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Family-Based Meth Treatment Access Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-439
Sponsor: Rep. Rehberg, Denny [R-MT-At Large]
Introduced: 2009-01-09 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Child health
Correctional facilities and imprisonment
Drug, alcohol, tobacco use
Health care coverage and access
Health programs administration and funding
Home and outpatient care
Sex and reproductive health
Women's health

Summary:
action_date: 2009-01-09
text: 
Family-Based Meth Treatment Access Act of 2009 - Amends the Public Health Service Act to expand the grant program to provide residential substance abuse treatment to pregnant and postpartum women to include: (1) parenting women substance abuse treatment (including treatment for addiction to methamphetamine); and (2) outpatient treatment services. Requires that such treatment programs be accessible to pregnant and parenting women in health disparity populations. 
 
Requires the Secretary of Health and Human Services to expand, intensify, and coordinate efforts to provide treatment for methamphetamine addiction to pregnant and parenting women.

Requires the Secretary, acting through the Administrator of the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, to award grants, cooperative agreements, or contracts for to assist local jails and detention facilities in providing comprehensive, family-based substance abuse treatment services to pregnant and parenting adults who are considered nonviolent offenders. Sets forth criteria that must be met if such a grant is used for a family drug treatment program that is an alternative to incarceration.

Gives priority in awarding grants under this Act to any entity that agrees to use the award for programs serving an area that: (1) is a rural area, an area with a shortage of mental health professionals, or an area with a shortage of family-based substance abuse treatment options; and (2) has high rates of addiction to methamphetamine or other drugs.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-01-14
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2009-01-09
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2009-01-09
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-01-09
text: Introduced in House
Small Business Liability Reform Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-440
Sponsor: Rep. Rehberg, Denny [R-MT-At Large]
Introduced: 2009-01-09 in the House
Policy area: Law
Subjects: Civil actions and liability
Evidence and witnesses
Federal preemption
Small business

Summary:
action_date: 2009-01-09
text: 
Small Business Liability Reform Act of 2009 - Allows punitive damages against a small business only if the claimant establishes by clear and convincing evidence that conduct carried out by the defendant with a conscious, flagrant indifference to the rights or safety of others was the proximate cause of the harm that is the subject of the action. 
 
States that in any civil action against a small business: (1) each defendant shall be liable only for the amount of noneconomic loss allocated to that defendant in direct proportion to the percentage of responsibility of that defendant for the harm caused to the plaintiff; and (2) the court shall render a separate judgment against each defendant describing such percentage of responsibility.
 
Excepts from such liability limitations specified misconduct of a defendant.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-01-09
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2009-01-09
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-01-09
text: Introduced in House
To grant immunity from civil liability to any person who voluntarily notifies appropriate security personnel of suspicious activity believed to threaten transportation safety or security or takes reasonable action to mitigate such activity.

Bill: 111-hr-441
Sponsor: Rep. Rehberg, Denny [R-MT-At Large]
Introduced: 2009-01-09 in the House
Policy area: Law
Subjects: Civil actions and liability
Criminal justice information and records
Evidence and witnesses
Lawyers and legal services
Terrorism
Transportation safety and security

Summary:
action_date: 2009-01-09
text: 
Grants immunity from civil liability to persons who: (1) in good faith report threats to or acts of terrorism against transportation systems or passengers; and (2) take reasonable action to mitigate such actions.
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-01-09
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2009-01-09
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-01-09
text: Introduced in House
Veterans' Heritage Firearms Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-442
Sponsor: Rep. Rehberg, Denny [R-MT-At Large]
Introduced: 2009-01-09 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Criminal justice information and records
Evidence and witnesses
Firearms and explosives
Government information and archives
Historical and cultural resources
Military personnel and dependents
Museums, exhibitions, cultural centers

Summary:
action_date: 2009-01-09
text: 
Veterans' Heritage Firearms Act of 2009 - Provides a 90-day amnesty period during which veterans and their family members can register in the National Firearms Registration and Transfer Record any firearm acquired before October 31, 1968, by a veteran while a member of the Armed Forces stationed outside the continental United States. Grants such an individual limited immunity under the federal criminal code and the Internal Revenue Code with respect to the acquisition, possession, transportation, or alteration of such firearm before or concurrent with such registration. Extends such immunity to a veteran who attempts to register a qualifying firearm outside of the amnesty period if the veteran surrenders the firearm within 30 days after being notified of potential criminal liability for continued possession.

