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Medicare Ambulance Access Preservation Act of 2009

Bill: 111-s-1066
Sponsor: Sen. Schumer, Charles E. [D-NY]
Introduced: 2009-05-18 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Emergency medical services and trauma care
Medicare
Rural conditions and development

Summary:
action_date: 2009-05-18
text: 
Medicare Ambulance Access Preservation Act of 2009 - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to increase to 6% permanently the rate of increase in the fee schedule for ground ambulance services furnished on or after January 1, 2010, in rural and urban areas. 
 
Makes permanent the increase in the base rate of the fee schedule the Secretary of Health and Human Services is required to make for a trip in the case of ground ambulance services furnished on or after July 1, 2004, (and beyond January 1, 2010) for which the transportation originates in a qualified low population density rural area.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-05-18
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2009-05-18
text: Introduced in Senate
National Consumer Cooperative Bank Act Amendments of 2009

Bill: 111-s-1068
Sponsor: Sen. Brown, Sherrod [D-OH]
Introduced: 2009-05-19 in the Senate
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: Banking and financial institutions regulation
Federally chartered organizations
Financial services and investments

Summary:
action_date: 2009-05-19
text: 
National Consumer Cooperative Bank Act Amendments of 2009 - Amends the National Consumer Cooperative Bank Act to declare that a nonprofit corporation (established to succeed the abolished Office of Self-Help Development and Technical Assistance) shall be deemed to be a community development financial institution, unless the National Consumer Cooperative Bank or any of its affiliates participates in certain depository institution incentives under the Community Development Banking and Financial Institutions Act of 1994.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-05-19
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.
action_date: 2009-05-19
text: Introduced in Senate
Ratepayer Recovery Act of 2009

Bill: 111-s-1069
Sponsor: Sen. Landrieu, Mary L. [D-LA]
Introduced: 2009-05-19 in the Senate
Policy area: Emergency Management
Subjects: Disaster relief and insurance
Electric power generation and transmission

Summary:
action_date: 2009-05-19
text: 
Ratepayer Recovery Act of 2009 - Amends the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act to cite conditions under which the President is authorized to make disaster assistance contributions for the repair, restoration, reconstruction, or replacement of private or investor-owned power transmission and distribution facilities damaged or destroyed by a major disaster.
 
Cites conditions for large in-lieu contributions to a private or investor-owned power facility in any case in which the owner determines that the public welfare would not best be served by repairing, restoring, reconstructing, or replacing the facility.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-06-09
text: Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs referred to Subcommittee on Disaster Recovery.
action_date: 2009-05-19
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.
action_date: 2009-05-19
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to establish the Small Business Information Security Task Force to address information security concerns relating to credit card data and other proprietary information.

Bill: 111-s-1070
Sponsor: Sen. Snowe, Olympia J. [R-ME]
Introduced: 2009-05-19 in the Senate
Policy area: Commerce
Subjects: Advisory bodies
Computer security and identity theft
Computers and information technology
Credit and credit markets
Executive agency funding and structure
Government information and archives
Internet and video services
Internet, web applications, social media
Small Business Administration
Small business

Summary:
action_date: 2009-05-19
text: 
 Directs the Administrator of the Small Business Administration (SBA) to establish the Small Business Information Security Task Force to address the information technology security needs of small businesses and to help small businesses prevent the loss of credit card data. Requires the Task Force, among other duties, to make recommendations to the Administrator on the establishment of an Internet website to be used by the SBA to receive and dispense information and resources with respect to such needs.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-05-19
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship.
action_date: 2009-05-19
text: Introduced in Senate
Protecting America's Communities Act

Bill: 111-s-1071
Sponsor: Sen. Chambliss, Saxby [R-GA]
Introduced: 2009-05-19 in the Senate
Policy area: Immigration
Subjects: Administrative remedies
Caribbean area
Cuba
Detention of persons
Immigration status and procedures
Latin America
Military facilities and property
Refugees, asylum, displaced persons
Terrorism

Summary:
action_date: 2009-05-19
text: 
Protecting America's Communities Act - Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to prohibit the admission, asylum entry, or parole entry into the United States of an alien who, as of January 1, 2009, was being detained by the Department of Defense (DOD) at Guantanamo Bay Naval Base.
 
Requires the additional six-month detainment of such an alien ordered removed if the Secretary of Homeland Security (DHS) certifies that: (1) the alien cannot be removed due to the refusal of all countries designated by the alien to receive the alien; and (2) the Secretary is making reasonable efforts to find alternative means for removing the alien. 
 
