hyperdemocracy/usc-billstatus huggingface dataset:
Federal Criminal Immigration Courts Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-314
Sponsor: Rep. Cuellar, Henry [D-TX-28]
Introduced: 2009-01-08 in the House
Policy area: Law
Subjects: Arizona
Border security and unlawful immigration
Federal district courts
Judges
New Mexico
Texas

Summary:
action_date: 2009-01-08
text: 
Federal Criminal Immigration Courts Act of 2009 - Directs the President to appoint, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, the following permanent judgeships: (1) four additional district judges for the district of Arizona; (2) one additional district judge for the district of New Mexico; (3) two additional district judges for the southern district of Texas; and (4) one additional district judge for the western district of Texas. 
 
Directs the President to appoint, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, the following temporary judgeships: (1) one additional district judge for the district of Arizona; and (2) one additional district judge for the district of New Mexico. 
 
Provides that, for each of the judicial districts named in this Act, the first vacancy arising on the district court 10 years or more after a judge is first confirmed to fill the temporary district judgeship created by this Act shall not be filled.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-02-09
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Courts, the Internet, and Intellectual Property.
action_date: 2009-01-08
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2009-01-08
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-01-08
text: Introduced in House
Federal Customer Service Enhancement Act

Bill: 111-hr-315
Sponsor: Rep. Cuellar, Henry [D-TX-28]
Introduced: 2009-01-08 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Consumer affairs
Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management
Government information and archives
Government studies and investigations
Office of Management and Budget (OMB)
Performance measurement

Summary:
action_date: 2009-01-08
text: 

Federal Customer Service Enhancement Act - Requires the Director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) to develop: (1) performance measures to determine whether federal agencies are providing high quality customer service; and (2) standards to be met by federal agencies to provide high quality customer service.

Requires the head of each agency to: (1) collect information from its customers regarding the quality of its of customer services; and (2) include this information in its performance report to the President and Congress. 

Requires the Director to report annually on the success of federal agencies in meeting the customer service performance measures and standards.

Requires the head of each agency to designate an employee as its customer relations representative to be responsible for implementing customer service standards.

Directs the Comptroller General to submit to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform and the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs a report analyzing the information reported by agencies on the quality of customer service. Requires such report to include: (1) whether agencies are implementing the customer service standards; (2) whether there is an increase in overall quality in customer service; and (3) any recommendations the Comptroller General may have to improve performance measures and standards for customer service. Authorizes the report to be used by Congress and the Director to update performance measures for customer service.

Authorizes the head of a federal agency to establish an awards program to pay a cash award to employees for demonstrated excellence in customer service.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-01-08
text: Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.
action_date: 2009-01-08
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-01-08
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Omnibus Parks and Public Lands Management Act of 1996 to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to enter into cooperative agreements with any of the management partners of the Boston Harbor Islands National Recreation Area, and for other purposes.

Bill: 111-hr-316
Sponsor: Rep. Delahunt, Bill [D-MA-10]
Introduced: 2009-01-08 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Government buildings, facilities, and property
Intergovernmental relations
Marine and coastal resources, fisheries
Massachusetts
Parks, recreation areas, trails
Public contracts and procurement
Public-private cooperation
State and local government operations

Summary:
action_date: 2009-01-08
text: 
Amends the Omnibus Parks and Public Lands Management Act of 1996 relating to the Boston Harbor Islands National Recreation Area to permit the Secretary of the Interior to: (1) consult with and enter into cooperative agreements concerning the Recreation Area under the Act with any member of the Boston Harbor Islands Partnership; and (2) through such cooperative agreements between the Secretary and any Partnership member, acquire from and provide to such eligible entities goods and services for the construction of recreation area facilities or for any other purpose that is consistent with the purposes of the Recreation Area. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-02-04
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests and Public Lands.
action_date: 2009-01-08
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2009-01-08
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-01-08
text: Introduced in House
Adams National Historical Park Boundary Addition Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-317
Sponsor: Rep. Delahunt, Bill [D-MA-10]
Introduced: 2009-01-08 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Historic sites and heritage areas
Land transfers
Massachusetts
Parks, recreation areas, trails
Presidential administrations

