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Assisting Doctors to Obtain Proficient and Transmissible Health Information Technology Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-1087
Sponsor: Rep. Gingrey, Phil [R-GA-11]
Introduced: 2009-02-13 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Business investment and capital
Computers and information technology
Department of Health and Human Services
Health information and medical records
Health technology, devices, supplies
Income tax deductions

Summary:
action_date: 2009-02-13
text: 
Assisting Doctors to Obtain Proficient and Transmissible Health Information Technology Act of 2009 or the ADOPT HIT Act of 2009 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow medical care providers to expense (i.e., deduct all costs in the current taxable year) up to $250,000 of the cost of health care information technology used primarily for the electronic creation, maintenance, and exchange of medical care information.

Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services to develop standards for hardware, software, and support services for the electronic exchange of health information. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-02-23
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2009-02-13
text: Referred to House Energy and Commerce
action_date: 2009-02-13
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: 2009-02-13
text: Referred to House Ways and Means
action_date: 2009-02-13
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-02-13
text: Introduced in House
Homefront Heroes Tax Relief Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-1090
Sponsor: Rep. Hill, Baron P. [D-IN-9]
Introduced: 2009-02-13 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Income tax credits
Military personnel and dependents
Social work, volunteer service, charitable organizations

Summary:
action_date: 2009-02-13
text: 
Homefront Heroes Tax Relief Act of 2009 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow tax credits for: (1) sending care packages to members of the Armed Forces serving in a combat zone; and (2) providing volunteer service to military families through the America Supports You program of the Department of Defense (DOD).


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-02-13
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2009-02-13
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-02-13
text: Introduced in House
Student Privacy Protection Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-1091
Sponsor: Rep. Honda, Michael M. [D-CA-15]
Introduced: 2009-02-13 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Elementary and secondary education
Government information and archives
Military personnel and dependents
Right of privacy
School administration

Summary:
action_date: 2009-02-13
text: 
Student Privacy Protection Act of 2009 - Amends the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (ESEA) to revise provisions for military recruiter access to secondary school student information. 
 
Requires ESEA-assisted local educational agencies (LEAs) to notify each secondary school student's parent of the option to consent to a release of the student's name, address, and telephone listing to military recruiters, and to give the parent the opportunity to provide such consent in writing. Requires such LEAs to provide military recruiters, upon their request, with access to such information on a student only if the student's parent has given such written consent. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-03-30
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education.
action_date: 2009-02-13
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and Labor.
action_date: 2009-02-13
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-02-13
text: Introduced in House
No Discrimination in Health Insurance Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-1092
Sponsor: Rep. Kagen, Steve [D-WI-8]
Introduced: 2009-02-13 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Consumer affairs
Department of Health and Human Services
Disability and health-based discrimination
Employee benefits and pensions
Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management
Health care costs and insurance
Health care coverage and access

Summary:
action_date: 2009-02-13
text: 
No Discrimination in Health Insurance Act of 2009 - Amends the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA), the Internal Revenue Code, and the Public Health Service Act to prohibit a group health plan from imposing any preexisting conditions exclusion.

Requires each health insurance issuer that offers health insurance coverage in the group market in a state to: (1) accept every employer in the state that applies for such coverage; (2) accept enrollment for every eligible individual who applies during the enrollment period; (3) charge the same premium price for the same coverage; and (4) openly disclose such premium price.

Eliminates provisions allowing nonfederal governmental plans to opt out of certain group health plan requirements.

Prohibits health insurance issuers that offer coverage in the individual market to individuals residing in an area from: (1) declining to offer such coverage to, or denying enrollment of, eligible individuals in the area who desire to enroll; or (2) imposing any preexisting conditions exclusion. Defines &quot;eligible individual&quot; to mean: (1) a U.S. citizen or national; (2) an alien lawfully admitted to the United States for permanent residence; or (3) an alien who is otherwise lawfully residing in the United States. Requires such issuers to: (1) charge the same premium price for the same coverage, including coverage offered in the group market; and (2) openly disclose such premium price. 

