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Veterans Transitional Assistance Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-1681
Sponsor: Rep. Boswell, Leonard L. [D-IA-3]
Introduced: 2009-03-24 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Department of Defense
Executive agency funding and structure
Government information and archives
Veterans' education, employment, rehabilitation
Veterans' loans, housing, homeless programs
Veterans' medical care
Veterans' pensions and compensation

Summary:
action_date: 2009-03-24
text: 
Veterans Transitional Assistance Act of 2009 - Directs the Secretary of Defense to establish in the Department of Defense (DOD) the Office of Technical Assistance to carry out the Secretary's responsibilities of establishing and operating a wounded warrior resource (support) center, as required under the Wounded Warrior Act.
 
Requires the Office, upon the discharge or release of a member of the Armed Forces, to transmit the member's service record and contact information to the Secretary of Veterans Affairs who shall in turn contact and provide such person necessary information to apply for any benefits to which the person may be entitled through the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA).


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-04-27
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Military Personnel.
action_date: 2009-03-24
text: Referred to House Veterans' Affairs
action_date: 2009-03-24
text: Referred to the Committee on Armed Services, 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: 2009-03-24
text: Referred to House Armed Services
action_date: 2009-03-24
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-03-24
text: Introduced in House
Bridge Life Extension Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-1682
Sponsor: Rep. Conaway, K. Michael [R-TX-11]
Introduced: 2009-03-24 in the House
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Roads and highways
Transportation programs funding
Transportation safety and security

Summary:
action_date: 2009-03-24
text: 
Bridge Life Extension Act of 2009 - Requires a state, as a condition of receiving federal-aid highway funding, to develop and implement a highway bridge management system that meets certain requirements.
 
Requires a state, in developing and implementing such a system, to: (1) identify corrosion mitigation and prevention methods to preserve its highway bridges; (2) establish a project maintenance program to extend the life of such bridges; (3) ensure that all highway bridge designers, inspectors, and maintenance workers implementing the system are trained and certified in corrosion mitigation and prevention techniques; and (4) research current inspection technologies and techniques for highway bridges.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-03-25
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Highways and Transit.
action_date: 2009-03-24
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2009-03-24
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-03-24
text: Introduced in House
Clean Environment and Stable Energy Market Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-1683
Sponsor: Rep. McDermott, Jim [D-WA-7]
Introduced: 2009-03-24 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Air quality
Climate change and greenhouse gases
Government trust funds
Licensing and registrations
Pollution liability
Tax administration and collection, taxpayers
User charges and fees

Summary:
action_date: 2009-03-24
text: 
Clean Environment and Stable Energy Market Act of 2009 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to require covered persons (i.e., coal producers, oil refinery operators, and producers and importers of other greenhouse gases emission substances) to purchase a federal emission permit (denominated in carbon dioxide equivalents) from the Secretary of the Treasury for the sale or use of a greenhouse gas (GHG) emission substance. Exempts from such requirement GHG emission substances to be used: (1) as material in the production of another article by such person; or (2) for noncombustion agricultural purposes. Requires the Secretary to impose a GHG emission permit equivalency fee on imports of carbon intensive goods. 
 
 
Requires the Secretary, after consultation with the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the Secretary of Energy, to establish a price for obtaining a permit for a year based on a determination of the dollar amount necessary to ensure that the demand for permits does not exceed the GHG emission allocations for such year. Requires the Secretary to publish a five-year price schedule for permits by January 1, 2010, and every five years thereafter. Authorizes the Secretary to modify the schedule.
 
Sets forth a formula to determine the national GHG emission allocation limitations for 2011-2050.
 
Provides for refunds of permit fees to specified: (1) permittees that use GHG emission substances in a manner that will make a negligible or no contribution to global warming; and (2) exporters of carbon-intensive goods.
 
Imposes a tax on covered persons who fail to obtain a required permit.
 
Establishes in the Treasury the Climate Protection and Economic Security Trust Fund where revenue raised from permit sales shall be deposited. 
 
