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For the relief of Alfredo Ramirez Vasquez.

Bill: 111-hr-459
Sponsor: Rep. Pastor, Ed [D-AZ-4]
Introduced: 2009-01-09 in the House
Policy area: Private Legislation

Summary:
action_date: 2009-01-09
text: Provides for the relief of Alfredo Ramirez Vasquez.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-02-05
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration, Citizenship, Refugees, Border Security, and International Law.
action_date: 2009-01-09
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2009-01-09
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-01-09
text: Introduced in House
Right Start Child Care and Education Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-460
Sponsor: Rep. Ruppersberger, C. A. Dutch [D-MD-2]
Introduced: 2009-01-13 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Child care and development
Income tax credits
Income tax exclusion
Teaching, teachers, curricula

Summary:
action_date: 2009-01-13
text: 
Right Start Child Care and Education Act of 2009 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) increase the rates and maximum allowable amount of the tax credit for employer-provided child care facilities; (2) increase the eligibility threshold amount and rate of the household and dependent care tax credit and make such credit refundable; (3) allow a new $2,000 tax credit for child care providers who hold a bachelor's degree in early childhood education, child care, or a related degree and who provide at least 1,200 hours of child care services in a taxable year; and (4) increase the tax exclusion for employer-provided dependent care assistance. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-01-13
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2009-01-13
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-01-13
text: Introduced in House
10,000 Trained by 2010 Act

Bill: 111-hr-461
Sponsor: Rep. Wu, David [D-OR-1]
Introduced: 2009-01-13 in the House
Policy area: Science, Technology, Communications
Subjects: Advanced technology and technological innovations
Computers and information technology
Education programs funding
Health information and medical records
Higher education
Research administration and funding
Research and development
Science and engineering education

Summary:
action_date: 2009-01-13
text: 
10,000 Trained by 2010 Act - Requires the National Science Foundation (NSF) to award competitive grants for basic research on innovative approaches to improve health care information systems, as well as for scientific and engineering activities to improve education in the health care information fields.
 
Requires the award of NSF grants also to institutions of higher education to: (1) establish multidisciplinary Centers for Informatics Research for conducting cutting-edge, multidisciplinary research to generate innovative approaches in health care information; and (2) establish or improve undergraduate and master's degree health care information programs, attract students to such programs, and provide them with experience in government or industry related to their studies.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-01-13
text: Referred to the House Committee on Science and Technology.
action_date: 2009-01-13
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Research and Science Education.
action_date: 2009-01-13
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-01-13
text: Introduced in House
Medicaid-SCHIP Dental Benefits Improvement Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-462
Sponsor: Rep. Cummings, Elijah E. [D-MD-7]
Introduced: 2009-01-13 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Child health
Computers and information technology
Dental care
Elementary and secondary education
Government information and archives
Government studies and investigations
Health care costs and insurance
Health care coverage and access
Health care quality
Health information and medical records
Health programs administration and funding
Health promotion and preventive care
Intergovernmental relations
Medicaid
Medical tests and diagnostic methods
Nutrition and diet
Physical fitness and lifestyle
Poverty and welfare assistance
State and local finance
Teaching, teachers, curricula

Summary:
action_date: 2009-01-13
text: 
Medicaid-SCHIP Dental Benefits Improvement Act of 2009 - Amends title XXI (State Children's Health Insurance) (SCHIP) of the Social Security Act (SSA) to provide for coverage of dental benefits.
 
Directs the Comptroller General to provide for a study that examines: (1) access to dental services by children in underserved areas; (2) children's access to oral health care, including preventive and restorative services, under Medicaid and SCHIP; and (3) the feasibility and appropriateness of using qualified mid-level dental health providers, in coordination with dentists, to improve access for children to oral health services and public health overall.
 
Amends SSA title XI to direct the Secretary of Health and Human Services to identify and publish for general comment an initial, recommended core set of child health quality measures for use by state programs administered under Medicaid and SCHIP, health insurance issuers, and managed care entities that enter into contracts with such programs, as well as providers of items and services.
 
Directs the Secretary to establish a pediatric quality measures program.
 
Directs the Secretary to award not more than 10 grants to states and child health providers to conduct demonstration projects to evaluate promising ideas for improving the quality of children's health care under Medicaid or SCHIP.
 
Directs the Secretary to conduct a demonstration project to develop a comprehensive and systematic model for reducing childhood obseity. 
 
Directs the Secretary to establish a program to encourage the development and dissemination of a model electronic health record format for children enrolled in the state plan under Medicaid or SCHIP.
 
