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FEHBP Prescription Drug Integrity, Transparency, and Cost Savings Act

Bill: 111-hr-4489
Sponsor: Rep. Lynch, Stephen F. [D-MA-9]
Introduced: 2010-01-21 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Business records
Consumer affairs
Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management
Health care costs and insurance
Prescription drugs
Public contracts and procurement

Summary:
action_date: 2010-01-21
text: 
FEHBP Prescription Drug Integrity, Transparency, and Cost Savings Act - Prohibits the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) from entering a contract or approving a health benefits plan with a carrier that is a party to a pharmacy benefit manager (PBM) carrier arrangement to provide or administer prescription drug coverage under the Federal Employees Health Benefits Program (FEHBP) unless the PBM and the carrier comply with requirements of this Act. Directs OPM to terminate a contract or discontinue a plan that fails to comply.
 
Prohibits: (1) a pharmaceutical drug manufacturer or retail pharmacy from having a controlling interest in the PBM; or (2) the PBM from having a controlling interest in a retail pharmacy. Requires each carrier to certify PBM compliance annually. Prohibits OPM from permitting a carrier that has a controlling interest in a PBM to earn a profit from such interest with respect to an FEHBP contract.
 
Sets forth requirements of PBM arrangements under the FEHBP, including regarding: (1) drug substitution restrictions; (2) PBM reimbursement of carriers; (3) sale by a PBM of utilization and claims data; (4) drug pricing and the basis for reimbursement; (5) provisions of an explanation of benefits to enrollees; (6) nondiscriminatory contracts regarding required participation; (7) OPM access to PBM contract information; (8) civil monetary penalties for making false statements or claims to the government; and (9) reports from drug manufacturers on average manufacturer prices for drugs each quarter.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-03-24
text: Forwarded by Subcommittee to Full Committee (Amended) by Voice Vote .
action_date: 2010-03-24
text: Subcommittee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
action_date: 2010-02-23
text: Subcommittee Hearings Held.
action_date: 2010-02-12
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Federal Workforce, Post Office, and the District of Columbia.
action_date: 2010-01-21
text: Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.
action_date: 2010-01-21
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E70-71)
action_date: 2010-01-21
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-01-21
text: Introduced in House
Detainee Transfer and Release Security Act of 2010

Bill: 111-hr-4490
Sponsor: Rep. McKeon, Howard P. "Buck" [R-CA-25]
Introduced: 2010-01-21 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Caribbean area
Congressional oversight
Correctional facilities and imprisonment
Cuba
Detention of persons
Latin America
Military facilities and property
Terrorism

Summary:
action_date: 2010-01-21
text: 
Detainee Transfer and Release Security Act of 2010 - Prohibits the President from releasing or transferring an individual currently detained at Naval Station, Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, to the custody of the individual's country of origin or to a third country unless the President certifies to Congress that: (1) such country is not a designated state sponsor of terrorism; (2) such country's government can secure and exercise control over all of its territory; (3) no portion of such country's territory serves as a safe haven for terrorists or insurgent groups, particularly al Qaeda; and (4) there is no confirmed case of any individual who had been detained at Guantanamo who reengaged in terrorist activities subsequent to being transferred or released to such country.



Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-01-21
text: Referred to the House Committee on Armed Services.
action_date: 2010-01-21
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-01-21
text: Introduced in House
Metropolitan Medical Response System Program Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-4492
Sponsor: Rep. Bilirakis, Gus M. [R-FL-9]
Introduced: 2010-01-21 in the House
Policy area: Emergency Management
Subjects: Emergency medical services and trauma care
Health programs administration and funding
Homeland security
Infectious and parasitic diseases
Intergovernmental relations
Natural disasters
Performance measurement
State and local government operations
Terrorism
Urban and suburban affairs and development

Summary:
action_date: 2010-01-21
text: 
Metropolitan Medical Response System Program Act of 2009 - Amends the Homeland Security Act of 2002 to direct the Secretary of Homeland Security (DHS) to conduct a Metropolitan Medical Response System Program that shall assist state and local governments in preparing for and responding to public health and mass casualty incidents resulting from natural disasters, terrorist acts, and other man-made disasters. (Repeals provisions of the Post-Katrina Management Reform Act of 2006 regarding a Metropolitan Medical Response Program.)

Authorizes the Secretary, through the Administrator of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), to make grants to state and local governments for such purposes. Authorizes the use of grant funds to support the integration of emergency management, health, and medical systems into a coordinated response to mass casualty incidents caused by any hazard.

