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Preservation of Antibiotics for Medical Treatment Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-1549
Sponsor: Rep. Slaughter, Louise McIntosh [D-NY-28]
Introduced: 2009-03-17 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Congressional oversight
Drug safety, medical device, and laboratory regulation
Legislative rules and procedure
Livestock
Veterinary medicine and animal diseases

Summary:
action_date: 2009-03-17
text: 
Preservation of Antibiotics for Medical Treatment Act of 2009 - Amends the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to require the Secretary of Health and Human Services to deny an application for a new animal drug that is a critical antimicrobial animal drug unless the applicant demonstrates that there is a reasonably certainty of no harm to human health due to the development of antimicrobial resistance attributable to the nontherapeutic use of the drug. Defines &quot;critical antimicrobial animal drug&quot; as a drug intended for use in food-producing animals that contains specified antibiotics or other drugs used in humans to treat or prevent disease or infection caused by microorganisms.
 
Requires the Secretary to withdraw approval of a nontherapeutic use of such drugs in food-producing animals two years after the date of enactment of this Act unless certain safety requirements are met. Directs specified congressional committees to hold hearings on the implementation of such a withdrawal of approval.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-07-13
text: Committee Hearings Held.
action_date: 2009-03-18
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2009-03-17
text: Referred to House Rules
action_date: 2009-03-17
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Rules, 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: 2009-03-17
text: Referred to House Energy and Commerce
action_date: 2009-03-17
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E689)
action_date: 2009-03-17
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-03-17
text: Introduced in House
Responsible Education About Life Act

Bill: 111-hr-1551
Sponsor: Rep. Lee, Barbara [D-CA-9]
Introduced: 2009-03-17 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Child health
Drug, alcohol, tobacco use
HIV/AIDS
Health programs administration and funding
Health promotion and preventive care
Performance measurement
Sex and reproductive health
Sexually transmitted diseases

Summary:
action_date: 2009-03-17
text: 
Responsible Education About Life Act - Authorizes the Secretary of Health and Human Services to make grants to states for sex education programs, including education on abstinence and contraception, to prevent teenage pregnancy and sexually transmitted diseases.
 
Expresses the sense of Congress that states are encouraged, although not required, to provide matching funds to receive such grants. 
Requires the Secretary to provide for a national evaluation of a representative sample of such programs for effectiveness in delaying the initiation of sexual intercourse and other high-risk behaviors, preventing pregnancy and sexually transmitted disease, and increasing contraceptive knowledge and behavior. Requires states receiving such grants to provide for an individual evaluation of the state's program by an external, independent entity. 
Prohibits such programs from discriminating on the basis of sex, race, ethnicity, national origin, disability, religion, sexual orientation, or gender identity.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-03-18
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2009-03-17
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2009-03-17
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-03-17
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to increase the amount allowed as a deduction for start-up expenditures.

Bill: 111-hr-1552
Sponsor: Rep. Kratovil, Frank,  Jr. [D-MD-1]
Introduced: 2009-03-17 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Business investment and capital
Income tax deductions

Summary:
action_date: 2009-03-17
text: 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to increase in taxable years beginning in 2009, 2010, or 2011: (1) the limit on the tax deduction for trade or business start-up expenditures from $5,000 to $20,000; and (2) the threshold amount for reducing such limit.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-03-17
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2009-03-17
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-03-17
text: Introduced in House
Mutual Savings Association Preservation Act

Bill: 111-hr-1553
Sponsor: Rep. Ackerman, Gary L. [D-NY-5]
Introduced: 2009-03-17 in the House
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: Banking and financial institutions regulation
Civil actions and liability
Corporate finance and management
Financial services and investments

Summary:
action_date: 2009-03-17
text: 
Mutual Savings Association Preservation Act - Amends the Home Owners' Loan Act to: (1) prohibit any company or subsidiary, or any director, officer, employee, or person with voting power or holding proxies representing more than 25% of the voting shares of such company or subsidiary, from holding, soliciting, or exercising any proxies in respect of a mutual savings association in an attempt to control the association; and (2) allow an aggrieved association to bring a civil action to prevent such takeover attempts.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-04-27
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Courts and Competition Policy.
action_date: 2009-03-17
text: Referred to House Judiciary
action_date: 2009-03-17
text: Referred to the Committee on Financial Services, and in addition to the Committee on the Judiciary, 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: 2009-03-17
text: Referred to House Financial Services
action_date: 2009-03-17
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-03-17
text: Introduced in House
Border Control and Contractor Accountability Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-1555
Sponsor: Rep. Brown-Waite, Ginny [R-FL-5]
Introduced: 2009-03-17 in the House
Policy area: Immigration
Subjects: Border security and unlawful immigration
Department of Homeland Security
Detention of persons
Executive agency funding and structure
Foreign labor
Government information and archives
Government lending and loan guarantees
Public contracts and procurement
Small business

