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Fiscal Responsibility Act of 2009

Bill: 111-s-10
Sponsor: Sen. Reid, Harry [D-NV]
Introduced: 2009-01-06 in the Senate
Policy area: Economics and Public Finance
Subjects: Budget deficits and national debt
Budget process
Economic performance and conditions
General taxation matters
Income tax rates

Summary:
action_date: 2009-01-06
text: 
Fiscal Responsibility Act of 2009 - Expresses the sense of Congress that Congress and the President should restore fiscal discipline and begin to address the long-term fiscal challenges facing the United States through certain measures.
 
Specifies among such measures: (1) strong pay-as-you-go rules, to help block the approval of measures that would increase the deficit; and (2) recognition of warnings by both the Government Accountability Office (GAO) and the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) that the federal budget is on an unsustainable path of rising deficits and debt.
 
Urges establishment of a process to: (1) analyze the current and long-term federal actuarial financial condition and the gap between the federal projected revenues and expenditures; (2) identify factors that affect the federal long-term fiscal balance; (3) analyze potential courses of action to address them; and (4) seek a bipartisan agreement, or set of agreements, that will significantly improve the nation's long-term fiscal imbalances and the gap between projected revenues and expenditures, ensure U.S. economic security, and expand future prosperity and growth for all Americans.
 
Urges as well reviews of: (1) all federal spending and tax expenditures by the Director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) to identify items that are outdated, inefficient, poorly run, unnecessary, or otherwise undeserving of scarce federal resources or in need of reform; and (2) the current federal taxation system to ensure that burdens are borne fairly and equitably.
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-01-07
text: Read the second time. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 10.
action_date: 2009-01-06
text: Introduced in the Senate. Read the first time. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under Read the First Time. (text of measure as introduced: CR S46)
action_date: 2009-01-06
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to restore the application of the 340B drug discount program to orphan drugs with respect to children's hospitals.

Bill: 111-s-11
Sponsor: Sen. Brown, Scott P. [R-MA]
Introduced: 2010-09-28 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Child health
Health facilities and institutions
Home and outpatient care
Inflation and prices
Prescription drugs
Public contracts and procurement

Summary:
action_date: 2010-09-28
text: 
Amends the Public Health Service Act to consider certain drugs designated for a rare disease or condition as covered outpatient drugs for children's hospitals under the 340B drug discount program (a program limiting the cost of covered outpatient drugs to certain federal grantees).


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-09-28
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. (text of measure as introduced: CR S7621)
action_date: 2010-09-28
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S7620-7621, S7621)
action_date: 2010-09-28
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to require the Secretary of the Army to operate the Buford Dam/Lake Sidney Lanier Project, and for other purposes.

Bill: 111-s-12
Sponsor: Sen. Isakson, Johnny [R-GA]
Introduced: 2010-09-29 in the Senate
Policy area: Water Resources Development
Subjects: Georgia
Lakes and rivers
Water resources funding
Water storage
Water use and supply

Summary:
action_date: 2010-09-29
text: 
Directs the Secretary of the Army, acting through the Chief of Engineers, to operate the Buford Dam/Lake Sidney Lanier Project: (1) for the purpose of municipal and industrial water supply; and (2) to include storage in the project for water supply. Makes this provision inapplicable unless the non-federal sponsor of the water supply storage pays the cost for the capital investment for reallocated storage space in accordance with each procedure that the Secretary deems necessary.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-09-29
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.
action_date: 2010-09-29
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to require the Secretary of the Army to calculate the aggregate withdrawals of non-Federal entities, and for other purposes.

Bill: 111-s-13
Sponsor: Sen. Isakson, Johnny [R-GA]
Introduced: 2010-09-29 in the Senate
Policy area: Water Resources Development
Subjects: Water storage
Water use and supply

Summary:
action_date: 2010-09-29
text: 
Requires the Secretary of the Army, through the Chief of Engineers and at the request of a state in which a federal reservoir operated by the Secretary is located, to calculate the aggregate withdrawals of a non-federal entity by subtracting any return flow. Defines &quot;return flow&quot; as a discharge that flows directly or indirectly into a reservoir from a wastewater or water supply system in accordance with applicable federal law, excluding a discharge of storm water that would have flowed into such a reservoir in the absence of a discharge by a non-federal entity.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-09-29
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.
action_date: 2010-09-29
text: Introduced in Senate
Unborn Child Pain Awareness Act of 2010