Sets forth eligibility requirements. Directs the Administrator to ensure that each jurisdiction that receives a grant, as a condition of receiving such grant, is actively coordinating its preparedness efforts with surrounding jurisdictions, with the official with primary responsibility for homeland security (other than the governor) of the government of the state in which the jurisdiction is located, and with emergency response providers from all relevant disciplines, to effectively enhance regional preparedness.

Requires the Administrator: (1) in coordination with the Assistant Secretary, Office of Health Affairs, and a National Metropolitan Medical Response System Working Group, to issue performance measures that enable objective evaluation of the performance and effective use of funds provided in any jurisdiction; and (2) together with the Assistant Secretary and the Working Group, to conduct a review of the Program.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-01-28
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Emergency Communications, Preparedness, and Response.
action_date: 2010-01-22
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2010-01-21
text: Referred to House Homeland Security
action_date: 2010-01-21
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, 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: 2010-01-21
text: Referred to House Energy and Commerce
action_date: 2010-01-21
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-01-21
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow a credit for lightweight coal freight cars.

Bill: 111-hr-4494
Sponsor: Rep. Davis, Danny K. [D-IL-7]
Introduced: 2010-01-21 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Coal
Income tax credits
Railroads

Summary:
action_date: 2010-01-21
text: 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow a general business tax credit for 30% of the basis of an eligible lightweight coal freight car. Defines &quot;eligible lightweight coal freight car&quot; as any freight car: (1) designed to carry coal by rail; (2) the tare weight of which does not exceed 50,000 pounds; and (3) substantially all of the manufacturing of which occurred in the United States. Terminates such credit after 2013. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-01-21
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2010-01-21
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-01-21
text: Introduced in House
To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 100 North Taylor Lane in Patagonia, Arizona, as the "Jim Kolbe Post Office".

Bill: 111-hr-4495
Sponsor: Rep. Giffords, Gabrielle [D-AZ-8]
Introduced: 2010-01-21 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Arizona
Congressional tributes
Government buildings, facilities, and property
House of Representatives
Members of Congress
Postal service

Summary:
action_date: 2010-01-21
text: Designates the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 100 North Taylor Lane in Patagonia, Arizona, as the "Jim Kolbe Post Office."

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-03-04
text: Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs referred to Subcommittee on Federal Financial Management, Government Information, Federal Services, and International Security.
action_date: 2010-02-04
text: Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.
action_date: 2010-02-02
text: Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
action_date: 2010-02-02
text: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill Agreed to by the Yeas and Nays: (2/3 required): 390 - 0 (Roll no. 26). (text: CR H431)
action_date: 2010-02-02
text: Passed/agreed to in House: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill Agreed to by the Yeas and Nays: (2/3 required): 390 - 0 (Roll no. 26).(text: CR H431)
action_date: 2010-02-02
text: Considered as unfinished business. (consideration: CR H448)
action_date: 2010-02-02
text: At the conclusion of debate, the Yeas and Nays were demanded and ordered. Pursuant to the provisions of clause 8, rule XX, the Chair announced that further proceedings on the motion would be postponed.
action_date: 2010-02-02
text: DEBATE - The House proceeded with forty minutes of debate on H.R. 4495.
action_date: 2010-02-02
text: Considered under suspension of the rules. (consideration: CR H431-432)
action_date: 2010-02-02
text: Mr. Towns moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill.
action_date: 2010-01-27
text: Ordered to be Reported by Unanimous Consent.
action_date: 2010-01-27
text: Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
action_date: 2010-01-21
text: Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.
action_date: 2010-01-21
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-01-21
text: Introduced in House
Federal None of the Above Act of 2010

Bill: 111-hr-4498
Sponsor: Rep. Hoekstra, Peter [R-MI-2]
Introduced: 2010-01-21 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Congressional elections
Elections, voting, political campaign regulation

Summary:
action_date: 2010-01-21
text: 
Federal None of the Above Act of 2010 - Requires in each election for federal office for inclusion on the ballot after the names of all candidates a separate line for &quot;None of the Above.&quot; Requires a new election within 30 days if &quot;None of the Above&quot; receives the most votes. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-01-21
text: Referred to the House Committee on House Administration.
action_date: 2010-01-21
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-01-21
text: Introduced in House
National Advisory Voter Initiative Act of 2010

Bill: 111-hr-4499
Sponsor: Rep. Hoekstra, Peter [R-MI-2]
Introduced: 2010-01-21 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Elections, voting, political campaign regulation
Legislative rules and procedure
Public participation and lobbying

Summary:
action_date: 2010-01-21
text: 
National Advisory Voter Initiative Act of 2010 - Grants the people, subject to specified voting qualifications, the right to: (1) propose any law which the Congress has authority to pass; and (2) propose the repeal of any provision of law passed by Congress which has become law.
 
