hyperdemocracy/usc-billstatus huggingface dataset:
District of Columbia Medicaid Reimbursement Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-4151
Sponsor: Del. Norton, Eleanor Holmes [D-DC-At Large]
Introduced: 2009-11-19 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: District of Columbia
Intergovernmental relations
Medicaid
State and local finance

Summary:
action_date: 2009-11-19
text: 
District of Columbia Medicaid Reimbursement Act of 2009 - Amends title XIX (Medicaid) of the Social Security Act to increase the Medicaid federal medical assistance percentage (FMAP) for the District of Columbia from 70% to 75%.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-12-01
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2009-11-19
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2009-11-19
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E2832)
action_date: 2009-11-19
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-11-19
text: Introduced in House
Native Act to Transform Imagery in Various Environments

Bill: 111-hr-4152
Sponsor: Rep. Pallone, Frank, Jr. [D-NJ-6]
Introduced: 2009-11-19 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Department of Education
Education programs funding
Educational facilities and institutions
Elementary and secondary education
Executive agency funding and structure
Federal-Indian relations
Higher education
Indian social and development programs
Racial and ethnic relations
School athletics

Summary:
action_date: 2009-11-19
text: 
Native Act to Transform Imagery in Various Environments - Directs the Secretary of Education to make grants to elementary, secondary, and post-secondary schools to assist them in discontinuing the use of a name or depiction that is derogatory or discriminatory.
 
Requires the Secretary to make subsequent grants to schools that received grants to discontinue objectionable names or depictions and to Indian schools for construction or renovation.
 
Directs the Secretary to establish the Committee on Indian Relations within the Department of Education to: (1) determine which names and depictions are derogatory or discriminatory; (2) identify schools that use derogatory or discriminatory names or descriptions, and inform them of the availability of assistance in discontinuing their use; (3) assist the Secretary in awarding this Act's grants; and (4) provide cultural proficiency training at grantee schools.
 
Lists Indians, Redskins, Braves, and Chiefs as derogatory or discriminatory names or depictions.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-01-04
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education.
action_date: 2009-11-19
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and Labor.
action_date: 2009-11-19
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-11-19
text: Introduced in House
To amend title 23, United States Code, to establish national standards to prevent distracted driving, and for other purposes.

Bill: 111-hr-4153
Sponsor: Rep. Platts, Todd Russell [R-PA-19]
Introduced: 2009-11-19 in the House
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Roads and highways
State and local government operations
Telephone and wireless communication
Transportation programs funding
Transportation safety and security

Summary:
action_date: 2009-11-19
text: 
Requires the Secretary of Transportation to withhold specified graduated percentages of a state's apportionment of certain federal-aid highway program funds for FY2012-FY2015, and thereafter, if the state has not enacted or is not enforcing a law that prohibits, with specified exceptions, a person from using a wireless communications device to compose, read, or send an electronic message while operating a motor vehicle that is in motion or part of traffic.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-11-20
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Highways and Transit.
action_date: 2009-11-19
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2009-11-19
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-11-19
text: Introduced in House
Property Assessed Clean Energy Tax Benefits Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-4155
Sponsor: Rep. Sarbanes, John P. [D-MD-3]
Introduced: 2009-11-19 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Alternative and renewable resources
Energy efficiency and conservation
Environmental technology
Income tax exclusion
Securities
State and local finance
Water use and supply

Summary:
action_date: 2009-11-19
text: 
Property Assessed Clean Energy Tax Benefits Act of 2009 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to authorize the issuance of tax-exempt bonds to finance state and local government programs for clean energy improvements in buildings. Defines &quot;clean energy improvements&quot; as any distributed generation renewable energy sources, energy efficiency improvements, or water efficiency improvements which are permanently affixed to a building and result in a 20% savings in energy consumption.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-11-19
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2009-11-19
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E2836)
action_date: 2009-11-19
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-11-19
text: Introduced in House
Increasing Housing Opportunities for Veterans Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-4156
Sponsor: Rep. Sires, Albio [D-NJ-13]
Introduced: 2009-11-19 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Building construction
Financial crises and stabilization
Government lending and loan guarantees
Housing and community development funding
Housing finance and home ownership
Low- and moderate-income housing
Military personnel and dependents
Veterans' loans, housing, homeless programs
Wages and earnings

