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Proxy Voting Transparency Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-3351
Sponsor: Rep. Kilroy, Mary Jo [D-OH-15]
Introduced: 2009-07-27 in the House
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Corporate finance and management
Financial services and investments
Securities
Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)
Wages and earnings

Summary:
action_date: 2009-07-27
text: 
Proxy Voting Transparency Act of 2009 - Amends the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 to require that a proxy, consent, or authorization for an annual shareholders meeting provide for a separate shareholder vote to approve the compensation of executives pursuant to compensation disclosure rules promulgated by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).
 
Requires such SEC disclosure rules to include: (1) the compensation committee report; (2) compensation discussion and analysis; (3) the compensation tables; and (4) any related materials. 
 
Requires the person making proxy or consent solicitation material regarding a disposition of an issuer's assets to disclose and submit for separate shareholder approval: (1) any compensation agreements made with principal executive officers of the issuer; and (2) the aggregate total of compensation that may be paid or become payable to or on behalf of such executive officer (golden parachute compensation).
 
States that the shareholder vote: (1) shall not be binding upon either the corporation or the board of directors; (2) shall not be construed as overruling a decision by such board; (3) shall not be construed as creating or implying any additional fiduciary duty by such board; nor (4) shall be construed to restrict or limit shareholder ability to make proposals for inclusion in proxy materials related to executive compensation.
 
Requires certain institutional investment managers to report at least annually how they voted on any shareholder vote (unless such vote is otherwise required to be reported publicly by SEC rule or regulation).
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-07-27
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2009-07-27
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E2022)
action_date: 2009-07-27
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-07-27
text: Introduced in House
To amend title 10, United States Code, to expand certain restrictions relating to the overhaul and repair of vessels in foreign shipyards to the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands.

Bill: 111-hr-3352
Sponsor: Del. Sablan, Gregorio Kilili Camacho [D-MP-At Large]
Introduced: 2009-07-27 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Buy American requirements
Marine and inland water transportation
Military facilities and property
Military procurement, research, weapons development
Northern Mariana Islands

Summary:
action_date: 2009-07-27
text: 
Prohibits a naval vessel (or any other vessel under the jurisdiction of the Secretary of the Navy) that has its home port in the United States, Guam, or the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands from being overhauled, repaired, or maintained in a shipyard outside the United States, Guam, or the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, except for voyage repairs. (Under current law, the prohibition does not cover a naval vessel with a home port in the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands.)


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-10-28
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Readiness.
action_date: 2009-07-27
text: Referred to the House Committee on Armed Services.
action_date: 2009-07-27
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-07-27
text: Introduced in House
To provide for American Samoa and the Commonwealth of the Northern Marianas to be treated as States for certain criminal justice programs.

Bill: 111-hr-3353
Sponsor: Del. Sablan, Gregorio Kilili Camacho [D-MP-At Large]
Introduced: 2009-07-27 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: American Samoa
Law enforcement administration and funding
Northern Mariana Islands
U.S. territories and protectorates

Summary:
action_date: 2009-07-27
text: 
Amends the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 to treat American Samoa and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands as separate states for purposes of the Edward Byrne Memorial Justice Assistance Grant Program.

action_date: 2010-12-08
text: 

(This measure has not been amended since it was introduced. The summary of that version is repeated here.)

 
Amends the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 to treat American Samoa and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands as separate states for purposes of the Edward Byrne Memorial Justice Assistance Grant Program.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-12-09
text: Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2010-12-08
text: Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
action_date: 2010-12-08
text: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill Agreed to by voice vote. (text: CR 12/7/2010 CR H8064)
action_date: 2010-12-08
text: Passed/agreed to in House: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill Agreed to by voice vote.(text: CR 12/7/2010 CR H8064)
action_date: 2010-12-08
text: Considered as unfinished business. (consideration: CR H8243)
action_date: 2010-12-07
text: At the conclusion of debate, the chair put the question on the motion to suspend the rules. Mr. Scott (VA) objected to the vote on the grounds that a quorum was not present. Further proceedings on the motion were postponed. The point of no quorum was withdrawn.
action_date: 2010-12-07
text: DEBATE - The House proceeded with forty minutes of debate on H.R. 3353.
action_date: 2010-12-07
text: Considered under suspension of the rules. (consideration: CR H8064-8065)
action_date: 2010-12-07
text: Mr. Scott (VA) moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill.
action_date: 2009-08-19
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.
action_date: 2009-07-27
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2009-07-27
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-07-27
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to repeal the 7.5 percent threshold on the deduction for medical expenses.

