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Primary Care Dental Academic Workforce Development Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-1930
Sponsor: Rep. Kennedy, Patrick J. [D-RI-1]
Introduced: 2009-04-02 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Child health
Dental care
Education programs funding
Health programs administration and funding
Medical education
Student aid and college costs
Teaching, teachers, curricula

Summary:
action_date: 2009-04-02
text: 
Primary Care Dental Academic Workforce Development Act of 2009 - Amends the Public Health Service Act to authorize the Secretary of Health and Human Services to make grants to, or enter into contracts with, programs of general dentistry or pediatric dentistry to plan, develop, and operate a loan repayment program to pay student loans in exchange for service as full-time faculty members. Requires the Secretary to: (1) encourage participating programs to use support to broadly recruit diverse faculty; and (2) establish appropriate financial penalties for individuals not completing their service obligations.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-04-21
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2009-04-02
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2009-04-02
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E855)
action_date: 2009-04-02
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-04-02
text: Introduced in House
Juvenile Crime Reduction Act

Bill: 111-hr-1931
Sponsor: Rep. Kennedy, Patrick J. [D-RI-1]
Introduced: 2009-04-02 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Child health
Crime prevention
Criminal procedure and sentencing
Drug, alcohol, tobacco use
Government studies and investigations
Juvenile crime and gang violence
Law enforcement administration and funding
Mental health

Summary:
action_date: 2009-04-02
text: 
Juvenile Crime Reduction Act - Amends the Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act of 1974 to allow the Administrator of the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention to award grants to public agencies to: (1) provide training to individuals involved in making decisions regarding the disposition of cases involving youth who enter the juvenile justice system; and (2) develop a plan to address the service needs of juveniles with mental health or substance abuse disorders who come into contact with, or are at risk of coming into contact with, the justice system. Requires the Administrator to award matching grants to public agencies to implement such plan.

Authorizes the Administrator to award grants for the establishment of four regional research, training, and technical assistance centers.

Requires the Administrator to award grants to public agencies to reform their mental health and substance abuse policies with respect to juveniles who come into contact with the juvenile justice system.

Requires states receiving juvenile justice grants to include in their state plan information regarding screening, assessment, and treatment of juveniles with mental health and substance abuse disorders. 

Requires the Administrator to: (1) distribute evidence-based practice bonuses to grant recipients if certain requirements are met; and (2) include in the Office's annual report to Congress information regarding the prevalence of mental health disorders among juveniles.

Requires the Coordinating Council on Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention to examine and report on evidence-based practices for decreasing delinquency and recidivism among juveniles with mental health or substance abuse disorders.

Requires the Secretary of Health and Human Services to ensure that a portion of grants awarded under programs to divert individuals with a mental illness from the criminal justice system specifically target juveniles if appropriations for such grants exceed a specified amount.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-04-21
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2009-04-02
text: Referred to House Energy and Commerce
action_date: 2009-04-02
text: Referred to the Committee on Education and Labor, 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: 2009-04-02
text: Referred to House Education and Labor
action_date: 2009-04-02
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-04-02
text: Introduced in House
Child Health Care Crisis Relief Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-1932
Sponsor: Rep. Kennedy, Patrick J. [D-RI-1]
Introduced: 2009-04-02 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Child health
Education programs funding
Government studies and investigations
Health care coverage and access
Health personnel
Health programs administration and funding
Higher education
Medical education
Medicare
Mental health
Student aid and college costs

Summary:
action_date: 2009-04-02
text: 
Child Health Care Crisis Relief Act of 2009 - Amends the Public Health Service Act to authorize the Secretary of Health and Human Services, acting through the Administrator of the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), to establish programs related to mental health services for children and adolescents, to include: (1) entering into contracts with qualified individuals to pay educational loans in exchange for providing mental health services to children and adolescents; (2) awarding scholarships to students who agree to work as child and adolescent mental health service professionals after graduation or completion of residency or fellowship; (3) awarding competitive grants to higher education institutions to establish or expand internship or other field placement programs for students receiving specialized training or clinical experience in child and adolescent mental health; (4) awarding grants to state-licensed mental heath organizations to pay for programs for preservice or in-service training of paraprofessional child and adolescent mental health workers; and (5) awarding grants to higher education institutions to establish or expand graduate child and adolescent mental health programs.
 
