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Saguaro National Park Boundary Expansion and Study Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-715
Sponsor: Rep. Grijalva, Raúl M. [D-AZ-7]
Introduced: 2009-01-27 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Arizona
Government studies and investigations
Land transfers
Parks, recreation areas, trails

Summary:
action_date: 2009-01-27
text: 
Saguro National Park Boundary Expansion and Study Act of 2009 - Amends the Saguro National Park Establishment Act of 1994 to modify further the boundaries of Saguaro National Park to include specified land. 

Allows the Secretary of the Interior, with the consent of the State of Arizona, to acquire from the state land or interests in land within the boundary of the Park 

Directs the Secretary to conduct a study to identify lands that would be a part of any future boundary adjustments for the Park. Instructs that such study examine the natural, cultural, recreational, and scenic values and characters of the lands identified. 

action_date: 2009-10-21
text: 

(This measure has not been amended since it was introduced. The summary has been expanded because action occurred on the measure.)

 
Saguro National Park Boundary Expansion and Study Act of 2009 - Amends the Saguro National Park Establishment Act of 1994 to modify further the boundaries of Saguaro National Park to include specified land. 
 
Allows the Secretary of the Interior, with the consent of the State of Arizona, to acquire from the state land or interests in land within the boundary of the Park. Authorizes the Secretary, if unable to acquire such state land, to enter into an agreement that would allow the National Park Service (NPS) to manage state land within such boundary. 
 
Directs the Secretary to conduct and report on a study that identifies lands that would be a part of any future boundary adjustments for the Park and examines the natural, cultural, recreational, and scenic values and characters of the lands identified. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-10-21
text: Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 176.
action_date: 2009-10-21
text: Reported by the Committee on Natural Resources. H. Rept. 111-310.
action_date: 2009-10-21
text: Reported by the Committee on Natural Resources. H. Rept. 111-310.
action_date: 2009-07-09
text: Ordered to be Reported by Voice Vote.
action_date: 2009-07-09
text: Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
action_date: 2009-07-09
text: Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests and Public Lands Discharged.
action_date: 2009-03-03
text: Subcommittee Hearings Held.
action_date: 2009-02-04
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests and Public Lands.
action_date: 2009-01-27
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2009-01-27
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-01-27
text: Introduced in House
Access to Cancer Clinical Trials Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-716
Sponsor: Rep. Israel, Steve [D-NY-2]
Introduced: 2009-01-27 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Cancer
Drug therapy
Employee benefits and pensions
Government studies and investigations
Health care costs and insurance
Health care coverage and access
Medical research

Summary:
action_date: 2009-01-27
text: 
Access to Cancer Clinical Trials Act of 2009 - Amends the Public Health Service Act, the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA), and the Internal Revenue Code to prohibit a group health plan from: (1) denying an eligible participant or beneficiary participation in clinical trials related to the treatment of cancer that are federally funded or conducted under an investigational new drug application reviewed by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA); (2) denying (or limiting or imposing additional conditions on) the coverage of routine patient costs for items and services furnished in connection with such participation; or (3) discriminating against an individual on the basis of such participation. Includes as routine patient costs all items and services provided in the clinical trial that are otherwise generally available to a qualified individual, with certain exceptions. 
 
Applies such prohibitions to coverage offered in the individual market.
 
Requires the Secretary of Health and Human Services to study the impact on group health plans and health insurance issuers of requiring them to cover routine patient care costs for individuals with serious and life threatening diseases other than cancer.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-01-28
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2009-01-27
text: Referred to House Ways and Means
action_date: 2009-01-27
text: Referred to House Education and Labor
action_date: 2009-01-27
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Education and Labor, and 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: 2009-01-27
text: Referred to House Energy and Commerce
action_date: 2009-01-27
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-01-27
text: Introduced in House
Research and Development Tax Credit Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-717
Sponsor: Rep. Johnson, Eddie Bernice [D-TX-30]
Introduced: 2009-01-27 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Department of the Treasury
Financial services and investments
Government studies and investigations
Income tax credits
Income tax exclusion
Research and development
Securities
Small business
Tax administration and collection, taxpayers

Summary:
action_date: 2009-01-27
text: 
Research and Development Tax Credit Act of 2009 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) modify the tax credit for increasing research expenses to establish a standard 20% credit rate for research expenses exceeding 50% of average expenses over the preceding three year period; (2) establish a uniform 80% reimbursement rate for all contract research expenses (100% for basic research payments); (3) make such tax credit permanent; (4) allow a tax credit for equity investments in small business innovation companies; and (5) allow the issuance of tax exempt facility bonds for research park facilities used in connection with research and experimentation.

Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to: (1) study and report to Congress on taxpayer compliance with the substantiation requirements for claiming the tax credit for increasing research activities; and (2) issue regulations on the application of private activity bond rules to the funding of federal research agreements.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-01-27
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2009-01-27
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-01-27
text: Introduced in House
To reinstate the Interim Management Strategy governing off-road vehicle use in the Cape Hatteras National Seashore, North Carolina, pending the issuance of a final rule for off-road vehicle use by the National Park Service.

Bill: 111-hr-718
Sponsor: Rep. Jones, Walter B., Jr. [R-NC-3]
Introduced: 2009-01-27 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Endangered and threatened species
Environmental assessment, monitoring, research
Judicial procedure and administration
Motor vehicles
North Carolina
Seashores and lakeshores

Summary:
action_date: 2009-01-27
text: 
Requires that the Cape Hatteras National Seashore, North Carolina, be managed in accordance with the Interim Protected Species Management Strategy/Environmental Assessment issued by the National Park Service (NPS) until the NPS issues a special regulation and long-term off-road vehicle management plan for the use of that seashore by the public. 

Invalidates the consent decree filed in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina regarding off-road vehicle use at that seashore. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-03-16
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Courts and Competition Policy.
action_date: 2009-02-04
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests and Public Lands.
action_date: 2009-01-27
text: Referred to House Judiciary
action_date: 2009-01-27
text: Referred to the Committee on Natural Resources, and in addition to the Committee on the Judiciary, 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: 2009-01-27
text: Referred to House Natural Resources
action_date: 2009-01-27
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-01-27
text: Introduced in House
AMT Relief Extension Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-719
Sponsor: Rep. Lee, Christopher J. [R-NY-26]
Introduced: 2009-01-27 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Income tax credits
Income tax rates

Summary:
action_date: 2009-01-27
text: 
AMT Relief Extension Act of 2009 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) increase the exemption from the alternative minimum tax for individual taxpayers in 2009; and (2) extend through 2009 the allowance of certain nonrefundable tax credits against alternative minimum tax liability.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-01-27
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2009-01-27
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-01-27
text: Introduced in House
Seniors' Tax Simplification Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-720
Sponsor: Rep. Lee, Christopher J. [R-NY-26]
Introduced: 2009-01-27 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Aging
Tax administration and collection, taxpayers
Tax reform and tax simplification

Summary:
action_date: 2009-01-27
text: 
 Seniors' Tax Simplification Act of 2009 - Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to make available a new federal income tax Form 1040S (similar to Form 1040EZ) to individuals who have turned 65 as of the close of the taxable year. Allows the form to be used even if income includes: (1) social security benefits; (2) distributions from qualified retirement plans, annuities, or other such deferred payment arrangements; (3) interest and dividends; or (4) capital gains and losses.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-01-27
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2009-01-27
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-01-27
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to modify the exception from the 10 percent penalty for early withdrawals from governmental plans for qualified public safety employees.

Bill: 111-hr-721
Sponsor: Rep. Meek, Kendrick B. [D-FL-17]
Introduced: 2009-01-27 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Emergency medical services and trauma care
Fires
Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management
Health personnel
Income tax exclusion
Law enforcement officers
Tax administration and collection, taxpayers

Summary:
action_date: 2009-01-27
text: 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) modify the exemption from the 10% penalty for premature distributions from governmental employee benefit plans to qualified public safety employees to eliminate the restriction that such plans be defined benefit plans; and (2) exempt from tax penalties certain periodic payments made to qualified public safety employees before the enactment of the Pension Protection Act of 2006 (i.e., August 17, 2006).


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-01-27
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2009-01-27
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-01-27
text: Introduced in House
ChiPACC Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-722
Sponsor: Rep. Moran, James P. [D-VA-8]
Introduced: 2009-01-27 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Child health
Comprehensive health care
Medicaid

Summary:
action_date: 2009-01-27
text: 
ChiPACC Act of 2008 - Amends title XIX (Medicaid) of the Social Security Act to give states the option of covering a children's program of all-inclusive coordinated care (ChiPACC).
 

