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Ed Walker Memorial Act for Improvements to the Energy Employees Occupational Illness Compensation Program

Bill: 111-hr-2114
Sponsor: Rep. Higgins, Brian [D-NY-27]
Introduced: 2009-04-27 in the House
Policy area: Labor and Employment
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Administrative remedies
Business records
Congressional oversight
Department of Energy
Department of Health and Human Services
Government liability
Hazardous wastes and toxic substances
Health information and medical records
Industrial facilities
Medical tests and diagnostic methods
Metals
New York State
Nuclear weapons
Public contracts and procurement
Radiation
Worker safety and health

Summary:
action_date: 2009-04-27
text: 
Ed Walker Memorial Act for Improvements to the Energy Employees Occupational Illness Compensation Program - Amends the Energy Employees Occupational Illness Compensation Program Act of 2000 to include certain former nuclear weapons program workers in the Special Exposure Cohort under the energy employees occupational illness compensation program. 
 
Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) to: (1) issue regulations for designating additional classes of employees, including those employed during a period of residual contamination, as members of the Special Exposure Cohort; and (2) determine whether workers employed at the Bethlehem Steel site in Lackawanna, New York, meet the requirements of this Act for membership in the Special Exposure Cohort.
 
Requires the Secretary to provide a report to Congress identifying facilities at which classes of employees were employed that meet the requirements for membership in the Special Exposure Cohort, as well as the number of classes and the number of employees in each class. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-06-04
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Workforce Protections.
action_date: 2009-05-26
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration, Citizenship, Refugees, Border Security, and International Law.
action_date: 2009-04-27
text: Referred to House Education and Labor
action_date: 2009-04-27
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committee on Education and Labor, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2009-04-27
text: Referred to House Judiciary
action_date: 2009-04-27
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-04-27
text: Introduced in House
Men and Families Health Care Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-2115
Sponsor: Rep. Hill, Baron P. [D-IN-9]
Introduced: 2009-04-27 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Department of Health and Human Services
Executive agency funding and structure
Government information and archives
Health care quality
Health information and medical records
Health promotion and preventive care

Summary:
action_date: 2009-04-27
text: 
Men and Families Health Care Act of 2009 - Amends the Public Health Service Act to direct the Secretary of Health and Human Services to establish within the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) the Office of Men's Health. Requires the Secretary, acting through the Director of the Office, to: (1) conduct, support, coordinate, and promote programs and activities to improve the state of men's health in the United States; and (2) provide for consultation among HHS agencies and offices to coordinate men's health programs and activities and establish a clinical registries database to assess and measure quality improvement of programs and activities relating to men's health.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-04-28
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2009-04-27
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2009-04-27
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-04-27
text: Introduced in House
Naturalized Citizens Assistance Act

Bill: 111-hr-2117
Sponsor: Rep. Johnson, Eddie Bernice [D-TX-30]
Introduced: 2009-04-27 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Adult education and literacy
Citizenship and naturalization
Financial literacy

Summary:
action_date: 2009-04-27
text: 
Naturalized Citizens Assistance Act - Amends the Workforce Investment Act of 1998 to add to the list of adult education and literacy programs for which certain grants must be used programs of financial literacy education for newly naturalized citizens to help them achieve financial literacy through instruction on such matters as banking, retirement savings, managing credit, as well as predatory lending, identity theft, and other financial abuse schemes.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-06-04
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Higher Education, Lifelong Learning, and Competitiveness.
action_date: 2009-04-27
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and Labor.
action_date: 2009-04-27
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-04-27
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008 to provide for more detailed repayment procedures for assistance received under the Troubled Asset Relief Program.

Bill: 111-hr-2118
Sponsor: Rep. McCarthy, Kevin [R-CA-22]
Introduced: 2009-04-27 in the House
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: Bank accounts, deposits, capital
Financial crises and stabilization

Summary:
action_date: 2009-04-27
text: 
Amends the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008 (EESA) to direct the Secretary of the Treasury, upon notification that a financial institution is prepared to repay specified EESA assistance immediately, either to: (1) accept such repayment; or (2) notify the institution that its financial position does not currently permit such repayment, and detail steps it can take to satisfy the Secretary and the appropriate federal banking agency that it is able to make such repayment. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-04-27
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2009-04-27
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-04-27
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008 to require that repayments of assistance from the Troubled Asset Relief Program funds go to paying down the public debt.