Authorizes the Secretary of Health and Human Services to establish rules to deter individuals from: (1) enrolling in individual health insurance coverage only after they develop an illness or injury; or (2) disenrolling for periods in which they are unlikely to require such coverage.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-03-30
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2009-02-23
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2009-02-13
text: Referred to House Ways and Means
action_date: 2009-02-13
text: Referred to House Education and Labor
action_date: 2009-02-13
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Education and Labor, 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: 2009-02-13
text: Referred to House Energy and Commerce
action_date: 2009-02-13
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-02-13
text: Introduced in House
To amend title II of the Social Security Act to provide for an increase in the maximum level of fees authorized to be charged by representatives with respect to claims of entitlement to past-due benefits and to require cost-of-living adjustments to such level of authorized fees.

Bill: 111-hr-1093
Sponsor: Rep. Lewis, John [D-GA-5]
Introduced: 2009-02-13 in the House
Policy area: Social Welfare
Subjects: Administrative remedies
Department of Health and Human Services
Inflation and prices
Lawyers and legal services
Social Security Administration
Social security and elderly assistance

Summary:
action_date: 2009-02-13
text: 
Amends title II (Old Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance) (OASDI) of the Social Security Act with respect to fees of persons representating claimants prevailing before the Commissioner of Social Security in a claim of entitlement to past-due benefits.
 
Increases the maximum level of fees authorized to be charged by such representatives with respect to such claims.
 
Requires the Commissioner to make annual cost-of-living adjustments to such fee level.
 

 
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-02-13
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2009-02-13
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-02-13
text: Introduced in House
Medicare Home Health Flexibility Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-1094
Sponsor: Rep. Lewis, John [D-GA-5]
Introduced: 2009-02-13 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Allied health services
Home and outpatient care
Medicare

Summary:
action_date: 2009-02-13
text: 
Medicare Home Health Flexibility Act of 2009 - Permits a home health agency to determine the most appropriate skilled service to make the initial assessment visit for an individual who: (1) is eligible for home health services under title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act; but (2) does not require skilled nursing care as long as that skilled service is included as part of the plan of care for such services. 
 
Permits an occupational therapist to make the initial assessment visit in such a case if occupational therapy is included in such plan in the initial physician referral in conjunction with physical therapy or speech language pathology services. 
 

 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-02-23
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2009-02-13
text: Referred to House Energy and Commerce
action_date: 2009-02-13
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: 2009-02-13
text: Referred to House Ways and Means
action_date: 2009-02-13
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-02-13
text: Introduced in House
Troubled Asset Relief Program Transparency Reporting Act

Bill: 111-hr-1095
Sponsor: Rep. Maloney, Carolyn B. [D-NY-14]
Introduced: 2009-02-13 in the House
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: Aviation and airports
Business ethics
Business records
Corporate finance and management
Elections, voting, political campaign regulation
Financial crises and stabilization
Public participation and lobbying
Transportation costs

Summary:
action_date: 2009-02-13
text: 
Troubled Asset Relief Program Transparency Reporting Act - Prohibits the use by a recipient or its subsidiary of Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) funds under the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008 for lobbying expenditures or political contributions.
 
Requires the Secretary of the Treasury, through enhanced internal reporting and oversight requirements, to develop and publish corporate governance principles and ethical guidelines for such recipients, including specified restrictions.
 
Sets forth recipient reporting and certifying requirements governing such TARP funds.
 
Requires the Secretary to make such reports and certifications publicly available online and free of charge.
 
Subjects persons to civil fines for violating such prohibition on the use of TARP funds or failing to file the required report or certification.
 