Requires the Attorney General to: (1) transfer each firearm qualifying as a curio or relic which has been forfeited to the United States to the first qualified museum that requests it; and (2) publish information identifying each such firearm which is available to be transferred to a museum. Prohibits the Attorney General from destroying any such firearm which has been forfeited until five years after the forfeiture. Requires that any firearm transferred to a qualified museum be registered to the transferee.

Makes a prohibition against transfer or possession of a machine-gun inapplicable to a transfer to or by, or possession by, a museum which is open to the public and incorporated as a not-for-profit corporation under applicable state law.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-02-09
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.
action_date: 2009-01-09
text: Referred to House Ways and Means
action_date: 2009-01-09
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, 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: 2009-01-09
text: Referred to House Judiciary
action_date: 2009-01-09
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-01-09
text: Introduced in House
Government Reform Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-443
Sponsor: Rep. Royce, Edward R. [R-CA-40]
Introduced: 2009-01-09 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Advisory bodies
Budget process
Congressional oversight
Executive agency funding and structure
Government information and archives
Government studies and investigations
Performance measurement

Summary:
action_date: 2009-01-09
text: 
Government Reform Act of 2009- Establishes a Government Reform Commission to: (1) examine the current configuration of executive agencies and investigate their duties and responsibilities; (2) review agency operational jurisdictions to determine whether areas of overlap exist and whether the mission of any agency has become obsolete; (3) review and report to the President and Congress on existing Government Accountability Office (GAO), Congressional Budget Office (CBO), and Inspector General reports, together with any other existing governmental and nongovernmental recommendations, including those offered by the President's Private Sector Survey on Cost Control, for reducing waste in executive agencies; (4) submit to the President and Congress a proposed reorganization plan which shall provide for the realignment or closure of executive agencies to reduce duplication of services and increase productivity; and (5) transmit a copy of the plan to the Director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), who shall issue a public report detailing the predicted savings in federal expenditures that would result from implementing such plan. 

Sets forth separate provisions for presidential and congressional consideration of and actions on the proposed reorganization plan.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-02-24
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Government Management, Organization, and Procurement.
action_date: 2009-01-09
text: Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.
action_date: 2009-01-09
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-01-09
text: Introduced in House
340B Program Improvement and Integrity Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-444
Sponsor: Rep. Rush, Bobby L. [D-IL-1]
Introduced: 2009-01-09 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Administrative remedies
Child health
Consumer affairs
Department of Health and Human Services
Drug, alcohol, tobacco use
Government information and archives
Health care costs and insurance
Health facilities and institutions
Hospital care
Medicaid
Medicare
Mental health
Poverty and welfare assistance
Prescription drugs
Rural conditions and development
Sex and reproductive health
Women's health

Summary:
action_date: 2009-01-09
text: 
340B Program Improvement and Integrity Act of 2009 - Amends the Public Health Service Act to expand the drug discount program to allow participation as a covered entity by certain: (1) children's hospitals; (2) critical access hospitals; (3) entities providing maternal and child health services, community mental health services, or treatment services for substance abuse; (4) Medicare-dependent, small rural hospitals; (5) sole community hospitals; and (6) rural referral centers. Prohibits enrolled hospitals from obtaining covered outpatient drugs through a group purchasing arrangement. Requires the Secretary of Health and Human Services to establish reasonable exceptions to such requirements, including for drugs unavailable through the program and to facilitate generic substitution when a generic covered drug is available at a lower price. 
 
Expands the program to include a drug used in connection with an inpatient or outpatient service by enrolled hospitals. (Currently, only outpatient drugs are covered under the program.)

Requires hospitals enrolled in the 340B drug discount program to provide to each state a credit on the estimated annual costs to such hospital of single source and innovator multiple source drugs and noninnovator multiple source drugs provided to Medicaid recipients for inpatient use. Sets forth a formula for calculating the credit. Allows a hospital to avoid paying such credits under certain circumstances. 

Requires the Secretary to: (1) carry out activities to improve compliance by manufacturers and covered entities with the requirements of the drug discount program; and (2) establish an administrative process for resolving claims by covered entities and manufacturers of violations of such requirements.

