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Thomas G. Schubert Agent Orange Fairness Act

Bill: 111-hr-3491
Sponsor: Rep. Kagen, Steve [D-WI-8]
Introduced: 2009-07-31 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Cancer
Digestive and metabolic diseases
Disability assistance
Veterans' pensions and compensation

Summary:
action_date: 2009-07-31
text: 
Thomas G. Schubert Agent Orange Fairness Act - Presumes to be service-connected, and therefore compensable through veterans' disability compensation, cancers of any tissues through the opening of the gastrointestinal tract to the end, becoming manifest to a degree of disability of 10% or more. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-09-11
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Disability Assistance and Memorial Affairs.
action_date: 2009-07-31
text: Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2009-07-31
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-07-31
text: Introduced in House
Construction Quality Assurance Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-3492
Sponsor: Rep. Kanjorski, Paul E. [D-PA-11]
Introduced: 2009-07-31 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Administrative remedies
Business ethics
General Services Administration
Public contracts and procurement

Summary:
action_date: 2009-07-31
text: 
Construction Quality Assurance Act of 2009 - Requires each solicitation by an executive agency for the procurement of construction in excess of $1 million to require each bidder to submit the name, business location, and nature of work of each subcontractor with whom such bidder will subcontract for work in excess of $100,000. Deems to be non-responsive, and prohibits consideration of, any bidder that fails to list such subcontractors. 
 
Prohibits a contractor from substituting another subcontractor for a listed subcontractor, permitting any subcontract to be voluntarily assigned or transferred, or subcontracting work for which the contractor listed itself, without the contracting officer's consent. 
Sets forth: (1) examples of good cause and procedures required for substitution requests; and (2) penalties for violations of such prohibitions, including suspension or debarment from federal contracts for multiple violations. 
 
 
Requires revisions to the Federal Acquisition Regulation to implement this Act.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-10-23
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Government Management, Organization, and Procurement.
action_date: 2009-07-31
text: Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.
action_date: 2009-07-31
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-07-31
text: Introduced in House
Locality Pay Equity Act

Bill: 111-hr-3493
Sponsor: Rep. Kanjorski, Paul E. [D-PA-11]
Introduced: 2009-07-31 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management

Summary:
action_date: 2009-07-31
text: 
Locality Pay Equity Act - Prohibits the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) from defining more than one local wage area for prevailing rate employees within a pay locality, except with respect to the pay locality designated as &quot;Rest of the United States.&quot;
 
Requires the Director of OPM to ensure that this Act shall not reduce any rate of basic pay for any individual who is serving as a prevailing rate employee.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-10-23
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Federal Workforce, Post Office, and the District of Columbia.
action_date: 2009-07-31
text: Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.
action_date: 2009-07-31
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-07-31
text: Introduced in House
To amend title 10, United States Code, to authorize the availability of appropriated funds for international partnership contact activities conducted by the National Guard, and for other purposes.

Bill: 111-hr-3494
Sponsor: Rep. Kaptur, Marcy [D-OH-9]
Introduced: 2009-07-31 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Appropriations
Defense spending
Department of Defense
Executive agency funding and structure
International organizations and cooperation
Military civil functions
Military command and structure
Military operations and strategy
National Guard and reserves

Summary:
action_date: 2009-07-31
text: 
Makes funds appropriated to the Department of Defense (DOD) available for costs incurred by the National Guard in conducting international military-to-civilian contacts, civilian-to-civilian contacts, and comparable activities in order to: (1) support objectives of the commander of the combatant command for the theater of operations in which the contacts occur; (2) build international civil-military partnerships and capacity; (3) strengthen cooperation between U.S. and foreign departments and agencies; (4) facilitate intergovernmental collaboration between the U.S. government and foreign governments; and (5) facilitate the exchange of information between the U.S. government and foreign governments on matters relating to defense and security.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-07-31
text: Referred to the House Committee on Armed Services.
action_date: 2009-07-31
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-07-31
text: Introduced in House
Preserving Equitable Access to Community-based Home Health (PEACH) Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-3495
Sponsor: Rep. Kaptur, Marcy [D-OH-9]
Introduced: 2009-07-31 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Government trust funds
Home and outpatient care
Medicare

Summary:
action_date: 2009-07-31
text: 
Preserving Equitable Access to Community-based Home Health (PEACH) Act of 2009 - Establishes the PEACH fund from which home health agencies meeting specified criteria shall be paid supplemental amounts in addition to their statutory payment amounts under title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act (SSA).
 
