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Autism Treatment Acceleration Act of 2009

Bill: 111-s-819
Sponsor: Sen. Durbin, Richard J. [D-IL]
Introduced: 2009-04-02 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Allied health services
Department of Health and Human Services
Government information and archives
Health care coverage and access
Health information and medical records
Health programs administration and funding
Health promotion and preventive care
Medical education
Medical research
Neurological disorders

Summary:
action_date: 2009-04-02
text: 
Autism Treatment Acceleration Act of 2009 - Amends the Public Health Service Act to require the Secretary of Health and Human Services, acting through the Administrator of the Health Resources and Services Administration, to implement an Autism Care Center Program to provide grants and other assistance to improve the effectiveness and efficiency in providing comprehensive care to individuals diagnosed with autism spectrum disorders and their families. 
 
Directs the Secretary to: (1) provide grants for services to enable adults with autism spectrum disorders to be as independent as possible; (2) establish the National Registry for Autism Spectrum Disorders; and (3) award grants for multimedia campaigns to increase public education and awareness and reduce stigma concerning such disorders.
 
Establishes the Interdepartmental Autism Coordinating Committee to coordinate all federal efforts concerning autism spectrum disorders. Repeals provisions establishing the Interagency Autism Coordinating Committee to coordinate all efforts within the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) concerning autism spectrum disorders.
 
Requires the Secretary to establish: (1) the National Network for Autism Spectrum Disorders Research and Services to provide resources for, and facilitate communication between, autism spectrum disorder researchers and service providers; and (2) a National Data Repository for Autism Spectrum Disorders Research and Services to facilitate the development and rapid dissemination of research into best practices that improve care.
 
Requires the Secretary to award national training initiative supplemental grants to address the unmet needs of individuals with autism spectrum disorders and their families.
 
Amends the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA) and the Public Health Service Act to require group health plans to provide coverage for the diagnosis and treatment of autism spectrum disorders. Applies such requirement to coverage offered in the individual market.
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-04-02
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. (text of measure as introduced: CR S4379-4385)
action_date: 2009-04-02
text: Introduced in Senate
Veterans Mobility Enhancement Act of 2009

Bill: 111-s-820
Sponsor: Sen. Sanders, Bernard [I-VT]
Introduced: 2009-04-02 in the Senate
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Disability and paralysis
Motor vehicles
Veterans' education, employment, rehabilitation

Summary:
action_date: 2009-04-02
text: 
Veterans Mobility Enhancement Act of 2009 - Increases from $11,000 to $22,500 the amount authorized to be provided by the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to certain disabled veterans for the purchase of an automobile and any necessary adaptive equipment.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-04-29
text: Committee on Veterans' Affairs. Hearings held. Hearings printed: S.Hrg. 111-81.
action_date: 2009-04-02
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2009-04-02
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to amend title 38, United States Code, to prohibit the Secretary of Veterans Affairs from collecting certain copayments from veterans who are catastrophically disabled, and for other purposes.

Bill: 111-s-821
Sponsor: Sen. Sanders, Bernard [I-VT]
Introduced: 2009-04-02 in the Senate
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Disability and paralysis
Health care costs and insurance
Hospital care
Long-term, rehabilitative, and terminal care
Veterans' medical care

Summary:
action_date: 2009-04-02
text: 
Prohibits the collection by the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) of copayments or other fees for hospital or nursing home care in the case of catastrophically disabled veterans.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-04-22
text: Committee on Veterans' Affairs. Hearings held. Hearings printed: S.Hrg. 111-76.
action_date: 2009-04-02
text: Read the second time and referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2009-04-02
text: Introduced in Senate
Volunteer Firefighter and EMS Support Act of 2009