Bars recipients from future TARP funds for noncompliance with such guidelines unless the Secretary determines that reasonable steps have been taken to bring their actions into compliance with and to prevent future violations of this Act.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-02-13
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2009-02-13
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-02-13
text: Introduced in House
Tax Relief for Transportation Workers Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-1097
Sponsor: Rep. Paul, Ron [R-TX-14]
Introduced: 2009-02-13 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Income tax credits
Transportation employees

Summary:
action_date: 2009-02-13
text: 
Tax Relief for Transportation Workers Act of 2009 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) allow individual taxpayers a refundable tax credit for the cost of obtaining a transportation worker identification credential; and (2) allow such credit for expenses incurred in prior taxable years beginning after 2006. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-02-13
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2009-02-13
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E273)
action_date: 2009-02-13
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-02-13
text: Introduced in House
Veterans' Worker Retraining Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-1098
Sponsor: Rep. Perriello, Thomas S.P. [D-VA-5]
Introduced: 2009-02-13 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Veterans' education, employment, rehabilitation

Summary:
action_date: 2009-02-13
text: 
Veterans' Worker Retraining Act of 2009 - Increases the amount of educational assistance payments made by the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to individuals pursuing an apprenticeship or on-job training under: (1) the Montgomery GI Bill educational assistance program; (2) the Post-Vietnam Era Veterans educational assistance program; (3) the Survivors and Dependents educational assistance program; and (4) the Selected Reserve Montgomery GI Bill educational assistance program. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-06-10
text: Ordered to be Reported (Amended) by Voice Vote.
action_date: 2009-06-10
text: Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
action_date: 2009-06-04
text: Forwarded by Subcommittee to Full Committee (Amended) by Voice Vote .
action_date: 2009-06-04
text: Subcommittee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
action_date: 2009-05-22
text: Subcommittee Hearings Held.
action_date: 2009-05-21
text: Subcommittee Hearings Held.
action_date: 2009-03-17
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Military Personnel.
action_date: 2009-02-27
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Economic Opportunity.
action_date: 2009-02-13
text: Referred to House Armed Services
action_date: 2009-02-13
text: Referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs, and in addition to the Committee on Armed Services, 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: 2009-02-13
text: Referred to House Veterans' Affairs
action_date: 2009-02-13
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-02-13
text: Introduced in House
To provide for extension of existing and expiring agreements under the Moving-to-Work program of the Department of Housing and Urban Development.

Bill: 111-hr-1099
Sponsor: Rep. Sires, Albio [D-NJ-13]
Introduced: 2009-02-13 in the House
Policy area: Housing and Community Development
Subjects: Administrative remedies
Department of Housing and Urban Development
Employment and training programs
Poverty and welfare assistance
Public housing

Summary:
action_date: 2009-02-13
text: 
Requires the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, upon the request of a public housing agency (PHA) which has a Moving to Work agreement (under the demonstration program authorized by the Departments of Veterans Affairs and Housing and Urban Development, and Independent Agencies Appropriations Act, 1996), to extend it for a 12-month period under such terms as are, or were, in effect upon the agreement's expiration.
 
Requires, for a PHA that previously received an extension of its agreement and entered into a subsequent agreement after January 1, 2009, the Secretary to, upon the PHA's request, invalidate such subsequent agreement and extend any agreement in effect as of such date for a 12-month period under such terms as were in effect as of that date.
 
Prohibits the Secretary from extending a Moving to Work agreement if a PHA is noncompliant with its agreement's terms.
 
Expresses the sense of Congress that the maximum number of PHAs authorized to participate in the Moving to Work demonstration program should not be expanded until the demonstration program has been reformed and permanently authorized through enactment of a federal law.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-02-13
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2009-02-13
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-02-13
text: Introduced in House
Vessel Navigation and Safety Improvement Act

Bill: 111-hr-1100
Sponsor: Rep. Tauscher, Ellen O. [D-CA-10]
Introduced: 2009-02-13 in the House
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Coast guard
Department of Defense
Department of Homeland Security
Marine and inland water transportation
Navigation, waterways, harbors

Summary:
action_date: 2009-02-13
text: 
Vessel Navigation and Safety Improvement Act - Amends the Ports and Waterways Safety Act to authorize the Coast Guard's Commandant to issue regulations requiring: (1) any pilot serving on a covered vessel operating in regulated waters to carry and use a portable electronic navigation device capable of being connected to an Automatic Identification System; and (2) related pilot training.
 
