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Nursing School Clinics Act of 2009

Bill: 111-s-53
Sponsor: Sen. Inouye, Daniel K. [D-HI]
Introduced: 2009-01-06 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Health care coverage and access
Medicaid
Medical education
Nursing

Summary:
action_date: 2009-01-06
text: 
Nursing School Clinics Act of 2009 - Amends title XIX (Medicaid) of the Social Security Act to provide for coverage of nursing school clinic services. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-01-06
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. (text of measure as introduced: CR S59)
action_date: 2009-01-06
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S59)
action_date: 2009-01-06
text: Introduced in Senate
Registered Nurse Safe Staffing Act of 2009

Bill: 111-s-54
Sponsor: Sen. Inouye, Daniel K. [D-HI]
Introduced: 2009-01-06 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Civil actions and liability
Employment discrimination and employee rights
Government information and archives
Health facilities and institutions
Health information and medical records
Health personnel
Medicare
Nursing

Summary:
action_date: 2009-01-06
text: 
Registered Nurse Safe Staffing Act of 2009 - Amends part D (Miscellaneous) of title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act (SSA) to: (1) require each participating hospital to adopt and implement a staffing system that ensures a number of registered nurses on each shift and in each unit of the hospital to ensure appropriate staffing levels for patient care; (2) provide for the public reporting of certain staffing information, including a daily posting for each shift in the hospital of the current number of licensed and unlicensed nursing staff directly responsible for patient care; (3) prescribe recordkeeping, data collection, and evaluation requirements for participating hospitals; (4) specify civil monetary penalties for violations of such requirements; and (5) provide whistleblower protections.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-01-06
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. (text of measure as introduced: CR S60-61)
action_date: 2009-01-06
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S59-60)
action_date: 2009-01-06
text: Introduced in Senate
Equity for Clinical Social Workers Act of 2009

Bill: 111-s-55
Sponsor: Sen. Inouye, Daniel K. [D-HI]
Introduced: 2009-01-06 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Health care coverage and access
Health personnel
Medicare
Social work, volunteer service, charitable organizations

Summary:
action_date: 2009-01-06
text: 
Equity for Clinical Social Workers Act of 2009 - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to provide for reimbursement of covered clinical social worker services according to a new reimbursement methodology similar to the one currently used for other health care professionals. Provides coverage and reimbursement under the new methodology for supplies furnished incident to such services. Excludes the services of clinical social workers from the definition of &quot;inpatient hospital services&quot; for purposes of Medicare. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-01-06
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. (text of measure as introduced: CR S61)
action_date: 2009-01-06
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S61)
action_date: 2009-01-06
text: Introduced in Senate
Autonomy for Psychologists and Social Workers Act of 2009

Bill: 111-s-56
Sponsor: Sen. Inouye, Daniel K. [D-HI]
Introduced: 2009-01-06 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Health personnel
Home and outpatient care
Medicare
Mental health
Social work, volunteer service, charitable organizations

Summary:
action_date: 2009-01-06
text: 
Autonomy for Psychologists and Social Workers Act of 2009 - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to remove the restriction that a clinical psychologist or clinical social worker provide services in a comprehensive outpatient rehabilitation facility to a patient only under the care of a physician. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-01-06
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. (text of measure as introduced: CR S62)
action_date: 2009-01-06
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S61-62)
action_date: 2009-01-06
text: Introduced in Senate
Psychologists in the Service of the Public Act of 2009

Bill: 111-s-57
Sponsor: Sen. Inouye, Daniel K. [D-HI]
Introduced: 2009-01-06 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Health care coverage and access
Health personnel
Health programs administration and funding
Medical education
Mental health
Student aid and college costs

Summary:
action_date: 2009-01-06
text: 
Psychologists in the Service of the Public Act of 2009 - Amends the Public Health Service Act to require the Secretary of Health and Human Services to establish a psychology postdoctoral program to make grants to and enter into contracts with eligible individuals and institutions to encourage the provision of psychological training and services in underserved treatment areas. Requires individuals to possess a doctoral degree in psychology and to agree to provide services to a medically underserved population during the grant and at least one year thereafter. Requires institutions to use provided amounts for fellowships to such individuals.


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 S62)
action_date: 2009-01-06
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S62)
action_date: 2009-01-06
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to modify the application of the tonnage tax on vessels operating in the dual United States domestic and foreign trades, and for other purposes.

