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Reasonable Prudence in Regulation Act

Bill: 111-hr-2266
Sponsor: Rep. Frank, Barney [D-MA-4]
Introduced: 2009-05-06 in the House
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Banking and financial institutions regulation
Department of the Treasury
Federal Reserve System
Gambling

Summary:
action_date: 2009-05-06
text: 
Reasonable Prudence in Regulation Act - Extends from December 1, 2009, to December 1, 2010, the deadline for compliance with specified regulations prohibiting the funding of unlawful Internet gambling (Regulation GG).


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-12-03
text: Committee Hearings Held.
action_date: 2009-05-06
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2009-05-06
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-05-06
text: Introduced in House
Internet Gambling Regulation and Tax Enforcement Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-2268
Sponsor: Rep. McDermott, Jim [D-WA-7]
Introduced: 2009-05-06 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Gambling
Internet and video services
Internet, web applications, social media
Licensing and registrations
Sales and excise taxes
Tax administration and collection, taxpayers
Taxation of foreign income
User charges and fees

Summary:
action_date: 2009-05-06
text: 
Internet Gambling Regulation and Tax Enforcement Act of 2009 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) impose an Internet gambling license fee on Internet gambling operators and an additional tax on unauthorized bets or wagers; (2) require such operators to file informational returns identifying themselves and the individuals placing bets or wagers with them; (3) require withholding of tax on net Internet gambling winnings and on the winnings of nonresident aliens; and (4) extend the excise tax on wagers to include wagers placed within the United States or any commonwealth, territory, or possession by a U.S. citizen or resident. 
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-05-06
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2009-05-06
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-05-06
text: Introduced in House
Benefits for Qualified World War II Veterans Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-2270
Sponsor: Rep. Buyer, Steve [R-IN-4]
Introduced: 2009-05-06 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Government trust funds
Veterans' pensions and compensation

Summary:
action_date: 2009-05-06
text: 
Benefits for Qualified World War II Veterans Act of 2009 - Establishes in the Treasury the Qualified World War II Veterans Equity Compensation Fund for making monthly payments of $1,000 to World War II veterans who: (1) have not received benefits under the Servicemen's Readjustment Act of 1944; and (2) performed active duty service pursuant to the GI Bill Improvement Act of 1977.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-06-03
text: Forwarded by Subcommittee to Full Committee by Voice Vote .
action_date: 2009-06-03
text: Subcommittee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
action_date: 2009-05-22
text: Subcommittee Hearings Held.
action_date: 2009-05-21
text: Subcommittee Hearings Held.
action_date: 2009-05-08
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Disability Assistance and Memorial Affairs.
action_date: 2009-05-06
text: Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2009-05-06
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-05-06
text: Introduced in House
Nurse Staffing Standards for Patient Safety and Quality Care Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-2273
Sponsor: Rep. Schakowsky, Janice D. [D-IL-9]
Introduced: 2009-05-06 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Employment discrimination and employee rights
Government studies and investigations
Health facilities and institutions
Health personnel
Hospital care
Medicare
Nursing

Summary:
action_date: 2009-05-06
text: 
Nurse Staffing Standards for Patient Safety and Quality Care Act of 2009 - Amends the Public Health Service Act to require hospitals to implement staffing plans that meet specified ratios for direct care registered nurse-to-patient staffing levels for each unit and other requirements, including for receiving input from nurses. Allows the Secretary of Health and Human Services to further limit such ratios as needed to ensure public safety and to establish ratios for units not specified. Provides an exception to such staffing requirements for a declared state of emergency. Requires hospitals to provide the Secretary with their staffing plan and annual updates. Requires the Secretary to conduct audits to ensure the implementation of adequate staffing plans.
 
Requires the Secretary: (1) acting through the Director of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), to complete a study of licensed practical nurse staffing and its effects on patient care in hospitals; and (2) to establish requirements for hospitals based on the outcome of the study.
 
Requires the Secretary to adjust payments to cover additional Medicare costs that are attributable to this Act. Requires the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission to submit to Congress and the Secretary a report estimating total costs and savings attributable to compliance with nurse staffing requirements.
 
