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No Surface Occupancy Western Arctic Coastal Plain Domestic Energy Security Act

Bill: 111-s-503
Sponsor: Sen. Murkowski, Lisa [R-AK]
Introduced: 2009-02-27 in the Senate
Policy area: Energy
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Alaska
Alternative and renewable resources
Arctic Ocean
Arctic and polar regions
Department of the Interior
Energy revenues and royalties
Government trust funds
Judicial review and appeals
Oil and gas
State and local finance
Wilderness and natural areas, wildlife refuges, wild rivers, habitats
Wildlife conservation and habitat protection

Summary:
action_date: 2009-02-27
text: 
No Surface Occupancy Western Arctic Coastal Plain Domestic Energy Security Act - Authorizes exploration, leasing, development, and production of oil and gas from the Western Coastal Plain.
 
Defines the Western Coastal Plain as the area of Coastal Plain: (1) that borders the land of Alaska to the west and Alaska offshore waters of the Beaufort Sea on the north; and (2) from which the Secretary of the Interior finds oil and gas can be produced through horizontal drilling or other subsurface technology from sites outside or underneath the Coastal Plain surface.
 
Authorizes the Secretary to establish a competitive oil and gas leasing program that will result in an environmentally sound program for the exploration, development, and production of the oil and gas resources of the Western Coastal Plain.
 
Considers such program to be compatible with the purposes for which the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge was established.
 
 
Directs the Secretary to: (1) establish lease sale procedures; and (2) offer for lease those tracts the Secretary considers to have the greatest potential for the discovery of hydrocarbons.
 
Authorizes the Secretary to grant a lease for land on the Western Coastal Plain to the highest responsible qualified bidder. Prescribes lease terms and conditions.
 
Provides for expedited judicial review.

Directs the Secretary to establish in the Treasury the Coastal Plain Local Government Impact Aid Assistance Fund to offset any planning, land use-related, or service-related impacts of offshore development caused by this Act.
 
Prescribes a scheme for the allocation of revenues produced by bonus, rental, and royalty revenues from the federal oil and gas leasing and operations authorized under this Act, requiring 50% to be paid semiannually to the state of Alaska, and the remainder to designated federal entities.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-02-27
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. (text of measure as introduced: CR S2593-2595)
action_date: 2009-02-27
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S2592-2593)
action_date: 2009-02-27
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to redesignate the Department of the Navy as the Department of the Navy and Marine Corps.

Bill: 111-s-504
Sponsor: Sen. Roberts, Pat [R-KS]
Introduced: 2009-02-27 in the Senate
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Department of Defense
Executive agency funding and structure
Military command and structure

Summary:
action_date: 2009-02-27
text: 
Redesignates the: (1) Department of the Navy as the Department of the Navy and Marine Corps; and (2) Secretary of the Navy as the Secretary of the Navy and Marine Corps. Makes similar redesignations with respect to Department Assistant Secretaries and the General Counsel.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-02-27
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Armed Services.
action_date: 2009-02-27
text: Introduced in Senate
Homeowners' Defense Act of 2009

Bill: 111-s-505
Sponsor: Sen. Nelson, Bill [D-FL]
Introduced: 2009-02-27 in the Senate
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: Disaster relief and insurance
Housing finance and home ownership
Insurance industry and regulation
Securities
State and local finance

Summary:
action_date: 2009-02-27
text: 
Homeowners' Defense Act of 2009 - Establishes the National Catastrophe Risk Consortium as a nonprofit, nonfederal entity to: (1) maintain an inventory of catastrophe risk obligations held by state reinsurance funds and state residual insurance market entities; (2) issue, on a conduit basis, securities and other financial instruments linked to catastrophe risks insured or reinsured through Consortium members; (3) coordinate reinsurance contracts; (4) act as a centralized repository of state risk information accessible by certain private-market participants; and (5) use a database to perform research and analysis that encourages standardization of the risk-linked securities market.
 
Instructs the Secretary of the Treasury to implement a national homeowners' insurance stabilization program to make liquidity loans and catastrophic loans to qualified reinsurance programs to: (1) ensure their solvency; (2) improve the availability and affordability of homeowners' insurance; (3) provide incentive for risk transfer to the private capital and reinsurance markets; and (4) spread the risk of catastrophic financial loss resulting from natural disasters and catastrophic events.

Authorizes the Secretary to establish and collect, from qualified and precertified reinsurance programs, a reasonable fee to offset expenses of the program.

