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HITECH Extension for Behavioral Health Services Act of 2010

Bill: 111-hr-5025
Sponsor: Rep. Kennedy, Patrick J. [D-RI-1]
Introduced: 2010-04-14 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Behavioral sciences
Computers and information technology
Drug, alcohol, tobacco use
Health facilities and institutions
Health information and medical records
Health programs administration and funding
Medicaid
Medicare
Mental health

Summary:
action_date: 2010-04-14
text: 
HITECH Extension for Behavioral Health Services Act of 2010 - Amends the Public Health Service Act to expand the definition of &quot;health care provider&quot; for purposes of health information technology provisions to include a behavioral or mental health professional, a substance abuse professional, a psychiatric hospital, a behavioral and mental health clinic, and a substance abuse treatment facility.
 
Requires the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS), acting through the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology, to award grants to eligible entities to: (1) facilitate the purchase of health information technology; (2) enhance the use of such technology, including covering costs associated with upgrading such technology in order to meet the criteria required to become a certified electronic health record (EHR) technology; (3) train personnel in the use of such technology; (4) improve the secure electronic exchange of health information among behavioral and mental health professionals, substance abuse professionals, and other health care providers; (5) improve such technology for adaptation to community-based behavioral health settings; (6) assist with the implementation of telemedicine, including facilitation of distance clinical consultations in rural and underserved areas; and (7) collaborate and integrate with health information technology regional extension centers.
 
Amends titles XVIII (Medicare) and XIX (Medicaid) of the Social Security Act to include qualified clinical psychologists, clinical social workers, psychiatric hospitals, mental health treatment facilities, and substance abuse treatment facilities within the health professionals, hospitals, and Medicaid providers eligible for incentive payments for the meaningful use of certified EHR technology.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-04-19
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2010-04-14
text: Referred to House Ways and Means
action_date: 2010-04-14
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: 2010-04-14
text: Referred to House Energy and Commerce
action_date: 2010-04-14
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-04-14
text: Introduced in House
Eating Healthy at School Act of 2010

Bill: 111-hr-5027
Sponsor: Rep. Tonko, Paul [D-NY-21]
Introduced: 2010-04-14 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Department of Agriculture
Elementary and secondary education
Food assistance and relief
Government studies and investigations
Poverty and welfare assistance

Summary:
action_date: 2010-04-14
text: 
Eating Healthy at School Act of 2010 - Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to study and report to Congress on: (1) the effectiveness and efficiency of administrative review systems in holding local educational agencies accountable for complying with the requirements of the school lunch and breakfast programs; (2) the design and test of alternative processes and procedures that may improve the effectiveness and efficiency of such systems; and (3) any such alternative processes and procedures that reflect the results of such tests, and consider the practicality of implementation.
 

 
Authorizes the Secretary to prescribe the regulations necessary to implement such alternative processes or procedures.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-04-30
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Healthy Families and Communities.
action_date: 2010-04-14
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and Labor.
action_date: 2010-04-14
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-04-14
text: Introduced in House
Right to Rent Act of 2010

Bill: 111-hr-5028
Sponsor: Rep. Grijalva, Raúl M. [D-AZ-7]
Introduced: 2010-04-15 in the House
Policy area: Housing and Community Development
Subjects: Government information and archives
Housing finance and home ownership

Summary:
action_date: 2010-04-15
text: 
 Right to Rent Act of 2010 - Grants eligible mortgagors subject to foreclosure proceedings the right to continue to occupy foreclosed properties subject to the payment of fair market rent for a period of five years that begins upon the commencement of occupancy of such property. 
 
Instructs the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development to: (1) monitor compliance with this Act; (2) provide assistance to eligible mortgagors in exercising their rights under this Act; and (3) conduct outreach activities to inform eligible mortgagors of this Act.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-04-15
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2010-04-15
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-04-15
text: Introduced in House
Economic Freedom Act of 2010

Bill: 111-hr-5029
Sponsor: Rep. Jordan, Jim [R-OH-4]
Introduced: 2010-04-15 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Broadcasting, cable, digital technologies
Business investment and capital
Capital gains tax
Computers and information technology
Corporate finance and management
Financial crises and stabilization
Health care costs and insurance
Health information and medical records
Income tax deductions
Income tax exclusion
Income tax rates
Medicaid
Medicare
Poverty and welfare assistance
Securities
State and local finance
Transfer and inheritance taxes
Wages and earnings

Summary:
action_date: 2010-04-15
text: 
Economic Freedom Act of 2010 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) eliminate the tax on the capital gains of individuals and corporations; (2) reduce the maximum corporate income tax rate to 12.5%; (3) allow a permanent and unlimited expensing allowance for depreciable business assets; and (4) reduce payroll tax rates for employers, employees, and self-employed individuals in 2010.
 
