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To amend the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 respecting the scoring of preventive health savings.

Bill: 111-hr-3148
Sponsor: Del. Christensen, Donna M. [D-VI-At Large]
Introduced: 2009-07-09 in the House
Policy area: Economics and Public Finance
Subjects: Accounting and auditing
Budget deficits and national debt
Budget process
Congressional oversight
Health care costs and insurance
Health promotion and preventive care

Summary:
action_date: 2009-07-09
text: 
Amends the Congressional Budget and Impoundment Control Act of 1974 to require the Director of the Congressional Budget Office (CBO), upon a request by the chairman or ranking minority member of either congressional budget committee, to determine if a proposed measure would result in reductions in budget outlays in budgetary outyears through the use of preventive health and preventive health services.
 
Requires CBO, if the measure would result in such substantial reductions, to include in any CBO projection a description and estimate of such reductions and a description of the basis for such conclusions.
 
Authorizes CBO to prepare a budget projection that includes some or all of the budgetary outyears.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-07-09
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Budget.
action_date: 2009-07-09
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-07-09
text: Introduced in House
Equal Employment for All Act

Bill: 111-hr-3149
Sponsor: Rep. Cohen, Steve [D-TN-9]
Introduced: 2009-07-09 in the House
Policy area: Labor and Employment
Subjects: Consumer credit
Employment discrimination and employee rights
Personnel records

Summary:
action_date: 2009-07-09
text: 
Equal Employment for All Act - Amends the Fair Credit Reporting Act to prohibit a current or prospective employer from using a consumer report or an investigative consumer report, or from causing one to be procured, for either employment purposes or for making an adverse action, if the report contains information that bears upon the consumer's creditworthiness, credit standing, or credit capacity.
 
Makes exceptions to such prohibition for employment: (1) which requires a national security or Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) clearance; (2) with a state or local government agency which otherwise requires use of a consumer report; or (3) in a supervisory, managerial, professional, or executive position at a financial institution.
 

 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-09-23
text: Hearings Held by the Subcommittee on Financial Institutions and Consumer Credit Prior to Referral.
action_date: 2009-07-09
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2009-07-09
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-07-09
text: Introduced in House
To require the Secretary of Agriculture to use section 32 of the Act of August 24, 1935, to provide compensation to certain poultry producers whose poultry production contracts were terminated or not renewed because of the closure of poultry processing plants and other cost cutting measures undertaken by a poultry processing company in bankruptcy protection.

Bill: 111-hr-3150
Sponsor: Rep. Etheridge, Bob [D-NC-2]
Introduced: 2009-07-09 in the House
Policy area: Agriculture and Food
Subjects: Agricultural prices, subsidies, credit
Bankruptcy
Contracts and agency
Food industry and services
Meat

Summary:
action_date: 2009-07-09
text: 
Directs the Secretary of Agriculture, through the Farm Service Agency, to use specified funds under the Act of August 24, 1935 to compensate poultry producers whose production contracts were terminated or not renewed during the period beginning on July 1, 2008, through the date of the enactment of this Act, because of processing plant closure and other cost cutting measures undertaken by a poultry processing company in bankruptcy protection. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-06-22
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Livestock, Dairy, and Poultry.
action_date: 2009-07-09
text: Referred to the House Committee on Agriculture.
action_date: 2009-07-09
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-07-09
text: Introduced in House
Rural Access to Nurse Anesthesia Services Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-3151
Sponsor: Rep. Hare, Phil [D-IL-17]
Introduced: 2009-07-09 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Health care coverage and access
Hospital care
Medicare
Nursing
Rural conditions and development
Surgery and anesthesia

Summary:
action_date: 2009-07-09
text: 
Rural Access to Nurse Anesthesia Services Act of 2009 - Amends the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1986, as amended by the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1989, to treat a critical access hospital as rural, notwithstanding the reclassification of its location county as an urban county (&quot;Lugar county&quot;) under title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act, in order to permit pass-through payment for the reasonable costs of certified registered nurse anesthetist (CRNA) services.
 
