hyperdemocracy/usc-billstatus huggingface dataset:
Border Tax Equity Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-2927
Sponsor: Rep. Pascrell, Bill, Jr. [D-NJ-8]
Introduced: 2009-06-17 in the House
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Congressional oversight
Free trade and trade barriers
Tariffs
Trade agreements and negotiations

Summary:
action_date: 2009-06-17
text: 
Border Tax Equity Act of 2009 - Requires the United States Trade Representative (USTR) to certify to Congress whether or not U.S. objectives for revision of World Trade Organization (WTO) rules on border tax treatment of goods and services from countries with indirect tax systems have been met in WTO negotiations.
 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to impose a tax on imports of goods and services from any foreign country that employs an indirect tax system and grants rebates of indirect taxes paid on goods or services exported from that country. Requires deposit of such taxes into a special account.
 
Requires the Secretary of Homeland Security (DHS), acting through the Commissioner responsible for the Bureau of Customs and Border Protection, upon request of a U.S. exporter, to grant a rebate from this special account to an exporter of goods or services from the United States to such a foreign country of the equivalent of any indirect taxes the foreign country imposes or applies to such goods and services at its border, with certain adjustments.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-06-17
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2009-06-17
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-06-17
text: Introduced in House
To amend title 38, United State Code, to provide for an apprenticeship and on-job training program under the Post-9/11 Veterans Educational Assistance Program.

Bill: 111-hr-2928
Sponsor: Rep. Perriello, Thomas S.P. [D-VA-5]
Introduced: 2009-06-17 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Employment and training programs
Higher education
Student aid and college costs
Veterans' education, employment, rehabilitation
Vocational and technical education

Summary:
action_date: 2009-06-17
text: 
Amends requirements for the Post-9/11 Veterans Educational Assistance Program to entitle an eligible veteran of the Armed Forces (including eligible dependents) pursuing a full-time educational program of apprenticeship or other on-job training to a monthly benefit payment equal to: (1) 85% of the national average cost of tuition at an institution of higher education for each of the first six months of the program; (2) 65% of such amount for each of the second six months of the program; and (3) 45% of such amount for each of the months following the first 12 months of the program.
 
Reduces the payment an individual receives in any month in which the individual fails to complete 120 hours of training under the program of education.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-09-24
text: Subcommittee Hearings Held.
action_date: 2009-06-19
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Economic Opportunity.
action_date: 2009-06-17
text: Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2009-06-17
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-06-17
text: Introduced in House
Health Care Workforce Incentive Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-2929
Sponsor: Rep. Sarbanes, John P. [D-MD-3]
Introduced: 2009-06-17 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Advisory bodies
Allied health services
Computers and information technology
Congressional oversight
Dental care
Department of Health and Human Services
Employment and training programs
Executive agency funding and structure
Government information and archives
Government studies and investigations
Health care coverage and access
Health information and medical records
Health personnel
Health programs administration and funding
Medicaid
Medical education
Medicare
Mental health
Nursing
Student aid and college costs
Teaching, teachers, curricula

Summary:
action_date: 2009-06-17
text: 
Health Care Workforce Incentive Act of 2009 - Establishes an independent National Health Workforce Advisory Board to advise Congress on issues affecting the health care workforce.
 

 

 
Establishes a National Center for Workforce Data and Analysis in the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). Directs the HHS Secretary, through the Center, to establish a competitive State Health Workforce Shortage grants program to harmonize health workforce needs and medical education.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-06-18
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2009-06-17
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2009-06-17
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-06-17
text: Introduced in House
Primary Care Training Enhancement Act

Bill: 111-hr-2930
Sponsor: Rep. Sarbanes, John P. [D-MD-3]
Introduced: 2009-06-17 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Education programs funding
Health facilities and institutions
Health programs administration and funding
Medical education
Medicare
National and community service
Student aid and college costs

Summary:
action_date: 2009-06-17
text: 
Primary Care Training Enhancement Act - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to authorize the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) to reimburse hospitals for the costs of teaching health centers to train primary care residents, including reimbursement to cover indirect medical education costs.
 