Makes permanent the repeal of the estate and generation-skipping transfer taxes.
 
Rescinds unobligated balances available in the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009. Repeals provisions of such Act relating to the Temporary Assistance to Needy Families program, economic recovery payments, premium assistance for COBRA (health insurance continuation benefits) payments, Medicare and Medicaid health information technology, state fiscal relief, broadband technology, and limits on executive compensation.
 
Amends the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act to repeal the authority for the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP). 
 
Requires the Secretary of the Treasury to sell all stock and warrants acquired by the Secretary under TARP.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-04-15
text: Referred to House Appropriations
action_date: 2010-04-15
text: Referred to House Financial Services
action_date: 2010-04-15
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committees on Financial Services, and Appropriations, 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: 2010-04-15
text: Referred to House Ways and Means
action_date: 2010-04-15
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-04-15
text: Introduced in House
College Savings Flexibility Act of 2010

Bill: 111-hr-5030
Sponsor: Rep. Bean, Melissa L. [D-IL-8]
Introduced: 2010-04-15 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Higher education
Sales and excise taxes
Student aid and college costs

Summary:
action_date: 2010-04-15
text: 
College Savings Flexibility Act of 2010 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow, between 2010 and 2015, distributions from a qualified tuition program to pay for principal and interest owed on student loans. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-04-15
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2010-04-15
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-04-15
text: Introduced in House
Young Savers' Tax Credit Act of 2010

Bill: 111-hr-5031
Sponsor: Rep. Capito, Shelley Moore [R-WV-2]
Introduced: 2010-04-15 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Employee benefits and pensions
Income tax credits

Summary:
action_date: 2010-04-15
text: 
Young Savers' Tax Credit Act of 2010 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow a $500 annual tax credit for contributions to retirement plans by individuals who are age 30 or younger. Requires such contributions to equal at least 1% of such individuals' compensation. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-04-15
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2010-04-15
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-04-15
text: Introduced in House
Ponzi Scheme Investor Protection Act of 2010

Bill: 111-hr-5032
Sponsor: Rep. Ackerman, Gary L. [D-NY-5]
Introduced: 2010-04-15 in the House
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Administrative remedies
Bankruptcy
Financial services and investments
Fraud offenses and financial crimes
Government corporations and government-sponsored enterprises
Government trust funds
Securities
User charges and fees

Summary:
action_date: 2010-04-15
text: 
Ponzi Scheme Investor Protection Act of 2010 - Amends the Securities Investor Protection Act of 1970 with respect to the duties of a trustee appointed for a Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)-registered broker or dealer undergoing liquidation.
 
Instructs the trustee to take specified actions if the trustee determines that the debtor is a Ponzi scheme.
 
Establishes procedures for an indirect Ponzi scheme investor to file a claim.
 
Instructs the trustee to: (1) coordinate with Ponzi scheme investors to ensure proper payments to indirect Ponzi scheme investors; and (2) take specified actions to pay indirect Ponzi scheme investors.
 
Prescribes the maximum aggregate amount of all cash and securities that may be awarded to each indirect Ponzi scheme investor.
 
Prohibits the trustee of a Ponzi scheme from seeking to recover money and profits from any Ponzi scheme investor unless such investor's participation in the Ponzi scheme was either complicit or negligent.
 
Requires the Securities Investor Protection Corporation (SIPC) to: (1) advance to the trustee such moneys as may be required to pay claims and implement this Act; and (2) promulgate regulations modifying SIPC Fund assessment levels to ensure they are adequate to cover the anticipated costs of implementing this Act.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-04-15
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2010-04-15
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-04-15
text: Introduced in House
Communities of Color Teenage Pregnancy Prevention Act of 2010

Bill: 111-hr-5033
Sponsor: Rep. Roybal-Allard, Lucille [D-CA-34]
Introduced: 2010-04-15 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Behavioral sciences
Child health
Crimes against women
Family planning and birth control
Government information and archives
Health programs administration and funding
Immigrant health and welfare
Minority health
Research administration and funding
Violent crime

Summary:
action_date: 2010-04-15
text: 
Communities of Color Teenage Pregnancy Prevention Act of 2010 - Requires the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) to award competitive grants to eligible entities for new and existing program interventions to provide youth in racial or ethnic minority or immigrant communities the information and skills needed to reduce teenage pregnancies and develop healthy relationships. 
 