Counts on-call and standby costs for such services as reasonable CRNA costs. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-07-09
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2009-07-09
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-07-09
text: Introduced in House
Helping Seniors Choose their Medicare Drug Plan Act

Bill: 111-hr-3152
Sponsor: Rep. Holt, Rush [D-NJ-12]
Introduced: 2009-07-09 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Health care costs and insurance
Health care coverage and access
Medicaid
Medicare
Prescription drugs

Summary:
action_date: 2009-07-09
text: 
Helping Seniors Choose their Medicare Drug Plan - Amends Part D (Voluntary Prescription Drug Benefit Program) of title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act with respect to the process for enrolling a full-benefit dual eligible individual (eligible for both Medicare and Medicaid benefits), who has otherwise failed to enroll in a prescription drug plan (PDP) or in an MedicareAdvantage-Prescription Drug (MA-PD) plan, in a PDP with a beneficiary premium that does not exceed a full premium subsidy.
 
Repeals the requirement that the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) enroll such an individual on a random basis among all plans in the PDP region. Requires the Secretary to enroll the individual in the most appropriate plan based on guidelines, established by the Secretary, that account for the individual's previous prescription drug utilization.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-07-10
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2009-07-09
text: Referred to House Ways and Means
action_date: 2009-07-09
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: 2009-07-09
text: Referred to House Energy and Commerce
action_date: 2009-07-09
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-07-09
text: Introduced in House
Transparent Markets Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-3153
Sponsor: Rep. Larson, John B. [D-CT-1]
Introduced: 2009-07-09 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Financial services and investments
Sales and excise taxes
Securities

Summary:
action_date: 2009-07-09
text: 
Transparent Markets Act of 2009 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to impose an excise tax on over-the-counter derivative transactions. Sets the rate of such tax at 0.25% of the fair market value of the underlying property with respect to, or the notional principal amount of, the derivative financial instrument involved in such transactions. Defines &quot;derivative financial instrument&quot; as any option, forward contract, short position, notional principal contract, credit default swap, or similar financial instrument in any share of corporate stock, interest in a widely held or publicly traded partnership or trust, debt instrument, commodity which is actively traded, foreign currency, or specified index. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-07-09
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2009-07-09
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-07-09
text: Introduced in House
Enhanced Violent Crime Community Policing Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-3154
Sponsor: Rep. Lee, Barbara [D-CA-9]
Introduced: 2009-07-09 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Law enforcement administration and funding
Law enforcement officers
Violent crime

Summary:
action_date: 2009-07-09
text: 
Enhanced Violent Crime Community Policing Act of 2009 - Amends the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 to: (1) allow the use of public safety and community policing grants to hire and train new career law enforcement officers for deployment in communities with high incidences of violent crime; (2) direct the Attorney General to make grants to local governments to hire and train new career law enforcement officers for deployment in high crime areas to enhance community policing in such areas; and (3) authorize the Attorney General to give preference to grant applications for the hiring and training of new career law enforcement officers for deployment in high crime areas. Specifies that grant amounts shall provide for a 5 to 10% increase in the size of a grantee's sworn police force. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-08-19
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.
action_date: 2009-07-09
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2009-07-09
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-07-09
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide a credit against tax for expenses paid or incurred in non-clinical research for neglected diseases.

Bill: 111-hr-3156
Sponsor: Rep. Payne, Donald M. [D-NJ-10]
Introduced: 2009-07-09 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Foreign aid and international relief
Income tax credits
Infectious and parasitic diseases
Intellectual property
Medical research
Prescription drugs
Social work, volunteer service, charitable organizations
World health

Summary:
action_date: 2009-07-09
text: 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow a tax credit for 50% of the non-clinical research expenses for certain infectious diseases or conditions for which there is no significant market in developed nations and which disproportionately affect poor and marginalized populations. Requires any taxpayer who claims this tax credit to donate to a charitable organization or foreign government for public purposes the rights to any license for treatment of such diseases.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-07-09
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2009-07-09
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-07-09
text: Introduced in House
To name the Department of Veterans Affairs outpatient clinic in Alexandria, Minnesota, as the "Max J. Beilke Department of Veterans Affairs Outpatient Clinic".

Bill: 111-hr-3157
Sponsor: Rep. Peterson, Collin C. [D-MN-7]
Introduced: 2009-07-09 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Congressional tributes
Government buildings, facilities, and property
Health facilities and institutions
Home and outpatient care
Minnesota
Veterans' medical care

Summary:
action_date: 2009-07-09
text: 
Designates the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) outpatient clinic in Alexandria, Minnesota, that is expected to open in September 2009 as the &quot;Max J. Beilke Department of Veterans Affairs Outpatient Clinic.&quot; 

action_date: 2009-11-03
text: 

(This measure has not been amended since it was introduced. The summary of that version is repeated here.)