Summary:
action_date: 2009-03-17
text: 
Border Control and Contractor Accountability Act of 2009 - Requires a federal contractor who employs directly or through a subcontractor an alien who is not authorized to work to: (1) be debarred or suspended from federal contracting for three years; and (2) have the contract terminated unless the contractor or subcontractor agrees to terminate the employment of any such alien.
 
Directs the Secretary of Homeland Security to establish the position of Small Business Administration Liaison within United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement to ensure that the Small Business Administration (SBA) does not make or guarantee a loan to an alien who is unlawfully present in the United States. 
 
Authorizes the Secretary to contract with private entities for domestic transport from Border Patrol custody to detention facilities of aliens apprehended at or along U.S. international land or maritime borders. 
 
Prohibits the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) from contracting with a company that employs individuals unless the company agrees to participate in the basic pilot employment confirmation program (under the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996). 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-06-26
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Government Management, Organization, and Procurement.
action_date: 2009-03-24
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Management, Investigations, and Oversight.
action_date: 2009-03-17
text: Referred to House Oversight and Government Reform
action_date: 2009-03-17
text: Referred to the Committee on Homeland Security, and in addition to the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, 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: 2009-03-17
text: Referred to House Homeland Security
action_date: 2009-03-17
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-03-17
text: Introduced in House
To authorize appropriations for the National Historical Publications and Records Commission through fiscal year 2014.

Bill: 111-hr-1556
Sponsor: Rep. Clay, Wm. Lacy [D-MO-1]
Introduced: 2009-03-17 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Executive agency funding and structure
Government information and archives
National Archives and Records Administration

Summary:
action_date: 2009-03-17
text: 
Authorizes appropriations for the National Historical Publications and Records Commission for FY2010-FY2014.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-05-04
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Information Policy, Census, and National Archives.
action_date: 2009-03-17
text: Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.
action_date: 2009-03-17
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-03-17
text: Introduced in House
SAFE Commission Act

Bill: 111-hr-1557
Sponsor: Rep. Cooper, Jim [D-TN-5]
Introduced: 2009-03-17 in the House
Policy area: Economics and Public Finance
Subjects: Accounting and auditing
Advisory bodies
Budget deficits and national debt
Budget process
Economic performance and conditions
Financial services and investments
Government information and archives
Legislative rules and procedure
Medicare
Poverty and welfare assistance
Public participation and lobbying
Securities
Social security and elderly assistance
Tax administration and collection, taxpayers
U.S. and foreign investments

Summary:
action_date: 2009-03-17
text: 
Securing America's Future Economy Commission Act or SAFE Commission Act - Establishes the Securing America's Future Economy (SAFE) Commission to develop legislation designed to address: (1) the unsustainable imbalance between long-term federal spending commitments and projected revenues; (2) increases in net national savings to provide for domestic investment and economic growth; (3) the implications of foreign ownership of federally issued debt instruments; and (4) revision of the budget process to place greater emphasis on long-term fiscal issues.
 
Requires the Commission to: (1) develop one or two methods for estimating the cost of legislation as an alternative to the current Congressional Budget Office (CBO) method; and (2) hold at least one town-hall style public hearing within each federal reserve district.
 
Requires the Commission to submit a legislative proposal to Congress and the President. Authorizes the President to submit to Congress an alternative proposal. Authorizes the Committee on the Budget of either chamber to publish its own alternative proposal in the Congressional Record.
 
Sets forth procedures for consideration of such legislation.
 