Summary:
action_date: 2009-01-08
text: 
Adams National Historical Park Boundary Addition Act of 2009 - Amends the Adams National Historical Park Act of 1998 to revise the boundary of Adams National Historical Park to include the Quincy Homestead and carriage shed at 34 Butler Road in Quincy, Massachusetts, within the Park.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-02-04
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests and Public Lands.
action_date: 2009-01-08
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2009-01-08
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-01-08
text: Introduced in House
Cape Cod National Seashore Advisory Commission Reauthorization Act

Bill: 111-hr-318
Sponsor: Rep. Delahunt, Bill [D-MA-10]
Introduced: 2009-01-08 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Advisory bodies
Massachusetts
Seashores and lakeshores

Summary:
action_date: 2009-01-08
text: 
Cape Cod National Seashore Advisory Commission Reauthorization Act - Extends the authority for the Cape Cod National Seashore Advisory Commission until September 26, 2019.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-02-04
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests and Public Lands.
action_date: 2009-01-08
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2009-01-08
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-01-08
text: Introduced in House
Legal Immigrant Children's Health Improvement Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-319
Sponsor: Rep. Diaz-Balart, Lincoln [R-FL-21]
Introduced: 2009-01-08 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Child health
Health care costs and insurance
Health care coverage and access
Health programs administration and funding
Immigrant health and welfare
Medicaid
Poverty and welfare assistance
Sex and reproductive health
Women's health

Summary:
action_date: 2009-01-08
text: 
Legal Immigrant Children's Health Improvement Act of 2009 - Amends titles XIX (Medicaid) and XXI (State Children's Health Insurance) (SCHIP) of the Social Security Act to grant states the option of covering certain categories of eligible pregnant women and child resident aliens, including targeted low-income children, under the Medicaid and SCHIP programs. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-02-09
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration, Citizenship, Refugees, Border Security, and International Law.
action_date: 2009-01-14
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2009-01-08
text: Referred to House Judiciary
action_date: 2009-01-08
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, 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: 2009-01-08
text: Referred to House Energy and Commerce
action_date: 2009-01-08
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-01-08
text: Introduced in House
SCHIP Plus Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-321
Sponsor: Rep. Fortenberry, Jeff [R-NE-1]
Introduced: 2009-01-08 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Child health
Employee benefits and pensions
Government information and archives
Health care costs and insurance
Health care coverage and access
Health programs administration and funding
Intergovernmental relations
Poverty and welfare assistance
State and local finance

Summary:
action_date: 2009-01-08
text: 
SCHIP Plus Act of 2009 - Amends title XXI (State Children's Health Insurance) (SCHIP) of the Social Security Act to require a state child health plan to provide for the offering of any qualified alternative coverage that a qualified entity seeks to offer targeted low-income children through the plan.
 
Revises requirements with respect to authority for payments to a state for the purchase of family coverage under an employer-sponsored group health plan that includes coverage of targeted low-income children. 
 
Prohibits a state child health plan from requiring a targeted low-income child to enroll in such coverage in order to obtain child health assistance under this Act. (Thus requires enrollment to be voluntary.)
 
Requires a state health plan to provide at least one opportunity per fiscal year for beneficiaries to switch SCHIP coverage from an employer-sponsored plan to the coverage otherwise available under SCHIP. Requires such plan also to permit beneficiaries to switch coverage under other circumstances, such as change in employment, birth of a child, or change in households, as the Secretary specifies.
 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code, the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA), and the Public Health Service Act to require employers that maintain a group health plan in a state that provides child health assistance under SCHIP in the form of premium assistance to give each employee written notice of potential opportunities for such premium assistance for health coverage of the employee's dependents.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-01-14
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2009-01-08
text: Referred to House Education and Labor
action_date: 2009-01-08
text: Referred to House Ways and Means
action_date: 2009-01-08
text: Referred to House Energy and Commerce
action_date: 2009-01-08
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Ways and Means, and Education and Labor, 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: 2009-01-08
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-01-08
text: Introduced in House
Social Security Earnings Test Repeal Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-322
Sponsor: Rep. Green, Gene [D-TX-29]
Introduced: 2009-01-08 in the House
Policy area: Social Welfare
Subjects: Social security and elderly assistance
Wages and earnings

