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Employee Free Choice Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-1409
Sponsor: Rep. Miller, George [D-CA-7]
Introduced: 2009-03-10 in the House
Policy area: Labor and Employment
Subjects: Civil actions and liability
Employment discrimination and employee rights
Government studies and investigations
Labor-management relations

Summary:
action_date: 2009-03-10
text: 
Employee Free Choice Act of 2009 - Amends the National Labor Relations Act to require the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) to certify a bargaining representative without directing an election if a majority of the bargaining unit employees have authorized designation of the representative (card-check) and there is no other individual or labor organization currently certified or recognized as the exclusive representative of any of the employees in the unit.
 
Sets forth special procedural requirements for reaching an initial collective bargaining agreement following certification or recognition.
 
Revises enforcement requirements with respect to unfair labor practices during union organizing drives, particularly a preliminary investigation of an alleged unfair labor practice (ULP) which may lead to proceedings for injunctive relief. 
 
Requires that priority be given to a preliminary investigation of any charge that, while employees were seeking representation by a labor organization, or during the period after a labor organization was recognized as a representative until the first collective bargaining contract is entered into, an employer: (1) discharged or otherwise discriminated against an employee to encourage or discourage membership in the labor organization; (2) threatened to discharge or to otherwise discriminate against an employee in order to interfere with, restrain, or coerce employees in the exercise of guaranteed self-organization or collective bardaining rights; or (3) engaged in any other related ULP that significantly interferes with, restrains, or coerces employees in the exercise of such guaranteed rights.
 
Adds to remedies for such violations: (1) back pay plus liquidated damages; and (2) additional civil penalties.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-04-29
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2009-03-10
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and Labor.
action_date: 2009-03-10
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-03-10
text: Introduced in House
Newborn, Child, and Mother Survival Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-1410
Sponsor: Rep. McCollum, Betty [D-MN-4]
Introduced: 2009-03-10 in the House
Policy area: International Affairs
Subjects: Advisory bodies
Child health
Foreign aid and international relief
Women's health
World health

Summary:
action_date: 2009-03-10
text: 
Newborn, Child, and Mother Survival Act of 2009 - Amends the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 to authorize the President to furnish assistance to improve the health of newborns, children, and mothers in developing countries. 
 
Directs the President to develop a comprehensive U.S. government strategy to reduce mortality and improve the health of newborns, children, and mothers in developing countries.
 
Establishes the Interagency Task Force on Child Survival and Maternal Health in Developing Countries.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-03-10
text: Referred to the House Committee on Foreign Affairs.
action_date: 2009-03-10
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-03-10
text: Introduced in House
United States Primary and Preventive Health Care Corps Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-1411
Sponsor: Rep. McDermott, Jim [D-WA-7]
Introduced: 2009-03-10 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Education programs funding
Health care coverage and access
Health personnel
Medical education
Student aid and college costs

Summary:
action_date: 2009-03-10
text: 
United States Primary and Preventive Health Care Corps Act of 2009 - Amends the Public Health Service Act to require the Secretary of Health and Human Services to establish the Primary and Public Health Scholarship Program to provide scholarships to students pursuing a health professional degree, including dentistry and behavior and mental health, in exchange for service as a health professional for not less than four years at a health care facility that serves a designated primary care or public health shortage area located in the state in which the institution of higher education is located.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-03-11
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2009-03-10
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2009-03-10
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR H3109)
action_date: 2009-03-10
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-03-10
text: Introduced in House
Justice Integrity Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-1412
Sponsor: Rep. Cohen, Steve [D-TN-9]
Introduced: 2009-03-10 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Advisory bodies
Judicial procedure and administration
Racial and ethnic relations

Summary:
action_date: 2009-03-10
text: 
Justice Integrity Act of 2009 - Requires the Attorney General to: (1) establish a pilot program in 10 U.S. districts to promote fairness and the perception of fairness in the federal criminal justice system and to determine whether legislation is required; and (2) designate a U.S. attorney in each of the districts to implement a plan for carrying out such pilot program.