 



Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-01-28
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2009-01-27
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2009-01-27
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-01-27
text: Introduced in House
Social Security and Medicare Improved Burn Injury Treatment Access Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-723
Sponsor: Rep. Neal, Richard E. [D-MA-2]
Introduced: 2009-01-27 in the House
Policy area: Social Welfare
Subjects: Disability and paralysis
Medicare
Social security and elderly assistance

Summary:
action_date: 2009-01-27
text: 
Social Security and Medicare Improved Burn Injury Treatment Access Act of 2009 - Amends title II (Old Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance) (OASDI) of the Social Security Act to direct the Commissioner of Social Security to waive the application of the five-month Social Security disability waiting period in cases of individuals with disabling burn injuries.
 
Eliminates the 24-month Medicare disability waiting period in cases of individuals with disabling burn injuries, except those with specified health care insurance coverage. Requires that, in determining when the entitlement or status of an individual with a disabling burn injury terminates, the status of the disability be reviewed at least once every three years.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-01-27
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2009-01-27
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E153)
action_date: 2009-01-27
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-01-27
text: Introduced in House
America's Partnership for Nursing Education Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-724
Sponsor: Rep. Pastor, Ed [D-AZ-4]
Introduced: 2009-01-27 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Education programs funding
Health personnel
Higher education
Medical education
Nursing
Student aid and college costs
Teaching, teachers, curricula

Summary:
action_date: 2009-01-27
text: 
America's Partnership for Nursing Education Act of 2009 - Amends the Public Health Service Act to require the Secretary of Health and Human Services to make grants to states that are experiencing explosive population growth and have a substantial projected shortage of nurses to increase the number of qualified nursing faculty in college and university nursing programs in the state. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-01-28
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2009-01-27
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2009-01-27
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-01-27
text: Introduced in House
Citizen Involvement in Campaigns Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-726
Sponsor: Rep. Petri, Thomas E. [R-WI-6]
Introduced: 2009-01-27 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Elections, voting, political campaign regulation
Income tax credits
Income tax deductions

Summary:
action_date: 2009-01-27
text: 
Citizen Involvement in Campaigns Act of 2009- Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow: (1) a $200 tax credit ($400 for joint returns) for contributions to a candidate for federal elective public office or to the national committee of a national political party; and (2) a tax deduction (available to taxpayers who do not itemize deductions) for such political contributions up to $600 ($1,200 for joint returns). 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-01-27
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2009-01-27
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E151-152)
action_date: 2009-01-27
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-01-27
text: Introduced in House
Indian School Construction Act

Bill: 111-hr-727
Sponsor: Rep. Pomeroy, Earl [D-ND-At Large]
Introduced: 2009-01-27 in the House
Policy area: Native Americans
Subjects: Educational facilities and institutions
Elementary and secondary education
Federal-Indian relations
Financial services and investments
Income tax credits
Indian social and development programs
Minority education
Securities

Summary:
action_date: 2009-01-27
text: 
Indian School Construction Act - Directs the Secretary of the Interior to establish a pilot program under which eligible Indian tribes have the authority to issue tribal school modernization bonds to provide funds for the construction, rehabilitation, and repair of tribal schools, including advance planning and design.

Permits a tribe to use amounts received through a bond issue to enter contracts: (1) for the design and engineering of the school; and (2) with financial advisors, underwriters, attorneys, trustees, and other professionals to provide assistance to the tribe in issuing bonds.
Makes any tribal school modernization bond issued by a tribe subject to a trust agreement. 
Authorizes the Secretary to deposit not more than $50 million into a tribal school modernization escrow account and to accept additional amounts from other federal agencies and nonfederal public or private sources. 
Declares that no bond shall be an obligation of, nor shall payment of the principal be guaranteed by, the United States, the tribes, or their schools. Exempts from federal income tax any earnings through the investment of funds under the control of a trustee. Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow a tax credit to individuals who hold such bonds.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-01-27
text: Referred to House Natural Resources
action_date: 2009-01-27
text: Referred to House Education and Labor
action_date: 2009-01-27
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committees on Education and Labor, and Natural Resources, 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: 2009-01-27
text: Referred to House Ways and Means
action_date: 2009-01-27
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-01-27
text: Introduced in House
Seniors' Tax Simplification Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-728
Sponsor: Rep. Putnam, Adam H. [R-FL-12]
Introduced: 2009-01-27 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Aging
Tax administration and collection, taxpayers
Tax reform and tax simplification