Bill: 111-s-58
Sponsor: Sen. Inouye, Daniel K. [D-HI]
Introduced: 2009-01-06 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Income tax rates
Marine and inland water transportation

Summary:
action_date: 2009-01-06
text: 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to modify the alternative tax on qualifying shipping activities to treat a corporation electing such tax as continuing to use a qualifying vessel in the U.S. foreign trade during any period of use in the U.S. domestic trade, thus eliminating the 30 day limitation on operating in U.S. domestic trade under current law. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-01-06
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. (text of measure as introduced: CR S63)
action_date: 2009-01-06
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S62-63)
action_date: 2009-01-06
text: Introduced in Senate
Strengthen the Public Health Service Act

Bill: 111-s-59
Sponsor: Sen. Inouye, Daniel K. [D-HI]
Introduced: 2009-01-06 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Education programs funding
Health information and medical records
Health programs administration and funding
Medical education
Mental health
Sex, gender, sexual orientation discrimination
Student aid and college costs

Summary:
action_date: 2009-01-06
text: 
Strengthen the Public Health Service Act - Amends the Public Health Service Act to allow the Secretary of Health and Human Services to enter into an agreement for the establishment and operation of a student loan fund with any public or other nonprofit school that offers a graduate program in professional psychology.
 
Revises provisions concerning the collection of health professions data, sex discrimination in medical education programs, and definitions to make these applicable to "professional" (rather than "clinical") psychologists.

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 S63-64)
action_date: 2009-01-06
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S63)
action_date: 2009-01-06
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to prohibit the sale and counterfeiting of Presidential inaugural tickets.

Bill: 111-s-60
Sponsor: Sen. Feinstein, Dianne [D-CA]
Introduced: 2009-01-06 in the Senate
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Fraud offenses and financial crimes
Presidents and presidential powers, Vice Presidents

Summary:
action_date: 2009-01-06
text: 
Amends the federal criminal code to make it unlawful to knowingly and willfully sell or forge a ticket to a presidential inaugural ceremony or to use, unlawfully possess, or exhibit a forged ticket with the intent to defraud. Exempts the sale of tickets to a presidential inaugural ceremony that has already occurred or by an official presidential inaugural committee. Imposes a fine and/or prison term of up to one year for violations.

action_date: 2009-01-13
text: 

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

Amends the federal criminal code to make it unlawful to knowingly and willfully sell or forge a ticket to a presidential inaugural ceremony or to use, unlawfully possess, or exhibit a forged ticket with the intent to defraud. Exempts the sale of tickets to a presidential inaugural ceremony that has already occurred or by an official presidential inaugural committee. Imposes a fine and/or prison term of up to one year for violations.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-02-09
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.
action_date: 2009-01-14
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2009-01-14
text: Message on Senate action sent to the House.
action_date: 2009-01-14
text: Received in the House.
action_date: 2009-01-13
text: Passed Senate without amendment by Unanimous Consent. (text: CR S350-351)
action_date: 2009-01-13
text: Passed/agreed to in Senate: Passed Senate without amendment by Unanimous Consent.(text: CR S350-351)
action_date: 2009-01-13
text: Senate Committee on Rules and Administration discharged by Unanimous Consent. (consideration: CR S350-351)
action_date: 2009-01-13
text: Senate Committee on Rules and Administration discharged by Unanimous Consent.(consideration: CR S350-351)
action_date: 2009-01-06
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Rules and Administration. (text of measure as introduced: CR S64)
action_date: 2009-01-06
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S64)
action_date: 2009-01-06
text: Introduced in Senate
Helping Families Save Their Homes in Bankruptcy Act of 2009

Bill: 111-s-61
Sponsor: Sen. Durbin, Richard J. [D-IL]
Introduced: 2009-01-06 in the Senate
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: Bankruptcy
Consumer credit
Housing finance and home ownership

Summary:
action_date: 2009-01-06
text: 
Helping Families Save their Homes in Bankruptcy Act of 2009 - Amends federal bankruptcy law governing a Chapter 13 debtor (adjustment of debts of an individual with regular income). Excludes from computation of debts the secured or unsecured portions of: (1) debts secured by the debtor's principal residence if the current value of that residence is less than the secured debt limit; or (2) debts secured or formerly secured by debtor's principal residence that was either sold in foreclosure or surrendered to the creditor if the current value of such real property is less than the secured debt limit.
 
Declares the credit counseling requirement inapplicable to a Chapter 13 debtor who certifies that he or she has received notice that the holder of a claim secured by the debtor's principal residence may commence a foreclosure on the debtor's principal residence.
 
Requires the court to disallow a claim that is subject to any remedy for damages or rescission due to violations of state or federal consumer protection law, including the Truth in Lending Act, notwithstanding the prior entry of a foreclosure judgment.
 