Authorizes the Secretary to renew such certification after providing the alien with an opportunity to request and provide evidentiary support for reconsideration of the detainment certification. 
 
Prohibits: (1) an immigration judge or official of United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement from releasing a detained alien on bond or parole; and (2) the Secretary from delegating certification authority to an official below the level of the Assistant Secretary for Immigration and Customs Enforcement. 
 
Directs the Attorney General to take into custody upon release an alien who, as of January 1, 2009, was being detained by DOD at Guantanamo Bay Naval Base.
 
 Reaffirms that: (1) the United States is in an armed conflict with Al Qaeda, the Taliban, and associated forces; and (2) the President is authorized to detain enemy combatants in connection with such conflict regardless of their place of capture.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-05-19
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2009-05-19
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to amend chapter 1606 of title 10, United States Code, to modify the basis utilized for annual adjustments in amounts of educational assistance for members of the Selected Reserve.

Bill: 111-s-1072
Sponsor: Sen. Lincoln, Blanche L. [D-AR]
Introduced: 2009-05-19 in the Senate
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: National Guard and reserves
Student aid and college costs
Veterans' education, employment, rehabilitation

Summary:
action_date: 2009-05-19
text: 
Directs the Secretary of Defense, each fiscal year, to provide an increase in the rates of educational assistance payable to certain members of the Selected Reserve which is not less than the percentage by which the average cost of undergraduate tuition in the United States for the last academic year exceeds the average cost of such tuition for the year before that academic year. (Currently, such percentage increase is based on increases in the Consumer Price Index over such period.)


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-05-19
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Armed Services.
action_date: 2009-05-19
text: Introduced in Senate
Shareholder Bill of Rights Act of 2009

Bill: 111-s-1074
Sponsor: Sen. Schumer, Charles E. [D-NY]
Introduced: 2009-05-19 in the Senate
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Corporate finance and management
Securities
Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)
Wages and earnings

Summary:
action_date: 2009-05-19
text: 
Shareholder Bill of Rights Act of 2009 - Amends the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 to require any proxy or consent or authorization for an annual or other meeting for which the proxy solicitation rules of the Securities Exchange Commission (SEC) require shareholder compensation disclosure to include a separate resolution subject to shareholder vote to approve the compensation of executives.
 
Requires any person making a proxy solicitation concerning an acquisition, merger, consolidation, or proposed sale or other disposition of substantially all of the assets of an issuer (transaction) to disclose in the proxy solicitation material, in a clear and simple form, any agreements or understandings of that person with any of the issuer's principal executive officers concerning any type of (golden parachute) compensation based on or otherwise related to the transaction that have not been subject to a shareholder vote.
 
Requires the proxy solicitation material for a golden parachute to require a separate shareholder vote to approve it.
 
Directs the SEC to establish rules for the use by shareholders of issuer proxy solicitation materials for the purpose of nominating individuals to membership on the issuer's board of directors. Prohibits such rules from providing for such use, however, unless the shareholder, or a group of shareholders acting by agreement, has beneficially owned, directly or indirectly, an aggregate of at least 1% of the issuer's voting securities for at least the two-year period preceding the date of the issuer's next scheduled annual meeting.
 
Requires the SEC to direct the national securities exchanges and national securities associations to prohibit the listing of any security of an issuer that is not in compliance with any specified requirements pertaining to director independence, mandatory annual elections, SEC rules on elections, and mandatory establishment of a risk committee to establish and evaluate the issuer's risk management practices.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-05-19
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.
action_date: 2009-05-19
text: Introduced in Senate
New York/New Jersey High-Intensity Drug Trafficking Area Expansion Act of 2009

Bill: 111-s-1075
Sponsor: Sen. Schumer, Charles E. [D-NY]
Introduced: 2009-05-19 in the Senate
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Drug trafficking and controlled substances
Intergovernmental relations
Law enforcement administration and funding
New Jersey
New York State

Summary:
action_date: 2009-05-19
text: 
New York/New Jersey High-Intensity Drug Trafficking Area Expansion Act of 2009 - Designates the counties of Clinton, Franklin, Jefferson, and St. Lawrence in the state of New York as high-intensity drug trafficking areas and incorporates such counties into the New York/New Jersey high-intensity drug trafficking area program administered by the Office of National Drug Control Policy.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-05-19
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2009-05-19
text: Introduced in Senate
Truth in Fur Labeling Act of 2009

Bill: 111-s-1076
Sponsor: Sen. Menendez, Robert [D-NJ]
Introduced: 2009-05-19 in the Senate
Policy area: Commerce
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Competition and antitrust
Consumer affairs
Federal Trade Commission (FTC)
State and local government operations

Summary:
action_date: 2009-05-19
text: 
Truth in Fur Labeling Act of 2009 - Amends the Fur Products Labeling Act to: (1) eliminate the exemption to fur labeling requirements for products containing relatively small amounts of fur; and (2) permit states to enforce more restrictive labeling requirements.
 