Requires each U.S. attorney designated to implement a pilot program to appoint an advisory group consisting of judges, prosecutors, defense attorneys, and other individuals and entities who play an important role in the criminal justice system. Requires each advisory group to: (1) collect and analyze data on the race and ethnicity of defendants at each stage of a criminal proceeding; (2) seek to determine causes of racial and ethnic disparities in the criminal justice process; and (3) submit to the U.S. attorney a report and proposed plan for addressing such disparities. Requires each U.S. attorney to annually evaluate the efficacy of a plan submitted by an advisory group. 

Requires the Attorney General to: (1) prepare a comprehensive report on all advisory group plans and submit such report and plans to Congress; and (2) exercise continuing oversight of the criminal justice system to reduce unwarranted racial and ethnic disparities and improve such system. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-04-27
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.
action_date: 2009-03-10
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2009-03-10
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-03-10
text: Introduced in House
Healthcare Enhancement for Local Public Servants Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-1413
Sponsor: Rep. Crowley, Joseph [D-NY-7]
Introduced: 2009-03-10 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management
Health care costs and insurance
Income tax deductions
Income tax exclusion
Inflation and prices
Long-term, rehabilitative, and terminal care

Summary:
action_date: 2009-03-10
text: 
Healthcare Enhancement for Local Public Servants Act of 2009 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) extend eligibility for tax-free distributions from governmental employee benefit plans for health and long-term care insurance to any retired state or local public employee (currently, limited to retired public safety officers); (2) provide for a tax deduction of such distributions rather than an exclusion from gross income; (3) allow nonitemizing taxpayers to claim such tax deduction; and (4) allow an annual inflation adjustment to the $3,000 distribution limit beginning after 2009. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-03-10
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2009-03-10
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E618)
action_date: 2009-03-10
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-03-10
text: Introduced in House
Multilingual Services Accounting Act

Bill: 111-hr-1414
Sponsor: Rep. Foxx, Virginia [R-NC-5]
Introduced: 2009-03-10 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Accounting and auditing
Congressional oversight
Foreign language and bilingual programs
Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management
Government information and archives
Public contracts and procurement

Summary:
action_date: 2009-03-10
text: 
Multilingual Services Accounting Act - Requires federal agency Chief Financial Officers to include multilingual services accounting information in their mandatory annual reports to the agency head and to the Director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB). 
 
Defines multilingual services to include: (1) services provided by interpreters hired by an agency; (2) services resulting in additional expenses which an agency provides to assist its employees or contractors to learn a non-English language; (3) agency preparation, translation, printing, or recordation of materials in a language other than English; and (4) services provided or performed for the federal government by agency employees or contractors that require speaking a non-English language that result in wage differentials or benefits provided by the agency.
 
Requires the OMB Director's annual financial management status report to certain congressional committees to contain a Multilingual Services Expenses Report that includes: (1) a summary and analysis of the multilingual services accounting information prepared by each agency Chief Financial Officer; and (2) a description of any changes to the existing financial management structure of the federal government needed to establish an integrated individual agency accounting of all multilingual services conducted by each agency.
 
Requires the OMB Director to issue guidance that an agency Chief Financial Officer must follow in compiling multilingual services accounting information.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-05-04
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Government Management, Organization, and Procurement.
action_date: 2009-03-10
text: Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.
action_date: 2009-03-10
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-03-10
text: Introduced in House
Medicaid Emergency Psychiatric Care Demonstration Project Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-1415
Sponsor: Rep. Gordon, Bart [D-TN-6]
Introduced: 2009-03-10 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Emergency medical services and trauma care
Health facilities and institutions
Medicaid
Mental health

Summary:
action_date: 2009-03-10
text: 
Medicaid Emergency Psychiatric Care Demonstration Project Act of 2009 - Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services to establish a demonstration project under which a state shall reimburse, under title XIX (Medicaid) of the Social Security Act, a privately owned and operated institution for mental diseases for medical assistance to an eligible individual between ages 21 and 65 who requires it to stabilize an emergency medical condition.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-03-11
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2009-03-10
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2009-03-10
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-03-10
text: Introduced in House
Southern New Jersey Veterans Comprehensive Health Care Act