Applies this Act to the sale of any GHG emission substance after December 31, 2010. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-03-25
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Environment.
action_date: 2009-03-24
text: Referred to House Energy and Commerce
action_date: 2009-03-24
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: 2009-03-24
text: Referred to House Ways and Means
action_date: 2009-03-24
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-03-24
text: Introduced in House
Preservation of the Second Amendment in National Parks and National Wildlife Refuges Act

Bill: 111-hr-1684
Sponsor: Rep. Hastings, Doc [R-WA-4]
Introduced: 2009-03-24 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Firearms and explosives
Parks, recreation areas, trails
Wilderness and natural areas, wildlife refuges, wild rivers, habitats

Summary:
action_date: 2009-03-24
text: 
Preservation of the Second Amendment in National Parks and National Wildlife Refuges Act - Allows, except as provided under federal criminal law relating to the possession of firearms and other dangerous weapons in federal facilities, a person to possess, carry, and transport concealed, loaded, and operable firearms within a national park area or national wildlife refuge area in accordance with the laws of the state in which such area is located. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-03-27
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests and Public Lands.
action_date: 2009-03-24
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2009-03-24
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR H3753-3754)
action_date: 2009-03-24
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-03-24
text: Introduced in House
Child Care Facilities Financing Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-1685
Sponsor: Rep. McCarthy, Carolyn [D-NY-4]
Introduced: 2009-03-24 in the House
Policy area: Families
Subjects: Child care and development
Educational facilities and institutions
Housing and community development funding
Preschool education

Summary:
action_date: 2009-03-24
text: 
Child Care Facilities Financing Act of 2009 - Authorizes the Secretary of Health and Human Services to award competitive grants to eligible entities to deposit into child care capital funds for technical and financial assistance to eligible child care providers to pay the costs of acquisition, construction, or improvement of child care facilities or equipment, or for technical assistance to such providers to help them undertake facilities improvement and expansion. 
 

 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-05-14
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education.
action_date: 2009-03-24
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and Labor.
action_date: 2009-03-24
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E757)
action_date: 2009-03-24
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-03-24
text: Introduced in House
Mail Network Protection Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-1686
Sponsor: Rep. Lynch, Stephen F. [D-MA-9]
Introduced: 2009-03-24 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management
Labor-management relations
Postal service
U.S. Postal Service

Summary:
action_date: 2009-03-24
text: 
Mail Network Protection Act of 2009 - Requires the U.S. Postal Service to bargain with unions representing career Postal Service employees before entering into a contract for mail processing, mail handling, or surface transportation of mail if the contract, in a 12 month period, would involve work that would otherwise be performed, in whole or in part, by those employees and either: (1) involve more than a specified amount of work time; or (2) cost over $5 million.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-05-04
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Federal Workforce, Post Office, and the District of Columbia.
action_date: 2009-03-24
text: Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.
action_date: 2009-03-24
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-03-24
text: Introduced in House
To amend title 10, United States Code, to ensure that commissioned officers who serve in a reserve component of the Armed Forces are able to retire in the highest grade in which they have successfully served.

Bill: 111-hr-1688
Sponsor: Del. Bordallo, Madeleine Z. [D-GU-At Large]
Introduced: 2009-03-24 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Military personnel and dependents
National Guard and reserves
Veterans' pensions and compensation

Summary:
action_date: 2009-03-24
text: 
Allows an individual to elect to receive retired pay for non-regular (reserve) service upon retirement for service performed in an active reserve status after attaining eligibility for regular retirement, as long as the individual successfully completes at least two years of active reserve status service.
 
Allows the Secretary of the military department concerned to reduce the two-year active reserve status requirement in certain cases.
 
Requires the recomputation of reserve retired pay and, if appropriate, the adjustment of the retired grade of reserve retirees to reflect the successful completion of at least two years of post-retirement service in an active reserve status. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-04-27
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Military Personnel.
action_date: 2009-03-24
text: Referred to the House Committee on Armed Services.
action_date: 2009-03-24
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-03-24
text: Introduced in House
Coastal State Renewable Energy Promotion Act

Bill: 111-hr-1690
Sponsor: Rep. Capps, Lois [D-CA-23]
Introduced: 2009-03-24 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Alternative and renewable resources
Government information and archives
Marine and coastal resources, fisheries
Water resources funding

Summary:
action_date: 2009-03-24
text: 
Coastal State Renewable Energy Promotion Act - Amends the Coastal Zone Management Act of 1972 to authorize grants to eligible coastal states to support voluntary state efforts to initiate and complete surveys of portions of coastal state waters and federal waters adjacent to a state's coastal zone to identify potential areas suitable or unsuitable for the exploration, development, and production of renewable (wind, wave, current, tidal, or ocean thermal) energy that are consistent with the enforceable policies of coastal management plans. Requires that survey results be made available to the public.
 