Bill: 111-hr-2119
Sponsor: Rep. McCarthy, Kevin [R-CA-22]
Introduced: 2009-04-27 in the House
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: Bank accounts, deposits, capital
Budget deficits and national debt
Financial crises and stabilization

Summary:
action_date: 2009-04-27
text: 
Amends the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008 (EESA) to require that assistance repayments from Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) funds be used to pay down the public debt.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-04-27
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2009-04-27
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-04-27
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide a special rule for allocating the cover over of distilled spirits taxes between Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands.

Bill: 111-hr-2122
Sponsor: Resident Commissioner Pierluisi, Pedro R. [D-PR-At Large]
Introduced: 2009-04-27 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Caribbean area
Drug, alcohol, tobacco use
Intergovernmental relations
Puerto Rico
Sales and excise taxes
State and local finance
U.S. territories and protectorates
Virgin Islands

Summary:
action_date: 2009-04-27
text: 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to require the forfeiture of any amount covered into the treasury of either the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico or the U.S. Virgin Islands with respect to an article containing distilled spirits if the Secretary of the Treasury determines that either jurisdiction provided an unreasonable subsidy with respect to the production of such distilled spirits. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-04-27
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2009-04-27
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-04-27
text: Introduced in House
1863 Gettysburg Campaign Act

Bill: 111-hr-2123
Sponsor: Rep. Platts, Todd Russell [R-PA-19]
Introduced: 2009-04-27 in the House
Policy area: Social Sciences and History
Subjects: Conflicts and wars
Currency
Pennsylvania
Presidential administrations
U.S. history

Summary:
action_date: 2009-04-27
text: 
1863 Gettysburg Campaign Act - Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to mint and issue five-dollar gold coins, one-dollar silver coins, and half-dollar clad coins emblematic of the history and memory of the 1863 invasion of Pennsylvania, the Battle of Gettysburg, and the Gettysburg Address of President Abraham Lincoln.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-04-27
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2009-04-27
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-04-27
text: Introduced in House
Medicare Long-Term Care Hospital Improvement Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-2124
Sponsor: Rep. Pomeroy, Earl [D-ND-At Large]
Introduced: 2009-04-27 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Health facilities and institutions
Long-term, rehabilitative, and terminal care
Medicare
Rural conditions and development

Summary:
action_date: 2009-04-27
text: 
Medicare Long-Term Care Hospital Improvement Act of 2009 - Amends the Medicare, Medicaid, and SCHIP Extension Act of 2007, as amended by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, to extend from three years to five years the delay in application of: (1) the 25% patient threshold payment adjustment to freestanding and grandfathered long-term care hospitals (LTCHs); (2) any payment adjustment, in certain circumstances, to any applicable LTCH or satellite facility located in a rural area or co-located with an urban single or metropolitan statistical area (MSA) dominant hospital; (3) the very short-stay outlier policy; and (4) a specified one-time prospective adjustment to LTCH prospective payment rates.
 
Extends from three years to five years the moratorium on: (1) the establishment and classification of a LTCH or satellite facility, other than an existing one; and (2) an increase of LTCH beds in existing LTCHs or satellite facilities.
 
Establishes a formula for annual adjustment of the base prospective payment rate for LTCHs for rate years 2011 through 2015 in order to implement a budget neutrality offset of the costs of implementing this Act.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-04-27
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2009-04-27
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-04-27
text: Introduced in House
Surface Transportation Safety Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-2125
Sponsor: Rep. Rahall, Nick J., II [D-WV-3]
Introduced: 2009-04-27 in the House
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Department of Transportation
Fires
Government information and archives
Railroads
Roads and highways
Transportation employees
Transportation programs funding
Transportation safety and security
Worker safety and health

Summary:
action_date: 2009-04-27
text: 
Surface Transportation Safety Act of 2009 - Directs the Secretary of Transportation to modify certain federal regulations to: (1) allow fire services personnel to wear high visibility apparel meeting certain requirements; and (2) ensure that positive protective measures (including temporary longitudinal traffic barriers) are used to separate workers on highway construction projects from motorized traffic.
 
Directs the Secretary to approve the use of federal-aid highway funds by a state for patented or proprietary items that further the goals of state strategic highway safety plans.
 
