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A bill to amend title 46, United States Code, to modify the vessels eligible for a fishery endorsement, and for other purposes.

Bill: 111-s-1124
Sponsor: Sen. Murray, Patty [D-WA]
Introduced: 2009-05-21 in the Senate
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Alaska
Licensing and registrations
Marine and coastal resources, fisheries
Marine and inland water transportation

Summary:
action_date: 2009-05-21
text: 
Revises provisions concerning fishery endorsements for specified vessels that are either over 165 feet, more than 750 or 1,900 gross measured tons, or with more than 3,000 shaft power and that have a certificate of documentation issued for a fishery endorsement effective after September 25, 1997, and not placed under foreign registry after October 21, 1998, to also require for eligibility purposes that the vessel be either a rebuilt or replacement vessel under specified provisions of the American Fisheries Act relating to requirements for rebuilding and replacing vessels that are being revised by this Act and be otherwise eligible. Sets forth rules under such provisions of the American Fisheries Act relating to requirements for rebuilding and replacing vessels that are being revised by this Act concerning: (1) recommendations of the North Pacific Council for the Bering Sea and Aleutian Islands Management Area or the Gulf of Alaska; (2) certain catcher vessels; (3) limitations on fishery endorsements; and (4) Gulf of Alaska groundfish fisheries limitations.
 
Amends the American Fisheries Act with respect to: (1) the exemption of specified vessels; and (2) fishery allowances and the removal of a catcher vessel from the directed pollock fishery.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-05-21
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
action_date: 2009-05-21
text: Introduced in Senate
Student VOTER Act of 2009

Bill: 111-s-1125
Sponsor: Sen. Durbin, Richard J. [D-IL]
Introduced: 2009-05-21 in the Senate
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Education programs funding
Elections, voting, political campaign regulation
Higher education

Summary:
action_date: 2009-05-21
text: 
Student Voter Opportunity To Encourage Registration Act of 2009 or the Student VOTER Act of 2009 - Amends the National Voter Registration Act of 1993 to require states to designate federally-funded institutions of higher education as agencies for the registration of voters in federal elections.
 
 Requires such schools to provide mail voter registration application forms to students registering to enroll in their courses.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-05-21
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Rules and Administration. (text of measure as introduced: CR S5825)
action_date: 2009-05-21
text: Introduced in Senate
Air America Veterans Act of 2009

Bill: 111-s-1126
Sponsor: Sen. Reid, Harry [D-NV]
Introduced: 2009-05-21 in the Senate
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Aviation and airports
Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)
Congressional oversight
Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management
Intelligence activities, surveillance, classified information

Summary:
action_date: 2009-05-21
text: 
Air America Veterans Act of 2009 - Requires the Director of National Intelligence to report to Congress on the advisability of providing federal retirement benefits to U.S. citizens for their service prior to 1977 as employees of Air America or an associated company when such company was owned and controlled by the federal government and operated by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA).


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-05-21
text: Read twice and referred to the Select Committee on Intelligence. (text of measure as introduced: CR S5826)
action_date: 2009-05-21
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S5825-5826)
action_date: 2009-05-21
text: Introduced in Senate
Disability Data Modernization Act

Bill: 111-s-1127
Sponsor: Sen. Martinez, Mel [R-FL]
Introduced: 2009-05-21 in the Senate
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Census and government statistics
Disability and paralysis

Summary:
action_date: 2009-05-21
text: 
Disability Data Modernization Act - Directs the Secretary of Commerce to include the Katz basic activities of daily living scale and the Lawton-Brody instrumental activities of daily living scale in any questionnaire used in the decennial census and the American Community Survey.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-06-09
text: Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs referred to Subcommittee on Federal Financial Management, Government Information, Federal Services, and International Security.
action_date: 2009-05-21
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.
action_date: 2009-05-21
text: Introduced in Senate
Atomic Veterans Service Medal Act

Bill: 111-s-1128
Sponsor: Sen. Roberts, Pat [R-KS]
Introduced: 2009-05-21 in the Senate
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Military history
Military personnel and dependents
Nuclear weapons

Summary:
action_date: 2009-05-21
text: 
Atomic Veterans Service Medal Act - Directs the Secretary of Defense (DOD) to: (1) design and produce a military service medal, to be known as the Atomic Veterans Service Medal, to honor retired and former members of the Armed Forces who participated in a radiation-risk activity while serving on active duty; and (2) issue the Medal to such veteran or their next-of-kin.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-05-21
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Armed Services.
action_date: 2009-05-21
text: Introduced in Senate
Pathways to College Act