Requires manufacturers to offer each covered entity covered drugs for purchase at or below the applicable ceiling price if such a drug is made available to any other purchaser at any price.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-01-14
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2009-01-09
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2009-01-09
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-01-09
text: Introduced in House
EXPENSE Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-446
Sponsor: Rep. Sessions, Pete [R-TX-32]
Introduced: 2009-01-09 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Business investment and capital
Income tax deductions

Summary:
action_date: 2009-01-09
text: 
Expensing Property Expands our Nation's Strong Economy Act of 2009 or the EXPENSE Act of 2009 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) repeal the limitations on the expensing of depreciable business assets; and (2) allow taxpayers to elect a two-year recovery period for depreciable property.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-01-09
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2009-01-09
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-01-09
text: Introduced in House
Christopher Kangas Fallen Firefighter Fairness Act

Bill: 111-hr-447
Sponsor: Rep. Sestak, Joe [D-PA-7]
Introduced: 2009-01-09 in the House
Policy area: Labor and Employment
Subjects: Employee benefits and pensions
Employment and training programs
Fires
Social work, volunteer service, charitable organizations
Youth employment and child labor

Summary:
action_date: 2009-01-09
text: 
Christopher Kangas Fallen Firefighter Fairness Act - Amends the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 to expand the definition of &quot;firefighter&quot; for purposes of death benefit provisions to include fire department members regardless of age, status as an apprentice or trainee, or related duty restrictions. Makes this Act applicable to deaths and injuries which occur on or after May 4, 2002.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-02-09
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.
action_date: 2009-01-09
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2009-01-09
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-01-09
text: Introduced in House
Health Care for America's Heroes Act

Bill: 111-hr-449
Sponsor: Rep. Sestak, Joe [D-PA-7]
Introduced: 2009-01-09 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Health care coverage and access
Veterans' medical care

Summary:
action_date: 2009-01-09
text: 
 Health Care for America's Heroes Act - Makes eligible for health care under the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) patient enrollment system veterans with incomes not exceeding 200% of the maximum for treatment as a low-income family. (Currently, only veterans with incomes not exceeding the maximum for treatment as a low-income family are so eligible.)
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-01-16
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2009-01-09
text: Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2009-01-09
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-01-09
text: Introduced in House
Enumerated Powers Act

Bill: 111-hr-450
Sponsor: Rep. Shadegg, John B. [R-AZ-3]
Introduced: 2009-01-09 in the House
Policy area: Congress
Subjects: Constitution and constitutional amendments
Legislative rules and procedure

Summary:
action_date: 2009-01-09
text: 
Enumerated Powers Act - Requires each Act of Congress to contain a concise and definite statement of the constitutional authority relied upon for the enactment of each portion of that Act. Declares that failure to comply with this requirement shall give rise to a point of order in either chamber of Congress. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-02-09
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights, and Civil Liberties.
action_date: 2009-01-09
text: Referred to House Rules
action_date: 2009-01-09
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, 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: 2009-01-09
text: Referred to House Judiciary
action_date: 2009-01-09
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-01-09
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide a 2-year extension of the credit for electricity produced from certain renewable resources.

Bill: 111-hr-451
Sponsor: Rep. Teague, Harry [D-NM-2]
Introduced: 2009-01-09 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Alternative and renewable resources
Electric power generation and transmission
Income tax credits

Summary:
action_date: 2009-01-09
text: 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to extend for two years the tax credit for producing electricity from certain renewable resources (e.g., wind, biomass, solar, trash, and hydropower generating facilities).


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-01-09
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2009-01-09
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-01-09
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to make the child credit refundable for 5 years.

Bill: 111-hr-452
Sponsor: Rep. Teague, Harry [D-NM-2]
Introduced: 2009-01-09 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Income tax credits
Tax treatment of families

Summary:
action_date: 2009-01-09
text: 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to provide for the refundability of the child tax credit in taxable years beginning in 2009 through 2013 and to render certain limits on such credit inapplicable during that period.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-01-09
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2009-01-09
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-01-09
text: Introduced in House
Green McAdoo School National Historic Site Study Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-453
Sponsor: Rep. Wamp, Zach [R-TN-3]
Introduced: 2009-01-09 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Elementary and secondary education
Government studies and investigations
Historic sites and heritage areas
Racial and ethnic relations
Tennessee

Summary:
action_date: 2009-01-09
text: 
Green McAdoo School National Historic Site Study Act of 2009 - Directs the Secretary of the Interior to conduct a study of the site of Green McAdoo School in Clinton, Tennessee, to evaluate the national significance, suitability, and feasibility of designating such site as a unit of the National Park System. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-02-04
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests and Public Lands.
action_date: 2009-01-09
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2009-01-09
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-01-09
text: Introduced in House
Trail of Tears Documentation Act

