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Roadmap for Addressing Climate Change in China and India Act of 2009

Bill: 111-s-1191
Sponsor: Sen. Bayh, Evan [D-IN]
Introduced: 2009-06-04 in the Senate
Policy area: Energy
Subjects: Air quality
Alternative and renewable resources
Asia
China
Climate change and greenhouse gases
Coal
Competitiveness, trade promotion, trade deficits
Electric power generation and transmission
Energy efficiency and conservation
Energy storage, supplies, demand
Environmental technology
Government studies and investigations
India
Intellectual property
International organizations and cooperation
Oil and gas
Public transit
Technology transfer and commercialization

Summary:
action_date: 2009-06-04
text: 
Roadmap for Addressing Climate Change in China and India Act of 2009 - Directs the Secretary of Energy (DOE) to prepare an interagency report on climate change and energy policy in China and India and submit such report to specified committees of Congress. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-06-04
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
action_date: 2009-06-04
text: Introduced in Senate
Mobile Wireless Tax Fairness Act of 2009

Bill: 111-s-1192
Sponsor: Sen. Wyden, Ron [D-OR]
Introduced: 2009-06-04 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Sales and excise taxes
State and local taxation
Telephone and wireless communication

Summary:
action_date: 2009-06-04
text: 
Mobile Wireless Tax Fairness Act of 2009 - Prohibits states or local governments from imposing any new discriminatory tax on mobile services, mobile service providers, or mobile service property for five years after the enactment of this Act. Defines &quot;new discriminatory tax&quot; as a tax imposed on mobile services, providers, or property that is not generally imposed on other types of services or property, or that is generally imposed at a lower rate.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-06-04
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2009-06-04
text: Introduced in Senate
Aviation Safety Enhancement Act of 2009

Bill: 111-s-1193
Sponsor: Sen. Snowe, Olympia J. [R-ME]
Introduced: 2009-06-04 in the Senate
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Aviation and airports
Department of Transportation
Employment discrimination and employee rights
Executive agency funding and structure
Government information and archives
Government studies and investigations
Transportation employees
Transportation safety and security

Summary:
action_date: 2009-06-04
text: 
Aviation Safety Enhancement Act of 2009 - Establishes in the Department of Transportation (DOT) an Aviation Safety Whistleblower Investigation Office to receive and assess complaints and information relating to possible violations of aviation safety laws and regulations.
 
Directs the Administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to modify the FAA customer service initiative, mission and vision, and other policy statements to: (1) remove any reference to air carriers and other entities regulated by the FAA as &quot;customers&quot;; (2) state that in regulating safety the only FAA customers are individuals traveling on aircraft; and (3) state that air carriers and other entities regulated by the FAA do not have the right to select the FAA employees who will inspect their operations.
 
Prohibits any person holding an air carrier operating certificate from knowingly employing, or engaging in employment negotiations or making a contractual employment arrangement with an FAA employee if, in the preceding two-year period, the employee: (1) served as, or was responsible for oversight of, an FAA flight standards inspector; and (2) had responsibility to inspect, or oversee inspection of, the operations of the certificate holder.
 
Prohibits any individual serving as a principal supervisory inspector of the FAA from being responsible for overseeing the operations of the same air carrier for a continuous period of more than five years.
 
Directs the FAA Administrator to: (1) modify the Voluntary Disclosure Reporting Program to require inspectors to verify that air carriers implement solutions to correct violations they have voluntarily disclosed and evaluate, before accepting a new report of a previously disclosed violation, whether such air carriers took such corrective actions; (2) establish a process for the review and approval of voluntary self-disclosures about practices received from air carriers; (3) establish a National Review Team to conduct periodic, unannounced audits throughout the United States of air carrier operations and maintenance practices and procedures to evaluate the effectiveness of FAA air carrier oversight; and (4) establish a process for the monthly review of the FAA air transportation oversight system database by FAA employees.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-06-04
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
action_date: 2009-06-04
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S6204)
action_date: 2009-06-04
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to require the Secretary of Agriculture to carry out the Philadelphia universal feeding pilot program until the last day of the 2012-2013 school year of the School District of Philadelphia.