Outlines the procedure for the people to exercise such right through petition and state vote.
 
Provides that, if a law or repeal proposed under this Act receives a majority of the votes cast in 3/5 of the several states, the proposed law or repeal shall be introduced in the House of Representatives by the Speaker of the House and in the Senate by the President pro tempore on the first day of the first session of Congress following the vote. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-01-21
text: Referred to House Rules
action_date: 2010-01-21
text: Referred to the Committee on House Administration, and in addition to the Committee on Rules, 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: 2010-01-21
text: Referred to House Administration
action_date: 2010-01-21
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-01-21
text: Introduced in House
Freedom from Rationed Health Care Act

Bill: 111-hr-4500
Sponsor: Rep. McCotter, Thaddeus G. [R-MI-11]
Introduced: 2010-01-21 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Advisory bodies
Appropriations
Budget deficits and national debt
Computers and information technology
Department of Health and Human Services
Executive agency funding and structure
Health care costs and insurance
Health care coverage and access
Health care quality
Health information and medical records
Health programs administration and funding
Medical research

Summary:
action_date: 2010-01-21
text: 
Freedom from Rationed Health Care Act - Repeals provisions of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 making appropriations for the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality and for the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology and rescinds any unobligated balances of funds made available under such provisions.
 
Repeals specified provisions of such Act: (1) establishing a Federal Coordinating Council for Comparative Effectiveness Research; and (2) concerning heath information technology, including provisions establishing the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology and the HIT Policy Committee. 
 
Requires that amounts rescinded under this Act be deposited in the Treasury to pay down the national debt.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-01-22
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2010-01-21
text: Referred to House Science and Technology
action_date: 2010-01-21
text: Referred to House Energy and Commerce
action_date: 2010-01-21
text: Referred to the Committee on Appropriations, and in addition to the Committees on Energy and Commerce, and Science and Technology, 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: 2010-01-21
text: Referred to House Appropriations
action_date: 2010-01-21
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-01-21
text: Introduced in House
Nanotechnology Education Act

Bill: 111-hr-4502
Sponsor: Rep. Wu, David [D-OR-1]
Introduced: 2010-01-26 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Advanced technology and technological innovations
Education programs funding
Educational technology and distance education
Elementary and secondary education
Higher education
Science and engineering education
Teaching, teachers, curricula

Summary:
action_date: 2010-01-26
text: 
Nanotechnology Education Act - Requires the Director of the National Science Foundation (NSF) to establish a nanotechnology in the schools program awarding matching grants to certain eligible institutions for the purchase of nanotechnology equipment and software and the provision of nanotechnology education to students and teachers.
 
Lists as eligible grantees: (1) public, private, parochial, and charter secondary schools that offer advanced or international baccalaureate science courses; (2) community colleges; (3) four-year institutions of higher education; and (4) informal learning science and technology centers.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-02-19
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Research and Science Education.
action_date: 2010-01-26
text: Referred to the House Committee on Science and Technology.
action_date: 2010-01-26
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-01-26
text: Introduced in House
Ensuring the Collection of Critical Intelligence Act of 2010

Bill: 111-hr-4503
Sponsor: Rep. Smith, Lamar [R-TX-21]
Introduced: 2010-01-26 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Criminal investigation, prosecution, interrogation
Criminal procedure and sentencing
Intelligence activities, surveillance, classified information
Military law
Terrorism

Summary:
action_date: 2010-01-26
text: 
Ensuring the Collection of Critical Intelligence Act of 2010 - Requires the Attorney General, Deputy Attorney General, or the Assistant Attorney General for the Criminal Division of the Department of Justice (DOJ) to consult with the Director of National Intelligence and the Secretary of Defense before allowing any DOJ officer or employee to institute a prosecution of an alien in a United States District Court for a terrorist offense or to interrogate any such alien in a criminal investigation or prosecution of a terrorist offense.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-01-26
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2010-01-26
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-01-26
text: Introduced in House
SINC Act of 2010

Bill: 111-hr-4504
Sponsor: Rep. Foster, Bill [D-IL-14]
Introduced: 2010-01-26 in the House
Policy area: Science, Technology, Communications
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Federal Communications Commission (FCC)
First Amendment rights
Government information and archives
Human rights
International law and treaties
Internet and video services
Internet, web applications, social media
Sanctions
Trade restrictions

Summary:
action_date: 2010-01-26
text: 
Standards for Internet Non-Censorship Act of 2010 or the SINC Act of 2010 - Declares it to be the sense of Congress that: (1) the President should establish interim minimum standards of non-censorship for Internet search providers and create programs to restrict access to domestic online information by providers determined to be censoring nonviolent political speech; (2) any long-term solution to the problem of the censorship of nonviolent political speech on the Internet must include minimum standards of non-censorship set by a coalition of free countries; and (3) the President should negotiate with free countries to adopt minimum standards for non-censorship of nonviolent political speech as a condition for access to the Internet.
 