Instructs the Secretary to require full repayment of all loans made under this Act.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-02-27
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.
action_date: 2009-02-27
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to provide for the conveyance of certain Bureau of Land Management land in the State of Nevada to the Las Vegas Motor Speedway, and for other purposes.

Bill: 111-s-508
Sponsor: Sen. Ensign, John [R-NV]
Introduced: 2009-03-02 in the Senate
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Land transfers
Motor vehicles
Nevada
Sports and recreation facilities

Summary:
action_date: 2009-03-02
text: 
Provides for the conveyance of certain Bureau of Land Management (BLM) land in Nevada to the Nevada Speedway, LLC. 

Requires: (1) Nevada Speedway, LLC, to pay to the Secretary of the Interior the appraised value of such land; and (2) any costs of the conveyance to be paid by Nevada Speedway, LLC. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-03-02
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
action_date: 2009-03-02
text: Introduced in Senate
Access to Durable Medical Equipment Act

Bill: 111-s-511
Sponsor: Sen. Brownback, Sam [R-KS]
Introduced: 2009-03-03 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Health care quality
Health personnel
Health technology, devices, supplies
Licensing and registrations
Medicare
Prescription drugs

Summary:
action_date: 2009-03-03
text: 
Access to Durable Medical Equipment Act - Amends part B (Supplementary Medical Insurance) of title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act, as amended by the Medicare Improvements for Patients and Providers Act of 2008, with respect to Medicare quality standards for suppliers of items and services which shall be applied by recognized independent accreditation organizations.
 
Applies to pharmacies and pharmacists the eligible professional exemption from such accreditation requirements, unless such standards are designed specifically for application to pharmacies and pharmacists.
 
Authorizes the Secretary of Health and Human Services to exempt pharmacies and pharmacists from such standards if licensing, accreditation, or other mandatory quality requirements apply to them with respect to the furnishing of items and services.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-03-03
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2009-03-03
text: Introduced in Senate
Fairness in Nursing Home Arbitration Act

Bill: 111-s-512
Sponsor: Sen. Martinez, Mel [R-FL]
Introduced: 2009-03-03 in the Senate
Policy area: Law
Subjects: Aging
Alternative dispute resolution, mediation, arbitration
Contracts and agency
Health facilities and institutions
Long-term, rehabilitative, and terminal care

Summary:
action_date: 2009-03-03
text: 
Fairness in Nursing Home Arbitration Act - Provides that a pre-dispute arbitration agreement between a long-term care facility and a resident (or anyone acting on the resident's behalf) shall not be valid or specifically enforceable.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-03-03
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2009-03-03
text: Introduced in Senate
Federal Reserve Transparency Act

Bill: 111-s-513
Sponsor: Sen. Sanders, Bernard [I-VT]
Introduced: 2009-03-03 in the Senate
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: Federal Reserve System
Financial crises and stabilization
Government information and archives
Government lending and loan guarantees

Summary:
action_date: 2009-03-03
text: 
Federal Reserve Transparency Act - Directs the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System to publish on its website, with respect to all loans and other financial assistance it has provided since March 24, 2008: (1) the identity of each business, individual, or entity to which the Board has provided such assistance; (2) the type of financial assistance provided; (3) its value or amount; (4) the date on which it was provided; (5) the specific terms of any repayment expected, including the repayment time period, interest charges, collateral, limitations on executive compensation or dividends, and other material terms; and (6) the specific rationale for providing assistance in each instance.
 
Requires the Board to update such information at least once every 30 days.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-03-03
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.
action_date: 2009-03-03
text: Introduced in Senate
Veterans Rehabilitation and Training Improvements Act of 2009

Bill: 111-s-514
Sponsor: Sen. Akaka, Daniel K. [D-HI]
Introduced: 2009-03-03 in the Senate
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Child care and development
Veterans' education, employment, rehabilitation

Summary:
action_date: 2009-03-03
text: 
Veterans Rehabilitation and Training Improvements Act of 2009 - Requires the amount of subsistence allowance paid to a veteran for a month in which the veteran participates in a Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) rehabilitation program to be equal to the national average of the basic allowance for housing paid to a member of the Armed Forces in pay grade E-5.
 
Authorizes the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to reimburse a veteran who successfully completes a VA rehabilitation program for costs incurred as a direct consequence of program participation, including child care expenses.
 
Repeals the 2600 per-fiscal-year limit on veterans who may participate in the VA program of independent living services and assistance.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-04-29
text: Committee on Veterans' Affairs. Hearings held. Hearings printed: S.Hrg. 111-81.
action_date: 2009-03-03
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs. (text of measure as introduced: CR S2706)
action_date: 2009-03-03
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S2705-2706)
action_date: 2009-03-03
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill for the relief of Majan Jean.