Bill: 111-s-1195
Sponsor: Sen. Specter, Arlen [D-PA]
Introduced: 2009-06-04 in the Senate
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Education of the disadvantaged
Elementary and secondary education
Food assistance and relief
Pennsylvania
Poverty and welfare assistance

Summary:
action_date: 2009-06-04
text: 
Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to extend, through the 2012-2013 school year, the Philadelphia universal feeding pilot program, which allows certain high-poverty schools in Philadelphia to be reimbursed for free and reduced price meals under the School Lunch program on the basis of school-wide demographic surveys of family income, rather than individual applications.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-06-04
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry.
action_date: 2009-06-04
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S6214-6215)
action_date: 2009-06-04
text: Introduced in Senate
Small Business International Trade Enhancements Act of 2009

Bill: 111-s-1196
Sponsor: Sen. Landrieu, Mary L. [D-LA]
Introduced: 2009-06-08 in the Senate
Policy area: Commerce
Subjects: Competitiveness, trade promotion, trade deficits
Executive agency funding and structure
Federal officials
Government lending and loan guarantees
Manufacturing
Office of the U.S. Trade Representative
Small Business Administration
Small business

Summary:
action_date: 2009-06-08
text: 
Small Business International Trade Enhancements Act of 2009 - Amends the Small Business Act to establish an Associate Administrator for International Trade as the head of the Office of International Trade of the Small Business Administration (SBA), who shall be responsible for international trade policy. Grants the SBA Administrator the authority to appoint additional Associate Administrators. 
 
Requires Export Assistance Centers (one-stop shops for U.S. exporters) to aid the Associate Administrator in maintaining a trade distribution network for trade promotion and trade assistance for small businesses. Requires the Associate Administrator to establish annual goals to enhance the export capabilities of small businesses and small manufacturers to compete against foreign entities.
 
Directs the Associate Administrator, in order to provide small businesses access to certain export financing programs, to appoint at least one trade financial specialist within the SBA to oversee international loan programs and assist SBA employees with trade finance issues.
 
Directs the SBA Administrator to ensure that the number of full -time equivalent Office employees assigned to the Export Assistance Centers for U.S. exporters is at least the number that were assigned on January 1, 2003.
 
Increases: (1) the total outstanding amount of an international trade loan guaranteed by the SBA under the Export Working Capital Program; (2) the maximum amount of an international trade loan; and (3) the maximum amount available for export working capital, supplies, or financing. Allows such loan to be secured by a second lien position on the property or equipment financed by the loan or on other assets of the small business concern. (Currently, a first lien position or first mortgage on the property, equipment, or other business assets is required.)
 
Expresses the sense of Congress that the United States Trade Representative (USTR) should establish the position of Assistant USTR for Small Business to promote the trade interests of small businesses.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-06-08
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship. (text of measure as introduced: CR S6258-6260)
action_date: 2009-06-08
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S6257-6258)
action_date: 2009-06-08
text: Introduced in Senate
Josh Miller HEARTS Act

Bill: 111-s-1197
Sponsor: Sen. Voinovich, George V. [R-OH]
Introduced: 2009-06-08 in the Senate
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Cardiovascular and respiratory health
Child health
Education programs funding
Elementary and secondary education
Emergency medical services and trauma care
Health technology, devices, supplies

Summary:
action_date: 2009-06-08
text: 
Josh Miller Helping Everyone Access Responsive Treatment in Schools Act of 2009 or the Josh Miller HEARTS Act - Amends the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to direct the Secretary of Education to award matching grants to local educational agencies (LEAs) to: (1) purchase automated external defibrillators (AEDs) for use in their schools; and/or (2) provide training to meet the grant requirement that at least five adult employees or volunteers at each school where an AED is to be used successfully complete training in its use and in cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR).
 
Requires LEA grant applicants also to demonstrate that: (1) the AEDs are integrated into the schools' emergency response procedures; and (2) emergency services personnel are notified of their locations.
 
Gives grant priority to schools that: (1) lack an AED; (2) typically have a significant number of students, staff, and visitors present during the day; (3) generally have a longer wait for emergency medical services than other public facilities in the community; and (4) have not received funds under the Rural Access to Emergency Devices Act.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-06-08
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2009-06-08
text: Introduced in Senate
Auto Stock for Every Taxpayer Act

Bill: 111-s-1198
Sponsor: Sen. Alexander, Lamar [R-TN]
Introduced: 2009-06-08 in the Senate
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: Civil actions and liability
Corporate finance and management
Economic performance and conditions
Motor vehicles
Securities

Summary:
action_date: 2009-06-08
text: 
Auto Stock for Every Taxpayer Act - Prohibits the Secretary of the Treasury from expending or obligating any more Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) funds for automobile manufacturers that have been participating in the program and have filed for bankruptcy protection. 
 
Imposes on the Secretary the fiduciary duty to maximize the return on the taxpayers' investment in such manufacturers under TARP.
 
Authorizes persons aggrieved by violations of such fiduciary duty to bring civil actions for equitable relief.
 
