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Safe Drug Disposal Act of 2009

Bill: 111-s-1336
Sponsor: Sen. Murray, Patty [D-WA]
Introduced: 2009-06-24 in the Senate
Policy area: Environmental Protection
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Consumer affairs
Department of Justice
Drug safety, medical device, and laboratory regulation
Government studies and investigations
Health technology, devices, supplies
Prescription drugs
Solid waste and recycling
Water quality

Summary:
action_date: 2009-06-24
text: 
Safe Drug Disposal Act of 2009 - Amends the Controlled Substances Act to direct the Attorney General to promulgate regulations to: (1) authorize an ultimate user or care taker (a person responsible for taking care of one or more individuals or animals) to dispose of a controlled substance in accordance with a prescribed state program; (2) include five model state programs providing for such disposal through delivery to a designated facility; and (3) allow a state to work with the Attorney General to devise an alternative disposal program that is consistent with this Act.
 
Requires each such program to: (1) require a state to enact legislation as a prerequisite to its adoption and implementation; (2) protect the public safety; (3) allow disposal of controlled substances through persons other than law enforcement personnel; (4) incorporate environmentally sound practices for disposal; (5) be cost-effective; (6) include convenient take-back options for urban and rural locations; and (6) not restrict the funding a state may use to implement it. Allows such a program to apply similarly to a drug or biological product other than a controlled substance.
 
Directs the Comptroller General to collect data on state take-back disposal programs and periodically report to Congress.
 
Amends the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to direct the Secretary of Health and Human Services: (1) in approving drug applications and in licensing biological products, to ensure that the drug or product labeling does not include any recommendation or direction to dispose of the drug by means of a wastewater treatment system, such as by flushing it down the toilet; and (2) to review the labeling of existing drugs and products and order revision of any labeling that includes such a recommendation or direction. Deems any drug or product whose labeling is in violation of such an order to be misbranded.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-06-24
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2009-06-24
text: Introduced in Senate
Filipino Veterans Family Reunification Act of 2009

Bill: 111-s-1337
Sponsor: Sen. Akaka, Daniel K. [D-HI]
Introduced: 2009-06-24 in the Senate
Policy area: Immigration
Subjects: Asia
Citizenship and naturalization
Conflicts and wars
Family relationships
Immigration status and procedures
Philippines
Visas and passports

Summary:
action_date: 2009-06-24
text: 
Filipino Veterans Family Reunification Act of 2009 - Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to exempt from worldwide or numerical immigrant limitations aliens who are the children of Filipino World War II veterans naturalized pursuant to the Immigration Act of 1990.
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-06-24
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. (text of measure as introduced: CR S7007)
action_date: 2009-06-24
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S7006-7007)
action_date: 2009-06-24
text: Introduced in Senate
Financial Literacy for Students Act of 2009

Bill: 111-s-1339
Sponsor: Sen. Hagan, Kay R. [D-NC]
Introduced: 2009-06-24 in the Senate
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Education programs funding
Elementary and secondary education
Financial literacy
Teaching, teachers, curricula

Summary:
action_date: 2009-06-24
text: 
Financial Literacy for Students Act of 2009 - Amends the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to authorize the Secretary of Education to award grants to states to: (1) integrate financial literacy education into their public middle and secondary schools; and (2) provide training to financial literacy teachers in such schools.
 
Authorizes the Secretary to award grants to local educational agencies (LEAs) for the provision of financial literacy training and assistance to parents and students. Encourages LEA grantees to partner with community organizations, financial institutions, or local businesses when implementing such program.
 
Directs the Secretary and the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System to coordinate the activities funded under this Act with the activities carried out by any financial education research center operated by a Federal Reserve bank.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-06-24
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2009-06-24
text: Introduced in Senate
Crime Victims Fund Preservation Act of 2009

Bill: 111-s-1340
Sponsor: Sen. Leahy, Patrick J. [D-VT]
Introduced: 2009-06-24 in the Senate
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Crime victims
Government trust funds
Law enforcement administration and funding

Summary:
action_date: 2009-06-24
text: 
Crime Victims Fund Preservation Act of 2009 - Amends the Victims of Crime Act of 1984 to establish minimum funding levels for the Crime Victims Fund for each of FY2010-FY2014.

action_date: 2009-10-22
text: 