Bill: 111-s-516
Sponsor: Sen. Dodd, Christopher J. [D-CT]
Introduced: 2009-03-03 in the Senate
Policy area: Private Legislation

Summary:
action_date: 2009-03-03
text: Provides for the relief of Majan Jean.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-03-03
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2009-03-03
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill for the relief of Alejandro Gomez and Juan Sebastian Gomez.

Bill: 111-s-517
Sponsor: Sen. Dodd, Christopher J. [D-CT]
Introduced: 2009-03-03 in the Senate
Policy area: Private Legislation

Summary:
action_date: 2009-03-03
text: Provides for the relief of Alejandro Gomez and Juan Sebastian Gomez.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-03-03
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2009-03-03
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S2716)
action_date: 2009-03-03
text: Introduced in Senate
POPs, LRTAP POPs, and PIC Implementation Act of 2009

Bill: 111-s-519
Sponsor: Sen. Harkin, Tom [D-IA]
Introduced: 2009-03-03 in the Senate
Policy area: Environmental Protection
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Agricultural trade
Air quality
Business records
Department of the Treasury
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
Environmental assessment, monitoring, research
Environmental health
Government information and archives
Hazardous wastes and toxic substances
International organizations and cooperation
Pest management
Trade agreements and negotiations
Trade restrictions

Summary:
action_date: 2009-03-03
text: 
POPs, LRTAP POPs, and PIC Implementation Act of 2009 - Amends the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA) to incorporate persistent organic pollutants (POPs) provisions from: (1) the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs Convention); (2) the Protocol on Persistent Organic Pollutants to the Geneva Convention on Long-Range Transboundary Air Pollution (LRTAP POPs Protocol); and (3) the Rotterdam Convention on the Prior Informed Consent Procedure for Certain Hazardous Chemicals and Pesticides in International Trade (PIC Convention). Requires the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to participate in activities supporting implementation of such agreements.
 
Prohibits the sale, distribution, use, production, or disposal of aldrin, chlordane, chlordecone, dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane (DDT), dieldrin, endrin, hexachlorocyclohexane (HCH), heptachlor, hexachlorobenzene, hexabromobiphenyl, mirex, polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), toxaphene, and other specified chemicals in a manner that is inconsistent with U.S. obligations under the POPs Convention or the LRTAP POPs Protocol.
 
Requires the Administrator to publish notice and specified reports and provide the public an opportunity to comment on certain POPs Convention and LRTAP POPs Protocol proposals, risk profiles, decisions, and recommendations. 
 
Requires any person distributing certain chemical substances or mixtures included in the PIC Convention to comply with export conditions and notification requirements. Requires pesticides or active ingredients that are subject to certain notice requirements under the PIC Convention to have certain labeling information, safety data sheets, and documentation of customs codes assigned by the World Customs Organization.
 
Directs the Administrator, with the concurrence of the Secretary of State, to notify the public about PIC Convention decisions to list pesticides and any foreign state's conditions or restrictions a applicable to the importation of the pesticide from the United States.
 
Directs the Administrator to apply the more stringent of conflicting provisions between the POPs Convention and: (1) the LRTAP POPs Protocol; or (2) the PIC Convention.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-03-03
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry.
action_date: 2009-03-03
text: Introduced in Senate
TARP Oversight Enhancement Act

Bill: 111-s-521
Sponsor: Sen. Inhofe, James M. [R-OK]
Introduced: 2009-03-03 in the Senate
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: Congressional oversight
Financial crises and stabilization
Financial services and investments

Summary:
action_date: 2009-03-03
text: 
TARP Oversight Enhancement Act - Amends the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008 (EESA) to bring under the oversight authority of the Comptroller General any entity participating in the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) whose sole expenditure, transaction, or commitment to purchase (or any pattern of such): (1) exceeds $10,000, in aggregate; and (2) is not essential to ensuring the entity's recovery, restoring its solvency, improving its liquidity, enhancing returns for its investors, and increasing its net worth. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-03-03
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.
action_date: 2009-03-03
text: Introduced in Senate
Salmon Lake Land Selection Resolution Act

Bill: 111-s-522
Sponsor: Sen. Murkowski, Lisa [R-AK]
Introduced: 2009-03-04 in the Senate
Policy area: Native Americans
Subjects: Alaska
Alaska Natives and Hawaiians
Indian claims
Indian lands and resources rights
Lakes and rivers
Land transfers