Directs the Secretary to award competitive grants to carry out multimedia campaigns to provide public education and increase public awareness regarding teenage pregnancy and related social and emotional issues.
 
Requires the Secretary, acting through the Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), to make grants for research on teenage pregnancy that includes: (1) investigating the incidence and prevalence of teenage pregnancy and births in racial and ethnic minority or immigrant communities; and (2) examining factors that lead to teenage pregnancy among youth in foster care or juvenile justice systems.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-04-15
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2010-04-15
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-04-15
text: Introduced in House
Comprehensive Alcohol Regulatory Effectiveness (CARE) Act of 2010

Bill: 111-hr-5034
Sponsor: Rep. Delahunt, Bill [D-MA-10]
Introduced: 2010-04-15 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Civil actions and liability
Evidence and witnesses
Food industry and services
Intergovernmental relations
State and local government operations

Summary:
action_date: 2010-04-15
text: 
Comprehensive Alcohol Regulatory Effectiveness (CARE) Act of 2010 - Amends the Webb-Kenyon Act to: (1) state that it is the policy of Congress that each state or territory shall continue to have the primary authority to regulate alcoholic beverages; (2) prohibit unjustified discrimination against out-of-state producers of alcoholic beverages in favor of in-state producers; and (3) establish higher evidentiary standards for legal actions challenging the authority of states or territories to regulate alcoholic beverages. 
 
Amends the Wilson Act to eliminate the requirement that a state or territory regulate the importation of all fermented, distilled, or other intoxicating liquors or liquids to the same extent and in the same manner as such liquors or liquids produced in such state or territory.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-09-29
text: Committee Hearings Held.
action_date: 2010-09-22
text: Subcommittee on Courts and Competition Policy Discharged.
action_date: 2010-06-15
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Courts and Competition Policy.
action_date: 2010-04-15
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2010-04-15
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-04-15
text: Introduced in House
National Shipbuilding Budget Policy Act

Bill: 111-hr-5035
Sponsor: Rep. Wittman, Robert J. [R-VA-1]
Introduced: 2010-04-15 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Defense spending
Government lending and loan guarantees
Marine and inland water transportation
National Guard and reserves

Summary:
action_date: 2010-04-15
text: 
National Shipbuilding Budget Policy Act - Authorizes appropriations for FY2011-FY2015 for: (1) construction of vessels to meet Navy force requirements; and (2) loan guarantees and commitments for the construction of new vessels to replace and expand the U.S. fleet of commercial vessels.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-04-28
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Seapower and Expeditionary Forces.
action_date: 2010-04-15
text: Referred to the House Committee on Armed Services.
action_date: 2010-04-15
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-04-15
text: Introduced in House
Autofill Act of 2010

Bill: 111-hr-5036
Sponsor: Rep. Foster, Bill [D-IL-14]
Introduced: 2010-04-15 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Computers and information technology
Department of the Treasury
Government information and archives
Internet and video services
Internet, web applications, social media
Tax administration and collection, taxpayers

Summary:
action_date: 2010-04-15
text: 
Autofill Act of 2010 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to require the Secretary of the Treasury to: (1) establish a program to allow taxpayers to download income tax forms that are populated with tax return information (e.g., wages, withholding, and self-employment income) previously reported to the Secretary for the taxable year; (2) establish standards for data download to tax preparation software; and (3) provide on the website of the Department of the Treasury a secure function that allows a taxpayer to download, as both a printable document file and in a form suitable for input to automatic tax preparation software, the 1040, 1040A, and 1040EZ forms that are populated with tax return information previously reported to the Secretary. Establishes deadlines for reporting tax return information to the Secretary and for making such information available for populating tax returns.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-04-15
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2010-04-15
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-04-15
text: Introduced in House
Federal Research Public Access Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-5037
Sponsor: Rep. Doyle, Michael F. [D-PA-14]
Introduced: 2010-04-15 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Congressional oversight
Executive agency funding and structure
Research administration and funding

Summary:
action_date: 2010-04-15
text: 
Federal Research Public Access Act of 2009 [
sic
] - Requires each federal agency with extramural research expenditures of over $100 million to develop a specified federal research public access policy that is consistent with and advances the purposes of the agency. 
 
Makes each federal research public access policy applicable to: (1) researchers employed by the federal agency whose works remain in the public domain; and (2) researchers funded by the agency. Specifies exclusions.