Bill: 111-hr-3354
Sponsor: Rep. Sensenbrenner, F. James, Jr. [R-WI-5]
Introduced: 2009-07-27 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Health care costs and insurance
Income tax deductions

Summary:
action_date: 2009-07-27
text: 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to repeal the requirement that medical expenses exceed 7.5% of taxpayer adjusted gross income before any amount of such expenses may be deducted from such income. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-07-27
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2009-07-27
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-07-27
text: Introduced in House
Older Driver and Pedestrian Safety and Roadway Enhancement Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-3355
Sponsor: Rep. Altmire, Jason [D-PA-4]
Introduced: 2009-07-27 in the House
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Aging
Department of Transportation
Executive agency funding and structure
Federal officials
Government information and archives
Pedestrians and bicycling
Roads and highways
Transportation programs funding
Transportation safety and security

Summary:
action_date: 2009-07-27
text: 
Older Driver and Pedestrian Safety and Roadway Enhancement Act of 2009 - Directs the Secretary of Transportation to implement a roadway safety enhancement program for older drivers and pedestrians to: (1) improve roadway safety infrastructure in states that is consistent with recommendations of the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) in the &quot;Highway Design Handbook for Older Drivers and Pedestrians&quot;; and (2) achieve significant reductions in roadway fatalities and serious injuries among drivers and pedestrians 65 years old or older on all public roads.
 

 
Sets forth project eligibility requirements and project identification and selection priorities.
 
Requires the Secretary to finalize revision of the Handbook for publication.
 

 
Amends the Safe, Accountable, Flexible, Efficient Transportation Act: A Legacy for Users (SAFETEA-LU) to repeal its program for roadway safety improvements for older drivers and pedestrians.
 
Requires the Secretary to: (1) appoint a Special Assistant for Older Driver and Pedestrian Safety within the Office of the Secretary; and (2) establish national goals for increasing driver, passenger, and pedestrian safety for persons 65 years old or older.
 
Requires the Secretary to revise the manual on uniform traffic control devices to include a standard for a minimum level of retroreflectivity for pavement markings on all public roads.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-07-28
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Highways and Transit.
action_date: 2009-07-27
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2009-07-27
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-07-27
text: Introduced in House
Medicare Beneficiary Freedom to Choose Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-3356
Sponsor: Rep. Johnson, Sam [R-TX-3]
Introduced: 2009-07-28 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Contracts and agency
Health care costs and insurance
Health care coverage and access
Medicare

Summary:
action_date: 2009-07-28
text: 
Medicare Beneficiary Freedom to Choose Act of 2009 - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) to revise requirements for the use of private contracts by Medicare beneficiaries under which no Medicare claims shall be made. Requires any such contract to be in writing and signed by the Medicare beneficiary.
 
Allows individuals to choose to opt out of the Medicare part A (Hospital Insurance), and makes them eligible for health savings accounts.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-07-29
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2009-07-28
text: Referred to House Energy and Commerce
action_date: 2009-07-28
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, 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: 2009-07-28
text: Referred to House Ways and Means
action_date: 2009-07-28
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-07-28
text: Introduced in House
Troops' Soft Landing, Employment, and Rural Transportation Act

Bill: 111-hr-3358
Sponsor: Rep. DeFazio, Peter A. [D-OR-4]
Introduced: 2009-07-28 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Employee leave
Health care coverage and access
Income tax credits
Military personnel and dependents
National Guard and reserves
Rural conditions and development
Transportation costs
Unemployment
Veterans' education, employment, rehabilitation
Veterans' medical care

Summary:
action_date: 2009-07-28
text: 
Troops' Soft Landing, Employment, and Rural Transportation Act - Requires that a member of a reserve component of the Armed Forces who was deployed for more than 179 days for a contingency operation or a homeland defense mission be: (1) retained on active duty in the Armed Forces for 90 days after the end of the member's demobilization from a deployment; (2) allowed to use accrued leave; and (3) paid specified pay and allowances.
 
