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SUPPORT for Substance Use Disorders Act

Bill: 111-hr-3420
Sponsor: Rep. Kennedy, Patrick J. [D-RI-1]
Introduced: 2009-07-30 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Congressional oversight
Department of Defense
Drug, alcohol, tobacco use
Executive agency funding and structure
Government studies and investigations
Health promotion and preventive care
Medical education
Medical research
Military personnel and dependents
Veterans' medical care

Summary:
action_date: 2009-07-30
text: 
Supporting Uniformed Personnel by Providing Oversight and Relevant Treatment for Substance Use Disorders Act or SUPPORT for Substance Use Disorders Act - Directs the Secretary of Defense to conduct a comprehensive review of Department of Defense (DOD) programs and activities for the prevention, diagnosis, mitigation, treatment, and management of, and research on, substance use disorders among members of the Armed Forces. Requires the Secretary to submit to the congressional defense and appropriations committees a plan for the improvement and enhancement of such programs and activities for members and their dependent family members, which shall include mechanisms to ensure the availability of appropriate treatment for such disorders and facilitate their prevention and reduction. Requires the plan to include instructions on: (1) the prevention of such disorders; (2) the appropriate training of health care professionals in the treatment of such disorders; (3) services for the dependents of members with such disorders; and (4) the dissemination of disorder prevention materials.
 
Directs the Secretary to study such disorders in members and establish within DOD a Center of Excellence in the Prevention, Diagnosis, Mitigation, Treatment, and Management of Substance Use Disorders. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-10-28
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Military Personnel.
action_date: 2009-07-30
text: Referred to the House Committee on Armed Services.
action_date: 2009-07-30
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-07-30
text: Introduced in House
Medicare Support for Rural Hospitals Act

Bill: 111-hr-3422
Sponsor: Rep. King, Steve [R-IA-5]
Introduced: 2009-07-30 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Child health
Citizenship and naturalization
Health care costs and insurance
Health facilities and institutions
Hospital care
Medicaid
Medicare
Poverty and welfare assistance
Rural conditions and development

Summary:
action_date: 2009-07-30
text: 
Medicare Support for Rural Hospitals Act - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act (SSA) with respect to the additional inpatient hospital service payment (payment adjustment) for low-volume hospitals (usually meaning a &quot;subsection (d) hospital&quot; located more than 25 road miles from another subsection (d) hospital and having less than 800 discharges during the fiscal year.)
 
(Generally, a subsection (d) hospital is an acute care hospital, particularly one that receives payments under Medicare's inpatient prospective payment system (IPPS) when providing covered inpatient services to eligible beneficiaries.)
 
Redefines low-volume hospital, for discharges occurring during FY2010 only, as a subsection (d) hospital located more than 15 (instead of 25) road miles from another subsection (d) hospital and having less than 1,500 (instead of 800) discharges of individuals entitled to, or enrolled for, Medicare part A (Hospital Insurance) benefits (&quot;tweeners,'' or hospitals too large to be critical access hospitals, but too small to be financially viable under the Medicare hospital prospective payment system [PPS]).
 
Revises, for FY2010 only, the temporary applicable percentage in the formula for determining the payment adjustment for such hospitals.
 
Requires the use of the non-wage adjusted PPS rate during FY2010 under the Medicare-dependent hospital (MDH) program.
 
Amends the Children's Health Insurance Program Reauthorization Act of 2009 to repeal the state option to verify a declaration of U.S. citizenship or nationality for purposes of Medicaid (SSA title XIX) or CHIP (Children's Health Insurance) (SSA title XXI) eligibility through verification of a name and Social Security number with the Commissioner of Social Security, as an alternative to the current documentation requirement.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-07-31
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2009-07-30
text: Referred to House Energy and Commerce
action_date: 2009-07-30
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, 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: 2009-07-30
text: Referred to House Ways and Means
action_date: 2009-07-30
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-07-30
text: Introduced in House
North Korea Sanctions Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-3423
Sponsor: Rep. McMahon, Michael E. [D-NY-13]
Introduced: 2009-07-30 in the House
Policy area: International Affairs
Subjects: Arms control and nonproliferation
Asia
Congressional oversight
North Korea
Nuclear weapons
Presidents and presidential powers, Vice Presidents
Sanctions

Summary:
action_date: 2009-07-30
text: 
North Korea Sanctions Act of 2009 - Imposes certain sanctions under the Arms Export Control Act on North Korea as a result of its May 2009 detonation of a nuclear explosive device.
 