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

 
Crime Victims Fund Preservation Act of 2009 - Amends the Victims of Crime Act of 1984 to establish minimum funding levels for the Crime Victims Fund for each of FY2010-FY2014.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-10-22
text: Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 186.
action_date: 2009-10-22
text: Committee on the Judiciary. Reported by Senator Leahy without amendment. Without written report.
action_date: 2009-10-22
text: Committee on the Judiciary. Reported by Senator Leahy without amendment. Without written report.
action_date: 2009-10-22
text: Committee on the Judiciary. Ordered to be reported without amendment favorably.
action_date: 2009-06-24
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. (text of measure as introduced: CR S7008)
action_date: 2009-06-24
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S7007-7008)
action_date: 2009-06-24
text: Introduced in Senate
Close the SILO/LILO Loophole Act of 2009

Bill: 111-s-1341
Sponsor: Sen. Menendez, Robert [D-NJ]
Introduced: 2009-06-24 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Banking and financial institutions regulation
Business investment and capital
Income tax deductions
Lawyers and legal services
Sales and excise taxes
Tax administration and collection, taxpayers

Summary:
action_date: 2009-06-24
text: 
Close the SILO/LILO Loophole Act of 2009 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) impose a 100% excise tax on any income or benefits received from a SILO (sale-in/lease-out) or LILO (lease-in/lease-out) transaction involving a financial institution and a public entity; and (2) deny a tax deduction for attorney fees or other costs incurred by a party to a SILO or LILO transaction seeking to enforce the terms of such transaction.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-06-24
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2009-06-24
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S7008)
action_date: 2009-06-24
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to include Idaho and Montana as affected areas for purposes of making claims under the Radiation Exposure Compensation Act (42 U.S.C. 2210 note) based on exposure to atmospheric nuclear testing.

Bill: 111-s-1342
Sponsor: Sen. Crapo, Mike [R-ID]
Introduced: 2009-06-24 in the Senate
Policy area: Law
Subjects: Cancer
Government liability
Idaho
Montana
Nuclear weapons
Radiation

Summary:
action_date: 2009-06-24
text: 
Amends the Radiation Exposure Compensation Act to include the states of Idaho and Montana among affected areas for purposes of payments to individuals with certain medical conditions who were exposed to fallout emitted during the U.S. government's atmospheric nuclear tests.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-06-24
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2009-06-24
text: Introduced in Senate
Hunger Free Schools Act

Bill: 111-s-1343
Sponsor: Sen. Brown, Sherrod [D-OH]
Introduced: 2009-06-24 in the Senate
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Child health
Department of Agriculture
Education of the disadvantaged
Education programs funding
Elementary and secondary education
Food assistance and relief
Government information and archives
Medicaid
Military personnel and dependents
Poverty and welfare assistance

Summary:
action_date: 2009-06-24
text: 
Hunger Free Schools Act - Amends the Richard B. Russell National School Lunch Act to direct the Secretary of Agriculture to make performance awards to states that demonstrate outstanding performance or show substantial improvement in directly certifying as eligible for free meals under the school lunch and breakfast programs any children whose families are eligible for supplemental nutrition assistance under the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008. (Direct certification eliminates the need for such families to submit applications for participation in the school lunch and breakfast programs.)
 
Requires each state that directly certifies less than 95% of their children who are eligible for direct certification to implement: (1) a corrective action plan for the current school year; and (2) a direct certification improvement plan, approved by the Secretary, for the following school year.
 
Requires direct certification of children who are members of a household that includes a child: (1) who is eligible for and receiving assistance under title XIX (Medicaid) or title XXI (Children's Health Insurance Program [CHIP, formerly known as SCHIP]) of the Social Security Act; and (2) whose income does not exceed 133% of the federal poverty level. Directs the Secretary to award grants to states to assist them in implementing such certification program.
 
Allows local educational agencies (LEAs) to directly certify children whose household is eligible for a supplemental subsistence allowance for low-income members of the Armed Forces with dependents. 
 
Permits schools and LEAs to receive special assistance payments for free or reduced price meals under the school lunch or breakfast programs that are based not on applications for such meals, but on: (1) estimates, made from recent socioeconomic data, of the number of children eligible for such meals; or (2) if the school or LEA is from a high poverty area, the direct certification of a specified minimum percentage of their students as eligible for free meals due to their eligibility for certain other public assistance. Requires such schools and LEAs to provide free meals to all their students under the school lunch and breakfast programs and cover, from nonfederal sources, the costs of serving such meals that exceed the assistance received under such programs.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-06-24
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry.
action_date: 2009-06-24
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S7008-7009)
action_date: 2009-06-24
text: Introduced in Senate
Highway Investment Protection Act

Bill: 111-s-1344
Sponsor: Sen. Vitter, David [R-LA]
Introduced: 2009-06-24 in the Senate
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Government trust funds
Roads and highways
Transportation programs funding