Bill: 111-s-822
Sponsor: Sen. Sanders, Bernard [I-VT]
Introduced: 2009-04-02 in the Senate
Policy area: Emergency Management
Subjects: Emergency medical services and trauma care
Employee benefits and pensions
Employment and training programs
Fires
Health care costs and insurance
Life, casualty, property insurance
Social work, volunteer service, charitable organizations
Student aid and college costs
Transportation costs

Summary:
action_date: 2009-04-02
text: 
Volunteer Firefighter and EMS Support Act of 2009 - Amends the Federal Fire Prevention and Control Act of 1974 to direct the Secretary of Homeland Security to establish a program to provide funds to a state or local government, nonprofit firefighter association, or governmental or nongovernmental emergency medical services (EMS) organization, that carries out a volunteer firefighter incentive program in accordance with this Act.
 
Directs the Secretary, for each fiscal year in which a state or local government, nonprofit firefighter association, or governmental or nongovernmental EMS organization carries out a volunteer firefighter incentive program, to pay such government, association, or organization (organization), out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated for such fiscal year, a sum equal to the total expenditures of funds not received from the federal government made by such organization for that fiscal year to carry out the program.

 Declares that this constitutes budget authority in advance of appropriations Acts and represents the obligation of the federal government to provide payment to a state or local government, nonprofit firefighter association, or governmental or nongovernmental EMS organization any amount so provided.

Requires reports from recipients, and from the Secretary annually, to Congress.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-04-02
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.
action_date: 2009-04-02
text: Introduced in Senate
Net Operating Loss (NOL) Carryback Act

Bill: 111-s-823
Sponsor: Sen. Snowe, Olympia J. [R-ME]
Introduced: 2009-04-02 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Business investment and capital
Income tax deductions
Insurance industry and regulation
Life, casualty, property insurance

Summary:
action_date: 2009-04-02
text: 
Net Operating Loss (NOL) Carryback Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow a five-year carryback of net operating losses, including the operating losses of life insurance companies, incurred in 2008 and 2009.
 
Denies such extended loss carryover period to: (1) taxpayers in whom the federal government acquires an equity interest under the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008; (2) the Federal National Mortgage Association (Fannie Mae) and the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation (Freddie Mac); and (3) members of certain affiliated groups.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-04-02
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2009-04-02
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S4385)
action_date: 2009-04-02
text: Introduced in Senate
Jobs CSAR Act of 2009

Bill: 111-s-824
Sponsor: Sen. Snowe, Olympia J. [R-ME]
Introduced: 2009-04-02 in the Senate
Policy area: Labor and Employment
Subjects: Congressional oversight
Department of Commerce
Employment and training programs
Executive agency funding and structure
Federal officials

Summary:
action_date: 2009-04-02
text: 
Jobs Coordinator for Sustainable American Recovery Act of 2009 or the Jobs CSAR Act of 2009 - Directs the Secretary of Commerce to establish a Jobs Creation Coordinator to: (1) develop a plan to improve the ability of Department of Commerce programs to maintain or create private sector jobs in the United States; and (2) coordinate with Congress to enhance the Department's ability to do so.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-04-02
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
action_date: 2009-04-02
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S4385-4386)
action_date: 2009-04-02
text: Introduced in Senate
Legal Services Benefit Act of 2009

Bill: 111-s-825
Sponsor: Sen. Lincoln, Blanche L. [D-AR]
Introduced: 2009-04-02 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Income tax exclusion
Lawyers and legal services

Summary:
action_date: 2009-04-02
text: 
Legal Services Benefit Act of 2009 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to restore, increase, and make permanent the exclusion from gross income for amounts received under qualified group legal services plans.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-04-02
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2009-04-02
text: Introduced in Senate
American Renewable Energy Act of 2009

Bill: 111-s-826
Sponsor: Sen. Klobuchar, Amy [D-MN]
Introduced: 2009-04-03 in the Senate
Policy area: Energy
Subjects: Alternative and renewable resources
Electric power generation and transmission
Employment and training programs
Energy efficiency and conservation
Health care costs and insurance
Income tax deductions
Manufacturing

Summary:
action_date: 2009-04-03
text: 
American Renewable Energy Act of 2009 - Amends the Public Utility Regulatory Policies Act of 1978 to require electric utilities that sell electricity to consumers to generate or purchase a specified percentage (increasing from 2% in 2010 to 25% in 2025) of their electricity from renewable resources (e.g., solar, wind, geothermal, or ocean energy, biomass, landfill gas, solid waste, or hydropower).
 
