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Federal Real Property Disposal Enhancement Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-2495
Sponsor: Rep. Moore, Dennis [D-KS-3]
Introduced: 2009-05-19 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Congressional oversight
Executive agency funding and structure
Government buildings, facilities, and property
Land transfers

Summary:
action_date: 2009-05-19
text: 
Federal Real Property Disposal Enhancement Act of 2009 - Requires the Administrator of the General Services Administration (GSA) to: (1) issue guidance for federal agency real property plans, including recommendations on how to identify and dispose of excess properties, evaluate disposal costs and benefits, and prioritize disposal decisions based on agency missions and anticipated future need for holdings; (2) report to specified congressional committees annually for five years on agency efforts to reduce their real property assets; and (3) assist agencies in the identification and disposal of excess real property. 
 
Includes among the amounts the Administrator is authorized to obligate from proceeds from the disposition of excess real property: (1) amounts to pay the costs related to identifying and preparing properties to be reported excess by another agency; and (2) amounts to pay the costs associated with the reversion, custody, and disposal of reverted real property. Revises requirements for federal agency retention of proceeds from the transfer or sale of excess real property.
 
Provides that requirements under the McKinney Vento Homeless Assistance Act for the use of public buildings and real property to assist the homeless shall not apply to certain non-excess federal buildings or real property selected for demolition.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-09-10
text: Ordered to be Reported by Voice Vote.
action_date: 2009-09-10
text: Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
action_date: 2009-09-10
text: Subcommittee on Government Management, Organization, and Procurement Discharged.
action_date: 2009-06-26
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Government Management, Organization, and Procurement.
action_date: 2009-05-19
text: Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.
action_date: 2009-05-19
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-05-19
text: Introduced in House
Children's Health Insurance Accessibility Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-2496
Sponsor: Rep. Murphy, Patrick J. [D-PA-8]
Introduced: 2009-05-19 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Child health
Employee benefits and pensions
Health care costs and insurance
Health care coverage and access
Poverty and welfare assistance

Summary:
action_date: 2009-05-19
text: 
Children's Health Insurance Accessibility Act of 2009 - Amends title XXI (Children's Health Insurance Program) (CHIP, formerly known as SCHIP) of the Social Security Act to prohibit application under CHIP of coverage eligibility waiting periods to children: (1) who are under two years of age; (2) who lost group health insurance coverage; or (3) for whom private coverage is unaffordable. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-05-20
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2009-05-19
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2009-05-19
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-05-19
text: Introduced in House
Transportation Job Corps Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-2497
Sponsor: Rep. Nadler, Jerrold [D-NY-8]
Introduced: 2009-05-19 in the House
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Department of Transportation
Education of the disadvantaged
Employment and training programs
Executive agency funding and structure
Minority education
Public transit
Student aid and college costs
Transportation employees
Vocational and technical education

Summary:
action_date: 2009-05-19
text: 
Transportation Job Corps Act of 2009 - Requires the Administrator of the Federal Transit Administration (FTA) to establish: (1) a National Joint Workforce Development Council; and (2) regional workforce development councils and governing boards in each of its 10 regions. Replaces the current discretionary grant and contract programs addressing human resource needs as they apply to public transportation activities.
 
Directs the Secretary of Transportation, acting through the Administrator, to establish programs for the award of grants to: (1) nonprofit organizations and educational institutions to introduce disconnected youth (ages 16 through 24 who are out of school and unemployed) to careers in the transit industry by providing them with basic skills education and pre-apprenticeship skills; (2) partnerships of transit agencies and unions representing non-managerial employees (partnerships), as well as providers of management and technical programs for managerial employees, to develop education programs to improve job skills of transit employees and to provide education and training to assist individuals to enter the transit profession; and (3) the same or similar partnerships to develop special projects to increase education opportunities for disadvantaged transit industry individuals, including racial and ethnic minorities underrepresented in transit management, by providing student scholarships, pre-entry preparation, and retention activities.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-05-20
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Highways and Transit.
action_date: 2009-05-19
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2009-05-19
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-05-19
text: Introduced in House
Help Kids Save for College Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-2500
Sponsor: Rep. Pitts, Joseph R. [R-PA-16]
Introduced: 2009-05-19 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Employee benefits and pensions
Higher education
Income tax exclusion
Student aid and college costs