Amends SSA title XVIII to direct the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) to make supplemental payments to certain community-based home health agencies that the Secretary has designated as PEACH agencies for estimated shortfalls due to providing uncompensated care.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-09-08
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2009-07-31
text: Referred to House Energy and Commerce
action_date: 2009-07-31
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: 2009-07-31
text: Referred to House Ways and Means
action_date: 2009-07-31
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-07-31
text: Introduced in House
To authorize and request the President to award the congressional Medal of Honor to Arthur Jibilian for actions behind enemy lines during World War II while a member of the United States Navy and the Office of Strategic Services.

Bill: 111-hr-3496
Sponsor: Rep. Latta, Robert E. [R-OH-5]
Introduced: 2009-07-31 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Conflicts and wars
Congressional tributes
Military personnel and dependents
Veterans' organizations and recognition

Summary:
action_date: 2009-07-31
text: 
Authorizes and requests the President to award the Medal of Honor to Arthur Jibilian for his actions, while a member of the Navy and OSS, during the successful 1944 operation by the Office of Strategic Services (OSS), code-named &quot;Operation Halyard,&quot; to protect and facilitate in the rescue of over 500 allied airmen behind enemy lines. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-10-28
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Military Personnel.
action_date: 2009-07-31
text: Referred to the House Committee on Armed Services.
action_date: 2009-07-31
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-07-31
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide that indebtedness incurred by a partnership in acquiring securities and commodities is not treated as acquisition indebtedness for purposes of determining the unrelated business taxable income of organizations which are partners with limited liability.

Bill: 111-hr-3497
Sponsor: Rep. Levin, Sander M. [D-MI-12]
Introduced: 2009-07-31 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Business investment and capital
Tax-exempt organizations

Summary:
action_date: 2009-07-31
text: 
Amends Internal Revenue Code provisions relating to the tax on the unrelated business income of tax-exempt organizations to exempt from treatment as acquisition indebtedness (subject to the unrelated business income tax) indebtedness incurred or continued by an organization which is a partner with limited liability in a partnership to purchase or carry certain securities or commodities.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-07-31
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2009-07-31
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-07-31
text: Introduced in House
Statewide PTV Access Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-3498
Sponsor: Rep. Lummis, Cynthia M. [R-WY-At Large]
Introduced: 2009-07-31 in the House
Policy area: Science, Technology, Communications
Subjects: Broadcasting, cable, digital technologies
Intellectual property

Summary:
action_date: 2009-07-31
text: 
Statewide PTV Access Act of 2009 - Permits a satellite carrier to retransmit the signals of a state-wide network of noncommercial educational broadcast stations to any subscriber in any county within such state that is: (1) outside that station's local market; and (2) not served by an in-state noncommercial educational television broadcast station.
 
Amends the Communications Act of 1934 to permit a satellite carrier to retransmit the signals of a television broadcast station outside the station's local market directly to its subscribers if: (1) such station is a part of a network of three or more noncommercial educational broadcast stations that are licensed to a single state, political, educational, or special purpose subdivision of a state, or to a single public agency; and (2) the carrier retransmits such signal only to subscribers in a county within that state that is outside the station's local market and is not served by another in-state noncommercial educational broadcast station.
 
 

 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-09-08
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Communications, Technology, and the Internet.
action_date: 2009-07-31
text: Referred to House Energy and Commerce
action_date: 2009-07-31
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, 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: 2009-07-31
text: Referred to House Judiciary
action_date: 2009-07-31
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-07-31
text: Introduced in House
Trademark Protection Act

Bill: 111-hr-3499
Sponsor: Rep. Maffei, Daniel B. [D-NY-25]
Introduced: 2009-07-31 in the House
Policy area: Commerce
Subjects: Intellectual property
Marketing and advertising

Summary:
action_date: 2009-07-31
text: 
Trademark Protection Act - Amends the Trademark Act of 1946 to allow civil suits against persons who use trademarks that are misleadingly misdirective as to origin.
 
