hyperdemocracy/usc-billstatus huggingface dataset:
Greensburg, Kansas Recovery Extension Act

Bill: 111-s-681
Sponsor: Sen. Roberts, Pat [R-KS]
Introduced: 2009-03-24 in the Senate
Policy area: Emergency Management
Subjects: Disaster relief and insurance
Employment and training programs
Kansas
Natural disasters

Summary:
action_date: 2009-03-24
text: 
Greensburg, Kansas Recovery Extension Act - Requires funds from any national emergency grant made under the Workforce Investment Act of 1998 to address the effects of the May 4, 2007, Greensburg, Kansas, tornado to remain available for expenditure through June 30, 2010.

action_date: 2009-03-30
text: 

(This measure has not been amended since it was introduced. The summary of that version is repeated here.)

 
Greensburg, Kansas Recovery Extension Act - Requires funds from any national emergency grant made under the Workforce Investment Act of 1998 to address the effects of the May 4, 2007, Greensburg, Kansas, tornado to remain available for expenditure through June 30, 2010.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-03-31
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and Labor. (text of measure as introduced: CR S7979)
action_date: 2009-03-31
text: Message on Senate action sent to the House.
action_date: 2009-03-31
text: Received in the House.
action_date: 2009-03-30
text: Passed Senate without amendment by Unanimous Consent. (text: CR S4008)
action_date: 2009-03-30
text: Passed/agreed to in Senate: Passed Senate without amendment by Unanimous Consent.(text: CR S4008)
action_date: 2009-03-30
text: Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions discharged by Unanimous Consent. (consideration: CR S4007-4008)
action_date: 2009-03-30
text: Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions discharged by Unanimous Consent.(consideration: CR S4007-4008)
action_date: 2009-03-24
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2009-03-24
text: Introduced in Senate
Mental Health on Campus Improvement Act

Bill: 111-s-682
Sponsor: Sen. Durbin, Richard J. [D-IL]
Introduced: 2009-03-24 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Education programs funding
Health programs administration and funding
Health promotion and preventive care
Higher education
Mental health

Summary:
action_date: 2009-03-24
text: 
Mental Health on Campus Improvement Act - Amends the Public Health Service Act to require the Secretary of Health and Human Services, acting through the Administrator of the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, to award grants to eligible institutions of higher education to improve mental and behavioral health services and outreach on college and university campuses.
 
Directs the Secretary to give special consideration to programs that: (1) demonstrate the greatest need; (2) propose effective approaches for initiating or expanding campus services; (3) target underserved and at-risk populations; (4) coordinate with a community mental health center or other community mental health resources; (5) identify how the college or university will address psychiatric emergencies; and (6) demonstrate the greatest potential for replication and dissemination.
 
Allows the Secretary to provide technical assistance to grantees.
 
Requires the Secretary, acting through the Administrator, to convene an interagency, public-private sector working group to plan, establish, and begin coordinating and evaluating a targeted public education campaign that is designed to focus on mental and behavioral health on college campuses.
 
Requires the Secretary to establish the College Campus Task Force to discuss mental and behavioral health concerns on college and university campuses. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-03-24
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. (text of measure as introduced: CR S3673-3675)
action_date: 2009-03-24
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S3672-3673)
action_date: 2009-03-24
text: Introduced in Senate
Community Choice Act of 2009

Bill: 111-s-683
Sponsor: Sen. Harkin, Tom [D-IA]
Introduced: 2009-03-24 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Allied health services
Disability and paralysis
Health care coverage and access
Health care quality
Health programs administration and funding
Long-term, rehabilitative, and terminal care
Medicaid
Medicare

Summary:
action_date: 2009-03-24
text: 
Community Choice Act of 2009 - Amends title XIX (Medicaid) of the Social Security Act (SSA) to require state Medicaid plan coverage of community-based attendant services and supports for certain Medicaid-eligible individuals.
 
Outlines requirements for: (1) an enhanced federal medical assistance percentage (FMAP) for ongoing activities of early coverage states that enhance and promote the use of community-based attendant services and supports; and (2) increased federal financial participation for certain expenditures incurred by the state for the provision of such services and supports.
 
Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services to: (1) award grants to eligible states which have established a Consumer Task Force to assist the state in its development of real choice systems change initiatives; and (2) conduct a demonstration project for the purpose of evaluating service coordination and cost-sharing approaches with respect to the provision of community-based services and supports to dually eligible individuals.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-03-24
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. (text of measure as introduced: CR S3676-3680)
action_date: 2009-03-24
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S3675-3676)
action_date: 2009-03-24
text: Introduced in Senate
Dorothy I. Height and Whitney M. Young, Jr. Social Work Reinvestment Act

Bill: 111-s-686
Sponsor: Sen. Mikulski, Barbara A. [D-MD]
Introduced: 2009-03-24 in the Senate
Policy area: Social Welfare
Subjects: Advisory bodies
Congressional oversight
Department of Health and Human Services
Education programs funding
Executive agency funding and structure
Government information and archives
Government studies and investigations
Higher education
Licensing and registrations
Policy sciences
Public contracts and procurement
Research administration and funding
Social work, volunteer service, charitable organizations
Student aid and college costs
Wages and earnings
Worker safety and health

Summary:
action_date: 2009-03-24
text: 
Dorothy I. Height and Whitney M. Young, Jr. Social Work Reinvestment Act - Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) to establish the Social Work Reinvestment Commission to provide independent counsel to Congress on policy issues associated with the recruitment for, and retention, research, and reinvestment in, the profession of social work.
 
Directs the Commission to study and report to Congress on issues facing the social work profession, including: (1) fair market compensation, high social work educational debt, social work workforce trends, translating social work research to practice, and social work safety; and (2) state-level social work licensure policies and reciprocity agreements for providing services across state lines. Requires such study to assess the professional capacity of the social work workforce to serve and respond successfully to the increasing biopsychosocial needs of individuals, groups, and communities in certain areas, including aging and child welfare. 
 
Authorizes the Secretary to award: (1) workplace improvement grants to eligible entities and individuals to address workplace concerns for the social work profession, including caseloads, compensation, social work safety, supervision, and working conditions; and (2) research grants, education and training grants, and community-based programs of excellence grants.
 
Directs the Secretary to: (1) contract with a national social work research entity to serve as a coordinating center and clearinghouse for information on activities funded under the grants; and (2) develop a multi-media outreach campaign and issue public service announcements that advertise and promote the social work profession.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-03-24
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. (text of measure as introduced: CR S3687-3690)
action_date: 2009-03-24
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S3686-3687)
action_date: 2009-03-24
text: Introduced in Senate
Clinical Social Work Medicare Equity Act of 2009

Bill: 111-s-687
Sponsor: Sen. Mikulski, Barbara A. [D-MD]
Introduced: 2009-03-24 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Health care coverage and access
Health personnel
Long-term, rehabilitative, and terminal care
Medicare
Social work, volunteer service, charitable organizations

Summary:
action_date: 2009-03-24
text: 
Clinical Social Work Medicare Equity Act of 2009 - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to exclude clinical social worker services from coverage under the Medicare skilled nursing facility (SNF) prospective payment system (thus permitting direct payment under the Medicare program for clinical social worker services provided to SNF residents).
 

 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-03-24
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. (text of measure as introduced: CR S3690-3691)
action_date: 2009-03-24
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S3686-3687)
action_date: 2009-03-24
text: Introduced in Senate
Breast Cancer Patient Protection Act of 2009

Bill: 111-s-688
Sponsor: Sen. Snowe, Olympia J. [R-ME]
Introduced: 2009-03-24 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Cancer
Employee benefits and pensions
Health care costs and insurance
Health care coverage and access
Hospital care
Surgery and anesthesia
Women's health

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


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-03-24
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2009-03-24
text: Introduced in Senate
Church Plan Clarification Act of 2009

Bill: 111-s-689
Sponsor: Sen. Hutchison, Kay Bailey [R-TX]
Introduced: 2009-03-25 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Employee benefits and pensions
Financial services and investments
Religion

Summary:
action_date: 2009-03-25
text: 
Church Plan Clarification Act of 2009 - Amends Internal Revenue Code pension plan provisions to: (1) apply a special rule for determining the status of an employer participating in a church plan as a member of a controlled group of entities; and (2) allow certain tax-free transfers to and mergers of church plans that are maintained by the same church or association of churches.
 