Authorizes the President to waive such sanctions for reasons of national security or nonproliferation objectives.
 

 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-07-30
text: Referred to House Financial Services
action_date: 2009-07-30
text: Referred to House Foreign Affairs
action_date: 2009-07-30
text: Referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, and in addition to the Committee on Financial Services, 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: 2009-07-30
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-07-30
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to disallow the deduction for excess non-taxed reinsurance premiums with respect to United States risks paid to affiliates.

Bill: 111-hr-3424
Sponsor: Rep. Neal, Richard E. [D-MA-2]
Introduced: 2009-07-30 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Foreign and international corporations
Income tax deductions
Insurance industry and regulation

Summary:
action_date: 2009-07-30
text: 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to deny a tax deduction for excess reinsurance premiums with respect to U.S. risks paid to affiliated insurance companies that are not subject to U.S. taxation. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-07-31
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR  E2111-2112)
action_date: 2009-07-30
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2009-07-30
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-07-30
text: Introduced in House
To authorize the Fair Housing Commemorative Foundation to establish a commemorative work on Federal land in the District of Columbia to commemorate the enactment of the Fair Housing Act in 1968.

Bill: 111-hr-3425
Sponsor: Del. Norton, Eleanor Holmes [D-DC-At Large]
Introduced: 2009-07-30 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: District of Columbia
Housing discrimination
Housing finance and home ownership
Housing supply and affordability
Monuments and memorials
Property rights
Racial and ethnic relations

Summary:
action_date: 2009-07-30
text: 
Authorizes the Fair Housing Commemorative Foundation to establish a commemorative work on federal land in the District of Columbia and its environs in commemoration of the enactment of the Fair Housing Act on April 11, 1968. 
 
Prohibits the use of federal funds to pay any expense for the establishment of the commemorative work.
 
Makes the Fair Housing Commemorative Foundation solely responsible for acceptance of contributions and payment of expenses for the establishment of such commemorative work. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-02-25
text: Subcommittee Hearings Held.
action_date: 2009-08-13
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests and Public Lands.
action_date: 2009-07-31
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E2118-2119)
action_date: 2009-07-30
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2009-07-30
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-07-30
text: Introduced in House
Coordinated Environmental Public Health Network Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-3426
Sponsor: Rep. Pelosi, Nancy [D-CA-8]
Introduced: 2009-07-30 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Environmental assessment, monitoring, research
Environmental health
Government information and archives
Health information and medical records
Health programs administration and funding
Intergovernmental relations
Medical research
Research administration and funding
State and local government operations

Summary:
action_date: 2009-07-30
text: 
Coordinated Environmental Public Health Network Act of 2009 - Amends the Public Health Service Act to require the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS), acting through the Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), to: (1) establish and operate a Coordinated Environmental Public Health Network to provide for public access to an electronic national database on the incidence and prevalence of priority chronic conditions and health effects and relevant environmental and other factors; (2) award grants to states for the establishment, maintenance, and operation of state networks; (3) enter into a cooperative agreement with the Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists to train and place applied epidemiology fellows in state and local health departments to enhance public health capacity in the areas of environmental health, chronic and other noninfectious diseases and conditions, and public health surveillance; and (4) enter into cooperative agreements with states or consortia of states to expand the scope and amount of biomonitoring data collected and analyzed by the CDC, state laboratories, and consortia of state laboratories in order to obtain robust information about a range of environmental exposures.
 