Summary:
action_date: 2009-05-19
text: 
Help Kids Save for College Act of 2009 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to exclude from the gross income of an employee amounts, up to $1,000, paid by an employer to a qualified college savings assistance plan for a designated beneficiary.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-05-19
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2009-05-19
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-05-19
text: Introduced in House
Medicare Cost Contract Extension and Refinement Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-2501
Sponsor: Rep. Pomeroy, Earl [D-ND-At Large]
Introduced: 2009-05-19 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Health care costs and insurance
Health facilities and institutions
Medicare

Summary:
action_date: 2009-05-19
text: 
Medicare Cost Contract Extension and Refinement Act of 2009 - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act (SSA) with respect to reasonable cost reimbursement contracts with qualified health maintenance organizations (HMOs) or competitive medical plans for Medicare reimbursement of hospitals and skilled nursing facilities (SNFs).
 
Extends until January 1, 2013, the period during which such reasonable cost reimbursement contracts can remain in the market.
 
Revises conditions for approval of an application for a modification to a reasonable cost contract to expand the contract's service area.
 
 Applies to extended or renewed reasonable cost contracts certain requirements under Medicare part C (Medicare Advantage).


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-05-20
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2009-05-19
text: Referred to House Energy and Commerce
action_date: 2009-05-19
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: 2009-05-19
text: Referred to House Ways and Means
action_date: 2009-05-19
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-05-19
text: Introduced in House
Comparative Effectiveness Research Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-2502
Sponsor: Rep. Schrader, Kurt [D-OR-5]
Introduced: 2009-05-19 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Accounting and auditing
Appropriations
Drug therapy
Government trust funds
Health care costs and insurance
Health care quality
Health programs administration and funding
Health technology, devices, supplies
Medical research
Medical tests and diagnostic methods
Medicare
Research administration and funding
User charges and fees

Summary:
action_date: 2009-05-19
text: 
Comparative Effectiveness Research Act of 2009 - Amends title XI (General Provisions, Peer Review, and Administrative Simplification) of the Social Security Act to provide for a program of comparative effectiveness research for health care. Defines &quot;comparative effectiveness research&quot; as research evaluating and comparing the implications and outcomes of two or more health care strategies to address a particular medical condition. 
 
Establishes the Health Care Comparative Effectiveness Research Institute as a nonprofit, nongovernmental corporation to conduct research on the effectiveness of health care treatments, including pharmaceuticals, medical devices and procedures, and other therapies. Requires the Institute to: (1) identify national priorities for comparative clinical effectiveness research; (2) establish and update a research project agenda and provide for peer review of research; (3) establish a standing methodology committee for developing the science of comparative effectiveness research; and (4) disseminate research findings.
 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to establish in the Treasury the Comparative Effectiveness Research Trust Fund. Provides revenues for the Trust Fund by: (1) transferring amounts from certain appropriations for comparative effectiveness research, from the General Fund, and from the Medicare Federal Hospital Insurance and Federal Supplementary Medical Insurance Trust Funds; and (2) imposing a fee on certain accident or health insurance policies and self-insured health plans. Requires the Comptroller General to review financial audits of the Institute and assess the adequacy and use of funding. Terminates all funding for the Trust Fund after FY2020.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-05-20
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2009-05-19
text: Referred to House Energy and Commerce
action_date: 2009-05-19
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: 2009-05-19
text: Referred to House Ways and Means
action_date: 2009-05-19
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-05-19
text: Introduced in House
To amend title 49, United States Code, to require inclusion on the no fly list certain detainees housed at the Naval Air Station, Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

Bill: 111-hr-2503
Sponsor: Rep. Souder, Mark E. [R-IN-3]
Introduced: 2009-05-19 in the House
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Aviation and airports
Caribbean area
Correctional facilities and imprisonment
Criminal justice information and records
Cuba
Detention of persons
Government information and archives
Latin America
Military facilities and property
Terrorism
Transportation safety and security

Summary:
action_date: 2009-05-19
text: 
Requires the Assistant Secretary of Homeland Security (Transportation Security Administration), in coordination with the Terrorist Screening Center, to include on the no fly list any individual who was a detainee housed, on or after January 1, 2009, at the Naval Station in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-05-26
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Transportation Security and Infrastructure Protection.
action_date: 2009-05-19
text: Referred to the House Committee on Homeland Security.
action_date: 2009-05-19
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-05-19
text: Introduced in House
To amend title 38, United States Code, to provide for an increase in the annual amount authorized to be appropriated to the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to carry out comprehensive service programs for homeless veterans.