Bill: 111-s-1129
Sponsor: Sen. Durbin, Richard J. [D-IL]
Introduced: 2009-05-21 in the Senate
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Academic performance and assessments
Education of the disadvantaged
Education programs funding
Elementary and secondary education
Higher education
Performance measurement
Teaching, teachers, curricula

Summary:
action_date: 2009-05-21
text: 
Pathways to College Act - Authorizes the Secretary of Education to award competitive five-year grants to local educational agencies that serve mostly high-need high schools for programs to increase the number of students from low-income families who attend college. Defines &quot;high-need high schools&quot; as those where at least one-half of the students are from low-income families.
 
Requires grantees to use such funds to: (1) train teachers and counselors to provide students with advice concerning postsecondary education; (2) implement a comprehensive college guidance program for all students which exposes them to postsecondary information and planning assistance before the end of their first semester of high school; (3) ensure that their schools develop comprehensive, school-wide plans of action to strengthen their college-going culture; (4) create or maintain a postsecondary access center in each school that provides information on colleges and universities, career opportunities, and financial aid options; and (5) provide a setting in which professionals working in college access programs can meet with students.
 
Directs the Secretary to provide technical assistance to grantees in calculating and analyzing their college-going rates and adopting best practices for elevating such rates.
 
Requires grantees periodically to evaluate the success of their grant activities and use the evaluations to refine such activities and their performance measures.
 
Directs the Secretary to conduct an independent evaluation of the grant program which includes an assessment of the program's affect on high school graduation and college-going rates.
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-05-21
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. (text of measure as introduced: CR S5827-5829)
action_date: 2009-05-21
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S5826-5827)
action_date: 2009-05-21
text: Introduced in Senate
Medicaid Emergency Psychiatric Care Demonstration Project Act of 2009

Bill: 111-s-1130
Sponsor: Sen. Snowe, Olympia J. [R-ME]
Introduced: 2009-05-21 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Emergency medical services and trauma care
Health facilities and institutions
Medicaid
Mental health

Summary:
action_date: 2009-05-21
text: 
 
Medicaid Emergency Psychiatric Care Demonstration Project Act of 2009 - Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services to establish a demonstration project under which a state shall reimburse, under title XIX (Medicaid) of the Social Security Act, a privately owned and operated institution for mental diseases for medical assistance to an eligible individual between ages 21 and 65 who requires it to stabilize an emergency medical condition.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-05-21
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2009-05-21
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S5829)
action_date: 2009-05-21
text: Introduced in Senate
Independence at Home Act of 2009

Bill: 111-s-1131
Sponsor: Sen. Wyden, Ron [D-OR]
Introduced: 2009-05-21 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Home and outpatient care
Medicare

Summary:
action_date: 2009-05-21
text: 
Independence at Home Act of 2009 - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to authorize voluntary Independence at Home chronic care coordination pilot programs for high-cost Medicare beneficiaries with multiple chronic conditions under the traditional Medicare fee-for-service program. 
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-05-21
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. (text of measure as introduced: CR S5830-5834)
action_date: 2009-05-21
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S5829-5830)
action_date: 2009-05-21
text: Introduced in Senate
Responsible Use of Coal Act of 2009

Bill: 111-s-1134
Sponsor: Sen. Casey, Robert P., Jr. [D-PA]
Introduced: 2009-05-21 in the Senate
Policy area: Energy
Subjects: Air quality
Asia
China
Climate change and greenhouse gases
Coal
Competitiveness, trade promotion, trade deficits
Electric power generation and transmission
Energy research
Environmental assessment, monitoring, research
Environmental technology
India
Oil and gas
Research and development

Summary:
action_date: 2009-05-21
text: 
Responsible Use of Coal Act of 2009 - Requires the Director of the National Energy Technology Laboratory to carry out a research, development, and demonstration program to advance carbon capture and storage and coal power generation technologies. Requires such program to include a large-scale commercial demonstration program to evaluate the most promising carbon capture and storage technologies and research and development programs for carbon capture technologies, carbon dioxide storage, and advanced clean coal power generation technologies. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-04-20
text: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Hearings held. Hearings printed: S.Hrg. 111-652.
action_date: 2009-05-21
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. (text of measure as introduced: CR S5841)
action_date: 2009-05-21
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S5840-5841)
action_date: 2009-05-21
text: Introduced in Senate
Drive America Forward Act of 2009