Directs the Secretary of Transportation to revise the Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices to include a standard for a minimum level of retroreflectivity that must be maintained for pavement markings, which shall apply to all roads open to public travel.
 
Revises requirements for the highway safety improvement program to count installation, replacement, and upgrade of highway signs and pavement markings as a highway safety improvement project. Authorizes: (1) states to obligate highway safety improvement program funds apportioned to them for projects to maintain minimum levels of retroreflectivity in highway signs or pavement markings on public roads, whether or not such projects are included in state plans; and (2) a federal share of costs of 100% for such projects.
 
Directs the Secretary to: (1) carry out a program to improve traffic signs and pavement markings for older drivers and pedestrians in all states; (2) review the safety of all highway-rail grade crossings in the United States and, based on such review, compile a list of the ten highway-rail grade crossings having the greatest need for safety improvements; (3) establish a national database of information on the safety of highway-rail grade crossings in the United States; and (4) allocate $20 million to each state with a population density of less than 20 persons per square mile for each fiscal year beginning with FY2010 for rural highway safety improvement projects.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-04-28
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Highways and Transit.
action_date: 2009-04-27
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2009-04-27
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-04-27
text: Introduced in House
Correspondence With Our Heroes Act

Bill: 111-hr-2126
Sponsor: Rep. Rehberg, Denny [R-MT-At Large]
Introduced: 2009-04-27 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Afghanistan
Asia
Iraq
Middle East
Military personnel and dependents
Postal service

Summary:
action_date: 2009-04-27
text: 
Correspondence With Our Heroes Act - Directs the Secretary of Defense to provide for a one-year program under which postal benefit vouchers are provided for the benefit of members of the Armed Forces on active duty in Iraq or Afghanistan, or hospitalized at a military facility as a result of a disease or injury incurred as a result of such service. Entitles voucher users to make free mailings to such individuals. Limits vouchers to one per month.
 
Requires the Department of Defense (DOD) to transfer to the Postal Service an amount representing the amount of the vouchers used.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-05-15
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Military Personnel.
action_date: 2009-04-27
text: Referred to the House Committee on Armed Services.
action_date: 2009-04-27
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-04-27
text: Introduced in House
Veterans Travel Equity Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-2127
Sponsor: Rep. Souder, Mark E. [R-IN-3]
Introduced: 2009-04-27 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Transportation costs
Veterans' medical care
Veterans' pensions and compensation

Summary:
action_date: 2009-04-27
text: 
Veterans Travel Equity Act of 2009 - Prohibits the Secretary of Veterans Affairs, effective 90 days after the enactment of this Act, from imposing any income or pension eligibility requirement, or requiring any service-connected disability rating, in order for a veteran to be eligible for an allowance or reimbursement under the beneficiary travel program (a program authorizing a travel allowance or reimbursement for the transportation of veterans to obtain medical care).


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-05-01
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2009-04-27
text: Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2009-04-27
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-04-27
text: Introduced in House
Financial Disclosure Integrity Act

Bill: 111-hr-2128
Sponsor: Rep. Souder, Mark E. [R-IN-3]
Introduced: 2009-04-27 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Federal officials
Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management
Government ethics and transparency, public corruption
Government information and archives
Housing finance and home ownership
Interest, dividends, interest rates

Summary:
action_date: 2009-04-27
text: 
Financial Disclosure Integrity Act - Amends the Ethics in Government Act of 1978 to require the annual financial disclosure reports of certain federal officers and employees to include mortgages secured by real properties which are the personal residences of the reporting individuals or their spouses. Requires the reporting of any liability consisting of such a mortgage to include applicable interest rate payments during the preceding calendar year and the number of years (or portions) remaining on the mortgage.
 
Requires in the financial report a brief description, the date, and category of value of any purchase, sale, or exchange of such a property during a preceding calendar year.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-06-26
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Government Management, Organization, and Procurement.
action_date: 2009-05-26
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights, and Civil Liberties.
action_date: 2009-04-27
text: Referred to House Judiciary
action_date: 2009-04-27
text: Referred to House Administration
action_date: 2009-04-27
text: Referred to the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, and in addition to the Committees on House Administration, and the Judiciary, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2009-04-27
text: Referred to House Oversight and Government Reform
action_date: 2009-04-27
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-04-27
text: Introduced in House
Federal Price Gouging Prevention Act

Bill: 111-hr-2129
Sponsor: Rep. Stupak, Bart [D-MI-1]
Introduced: 2009-04-27 in the House
Policy area: Energy
Subjects: Civil actions and liability
Consumer affairs
Energy assistance for the poor and aged
Energy prices
Government trust funds
Oil and gas
War and emergency powers

Summary:
action_date: 2009-04-27
text: 
Federal Price Gouging Prevention Act - Makes it unlawful, during a period proclaimed by the President as an energy emergency, to sell gasoline or any other petroleum distillate at a price that: (1) is unconscionably excessive; or (2) indicates the seller is taking unfair advantage of the circumstances of an emergency to increase prices unreasonably.
 