 
 
Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to adjust the graduate medical education program to: (1) exclude a reasonable number of residents or fellows in child and adolescent psychiatry when calculating the maximum number of residents in the field of allopathic or osteopathic medicine for which the hospital may be paid; and (2) extend the period of board eligibility for residents and fellows in child and adolescent psychiatry. 
Directs the Administrator to study and report to Congress on the distribution of, and need for, child mental health service professionals and on a comparison of such distribution and need on a state-by-state basis.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-04-21
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2009-04-02
text: Referred to House Ways and Means
action_date: 2009-04-02
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Ways and Means, 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: 2009-04-02
text: Referred to House Energy and Commerce
action_date: 2009-04-02
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E872-873)
action_date: 2009-04-02
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-04-02
text: Introduced in House
American Job and Seasonal Business Preservation Act

Bill: 111-hr-1934
Sponsor: Rep. Kratovil, Frank,  Jr. [D-MD-1]
Introduced: 2009-04-02 in the House
Policy area: Immigration
Subjects: Foreign labor
Visas and passports

Summary:
action_date: 2009-04-02
text: 
American Job and Seasonal Business Preservation Act - Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to exempt certain returning H-2B aliens (temporary nonagricultural worker) from annual numerical limitations in FY2009.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-05-26
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration, Citizenship, Refugees, Border Security, and International Law.
action_date: 2009-04-02
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2009-04-02
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-04-02
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide for the treatment of partnership interests held by partners providing services.

Bill: 111-hr-1935
Sponsor: Rep. Levin, Sander M. [D-MI-12]
Introduced: 2009-04-02 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Business investment and capital
Financial services and investments
Tax administration and collection, taxpayers
Wages and earnings

Summary:
action_date: 2009-04-02
text: 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) to set forth a special rule for the inclusion in gross income of partnership interests transferred in connection with the performance of services; (2) treat as ordinary income or loss net income or loss from an investment services partnership interest; (3) include income and loss from an investment services partnership interest for purposes of determining net earnings from self-employment; (4) apply the rule treating gain from sales between related persons as ordinary income to certain partnership interests; and (5) exempt income from investment services partnership interests from treatment as qualifying income of publicly traded partnerships. 
 
Defines &quot;investment services partnership interest&quot; as any interest in a partnership held by a person who provides services to a partnership by: (1) advising the partnership about investing in, purchasing, or selling specified assets; (2) managing, acquiring, or disposing of specified assets; or (3) arranging financing with respect to acquiring specified assets.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-04-02
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2009-04-02
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-04-02
text: Introduced in House
Nuclear Power Licensing Reform Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-1936
Sponsor: Rep. Lowey, Nita M. [D-NY-18]
Introduced: 2009-04-02 in the House
Policy area: Energy
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Emergency planning and evacuation
Licensing and registrations
Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC)
Nuclear power
Radioactive wastes and releases
Terrorism

Summary:
action_date: 2009-04-02
text: 
Nuclear Power Licensing Reform Act of 2009 - Amends the Atomic Energy Act of 1954 to require, for a commercial license for an atomic power production or utilization facility, that: (1) the facility does not pose an unreasonable threat to persons or the environment because of safety or security vulnerabilities (including vulnerability to terrorist attacks); and (2) there exist adequate evacuation plans for emergency events which have been approved by the relevant federal agencies and states within 50 miles of the facility.

Conditions renewal of any such license on the same criteria and requirements applicable for an original application for initial construction.
 
Instructs the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) to ensure that any changes in the size or distribution of the surrounding population have not resulted in the facility's being located at a site at which a new facility would not be allowed to be built.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-04-21
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Environment.
action_date: 2009-04-02
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2009-04-02
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-04-02
text: Introduced in House
To require the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to retain and redistribute certain amounts collected as fines.