Amends the Public Health Service Act to direct the Secretary to make grants: (1) to teaching health centers to establish new or expand existing medical residency training programs; (2) to public or private nonprofit organizations to provide technical support to such centers; (3) for state primary care scholarship and loan repayment programs; and (4) for Primary Care Training Institutes. 
 
Permits participants in the National Health Service Corps to count teaching hours as time spent toward their service obligation.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-06-18
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2009-06-17
text: Referred to House Ways and Means
action_date: 2009-06-17
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Ways and Means, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2009-06-17
text: Referred to House Energy and Commerce
action_date: 2009-06-17
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-06-17
text: Introduced in House
Kyle Barthel Veterans and Service Members Mental Health Screening Act

Bill: 111-hr-2931
Sponsor: Rep. Teague, Harry [D-NM-2]
Introduced: 2009-06-17 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Health information and medical records
Health personnel
Medical tests and diagnostic methods
Mental health
Military medicine
Military personnel and dependents
Neurological disorders
Veterans' medical care

Summary:
action_date: 2009-06-17
text: 
Kyle Barthel Veterans and Service Members Mental Health Screening Act - Directs the Secretary of Defense to ensure that each member of the Armed Forces on active duty is required to participate in confidential, in-person screenings for mental health conditions by a licensed mental health professional to reduce the prevalence of suicide among service members, future veterans, and veterans.
 
Prohibits the Secretary from using the results of such a screening to prohibit a member from returning to the United States, prohibit a member from being discharged from the Armed Forces, or involuntarily discharge a member.
 
Directs the Secretary to require that each member on active duty is screened for a traumatic brain injury by a licensed professional who is qualified to conduct such screening.
 
Directs the Secretary and the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to establish a joint protocol to share existing and future reports concerning screenings conducted under this Act to help aid members and veterans who are transitioning from receiving health care and treatment through the Department of Defense to receiving such care and services through the Department of Veterans Affairs.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-08-03
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Military Personnel.
action_date: 2009-06-19
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2009-06-17
text: Referred to House Veterans' Affairs
action_date: 2009-06-17
text: Referred to the Committee on Armed Services, and in addition to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs, 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: 2009-06-17
text: Referred to House Armed Services
action_date: 2009-06-17
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-06-17
text: Introduced in House
Stop Very Unscrupulous Loan Transfers from Underprivileged countries to Rich, Exploitive Funds Act

Bill: 111-hr-2932
Sponsor: Rep. Waters, Maxine [D-CA-35]
Introduced: 2009-06-18 in the House
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Civil actions and liability
Evidence and witnesses
Financial services and investments
Foreign loans and debt
Government liability
Judicial procedure and administration
U.S. and foreign investments

Summary:
action_date: 2009-06-18
text: 
Stop Very Unscrupulous Loan Transfers from Underprivileged Countries to Rich, Exploitive Funds Act or the Stop VULTURE Funds Act - Prohibits: (1) any U.S. person from engaging in sovereign debt profiteering, or any person at all from engaging in such profiteering in the United States; and (2) any U.S. court from issuing a summons, subpoena, writ, judgment, attachment, or execution in aid of a claim which would further sovereign debt profiteering.
 
Sets forth required court disclosures in actions involving collection of sovereign debt.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-07-23
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Courts and Competition Policy.
action_date: 2009-06-18
text: Referred to House Financial Services
action_date: 2009-06-18
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committee on Financial 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: 2009-06-18
text: Referred to House Judiciary
action_date: 2009-06-18
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-06-18
text: Introduced in House
Firearm Recidivist Sentencing Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-2933
Sponsor: Rep. Scott, Robert C. "Bobby" [D-VA-3]
Introduced: 2009-06-18 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Criminal procedure and sentencing
Drug trafficking and controlled substances
Firearms and explosives
Violent crime