Defines &quot;covered vessel&quot; as a self-propelled, commercial vessel of at least 300 gross tons without a prescribed electronic chart.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-02-14
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Coast Guard and Maritime Transportation.
action_date: 2009-02-13
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2009-02-13
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-02-13
text: Introduced in House
Midwifery Care Access and Reimbursement Equity Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-1101
Sponsor: Rep. Towns, Edolphus [D-NY-10]
Introduced: 2009-02-13 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Allied health services
Child health
Medicare
Women's health

Summary:
action_date: 2009-02-13
text: 
 Midwifery Care Access and Reimbursement Equity Act of 2009 - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to provide for the coverage of and payment for certified midwife services. (Currently only certified nurse-midwife services are covered.)


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-02-23
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2009-02-13
text: Referred to House Energy and Commerce
action_date: 2009-02-13
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: 2009-02-13
text: Referred to House Ways and Means
action_date: 2009-02-13
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-02-13
text: Introduced in House
Keep Our PACT Act

Bill: 111-hr-1102
Sponsor: Rep. Van Hollen, Chris [D-MD-8]
Introduced: 2009-02-13 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Appropriations
Department of Education
Education programs funding
Elementary and secondary education
Special education

Summary:
action_date: 2009-02-13
text: 
Keep Our Promise to America's Children and Teachers Act or the Keep Our PACT Act - Makes appropriations for: (1) programs under the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 for FY2009-FY2014; and (2) the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, including specified amounts for FY2009-FY2016 and an amount determined pursuant to a specified formula (based on the number of children who received special education, the average per-pupil expenditure, and the rate of change in a state's population) for FY2017 and thereafter.
 
Requires such appropriated amounts to be expended consistent with pay-as-you-go requirements.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-03-30
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education.
action_date: 2009-02-13
text: Referred to House Appropriations
action_date: 2009-02-13
text: Referred to the Committee on Education and Labor, and in addition to the Committee on Appropriations, 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: 2009-02-13
text: Referred to House Education and Labor
action_date: 2009-02-13
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E280)
action_date: 2009-02-13
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-02-13
text: Introduced in House
To modify the prohibition on recognition by United States courts of certain rights relating to certain marks, trade names, or commercial names.

Bill: 111-hr-1103
Sponsor: Rep. Wexler, Robert [D-FL-19]
Introduced: 2009-02-13 in the House
Policy area: Law
Subjects: Caribbean area
Civil actions and liability
Cuba
Evidence and witnesses
Intellectual property
Jurisdiction and venue
Latin America
Property rights

Summary:
action_date: 2009-02-13
text: 
Amends the Department of Commerce and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 1999 to prohibit U.S. courts from recognizing, enforcing, or otherwise validating any assertion of rights by an individual (under current law, by a designated Cuban national) of a mark, trade name, or commercial name that was used in connection with a business or assets that were confiscated by the Cuban government unless the original owner of such mark or name, or such owner's bona fide successor, has expressly consented. Applies such prohibition only if the individual asserting the rights knew or had reason to know at the time of acquiring the rights asserted that the mark or name was the same or substantially similar to the mark or name used in connection with the business or assets that were confiscated. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-03-16
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Courts and Competition Policy.
action_date: 2009-02-13
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2009-02-13
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-02-13
text: Introduced in House
For the relief of Mikael Adrian Christopher Figueroa Alvarez.

Bill: 111-hr-1104
Sponsor: Rep. Lofgren, Zoe [D-CA-16]
Introduced: 2009-02-13 in the House
Policy area: Private Legislation

Summary:
action_date: 2009-02-13
text: Provides for the relief of Mikael Adrian Christopher Figueroa Alvarez.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-03-10
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration, Citizenship, Refugees, Border Security, and International Law.
action_date: 2009-02-13
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2009-02-13
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-02-13
text: Introduced in House