Bill: 111-hr-1937
Sponsor: Rep. Lowey, Nita M. [D-NY-18]
Introduced: 2009-04-02 in the House
Policy area: Energy
Subjects: Emergency planning and evacuation
Intergovernmental relations
Nuclear power
Radioactive wastes and releases
State and local finance

Summary:
action_date: 2009-04-02
text: 
Requires the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) to retain amounts collected for safety-related fines and to distribute them to counties for maintaining radiological emergency preparedness plans required in connection with the nuclear facility with respect to which the fines were collected.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-04-21
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Environment.
action_date: 2009-04-02
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2009-04-02
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-04-02
text: Introduced in House
Promoting Wellness for Individuals with Disabilities Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-1938
Sponsor: Rep. Lowey, Nita M. [D-NY-18]
Introduced: 2009-04-02 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Access Board
Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Advisory bodies
Disability and health-based discrimination
Disability and paralysis
Health personnel
Health programs administration and funding
Health promotion and preventive care
Health technology, devices, supplies
Medical tests and diagnostic methods

Summary:
action_date: 2009-04-02
text: 
Promoting Wellness for Individuals with Disabilities Act of 2009 - Amends the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 to require the Architectural and Transportation Barriers Compliance Board to issue and periodically review standards setting forth the minimum technical criteria for medical diagnostic equipment used in medical settings, to ensure that such equipment: (1) is accessible to and usable by individuals with disabilities; and (2) allows independent entry to, use of, and exit from the equipment by such individuals to the maximum extent possible. Applies such standards to examination tables and chairs, weight scales, mammography equipment, x-ray machines, and other radiological equipment commonly used for diagnostic purposes by health professionals. Sets forth interim standards for such equipment.
 
Amends the Public Health Service Act to allow the Secretary of Health and Human Services to make grants for programs to promote good health, disease prevention, and wellness for individuals with disabilities and prevent secondary conditions in such individuals. Requires the Secretary to establish a National Advisory Committee on Wellness for Individuals With Disabilities to set priorities to carry out such programs, review grant proposals, make recommendations for funding, and annually evaluate the progress of such programs in implementing the priorities.

Provides for training programs to improve competency and clinical skills for providing health care and communicating with patients with disabilities through training integrated into the core curriculum and patient interaction in community-based settings. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-05-14
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Higher Education, Lifelong Learning, and Competitiveness.
action_date: 2009-04-21
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2009-04-02
text: Referred to House Education and Labor
action_date: 2009-04-02
text: Referred to House Ways and Means
action_date: 2009-04-02
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: 2009-04-02
text: Referred to House Energy and Commerce
action_date: 2009-04-02
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-04-02
text: Introduced in House
Electronic Life Safety and Security Systems Federal Background Check Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-1939
Sponsor: Rep. Luetkemeyer, Blaine [R-MO-9]
Introduced: 2009-04-02 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Crime prevention
Criminal justice information and records
Emergency communications systems
Personnel records

Summary:
action_date: 2009-04-02
text: 
Electronic Life Safety and Security Systems Federal Background Check Act of 2009 - Directs the Attorney General to establish a method to permit employers in the electronic life safety and security systems installation and monitoring industry to access criminal history records and other information to conduct background checks of prospective employees. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-05-26
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.
action_date: 2009-04-02
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2009-04-02
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-04-02
text: Introduced in House
Wellness Trust Act

Bill: 111-hr-1940
Sponsor: Rep. Matsui, Doris O. [D-CA-5]
Introduced: 2009-04-02 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Government information and archives
Government trust funds
Health facilities and institutions
Health information and medical records
Health personnel
Health programs administration and funding
Health promotion and preventive care
Licensing and registrations

Summary:
action_date: 2009-04-02
text: 
Wellness Trust Act - Amends the Public Health Service Act to establish the Wellness Trust within the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Requires the Trustees to submit to Congress and make publicly available reports on: (1) a certification system for prevention health workers; (2) payment methodologies and options for paying certified prevention health workers for clinical preventive care; and (3) the amount of money spent on prevention during the most recent year for which such data is available.
 
Requires the Trustees to: (1) establish a plan for delivering and financing prevention priorities and implementing pilot programs; and (2) issue and annually update a ranked list of designated prevention priorities based on the potential of an activity to improve health and the activity's cost effectiveness.
 