Requires suitable areas to be given priority consideration by federal agencies for the siting, licensing, leasing, or permitting of renewable energy facilities.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-03-30
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Insular Affairs, Oceans and Wildlife.
action_date: 2009-03-24
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2009-03-24
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-03-24
text: Introduced in House
Breast Cancer Patient Protection Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-1691
Sponsor: Rep. DeLauro, Rosa L. [D-CT-3]
Introduced: 2009-03-24 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Cancer
Employee benefits and pensions
Health care costs and insurance
Health care coverage and access
Hospital care
Surgery and anesthesia
Women's health

Summary:
action_date: 2009-03-24
text: 
Breast Cancer Patient Protect Act of 2009 - Amends the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA), the Public Health Service Act, and the Internal Revenue Code to require a group health plan that provides medical and surgical benefits to ensure that inpatient (and in the case of a lumpectomy, outpatient) coverage and radiation therapy are provided for breast cancer treatment. Prohibits such a plan from: (1) restricting benefits for any hospital length of stay to less than 48 hours in connection with a mastectomy or breast conserving surgery or 24 hours in connection with a lymph node dissection, insofar as the attending physician, in consultation with the patient, determines such stay to be medically necessary; or (2) requiring that a provider obtain authorization from the plan or issuer for prescribing any such length of stay.
 
Requires such a plan or issuer to: (1) provide notice to each participant and beneficiary regarding the coverage required under this Act; and (2) ensure that coverage is provided for secondary consultations.
 
Prohibits a group health plan from taking specified actions to avoid the requirements of this Act. 
 
Applies such requirements to health insurance issuers offering coverage in the individual market.
 
Allows a health insurance issuer that provides individual health insurance coverage to nonrenew or discontinue an individual's coverage based on the intentional concealment of material facts regarding a health condition related to the condition for which coverage is being claimed. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-10-08
text: Subcommittee Hearings Held.
action_date: 2009-05-14
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2009-03-25
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2009-03-24
text: Referred to House Education and Labor
action_date: 2009-03-24
text: Referred to House Ways and Means
action_date: 2009-03-24
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Ways and Means, and 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: 2009-03-24
text: Referred to House Energy and Commerce
action_date: 2009-03-24
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR H3759-3760)
action_date: 2009-03-24
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-03-24
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act to exempt ordinary books from the lead limit in such Act.

Bill: 111-hr-1692
Sponsor: Rep. Fortenberry, Jeff [R-NE-1]
Introduced: 2009-03-24 in the House
Policy area: Commerce
Subjects: Books and print media
Child safety and welfare
Hazardous wastes and toxic substances
Product safety and quality

Summary:
action_date: 2009-03-24
text: 
Amends the Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act to exempt ordinary books from the lead limits on children's products.
 
Defines &quot;ordinary books&quot; as books published on paper or cardboard, printed by conventional publishing methods, intended to be read, and lacking inherent play value.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-03-25
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Commerce, Trade and Consumer Protection.
action_date: 2009-03-24
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2009-03-24
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-03-24
text: Introduced in House
Seniors Mental Health Access Improvement Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-1693
Sponsor: Rep. Gordon, Bart [D-TN-6]
Introduced: 2009-03-24 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Health care coverage and access
Health facilities and institutions
Long-term, rehabilitative, and terminal care
Medicare
Mental health
Rural conditions and development

Summary:
action_date: 2009-03-24
text: 
Seniors Mental Health Access Improvement Act of 2009 - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to provide for coverage of marriage and family therapist services and mental health counselor services under Medicare part B (Supplementary Medical Insurance), particularly those provided in rural health clinics, federally qualified health centers (FQHCs), and in hospice programs.
 