Bill: 111-s-14
Sponsor: Sen. Johanns, Mike [R-NE]
Introduced: 2010-09-29 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Abortion
Civil actions and liability
Health information and medical records
Surgery and anesthesia

Summary:
action_date: 2010-09-29
text: 
Unborn Child Pain Awareness Act of 2010 - Amends the Public Health Service Act to require an abortion provider who knowingly performs an abortion of a pain-capable unborn child (defined as an unborn child who has reached a probable stage of development of 20 weeks or more after fertilization), to first: (1) inform the woman of the probable age of the child; (2) provide to the woman an Unborn Child Pain Awareness Brochure (unless she waives receipt); (3) provide information that pain medicine administered to the mother may not prevent pain in the child, but in some cases anesthesia or pain-reducing drugs can be administered directly to the child; (4) give the woman the provider's best medical judgment of the risks and costs of such anesthesia or analgesic; and (5) obtain the woman's signature on the Unborn Child Pain Awareness Decision Form and her explicit request for or refusal of the administration of drugs to the child. Requires the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) to develop the Unborn Child Pain Awareness Brochure that includes a statement that there is substantial evidence that the process of being killed in an abortion will cause the unborn child pain and that the mother has the option of having pain-reducing drugs administered directly to the child.
 
Creates an exception to save the life of the mother. 
 
Establishes civil penalties for willfully failing to comply with this Act. Authorizes: (1) the U.S. Attorney General to bring a civil action under this Act; and (2) private rights of action for violations of this Act. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-09-29
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2010-09-29
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S7791-7792)
action_date: 2010-09-29
text: Introduced in Senate
Global Forest Restoration Investment Tax Credit Act

Bill: 111-s-15
Sponsor: Sen. Brownback, Sam [R-KS]
Introduced: 2010-09-29 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Climate change and greenhouse gases
Foreign and international corporations
Income tax credits
Income tax deductions
Interest, dividends, interest rates

Summary:
action_date: 2010-09-29
text: 
Global Forest Restoration Investment Tax Credit Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) allow a business-related tax credit for investment in a carbon sequestration project approved under the International Carbon Conservation Act; and (2) extend through 2011 the taxpayer election to deduct dividends received from a controlled foreign corporation. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-09-29
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2010-09-29
text: Introduced in Senate
Visa Waiver Program Expansion Act of 2010

Bill: 111-s-16
Sponsor: Sen. Voinovich, George V. [R-OH]
Introduced: 2010-09-29 in the Senate
Policy area: Immigration
Subjects: Immigration status and procedures
Visas and passports

Summary:
action_date: 2010-09-29
text: 
Visa Waiver Program Expansion Act of 2010 - Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to remove the provision prohibiting the Secretary of Homeland Security's (DHS) authority to waive requirements for the participation of a country with a low nonimmigrant visa refusal rate in the visa waiver program if the Secretary has not notified Congress by June 30, 2009, of a required air exit system's completion.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-09-29
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2010-09-29
text: Introduced in Senate
Former Charleston Naval Base Land Exchange Act of 2009

Bill: 111-s-17
Sponsor: Sen. Graham, Lindsey [R-SC]
Introduced: 2010-09-29 in the Senate
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Land transfers
Military facilities and property
Navigation, waterways, harbors
South Carolina

Summary:
action_date: 2010-09-29
text: 
Former Charleston Naval Base Land Exchange Act of 2009 - Authorizes the Secretary of Homeland Security (DHS) to exchange specified parcels of land owned by the United States located on the former U.S. Naval Base Complex in North Charleston, South Carolina (federal land) for specified parcels owned by the South Carolina State Ports Authority (non-federal land).
 
Requires, upon acceptance of title to the non-federal land by the Secretary: (1) the non-federal land to be added to and administered as part of the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center; and (2) the boundaries of the Center to be adjusted to exclude the exchanged federal land.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-09-29
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
action_date: 2010-09-29
text: Introduced in Senate
No Entry for Supporters of the Iranian Regime Act of 2010

Bill: 111-s-18
Sponsor: Sen. Brown, Scott P. [R-MA]
Introduced: 2010-09-29 in the Senate
Policy area: Immigration
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Arms control and nonproliferation
Department of Homeland Security
Immigration status and procedures
Iran
Middle East
Nuclear weapons
Oil and gas
Sanctions
Terrorism
Trade restrictions
Visas and passports

Summary:
action_date: 2010-09-29
text: 
No Entry for Supporters of the Iranian Regime Act of 2010 - Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to make inadmissible to the United States an alien who: (1) engages in certain sanctionable activities with Iran, including the development of Iran's petroleum resources, the proliferation of Iranian weapons of mass destruction, or support for terrorism by Iran; or (2) has a controlling managing or shareholder interest in an entity that engages in such activities.
 