Bill: 111-hr-2504
Sponsor: Rep. Teague, Harry [D-NM-2]
Introduced: 2009-05-19 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Department of Veterans Affairs
Executive agency funding and structure
Veterans' loans, housing, homeless programs

Summary:
action_date: 2009-05-19
text: 
Increases and extends through FY2010 the annual authorization of appropriations for Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) comprehensive service programs for homeless veterans. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-10-22
text: Forwarded by Subcommittee to Full Committee by Voice Vote .
action_date: 2009-10-22
text: Subcommittee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
action_date: 2009-10-01
text: Subcommittee Hearings Held.
action_date: 2009-05-22
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2009-05-19
text: Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2009-05-19
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-05-19
text: Introduced in House
Reaching Rural Veterans through Telehealth Act

Bill: 111-hr-2505
Sponsor: Rep. Teague, Harry [D-NM-2]
Introduced: 2009-05-19 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Health care coverage and access
Health information and medical records
Health programs administration and funding
Health technology, devices, supplies
Internet and video services
Internet, web applications, social media
Medical education
Mental health
Neurological disorders
Rural conditions and development
Telephone and wireless communication
Veterans' medical care

Summary:
action_date: 2009-05-19
text: 
Reaching Rural Veterans through Telehealth Act - Expresses the sense of Congress on the need to use tele-health platforms in treating veterans living in rural areas who suffer from post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and traumatic brain injury.
 
Directs the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to award grants for establishing three pilot projects for using such platforms to serve the needs of such veterans. Requires the pilot projects to provide treatment, education, and evaluation to such veterans, as well as related support to their families.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-05-22
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2009-05-19
text: Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2009-05-19
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-05-19
text: Introduced in House
Veterans Hearing and Assessment Act

Bill: 111-hr-2506
Sponsor: Rep. Teague, Harry [D-NM-2]
Introduced: 2009-05-19 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Hearing, speech, and vision care
Medical research
Medical tests and diagnostic methods
Military medicine
Veterans' medical care

Summary:
action_date: 2009-05-19
text: 
Veterans Hearing and Assessment Act - Expresses the sense of Congress that tinnitus is one of the leading service-connected disability issues that is not being addressed.
 
Directs the Secretary of Defense to ensure that each member of the Armed Forces receives a hearing evaluation that includes a screening for tinnitus before the member is deployed and after the member returns from a deployment.
 
Requires the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to: (1) recognize tinnitus as a mandatory condition for research and treatment by Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Auditory Centers of Excellence; and (2) ensure that research is conducted at VA facilities on the prevention, treatment, and curing of tinnitus.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-10-01
text: Subcommittee Hearings Held.
action_date: 2009-06-08
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Military Personnel.
action_date: 2009-05-22
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2009-05-19
text: Referred to House Armed Services
action_date: 2009-05-19
text: Referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs, and in addition to the Committee on Armed 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: 2009-05-19
text: Referred to House Veterans' Affairs
action_date: 2009-05-19
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR H5808)
action_date: 2009-05-19
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-05-19
text: Introduced in House
Native American Challenge Demonstration Project Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-2507
Sponsor: Rep. Young, Don [R-AK-At Large]
Introduced: 2009-05-19 in the House
Policy area: Native Americans
Subjects: Alaska Natives and Hawaiians
Business investment and capital
Climate change and greenhouse gases
Economic development
Indian social and development programs
Poverty and welfare assistance
Small business

Summary:
action_date: 2009-05-19
text: 
Native American Challenge Demonstration Project Act of 2009 - Directs the Secretary of Commerce to establish and implement the Native American Millennium Challenge Demonstration Project through which federal economic development assistance may be provided for certain Native American communities. 
 
Authorizes the Secretary to provide such assistance to Alaska Native nonprofit organizations, Native Hawaiian community organizations, and other Indian tribes that enter into Native American Challenge Compacts. Requires such Compacts to establish a multiyear plan for achieving certain development objectives, including promoting economic growth and the elimination of poverty, strengthening good governance, entrepreneurship, and investment in Native American communities, and enhancing the capacity of Alaska Native communities to deal with climate change.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-05-19
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2009-05-19
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-05-19
text: Introduced in House
To extend patent numbered 5,180,715 for a period of 2 years.

