of such surface mining reclamation funds to provide for payments for filling voids and sealing tunnels and entryways of noncoal mines as well as coal mines.
 
 (&quot;Uncertified states and Indian tribes&quot; are those which have not certified to the Secretary of the Interior completion of their abandoned coal mine reclamation work.)


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-08-05
text: Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 534.
action_date: 2010-08-05
text: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Reported by Senator Bingaman with an amendment in the nature of a substitute. With written report No. 111-264.
action_date: 2010-08-05
text: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Reported by Senator Bingaman with an amendment in the nature of a substitute. With written report No. 111-264.
action_date: 2010-06-21
text: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Ordered to be reported with an amendment in the nature of a substitute favorably.
action_date: 2010-04-21
text: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources Senate Subcommittee on Public Lands and Forests. Hearings held. With printed Hearing: S.Hrg. 111-566.
action_date: 2009-12-03
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. (text of measure as introduced: CR S12325)
action_date: 2009-12-03
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S12324-12325)
action_date: 2009-12-03
text: Introduced in Senate
Lifetime Income Disclosure Act

Bill: 111-s-2832
Sponsor: Sen. Bingaman, Jeff [D-NM]
Introduced: 2009-12-03 in the Senate
Policy area: Labor and Employment
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Department of Labor
Employee benefits and pensions
Government information and archives

Summary:
action_date: 2009-12-03
text: 
Lifetime Income Disclosure Act - Amends the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA) to require the quarterly pension benefit statement furnished to a participant or beneficiary with the right to direct the investment of assets in his or her account under an individual account plan to include a lifetime income disclosure at least once every calendar year.
 
Requires such a lifetime income disclosure to set forth the annuity equivalent of the participant's or beneficiary's total benefits accrued. Defines an annuity equivalent of the total benefits accrued as the monthly annuity payment the participant or beneficiary would receive at the plan's normal retirement age if those total accrued benefits were used on the date of the lifetime income disclosure to purchase certain qualified joint and survivor life annuities whose annuity payments would commence at the plan's normal retirement age.
 
Directs the Secretary of Labor to: (1) issue a model lifetime income disclosure, written in a manner which can be understood by the average plan participant; and (2) prescribe assumptions that plan administrators may use in converting total accrued benefits into annuity equivalents.
 
Declares that no plan fiduciary, plan sponsor, or other person shall have any liability under ERISA solely by reason of the provision of annuity equivalents derived in accordance with such assumptions and related rules and including explanations contained in the model lifetime income disclosure.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-12-03
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. (text of measure as introduced: CR S12327-12328)
action_date: 2009-12-03
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S12327)
action_date: 2009-12-03
text: Introduced in Senate
Transitional Federal Medical Assistance Percentage Act

Bill: 111-s-2833
Sponsor: Sen. Reed, Jack [D-RI]
Introduced: 2009-12-03 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Medicaid
State and local finance
Unemployment

Summary:
action_date: 2009-12-03
text: 
Transitional Federal Medical Assistance Percentage Act - Amends the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 to extend the increase in the federal medical assistance percentage (FMAP) under title XIX (Medicaid) of the Social Security Act. Extends the entire recession adjustment period from December 31, 2010, through June 30, 2011.
 
Provides for adjusted FMAP percentage rates during a transitional assistance period from July 1, 2011, through December 31, 2013.
 
Prescribes formulae for determining the adjusted FMAP through FY2012 and subsequent fiscal year quarters.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-12-03
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. (text of measure as introduced: CR S12328-12330)
action_date: 2009-12-03
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S12328)
action_date: 2009-12-03
text: Introduced in Senate
Security Clearance Modernization and Reporting Act of 2009

Bill: 111-s-2834
Sponsor: Sen. Akaka, Daniel K. [D-HI]
Introduced: 2009-12-03 in the Senate
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Congressional oversight
Executive agency funding and structure
Government information and archives
Government studies and investigations
Intelligence activities, surveillance, classified information

Summary:
action_date: 2009-12-03
text: 
Security Clearance Modernization and Reporting Act of 2009 - Amends the Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act of 2004 to extend national security clearance report requirements to the earlier of two years after the Comptroller General has removed all security clearance-related items from the list known as the High-Risk List, or 2017. (Under current law, such report requirement runs through 2011.) Adds to required report information a description of the full range of time required to complete initial clearance applications.
 