Requires CBO to prepare a long-term cost estimate and have it published in the Congressional Record as expeditiously as possible whenever requested to do so by the Commission, the President, or the chairman or ranking minority member of the Committee on the Budget of either chamber.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-03-17
text: Referred to House Rules
action_date: 2009-03-17
text: Referred to the Committee on the Budget, and in addition to the Committee on Rules, 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: 2009-03-17
text: Referred to House Budget
action_date: 2009-03-17
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-03-17
text: Introduced in House
Preexisting Condition Patient Protection Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-1558
Sponsor: Rep. Courtney, Joe [D-CT-2]
Introduced: 2009-03-17 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Disability and health-based discrimination
Employee benefits and pensions
Health care costs and insurance
Health care coverage and access

Summary:
action_date: 2009-03-17
text: 
Preexisting Condition Patient Protection Act of 2009 - Amends the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA), the Public Health Service Act, and the Internal Revenue Code to prohibit a group health plan from: (1) imposing any preexisting condition exclusion; or (2) providing for an affiliation period for coverage offered by a health maintenance organization (HMO). Defines an &quot;affiliation period&quot; as a period of time before health insurance coverage becomes effective.
 
Requires each health insurance issuer offering coverage in the group market in a state to accept every employer in the state that applies for such coverage. 
 
Prohibits preexisting condition exclusions for individual health insurance coverage.
 
Requires the Secretary of Health and Human Services to report to Congress on the impact of this Act on health benefits coverage. Authorizes the Secretary to request claims data, enrollee data, and other appropriate information from group health plans and health insurance issuers. 
 
Directs the Comptroller General to report to Congress on the impact of this Act and other relevant federal laws on the reduction in the number of uninsured and underinsured individuals and on the affordability of coverage.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-05-14
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2009-03-18
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2009-03-17
text: Referred to House Education and Labor
action_date: 2009-03-17
text: Referred to House Ways and Means
action_date: 2009-03-17
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Ways and Means, and Education and Labor, 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: 2009-03-17
text: Referred to House Energy and Commerce
action_date: 2009-03-17
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-03-17
text: Introduced in House
To provide for the resolution of several land ownership and related issues with respect to parcels of land located within the Everglades National Park.

Bill: 111-hr-1559
Sponsor: Rep. Diaz-Balart, Mario [R-FL-25]
Introduced: 2009-03-17 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Florida
Land transfers
Parks, recreation areas, trails

Summary:
action_date: 2009-03-17
text: 
 Requires the Secretary of the Interior, if the state of Florida offers to convey specific parcels of non-federal land within Florida and the offer is acceptable, to accept the offer and convey federal land within Everglades National Park identified as Tract A to the state. 
 
Requires the land acquired by the Secretary through the exchange to become part of the Park. Requires the Secretary, if the Florida Power & Light Company offers to convey non-federal land within Florida identified as Tract D and the offer is acceptable, to accept the offer and convey to the Company the federal land identified as Tract B, along with a perpetual easement on a corridor of land contiguous to that tract for the purpose of vegetation management. 
 
Requires the land acquired by the Secretary to become part of the Park. 
 
Adjusts the boundaries of Everglades National Park upon the completion of the land exchanges authorized by this Act, including by removing the land conveyed out of federal ownership. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-03-23
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests and Public Lands.
action_date: 2009-03-17
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2009-03-17
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-03-17
text: Introduced in House
Permanent Internet Tax Freedom Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-1560
Sponsor: Rep. Eshoo, Anna G. [D-CA-14]
Introduced: 2009-03-17 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Intergovernmental relations
Internet and video services
Internet, web applications, social media
Sales and excise taxes
State and local taxation

Summary:
action_date: 2009-03-17
text: 
Permanent Internet Tax Freedom Act of 2009 - Amends the Internet Tax Freedom Act to make permanent the ban on state and local taxation of Internet access and on multiple or discriminatory taxes on electronic commerce. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-04-27
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Commercial and Administrative Law.
action_date: 2009-03-17
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2009-03-17
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-03-17
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide a standard deduction for the business use of a home.

Bill: 111-hr-1561
Sponsor: Rep. Fortenberry, Jeff [R-NE-1]
Introduced: 2009-03-17 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Business investment and capital
Housing finance and home ownership
Income tax deductions

Summary:
action_date: 2009-03-17
text: 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow a taxpayer who uses a residence to conduct a trade or business a standard tax deduction equal to the lesser of $2,500 or the taxpayer's gross trade or business income derived from the business use of such residence.
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-03-17
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2009-03-17
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-03-17
text: Introduced in House
Lower Brule and Crow Creek Tribal Compensation Act

Bill: 111-hr-1562
Sponsor: Rep. Herseth Sandlin, Stephanie [D-SD-At Large]
Introduced: 2009-03-17 in the House
Policy area: Native Americans
Subjects: Dams and canals
Government trust funds
Indian claims
Indian lands and resources rights
Missouri River
South Dakota

Summary:
action_date: 2009-03-17
text: 
Lower Brule and Crow Creek Tribal Compensation Act - Amends the Lower Brule Sioux Tribe Infrastructure Development Trust Fund Act to increase the aggregate amount to be deposited into the Lower Brule Sioux Tribe Infrastructure Development Trust Fund by the Secretary of the Treasury to provide compensation to the Lower Brule Tribe of South Dakota for damage to tribal land caused by Pick-Sloan projects along the Missouri River.
 