Defines &quot;misleadingly misdirective as to origin&quot; as referring to the use of a trademark, which has as an exclusive element the name of a state or municipality within a state, on or in connection with goods that are not or are no longer produced in whole or in part in such state or municipality or that do not contain a component produced in such state or municipality.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-07-31
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2009-07-31
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-07-31
text: Introduced in House
SURGE Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-3500
Sponsor: Rep. Maffei, Daniel B. [D-NY-25]
Introduced: 2009-07-31 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Business investment and capital
Financial services and investments
Government information and archives
Income tax credits
Income tax deductions
Income tax exclusion
Interest, dividends, interest rates
Rural conditions and development
Securities
Small business
Tax administration and collection, taxpayers
Urban and suburban affairs and development
Wages and earnings

Summary:
action_date: 2009-07-31
text: + 
Small and Medium Urban Regions Growth and Empowerment Act of 2009 or the SURGE Act of 2009 - Amends Internal Revenue Code provisions relating to tax-preferred empowerment zones, rural enterprise communities, and renewal communities to: (1) extend the period of designation for such areas through 2019; (2) expand the types of businesses eligible for empowerment zone tax incentives; (3) grant authority to expand the boundaries of empowerment zones and enterprise communities, including those located in rural areas; (4) expand the use of tax-exempt Gulf Opportunity Zone and facility bonds in such areas; and (5) authorize the Secretary of the Treasury to make grants to states, local governments, or nonprofit organizations to make businesses aware of the tax benefits of enterprise zones and to provide technical assistance to small businesses eligible for such benefits.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-07-31
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2009-07-31
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-07-31
text: Introduced in House
Humanity and Pets Partnered Through the Years (HAPPY) Act

Bill: 111-hr-3501
Sponsor: Rep. McCotter, Thaddeus G. [R-MI-11]
Introduced: 2009-07-31 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Animal protection and human-animal relationships
Health care costs and insurance
Income tax deductions
Veterinary medicine and animal diseases

Summary:
action_date: 2009-07-31
text: 
Humanity and Pets Partnered Through the Years (HAPPY) Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow a tax deduction, up to $3,500 per year, for pet care expenses (including veterinary care).


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-07-31
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2009-07-31
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-07-31
text: Introduced in House
Mitochondrial Medicine Research and Treatment Enhancement Act

Bill: 111-hr-3502
Sponsor: Rep. McDermott, Jim [D-WA-7]
Introduced: 2009-07-31 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Cell biology and embryology
Department of Health and Human Services
Executive agency funding and structure
Genetics
Government information and archives
Health information and medical records
Health programs administration and funding
Medical research
National Institutes of Health (NIH)
Research administration and funding

Summary:
action_date: 2009-07-31
text: 
Mitochondrial Medicine Research and Treatment Enhancement Act - Amends the Public Health Service Act to establish within the Office of the Director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) an Office of Mitochondrial Medicine (OMM). 
 
Requires the OMM Director to develop, make publicly available, implement, and biennially update a written plan to facilitate research into mitochondrial medicine. Sets forth as plan objectives: (1) improving coordination of research related to mitochondrial medicine among the national research institutes and between NIH and outside researchers; (2) providing training to research scientists and health professionals engaged in research related to mitochondrial medicine; (3) providing training to health care providers regarding the diagnosis of mitochondrial disease and dysfunction; and (4) establishing scientific review groups with expertise in mitochondrial medicine to oversee relevant research projects in NIH.
 
Requires the OMM Director to award at least five grants, annually, for each of the following: (1) integrated, multi-project research programs related to mitochondrial medicine; and (2) planning activities associated with such programs.
 
Authorizes the Director to award grants to institutions or consortiums of institutions to establish Mitochondrial Medicine Centers of Excellence to promote interdisciplinary research and training related to mitochondrial medicine.
 
Requires the Director to establish: (1) a national registry for the maintenance and sharing for research purposes of medical information collected from patients with mitochondrial disease or dysfunction; and (2) a national biorepository for the maintenance and sharing for research purposes of tissues and DNA collected from such patients.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-09-08
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2009-07-31
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2009-07-31
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-07-31
text: Introduced in House
VA Case Backlog Alleviation and Economic Stimulus Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-3504
Sponsor: Rep. Miller, Jeff [R-FL-1]
Introduced: 2009-07-31 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Appropriations
Department of Veterans Affairs
Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management
Veterans' pensions and compensation

Summary:
action_date: 2009-07-31
text: 
VA Case Backlog Alleviation and Economic Stimulus Act of 2009 - Rescinds 2% of the total amount of the unobligated balances of discretionary appropriations made available by division A of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (P.L. 111-5). 
 