Summary:
action_date: 2009-06-18
text: 
Firearm Recidivist Sentencing Act of 2009 - Amends the federal criminal code to provide that individuals are subject to the 25-year mandatory minimum prison term for carrying or using a firearm while committing a violent crime or drug trafficking offense only if they have been previously convicted of such offense and such conviction has become final. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-07-23
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.
action_date: 2009-06-18
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2009-06-18
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-06-18
text: Introduced in House
Common Sense in Sentencing Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-2934
Sponsor: Rep. Scott, Robert C. "Bobby" [D-VA-3]
Introduced: 2009-06-18 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Criminal procedure and sentencing

Summary:
action_date: 2009-06-18
text: 
Common Sense in Sentencing Act of 2009 - Amends the federal criminal code to authorize a federal court to impose a sentence below a statutory minimum if necessary to avoid violating federal provisions prescribing factors courts must consider in imposing a sentence.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-07-14
text: Subcommittee Hearings Held.
action_date: 2009-07-10
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.
action_date: 2009-06-18
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2009-06-18
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-06-18
text: Introduced in House
Travel Promotion Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-2935
Sponsor: Rep. Delahunt, Bill [D-MA-10]
Introduced: 2009-06-18 in the House
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Advisory bodies
Competitiveness, trade promotion, trade deficits
Congressional oversight
Executive agency funding and structure
Government corporations and government-sponsored enterprises
Government information and archives
Government studies and investigations
Government trust funds
Immigration status and procedures
Travel and tourism
User charges and fees

Summary:
action_date: 2009-06-18
text: 
Travel Promotion Act of 2009 - Establishes the Corporation for Travel Promotion as a nonprofit corporation that is not an agency or establishment of the U.S. government. Makes the Corporation subject to the provisions of the District of Columbia Nonprofit Corporation Act. Expresses the sense of Congress that the Corporation should not engage in lobbying activities.
 
Requires the Corporation, among other things, to provide useful information to people interested in traveling to the United States, identify and address perceptions regarding U.S. entry policy, and promote U.S. travel.
 
Establishes in the Treasury the Travel Promotion Fund.
 
 Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to require (under current law, authorize) the Secretary of Homeland Security to establish and collect a fee for the use of an electronic data sharing system concerning the admissibility of certain aliens into the United States that will ensure recovery of the full costs of providing and administering such system. Terminates such fee following FY2014.
 
Authorizes the Corporation to impose an annual assessment on U.S. members of the travel and tourism industry.
 
Amends the International Travel Act of 1961 to: (1) revise the membership of the Tourism Policy Council; and (2) require the Council to provide the Corporation with certain information concerning U.S. admission procedures and travel promotion strategies.
 
Directs the Government Accountability Office (GAO) to conduct a study to assess barriers to entry into the United States by foreign travelers.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-07-23
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration, Citizenship, Refugees, Border Security, and International Law.
action_date: 2009-07-07
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Border, Maritime, and Global Counterterrorism.
action_date: 2009-06-19
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Commerce, Trade and Consumer Protection.
action_date: 2009-06-18
text: Referred to House Homeland Security
action_date: 2009-06-18
text: Referred to House Judiciary
action_date: 2009-06-18
text: Referred to House Energy and Commerce
action_date: 2009-06-18
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on the Judiciary, and Homeland Security, 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: 2009-06-18
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-06-18
text: Introduced in House
BUILD Manufacturing Act

Bill: 111-hr-2936
Sponsor: Rep. Lipinski, Daniel [D-IL-3]
Introduced: 2009-06-18 in the House
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: Congressional oversight
Corporate finance and management
Financial crises and stabilization
Government lending and loan guarantees
Interest, dividends, interest rates
Manufacturing
Small business

Summary:
action_date: 2009-06-18
text: 
Bill to Underwrite Increased Lending to Domestic (BUILD) Manufacturing Act or BUILD Manufacturing Act - Expresses the sense of Congress that the President should use all available powers to encourage financial institutions that are in receipt of federal financial support to immediately increase lending to the domestic manufacturing sector.
 