Requires the Secretary, after the emergence of such an automobile manufacturer from bankruptcy, to provide taxpayers with common stock certificates representing their shares in the aggregate common stock holdings of the federal government in such manufacturer.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-06-08
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.
action_date: 2009-06-08
text: Introduced in Senate
Air Medical Service Safety Improvement Act of 2009

Bill: 111-s-1199
Sponsor: Sen. Cantwell, Maria [D-WA]
Introduced: 2009-06-08 in the Senate
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Aviation and airports
Business records
Department of Transportation
Emergency medical services and trauma care
Government information and archives
Transportation safety and security

Summary:
action_date: 2009-06-08
text: 
Air Medical Service Safety Improvement Act of 2009 - Requires helicopter and fixed-wing aircraft certificate holders providing emergency medical services, if there is a medical crew on board, without regard to whether there are patients on board, to comply with federal safety operating requirements governing commuter and on demand operations as well as persons on board aircraft. Prescribes other requirements for such certificate holders when operating under instrument flight rules or carrying out training.
 
Requires the Administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to initiate a rulemaking to: (1) create a standardized checklist of risk evaluation factors which shall be used by helicopter and fixed-wing aircraft emergency medical service operators to determine whether a mission should be accepted; (2) require such operators to implement and comply with performance-based flight dispatch and flight-following procedures; and (3) develop a method to assess and ensure that such operators comply with the latter requirements.
 
Requires, not later than one year after enactment of this Act, helicopter or fixed-wing aircraft used for emergency medical service to have on board a terrain awareness and warning system device, and a means of displaying its information, that meet FAA guidelines.
 
Requires the Administrator to: (1) require certificate holders for helicopters and fixed-wing aircraft used for emergency medical service operations to report annually on the number of such aircraft used, and number of flights and hours flown, to provide air ambulance services; (2) issue a report on the availability, survivability, and costs of devices that record voice communications and flight data information on existing and new helicopters and fixed-wing aircraft used for emergency medical service operations; and (3) issue regulations to require such devices on board such aircraft. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-06-08
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
action_date: 2009-06-08
text: Introduced in Senate
Short Term Accelerated Retirement of Inefficient Vehicles Act of 2009

Bill: 111-s-1200
Sponsor: Sen. Feinstein, Dianne [D-CA]
Introduced: 2009-06-08 in the Senate
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Budget process
Consumer affairs
Department of Transportation
Energy efficiency and conservation
Government information and archives
Legislative rules and procedure
Motor vehicles
Retail and wholesale trades

Summary:
action_date: 2009-06-08
text: 
Short Term Accelerated Retirement of Inefficient Vehicles Act of 2009 - Establishes in the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) a Cash for Clunkers Temporary Vehicle Trade-In Program through which the Secretary of Transportation, acting through NHTSA, shall: (1) authorize the issuance of a voucher to offset the purchase or lease price for a fuel efficient automobile upon the transfer of the eligible trade-in vehicle title to a participating dealer; (2) register dealers for Program participation; (3) make payments to them for eligible transactions they accept between specified dates; and (4) establish and provide for the enforcement of measures to prevent and penalize fraud under the Program.
 
Prescribes requirements, including combined fuel economy, for $1,000, $2,500, $3,500, and $4,500 vouchers to offset the purchase or lease price for a previously owned (model year 2004 or after) or new fuel efficient passenger automobile or truck.
 
Limits the number of vouchers to one per customer, including joint registered owners of a single eligible trade-in vehicle.
 
Requires a dealer to certify that each eligible trade-in vehicle: (1) has been or will be crushed or shredded, or transferred to an entity that will ensure it will be crushed or shredded, within the period of the Program; and (2) has not been, and will not be, sold, leased, exchanged, or otherwise disposed of for use as an automobile in the United States or in any other country.
 
Makes it unlawful for any person to violate this Act or any regulations issued under it, particularly by fraud. Prescribes civil penalties for any such violation.
 
Directs the Secretary to make Program information available on an Internet website and through other means.
 