Authorizes presidential waiver of such prohibition under specified conditions.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-09-29
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2010-09-29
text: Introduced in Senate
Oil Sands Energy Security Act of 2010

Bill: 111-s-19
Sponsor: Sen. Graham, Lindsey [R-SC]
Introduced: 2010-09-29 in the Senate
Policy area: Energy
Subjects: Alternative and renewable resources
Climate change and greenhouse gases
Oil and gas
Public contracts and procurement

Summary:
action_date: 2010-09-29
text: 
Oil Sands Energy Security Act of 2010 - Amends the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007 to repeal the prohibition against any federal agency contract for procurement of an alternative or synthetic fuel, including a fuel produced from nonconventional petroleum sources (such as oil sands), for any mobility-related use (other than for research or testing) unless the contract specifies that the lifecycle greenhouse gas emissions associated with the production and combustion of the fuel supplied under the contract must, on an ongoing basis, be less than or equal to greenhouse gas emissions from the equivalent conventional fuel produced from conventional petroleum sources.
 
Makers a conforming amendment to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration Authorization Act of 2008 to repeal the exception to such prohibition National Air and Space Administration (NASA) contracts to purchase a generally available fuel that is not an alternative or synthetic fuel or predominantly produced from a nonconventional petroleum source, if certain conditions are met.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-09-29
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
action_date: 2010-09-29
text: Introduced in Senate
Prevention First Act

Bill: 111-s-21
Sponsor: Sen. Reid, Harry [D-NV]
Introduced: 2009-01-06 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Child care and development
Child health
Crimes against women
Drug, alcohol, tobacco use
Emergency medical services and trauma care
Family planning and birth control
HIV/AIDS
Health care costs and insurance
Health care coverage and access
Health facilities and institutions
Health information and medical records
Health programs administration and funding
Health promotion and preventive care
Home and outpatient care
Immigrant health and welfare
Medicaid
Medical research
Prescription drugs
Sex and reproductive health
Sexually transmitted diseases
Women's health

Summary:
action_date: 2009-01-06
text: 
Prevention First Act - Title X Family Planning Services Act of 2009 - Authorizes appropriations for family planning services grants and contracts under the Public Health Service Act (PHSA).
 
 
Equity in Prescription Insurance and Contraceptive Coverage Act of 2007 
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- Amends the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA) and PHSA to prohibit a group health plan from excluding or restricting benefits for prescription contraceptive drugs, devices, and outpatient services if the plan provides benefits for other outpatient prescription drugs, devices, or outpatient services. Applies such prohibitions to coverage offered in the individual market. 
Emergency Contraception Education Act of 2009 - Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services to develop and disseminate information on emergency contraception to the public and to health care providers. 
 
Compassionate Assistance for Rape Emergencies Act of 2009 - Requires hospitals, as a condition of receiving federal funds, to offer and to provide, upon request, emergency contraception to victims of sexual assault.
 
At-Risk Communities Teen Pregnancy Prevention Act of 2009 - Authorizes the Secretary to award grants for teenage pregnancy prevention programs. Requires the Secretary to award grants for teenage pregnancy prevention research.
 
Truth in Contraception Act of 2009 - Requires that any information concerning the use of a contraceptive provided through specified federally funded education programs be medically accurate and include health benefits and failure rates.
 
Unintended Pregnancy Reduction Act of 2009 - Amends title XIX (Medicaid) of the Social Security Act to expand Medicaid's coverage of family planning services. 
 
Responsible Education About Life Act of 2009 - Requires the Secretary to make grants to states for family life education, including education on abstinence and contraception, to prevent teenage pregnancy and sexually transmitted diseases.
 
Prevention Through Affordable Access Act - Expands Medicaid rebates to manufacturers for the sale of covered outpatient drugs at nominal prices to include sales to student health care facilities and entities offering family planning services.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-01-06
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. (text of measure as introduced: CR S47-53)
action_date: 2009-01-06
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to permanently extend the election to deduct State and local sales taxes.