Summary:
action_date: 2009-11-19
text: 
Increasing Housing Opportunities for Veterans Act of 2009 - Directs the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) to provide assistance to for-profit developers to expand the supply of supportive housing for veteran families, such assistance coming in the form of zero interest loans and project rental assistance. Requires: (1) not less than 75% of the units in such housing to be made available for occupancy only by veteran families; (2) rent contribution limits for low-income veterans; and (3) owners of assisted housing to ensure that veterans and their families are provided a range of supportive services tailored to their needs. Provides housing development cost limitations. Directs the HUD Secretary to provide information concerning the availability of such housing to the Secretaries of Veterans Affairs and Labor. Requires the repayment of housing assistance and the prevention of undue benefits with respect to housing that fails or ceases to be used for veterans' purposes. Provides funding for such assistance from the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) under the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008.
 
Amends the Cranston-Gonzalez National Affordable Housing Act to include veterans service agencies as entities authorized to submit state and local housing strategies for housing assistance provided under such Act.
 
Requires a study by the Comptroller General on the availability of credit for veterans of Operations Iraqi Freedom and Enduring Freedom.
 
Directs the HUD Secretary to carry out a program to provide mortgage assistance through the provision of grants and loans for direct mortgage payments on behalf of eligible households (households containing a member of the Armed Forces serving on active duty for more than 30 days). Outlines assistance requirements and limitations. Requires assistance repayment when the annual income of the household exceeds 200% of the poverty level applicable to that family size. Provides TARP funding for such assistance.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-11-19
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2009-11-19
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-11-19
text: Introduced in House
Ensure TARP Expires Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-4157
Sponsor: Rep. Tiahrt, Todd [R-KS-4]
Introduced: 2009-11-19 in the House
Policy area: Economics and Public Finance
Subjects: Budget deficits and national debt
Congressional oversight
Financial crises and stabilization

Summary:
action_date: 2009-11-19
text: 
Ensure TARP Expires Act of 2009 - Amends the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008 (EESA) to repeal the authority of the Secretary of the Treasury to extend the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) beyond December 31, 2009.
 
Instructs the Secretary to transfer certain unobligated TARP funds to reduce the public debt.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-11-19
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2009-11-19
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-11-19
text: Introduced in House
To suspend temporarily the duty on certain hydrogenated polymers of norbornene derivatives.

Bill: 111-hr-4158
Sponsor: Rep. Yarmuth, John A. [D-KY-3]
Introduced: 2009-11-19 in the House
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Tariffs

Summary:
action_date: 2009-11-19
text: Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to suspend temporarily the duty on certain hydrogenated polymers of norbornene derivatives.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-11-19
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2009-11-19
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-11-19
text: Introduced in House
Environmental Hormone Disruption Research Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-4160
Sponsor: Rep. Slaughter, Louise McIntosh [D-NY-28]
Introduced: 2009-12-01 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Advisory bodies
Animal and plant health
Child health
Congressional oversight
Ecology
Environmental assessment, monitoring, research
Environmental health
Environmental technology
Medical research
Research administration and funding
Research and development
Sex and reproductive health
Wildlife conservation and habitat protection
Women's health

Summary:
action_date: 2009-12-01
text: 
Environmental Hormone Disruption Research Act of 2009 - Amends the Public Health Service Act to require the Director of the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences to establish a comprehensive program to: (1) research the health effects on women and children that may result through disruption of the hormone systems; (2) carry out research, development, and demonstrations on technologies to mitigate the occurrence of hormone-disrupting pollutants in the environment and their unintended effects on ecological and wildlife health, in cooperation with the United States Geological Survey (USGS); and (3) coordinate U.S. research on hormone disruption with research conducted in other nations.
 