 

 
Allows modification of the rights of claim holders, in the event of a foreclosure notice for a chapter 13 debtor, among other means by: (1) reducing a claim to equal the value of the debtor's interest in the residence securing such claim, and any adjustments to a related adjustable rate of interest; (2) waiving early repayment or prepayment penalties; and (3) extending the repayment period.
 
Denies debtor liability for certain fees and charges incurred while the bankruptcy case is pending and arising from a debt secured by the debtor's principal residence, unless the claim holder observes specified requirements.
 
Adds to conditions for court confirmation of a plan in bankruptcy that: (1) the holder of a claim secured by the debtor's principal residence retain the lien securing the claim until the later of the payment of such claim as reduced and modified or the discharge of a debtor from all debts; and (2) the plan modifies the claim in good faith. 
 
Excludes from final discharge of a debtor from all debts: (1) any payments to claim holders whose rights are modified under this Act; and (2) any unpaid portion of a claim as reduced.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-01-06
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. (text of measure as introduced: CR S66)
action_date: 2009-01-06
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S64-66)
action_date: 2009-01-06
text: Introduced in Senate
Broadcaster Freedom Act of 2009

Bill: 111-s-62
Sponsor: Sen. Inhofe, James M. [R-OK]
Introduced: 2009-01-06 in the Senate
Policy area: Science, Technology, Communications
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Broadcasting, cable, digital technologies
Federal Communications Commission (FCC)

Summary:
action_date: 2009-01-06
text: 
Broadcaster Freedom Act of 2009 - Amends the Communications Act of 1934 to prohibit the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), notwithstanding any other provision of any Act, from having the authority to require broadcasters to present opposing viewpoints on controversial issues of public importance, commonly referred to as the Fairness Doctrine.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-01-06
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
action_date: 2009-01-06
text: Introduced in Senate
Medicaid Advanced Practice Nurses and Physician Assistants Access Act of 2009

Bill: 111-s-63
Sponsor: Sen. Inouye, Daniel K. [D-HI]
Introduced: 2009-01-06 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Health care costs and insurance
Health care coverage and access
Health personnel
Medicaid
Nursing

Summary:
action_date: 2009-01-06
text: 
Medicaid Advanced Practice Nurses and Physician Assistants Access Act of 2009 - Amends title XIX (Medicaid) of the Social Security Act to eliminate the state option to include nurse practitioners, certified nurse-midwives, and physician assistants as primary care case managers. Specifies as primary care case managers any nurse practitioner, certified nurse-midwife, or physician assistant that provides primary care case management services under a primary care case management contract.
 
Revises the coverage of certain nurse practitioner services under the Medicaid fee-for-service program to remove the specification of certified pediatric nurse practitioner and certified family nurse practitioner in order to extend such coverage to services furnished by a nurse practitioner or clinical nurse specialist. Includes nurse practitioners, clinical nurse specialists, physician assistants, certified nurse midwives, and certified registered nurse anesthetists in the mix of service providers which Medicaid managed care organizations are required to maintain. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-01-06
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. (text of measure as introduced: CR S67)
action_date: 2009-01-06
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S66-67)
action_date: 2009-01-06
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to amend the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act to require approval by the Congress for certain expenditures for the Troubled Asset Relief Program.

Bill: 111-s-64
Sponsor: Sen. Inhofe, James M. [R-OK]
Introduced: 2009-01-06 in the Senate
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: Congressional oversight
Financial crises and stabilization
Housing finance and home ownership

Summary:
action_date: 2009-01-06
text: 
Amends the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act to revise the process for exercising the authority of the Secretary of the Treasury to make purchases of troubled assets in excess of the $350 billion previously obligated.

Changes the Joint Resolution of Disapproval, regarding the exercise of such authority, to a Joint Resolution of Approval. Prohibits the Secretary from exercising authority to make such purchases unless a joint resolution approving the plan is enacted into law within 15 calendar days after Congress receives a report of the Secretary's plan to exercise the authority.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-01-06
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.
action_date: 2009-01-06
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to provide relief to the Pottawatomi Nation in Canada for settlement of certain claims against the United States.

Bill: 111-s-65
Sponsor: Sen. Inouye, Daniel K. [D-HI]
Introduced: 2009-01-06 in the Senate
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Canada
Government liability
Indian claims

Summary:
action_date: 2009-01-06
text: 
Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to pay a specified sum to the Pottawatomi Nation in Canada in settlement and full satisfaction of certain claims.
 
Excludes such payment from the provisions of the Indian Tribal Judgment Funds Use or Distribution Act. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-01-06
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. (text of measure as introduced: CR S68-69)
action_date: 2009-01-06
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S67-68)
action_date: 2009-01-06
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to amend title 10, United States Code, to permit former members of the Armed Forces who have a service-connected disability rated as total to travel on military aircraft in the same manner and to the same extent as retired members of the Armed Forces are entitled to travel on such aircraft.