Amends the Crow Creek Sioux Tribe Infrastructure Development Trust Fund Act of 1996 to increase the aggregate amount to be deposited into the Crow Creek Sioux Tribe Infrastructure Development Trust Fund by the Secretary to provide compensation to the Crow Creek Sioux Tribe of South Dakota for such damage.
 
Considers this Act to be full and final compensation to the Lower Brule Sioux Tribe and the Crow Creek Sioux Tribe for damages caused by the construction of the Fort Randall Dam and the Big Bend Dam under the Pick-Sloan Missouri River Basin Program.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-03-17
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2009-03-17
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E687)
action_date: 2009-03-17
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-03-17
text: Introduced in House
To authorize the conveyance of a portion of the campus of the Illiana Health Care System of the Department of Veterans Affairs to Danville Area Community College of Vermilion County, Illinois.

Bill: 111-hr-1563
Sponsor: Rep. Johnson, Timothy V. [R-IL-15]
Introduced: 2009-03-17 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Educational facilities and institutions
Higher education
Illinois
Land transfers
Veterans' medical care

Summary:
action_date: 2009-03-17
text: 
Authorizes the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to convey to the Danville Area Community College of Vermilion County, Illinois, specified real property of the Illiana Health Care System of the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA).


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-03-20
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2009-03-17
text: Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2009-03-17
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-03-17
text: Introduced in House
To designate the headquarters building of the Embassy of the United States in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, as the "Mickey Leland United States Embassy Building".

Bill: 111-hr-1564
Sponsor: Rep. Johnson, Eddie Bernice [D-TX-30]
Introduced: 2009-03-17 in the House
Policy area: International Affairs
Subjects: Africa
Congressional tributes
Ethiopia
Government buildings, facilities, and property
Members of Congress

Summary:
action_date: 2009-03-17
text: 
Designates the U.S. Embassy headquarters building in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, as the &quot;Mickey Leland United States Embassy Building.&quot;


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-03-17
text: Referred to the House Committee on Foreign Affairs.
action_date: 2009-03-17
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-03-17
text: Introduced in House
Honoring Female Congressional Pioneers Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-1565
Sponsor: Rep. Kaptur, Marcy [D-OH-9]
Introduced: 2009-03-17 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Art, artists, authorship
Congressional tributes
Members of Congress
Postal service
U.S. Capitol
Women's rights

Summary:
action_date: 2009-03-17
text: 
Honoring Female Congressional Pioneers Act of 2009 - Directs the Postal Service to provide for the issuance and sale of a semipostal in order to afford the public a convenient means to contribute towards the acquisition (for public display) of works of art honoring Jeanette Rankin, Mary Teresa Norton, Patsy Takemoto Mink, Shirley Anita St. Hill Chisholm, Edith Nourse Rogers, and other female pioneers in U.S. government service and American life. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-06-26
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Federal Workforce, Post Office, and the District of Columbia.
action_date: 2009-03-17
text: Referred to House Administration
action_date: 2009-03-17
text: Referred to the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, and in addition to the Committee on House Administration, 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: 2009-03-17
text: Referred to House Oversight and Government Reform
action_date: 2009-03-17
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-03-17
text: Introduced in House
To prohibit the use of funds to transfer individuals detained at Naval Station, Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, to facilities in Minnesota or to house such individuals at such facilities.

Bill: 111-hr-1566
Sponsor: Rep. Kline, John [R-MN-2]
Introduced: 2009-03-17 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Appropriations
Caribbean area
Correctional facilities and imprisonment
Cuba
Detention of persons
Latin America
Military facilities and property
Minnesota
Terrorism

Summary:
action_date: 2009-03-17
text: 
Prohibits federal funds from being used to: (1) transfer any individual detained by the United States at Naval Station Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, to any military installation or federal detention center in Minnesota; or (2) house any such individual at a Minnesota installation or detention center.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-03-17
text: Referred to the House Committee on Armed Services.
action_date: 2009-03-17
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-03-17
text: Introduced in House