Requires the submission of annual reports by each federal agency on its federal research public access policy. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-05-26
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Information Policy, Census, and National Archives.
action_date: 2010-04-15
text: Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.
action_date: 2010-04-15
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-04-15
text: Introduced in House
Fair Access to Credit and Job Creation Act of 2010

Bill: 111-hr-5038
Sponsor: Rep. Hensarling, Jeb [R-TX-5]
Introduced: 2010-04-15 in the House
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: Banking and financial institutions regulation
Credit and credit markets
Housing and community development funding

Summary:
action_date: 2010-04-15
text: 
Fair Access to Credit and Job Creation Act of 2010 - Repeals the Community Reinvestment Act of 1977. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-04-15
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2010-04-15
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-04-15
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Reclamation Wastewater and Groundwater Study and Facilities Act to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to participate in the design, planning, and construction of the Groundwater Replenishment System Expansion to reclaim and reuse municipal wastewater in the Orange County, California region, and for other purposes.

Bill: 111-hr-5039
Sponsor: Rep. Sanchez, Loretta [D-CA-47]
Introduced: 2010-04-15 in the House
Policy area: Water Resources Development
Subjects: California
Water quality
Water resources funding
Water use and supply

Summary:
action_date: 2010-04-15
text: 
Amends the Reclamation Wastewater and Groundwater Study and Facilities Act to provide for a federal share of a water reclamation, reuse, and treatment project in the Orange County, California region of not to exceed the lesser of 25% of total costs or $26 million (indexed to January 2010 prices). Prohibits the Secretary of the Interior from providing funds for project operations and maintenance.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-09-16
text: Subcommittee Hearings Held.
action_date: 2010-04-21
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Water and Power.
action_date: 2010-04-15
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2010-04-15
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-04-15
text: Introduced in House
Health Information Technology Extension for Behavioral Health Services Act of 2010

Bill: 111-hr-5040
Sponsor: Rep. Kennedy, Patrick J. [D-RI-1]
Introduced: 2010-04-15 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Behavioral sciences
Computers and information technology
Drug, alcohol, tobacco use
Health facilities and institutions
Health information and medical records
Health programs administration and funding
Medicaid
Medicare
Mental health

Summary:
action_date: 2010-04-15
text: 
Health Information Technology Extension for Behavioral Health Services Act of 2010 - Amends the Public Health Service Act to expand the definition of &quot;health care provider&quot; for purposes of health information technology provisions to include a behavioral or mental health professional, a substance abuse professional, a psychiatric hospital, a behavioral and mental health clinic, and a substance abuse treatment facility.
 
Requires the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS), acting through the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology, to award grants to eligible entities to: (1) facilitate the purchase of health information technology; (2) enhance the use of such technology, including covering costs associated with upgrading such technology in order to meet the criteria required to become a certified electronic health record (EHR) technology; (3) train personnel in the use of such technology; (4) improve the secure electronic exchange of health information among behavioral and mental health professionals, substance abuse professionals, and other health care providers; (5) improve such technology for adaptation to community-based behavioral health settings; (6) assist with the implementation of telemedicine, including facilitation of distance clinical consultations in rural and underserved areas; and (7) collaborate and integrate with health information technology regional extension centers.
 
Amends titles XVIII (Medicare) and XIX (Medicaid) of the Social Security Act to include qualified clinical psychologists, clinical social workers, psychiatric hospitals, mental health treatment facilities, and substance abuse treatment facilities within the health professionals, hospitals, and Medicaid providers eligible for incentive payments for the meaningful use of certified EHR technology.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-05-03
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2010-04-15
text: Referred to House Ways and Means
action_date: 2010-04-15
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: 2010-04-15
text: Referred to House Energy and Commerce
action_date: 2010-04-15
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-04-15
text: Introduced in House
SEAM Act of 2010

Bill: 111-hr-5041
Sponsor: Rep. Hare, Phil [D-IL-17]
Introduced: 2010-04-15 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Alternative and renewable resources
Income tax credits
Manufacturing

Summary:
action_date: 2010-04-15
text: 
Security in Energy and Manufacturing Act of 2010 or the SEAM Act of 2010 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to expand the qualifying advanced energy project credit by allocating in 2010 $5 billion of grants or tax credit amounts to manufacturers of goods and components (other than for assembly of components) in the United States that are used in alternative energy projects.
 

 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-04-15
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2010-04-15
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-04-15
text: Introduced in House