Allows a member to be released from such retention if the member requests release after the first 15 days of the retention.
 
Directs the Secretary of the military department concerned to provide each member so retained (and, as practicable, appropriate family members) reintegration counseling and services.
 
Amends Internal Revenue Code work opportunity tax credit provisions, with regard to unemployed veterans living in counties where the unemployment is over a specified national threshold, to increase the credit from 40% to 50% and the maximum first-year wages which may be taken into account from $6,000 to $10,000.
 
Directs the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to establish a competitive grant program to assist veterans in rural areas to travel to Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) medical facilities.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-08-20
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Military Personnel.
action_date: 2009-07-31
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2009-07-28
text: Referred to House Ways and Means
action_date: 2009-07-28
text: Referred to House Veterans' Affairs
action_date: 2009-07-28
text: Referred to the Committee on Armed Services, and in addition to the Committees on Veterans' Affairs, and 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: 2009-07-28
text: Referred to House Armed Services
action_date: 2009-07-28
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-07-28
text: Introduced in House
US and the World Education Act

Bill: 111-hr-3359
Sponsor: Rep. Sanchez, Loretta [D-CA-47]
Introduced: 2009-07-28 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Academic performance and assessments
Area studies and international education
Education programs funding
Elementary and secondary education
Foreign language and bilingual programs
Teaching, teachers, curricula

Summary:
action_date: 2009-07-28
text: 
US and the World Education Act - Amends the Department of Education Organization Act to require the Deputy Assistant Secretary for International and Foreign Language Education to: (1) assist the Secretary of Education in administering this Act's grant program; and (2) develop an international education research repository and make it available to states and local educational agencies (LEAs).
 
Directs the Secretary, acting through the Deputy Assistant Secretary, to award competitive grants to LEAs, or partnerships between LEAs and private organizations or institutions of higher education that provide their LEA partners with funding, to promote international education in elementary and secondary schools. 
 
Requires each grantee to use: (1) one-half of its grant on enhancing international education within core curricula, such as by increasing teacher competency; and (2) the other half on providing supplemental international education services outside of normal instruction hours.
 
Directs the Secretary to conduct a biennial independent evaluation of such international education programs.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-10-22
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education.
action_date: 2009-07-28
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and Labor.
action_date: 2009-07-28
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR H8882)
action_date: 2009-07-28
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-07-28
text: Introduced in House
Medicare Patient Safeguards Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-3361
Sponsor: Rep. Boustany, Charles W., Jr. [R-LA-7]
Introduced: 2009-07-28 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Department of Health and Human Services
Disability and health-based discrimination
Health care costs and insurance
Health care coverage and access
Medical research
Medicare

Summary:
action_date: 2009-07-28
text: 
Medicare Patient Safeguards Act of 2009 - Expresses the sense of Congress that: (1) efforts to make the Medicare program financially sustainable, including application of comparative effectiveness research, should not deprive patients of medically necessary care solely due to its cost or limit access to needed health care services due to a patient's age, gender, ethnicity, or disability status; and (2) Congress should protect patients' access to needed care by ensuring that the Administrator of Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) relies on adequate clinical expertise when the Administrator proposes to narrow coverage for a product or service under title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act. 
 
Establishes a process for the issuing of Medicare national coverage determinations by the Administrator. Enumerates prohibitions and conditions.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-07-29
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2009-07-28
text: Referred to House Ways and Means
action_date: 2009-07-28
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: 2009-07-28
text: Referred to House Energy and Commerce
action_date: 2009-07-28
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-07-28
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Small Business Act to improve the preference for small business concerns owned and controlled by veterans.

Bill: 111-hr-3363
Sponsor: Rep. Bilirakis, Gus M. [R-FL-9]
Introduced: 2009-07-28 in the House
Policy area: Commerce
Subjects: Disability and paralysis
Government information and archives
Public contracts and procurement
Small business
Veterans' education, employment, rehabilitation

Summary:
action_date: 2009-07-28
text: 
Amends the Small Business Act to allow the head of an executive agency, in complying with a preference under any law for contracting with a small business owned and controlled by veterans or service-disabled veterans, to consider only a small business verified (or waiting to be verified) in the small business database maintained by the Secretary of Veterans Affairs (VA).
 