Summary:
action_date: 2009-01-08
text: 
Social Security Earnings Test Repeal Act of 2009 - Amends title II (Old Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance) (OASDI) of the Social Security Act to remove the limitation on the amount of outside income which a beneficiary may earn (earnings test) without incurring a reduction in benefits.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-01-08
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2009-01-08
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-01-08
text: Introduced in House
Comprehensive Insurance Coverage of Childhood Immunization Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-323
Sponsor: Rep. Green, Gene [D-TX-29]
Introduced: 2009-01-08 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Child health
Department of Health and Human Services
Department of Labor
Employee benefits and pensions
Family relationships
Health care costs and insurance
Health care coverage and access
Health promotion and preventive care

Summary:
action_date: 2009-01-08
text: 
Comprehensive Insurance Coverage of Childhood Immunization Act of 2009 - Amends the Public Health Service Act and the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA) to require a group health plan to provide comprehensive coverage for routine immunizations for each individual under 19 years of age who is a dependent of a participant or beneficiary under the plan. Requires coverage of routine immunizations without deductibles, coinsurance, or other cost-sharing in accordance with the most recent version of the Recommended Childhood Immunization Schedule issued by the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). 
 
Applies such requirement to coverage offered in the individual market.
 
Requires the Secretary of Health and Human Services and the Secretary of Labor to ensure that: (1) such requirement has the same effect at all times; and (2) such Secretaries have a coordinated enforcement strategy.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-01-14
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2009-01-08
text: Referred to House Education and Labor
action_date: 2009-01-08
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Education and Labor, 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: 2009-01-08
text: Referred to House Energy and Commerce
action_date: 2009-01-08
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-01-08
text: Introduced in House
Avra/Black Wash Reclamation and Riparian Restoration Project

Bill: 111-hr-325
Sponsor: Rep. Grijalva, Raúl M. [D-AZ-7]
Introduced: 2009-01-08 in the House
Policy area: Water Resources Development
Subjects: Aquatic ecology
Arizona
Lakes and rivers
Water resources funding
Water use and supply
Wildlife conservation and habitat protection

Summary:
action_date: 2009-01-08
text: 
Avra/Black Wash Reclamation and Riparian Restoration Project - Amends the Reclamation Wastewater and Groundwater Study and Facilities Act to authorize the Secretary of the Interior, in cooperation with Pima County, Arizona, to participate in the planning, design, and construction of water recycling facilities and to enhance and restore riparian habitat in the Black Wash Sonoran Desert ecosystem in Avra Valley west of the metropolitan Pima County area. Limits the federal share of the project's cost to 25%. Authorizes appropriations. Permits federal funds provided by this Act to be used only for the design, planning, and construction of water-related infrastructure.

action_date: 2009-06-02
text: 

(This measure has not been amended since it was introduced. The summary of that version is repeated here.)

 
Avra/Black Wash Reclamation and Riparian Restoration Project - Amends the Reclamation Wastewater and Groundwater Study and Facilities Act to authorize the Secretary of the Interior, in cooperation with Pima County, Arizona, to participate in the planning, design, and construction of water recycling facilities and to enhance and restore riparian habitat in the Black Wash Sonoran Desert ecosystem in Avra Valley west of the metropolitan Pima County area. Limits the federal share of the project's cost to 25%. Authorizes appropriations. Permits federal funds provided by this Act to be used only for the design, planning, and construction of water-related infrastructure.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-04-27
text: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources Subcommittee on Water and Power. Hearings held.
action_date: 2009-06-03
text: Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
action_date: 2009-06-02
text: Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
action_date: 2009-06-02
text: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill Agreed to by voice vote. (text: CR H6019)
action_date: 2009-06-02
text: Passed/agreed to in House: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill Agreed to by voice vote.(text: CR H6019)
action_date: 2009-06-02
text: DEBATE - The House proceeded with forty minutes of debate on H.R. 325.
action_date: 2009-06-02
text: Considered under suspension of the rules. (consideration: CR H6019)
action_date: 2009-06-02
text: Mrs. Christensen moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill.
action_date: 2009-02-04
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Water and Power.
action_date: 2009-01-08
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2009-01-08
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-01-08
text: Introduced in House
Cocopah Lands Act

Bill: 111-hr-326
Sponsor: Rep. Grijalva, Raúl M. [D-AZ-7]
Introduced: 2009-01-08 in the House
Policy area: Native Americans
Subjects: Arizona
Federal-Indian relations
Gambling
Indian lands and resources rights
Land transfers

Summary:
action_date: 2009-01-08
text: 
Cocopah Lands Act - Requires the Secretary of the Interior, if the Cocopah Indian Tribe of Arizona transfers title to certain described land to the Secretary, to take it into trust for the benefit of the Tribe, if there are no recognized environmental conditions or contamination related concerns and no adverse legal claims to such land. 
 