Bill: 111-hr-454
Sponsor: Rep. Wamp, Zach [R-TN-3]
Introduced: 2009-01-09 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Alabama
Arkansas
Federal-Indian relations
Georgia
Government studies and investigations
Historic sites and heritage areas
Land transfers
North Carolina
Oklahoma
Parks, recreation areas, trails
Property rights
Tennessee

Summary:
action_date: 2009-01-09
text: 
 Trail of Tears Documentation Act - Amends the National Trails System Act to add as components of the Trail of Tears National Historic Trail, as generally described in the environmentally preferred alternative of the November 2007 Feasibility Study Amendment and Environmental Assessment for Trail of Tears National Historic Trail, the following routes and land components by which the Cherokee Nation was removed to Oklahoma: (1) the Benge and Bell routes; (2) the land components of the designated water routes in Alabama, Arkansas, Oklahoma, and Tennessee; (3) the routes from the collection forts in Alabama, Georgia, North Carolina, and Tennessee to the emigration depots; and (4) the related campgrounds located along such routes and land components. 

Prohibits acquisition of lands or interests in lands outside the exterior boundaries of any federally administered area by the federal government for the Trail of Tears National Historic Trail except with the consent of the owner. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-02-04
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests and Public Lands.
action_date: 2009-01-09
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2009-01-09
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-01-09
text: Introduced in House
Missisquoi and Trout Rivers Wild and Scenic River Study Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-455
Sponsor: Rep. Welch, Peter [D-VT-At Large]
Introduced: 2009-01-09 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Electric power generation and transmission
Firearms and explosives
Government studies and investigations
Lakes and rivers
Outdoor recreation
Vermont
Wilderness and natural areas, wildlife refuges, wild rivers, habitats

Summary:
action_date: 2009-01-09
text: 
Missisquoi and Trout Rivers Wild and Scenic River Study Act of 2009 - Amends the Wild and Scenic Rivers Act to designate a specified segment of the Missisquoi and Trout Rivers in Vermont for study for potential addition to the National Wild and Scenic Rivers System. 

Directs the Secretary of the Interior to: (1) analyze any potential impacts on the possession or use of a weapon, trap, or net, including a concealed weapon, on the Missisquoi and Trout Rivers or on lands adjacent to that area; (2) include in the study an assessment of any effect a wild and scenic designation in the study area is likely to have on energy production, transmission, or conveyance; and (3) analyze the potential impact of the designation on private lands within the Rivers or adjacent to that area. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-02-04
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests and Public Lands.
action_date: 2009-01-09
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2009-01-09
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-01-09
text: Introduced in House
Disabled Veteran Small Business Eligibility Expansion Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-456
Sponsor: Rep. Wittman, Robert J. [R-VA-1]
Introduced: 2009-01-09 in the House
Policy area: Commerce
Subjects: Small business
Veterans' education, employment, rehabilitation

Summary:
action_date: 2009-01-09
text: 
Disabled Veteran Small Business Eligibility Expansion Act of 2009 - Amends the Small Business Act to make small businesses owned and controlled by service-disabled veterans eligible for the award by the Small Business Administration (SBA) of small business development grants in the same manner as small businesses owned and controlled by socially and economically disadvantaged individuals.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-01-09
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Contracting and Technology .
action_date: 2009-01-09
text: Referred to the House Committee on Small Business.
action_date: 2009-01-09
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-01-09
text: Introduced in House
Responsible Highway Investment Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-457
Sponsor: Rep. Wittman, Robert J. [R-VA-1]
Introduced: 2009-01-09 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Government trust funds
Interest, dividends, interest rates
Roads and highways
Sales and excise taxes
Securities
Transportation costs
Transportation programs funding

Summary:
action_date: 2009-01-09
text: 
Responsible Highway Investment Act of 2009 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to terminate the requirement that obligations held by the Highway Trust Fund be U.S. obligations that are not interest-bearing. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-01-09
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2009-01-09
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-01-09
text: Introduced in House
For the relief of Alejandro E. Gonzales.

Bill: 111-hr-458
Sponsor: Rep. Pastor, Ed [D-AZ-4]
Introduced: 2009-01-09 in the House
Policy area: Private Legislation

Summary:
action_date: 2009-01-09
text: Provides for the relief of Alejandro E. Gonzales.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-02-05
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration, Citizenship, Refugees, Border Security, and International Law.
action_date: 2009-01-09
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2009-01-09
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-01-09
text: Introduced in House