Establishes the Security Clearance and Suitability Performance Accountability Council to perform specified duties, and oversee the development of techniques, relating to the enhancement of applicant suitability determinations and security clearances, including holding each U.S. agency accountable for its security procedures.
 
Directs the Council to develop and submit to Congress a strategic plan that identifies the causes of problems with the issuance of security clearances and a description of corrective actions to address such problems.
 
Requires the Director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) to submit to Congress an information technology strategy for expediting the security clearance process and for providing security clearance and suitability determination reform consistent with the Report of the Joint Security and Suitability Reform Team, dated December 20, 2008.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-12-03
text: Read twice and referred to the Select Committee on Intelligence. (text of measure as introduced: CR S12331-12332)
action_date: 2009-12-03
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S12330)
action_date: 2009-12-03
text: Introduced in Senate
Asset Management Improvement Act of 2009

Bill: 111-s-2836
Sponsor: Sen. Kohl, Herb [D-WI]
Introduced: 2009-12-04 in the Senate
Policy area: Housing and Community Development
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Department of Housing and Urban Development
Housing and community development funding
Public housing
User charges and fees

Summary:
action_date: 2009-12-04
text: 
Asset Management Improvement Act of 2009 - Prohibits the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) from imposing restrictions or limitations on the amount of management and related fees for a public housing project which the public housing agency (PHA) determines reasonable, unless such restriction or limitation: (1) is determined pursuant to a negotiated rulemaking convened by the Secretary no earlier than April 1, 2010, with representatives from interested parties; and (2) is effective only on or after January 1, 2012.
 
Allows any PHA that owns or operates fewer than 500 public housing units under the United States Housing Act of 1937 to elect to be exempt from asset management requirements imposed by the Secretary.
 
Prohibits the Secretary from imposing any requirement relating to asset management restricting the use by PHAs of amounts for Capital Fund assistance for costs of any PHA central office.
 
Requires the Secretary to ensure that PHAs encourage the reasonable efforts of residents to organize.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-12-04
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.
action_date: 2009-12-04
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S12414-12415)
action_date: 2009-12-04
text: Introduced in Senate
Child Welfare Workforce Improvement Act

Bill: 111-s-2837
Sponsor: Sen. Lincoln, Blanche L. [D-AR]
Introduced: 2009-12-04 in the Senate
Policy area: Social Welfare
Subjects: Adoption and foster care
Child safety and welfare
Congressional oversight
Domestic violence and child abuse
Government studies and investigations
Social work, volunteer service, charitable organizations
State and local government operations

Summary:
action_date: 2009-12-04
text: 
Child Welfare Workforce Improvement Act - Amends part E (Foster Care and Adoption Assistance) of title IV of the Social Security Act to: (1) direct the Secretary of Health and Human Services to enter into an agreement with the National Academy of Sciences to study and report to the Secretary and Congress on child welfare staff; and (2) to direct the Secretary to treat as necessary for proper and efficient state administration all state expenditures for training the child welfare workforce.
 
Allows funds from private nonprofit educational institutions to be considered as the state's share in claiming federal reimbursement for such expenditures, without regard to certain requirements.
 
Establishes a competitive child welfare workforce improvement demonstration program to assist eligible entities in developing and implementing child welfare workforce improvement plans to help facilitate implementation of the essential components of an effective child welfare workforce, throughout the child welfare continuum, from preventing child abuse and neglect through ensuring and supporting permanent families for children, in order to meet the needs of the children and families served by that workforce. 
 
Requires an eligible entity to ensure that the responsible state agency establishes a Child Welfare Workforce Quality Improvement Task Force.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-12-04
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2009-12-04
text: Introduced in Senate
Rural Health Access and Improvement Act of 2009

Bill: 111-s-2838
Sponsor: Sen. Bennet, Michael F. [D-CO]
Introduced: 2009-12-04 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Congressional oversight
Fraud offenses and financial crimes
Health care coverage and access
Health care quality
Health information and medical records
Health programs administration and funding
Medicaid
Prescription drugs
Rural conditions and development
State and local government operations

Summary:
action_date: 2009-12-04
text: 
Rural Health Access and Improvement Act of 2009 - Amends the Public Health Service Act to require the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) to give priority to critical access hospitals in awarding grants to facilitate and expand the electronic movement and use of health information among organizations according to nationally recognized standards.
 
Expands the 340B drug discount program to allow participation as a covered entity by certain children's hospitals, critical access hospitals, rural referral centers, sole community hospitals, and rural health clinics.
 