Bill: 111-s-66
Sponsor: Sen. Inouye, Daniel K. [D-HI]
Introduced: 2009-01-06 in the Senate
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Aviation and airports
Disability and paralysis
Veterans' pensions and compensation

Summary:
action_date: 2009-01-06
text: 
Directs the Secretary of Defense to permit any former member of the armed forces who is entitled to compensation for a service-connected disability rated total by the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to travel on military aircraft to the same extent as retired members of the armed forces. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-01-06
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Armed Services. (text of measure as introduced: CR S69)
action_date: 2009-01-06
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S69)
action_date: 2009-01-06
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to amend title 10, United States Code, to authorize certain disabled former prisoners of war to use Department of Defense commissary and exchange stores.

Bill: 111-s-67
Sponsor: Sen. Inouye, Daniel K. [D-HI]
Introduced: 2009-01-06 in the Senate
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Department of Defense
Disability and health-based discrimination
Veterans' pensions and compensation

Summary:
action_date: 2009-01-06
text: 
Authorizes use of Department of Defense commissary and exchange stores by former prisoners of war who have been honorably separated from service and have a service-connected disability rated at 30% or more. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-01-06
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Armed Services. (text of measure as introduced: CR S69)
action_date: 2009-01-06
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S69)
action_date: 2009-01-06
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to require the Secretary of the Army to determine the validity of the claims of certain Filipinos that they performed military service on behalf of the United States during World War II.

Bill: 111-s-68
Sponsor: Sen. Inouye, Daniel K. [D-HI]
Introduced: 2009-01-06 in the Senate
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Military history
Philippines
Veterans' pensions and compensation

Summary:
action_date: 2009-01-06
text: 
Directs the Secretary of the Army to issue a certificate of service to Filipino nationals who the Secretary determines have performed any military service in the Philippine Islands during World War II which qualifies such a person or a survivor to receive any military, veterans', or other benefits under U.S. laws. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-01-06
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs. (text of measure as introduced: CR S69-70)
action_date: 2009-01-06
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S69)
action_date: 2009-01-06
text: Introduced in Senate
Commission on Wartime Relocation and Internment of Latin Americans of Japanese Descent Act

Bill: 111-s-69
Sponsor: Sen. Inouye, Daniel K. [D-HI]
Introduced: 2009-01-06 in the Senate
Policy area: Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Subjects: Advisory bodies
Conflicts and wars
Government liability
Government studies and investigations
Human rights
Immigration status and procedures
Latin America
Racial and ethnic relations
U.S. history

Summary:
action_date: 2009-01-06
text: 
Commission on Wartime Relocation and Internment of Latin Americans of Japanese Descent Act - Establishes the Commission on Wartime Relocation and Internment of Latin Americans of Japanese descent.
 
Directs the Commission to: (1) extend the study of the Commission on Wartime Relocation and Internment of Civilians to investigate U.S. relocation, internment, and (in some cases) deportation to Axis countries of Latin Americans of Japanese descent held in U.S. custody from December 1941 through February 1948; and (2) recommend appropriate remedies to Congress based on preliminary findings by the original Commission and new discoveries.
 
Terminates the Commission 90 days after submission
 
of its report to Congress (as required by this Act).

action_date: 2009-12-23
text: 

(This measure has not been amended since it was introduced. The summary has been expanded because action occurred on the measure.)

 
Commission on Wartime Relocation and Internment of Latin Americans of Japanese Descent Act - Establishes the Commission on Wartime Relocation and Internment of Latin Americans of Japanese descent.
 
Directs the Commission to: (1) extend the study of the Commission on Wartime Relocation and Internment of Civilians to investigate U.S. relocation, internment, and (in some cases) deportation to Axis countries of Latin Americans of Japanese descent held in U.S. custody from December 1941 through February 1948; and (2) recommend appropriate remedies to Congress based on preliminary findings by the original Commission and new discoveries.
 
Terminates the Commission 90 days after submission
 
of its report to Congress (as required by this Act).
 
Authorizes appropriations.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-12-23
text: Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 250.
action_date: 2009-12-23
text: Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. Reported by Senator Lieberman without amendment. With written report No. 111-112.
action_date: 2009-12-23
text: Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. Reported by Senator Lieberman without amendment. With written report No. 111-112.
action_date: 2009-02-11
text: Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. Ordered to be reported without amendment favorably.
action_date: 2009-01-06
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. (text of measure as introduced: CR S70-71)
action_date: 2009-01-06
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S70)
action_date: 2009-01-06
text: Introduced in Senate