Authorizes the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to begin a proceeding to adopt regulations to restrict repressive Internet search providers from accessing domestic online information.
 
Requires the FCC, if it adopts such regulations, to develop, operate, and maintain a public website that lists repressive providers and the reasons for finding that the providers were repressive.
 
Authorizes the FCC to enforce the regulations using any existing enforcement authority to prevent collusion to evade the regulations.
 
Directs the Secretary of State to seek to enter into agreements with free countries to adopt minimum standards. Authorizes the FCC to begin a proceeding to adopt regulations to restrict or prevent entities that operate outside of any such agreements from accessing domestic online information.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-01-27
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Communications, Technology, and the Internet.
action_date: 2010-01-26
text: Referred to House Foreign Affairs
action_date: 2010-01-26
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Foreign 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: 2010-01-26
text: Referred to House Energy and Commerce
action_date: 2010-01-26
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-01-26
text: Introduced in House
Cyber Security Domestic Preparedness Act

Bill: 111-hr-4507
Sponsor: Rep. Rodriguez, Ciro D. [D-TX-23]
Introduced: 2010-01-26 in the House
Policy area: Emergency Management
Subjects: Computer security and identity theft
Computers and information technology
Department of Homeland Security
Emergency planning and evacuation
Executive agency funding and structure
Homeland security
Intergovernmental relations
State and local government operations

Summary:
action_date: 2010-01-26
text: 
Cyber Security Domestic Preparedness Act - Amends the Homeland Security Act of 2002 to authorize the Secretary of Homeland Security (DHS) to establish the Cyber Security Domestic Preparedness Consortium to: (1) provide training to state and local first responders and officials specifically for preparing and responding to cyber security attacks; (2) develop and update a curriculum and training model; (3) provide technical assistance services to build and sustain capabilities in support of cyber security preparedness and response; and (4) conduct cyber security training and simulation exercises to defend against and respond to cyber attacks.
 
Authorizes the Secretary to establish a Cyber Security Training Center to provide training courses and other resources for state and local first responders and officials to improve preparedness and response capabilities. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-01-28
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Emergency Communications, Preparedness, and Response.
action_date: 2010-01-28
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Emerging Threats, Cybersecurity, and Science and Technology.
action_date: 2010-01-26
text: Referred to the House Committee on Homeland Security.
action_date: 2010-01-26
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-01-26
text: Introduced in House
Small Business Environmental Stewardship Assistance Act of 2010

Bill: 111-hr-4509
Sponsor: Rep. Schrader, Kurt [D-OR-5]
Introduced: 2010-01-26 in the House
Policy area: Commerce
Subjects: Forests, forestry, trees
Horticulture and plants
Land use and conservation
Public contracts and procurement
Small business

Summary:
action_date: 2010-01-26
text: 
Small Business Environmental Stewardship Assistance Act of 2010 - Amends the Small Business Act to reauthorize for FY2011-FY2015 the national small business tree planting program (a program under which the Small Business Administration (SBA) makes grants to states for contracting with small businesses to plant trees on land owned or controlled by a state or local government).


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-01-26
text: Referred to the House Committee on Small Business.
action_date: 2010-01-26
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Contracting and Technology .
action_date: 2010-01-26
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-01-26
text: Introduced in House
America is for Americans Act

Bill: 111-hr-4510
Sponsor: Rep. Grayson, Alan [D-FL-8]
Introduced: 2010-01-26 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Corporate finance and management
Elections, voting, political campaign regulation
Foreign and international corporations

Summary:
action_date: 2010-01-26
text: 
America is for Americans Act - Amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to apply the ban on contributions and expenditures by foreign nationals in connection with a federal, state, or local election to domestic corporations in which one or more foreign principals directly or indirectly have an ownership interest.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-01-26
text: Referred to the House Committee on House Administration.
action_date: 2010-01-26
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-01-26
text: Introduced in House