Directs the the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), in the Fur Products Name Guide, to replace the term &quot;Raccoon, Asiatic&quot; with &quot;Dog, Raccoon.&quot; 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-05-19
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
action_date: 2009-05-19
text: Introduced in Senate
Robocall Privacy Act of 2009

Bill: 111-s-1077
Sponsor: Sen. Feinstein, Dianne [D-CA]
Introduced: 2009-05-19 in the Senate
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Civil actions and liability
Elections, voting, political campaign regulation
Telephone and wireless communication

Summary:
action_date: 2009-05-19
text: 
Robocall Privacy Act of 2009 - Makes it unlawful for a person during specified periods before a federal primary or general election to make certain prerecorded political telephone calls with respect to a candidate for federal office without immediate disclosure of the recorded nature of the calls, the identity of the caller, and the appearance of the caller's telephone number on the recipient's caller identification service.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-05-19
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Rules and Administration. (text of measure as introduced: CR S5621)
action_date: 2009-05-19
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S5620-5621)
action_date: 2009-05-19
text: Introduced in Senate
Medicare Cost Contract Extension and Refinement Act of 2009

Bill: 111-s-1079
Sponsor: Sen. Klobuchar, Amy [D-MN]
Introduced: 2009-05-19 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Health care costs and insurance
Health facilities and institutions
Medicare

Summary:
action_date: 2009-05-19
text: 
Medicare Cost Contract Extension and Refinement Act of 2009 - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act (SSA) with respect to reasonable cost reimbursement contracts with qualified health maintenance organizations (HMOs) or competitive medical plans for Medicare reimbursement of hospitals and skilled nursing facilities (SNFs).
 
Extends until January 1, 2013, the period during which such reasonable cost reimbursement contracts can remain in the market.
 
Revises conditions for approval of an application for a modification to a reasonable cost contract to expand the contract's service area.
 
 Applies to extended or renewed reasonable cost contracts certain requirements under Medicare part C (Medicare Advantage).


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-05-19
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2009-05-19
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to prohibit the release of enemy combatants into the United States.

Bill: 111-s-1081
Sponsor: Sen. Graham, Lindsey [R-SC]
Introduced: 2009-05-20 in the Senate
Policy area: Immigration
Subjects: Administrative remedies
Caribbean area
Cuba
Detention of persons
Immigration status and procedures
Latin America
Military facilities and property
Refugees, asylum, displaced persons
Terrorism
Visas and passports

Summary:
action_date: 2009-05-20
text: 
Defines &quot;covered individual&quot; as any individual who: (1) has been determined by a Combatant Status Review Tribunal to be an enemy combatant or is awaiting the determination of such a tribunal; (2) is in U.S. custody at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba; and (3) is not a U.S. citizen or an alien admitted for permanent residence. 
 
Prohibits: (1) a court from ordering a covered individual's release into the United States; and (2) the Secretary of State from issuing any visa and the Secretary of Homeland Security from admitting or providing any type of status to a covered individual that permits such individual's entry or admission into the United States.
 
States that a covered individual who is no longer held as an enemy combatant shall be: (1) released into the Secretary of Homeland Security's custody for expeditious transfer to such individual's country of nationality or to another country; and (2) housed separately from aliens detained as enemy combatants in a manner consistent with the safety of U.S. personnel.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-05-20
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2009-05-20
text: Introduced in Senate
Generate Retirement Ownership Through Long-Term Holding Act of 2009

Bill: 111-s-1082
Sponsor: Sen. Crapo, Mike [R-ID]
Introduced: 2009-05-20 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Capital gains tax
Financial services and investments
Income tax exclusion
Interest, dividends, interest rates
Securities

Summary:
action_date: 2009-05-20
text: Generate Retirement Ownership Through Long-Term Holding Act of 2009 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to provide that no gain shall be recognized on the receipt of a capital gain dividend distributed by a regulated investment company if such dividend is automatically reinvested in additional shares of the company pursuant to a dividend reinvestment plan.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-05-20
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2009-05-20
text: Introduced in Senate
Caribbean Count Act

Bill: 111-s-1083
Sponsor: Sen. Schumer, Charles E. [D-NY]
Introduced: 2009-05-20 in the Senate
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Caribbean area
Census and government statistics
Latin America

Summary:
action_date: 2009-05-20
text: 
Caribbean Count Act - Requires the Secretary of Commerce to include in any questionnaire used in a decennial census to determine state populations an option for respondents to indicate Caribbean extraction or descent.
 