Summary:
action_date: 2009-03-04
text: 
Salmon Lake Land Selection Resolution Act - Ratifies the Salmon Lake Area Land Ownership and Consolidation Agreement, which was executed by the Department of the Interior, the state of Alaska, and the Bering Straits Native Corporation on July 18, 2007. Authorizes the Secretary of the Interior to carry out all actions permitted or required under the Agreement.

action_date: 2010-03-02
text: 
Salmon Lake Land Selection Resolution Act - Ratifies the Salmon Lake Area Land Ownership and Consolidation Agreement, which was initially executed by the United States, the state of Alaska, and the Bering Straits Native Corporation on July 18, 2007. Requires the conveyance to include specified easements developed and agreed upon by the parties. Directs the Secretary of the Interior to carry out all actions required by the Agreement.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-03-02
text: Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 280.
action_date: 2010-03-02
text: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Reported by Senator Bingaman with an amendment in the nature of a substitute. With written report No. 111-130.
action_date: 2010-03-02
text: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Reported by Senator Bingaman with an amendment in the nature of a substitute. With written report No. 111-130.
action_date: 2009-12-16
text: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Ordered to be reported with an amendment in the nature of a substitute favorably.
action_date: 2009-10-08
text: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources Subcommittee on Public Lands and Forests. Hearings held. With printed Hearing: S.Hrg. 111-285.
action_date: 2009-03-04
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
action_date: 2009-03-04
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S2767-2768)
action_date: 2009-03-04
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to amend the Energy Policy Act of 2005 to establish pilot project offices to improve Federal permit coordination for renewable energy.

Bill: 111-s-523
Sponsor: Sen. Tester, Jon [D-MT]
Introduced: 2009-03-04 in the Senate
Policy area: Energy
Subjects: Alternative and renewable resources
Arizona
California
Department of the Interior
Electric power generation and transmission
Executive agency funding and structure
Government trust funds
Licensing and registrations
Marine and coastal resources, fisheries
Montana
Nevada
New Mexico
Wyoming

Summary:
action_date: 2009-03-04
text: 
Amends the Energy Policy Act of 2005 to require the Secretary of Energy to: (1) designate field or district offices of the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) in Arizona, California, New Mexico, Nevada, Montana, and Wyoming to serve as Renewable Energy Pilot Project Offices for coordination of federal permits for renewable energy projects and transmission lines to integrate renewable energy; and (2) enter into an amended memorandum of understanding with the Secretary of Agriculture, the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), and the Chief of Engineers to provide for the inclusion of the additional Renewable Energy Pilot Project Offices in the Federal Permit Streamlining Pilot Project.

Amends the Mineral Leasing Act to make the BLM Permit Processing Improvement Fund available to the Secretary of the Interior for expenditures for the coordination and processing of oil and gas and renewable energy use authorizations on onshore federal land under the jurisdiction of the Pilot Project Offices.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-03-04
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
action_date: 2009-03-04
text: Introduced in Senate
Congressional Accountability and Line-Item Veto Act of 2009

Bill: 111-s-524
Sponsor: Sen. Feingold, Russell D. [D-WI]
Introduced: 2009-03-04 in the Senate
Policy area: Economics and Public Finance
Subjects: Appropriations
Budget deficits and national debt
Budget process
Income tax credits
Income tax deductions
Income tax exclusion
Legislative rules and procedure
Presidents and presidential powers, Vice Presidents
Tariffs

Summary:
action_date: 2009-03-04
text: 
Congressional Accountability and Line-Item Veto Act of 2009 - Amends the Congressional Budget and Impoundment Control Act of 1974 to authorize the President to propose the repeal of any congressional earmark or the cancellation (line item veto) of any limited tariff benefit or targeted tax benefit.
 
 
Sets forth requirements for the President's transmittal to Congress of a special message regarding a proposed repeal or cancellation.
 
Dedicates any repeal or cancellation only to deficit reduction or increase of a surplus.
 
Provides for adjustment of: (1) committee allocations resulting from such rescission; and (2) applicable limits, as appropriate, under the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 (Gramm-Rudman-Hollings Act).
 
Sets forth procedures for expedited congressional consideration of a proposed rescission.
 
 Expresses the sense of Congress that no President or any executive branch official should condition the inclusion or exclusion, or threaten to condition the inclusion or exclusion, of any proposed repeal or cancellation in any special message under this Act upon any vote cast or to be cast by any Member of either chamber.
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-03-04
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Budget. (text of measure as introduced: CR S2768-2771)
action_date: 2009-03-04
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S2768)
action_date: 2009-03-04
text: Introduced in Senate