Bill: 111-s-1135
Sponsor: Sen. Stabenow, Debbie [D-MI]
Introduced: 2009-05-21 in the Senate
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Department of Transportation
Energy efficiency and conservation
Fraud offenses and financial crimes
Government information and archives
Motor vehicles
Transportation programs funding

Summary:
action_date: 2009-05-21
text: 
Drive America Forward Act of 2009 - Establishes in the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) a Drive America Forward Program through which the Secretary of Transportation shall: (1) authorize the issuance of an electronic voucher to offset the purchase or lease price for a new fuel efficient automobile upon the surrender of an eligible trade-in vehicle to a participating dealer; (2) certify dealers for Program participation; (3) make electronic payments to them for vouchers they accept between March 30, 2009, and one year after Program implementing regulations are promulgated; (4) provide for the payment of rebates to qualifying persons; and (5) establish and provide for the enforcement of measures to prevent and penalize fraud under the Program.
 
Prescribes requirements, including combined fuel economy, for $3,500 and $4,500 vouchers to offset the purchase or lease price for a qualifying 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 about each eligible trade-in vehicle that the dealer: (1) has not and will not sell, lease, exchange, or otherwise dispose of the vehicle for use as an automobile in the United States or in any other country; and (2) will transfer the vehicle to an entity that will ensure that the vehicle will be crushed or shredded within the Program period, and has not been, and will not be, sold, leased, exchanged, or otherwise disposed of for use as an automobile anywhere in the world.
 
 
Makes any person who purchased or leased a new fuel efficient vehicle after March 30, 2009, and before the enactment of this Act eligible for a cash rebate equivalent to the appropriate voucher amount.
 Prescribes standards which any regulations issued by the Secretary for the Program must meet. Makes it unlawful for any person to knowingly 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.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-05-21
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. (text of measure as introduced: CR S5841-5843)
action_date: 2009-05-21
text: Introduced in Senate
Mental Illness Chronic Care Improvement Act of 2009

Bill: 111-s-1136
Sponsor: Sen. Stabenow, Debbie [D-MI]
Introduced: 2009-05-21 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Health programs administration and funding
Medicaid
Medical tests and diagnostic methods
Mental health

Summary:
action_date: 2009-05-21
text: 
Mental Illness Chronic Care Improvement Act of 2009 - Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services to enter into chronic care improvement program operator agreements with applicant states to provide for the development, testing, evaluation, and implementation of severe mental illness chronic care improvement demonstration programs.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-05-21
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2009-05-21
text: Introduced in Senate
Teachers at the Table Act

Bill: 111-s-1137
Sponsor: Sen. Feingold, Russell D. [D-WI]
Introduced: 2009-05-21 in the Senate
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Academic performance and assessments
Advisory bodies
Education of the disadvantaged
Education programs funding
Elementary and secondary education
Performance measurement
Teaching, teachers, curricula

Summary:
action_date: 2009-05-21
text: 
Teachers at the Table Act - Amends title I (Improving the Academic Achievement of the Disadvantaged) of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to direct the Secretary of Education to establish the Volunteer Teacher Advisory Committee to monitor the effects of such title (amended by the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001) in classrooms, with its focus solely on children and families.
 
Requires that committee membership consist of a diverse group of public school classroom teachers who are past or present Teachers of the Year and have experience or training in data collection, analysis, and reporting.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-05-21
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2009-05-21
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S5843-5844)
action_date: 2009-05-21
text: Introduced in Senate
Bay Area Regional Water Recycling Program Expansion Act of 2009

Bill: 111-s-1138
Sponsor: Sen. Feinstein, Dianne [D-CA]
Introduced: 2009-05-21 in the Senate
Policy area: Water Resources Development
Subjects: California
Water resources funding
Water use and supply

Summary:
action_date: 2009-05-21
text: 
Bay Area Regional Water Recycling Program Expansion Act of 2009 - Amends the Reclamation Wastewater and Groundwater Study and Facilities Act to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to participate in the design, planning, and construction of: (1) recycled water distribution systems in California in cooperation with the Central Contra Costa Sanitary District and the Ironhouse Sanitary District; and (2) recycled water system facilities in California in cooperation with the Dublin San Ramon Services District, the city of Petaluma, Redwood City, and the city of Palo Alto. Limits the federal share of each project to 25%. Prohibits the Secretary from providing funds for project operation and maintenance. 
 