Summary:
action_date: 2009-01-27
text: 
 Seniors' Tax Simplification Act of 2009 - Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to make available a new federal income tax Form 1040S (similar to Form 1040EZ) to individuals who have turned 65 as of the close of the taxable year. Allows the form to be used even if income includes: (1) social security benefits; (2) distributions from qualified retirement plans, annuities, or other such deferred payment arrangements; (3) interest and dividends; or (4) capital gains and losses.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-01-27
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2009-01-27
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-01-27
text: Introduced in House
Phylicia's Law

Bill: 111-hr-729
Sponsor: Rep. Rothman, Steven R. [D-NJ-9]
Introduced: 2009-01-27 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Child safety and welfare
Education programs funding
Elementary and secondary education
Emergency planning and evacuation
School administration

Summary:
action_date: 2009-01-27
text: 
Phylicia's Law - Amends the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to require local educational agencies applying for funds under the Safe and Drug-Free Schools and Communities program to require schools sponsoring off-premises overnight field trips to develop, and provide to parents whose children are to be taken on such trips, written safety plans that include: (1) policies on curfews, room checks, and chaperone qualifications; and (2) emergency procedures to be followed when a serious injury or death occurs.

action_date: 2009-06-15
text: 
Phylicia's Law - Requires each local educational agency (LEA) that receives funds under the Safe and Drug-Free Schools and Communities program to develop and make publicly available a written school safety policy for off-premises, overnight field trips.
 
Encourages the Secretary of Education to provide guidance to such LEAs by taking the steps necessary, such as hosting a conference of interested parties, to further the development of a model school safety policy for such trips.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-06-16
text: Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2009-06-15
text: Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
action_date: 2009-06-15
text: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended Agreed to by the Yeas and Nays: (2/3 required): 319 - 60 (Roll no. 338). (text: CR H6763)
action_date: 2009-06-15
text: Passed/agreed to in House: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended Agreed to by the Yeas and Nays: (2/3 required): 319 - 60 (Roll no. 338).(text: CR H6763)
action_date: 2009-06-15
text: Considered as unfinished business. (consideration: CR H6780-6781)
action_date: 2009-06-15
text: At the conclusion of debate, the Yeas and Nays were demanded and ordered. Pursuant to the provisions of clause 8, rule XX, the Chair announced that further proceedings on the motion would be postponed.
action_date: 2009-06-15
text: DEBATE - The House proceeded with forty minutes of debate on H.R. 729.
action_date: 2009-06-15
text: Considered under suspension of the rules. (consideration: CR H6763-6766)
action_date: 2009-06-15
text: Mr. Sablan moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended.
action_date: 2009-01-27
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and Labor.
action_date: 2009-01-27
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-01-27
text: Introduced in House
Jenny's Law

Bill: 111-hr-731
Sponsor: Rep. Shadegg, John B. [R-AZ-3]
Introduced: 2009-01-27 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Cemeteries and funerals
Sex offenses
Virginia

Summary:
action_date: 2009-01-27
text: 
Jenny's Law - Prohibits any person classified as a tier III sex offender under the Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act from interment or memorialization in a cemetery in the National Cemetery Administration or in Arlington National Cemetery.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-01-30
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Disability Assistance and Memorial Affairs.
action_date: 2009-01-27
text: Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2009-01-27
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-01-27
text: Introduced in House
Targeting Homeland Security Resources Effectively Against Terrorism Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-732
Sponsor: Rep. Weiner, Anthony D. [D-NY-9]
Introduced: 2009-01-27 in the House
Policy area: Emergency Management
Subjects: Homeland security
Law enforcement administration and funding
Terrorism
Urban and suburban affairs and development

Summary:
action_date: 2009-01-27
text: 
Targeting Homeland Security Resources Effectively Against Terrorism Act of 2009 or the THREAT Act - Directs the Secretary of Homeland Security to carry out a program of discretionary grants for use in high-threat, high-density urban areas. Directs the Secretary to make grants to not more than 15 areas in a fiscal year after considering the population, presence of critical infrastructure, and credibility of the terrorism-related threat for an area. Requires amounts awarded to be disbursed directly to local governments.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-02-05
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Emergency Communications, Preparedness, and Response.
action_date: 2009-01-27
text: Referred to the House Committee on Homeland Security.
action_date: 2009-01-27
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-01-27
text: Introduced in House