Amends the Tax Equity and Fiscal Responsibility Act of 1982 (TEFRA) to apply limitations on benefits and contributions under qualified employee plans to certain church defined benefit plans.
 
Includes within the definition of plan under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA) an employee benefit plan which is a church plan for purposes of ERISA automatic enrollment provisions.
 
Allows church plans and their supporting organizations to invest plan assets in a group trust (as defined by Internal Revenue Service Revenue Rulings).


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-03-25
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2009-03-25
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to amend the Neotropical Migratory Bird Conservation Act to reauthorize the Act.

Bill: 111-s-690
Sponsor: Sen. Cardin, Benjamin L. [D-MD]
Introduced: 2009-03-25 in the Senate
Policy area: Animals
Subjects: Birds
Government trust funds
Wildlife conservation and habitat protection

Summary:
action_date: 2009-03-25
text: 
Amends the Neotropical Migratory Bird Conservation Act to increase the amount authorized to be appropriated for FY2010 and to authorize appropriations for FY2011-FY2015.

action_date: 2010-03-22
text: 

(This measure has not been amended since it was introduced. The summary of that version is repeated here.)

 
Amends the Neotropical Migratory Bird Conservation Act to increase the amount authorized to be appropriated for FY2010 and to authorize appropriations for FY2011-FY2015.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-03-22
text: Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 327.
action_date: 2010-03-22
text: Committee on Environment and Public Works. Reported by Senator Boxer without amendment. With written report No. 111-165.
action_date: 2010-03-22
text: Committee on Environment and Public Works. Reported by Senator Boxer without amendment. With written report No. 111-165.
action_date: 2009-06-18
text: Committee on Environment and Public Works. Ordered to be reported without amendment favorably.
action_date: 2009-03-25
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works. (text of measure as introduced: CR S3786)
action_date: 2009-03-25
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S3786)
action_date: 2009-03-25
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to direct the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to establish a national cemetery for veterans in southern Colorado region, and for other purposes.

Bill: 111-s-691
Sponsor: Sen. Bennet, Michael F. [D-CO]
Introduced: 2009-03-25 in the Senate
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Cemeteries and funerals
Colorado
Land transfers

Summary:
action_date: 2009-03-25
text: 
Directs the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to establish a national cemetery in El Paso County, Colorado.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-04-29
text: Committee on Veterans' Affairs. Hearings held. Hearings printed: S.Hrg. 111-81.
action_date: 2009-03-25
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs. (text of measure as introduced: CR S3787)
action_date: 2009-03-25
text: Introduced in Senate
Preventive Medicine and Public Health Training Act

Bill: 111-s-693
Sponsor: Sen. Harkin, Tom [D-IA]
Introduced: 2009-03-25 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Education programs funding
Health personnel
Health programs administration and funding
Health promotion and preventive care
Medical education
Public contracts and procurement
Teaching, teachers, curricula

Summary:
action_date: 2009-03-25
text: 
Preventive Medicine and Public Health Training Act - Amends the Public Health Service Act to authorize the Secretary of Health and Human Services, acting through the Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), to award grants to or enter into contracts with certain eligible entities to provide training to graduate medical residents in preventive medicine specialties.
 
Requires grant funds to be used for: (1) residency programs for preventive medicine or public health; (2) financial assistance to resident physicians who plan to specialize in preventive medicine or public health; (3) preventive medicine or public health program costs, including curriculum development and practicum costs; and (4) the improvement of academic administrative units.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-03-25
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2009-03-25
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S3787-3788)
action_date: 2009-03-25
text: Introduced in Senate
Best Buddies Empowerment for People with Intellectual Disabilities Act of 2009

Bill: 111-s-694
Sponsor: Sen. Dodd, Christopher J. [D-CT]
Introduced: 2009-03-25 in the Senate
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Disability and paralysis
Disability assistance
Education programs funding
Elementary and secondary education
Social work, volunteer service, charitable organizations
Special education

Summary:
action_date: 2009-03-25
text: 
Best Buddies Empowerment for People with Intellectual Disabilities Act of 2009 - Authorizes the Secretary of Education to award grants to, or enter into agreements with, Best Buddies (a nonprofit organization dedicated to helping people with intellectual disabilities mesh with mainstream society) to promote the expansion of its programs.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-03-25
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. (text of measure as introduced: CR S3788-3789)
action_date: 2009-03-25
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S3788)
action_date: 2009-03-25
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to authorize the Secretary of Commerce to reduce the matching requirement for participants in the Hollings Manufacturing Partnership Program.