Requires such agency head, when any prime contract requires the contractor to comply with such preference, to require the prime contractor, in awarding subcontracts, to consider only small business concerns that are verified in that database.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-07-28
text: Referred to the House Committee on Small Business.
action_date: 2009-07-28
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Contracting and Technology .
action_date: 2009-07-28
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-07-28
text: Introduced in House
South San Diego County Water Reclamation Project of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-3364
Sponsor: Rep. Filner, Bob [D-CA-51]
Introduced: 2009-07-28 in the House
Policy area: Water Resources Development
Subjects: California
Water quality
Water resources funding
Water use and supply

Summary:
action_date: 2009-07-28
text: 
South San Diego County Water Reclamation Project of 2009 - Amends the Reclamation Wastewater and Groundwater Study and Facilities Act to authorize the Secretary of the Interior, in cooperation with the Sweetwater Authority, Otay Water District, and the city of Chula Vista, California, to participate in the design, planning, and construction of permanent facilities needed to reclaim, reuse, and treat groundwater and wastewater in South San Diego County. Limits the federal share of the project to 25% of the total cost.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-08-02
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Water and Power.
action_date: 2009-07-28
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2009-07-28
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-07-28
text: Introduced in House
Medicare VA Reimbursement Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-3365
Sponsor: Rep. Filner, Bob [D-CA-51]
Introduced: 2009-07-28 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Appropriations
Congressional oversight
Government trust funds
Health programs administration and funding
Medicare
Veterans' medical care

Summary:
action_date: 2009-07-28
text: 
Medicare VA Reimbursement Act of 2009 - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to direct the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS), in cooperation with the Secretary of Veterans Affairs (VA), to establish a Medicare VA reimbursement program under which the HHS Secretary shall reimburse the VA Secretary, from the Medicare trust funds, for any item or service: (1) furnished to a Medicare-eligible veteran by a VA medical facility for the treatment of a non-service-connected condition; and (2) covered by Medicare or determined to be medically necessary by the VA Secretary.
 
Requires the HHS Secretary to enter a memorandum of understanding with the VA Secretary concerning administration of the program. Specifies required conditions in the memorandum.
 
Directs the Comptroller General to report to Congress on the program every three years.
 
Declares the sense of Congress that the amount of funds appropriated to the VA for medical care in any fiscal year should not be reduced as a result of the implementation of the Medicare VA reimbursement program.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-07-31
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2009-07-31
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E2122)
action_date: 2009-07-29
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2009-07-28
text: Referred to House Veterans' Affairs
action_date: 2009-07-28
text: Referred to House Energy and Commerce
action_date: 2009-07-28
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committees on Energy and Commerce, and Veterans' Affairs, 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: 2009-07-28
text: Referred to House Ways and Means
action_date: 2009-07-28
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-07-28
text: Introduced in House
Illegal Garnishment Prevention Act

Bill: 111-hr-3366
Sponsor: Rep. Gordon, Bart [D-TN-6]
Introduced: 2009-07-28 in the House
Policy area: Economics and Public Finance
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Advisory bodies
Appropriations
Department of the Treasury
Social security and elderly assistance
Veterans' pensions and compensation

Summary:
action_date: 2009-07-28
text: 
Illegal Garnishment Prevention Act - Prohibits funds appropriated or otherwise made available to the Secretary of the Treasury, the Secretary of Veterans Affairs, or the Commissioner of Social Security for FY2010 or any fiscal year thereafter from being used to promote or otherwise encourage recipients of veterans benefits or benefits paid under title II (Old Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance) (OASDI) of the Social Security Act to use direct deposit for the payment of such benefits until: (1) the Secretary of the Treasury promulgates rules establishing procedures to ensure that such benefits are protected from attachment and garnishment; and (2) at least five of the seven members of the advisory committee established under this Act concur in advising the Secretary that such procedures provide adequate safeguards.
 
Establishes a Social Security Benefits Protection from Attachment or Garnishment Advisory Committee.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-07-31
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Disability Assistance and Memorial Affairs.
action_date: 2009-07-28
text: Referred to House Veterans' Affairs
action_date: 2009-07-28
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs, 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: 2009-07-28
text: Referred to House Ways and Means
action_date: 2009-07-28
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-07-28
text: Introduced in House