Bill: 111-hr-2508
Sponsor: Rep. Filner, Bob [D-CA-51]
Introduced: 2009-05-19 in the House
Policy area: Private Legislation

Summary:
action_date: 2009-05-19
text: 
Requires the Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director of the United States Patent and Trademark Office to extend the patent numbered 5,180,715 (relating to irrigation of internal bladder surfaces in mammals with sodium pentosanpolysulfate) for two additional years.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-05-19
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2009-05-19
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-05-19
text: Introduced in House
Southeast Arizona Land Exchange and Conservation Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-2509
Sponsor: Rep. Kirkpatrick, Ann [D-AZ-1]
Introduced: 2009-05-20 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Arizona
Environmental assessment, monitoring, research
Forests, forestry, trees
Lakes and rivers
Land transfers
Mining
Outdoor recreation
Wilderness and natural areas, wildlife refuges, wild rivers, habitats

Summary:
action_date: 2009-05-20
text: 
Southeast Arizona Land Exchange and Conservation Act of 2009 - Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to: (1) accept a conveyance of non-federal land in Gila, Yavapai, Maricopa, Pinal, and Coconino Counties, Arizona, from Resolution Copper Mining, LLC (Resolution Copper); (2) convey to Resolution Copper certain federal land located in Pinal County, Arizona; (3) convey specified land in Pinal County to the town of Superior, Arizona; and (4) appraise lands exchanged or conveyed under this Act. 
 
Instructs Resolution Copper to surrender, without compensation, the rights held by it under mining and other U.S. laws to: (1) commercially extract minerals under Apache Leap or certain of the non-federal land in Pinal County (the Pond); and (2) disturb the surface of Apache Leap. 
 
Requires the Secretary to: (1) determine whether the land exchange with Resolution Copper is subject to the requirements under the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969; and (2) if the exchange is subject to such requirements, prepare an environmental impact statement pursuant to those requirements, except as specified in this Act. 
 
Permits Resolution Copper to carry out mineral exploration activities under the Oak Flat withdrawal area by any method that will not disturb the surface of the area. 
 
Requires implementation of a management plan for Apache Leap. 

Makes lands acquired by the Secretary under this Act part of the National Forest within which the land is located. 
 
Requires Resolution Copper to make a specified payment to the Secretary to be used to promote and enhance outdoor recreational opportunities in the upper Pond area or the areas commonly known as &quot;Inconceivables&quot; and &quot;Chill Hill.&quot; 
 
Directs the Secretary to construct in the Global Ranger District of the Tonto National Forest, Arizona, one or more replacement campgrounds for the Oak Flat Campground. 

Requires Resolution Copper to make value adjustment payments to the United States based upon locatable minerals produced from the federal land in Pinal County, Arizona. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-06-01
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests and Public Lands.
action_date: 2009-05-20
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2009-05-20
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-05-20
text: Introduced in House
Science Accountability Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-2511
Sponsor: Rep. Ehlers, Vernon J. [R-MI-3]
Introduced: 2009-05-20 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Academic performance and assessments
Education programs funding
Elementary and secondary education
Science and engineering education

Summary:
action_date: 2009-05-20
text: 
Science Accountability Act of 2009 - Amends the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to require states to: (1) establish challenging academic content and student achievement standards in science, beginning in the 2010-2011 school year; and (2) measure the achievement of students in grades three through eight against such standards, beginning in the 2011-2012 school year.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-10-22
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education.
action_date: 2009-05-20
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and Labor.
action_date: 2009-05-20
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-05-20
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 to prohibit the consideration in the House of Representatives or the Senate of measures that appropriate funds for earmarks to private, for-profit entities.

Bill: 111-hr-2512
Sponsor: Rep. Flake, Jeff [R-AZ-6]
Introduced: 2009-05-20 in the House
Policy area: Congress
Subjects: Appropriations
Budget process
House of Representatives
Legislative rules and procedure
Senate

Summary:
action_date: 2009-05-20
text: 
Amends the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 to make it out of order in the House of Representatives or the Senate to consider any legislation, if that measure or any accompanying report or joint explanatory statement of managers contains any earmark for which the intended recipient is a private, for-profit entity.
 
Permits waiver or suspension of such prohibition, or successful appeals from rulings of the Chair, only by an affirmative vote of three-fifths (60) of the Senate.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-05-20
text: Referred to House Budget
action_date: 2009-05-20
text: Referred to the Committee on Rules, and in addition to the Committee on the Budget, 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: 2009-05-20
text: Referred to House Rules
action_date: 2009-05-20
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-05-20
text: Introduced in House