Requires the program to provide for: (1) the collection and dissemination of scientifically valid information on human health effects of hormone-disrupting pollutants, the extent of human exposure to such pollutants, and the exposure of wildlife species to such pollutants and possible associated health effects; and (2) research on mechanisms by which such pollutants interact with biological systems, testing for hormone disruption, and the identity and fate of hormone-disrupting pollutants in the environment.
 
Directs the House Committee on Energy and Commerce to hold a hearing on program implementation.
 
Gives the Director principal responsibility for conducting and coordinating research on the unintended effects of hormone-disrupting pollutants on human health and the environment.
 
Requires the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) to establish the Hormone Disruption Research Interagency Commission. Establishes a Hormone Disruption Research Panel to make recommendations on the design and implementation of the program.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-12-02
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2009-12-02
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Environment.
action_date: 2009-12-01
text: Referred to House Rules
action_date: 2009-12-01
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Rules, 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: 2009-12-01
text: Referred to House Energy and Commerce
action_date: 2009-12-01
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E2848-2849)
action_date: 2009-12-01
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-12-01
text: Introduced in House
Women's Environmental Health and Disease Prevention Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-4161
Sponsor: Rep. Slaughter, Louise McIntosh [D-NY-28]
Introduced: 2009-12-01 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Allied health services
Child health
Congressional oversight
Environmental assessment, monitoring, research
Environmental health
Health information and medical records
Health personnel
Health programs administration and funding
Health promotion and preventive care
Medical education
Medical research
Research administration and funding
Sex and reproductive health
Women's health

Summary:
action_date: 2009-12-01
text: 
Women's Environmental Health and Disease Prevention Act of 2009 - Amends the Public Health Service Act to require the Director of the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences to make grants for the development and operation of centers to conduct multidisciplinary research on environmental factors that may be related to the development of women's health conditions. Requires each such center to: (1) conduct basic or clinical research; (2) develop protocols and conduct training programs for physicians, scientists, nurses, and other health and allied health professionals; (3) disseminate information to such professionals and the public; and (4) emphasize activities that are directed toward preventing the development in women of the diseases and conditions involved. Allows a center to use funds to provide stipends for health and allied health professionals enrolled in training programs.
 
Requires each center to establish and maintain ongoing collaborations with community organizations in the geographic area served by the center, including organizations that represent women or children with disorders that appear to stem from environmental factors.
 
Requires the Director to provide for the coordination of information among centers and ensure regular communication between them.
 
Directs the House Committee on Energy and Commerce to hold a hearing on the Director's implementation of this Act.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-12-02
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2009-12-02
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Environment.
action_date: 2009-12-01
text: Referred to House Rules
action_date: 2009-12-01
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Rules, 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: 2009-12-01
text: Referred to House Energy and Commerce
action_date: 2009-12-01
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E2848-2849)
action_date: 2009-12-01
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-12-01
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Water Resources Development Act of 2000 to make permanent the authority of the Secretary of the Army to accept and expend funds contributed by non-Federal public entities to expedite the evaluation of permits under the jurisdiction of the Department of the Army.

Bill: 111-hr-4162
Sponsor: Rep. Olson, Pete [R-TX-22]
Introduced: 2009-12-01 in the House
Policy area: Water Resources Development
Subjects: Intergovernmental relations
Licensing and registrations
Navigation, waterways, harbors
State and local finance

Summary:
action_date: 2009-12-01
text: 
Makes permanent the authority of the Secretary of the Army to accept and expend funds contributed by non-federal public entities to expedite the evaluation of permits under the jurisdiction of the Department of the Army.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-12-02
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment.
action_date: 2009-12-01
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2009-12-01
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-12-01
text: Introduced in House
Feed All Struggling Americans Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-4163
Sponsor: Rep. Baca, Joe [D-CA-43]
Introduced: 2009-12-01 in the House
Policy area: Agriculture and Food
Subjects: Food assistance and relief
Poverty and welfare assistance
Unemployment

Summary:
action_date: 2009-12-01
text: 
Feed All Struggling Americans Act of 2009 - Amends the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008 to exclude from household income for food stamp eligibility purposes any unemployment benefits received for a continuous period exceeding 26 weeks.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-12-01
text: Referred to the House Committee on Agriculture.
action_date: 2009-12-01
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-12-01
text: Introduced in House
To amend the National Flood Insurance Act of 1968 to provide for a phased-in increase of chargeable premium rates for properties affected by updated Flood Insurance Rate Maps.