Provides nurses with the right to refuse to accept assignments that would violate staffing requirements or for which they are not prepared. Prohibits retaliation by hospitals for such refusals or for reporting violations of staffing requirements.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-05-07
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2009-05-06
text: Referred to House Ways and Means
action_date: 2009-05-06
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: 2009-05-06
text: Referred to House Energy and Commerce
action_date: 2009-05-06
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-05-06
text: Introduced in House
Priorities in Education Spending Act

Bill: 111-hr-2274
Sponsor: Rep. McKeon, Howard P. "Buck" [R-CA-25]
Introduced: 2009-05-06 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Alternative and renewable resources
Arts, Culture, Religion
Child health
Computers and information technology
Correctional facilities and imprisonment
Drug, alcohol, tobacco use
Ecology
Education of the disadvantaged
Education programs funding
Educational technology and distance education
Elementary and secondary education
Energy efficiency and conservation
General education matters
Higher education
Juvenile crime and gang violence
Language arts
Lawyers and legal services
Libraries and archives
Medical education
Mental health
Minority health
Physical fitness and lifestyle
Preschool education
Rural conditions and development
Science and engineering education
Special education
Student aid and college costs
Teaching, teachers, curricula
U.S. history
Veterinary medicine and animal diseases
Vocational and technical education
Women's education

Summary:
action_date: 2009-05-06
text: 
Priorities in Education Spending Act - Repeals specified provisions of the: (1) Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965; (2) Early Learning Opportunities Act; (3) Higher Education Act of 1965; (4) Higher Education Amendments of 1998; (5) Education of the Deaf Act of 1986; (6) Higher Education Opportunity Act; (7) Stevenson-Wydler Technology Innovation Act of 1980; (8) Higher Education Amendments of 1992; (9) Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968; (10) Carl D. Perkins Career and Technical Education Act of 2006; (11) Special Olympics Sport and Empowerment Act of 2004; (12) Head Start Act; (13) Workforce Investment Act; (14) National Environmental Education Act; and (15) America COMPETES Act.
 
Prohibits the Secretary of Education from obligating any funds to implement a literacy program for prisoners under the National Literacy Act of 1991.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-06-04
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education.
action_date: 2009-05-06
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and Labor.
action_date: 2009-05-06
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-05-06
text: Introduced in House
Inflammatory Bowel Disease Research and Awareness Act

Bill: 111-hr-2275
Sponsor: Rep. Jackson, Jesse L., Jr. [D-IL-2]
Introduced: 2009-05-06 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Child health
Congressional oversight
Department of Health and Human Services
Digestive and metabolic diseases
Genetics
Health information and medical records
Health programs administration and funding
Health promotion and preventive care
Medical education
Medical research
Medical tests and diagnostic methods
National Institutes of Health (NIH)
Research administration and funding

Summary:
action_date: 2009-05-06
text: 
Inflammatory Bowel Disease Research and Awareness Act - Amends the Public Health Service Act to require the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to: (1) conduct, support, and expand epidemiology research on inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) (i.e., Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis) in pediatric and adult populations and establish a registry of pediatric IBD patients; (2) enter into cooperative agreements to develop and administer such epidemiology research and the pediatric IBD registry; and (3) award grants to increase awareness of IBD among the general public and health care providers. Requires the Director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to include information on IBD research in the biennial reports of NIH to Congress. 
 
Expresses the sense of Congress that the Directors of NIH and the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases should support specified research and training goals for inflammatory bowel disease. 
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-05-07
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2009-05-06
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2009-05-06
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-05-06
text: Introduced in House
IMPACT Act

Bill: 111-hr-2276
Sponsor: Rep. Bono Mack, Mary [R-CA-45]
Introduced: 2009-05-06 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Child health
Education programs funding
Elementary and secondary education
Government studies and investigations
Health information and medical records
Health programs administration and funding
Health promotion and preventive care
Medical education
Medical research
Mental health
Nutrition and diet
Pedestrians and bicycling
Physical fitness and lifestyle
Teaching, teachers, curricula

Summary:
action_date: 2009-05-06
text: 
Improved Nutrition and Physical Activity Act or the IMPACT Act - Amends the Public Health Service Act to expand an existing grant program for training for health profession students to include training on the treatment of individuals who are overweight, obese, or have eating disorders. 
 