Directs the Secretary to: (1) enter into individual agreements with the San Francisco Bay Area Regional Water Recycling implementing agencies to fund specified projects under such Act through the Bay Area Clean Water Agencies; and (2) include in such agreements a provision for the reimbursement of construction costs.
 
Increases the authorization of appropriations for the design, planning, and construction of: (1) recycled water system facilities in cooperation with the city of Antioch, California; and (2) recycled water treatment facilities in cooperation with the city of San Jose, California, and the Santa Clara Valley Water District.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-04-27
text: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources Subcommittee on Water and Power. Hearings held. With printed Hearing: S.Hrg. 111-619.
action_date: 2009-05-21
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. (text of measure as introduced: CR S5844-5845)
action_date: 2009-05-21
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S5844)
action_date: 2009-05-21
text: Introduced in Senate
Wallowa Forest Service Compound Conveyance Act

Bill: 111-s-1139
Sponsor: Sen. Wyden, Ron [D-OR]
Introduced: 2009-05-21 in the Senate
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Forests, forestry, trees
Land transfers
Oregon

Summary:
action_date: 2009-05-21
text: 
Wallowa Forest Service Compound Conveyance Act - Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to convey the Wallowa Forest Service Compound to Wallowa, Oregon, for use as an interpretive center.
 

action_date: 2010-03-02
text: 
Wallowa Forest Service Compound Conveyance Act - Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to convey the Wallowa Forest Service Compound to Wallowa, Oregon, for use as a historical and cultural interpretation and education center.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-03-02
text: Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 288.
action_date: 2010-03-02
text: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Reported by Senator Bingaman with an amendment in the nature of a substitute. With written report No. 111-138.
action_date: 2010-03-02
text: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Reported by Senator Bingaman with an amendment in the nature of a substitute. With written report No. 111-138.
action_date: 2009-12-16
text: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Ordered to be reported with an amendment in the nature of a substitute favorably.
action_date: 2009-06-17
text: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources Subcommittee on Public Lands and Forests. Hearings held. With printed Hearing: S.Hrg. 111-65.
action_date: 2009-05-21
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. (text of measure as introduced: CR S5846)
action_date: 2009-05-21
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S5845-5846)
action_date: 2009-05-21
text: Introduced in Senate
La Pine Land Conveyance Act

Bill: 111-s-1140
Sponsor: Sen. Wyden, Ron [D-OR]
Introduced: 2009-05-21 in the Senate
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Land transfers
Oregon

Summary:
action_date: 2009-05-21
text: 
La Pine Land Conveyance Act - Directs the Secretary of the Interior, acting through the Director of the Bureau of Land Management (BLM), to convey to Deschutes County, Oregon, all interest of the United States in specified BLM-managed land in the Prineville District for use as a rodeo ground, public sewer system, or other public purpose consistent with the Recreation and Public Purposes Act. 
 
Requires the County to pay all survey costs and other administrative costs necessary for the preparation of any patents for and transfers of title to such land. 

action_date: 2010-03-02
text: 
La Pine Land Conveyance Act - Directs the Secretary of the Interior, acting through the Director of the Bureau of Land Management (BLM), to convey to the city of La Pine, Oregon, or county of Deschutes, Oregon, without consideration, all interest of the United States in specified parcels of BLM-managed land in the Prineville District for use: (1) by the county for outdoor recreation, open space, or public parks, including a rodeo ground, and a public sewer system; and (2) by the city for a public library, public park, or open space. 
 
Requires the County to pay all associated survey and administrative costs.
 
Requires the conveyed lands to revert to the United States if such lands cease being used for the public purposes for which such lands were conveyed.
 
 
 
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-03-02
text: Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 289.
action_date: 2010-03-02
text: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Reported by Senator Bingaman with an amendment in the nature of a substitute. With written report No. 111-139.
action_date: 2010-03-02
text: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Reported by Senator Bingaman with an amendment in the nature of a substitute. With written report No. 111-139.
action_date: 2009-12-16
text: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Ordered to be reported with an amendment in the nature of a substitute favorably.
action_date: 2009-06-17
text: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources Subcommittee on Public Lands and Forests. Hearings held. With printed Hearing: S.Hrg. 111-65.
action_date: 2009-05-21
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. (text of measure as introduced: CR S5846)
action_date: 2009-05-21
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S5845-5846)
action_date: 2009-05-21
text: Introduced in Senate