Amends Medicare part C (Miscellaneous) to exclude such services from the skilled nursing facility (SNF) prospective payment system.
 
Authorizes marriage and family therapists and mental health counselors to develop discharge plans for post-hospital services.
 

 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-03-25
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2009-03-24
text: Referred to House Ways and Means
action_date: 2009-03-24
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: 2009-03-24
text: Referred to House Energy and Commerce
action_date: 2009-03-24
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-03-24
text: Introduced in House
To amend title 10, United States Code, to reduce the minimum age for receipt of military retired pay for non-regular service from 60 to 55.

Bill: 111-hr-1695
Sponsor: Rep. LoBiondo, Frank A. [R-NJ-2]
Introduced: 2009-03-24 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Veterans' pensions and compensation

Summary:
action_date: 2009-03-24
text: Reduces from 60 to 55 the minimum age for the receipt of military retired pay for non-regular service.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-04-27
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Military Personnel.
action_date: 2009-03-24
text: Referred to the House Committee on Armed Services.
action_date: 2009-03-24
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E751)
action_date: 2009-03-24
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-03-24
text: Introduced in House
COAST Anti-Drilling Act

Bill: 111-hr-1696
Sponsor: Rep. Pallone, Frank, Jr. [D-NJ-6]
Introduced: 2009-03-24 in the House
Policy area: Energy
Subjects: Atlantic Ocean
Marine and coastal resources, fisheries
Mining
Oil and gas

Summary:
action_date: 2009-03-24
text: 
Clean Ocean and Safe Tourism Anti-Drilling Act or the COAST Anti-Drilling Act - Amends the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act (OCSLA) to prohibit the Secretary of the Interior from issuing a lease for the exploration, development, or production of oil, natural gas, or any other mineral in either the Mid-Atlantic or the North Atlantic planning areas. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-03-30
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources.
action_date: 2009-03-24
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2009-03-24
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-03-24
text: Introduced in House
Tribal Government Homeland Security Coordination and Integration Act

Bill: 111-hr-1697
Sponsor: Rep. Pallone, Frank, Jr. [D-NJ-6]
Introduced: 2009-03-24 in the House
Policy area: Native Americans
Subjects: Computers and information technology
Department of Homeland Security
Emergency communications systems
Emergency planning and evacuation
Executive agency funding and structure
Federal-Indian relations
Homeland security

Summary:
action_date: 2009-03-24
text: 
Tribal Government Homeland Security Coordination and Integration Act - Establishes the Office of Tribal Government Homeland Security (Office) within the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). Requires the Secretary of Homeland Security to appoint a Director to head the Office.

Prescribes the Secretary's and the Director's duties of coordination, infrastructure and equipment readiness, training, and inclusion of Indian tribes in homeland security preparedness.

Requires the Secretary to treat Indian tribes as states, as appropriate, for the purpose of homeland security. Authorizes the Secretary to delegate to Indian tribes primary responsibility for homeland security activities within their respective jurisdictions. Requires the Secretary to integrate the roles of the Bureau of Indian Affairs and Indian Health Services with regard to homeland security.

Requires the Secretary to provide assistance to enhance information technology capabilities of tribes and ensure the participation of Indian tribes in the coordination with governments and the private sector as related to homeland security activities.
 
Makes Indian tribes eligible to apply for, receive, direct, and supervise any homeland security-related federal grant program.
 
Authorizes the Secretary to award grants to Indian tribes for specified homeland security purposes.

Requires the Secretary to: (1) provide Indian tribes with technical assistance in developing, implementing, and managing emergency response plans; (2) ensure that DHS expertise and legal, financial, or technical assistance programs are made available to Indian tribes; and (3) facilitate cooperation with the heads of appropriate federal agencies working on homeland security initiatives.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-03-30
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Management, Investigations, and Oversight.
action_date: 2009-03-24
text: Referred to House Homeland Security
action_date: 2009-03-24
text: Referred to the Committee on Natural Resources, and in addition to the Committee on Homeland Security, 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: 2009-03-24
text: Referred to House Natural Resources
action_date: 2009-03-24
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-03-24
text: Introduced in House