Bill: 111-hr-4164
Sponsor: Rep. Herger, Wally [R-CA-2]
Introduced: 2009-12-01 in the House
Policy area: Emergency Management
Subjects: Disaster relief and insurance
Floods and storm protection
Insurance industry and regulation

Summary:
action_date: 2009-12-01
text: 
Amends the National Flood Insurance Act of 1968 to provide that an increase in the risk premium rate charged for covered properties mapped into a higher-risk flood zone as the result of an update to a Flood Insurance Rate Map (post-FIRM properties) shall be limited to an annual increase for 5 years of 20% per year of the difference between: (1) the risk premium rate otherwise chargeable pursuant to such update; and (2) the chargeable risk premium rate for such property that existed before such update.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-12-01
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2009-12-01
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-12-01
text: Introduced in House
Veterans Health Professionals Educational Assistance Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-4166
Sponsor: Rep. Rodriguez, Ciro D. [D-TX-23]
Introduced: 2009-12-01 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Education of the disadvantaged
Education programs funding
Health facilities and institutions
Health personnel
Health programs administration and funding
Medical education
Medical research
Student aid and college costs
Veterans' medical care

Summary:
action_date: 2009-12-01
text: 
Veterans Health Professionals Educational Assistance Act of 2009 - Reinstates the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) health professionals educational assistance scholarship program and permits furnishing scholarships to new participants in the program through 2014. Requires the Secretary of Veterans Affairs, as additional requirements under such program, to: (1) modify the program in such a way that program graduates can be employed as soon as possible upon graduation and to actively assist and monitor graduates to ensure certifications are obtained in a minimal period following graduation; (2) require program participants to perform clinical tours; and (3) assign to each program participant a mentor who is employed at the same facility where the participant performs post-graduation obligated service.
 
Increases maximum payments under the VA education debt reduction program. Allows the Secretary to waive such limits.
 
Authorizes the Secretary to provide an educational loan repayment program for clinical researchers from disadvantaged backgrounds, in order to secure clinical research for the Veterans Health Administration.
 
Directs the Secretary to: (1) transfer specified funds to the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) for including VA facilities on a list of facilities eligible for assignment of participants in the National Health Service Corps Scholarship Program; and (2) identify all VA medical centers and community-based outpatient clinics that may be eligible for such assignments.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-12-04
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2009-12-02
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2009-12-01
text: Referred to House Energy and Commerce
action_date: 2009-12-01
text: Referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs, and in addition to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2009-12-01
text: Referred to House Veterans' Affairs
action_date: 2009-12-01
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-12-01
text: Introduced in House
Federal Communications Commission Collaboration Act

Bill: 111-hr-4167
Sponsor: Rep. Stupak, Bart [D-MI-1]
Introduced: 2009-12-01 in the House
Policy area: Science, Technology, Communications
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Broadcasting, cable, digital technologies
Federal Communications Commission (FCC)
Government information and archives
Internet and video services
Internet, web applications, social media
Lawyers and legal services
Public participation and lobbying

Summary:
action_date: 2009-12-01
text: 
Federal Communications Commission Collaboration Act - Amends the Communications Act of 1934 to allow, notwithstanding a specified open meeting provision, three or more Commissioners of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to hold a meeting that is closed to the public to discuss official business if: (1) no agency action is taken; (2) each person present is an FCC Commissioner or employee; (3) for each political party of which any Commissioner is a member, at least one Commissioner who is a member of the respective party is present, and, if any Commissioner has no party affiliation, at least one unaffiliated Commissioner is present; and (4) an attorney from the FCC's Office of General Counsel is present. Requires public disclosure of the meeting, attendees, and matters discussed.
 
Terminates the effectiveness of this Act five years after enactment.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-12-02
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Communications, Technology, and the Internet.
action_date: 2009-12-01
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2009-12-01
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-12-01
text: Introduced in House