Instructs the Secretary of Energy to: (1) establish a renewable energy credit trading program to determine compliance of electric utilities with renewable energy standards established by this Act; (2) establish a state renewable energy account program for grants to state agencies to promote renewable energy production (including programs that promote technologies that reduce the use of electricity at customer sites, such as solar water heating); and (3) study and report to Congress on methods to increase transmission line capacity for wind energy development.
 
Authorizes appropriations for the Hollings Manufacturing Partnership Program to reduce barriers to supply chain manufacturing of renewable energy equipment. 
 
Amends the Wind Energy Systems Act of 1980 to authorize appropriations for FY2010-FY2014 for wind energy research and training programs. 
 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to exempt taxpayers who invest in wind facilities used to produce electricity from limitations on passive activity losses. Terminates such exemption for taxable years beginning after 2010.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-04-03
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2009-04-03
text: Introduced in Senate
Unclaimed Savings Bond Act of 2009

Bill: 111-s-827
Sponsor: Sen. Rockefeller, John D., IV [D-WV]
Introduced: 2009-04-03 in the Senate
Policy area: Economics and Public Finance
Subjects: Government information and archives
Interest, dividends, interest rates
Securities
Tax administration and collection, taxpayers

Summary:
action_date: 2009-04-03
text: 
Unclaimed Savings Bond Act of 2009 - Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to conduct a demonstration program to: (1) identify and locate the owners of specified unredeemed U.S. savings bonds; and (2) provide bondholder location and assistance grants to states for the purpose of bond owner location and notification activities.
 
Requires the Secretary to attempt to locate owners of specified unredeemed savings bonds for which the registered address: (1) is located in a state not participating in the demonstration program in the fiscal year in which such bond would otherwise have been referred to such state; or (2) is not located in any state.
 
Requires the Secretary to deduct and withhold from the proceeds of any matured outstanding U.S. savings bond, on the later of the date of maturity of such bond or the date of the enactment of this Act, a tax in an amount equal to the applicable percentage of the amount which, if such bond were redeemed, would constitute interest. Includes the deemed interest amount in the bondholder's gross income.
 
 

 



Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-04-03
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2009-04-03
text: Introduced in Senate
Renewable Fuels Pipelines Act of 2009

Bill: 111-s-828
Sponsor: Sen. Harkin, Tom [D-IA]
Introduced: 2009-04-03 in the Senate
Policy area: Energy
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Alternative and renewable resources
Department of Energy
Environmental assessment, monitoring, research
Government lending and loan guarantees
Pipelines
Property rights

Summary:
action_date: 2009-04-03
text: 
Renewable Fuels Pipelines Act of 2009 - Amends the Energy Policy Act of 2005 to allow federally-guaranteed loans for renewable fuel pipeline construction without regard to whether an appropriation for the cost has been made. Includes ethanol and biodiesel as renewable fuel.
 
Allows a maximum guarantee by the Secretary of Energy of 90% of the pipeline project cost and more than one guarantee for a project (as long as the total guaranteed amount does not exceed 90%).
 
Sets forth factors to be considered in guarantee determinations, including volume and quality of fuel, size of markets served, experience of the entity working with renewable fuel, and associated storage, production, and terminal facilities.
 
Authorizes the Secretary to evaluate a project to assemble a renewable fuel pipeline as a complete project and, as a result of the size and nature of the project, to make a guarantee for an initial loan at a preliminary stage in the loan approval process for the complete project.
 



Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-04-03
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
action_date: 2009-04-03
text: Introduced in Senate
Patriot Employers Act

Bill: 111-s-829
Sponsor: Sen. Durbin, Richard J. [D-IL]
Introduced: 2009-04-20 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Corporate finance and management
Employee benefits and pensions
Health care costs and insurance
Income tax credits
National Guard and reserves
Wages and earnings

Summary:
action_date: 2009-04-20
text: 
Patriot Employers Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow a taxpayer certified as a Patriot employer by the Secretary of the Treasury a tax credit for 1% of such employer's taxable income. Defines a &quot;Patriot employer&quot; as any taxpayer who: (1) maintains its headquarters in the United States; (2) pays at least 60% of the health care premiums of its employees; (3) observes a policy requiring neutrality in employee organizing drives; (4) maintains or increases the number of its full-time workers in the United States relative to its full-time workers outside of the United States; (5) provides full differential salary and insurance benefits for all National Guard and Reserve employees called to active duty; and (6) provides its employees with a certain level of compensation and retirement benefits.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-04-20
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. (text of measure as introduced: CR S4448-4449)
action_date: 2009-04-20
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S4448)
action_date: 2009-04-20
text: Introduced in Senate
Children's Hospitals Education Equity Act

Bill: 111-s-830
Sponsor: Sen. Whitehouse, Sheldon [D-RI]
Introduced: 2009-04-20 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Child health
Health facilities and institutions
Hospital care
Medical education
Medicare
Mental health

Summary:
action_date: 2009-04-20
text: 
Children's Hospitals Education Equity Act - Amends the Public Health Service Act to revise the definition of &quot;children's hospital&quot; for purposes of payments associated with operating approved graduate medical residency training programs to include a freestanding psychiatric hospital: (1) with 90% or more inpatients under the age of 18; (2) that has its own Medicare provider number as of December 6, 1999; and (3) that has an accredited residency program.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-04-20
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2009-04-20
text: Introduced in Senate
National Guard and Reserve Retired Pay Equity Act of 2009

Bill: 111-s-831
Sponsor: Sen. Kerry, John F. [D-MA]
Introduced: 2009-04-20 in the Senate
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Afghanistan
Asia
Iraq
Middle East
Military operations and strategy
Military personnel and dependents
National Guard and reserves
Veterans' pensions and compensation

Summary:
action_date: 2009-04-20
text: 
National Guard and Reserve Retired Pay Equity Act of 2009 - Amends the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2008 to back-date to September 11, 2001, the period of active duty or performed active service, in support of a contingency operation or in other emergency situations, for which members of Ready Reserve components of the Armed Forces shall receive credit in determining eligibility for early receipt of non-regular service retired pay.
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-04-20
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Armed Services.
action_date: 2009-04-20
text: Introduced in Senate
Early Treatment for HIV Act of 2009

Bill: 111-s-833
Sponsor: Sen. Schumer, Charles E. [D-NY]
Introduced: 2009-04-20 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: HIV/AIDS
Intergovernmental relations
Medicaid
State and local finance

Summary:
action_date: 2009-04-20
text: 
Early Treatment for HIV Act of 2009 - Amends title XIX (Medicaid) of the Social Security Act to give states the option of providing Medicaid coverage for certain low-income HIV-infected individuals. Provides states taking advantage of this option with an enhanced federal Medicaid match. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-04-20
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2009-04-20
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to require that funding for Federal departments and agencies and programs that remain available at the end of a fiscal year shall be used to pay down the Federal debt.

Bill: 111-s-834
Sponsor: Sen. Sessions, Jeff [R-AL]
Introduced: 2009-04-20 in the Senate
Policy area: Economics and Public Finance
Subjects: Appropriations
Budget deficits and national debt
Congressional oversight
Executive agency funding and structure

Summary:
action_date: 2009-04-20
text: 
Requires the Secretary of the Treasury to use any agency, department, or authorized but completed program appropriations remaining at the end of a fiscal year to pay down the federal debt.
 