Directs the Institute of Medicine to study and report to Congress on the extent and quality of efforts to measure child health status and the quality of health care for children across the age span and in relation to preventive care, treatments for acute conditions, and treatments aimed at ameliorating or correcting physical, mental, and developmental conditionns in children.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-01-14
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2009-01-13
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2009-01-13
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-01-13
text: Introduced in House
To amend titles XIX and XXI of the Social Security Act to permit States to ensure coverage without a 5-year delay of certain children and pregnant women under the Medicaid program and SCHIP.

Bill: 111-hr-465
Sponsor: Rep. Green, Gene [D-TX-29]
Introduced: 2009-01-13 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Child health
Health care costs and insurance
Health care coverage and access
Health programs administration and funding
Immigrant health and welfare
Immigration status and procedures
Medicaid
Poverty and welfare assistance
Sex and reproductive health
Women's health

Summary:
action_date: 2009-01-13
text: 
Amends titles XIX (Medicaid) and XXI (State Children's Health Insurance) (SCHIP) to permit states to elect to provide Medicaid and SCHIP coverage without a five-year delay of certain children and pregnant women lawfully residing in the United States (including battered individuals) who are otherwise eligible for such assistance.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-01-14
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2009-01-13
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2009-01-13
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-01-13
text: Introduced in House
Equitable Treatment of State and Local Governments Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-467
Sponsor: Rep. Speier, Jackie [D-CA-12]
Introduced: 2009-01-13 in the House
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: Bank accounts, deposits, capital
Bankruptcy
Financial crises and stabilization
Financial services and investments
Intergovernmental relations
Securities
State and local finance

Summary:
action_date: 2009-01-13
text: 
Equitable Treatment of State and Local Governments Act of 2009 - Amends the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008 (EESA) to direct the Secretary of the Treasury to purchase at face value debt instruments issued by Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. which: (1) were held as of September 15, 2008, by any state or local government, or any other public entity or instrumentality established under state law; (2) have been held by such entity continuously since such date; and (3) are subject to bankruptcy proceedings filed on September 15, 2008, by Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc.
 
Declares that the Secretary: (1) shall be substituted as a creditor in any bankruptcy proceeding for any state or local government, or any other public entity or instrumentality established under state law from which the Secretary purchases a debt instrument; and (2) has the same standing in such proceedings with respect to other creditors as the state or local government or public entity for which the Secretary is substituted.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-01-13
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2009-01-13
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-01-13
text: Introduced in House
Economic Recovery and Middle-Class Tax Relief Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-470
Sponsor: Rep. Garrett, Scott [R-NJ-5]
Introduced: 2009-01-13 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Appropriations
Budget deficits and national debt
Business investment and capital
Capital gains tax
Employee benefits and pensions
Higher education
Income tax credits
Income tax deductions
Income tax deferral
Income tax exclusion
Income tax rates
Inflation and prices
Interest, dividends, interest rates
Research and development
Student aid and college costs
Tax treatment of families

Summary:
action_date: 2009-01-13
text: 
Economic Recovery and Middle-Class Tax Relief Act of 2009 - Makes permanent the reductions in the dividend and capital gain tax enacted by the Jobs and Growth Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2003.

Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) reduce individual and corporate income tax rates; (2) repeal the alternative minimum tax for individual taxpayers; (3) allow inflation adjustments to the basis of capital assets in determining gain or loss; (4) reduce the capital gains tax rate for corporations; (5) repeal limitations on the expensing allowance for depreciable business assets; (6) make permanent the tax credit for increasing research activities; (7) extend the carryback period for net operating losses to seven years; (8) increase the child tax credit; (9) exclude from gross income in 2009 distributions from an individual retirement plan (IRA) and exempt IRAs from mandatory distribution requirements after 2009; and (10) increase the tax deductions for tuition and related expenses and for the interest on qualified education loans.

Makes 1% across-the-board rescissions in non-defense discretionary spending for FY2009.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-01-13
text: Referred to House Appropriations
action_date: 2009-01-13
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, 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: 2009-01-13
text: Referred to House Ways and Means
action_date: 2009-01-13
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-01-13
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to extend eligibility under the new markets tax credit for community development entities created or organized in American Samoa, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, Guam, Puerto Rico, and the Virgin Islands.