Bill: 111-s-695
Sponsor: Sen. Snowe, Olympia J. [R-ME]
Introduced: 2009-03-25 in the Senate
Policy area: Commerce
Subjects: Advanced technology and technological innovations
Manufacturing
Public-private cooperation
Technology transfer and commercialization

Summary:
action_date: 2009-03-25
text: 
Amends the National Institute of Standards and Technology Act to authorize the Secretary of Commerce to reduce the matching funds requirement for participants in the Hollings Manufacturing Partnership Program from not less than 50% of the costs incurred for the first three years and an increasing share for each of the last three years to 50% of the costs incurred or such lesser percentage as determined by the Secretary, by rule, and authorized by law.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-03-25
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
action_date: 2009-03-25
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S3789)
action_date: 2009-03-25
text: Introduced in Senate
Appalachia Restoration Act

Bill: 111-s-696
Sponsor: Sen. Cardin, Benjamin L. [D-MD]
Introduced: 2009-03-25 in the Senate
Policy area: Environmental Protection
Subjects: Solid waste and recycling
Water quality

Summary:
action_date: 2009-03-25
text: 
Appalachia Restoration Act - Amends the Federal Water Pollution Control Act (commonly known as the Clean Water Act) to define &quot;fill material&quot; to mean pollutants that: (1) replace a portion of the water of the United States with dry land; or (2) modify the bottom elevation of a body of water for any purpose. Excludes from such definition: (1) the disposal of excess spoil material resulting from coal surface mining and reclamation activities in waters of the United States; or (2) trash or garbage.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-03-25
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works. (text of measure as introduced: CR S3789)
action_date: 2009-03-25
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S3789)
action_date: 2009-03-25
text: Introduced in Senate
Community Living Assistance Services and Supports Act

Bill: 111-s-697
Sponsor: Sen. Kennedy, Edward M. [D-MA]
Introduced: 2009-03-25 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Advisory bodies
Disability assistance
Employee benefits and pensions
Government trust funds
Health care costs and insurance
Home and outpatient care
Income tax credits
Income tax deductions
Long-term, rehabilitative, and terminal care

Summary:
action_date: 2009-03-25
text: 
Community Living Assistance Services and Supports Act or the CLASS Act - Amends the Public Health Service Act to create a national, voluntary disability insurance program (CLASS program) under which: (1) all employees are automatically enrolled, but are allowed to waive enrollment; (2) payroll deductions pay monthly premiums; and (3) two-tiered benefits are provided, based on the level of disability, to purchase nonmedical services and supports that the beneficiary needs to maintain independence.
 
Establishes the Independence Fund within the Treasury. 
 
Requires the CLASS program to be treated for tax purposes in the same manner as a qualified long-term care insurance contract.
 
Amends the Social Security Act to require each state to: (1) assess the extent to which personal care services providers are serving or able to serve as fiscal agents, employers, and providers of employment-related benefits for personal care attendant workers, who provide personal care services to individuals receiving benefits under this Act; (2) designate or create entities to serve such purposes; and (3) ensure that such entities will not negatively alter or impede existing programs, models, methods, or administration of service delivery that provide for consumer controlled or self-directed home and community services, impede the ability of individuals to direct and control their home and community services, or inhibit individuals from relying on family members for such services.
 
Requires the Secretary of Health and Human Services to establish a Personal Care Attendants Workforce Advisory Panel to examine and advise the Secretary and Congress on workforce issues related to personal care attendant workers.
 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow: (1) a deduction for premiums paid for the CLASS program; (2) a credit CLASS program enrollees with low income; and (3) a credit for employers for the cost incurred to automatically enroll employees and withhold monthly premiums.
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-03-25
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2009-03-25
text: Introduced in Senate