Allows the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) to award grants for the training of primary care physicians and other health professions on how to identify, properly refer, treat, and prevent obesity or eating disorders and aid individuals who are overweight or obese or who suffer from eating disorders. 
Requires the Secretary, acting through the Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), to award grants for programs to: (1) promote healthy eating behaviors, physical activity, emotional wellness, and healthy living; and (2) prevent eating disorders, obesity, being overweight, and related serious and chronic medical conditions. 
Allows the Secretary, acting through the National Center for Health Statistics, to provide for: (1) data collection of fitness levels and physical activity and nutritional behaviors of students from grades 1-12; (2) collection and analysis of data determining the connection between children's and youth's physical and emotional health; and (3) analysis of data collected as part of the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey. 
Requires the Director of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality to review research under this Act to determine if particular information may be important for the health disparities report. 
 
 Permits states to use preventive health and health services block grants for activities and community education programs designed to address and prevent overweight, obesity, and eating disorders through programs to promote healthy eating, exercise habits, and behaviors and emotional and social wellness.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-05-07
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2009-05-06
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2009-05-06
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-05-06
text: Introduced in House
Savings for Working Families Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-2277
Sponsor: Rep. Pomeroy, Earl [D-ND-At Large]
Introduced: 2009-05-06 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Bank accounts, deposits, capital
Business investment and capital
Financial literacy
Higher education
Housing finance and home ownership
Income tax credits
Income tax exclusion
Indian social and development programs
Poverty and welfare assistance
Small business
Student aid and college costs
Tax-exempt organizations

Summary:
action_date: 2009-05-06
text: 
Savings for Working Families Act of 2009 - Allows certain low-income individuals between age 18 and 61 to establish tax-exempt individual development accounts (IDAs) to pay for certain qualified expenses, including education expenses, first-time homebuyer costs, and business capitalization or expansion costs. Sets forth rules for the establishment, maintenance, and termination of IDAs. Permits tax-free withdrawals from IDAs for qualified expenses, but requires IDA beneficiaries to complete one or more financial education courses prior to making an IDA withdrawal.
 
Allows certain financial institutions, tax-exempt organizations, and Indian tribes to sponsor and administer IDAs. Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow such entities a business-related tax credit for the cost of administering IDAs and for making matching contributions to IDAs in parallel accounts. 
 
Provides that IDA amounts shall be disregarded for purposes of determining eligibility for assistance under certain means-tested federal programs.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-05-06
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2009-05-06
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-05-06
text: Introduced in House
To direct the President to transmit to Congress a report on anti-American incitement to violence in the Middle East, and for other purposes.

Bill: 111-hr-2278
Sponsor: Rep. Bilirakis, Gus M. [R-FL-9]
Introduced: 2009-05-06 in the House
Policy area: International Affairs
Subjects: Congressional oversight
Middle East
News media and reporting
Terrorism
Violent crime

Summary:
action_date: 2009-05-06
text: 
Directs the President to submit an annual report to Congress regarding anti-American incitement to violence in the Middle East. Requires that such report include a country-by-country list of media outlets and satellite companies that engage in such incitement.

action_date: 2009-12-08
text: 
Directs the President to submit an annual report to Congress regarding anti-American incitement to violence in the Middle East. Requires that such report include a country-by-country list of media outlets and satellite companies that engage in such incitement.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-12-09
text: Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations.
action_date: 2009-12-08
text: Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
action_date: 2009-12-08
text: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended Agreed to by the Yeas and Nays: (2/3 required): 395 - 3, 9 Present (Roll no. 936). (text: CR H13558)
action_date: 2009-12-08
text: Passed/agreed to in House: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended Agreed to by the Yeas and Nays: (2/3 required): 395 - 3, 9 Present (Roll no. 936).(text: CR H13558)
action_date: 2009-12-08
text: Considered as unfinished business. (consideration: CR H13598-13599)
action_date: 2009-12-08
text: At the conclusion of debate, the Yeas and Nays were demanded and ordered. Pursuant to the provisions of clause 8, rule XX, the Chair announced that further proceedings on the motion would be postponed.
action_date: 2009-12-08
text: DEBATE - The House proceeded with forty minutes of debate on H.R. 2278.
action_date: 2009-12-08
text: Considered under suspension of the rules. (consideration: CR H13558-13560)
action_date: 2009-12-08
text: Mr. Costa moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended.
action_date: 2009-05-06
text: Referred to the House Committee on Foreign Affairs.
action_date: 2009-05-06
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-05-06
text: Introduced in House
Eliminating Disparities in Breast Cancer Treatment Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-2279
Sponsor: Rep. Castor, Kathy [D-FL-11]
Introduced: 2009-05-06 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Cancer
Health care quality
Health information and medical records
Medicare
Performance measurement
Women's health