Sets forth procedures for expedited congressional consideration of any proposed presidential rescission of discretionary budget authority under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-06-08
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Budget. (text of measure as introduced: CR S6262-6265)
action_date: 2009-06-08
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S6260-6262)
action_date: 2009-06-08
text: Introduced in Senate
Helping Fill the Medicare Rx Gap Act of 2009

Bill: 111-s-1201
Sponsor: Sen. Bingaman, Jeff [D-NM]
Introduced: 2009-06-08 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: HIV/AIDS
Health facilities and institutions
Indian social and development programs
Medicare
Minority health
Prescription drugs

Summary:
action_date: 2009-06-08
text: 
Helping Fill the Medicare Rx Gap Act of 2009 - Amends part D (Voluntary Prescription Drug Benefit Program) of title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act (SSA), with respect to the annual out of pocket threshold, to count costs incurred in providing prescription drugs by the Indian Health Service, a federally-qualified health center, an AIDS drug assistance program, certain hospitals, or a pharmaceutical manufacturer patient assistance program.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-06-08
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. (text of measure as introduced: CR H6265)
action_date: 2009-06-08
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S6265)
action_date: 2009-06-08
text: Introduced in Senate
Small Airport Relief Act of 2009

Bill: 111-s-1202
Sponsor: Sen. Nelson, Ben [D-NE]
Introduced: 2009-06-08 in the Senate
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Aviation and airports
Noise pollution
Transportation programs funding

Summary:
action_date: 2009-06-08
text: 
Small Airport Relief Act of 2009 - Requires the Secretary of Transportation for FY2011 and FY2012 to apportion amounts for airport planning and development and noise compatibility planning and programs to sponsors of primary airports based on the number of passenger boardings at the airport in calendar year 2008 if it had: (1) fewer than 10,000 passenger boardings in the calendar year used to calculate the apportionment for that fiscal year; and (2) 10,000 or more passenger boardings in calendar year 2008.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-06-08
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
action_date: 2009-06-08
text: Introduced in Senate
GROWTH Act

Bill: 111-s-1203
Sponsor: Sen. Baucus, Max [D-MT]
Introduced: 2009-06-08 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Income tax credits
Research and development

Summary:
action_date: 2009-06-08
text: 
Grow Research Opportunities With Taxcredits' Help Act or GROWTH Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) extend the tax credit for increasing research activities through 2010; (2) modify the rate of such credit and make such modified credit permanent after 2010; and (3) increase to 20% the rate of the alternative simplified research tax credit after 2010.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-06-08
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2009-06-08
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S6265-6266)
action_date: 2009-06-08
text: Introduced in Senate
Chiropractic Care Available to All Veterans Act of 2009

Bill: 111-s-1204
Sponsor: Sen. Murray, Patty [D-WA]
Introduced: 2009-06-08 in the Senate
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Alternative treatments
Health care coverage and access
Health facilities and institutions
Musculoskeletal and skin diseases
Veterans' medical care

Summary:
action_date: 2009-06-08
text: 
Chiropractic Care Available to All Veterans Act of 2009 - Amends the Department of Veterans Affairs Health Care Programs Enhancement Act of 2001 to require a program under which the Secretary of Veterans Affairs provides chiropractic care and services to veterans through Department of Veterans Affairs medical centers and clinics to be carried out at: (1) no fewer than 75 medical centers by December 31, 2009; and (2) all medical centers by December 31, 2011.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-10-21
text: Committee on Veterans' Affairs. Hearings held. Hearings printed: S.Hrg. 111-264.
action_date: 2009-06-08
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2009-06-08
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to exempt guides for hire and other operators of uninspected vessels on Lake Texoma from Coast Guard and other regulations, and for other purposes.

Bill: 111-s-1205
Sponsor: Sen. Inhofe, James M. [R-OK]
Introduced: 2009-06-08 in the Senate
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Intergovernmental relations
Lakes and rivers
Licensing and registrations
Marine and inland water transportation
Oklahoma
Outdoor recreation
Texas
Transportation safety and security

Summary:
action_date: 2009-06-08
text: 
Exempts residents or nonresidents who assist, accompany, transport, guide, or aid persons in the taking of fish for monetary or other consideration on Lake Texoma (located on the border between Texas and Oklahoma): (1) who are licensed by the state in which they are operating from any related requirement established or administered by the Coast Guard; and (2) who are licensed by the Coast Guard from state regulation so long as the Coast Guard license remains valid.
 
Prohibits an individual with a license, certificate of registry, or merchant mariners document and serving under the authority of such license, certificate, or document on a vessel that is required to have a vessel security plan from entering an area designated as a secure area in such a plan unless the individual has (or is accompanied by an individual who has) a biometric transportation security card issued by the Secretary of the department in which the Coast Guard is operating. (Current law contains the same prohibition, but without referring to serving under the authority of such license, certificate, or document.)
 
Removes a provision prohibiting an individual engaged on a towing vessel that pushes, pulls, or hauls alongside a tank vessel from entering a secured area without having (or without being accompanied by an individual who has) such a card.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-06-08
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. (text of measure as introduced: CR S6266)
action_date: 2009-06-08
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S6266)
action_date: 2009-06-08
text: Introduced in Senate