Summary:
action_date: 2009-06-24
text: 
Highway Investment Protection Act - Requires the Director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) to transfer remaining unobligated stimulus funds under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 to the Highway Trust Fund (HTF) to ensure its solvency through FY2010.
 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to extend the expenditure authority of the HTF through FY2010.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-06-25
text: Read the second time. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 86.
action_date: 2009-06-24
text: Introduced in the Senate. Read the first time. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under Read the First Time.
action_date: 2009-06-24
text: Introduced in Senate
Prescribe A Book Act

Bill: 111-s-1345
Sponsor: Sen. Reed, Jack [D-RI]
Introduced: 2009-06-24 in the Senate
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Books and print media
Child health
Education programs funding
Elementary and secondary education
Health personnel
Language arts
Preschool education
Social work, volunteer service, charitable organizations

Summary:
action_date: 2009-06-24
text: 
Prescribe A Book Act - Creates a Pediatric Early Literacy program under which the Secretary of Education awards matching grants to nonprofit organizations for the implementation of three-part models through which: (1) health care providers encourage parents to read aloud to their children and offer them recommendations and strategies for doing so; (2) health care providers give each visiting child between the ages of six months and five-years a new, developmentally appropriate children's book to take home and keep; and (3) volunteers reading to children in health care facility waiting areas show parents the techniques and pleasures of reading aloud to children.
 
Requires that the books provided to children under the program be obtained at a discount.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-06-24
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. (text of measure as introduced: CR S7009-7010)
action_date: 2009-06-24
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S7009)
action_date: 2009-06-24
text: Introduced in Senate
Carmelo Rodriguez Military Medical Accountability Act of 2009

Bill: 111-s-1347
Sponsor: Sen. Schumer, Charles E. [D-NY]
Introduced: 2009-06-24 in the Senate
Policy area: Law
Subjects: Civil actions and liability
Government liability
Health care quality
Life, casualty, property insurance
Military medicine
Military personnel and dependents

Summary:
action_date: 2009-06-24
text: 
Carmelo Rodriguez Military Medical Accountability Act of 2009 - Amends the Federal Tort Claims Act to allow claims for damages to be brought against the United States for personal injury or death of a member of the Armed Forces arising out of a negligent or wrongful act or omission in the performance of medical, dental, or related health care functions that is provided by persons acting within the scope of their office or employment by or at the direction of the government, whether inside or outside the United States.
 
 Prohibits a claim under this Act from being reduced by the amount of any benefit received under a Servicemember's Group Life Insurance policy. 
 
Makes this Act inapplicable to any claim arising out of the combatant activities of the Armed Forces during the time of armed conflict.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-06-24
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2009-06-24
text: Introduced in Senate
Hunting Heritage Protection Act

Bill: 111-s-1348
Sponsor: Sen. Chambliss, Saxby [R-GA]
Introduced: 2009-06-25 in the Senate
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Civil actions and liability
Intergovernmental relations
Land transfers
Land use and conservation
Outdoor recreation
State and local government operations

Summary:
action_date: 2009-06-25
text: 
Hunting Heritage Protection Act - Requires that federal public land be open to access and use for hunting except as limited by: (1) the federal agency with jurisdiction over the land for national security or public safety reasons or for other reasons authorized by applicable federal law for limiting access; and (2) any law of the state in which the land is located that is applicable to hunting. 
 
Directs the head of each federal agency with authority to manage a natural resource or federal public land to exercise that authority in a manner so as to support, promote, and enhance access to hunting. 
 Instructs the head of each federal agency to ensure that federal land management decisions and actions result in no net loss of land area accessible for hunting on federal public land. 
Requires the heads of federal agencies with authority to manage federal public land on which hunting occurs to report annually on areas administered in which access for hunting was limited and the reasons for the limitations and on areas that were opened to hunting to compensate for areas in which there were such limitations. 
Prohibits a withdrawal, change of classification, or change of management status that effectively closes or limits access to 5,000 or more acres of federal public land for hunting from occurring unless the head of the federal agency that has jurisdiction over the land has submitted written notice of the action to specified congressional committees. 
Grants states the right to file civil actions in district courts in cases where federal agencies fail to comply with state authority to manage or regulate fish and wildlife.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-06-25
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
action_date: 2009-06-25
text: Introduced in Senate
Home Office Tax Deduction Simplification and Improvement Act of 2009

Bill: 111-s-1349
Sponsor: Sen. Snowe, Olympia J. [R-ME]
Introduced: 2009-06-25 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Business investment and capital
Housing finance and home ownership
Income tax deductions

Summary:
action_date: 2009-06-25
text: 
Home Office Tax Deduction Simplification and Improvement Act of 2009 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow a taxpayer who uses a residence to conduct a trade or business to elect a standard tax deduction equal to the product of a standard rate determined by the Secretary of the Treasury and the square footage of the portion of a residence used to conduct a trade or business (home office tax deduction). Modifies the rules for the home office tax deduction to: (1) allow a deduction for the cost of dealing with patients, clients, or customers even if they are not physically present in the home office; and (2) establish a de minimis exemption for personal use of a home office.
 