Requires the Secretary to integrate the enactment of this Act with all funded environmental health tracking programs.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-07-31
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Environment.
action_date: 2009-07-31
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2009-07-30
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2009-07-30
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-07-30
text: Introduced in House
State Ethics Law Protection Act of 2010

Bill: 111-hr-3427
Sponsor: Rep. Quigley, Mike [D-IL-5]
Introduced: 2009-07-30 in the House
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Elections, voting, political campaign regulation
Government ethics and transparency, public corruption
Public contracts and procurement
Roads and highways
State and local government operations
Transportation programs funding

Summary:
action_date: 2009-07-30
text: 
State Ethics Law Protection Act of 2009 - Considers a state not to have violated federal contract requirements for the construction of a federal-aid highway project solely because it has in effect a law or order that limits the amount of money an individual, who does business with a state transportation agency with respect to such project, may contribute to a political campaign (pay to play).

action_date: 2010-09-28
text: 
State Ethics Law Protection Act of 2010 - Considers a state transportation department not to have violated federal contract requirements for the construction of a federal-aid highway project solely because the state in which such department is located, or a local government within that state, has in effect a law or order that limits the amount of money an individual or entity doing business with a state or local agency with respect to such a project may contribute to a political party, campaign, or elected official (pay to play).


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-09-29
text: Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.
action_date: 2010-09-28
text: Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
action_date: 2010-09-28
text: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended Agreed to by voice vote. (text: CR H7101)
action_date: 2010-09-28
text: Passed/agreed to in House: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended Agreed to by voice vote.(text: CR H7101)
action_date: 2010-09-28
text: DEBATE - The House proceeded with forty minutes of debate on H.R. 3427.
action_date: 2010-09-28
text: Considered under suspension of the rules. (consideration: CR H7101-7102)
action_date: 2010-09-28
text: Mr. Oberstar moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended.
action_date: 2009-07-31
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Highways and Transit.
action_date: 2009-07-30
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2009-07-30
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-07-30
text: Introduced in House
Reclaiming Bailout Funds for Taxpayers Act

Bill: 111-hr-3428
Sponsor: Rep. Reichert, David G. [R-WA-8]
Introduced: 2009-07-30 in the House
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: Bank accounts, deposits, capital
Financial crises and stabilization

Summary:
action_date: 2009-07-30
text: 
Reclaiming Bailout Funds for Taxpayers Act - Amends the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008 (EESA) to reduce the authorization for the Secretary of the Treasury to purchase troubled assets by a dollar amount that corresponds to repayment by a financial institution of assistance provided under the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP).
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-07-30
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2009-07-30
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-07-30
text: Introduced in House
Generate Retirement Ownership Through Long-Term Holding Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-3429
Sponsor: Rep. Ryan, Paul [R-WI-1]
Introduced: 2009-07-30 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Capital gains tax
Financial services and investments
Income tax exclusion
Interest, dividends, interest rates
Securities

Summary:
action_date: 2009-07-30
text: Generate Retirement Ownership Through Long-Term Holding Act of 2009 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to provide that no gain shall be recognized on the receipt of a capital gain dividend distributed by a regulated investment company if such dividend is automatically reinvested in additional shares of the company pursuant to a dividend reinvestment plan.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-07-31
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E2112)
action_date: 2009-07-30
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2009-07-30
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-07-30
text: Introduced in House
DSH Collaborative Care Network Pilot Program Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-3430
Sponsor: Rep. Sánchez, Linda T. [D-CA-39]
Introduced: 2009-07-30 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Comprehensive health care
Emergency medical services and trauma care
Health care coverage and access
Health facilities and institutions
Health promotion and preventive care
Hospital care
Long-term, rehabilitative, and terminal care
Medical tests and diagnostic methods
Medicare

Summary:
action_date: 2009-07-30
text: 
DSH Collaborative Care Network Pilot Program Act of 2009 - Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) to carry out a Medicare disproportionate share hospital (DSH) pilot program under which participating DSHs shall receive additional Medicare funds to establish model projects to: (1) reduce the unnecessary use of items and services furnished in hospital emergency departments; (2) manage chronic conditions to reduce their severity, negative health outcomes, and expense; (3) provide more comprehensive and coordinated care to low-income vulnerable individuals and individuals without health insurance coverage or with inadequate coverage; (4) increase preventive services, including screening and counseling, to those who would otherwise not receive them; (5) ensure the availability of community-wide safety net services; and (6) accomplish other specified goals.
 
Makes funds available under the Pilot Program for a participating DSH to create and support collaborative care networks that would: (1) assist low-income individuals without adequate health care coverage access and use health services, as well as enroll in applicable public or private health insurance programs; and (2) improve health care by providing case management, application assistance, and appropriate referrals.
 