Establishes within the Treasury the Manufacturing Loan Guarantee Program, headed by the Administrator of the Term Asset-Backed Securities Loan Facility (established by the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System), to guarantee loans made by depository institutions to U.S. manufacturing companies. Prohibits any such loan from equaling or exceeding 1.5 times the gross net worth of the company receiving the loan. Allows a company to have more than one guaranteed loan, within aggregate dollar limits.
 
Authorizes the Administrator to adjust Program loan guarantee percentages in order to maximize lending and to minimize default rates of participating manufacturers.
 
Expresses the sense of Congress that the Administrator should encourage participating depository institutions to focus on lending to small- and medium-sized manufacturers.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-06-18
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2009-06-18
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-06-18
text: Introduced in House
MRSA Infection Prevention and Patient Protection Act

Bill: 111-hr-2937
Sponsor: Rep. Speier, Jackie [D-CA-12]
Introduced: 2009-06-18 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Department of Health and Human Services
Drug therapy
Health facilities and institutions
Health information and medical records
Health programs administration and funding
Health promotion and preventive care
Hospital care
Immunology and vaccination
Infectious and parasitic diseases
Medical tests and diagnostic methods
Medicare

Summary:
action_date: 2009-06-18
text: 
MRSA Infection Prevention and Patient Protection Act - Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) to promulgate regulations relating to MRSA (methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus), including regulations that provide a list of best practices for preventing MRSA infections and such other antibiotic resistant pathogens as the Secretary determines appropriate.
 
Requires each acute care hospital to screen each patient entering an intensive care unit or other high-risk hospital department. Directs the Secretary to: (1) establish a process and a timetable for extending the screening requirements to patients admitted to all hospitals by January 1, 2014; and (2) report to Congress on whether payment adjustments should be made under Medicare to assist certain hospitals in defraying the cost of screening for, and the subsequent treatment of, MRSA or other infections. 
 
Requires all hospitals to: (1) comply with specified MRSA best practices, including contact precautions and patient notification; and (2) report hospital-acquired MRSA and other infections that occur in the facility. 
 
Requires the Secretary to: (1) establish systems for identifying infected transferred patients and for promptly informing any facility that has transferred an infected patient; and (2) publish the names of providers who fail to take steps to reduce the incidence of MRSA infections.
 
Permits a hospital to apply to the Secretary for a one-year increase in the amount of the capital-related costs payment made to the hospital under the prospective payment system to provide for the rapid implementation of MRSA screening programs and initiatives.
 
Requires the Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to award a grant for a pilot program to develop a rapid, cost-effective method for testing for MRSA using a molecular testing method.
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Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-06-19
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2009-06-18
text: Referred to House Ways and Means
action_date: 2009-06-18
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Ways and Means, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2009-06-18
text: Referred to House Energy and Commerce
action_date: 2009-06-18
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-06-18
text: Introduced in House
Oncology Care Quality Improvement Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-2939
Sponsor: Rep. Crowley, Joseph [D-NY-7]
Introduced: 2009-06-18 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Advisory bodies
Cancer
Health care costs and insurance
Health care quality
Long-term, rehabilitative, and terminal care
Medicare

Summary:
action_date: 2009-06-18
text: 
Oncology Care Quality Improvement Act of 2009 - Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) to establish a pilot program of oncology care quality improvement (OCQI) under title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to evaluate the impact of three provider-led approaches to improve the care quality and outcome for Medicare beneficiaries with cancer while addressing care cost drivers by creating greater efficiencies in the program.
 
Specifies the three provider-led approaches as: (1) evidence-based guideline adherence; (2) patient education and care coordination services; and (3) end-of-life planning and counseling services.
 
Directs the Secretary to appoint an advisory committee to collaborate with the Secretary on the creation and implementation of the OCQI program.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-06-19
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2009-06-18
text: Referred to House Energy and Commerce
action_date: 2009-06-18
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: 2009-06-18
text: Referred to House Ways and Means
action_date: 2009-06-18
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-06-18
text: Introduced in House