Requires the Secretary to ensure that all self-employment tax forms and schedules separately state amounts attributable to real estate taxes, mortgage interest, and depreciation for purposes of the home office tax deduction.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-06-25
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. (text of measure as introduced: CR S7074)
action_date: 2009-06-25
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S7073-7074)
action_date: 2009-06-25
text: Introduced in Senate
Fueling America Act of 2009

Bill: 111-s-1350
Sponsor: Sen. Pryor, Mark L. [D-AR]
Introduced: 2009-06-25 in the Senate
Policy area: Energy
Subjects: Air quality
Alternative and renewable resources
Elementary and secondary education
Energy research
Government buildings, facilities, and property
Government studies and investigations
Income tax credits
Motor fuels
Motor vehicles
Oil and gas
Public contracts and procurement
Research and development
Transportation programs funding

Summary:
action_date: 2009-06-25
text: 
Fueling America Act of 2009 - Directs the Secretary of Energy, in coordination with the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), to: (1) conduct a natural gas and liquefied petroleum gas vehicle research, development, and demonstration program; and (2) address the streamlining of manufacturer certification of natural gas and liquefied petroleum gas aftermarket conversion systems to comply with federal requirements and in-use emission standards.
 
Requires the Administrator of General Services to study and report to Congress on whether the federal fleet should increase the number of its light-duty, medium-duty, and heavy-duty natural gas and liquefied petroleum gas vehicles.
 
Amends the Safe, Accountable, Flexible, Efficient Transportation Equity Act: A Legacy for Users (SAFETEA-LU) to increase from 50% to 65% of acquisition costs the federal matching grants for replacing school buses under the clean school bus program.
 
Extends eligibility for such grants to clean school buses with: (1) engines manufactured in model years 2010-2014 that satisfy federal requirements for emissions of oxides of nitrogen and particulate matter; or (2) engines only fueled by compressed natural gas, liquefied natural gas, or liquefied petroleum gas (including eligibility for a grant for an additional 25% of the acquisition costs of such school buses).
 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to increase the percentage rate of, and extend through calendar 2014, the tax credit for the purchase of natural gas vehicle refueling property and liquefied petroleum gas vehicle refueling property.
 
Doubles the incremental cost limits for vehicles fueled by natural gas or liquefied petroleum gas in the formula for determining the new qualified alternative fuel motor vehicle credit.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-06-25
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. (text of measure as introduced: CR S7075-7076)
action_date: 2009-06-25
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S7074-7075)
action_date: 2009-06-25
text: Introduced in Senate
A PLUS Act

Bill: 111-s-1351
Sponsor: Sen. DeMint, Jim [R-SC]
Introduced: 2009-06-25 in the Senate
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Academic performance and assessments
Education of the disadvantaged
Education programs funding
Elementary and secondary education
Government information and archives
Intergovernmental relations
Performance measurement
State and local finance

Summary:
action_date: 2009-06-25
text: 
Academic Partnerships Lead Us to Success Act or the A PLUS Act - Allows each state to enter into a five-year performance agreement with the Secretary of Education permitting it to receive federal funds on a consolidated basis that would otherwise be directed toward specific programs furthering the stated purpose of title I (Improving the Academic Achievement of the Disadvantaged) of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965. 
 
Requires each agreement to be approved by a combination of specified state parties, and list the programs for which consolidated funding is requested. Allows states to use such funds for any educational purpose permitted by state law, but requires them to make certain assurances that they will use fiscal control and fund accounting procedures, abide by federal civil rights laws, and advance educational opportunities for the disadvantaged. Allows amendments to the scope of performance agreements.
 
Requires each agreement state to: (1) maintain an accountability system measuring annual student progress toward state proficiency standards; (2) disseminate annually student performance data disaggregated by specified student groups; and (3) keep aggregate spending on elementary and secondary education at no less than 90% of such spending for the school year coinciding with enactment of this Act.
 
 Limits administrative expenses.
 
Requires the inclusion of private schools and teachers in activities funded on a consolidated basis.
 
Directs the Secretary to evaluate each performance agreement midway through its execution. Allows the Secretary to terminate an agreement whose terms are not met for three consecutive school years.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-06-25
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2009-06-25
text: Introduced in Senate