Requires a department or agency to report to the committees of jurisdiction in both chambers and the congressional budget committees on how the money was saved, and possibilities for future savings in that program.
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-04-20
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2009-04-20
text: Introduced in Senate
OFS Act

Bill: 111-s-835
Sponsor: Sen. Brownback, Sam [R-KS]
Introduced: 2009-04-20 in the Senate
Policy area: Energy
Subjects: Administrative remedies
Alternative and renewable resources
Civil actions and liability
Department of Transportation
Manufacturing
Motor fuels
Motor vehicles
Product safety and quality

Summary:
action_date: 2009-04-20
text: 
Open Fuel Standard Act of 2009 or the OFS Act - Requires each light-duty automobile manufacturer's annual covered inventory to comprise at least: (1) 50% fuel choice-enabling automobiles in years 2012-2014; and (2) 80% fuel choice-enabling automobiles in 2015, and in each subsequent year.
 
Defines &quot;fuel choice-enabling automobile&quot; as: (1) a flexible fuel automobile capable of operating on gasoline, E85, and M85; or (2) an automobile capable of operating on biodiesel fuel.
 
Authorizes a manufacturer to request an exemption from such requirement from the Secretary of Transportation.
 
Extends limited liability protection to the use of fuel containing ethanol or renewable fuel in the operation of internal combustion engines by declaring that such fuel shall not be deemed to be a defective product or subject to a failure to warn due to such ethanol or renewable fuel content, unless it violates a control or prohibition imposed under the Clean Air Act.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-04-20
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
action_date: 2009-04-20
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to provide enhanced authority to the Congressional Oversight Panel established pursuant to the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008.

Bill: 111-s-836
Sponsor: Sen. Snowe, Olympia J. [R-ME]
Introduced: 2009-04-20 in the Senate
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: Congressional oversight
Evidence and witnesses
Financial crises and stabilization

Summary:
action_date: 2009-04-20
text: 
Amends the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008 (EESA) to grant subpoena power to the Congressional Oversight Panel (which reviews the current state of the financial markets and the regulatory system) to require the attendance and testimony of witnesses and the production of books, records, correspondence, memoranda, papers, documents, tapes, and materials.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-04-20
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs. (text of measure as introduced: CR S4449)
action_date: 2009-04-20
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S4449)
action_date: 2009-04-20
text: Introduced in Senate
North Korea Sanctions Act of 2009

Bill: 111-s-837
Sponsor: Sen. Brownback, Sam [R-KS]
Introduced: 2009-04-20 in the Senate
Policy area: International Affairs
Subjects: Arms control and nonproliferation
Asia
Conflicts and wars
Congressional oversight
Diplomacy, foreign officials, Americans abroad
Foreign aid and international relief
Human rights
International law and treaties
Iran
Japan
Middle East
News media and reporting
North Korea
Refugees, asylum, displaced persons
Sanctions
South Korea
Syria
Terrorism
Trade restrictions
United Nations

Summary:
action_date: 2009-04-20
text: 
North Korea Sanctions Act of 2009 - Directs the Secretary of State to designate the Democratic People's Republic of North Korea as a country that has repeatedly provided support for acts of international terrorism for specified purposes under the Export Administration Act of 1979, the Arms Export Control Act, and the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961.
 
Authorizes the President to waive such requirement upon a certification to Congress that North Korea has taken certain actions regarding: (1) nuclear program and proliferation disclosures; (2) the illegal transfer of missile or nuclear technology; (3) support of international terrorist groups; and (4) prisoner release.
 
Expresses the sense of Congress that the Special Envoy for Human Rights in North Korea should be present at all negotiating sessions between the governments of the United States and North Korea.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-04-20
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations.
action_date: 2009-04-20
text: Introduced in Senate