Bill: 111-hr-473
Sponsor: Del. Bordallo, Madeleine Z. [D-GU-At Large]
Introduced: 2009-01-13 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: American Samoa
Caribbean area
Guam
Income tax credits
Northern Mariana Islands
Puerto Rico
Rural conditions and development
Urban and suburban affairs and development
Virgin Islands

Summary:
action_date: 2009-01-13
text: 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to qualify corporations and partnerships created or organized as community development entities in American Samoa, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, Guam, Puerto Rico, or the Virgin Islands for the new markets tax credit.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-01-13
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2009-01-13
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E76)
action_date: 2009-01-13
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-01-13
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to permanently extend the Indian employment credit and the depreciation rules for poverty used predominantly within an Indian reservation.

Bill: 111-hr-474
Sponsor: Rep. Boren, Dan [D-OK-2]
Introduced: 2009-01-13 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Business investment and capital
Employment and training programs
Income tax credits
Income tax deductions
Indian social and development programs

Summary:
action_date: 2009-01-13
text: 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to make permanent: (1) the Indian employment tax credit; and (2) accelerated depreciation of business property used on Indian reservations.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-01-13
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2009-01-13
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-01-13
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Internal Revenue Code to qualify formerly homeless youth who are students for purposes of low income housing tax credit.

Bill: 111-hr-475
Sponsor: Rep. Ellison, Keith [D-MN-5]
Introduced: 2009-01-13 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Higher education
Homelessness and emergency shelter
Income tax credits
Low- and moderate-income housing

Summary:
action_date: 2009-01-13
text: 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to qualify low-income building units that provide housing for a student who previously was a homeless child or youth for the low-income housing tax credit.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-01-13
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2009-01-13
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-01-13
text: Introduced in House
Federal Efficiency and Performance Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-477
Sponsor: Rep. Jordan, Jim [R-OH-4]
Introduced: 2009-01-13 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Budget deficits and national debt
Executive agency funding and structure
Performance measurement

Summary:
action_date: 2009-01-13
text: 
Federal Efficiency and Performance Act of 2009 - Requires the President to recommend to Congress, with proposed legislation, which existing federal programs and agencies should be modernized, consolidated, reprioritized, and where necessary, terminated in order to: (1) reduce federal expenditures; (2) increase efficiency and effectiveness of government operations; (3) eliminate overlap and duplication in federal programs and offices; (4) terminate agencies, programs, and activities that no longer serve an important governmental purpose; and (5) identify reductions in amounts of discretionary budget authority or direct spending that can be dedicated to federal deficit reduction.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-02-24
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Government Management, Organization, and Procurement.
action_date: 2009-01-13
text: Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.
action_date: 2009-01-13
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-01-13
text: Introduced in House
Federal Agency Performance Review and Efficiency Act

Bill: 111-hr-478
Sponsor: Rep. Jordan, Jim [R-OH-4]
Introduced: 2009-01-13 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Budget deficits and national debt
Executive agency funding and structure
Government studies and investigations
Performance measurement

Summary:
action_date: 2009-01-13
text: 
Federal Agency Performance Review and Efficiency Act - Amends the Inspector General Act of 1978 to make it the principal duty and responsibility of each Inspector General to review, annually, the operations, efficiency, and effectiveness of federal programs within his or her entity and submit annually to Congress and the President recommendations, accompanied by proposed legislation, on whether an abolishment, reorganization, consolidation, or transfer of existing federal programs and agencies is necessary to: (1) reduce federal expenditures; (2) increase efficiency of government operations; (3) eliminate overlap and duplication in federal programs and offices; (4) abolish agencies or programs that no longer serve an important governmental purpose; and (5) identify reductions in amounts of discretionary budget authority or direct spending that can be dedicated to federal deficit reduction.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-02-24
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Government Management, Organization, and Procurement.
action_date: 2009-01-13
text: Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.
action_date: 2009-01-13
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-01-13
text: Introduced in House
St. Augustine 450th Commemoration Commission Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-480
Sponsor: Rep. Mica, John L. [R-FL-7]
Introduced: 2009-01-13 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Commemorative events and holidays
Florida
Historic sites and heritage areas
Small towns
Urban and suburban affairs and development

Summary:
action_date: 2009-01-13
text: 
St. Augustine 450th Commemoration Commission Act of 2009 - Establishes the St. Augustine 450th Commemoration Commission to plan and execute programs and activities to commemorate the 450th anniversary of the founding of St. Augustine, Florida.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-02-24
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Federal Workforce, Post Office, and the District of Columbia.
action_date: 2009-01-13
text: Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.
action_date: 2009-01-13
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-01-13
text: Introduced in House
North Country National Scenic Trail Route Adjustment Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-481
Sponsor: Rep. Oberstar, James L. [D-MN-8]
Introduced: 2009-01-13 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Forests, forestry, trees
Great Lakes
Lakes and rivers
Land transfers
Minnesota
Parks, recreation areas, trails