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: 2009-05-20
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.
action_date: 2009-05-20
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to require that, in the questionnaires used in the taking of any decennial census of population, a checkbox or other similar option be included so that respondents may indicate Dominican extraction or descent.

Bill: 111-s-1084
Sponsor: Sen. Gillibrand, Kirsten E. [D-NY]
Introduced: 2009-05-20 in the Senate
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Caribbean area
Census and government statistics
Dominican Republic
Latin America

Summary:
action_date: 2009-05-20
text: 
Requires the Secretary of Commerce to include in any questionnaire used in a decennial census to determine state populations an option for respondents to indicate Dominican extraction or descent.


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: 2009-05-20
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.
action_date: 2009-05-20
text: Introduced in Senate
Livestock Marketing Fairness Act

Bill: 111-s-1086
Sponsor: Sen. Enzi, Michael B. [R-WY]
Introduced: 2009-05-20 in the Senate
Policy area: Agriculture and Food
Subjects: Agricultural marketing and promotion
Agricultural prices, subsidies, credit
Contracts and agency
Livestock

Summary:
action_date: 2009-05-20
text: 
Livestock Marketing Fairness Act - Amends the Packers and Stockyards Act, 1921 to prohibit a livestock sale forward contract (with an exception for specified cooperatives) that: (1) does not contain a firm base price that may be equated to a fixed dollar amount on the contract day; (2) is not offered for open public bid; (3) is based on a formula price; or (4) provides for the sale of more that 40 cattle, 30 swine, or other livestock in a quantity as determined by the Secretary of Agriculture.
 
Defines: (1) &quot;firm base price&quot; as a transaction using an external source reference price; (2) &quot;formula price&quot; as any price term that establishes a base from which a purchase price is calculated on the basis of a price that will not be determined or reported until a date after the forward price is established (with specified exclusions); and (3) &quot;forward contract&quot; as a livestock purchase contract that provides for livestock delivery to a packer at a date that is more than seven days after the date on which the contract is entered into, without regard to whether the contract is for a specified lot of livestock or a specified number of livestock over a certain period of time.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-05-20
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry. (text of measure as introduced: CR S5703)
action_date: 2009-05-20
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S5702-5703)
action_date: 2009-05-20
text: Introduced in Senate
Energy Fairness for America Act

Bill: 111-s-1087
Sponsor: Sen. Kerry, John F. [D-MA]
Introduced: 2009-05-20 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Income tax credits
Income tax deductions
Oil and gas

Summary:
action_date: 2009-05-20
text: 
Energy Fairness for America Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) deny a tax deduction for income attributable to the domestic production of oil, natural gas, or related products; (2) terminate the tax credit for producing crude oil and gas from marginal wells; (3) repeal the exception from passive activity rules for working interests in oil or gas property; (4) extend to seven years the amortization period for geological and geophysical expenditures; (5) terminate the tax deduction for intangible drilling and development costs; and (6) terminate the percentage depletion allowance for oil and gas wells. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-05-20
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2009-05-20
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S5703-5704)
action_date: 2009-05-20
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to authorize certain construction in coastal high hazard areas using assistance under the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act.

Bill: 111-s-1088
Sponsor: Sen. Landrieu, Mary L. [D-LA]
Introduced: 2009-05-20 in the Senate
Policy area: Emergency Management
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Department of Homeland Security
Disaster relief and insurance
Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA)
Marine and coastal resources, fisheries
Natural disasters

Summary:
action_date: 2009-05-20
text: 
Deems: (1) certain activity in a coastal high hazard area to be an eligible use of assistance under provisions of the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act regarding hazard mitigation and repair, restoration, and replacement of facilities damaged by Hurricane Katrina, Rita, Gustav, or Ike; and (2) any new construction or substantial improvements to structures under such an activity involving critical actions to not be required to elevate to the 500-year floodplain if it would be impracticable.
 
Makes this Act applicable to any assistance under such Act relating to a major disaster declared on or after August 28, 2005, relating to such hurricanes.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-05-20
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.
action_date: 2009-05-20
text: Introduced in Senate