Bill: 111-s-23
Sponsor: Sen. Cantwell, Maria [D-WA]
Introduced: 2009-01-07 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Income tax deductions
Sales and excise taxes
State and local taxation

Summary:
action_date: 2009-01-07
text: 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to make permanent the election to deduct state and local sales taxes in lieu of state and local income taxes.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-01-07
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2009-01-07
text: Introduced in Senate
Strengthen the Earned Income Tax Credit Act of 2009

Bill: 111-s-24
Sponsor: Sen. Kerry, John F. [D-MA]
Introduced: 2009-01-07 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Income tax credits
Marriage and family status
Poverty and welfare assistance
Tax treatment of families
Wages and earnings

Summary:
action_date: 2009-01-07
text: 
Strengthen the Earned Income Tax Credit Act of 2009 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) make permanent the reduction in the marriage penalty applicable to the earned income tax credit; (2) increase the rate of such credit for families with three or more children and for individuals without children; (3) modify earned income tax credit requirements relating to abandoned spouses and qualifying children; and (4) repeal provisions denying such credit for individuals with excessive investment income.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-01-07
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2009-01-07
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S172-173)
action_date: 2009-01-07
text: Introduced in Senate
Digital TV Transition Fairness Act

Bill: 111-s-25
Sponsor: Sen. Sanders, Bernard [I-VT]
Introduced: 2009-01-07 in the Senate
Policy area: Science, Technology, Communications
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Broadcasting, cable, digital technologies
Congressional oversight
Consumer affairs
Federal Communications Commission (FCC)
Government information and archives
Government trust funds
Telecommunication rates and fees
Television and film

Summary:
action_date: 2009-01-07
text: 
Digital TV Transition Fairness Act - Requires the Department of Commerce to implement and administer a program to obtain coupons that can be applied toward: (1) the cost to install a digital-to-analog converter box; (2) the purchase and installation of an indoor or outdoor antenna, or both if needed, to facilitate the reception and display of signals of channels broadcast in digital television service; and (3) the cost to install, or the cost of any other equipment needed to receive and display, basic broadcast television service.
 
Sets forth consumer and product eligibility criteria.
 
Provides for a website and telephone hotline to provide relevant information to assist consumers that have degraded or lost signals or channels as a result of the full power transition from analog to digital television that is to occur on February 17, 2009.
 
Requires the Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Communications and Information to develop anti-fraud measures and procedures to ensure that only eligible households and individuals receive a coupon.
 
Requires the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to promulgate rules requiring that each multichannel video programming distributor providing broadcast television for a local market provide to eligible consumers in that local market access to basic broadcast television service. Requires the FCC to develop anti-fraud measures and procedures to ensure that only eligible consumers are provided access to basic broadcast television service.
 
Directs the FCC to carry out an education and outreach campaign to inform and educate consumers on the availability, benefits, and advantages of the programs and requirements established under this Act.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-01-07
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
action_date: 2009-01-07
text: Introduced in Senate
Working Family Child Assistance Act

Bill: 111-s-26
Sponsor: Sen. Lincoln, Blanche L. [D-AR]
Introduced: 2009-01-07 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Income tax credits
Inflation and prices

Summary:
action_date: 2009-01-07
text: 
Working Family Child Assistance Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) lower the income threshold used to calculate the refundable portion of the child tax credit; and (2) repeal the annual inflation adjustment to such threshold amount.

Makes provisions of the Economic Growth and Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2001 modifying the child tax credit permanent.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-01-07
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2009-01-07
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S173)
action_date: 2009-01-07
text: Introduced in Senate
Daniel Webster Congressional Clerkship Act of 2009

Bill: 111-s-27
Sponsor: Sen. Schumer, Charles E. [D-NY]
Introduced: 2009-01-07 in the Senate
Policy area: Congress
Subjects: Congressional officers and employees
Higher education
Lawyers and legal services

Summary:
action_date: 2009-01-07
text: 
Daniel Webster Congressional Clerkship Act of 2009 - Establishes the Daniel Webster Congressional Clerkship Program for the appointment of individuals who are graduates of accredited law schools to serve as Congressional Clerks in the Senate or House of Representatives.
 
Requires the Senate Committee on Rules and Administration and the House Committee on House Administration to each select at least six individuals for a one-year term to serve as employees in their respective chambers.

Specifies eligibility criteria for a Congressional Clerk, including that the selected candidate be a graduate of such a law school as of the starting date of his or her clerkship.

Requires the committees to ensure that Congressional Clerks selected under this Act are apportioned equally between majority and minority party offices.

Entitles each clerk selected to the same compensation as, and comparable benefits to, an individual who holds the position of a judicial clerkship for the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia within three months of graduating from law school.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-01-07
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Rules and Administration.
action_date: 2009-01-07
text: Introduced in Senate