Directs the Comptroller General to study and report on the cost in each state of dispensing prescription drugs under the Medicaid program. Requires states to use the report to assess the adequacy of Medicaid pharmacy dispensing fees. 
 
Repeals provisions terminating the grant program for the operation of state offices of rural health.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-12-04
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2009-12-04
text: Introduced in Senate
Torture Victims Relief Reauthorization Act of 2010

Bill: 111-s-2839
Sponsor: Sen. Klobuchar, Amy [D-MN]
Introduced: 2009-12-04 in the Senate
Policy area: International Affairs
Subjects: Crime victims
Department of Health and Human Services
Executive Office of the President
Executive agency funding and structure
Foreign aid and international relief
Health personnel
Health programs administration and funding
Legal fees and court costs
Long-term, rehabilitative, and terminal care
Mental health
United Nations
War crimes, genocide, crimes against humanity

Summary:
action_date: 2009-12-04
text: 
Torture Victims Relief Reauthorization Act of 2009 - Amends the Torture Victims Relief Act of 1998 to authorize FY2010-FY2011 appropriations for: (1) the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) for grants to domestic treatment centers for the costs of services provided in the rehabilitation of victims of torture (including treatment of the physical and psychological effects of torture), social and legal services, and research and training of health care providers outside of treatment centers or programs; (2) the President for grants to foreign treatment centers and programs for activities designed to treat victims for the physical and psychological effects of torture; and (3) the United Nations Voluntary Fund for Victims of Torture.

action_date: 2010-05-13
text: 
Torture Victims Relief Reauthorization Act of 2010 - Amends the Torture Victims Relief Act of 1998 to authorize FY2011-FY2012 appropriations for: (1) the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) for grants to domestic treatment centers for the costs of services provided in the rehabilitation of victims of torture (including treatment of the physical and psychological effects of torture), social and legal services, and research and training of health care providers outside of treatment centers or programs; and (2) the President for grants to foreign treatment centers and programs for activities designed to treat victims for the physical and psychological effects of torture. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-05-13
text: Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 375.
action_date: 2010-05-13
text: Committee on Foreign Relations. Reported by Senator Kerry with an amendment in the nature of a substitute. With written report No. 111-186.
action_date: 2010-05-13
text: Committee on Foreign Relations. Reported by Senator Kerry with an amendment in the nature of a substitute. With written report No. 111-186.
action_date: 2010-04-13
text: Committee on Foreign Relations. Ordered to be reported with an amendment in the nature of a substitute favorably.
action_date: 2009-12-04
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations.
action_date: 2009-12-04
text: Introduced in Senate
ConTACT Act of 2009

Bill: 111-s-2840
Sponsor: Sen. Menendez, Robert [D-NJ]
Introduced: 2009-12-04 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Child health
Department of Health and Human Services
Elementary and secondary education
Health programs administration and funding
Health promotion and preventive care
Medical tests and diagnostic methods
Neurological disorders
School athletics

Summary:
action_date: 2009-12-04
text: 
Concussion Treatment and Care Tools Act of 2009 or the ConTACT Act of 2009 - Amends the Public Health Service Act to direct the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) to: (1) establish concussion management guidelines that address the prevention, identification, treatment, and management of concussions in school-aged children, including standards for student athletes to return to play after a concussion; and (2) convene a conference of medical, athletic, and educational stakeholders to establish such guidelines. Authorizes the Secretary to make grants to states for: (1) adopting, disseminating, and ensuring the implementation by schools of the guidelines; and (2) funding implementation by schools of computerized preseason baseline and post-injury neuropsychological testing for student athletes. Directs the Secretary to require states to utilize, to the extent practicable, applicable expertise and services offered by local chapters of national brain injury organizations.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-12-04
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2009-12-04
text: Introduced in Senate
S Corporation Inventory Contribution Act of 2009

Bill: 111-s-2841
Sponsor: Sen. Burris, Roland [D-IL]
Introduced: 2009-12-07 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Income tax deductions
Small business
Social work, volunteer service, charitable organizations

Summary:
action_date: 2009-12-07
text: 
S Corporation Inventory Contribution Act of 2009 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to extend the tax deduction for charitable contributions of inventory to S corporations. Limits the amount of such deduction for corporations other than C corporations to 10% of aggregate net income.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-12-07
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2009-12-07
text: Introduced in Senate