Bill: 111-hr-1416
Sponsor: Rep. LoBiondo, Frank A. [R-NJ-2]
Introduced: 2009-03-10 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Health facilities and institutions
New Jersey
Veterans' medical care

Summary:
action_date: 2009-03-10
text: 
Southern New Jersey Veterans Comprehensive Health Care Act - Directs the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to determine, and notify Congress, whether the needs of veterans in southern New Jersey (the counties of Ocean, Burlington, Camden, Gloucester, Salem, Cumberland, Atlantic, and Cape May) for full-service medical care shall be met through a project for: (1) inpatient and outpatient services and long-term care to veterans at an existing facility in southern New Jersey; or (2) construction of a new full-service, Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) medical center to provide inpatient and outpatient services and long-term care to veterans in southern New Jersey.
 
Directs the Secretary: (1) if the existing facility option is chosen, to enter into an appropriate agreement for the provision of such care and services; or (2) if the new construction option is chosen, to carry out an appropriate major medical facility construction project for such purpose.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-03-13
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2009-03-10
text: Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2009-03-10
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-03-10
text: Introduced in House
To eliminate the exemption from State regulation for certain securities designated by national securities exchanges.

Bill: 111-hr-1418
Sponsor: Rep. Meeks, Gregory W. [D-NY-6]
Introduced: 2009-03-10 in the House
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: Federal preemption
Intergovernmental relations
Licensing and registrations
Securities
State and local government operations

Summary:
action_date: 2009-03-10
text: 
Amends the Securities Act of 1933, with respect to exclusive federal registration of nationally traded securities, to exclude from exclusive federal regulation, and thus permit state regulation of, certain securities anyone of specified securities exchanges has listed (or authorized for listing) in a tier or segment for uncovered securities, according to standards for designating such a tier or segment the exchange has adopted.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-03-10
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2009-03-10
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-03-10
text: Introduced in House
Freedom to Bank Act

Bill: 111-hr-1419
Sponsor: Rep. Paul, Ron [R-TX-14]
Introduced: 2009-03-10 in the House
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: Bank accounts, deposits, capital
Banking and financial institutions regulation
Consumer affairs
Financial services and investments

Summary:
action_date: 2009-03-10
text: 
Freedom to Bank Act - Terminates any provision of federal law (other than the Internal Revenue Code) that subjects a consumer to a penalty for withdrawing or transferring funds from any transaction account or any savings or time deposit.
 
Declares that no creditor, depository institution, or credit union shall be required to provide periodic statements of account to a customer unless the customer has notified it of an election to receive such statements.
 
Requires such entities to establish a procedure for notifying customers of their right to elect to receive statements of account and the method for implementing such election.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-03-10
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2009-03-10
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E622)
action_date: 2009-03-10
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-03-10
text: Introduced in House
Thrift Savings Fund Improvement Act

Bill: 111-hr-1420
Sponsor: Rep. Paul, Ron [R-TX-14]
Introduced: 2009-03-10 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Financial services and investments
Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management
Metals

Summary:
action_date: 2009-03-10
text: 
Thrift Savings Fund Improvement Act - Establishes the Precious Metals Investment Fund as an investment option for individuals participating in the Thrift Savings Plan. Requires that contributions to such Fund be invested in physical gold, silver, or platinum bullion.
 