Summary:
action_date: 2009-05-06
text: 
Eliminating Disparities in Breast Cancer Treatment Act of 2009 - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to direct the Secretary of Health and Human Services to establish a breast cancer treatment quality performance system to: (1) assess and disclose publicly, through the use of quality measures, the quality of care provided for the treatment of breast cancer by specified health care providers; and (2) base payment to such providers for such treatment on their performance with respect to such measures.
 
Requires reduced payments to providers that either do not submit data in accordance with the reporting process in the system, or furnish low quality care for treatment of breast cancer.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-10-08
text: Subcommittee Hearings Held.
action_date: 2009-05-07
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2009-05-06
text: Referred to House Energy and Commerce
action_date: 2009-05-06
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: 2009-05-06
text: Referred to House Ways and Means
action_date: 2009-05-06
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-05-06
text: Introduced in House
Fair Funding for Schools Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-2280
Sponsor: Rep. Hirono, Mazie K. [D-HI-2]
Introduced: 2009-05-06 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Department of Education
Education programs funding
Elementary and secondary education
Executive agency funding and structure
Government buildings, facilities, and property
Indian lands and resources rights
Military facilities and property
Military personnel and dependents
State and local finance
State and local taxation

Summary:
action_date: 2009-05-06
text: 
Fair Funding for Schools Act of 2009 - Amends the Impact Aid program (which compensates local educational agencies (LEAs) for the financial burden of federal activities affecting their areas) of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to alter the formula for determining the payments due LEAs for federal ownership of property when appropriations for a fiscal year are insufficient to provide them with full compensation.
 
Alters the formula for determining the payments due LEAs for eligible federally-connected children. 
 
Includes not only children in average daily attendance, but also those enrolled pursuant to a state open enrollment policy. Continues an LEA's eligibility for such payments while activities associated with military base closures and realignments or force structure changes or relocations are ongoing. Allows the calculation of such payments using current student counts instead of prior fiscal year data when LEAs experience a specified influx of new students due to federal activities.
 
Requires the Secretary of Education to allow LEAs to count their federally-connected children using the date they register their students for the fiscal year for which their application is filed. 
 
Alters the formula for determining the construction payments due LEAs that are eligible for other Impact Aid payments. 
 
Divides 80% of the construction funds evenly between LEAs impacted by military dependent children and LEAs impacted by children residing on Indian lands, with the remainder reserved for emergency repair and modernization grants to LEAs serving Indian lands or experiencing a specified influx of new students due to federal activities.
 
Alters the formula for determining whether a state's plan for equalizing assistance to its LEAs will except it from the prohibition on state aid to LEAs being affected by Impact Aid payments.
 
Requires new LEAs applying for Impact Aid to have boundaries established by state law and the authority to tax or receive an imputed local tax.
 
Reauthorizes appropriations for the Impact Aid program. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-06-04
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education.
action_date: 2009-05-06
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and Labor.
action_date: 2009-05-06
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E1073)
action_date: 2009-05-06
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-05-06
text: Introduced in House
Small Business Opportunity Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-2281
Sponsor: Rep. Kagen, Steve [D-WI-8]
Introduced: 2009-05-06 in the House
Policy area: Commerce
Subjects: Government lending and loan guarantees
Interest, dividends, interest rates
Small business

Summary:
action_date: 2009-05-06
text: 
Small Business Opportunity Act of 2009 - Directs the Administrator of the Small Business Administration (SBA) to establish and implement a program under which the Administrator shall pay, with respect to each SBA-guaranteed small business loan entered into after the enactment of this Act, 100% of the interest due for the first year, 75% for the second year, and 50% for the third. Terminates the authority of the Administrator to make such payments at the end of the the third year following enactment of this Act.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-05-06
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Finance and Tax.
action_date: 2009-05-06
text: Referred to House Financial Services
action_date: 2009-05-06
text: Referred to the Committee on Small Business, 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: 2009-05-06
text: Referred to House Small Business
action_date: 2009-05-06
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-05-06
text: Introduced in House