Considers such land to be part of the Tribe's initial reservation. 
 
Designates Yuma County, Arizona, as the Tribe's service area for the delivery of federal services to enrolled Tribe members. 
 
Prohibits using the trust land for gaming under the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act.

action_date: 2009-03-02
text: 

(This measure has not been amended since it was introduced. The summary of that version is repeated here.)

 
Cocopah Lands Act - Requires the Secretary of the Interior, if the Cocopah Indian Tribe of Arizona transfers title to certain described land to the Secretary, to take it into trust for the benefit of the Tribe, if there are no recognized environmental conditions or contamination related concerns and no adverse legal claims to such land. 
 
Considers such land to be part of the Tribe's initial reservation. 
 
Designates Yuma county, Arizona, as the Tribe's service area for the delivery of federal services to enrolled Tribe members. 
 
Prohibits using the trust land for gaming under the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-04-02
text: Committee on Indian Affairs. Hearings held. Hearings printed: S.Hrg. 111-66.
action_date: 2009-03-03
text: Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs.
action_date: 2009-03-02
text: Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
action_date: 2009-03-02
text: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill Agreed to by voice vote. (text: CR H2878-2879)
action_date: 2009-03-02
text: Passed/agreed to in House: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill Agreed to by voice vote.(text: CR H2878-2879)
action_date: 2009-03-02
text: DEBATE - The House proceeded with forty minutes of debate on H.R. 326.
action_date: 2009-03-02
text: Considered under suspension of the rules. (consideration: CR H2878-2879)
action_date: 2009-03-02
text: Mr. Holt moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill.
action_date: 2009-01-08
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2009-01-08
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-01-08
text: Introduced in House
National Hurricane Research Initiative Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-327
Sponsor: Rep. Hastings, Alcee L. [D-FL-23]
Introduced: 2009-01-08 in the House
Policy area: Science, Technology, Communications
Subjects: Atmospheric science and weather
Building construction
Computers and information technology
Earth sciences
Ecology
Emergency communications systems
Emergency planning and evacuation
Environmental assessment, monitoring, research
Floods and storm protection
Government information and archives
Housing industry and standards
Infrastructure development
Marine and coastal resources, fisheries
Natural disasters
Research administration and funding
Wetlands

Summary:
action_date: 2009-01-08
text: 
National Hurricane Research Initiative Act of 2009 - Requires the Under Secretary for Oceans and Atmosphere of the Department of Commerce and the Director of the National Science Foundation (NSF) to establish a National Hurricane Research Initiative and to cooperate with other specified federal agencies to carry it out. 
 
Requires such Initiative to set research objectives (based on a National Science Board report on the need for such Initiative) to: (1) make recommendations to the Board and to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Science Advisory Board; (2) assemble the science and engineering expertise of state or local government agencies and nongovernmental entities through a multi-agency effort focused on improving severe tropical storm forecasting capabilities, on durable and resilient infrastructure, and on mitigating impacts on coastal populations, the coastal built environment, and the natural coastal environment; and (3) make grants for hurricane research, including regarding storm internal dynamics, predicting high winds, tornadoes, and storm surge, and improving measurements of hurricanes and tropical storms through specified technologies.

Directs the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, through the National Science and Technology Council, to coordinate U.S. activities related to the Initiative as a formal program with a well-defined organizational structure and execution plan. 

Directs the Under Secretary and the Director to: (1) issue a request for proposals to undertake the basic and applied research with a sufficient annual budget to accomplish the desired research results during a 10-year term; (2) establish a National Infrastructure Database; and (3) develop a National Hurricane Research Model.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-01-08
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Research and Science Education.
action_date: 2009-01-08
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Environment.
action_date: 2009-01-08
text: Referred to the House Committee on Science and Technology.
action_date: 2009-01-08
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-01-08
text: Introduced in House