Directs the Trustees to establish and sustain the infrastructure for an effective wellness system that includes: (1) an information clearinghouse on prevention priorities and community-based interventions; (2) use and integration of qualified electronic health records; and (3) a system for training and credentialing prevention health workers and prevention health entities.
 
Establishes in the Treasury a Wellness Trust Fund. 
 
Requires the Trust to reimburse certified prevention health workers and prevention health entities for the prevention services and community-based interventions designated by the Trustees as prevention priorities. 
 
Revises the definition of &quot;qualified electronic health record&quot; to require such a record to have the capacity to track the provision of prevention health care over the course of an individual's lifetime and assist in the evaluation of the efficacy of designated prevention priorities.
 
 Requires the Secretary of Health and Human Services to support the integration of prevention health priorities, health data, and tracking of the provision of preventive care by means of qualified electronic health records.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-04-21
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2009-04-02
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2009-04-02
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-04-02
text: Introduced in House
To allow for additional flights beyond the perimeter restriction applicable to Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport.

Bill: 111-hr-1941
Sponsor: Rep. Mitchell, Harry E. [D-AZ-5]
Introduced: 2009-04-02 in the House
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Aviation and airports
Motor carriers
Virginia

Summary:
action_date: 2009-04-02
text: 
Allows certain air carriers that hold or operate air carrier slots at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport, which are used for scheduled air service between that airport and a large hub airport, to use such slots also to provide nonstop air transportation service between Reagan National Airport and another airport more than 1,250 statute miles away (perimeter rule limit).
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-04-03
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Aviation.
action_date: 2009-04-02
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2009-04-02
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E881)
action_date: 2009-04-02
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-04-02
text: Introduced in House
Business Reorganization and Job Preservation Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-1942
Sponsor: Rep. Nadler, Jerrold [D-NY-8]
Introduced: 2009-04-02 in the House
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: Bankruptcy
Industrial facilities
Real estate business

Summary:
action_date: 2009-04-02
text: 
Business Reorganization and Job Preservation Act of 2009 - Amends federal bankruptcy law with respect to the deemed rejection by the trustee in bankruptcy of an unexpired lease of nonresidential real property under which the debtor is the lessee and the immediate surrender of that nonresidential real property to the lessor.
 
Revises the formula for the deadline for assumption or rejection of the unexpired lease before a rejection shall be deemed. Repeals the alternative date of the entry of an order confirming a plan, if that is the earlier of two dates. Fixes the period before deeming at 60 (currently 120) days after the order for relief. Repeals the current discretionary extension period the bankruptcy court may allow. Allows the bankruptcy court to fix another deadline for assumption or rejection, but only within the 60-day period after the order for relief. 
 
Reduces from 45 days to 10 days after a debtor's receipt of goods while insolvent the deadline by which a seller must demand reclamation of the goods in writing.
 
Authorizes the court to deny reclamation to a seller with a right of reclamation that has made such a demand, but only if the court: (1) grants the seller's claim priority as an administrative expense; or (2) secures such claim by a lien.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-05-26
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Commercial and Administrative Law.
action_date: 2009-04-02
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2009-04-02
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-04-02
text: Introduced in House
Tax Equity Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-1943
Sponsor: Rep. Nadler, Jerrold [D-NY-8]
Introduced: 2009-04-02 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Income tax rates
Inflation and prices

Summary:
action_date: 2009-04-02
text: Tax Equity Act of 2009 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to provide regional cost-of-living adjustments in individual income tax rates. Directs the Secretary of Labor to produce a regional cost-of-living index.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-04-02
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2009-04-02
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-04-02
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to permanently extend the subpart F exemption for active financing income.

Bill: 111-hr-1944
Sponsor: Rep. Neal, Richard E. [D-MA-2]
Introduced: 2009-04-02 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Financial services and investments
Foreign and international banking
Foreign and international corporations
Income tax exclusion
Taxation of foreign income

Summary:
action_date: 2009-04-02
text: Amends the Internal Revenue Code, with respect to taxation of U.S. shareholders of controlled foreign corporations, to permanently extend the subpart F exemption (which excludes such income from the shareholder's foreign personal holding company income) for active financing (insurance, banking, financing, or similar businesses) income earned on business operations overseas.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-04-02
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2009-04-02
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-04-02
text: Introduced in House