 
Designates the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) outpatient clinic in Alexandria, Minnesota, that is expected to open in September 2009 as the &quot;Max J. Beilke Department of Veterans Affairs Outpatient Clinic.&quot; 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-11-04
text: Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2009-11-03
text: Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
action_date: 2009-11-03
text: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill Agreed to by the Yeas and Nays: (2/3 required): 398 - 0 (Roll no. 839). (text: CR 11/2/2009 H12167)
action_date: 2009-11-03
text: Passed/agreed to in House: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill Agreed to by the Yeas and Nays: (2/3 required): 398 - 0 (Roll no. 839).(text: CR 11/2/2009 H12167)
action_date: 2009-11-03
text: Considered as unfinished business. (consideration: CR H12245-12246)
action_date: 2009-11-02
text: At the conclusion of debate, the Yeas and Nays were demanded and ordered. Pursuant to the provisions of clause 8, rule XX, the Chair announced that further proceedings on the motion would be postponed.
action_date: 2009-11-02
text: DEBATE - The House proceeded with forty minutes of debate on H.R. 3157.
action_date: 2009-11-02
text: Considered under suspension of the rules. (consideration: CR H12167-12168)
action_date: 2009-11-02
text: Mr. Walz moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill.
action_date: 2009-07-09
text: Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2009-07-09
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-07-09
text: Introduced in House
Place Based Health Care Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-3158
Sponsor: Rep. Sarbanes, John P. [D-MD-3]
Introduced: 2009-07-09 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Child health
Elementary and secondary education
Employee benefits and pensions
Health care costs and insurance
Health care coverage and access
Health facilities and institutions
Health programs administration and funding
Health promotion and preventive care
Income tax credits
Medicaid
Medicare
Poverty and welfare assistance
Worker safety and health

Summary:
action_date: 2009-07-09
text: 
Place Based Health Care Act of 2009 - Requires the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) to award grants to Eligible Community Integrated Health Centers, which are organizations: (1) seeking to fully integrate their health care services into the community by locating in or near settings that serve particular target populations, such as schools, workplaces, or senior service facilities; and (2) organized for the purpose of providing health care, improving the quality of health care, and reducing the costs associated with the provision of health care provided to Center patients.
 
Requires states to implement procedures to pay for primary health services furnished in a school-based health clinic under Medicaid and the State Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP, formerly known as SCHIP). 
 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow a business credit for employer-provided health and wellness benefits.
 
Amends the Older Americans Act of 1965 to require the Assistant Secretary for Aging to establish an evidence-based disease prevention and health promotion program.
 
Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to authorize a Medicare Advantage organization to offer a Medicare Advantage plan exclusively within a geographic area that is limited to a senior housing facility if certain requirements are met.
 
Amends the Public Health Service Act to authorize the Secretary to award grants for the planning and delivery of services to a special medically underserved population comprised of: (1) school-aged children in a school-based health center; or (2) residents of Naturally Occurring Retirement Communities, patrons of multipurpose senior centers, and individuals living in areas and facilities immediately accessible to such Communities and centers.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-07-10
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2009-07-09
text: Referred to House Education and Labor
action_date: 2009-07-09
text: Referred to House Ways and Means
action_date: 2009-07-09
text: Referred to House Energy and Commerce
action_date: 2009-07-09
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Ways and Means, and Education and Labor, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2009-07-09
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR H7921)
action_date: 2009-07-09
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-07-09
text: Introduced in House
Small Airport Relief Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-3159
Sponsor: Rep. Smith, Adrian [R-NE-3]
Introduced: 2009-07-09 in the House
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Aviation and airports
Noise pollution
Transportation programs funding

Summary:
action_date: 2009-07-09
text: 
Small Airport Relief Act of 2009 - Requires the Secretary of Transportation for FY2011 and FY2012 to apportion amounts for airport planning and development and noise compatibility planning and programs to sponsors of primary airports based on the number of passenger boardings at the airport in calendar year 2008 if it had: (1) fewer than 10,000 passenger boardings in the calendar year used to calculate the apportionment for that fiscal year; and (2) 10,000 or more passenger boardings in calendar year 2008.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-07-10
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Aviation.
action_date: 2009-07-09
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2009-07-09
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-07-09
text: Introduced in House
Israel Foreign Assistance Appropriations Act, 2010

Bill: 111-hr-3160
Sponsor: Rep. Smith, Christopher H. [R-NJ-4]
Introduced: 2009-07-09 in the House
Policy area: International Affairs
Subjects: Appropriations
Arab-Israeli relations
Foreign aid and international relief
Government buildings, facilities, and property
International organizations and cooperation
Israel
Middle East
Military assistance, sales, and agreements
Nuclear power
Palestinians
Refugees, asylum, displaced persons
Sovereignty, recognition, national governance and status
Terrorism
Trade restrictions

Summary:
action_date: 2009-07-09
text: 
Israel Foreign Assistance Appropriations Act, 2010 - Appropriates FY2010 funds for Israel for: (1) refugee resettlement; and (2) foreign military credit sales.
 