Makes such funds available to the Secretary of Veterans Affairs (VA) to hire claims processors. Requires the Secretary to ensure that such processors are assigned proportionately to each state according to the percentage of veterans residing in that state.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-07-31
text: Referred to House Veterans' Affairs
action_date: 2009-07-31
text: Referred to the Committee on Appropriations, 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: 2009-07-31
text: Referred to House Appropriations
action_date: 2009-07-31
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-07-31
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act to provide an exception from the continuing requirement for annual privacy notices for financial institutions which do not change their policies and practices with regard to disclosing nonpublic personal information from the policies and practices that were disclosed in the most recent disclosure sent to consumers, and for other purposes.

Bill: 111-hr-3506
Sponsor: Rep. Paulsen, Erik [R-MN-3]
Introduced: 2009-07-31 in the House
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: Banking and financial institutions regulation
Consumer affairs
Consumer credit
Right of privacy

Summary:
action_date: 2009-07-31
text: 
Eliminate Privacy Notice Confusion Act - Amends the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act to exempt from its annual privacy policy notice requirement any financial institution which: (1) provides nonpublic personal information only in accordance with specified requirements; (2) does not share information with affiliates under the Fair Credit Reporting Act; and (3) has not changed its policies and practices with regard to disclosing nonpublic personal information from those disclosed in the most recent disclosure sent to consumers. 

action_date: 2010-04-14
text: 
Eliminate Privacy Notice Confusion Act - Amends the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act to exempt from its annual privacy policy notice requirement any financial institution which: (1) provides nonpublic personal information only in accordance with specified requirements; and (2) has not changed its policies and practices with regard to disclosing nonpublic personal information from those disclosed in the most recent disclosure sent to consumers.
 



Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-04-15
text: Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.
action_date: 2010-04-14
text: The title of the measure was amended. Agreed to without objection.
action_date: 2010-04-14
text: Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
action_date: 2010-04-14
text: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended Agreed to by voice vote. (text: CR H2513-2514)
action_date: 2010-04-14
text: Passed/agreed to in House: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended Agreed to by voice vote.(text: CR H2513-2514)
action_date: 2010-04-14
text: DEBATE - The House proceeded with forty minutes of debate on H.R. 3506.
action_date: 2010-04-14
text: Considered under suspension of the rules. (consideration: CR H2513-2514)
action_date: 2010-04-14
text: Mr. Moore (KS) moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended.
action_date: 2009-07-31
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2009-07-31
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-07-31
text: Introduced in House
To amend title 38, United States Code, to provide for an increase in the rates of survivors' and dependents' educational assistance payable by the Secretary of Veterans Affairs.

Bill: 111-hr-3507
Sponsor: Rep. Paulsen, Erik [R-MN-3]
Introduced: 2009-07-31 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Veterans' education, employment, rehabilitation

Summary:
action_date: 2009-07-31
text: 
Increases the monthly rates of the educational assistance allowance payable on behalf of veterans' survivors and dependents.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-09-11
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Disability Assistance and Memorial Affairs.
action_date: 2009-07-31
text: Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2009-07-31
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-07-31
text: Introduced in House
Healthy Savings Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-3508
Sponsor: Rep. Paulsen, Erik [R-MN-3]
Introduced: 2009-07-31 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Disability assistance
Drug therapy
Federal-Indian relations
Health care costs and insurance
Health technology, devices, supplies
Income tax deductions
Income tax exclusion
Medicare
Nutrition and diet
Physical fitness and lifestyle
Prescription drugs
Veterans' pensions and compensation

Summary:
action_date: 2009-07-31
text: 
 Healthy Savings Act of 2009 - Amends Internal Revenue Code provisions relating to health savings accounts (HSAs) to allow: (1) spouses to make increased catch-up contributions to a single HSA; (2) Medicare Part A beneficiaries to establish and contribute to an HSA; (3) veterans eligible for service-connected disability benefits and individuals eligible for Indian health service assistance to establish an HSA; (4) HSAs to incorporate flexible spending and health reimbursement arrangements; (5) the use of HSAs to purchase health insurance; (6) payment of certain medical expenses incurred before the establishment of an HSA; and (7) payments from an HSA for prescription and over-the-counter drugs that aid in the prevention and management of chronic diseases. 
 
Allows Medicare beneficiaries participating in a Medicare Advantage medical savings account (MSA) to exclude from gross income payments made to their MSAs.
 
Treats as medical care for purposes of the tax deduction for medical expenses certain exercise equipment and physical fitness programs and certain nutritional and dietary supplements.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-07-31
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2009-07-31
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-07-31
text: Introduced in House