Authorizes the President to issue an energy emergency proclamation of up to 30 days, with renewals allowed, and to cite the geographic area, gasoline or other petroleum distillate, and time period covered.
 
Authorizes a proclamation to include a period of up to one week preceding a reasonably foreseeable emergency.
 
Exempts from this Act a sale of gasoline or other petroleum distillate transaction on a futures market.
 
Empowers the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and state attorneys general to enforce this Act. Prescribes civil and criminal penalties for violations, but limits the criminal penalty to criminal actions brought by the Department of Justice (DOJ).
 
Allows a state to bring a civil action to enforce this Act or to impose civil penalties.
 
Requires deposit of fines and penalties collected under this Act in a separate Consumer Relief Trust Fund in the Treasury to provide assistance under the Low Income Home Energy Assistance (LIHEAP) Program.
 
Declares that nothing in this Act preempts state law.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-06-04
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Healthy Families and Communities.
action_date: 2009-04-28
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Environment.
action_date: 2009-04-28
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Commerce, Trade and Consumer Protection.
action_date: 2009-04-27
text: Referred to House Education and Labor
action_date: 2009-04-27
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Education and Labor, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2009-04-27
text: Referred to House Energy and Commerce
action_date: 2009-04-27
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-04-27
text: Introduced in House
Consumer Protection Home Inspection Counseling Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-2130
Sponsor: Rep. Velazquez, Nydia M. [D-NY-12]
Introduced: 2009-04-27 in the House
Policy area: Housing and Community Development
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Consumer affairs
Department of Housing and Urban Development
Employment and training programs
Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management
Government information and archives
Housing finance and home ownership
Licensing and registrations

Summary:
action_date: 2009-04-27
text: 
Consumer Protection Home Inspection Counseling Act of 2009 - Requires the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) to establish a comprehensive program to train HUD staff, contractors, individuals, and entities that provide housing counseling under specified HUD-funded programs also to provide counseling to consumers on voluntary home inspection. 
 
Requires the Secretary to develop a new independent protocol, or amend existing protocols, to certify that such housing counselors have successfully completed training using the voluntary home inspection training module and counseling aids established and developed pursuant to this Act. Limits authorized counseling to certified counselors.
 
Directs the Secretary to take necessary action to make such training module and counseling aids known to state and local governments, nonprofit organizations, consumer organizations, and the general public.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-04-27
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2009-04-27
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-04-27
text: Introduced in House
Family and Medical Leave Inclusion Act

Bill: 111-hr-2132
Sponsor: Rep. Maloney, Carolyn B. [D-NY-14]
Introduced: 2009-04-28 in the House
Policy area: Labor and Employment
Subjects: Employee leave
Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management
Home and outpatient care
Marriage and family status
Sex, gender, sexual orientation discrimination

Summary:
action_date: 2009-04-28
text: 
Family and Medical Leave Inclusion Act - Amends the Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993 to provide for employee leave to care for a same-sex spouse, as determined under applicable state law, domestic partner, child, parent-in-law, adult child, sibling, or grandparent (as well as for a spouse, child, or parent), if such person has a serious health condition. 
 
Amends federal civil service law to apply the same leave allowance to federal employees.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-06-26
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Federal Workforce, Post Office, and the District of Columbia.
action_date: 2009-06-04
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Workforce Protections.
action_date: 2009-04-28
text: Referred to House Oversight and Government Reform
action_date: 2009-04-28
text: Referred to House Administration
action_date: 2009-04-28
text: Referred to the Committee on Education and Labor, and in addition to the Committees on House Administration, and Oversight and Government Reform, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2009-04-28
text: Referred to House Education and Labor
action_date: 2009-04-28
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E992)
action_date: 2009-04-28
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-04-28
text: Introduced in House