Conditions the availability of: (1) FY2010 appropriations for a voluntary contribution to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) upon a determination by the Secretary of State that Israel is not being denied IAEA participation; and (2) certain appropriations to support a Palestinian state upon a determination by the Secretary that the Palestinian governing entity has demonstrated a commitment to peaceful co-existence with Israel and is taking appropriate counterterrorism measures.
 
Expresses the sense of Congress against the Arab League boycott of Israel.
 
Prohibits the expenditure of specified funds to create in any part of Jerusalem a new government office of any U.S. department or agency for the purpose of conducting official U.S. business with the Palestinian Authority (PA) or successor governing entity over Gaza and Jericho. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-07-09
text: Referred to the House Committee on Appropriations.
action_date: 2009-07-09
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-07-09
text: Introduced in House
To amend title 28, United States Code, to provide for an additional judgeship for the western district of Michigan.

Bill: 111-hr-3161
Sponsor: Rep. Stupak, Bart [D-MI-1]
Introduced: 2009-07-09 in the House
Policy area: Law
Subjects: Federal district courts
Judges
Michigan

Summary:
action_date: 2009-07-09
text: 
 Amends the federal judicial code to provide for an additional judgeship for the western district of Michigan, increasing the number of judgeships from four to five.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-08-19
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Courts and Competition Policy.
action_date: 2009-07-09
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2009-07-09
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-07-09
text: Introduced in House
Public Safety Officer Family Health Benefits Act

Bill: 111-hr-3162
Sponsor: Rep. Stupak, Bart [D-MI-1]
Introduced: 2009-07-09 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Department of Homeland Security
Emergency medical services and trauma care
Family relationships
Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA)
Fires
Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management
Health care costs and insurance
Health personnel
Law enforcement officers

Summary:
action_date: 2009-07-09
text: 
 Public Safety Officer Family Health Benefits Act - Authorizes an individual who is a family member of a public safety officer killed in the line of duty to enroll in an approved federal employee health benefits plan as an individual or for self and family. Specifies the individual's and the government's contributions toward the enrollment charge.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-10-23
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Federal Workforce, Post Office, and the District of Columbia.
action_date: 2009-07-09
text: Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.
action_date: 2009-07-09
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-07-09
text: Introduced in House
To establish certain requirements relating to area mail processing studies.

Bill: 111-hr-3163
Sponsor: Rep. Stupak, Bart [D-MI-1]
Introduced: 2009-07-09 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Government buildings, facilities, and property
Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management
Government information and archives
Government studies and investigations
Postal service
U.S. Postal Service

Summary:
action_date: 2009-07-09
text: 
Makes the results of an AMP study (an area mail processing study relating to consolidating the operations of two or more postal facilities) noncognizable for any purpose unless specified time limit and notice requirements are met. Requires the U.S. Postal Service to ensure that no reduction in the workforce of, and no removal of equipment from, any postal facility occurs while an AMP study regarding that facility is pending. Applies this Act to AMP studies started on or after enactment and to studies pending at enactment of this Act.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-07-31
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Federal Workforce, Post Office, and the District of Columbia.
action_date: 2009-07-09
text: Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.
action_date: 2009-07-09
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-07-09
text: Introduced in House
Tax Relief for Educators Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-3164
Sponsor: Rep. Titus, Dina [D-NV-3]
Introduced: 2009-07-09 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Elementary and secondary education
Income tax deductions
Inflation and prices
Preschool education
Teaching, teachers, curricula

Summary:
action_date: 2009-07-09
text: 
Tax Relief for Educators Act of 2009 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) increase from $250 to $500 the allowable amount of the tax deduction for certain expenses of elementary and secondary school teachers; (2) make such deduction permanent; (3) revise the definition of &quot;eligible educator&quot; for purposes of such deduction to reduce from 900 to 450 the number of hours which such educators must spend in their positions and include as eligible educators teachers, instructors, counselors, or aides in an early childhood education program; and (4) allow an inflation adjustment to the amount of such deduction after 2010.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-07-09
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2009-07-09
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-07-09
text: Introduced in House