Directs the Federal Retirement Thrift Investment Board to: (1) study the operation of existing precious metal funds to determine the best practices of such funds; (2) establish the Precious Metals Investment Fund incorporating the best practices of existing funds; and (3) make such Fund available to individuals participating in the Thrift Savings Plan. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-05-04
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Federal Workforce, Post Office, and the District of Columbia.
action_date: 2009-03-10
text: Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.
action_date: 2009-03-10
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E614)
action_date: 2009-03-10
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-03-10
text: Introduced in House
Nino's Act

Bill: 111-hr-1421
Sponsor: Rep. Shuster, Bill [R-PA-9]
Introduced: 2009-03-10 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Child health
Medicaid
Medical research
Prescription drugs

Summary:
action_date: 2009-03-10
text: 
Nino's Act - Amends title XIX (Medicaid) of the Social Security Act to provide for mandatory Medicaid coverage of drugs prescribed for certain research study child participants, regardless of Medicaid eligibility otherwise, if the state provides drug coverage.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-03-11
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2009-03-10
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2009-03-10
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-03-10
text: Introduced in House
Adam Walsh Child Protection and Safety Reauthorization Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-1422
Sponsor: Rep. Smith, Lamar [R-TX-21]
Introduced: 2009-03-10 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Child health
Crimes against children
Criminal justice information and records
Department of Justice
Executive agency funding and structure
Government information and archives
Health programs administration and funding
Juvenile crime and gang violence
Law enforcement administration and funding
Mental health
Sex offenses

Summary:
action_date: 2009-03-10
text: 
Adam Walsh Child Protection and Safety Reauthorization Act of 2009 - Amends the Adam Walsh Child Protection and Safety Act of 2006 to extend through FY2014 funding under such Act for: (1) the Sex Offender Management Assistance (SOMA) program; (2) federal assistance to states for enforcing sex offender registration requirements; (3) pilot programs for monitoring sex offenders; (4) grants to combat sexual abuse of children; (5) the Jessica Lunsford address verification grant program; and (6) the program for safe surrender of fugitives.
 
Amends the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 to extend through FY2014 funding for: (1) sex offender apprehension grants; and (2) juvenile sex offender treatment grants. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-04-27
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.
action_date: 2009-03-10
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2009-03-10
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E611)
action_date: 2009-03-10
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-03-10
text: Introduced in House
To restore and make permanent the exclusion from gross income for amounts received under qualified group legal services plans and to increase the maximum amount of the exclusion.

Bill: 111-hr-1423
Sponsor: Rep. Stark, Fortney Pete [D-CA-13]
Introduced: 2009-03-10 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Employee benefits and pensions
Income tax exclusion
Legal fees and court costs

Summary:
action_date: 2009-03-10
text: 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to restore, make permanent, and eliminate the dollar limitation for the tax exclusion for amounts received under a qualified group legal services plan.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-03-10
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2009-03-10
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E611)
action_date: 2009-03-10
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-03-10
text: Introduced in House
To name the front circle drive in front of the Oscar G. Johnson Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Facility in Iron Mountain, Michigan, as "Sergeant First Class James D. Priestap Drive".

Bill: 111-hr-1424
Sponsor: Rep. Stupak, Bart [D-MI-1]
Introduced: 2009-03-10 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Congressional tributes
Health facilities and institutions
Michigan
Military personnel and dependents
Roads and highways
Veterans' medical care

Summary:
action_date: 2009-03-10
text: 
Designates the circle drive in front of the main entrance of the Oscar G. Johnson Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Facility in Iron Mountain, Michigan, as &quot;Sergeant First Class James D. Priestap Drive.&quot;


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-03-10
text: Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2009-03-10
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-03-10
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Clean Air Act to prohibit the issuance of permits under title V of that Act for certain emissions from agricultural production.

Bill: 111-hr-1426
Sponsor: Rep. Lucas, Frank D. [R-OK-3]
Introduced: 2009-03-11 in the House
Policy area: Environmental Protection
Subjects: Agricultural conservation and pollution
Air quality
Licensing and registrations
Livestock

Summary:
action_date: 2009-03-11
text: 
Amends the Clean Air Act to prohibit the issuance of permits under such Act for any carbon dioxide, nitrogen oxide, water vapor, or methane emissions resulting from biological processes associated with livestock production.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-03-12
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Environment.
action_date: 2009-03-11
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2009-03-11
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-03-11
text: Introduced in House