Summary:
action_date: 2009-01-13
text: 
North Country National Scenic Trail Route Adjustment Act of 2009 - Amends the National Trails System Act to add certain existing hiking trails along Lake Superior's north shore and in Superior National Forest and Chippewa National Forest to the North Country National Scenic Trail in northeastern Minnesota. 

action_date: 2009-10-08
text: 
North Country National Scenic Trail Route Adjustment Act of 2009 - Amends the National Trails System Act to add certain existing hiking trails along Lake Superior's north shore and in Superior National Forest and Chippewa National Forest to the North Country National Scenic Trail in northeastern Minnesota. 
 
Prohibits the Secretaries of Agriculture and the Interior from acquiring land for the North Country National Scenic Trail that was obtained through condemnation by a state or local government. 
 
Prohibits anything in this Act from prohibiting or hindering the development, production, conveyance, or transmission of energy. 
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-10-08
text: Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 160.
action_date: 2009-10-08
text: Reported (Amended) by the Committee on Natural Resources. H. Rept. 111-290.
action_date: 2009-10-08
text: Reported (Amended) by the Committee on Natural Resources. H. Rept. 111-290.
action_date: 2009-07-29
text: Ordered to be Reported (Amended) by Voice Vote.
action_date: 2009-07-29
text: Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
action_date: 2009-07-29
text: Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests and Public Lands Discharged.
action_date: 2009-07-08
text: Subcommittee Hearings Held.
action_date: 2009-02-04
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests and Public Lands.
action_date: 2009-01-13
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2009-01-13
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-01-13
text: Introduced in House
Frank Buckles World War I Memorial Act

Bill: 111-hr-482
Sponsor: Rep. Poe, Ted [R-TX-2]
Introduced: 2009-01-13 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Conflicts and wars
District of Columbia
Military history
Monuments and memorials

Summary:
action_date: 2009-01-13
text: 
Frank Buckles World War I Memorial Act - Authorizes the World War I Memorial Foundation to establish a commemorative work rededicating the District of Columbia War Memorial as a National and District of Columbia World War I Memorial.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-02-04
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests and Public Lands.
action_date: 2009-01-13
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2009-01-13
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-01-13
text: Introduced in House
Victims of Crime Act Preservation Fund Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-483
Sponsor: Rep. Poe, Ted [R-TX-2]
Introduced: 2009-01-13 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Budget process
Crime victims
Government trust funds
Legislative rules and procedure

Summary:
action_date: 2009-01-13
text: 
Victims of Crime Act Preservation Fund Act of 2009 - Excludes receipts and disbursements of the Crime Victims Fund from executive and congressional budgets.
 
Prohibits the consideration of any legislation in the House of Representatives or the Senate that would authorize the use of amounts in the Crime Victims Fund for a purpose not authorized by the Victims of Crime Act of 1984. Allows the Senate to waive or suspend such prohibition by a three-fifths vote. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-02-09
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.
action_date: 2009-01-13
text: Referred to House Judiciary
action_date: 2009-01-13
text: Referred to House Rules
action_date: 2009-01-13
text: Referred to the Committee on the Budget, and in addition to the Committees on Rules, 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: 2009-01-13
text: Referred to House Budget
action_date: 2009-01-13
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-01-13
text: Introduced in House
Chiropractic Health Parity for Military Beneficiaries Act

Bill: 111-hr-484
Sponsor: Rep. Rogers, Mike D. [R-AL-3]
Introduced: 2009-01-13 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Alternative treatments
Health care costs and insurance
Health care coverage and access
Military medicine
Military personnel and dependents
Musculoskeletal and skin diseases

Summary:
action_date: 2009-01-13
text: 
Chiropractic Health Parity for Military Beneficiaries Act - Directs the Secretary of Defense, no later than August 31, 2009, to complete development of a plan to provide chiropractic health care services and benefits, as a permanent part of the TRICARE program (a Department of Defense managed health care program), for covered beneficiaries. Requires plan implementation by January 31, 2010.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-02-06
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Military Personnel.
action_date: 2009-01-13
text: Referred to the House Committee on Armed Services.
action_date: 2009-01-13
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-01-13
text: Introduced in House