Directs the Secretary to create within HHS a Collaborative Care Network Center.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-07-31
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2009-07-30
text: Referred to House Energy and Commerce
action_date: 2009-07-30
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, 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: 2009-07-30
text: Referred to House Ways and Means
action_date: 2009-07-30
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-07-30
text: Introduced in House
Streamline Vehicle Conversions Act

Bill: 111-hr-3431
Sponsor: Rep. Shuler, Heath [D-NC-11]
Introduced: 2009-07-30 in the House
Policy area: Environmental Protection
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Air quality
Consumer affairs
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
Hybrid, electric, and advanced technology vehicles
Licensing and registrations
Manufacturing
Motor fuels
Motor vehicles

Summary:
action_date: 2009-07-30
text: 
Streamline Vehicle Conversions Act - Amends the Clean Air Act to provide that a certificate of conformity issued by the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) for one or more aftermarket conversion test groups with respect to an aftermarket conversion system (i.e., hardware installed on a light-duty or heavy-duty vehicle, light-duty truck, or heavy-duty engine that allows the vehicle or engine to operate on a fuel other than that which it was originally certified to use) shall not expire, shall continue to apply in subsequent calendar years, and shall not require recertification.
 
Requires the Administrator to: (1) establish criteria for use in identifying similar vehicle makes, models, original equipment manufacturers, emission standards, and different model years that may be used under a single test group; (2) accept such an established test group on an aftermarket conversion system manufacturer application for a certificate of conformity; and (3) allow the submission of previous vehicle emission test data for the certification of additional model year vehicles if the aftermarket conversion system manufacturer is able to demonstrate that neither the aftermarket conversion system nor the design and specifications of the applicable vehicle model are substantially different.
 
Directs the Administrator to promulgate regulations regarding on-board diagnostic systems for aftermarket conversion systems that: (1) ensure that such conversion systems that are equipped with on-board diagnostic systems are effective at monitoring critical emission components; (2) take into account the inability of an aftermarket conversion system manufacturer to access proprietary on-board diagnostic technology of an original equipment manufacturer; and (3) are sufficiently flexible to encourage the increased use of alternative fueled vehicles.
 
Sets forth provisions regarding the conversion of a vehicle outside of its useful life cycle.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-07-31
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Environment.
action_date: 2009-07-30
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2009-07-30
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-07-30
text: Introduced in House
Rural Commuters Relief Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-3432
Sponsor: Rep. Space, Zachary T. [D-OH-18]
Introduced: 2009-07-30 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Commuting
Income tax deductions
Motor fuels
Rural conditions and development
Transportation costs

Summary:
action_date: 2009-07-30
text: 
Rural Commuters Relief Act of 2009 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow individual taxpayers who reside in a rural area of not more than 30,000 people a tax deduction for up to $100 of commuting costs in any month in which the cost of gasoline is at least $3 per gallon (high gasoline price month). Allows an increased deduction amount for carpooling expenses during a high gasoline price month. Allows individual taxpayers to claim such deduction whether or not they itemize their other deductions. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-07-30
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2009-07-30
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-07-30
text: Introduced in House
Tax Relief for Working Caregivers Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-3434
Sponsor: Rep. Donnelly, Joe [D-IN-2]
Introduced: 2009-07-30 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Adult day care
Child care and development
Disability and paralysis
Family relationships
Income tax credits
Inflation and prices

Summary:
action_date: 2009-07-30
text: 
Tax Relief for Working Caregivers Act of 2009 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) increase from $15,000 to $75,000 the taxpayer adjusted gross income amount at which the tax credit for household and dependent care expenses is phased down; (2) allow such credit for a physically or mentally incapacitated parent (or an ancestor of such parent) of the taxpayer who is a dependent of such taxpayer; and (3) allow an inflation adjustment after 2010 to the maximum dollar limitation for such credit.
 
Makes permanent the increases in the tax credit for household and dependent care expenses enacted by the Economic Growth and Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2001 (EGTRRA). 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-07-30
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2009-07-30
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-07-30
text: Introduced in House