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To amend titles XIX and XVIII of the Social Security Act, as amended by the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010, with respect to payment of disproportionate share hospitals (DSH) under the Medicare and Medicaid programs.

Bill: 111-hr-5417
Sponsor: Rep. Johnson, Eddie Bernice [D-TX-30]
Introduced: 2010-05-26 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Comprehensive health care
Congressional oversight
Health care costs and insurance
Health care coverage and access
Health facilities and institutions
Hospital care
Medicaid
Medicare

Summary:
action_date: 2010-05-26
text: 
Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) to report to Congress on the Medicare DSH (disproportionate share hospital) payment system, taking into account the impact of the health care reforms under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA), as amended by the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010 (HCERA), in reducing the number of uninsured individuals.
 
Requires the Secretary to make specified adjustments to the Medicare DSH payment system, including an additional payment to hospitals based on the amount of uncompensated care they have provided, if there is a significant decrease in the national rate of uninsurance as a result of corrected PPACA.
 
Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act (SSA), as amended by PPACA and HCERA, to eliminate certain current requirements for adjustments to Medicare DSH payments.
 
Amends SSA title XIX (Medicaid), as amended by PPACA and HCERA, to postpone specified Medicaid DSH reductions scheduled for FY2014-FY2020 until FY2018-FY2024. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-06-01
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2010-05-26
text: Referred to House Energy and Commerce
action_date: 2010-05-26
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: 2010-05-26
text: Referred to House Ways and Means
action_date: 2010-05-26
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-05-26
text: Introduced in House
Public Transportation Preservation Act of 2010

Bill: 111-hr-5418
Sponsor: Rep. McMahon, Michael E. [D-NY-13]
Introduced: 2010-05-26 in the House
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Public transit
Transportation costs
Transportation employees
Transportation programs funding

Summary:
action_date: 2010-05-26
text: 
Public Transportation Preservation Act of 2010 - Authorizes the Secretary of Transportation to make emergency grants to states and designated recipients (urbanized areas) for the operating costs of equipment and facilities for use in public transportation projects. Prescribes a formula for the apportionment of grant funds.
 
Requires amounts apportioned to a state or urbanized area, with a specified exception, to be used for operating expenses necessary to restore or prevent a reduction in public transportation service and related workforce reductions, or to rescind all or a portion of a fare increase, that: (1) occurs between January 1, 2009, and September 30, 2011; and (2) is due to decreased state or local funding or farebox revenue.
 
Authorizes a recipient which certifies that it has not had a major reduction in public transportation service, or a fare increase as a result of decreased state or local operating funding, and will be able to avoid such reductions or increases through FY2011 without the funds made available by this Act, to use such funds to replace, rehabilitate, or repair existing transit capital assets used in public transportation.
 
Sets the amount of a grant, at the option of the recipient, at up to 100% of the net cost of a project.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-05-27
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Highways and Transit.
action_date: 2010-05-26
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2010-05-26
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-05-26
text: Introduced in House
Incentives for Successful Companies Act of 2010

Bill: 111-hr-5420
Sponsor: Rep. Perlmutter, Ed [D-CO-7]
Introduced: 2010-05-26 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Business investment and capital
Employment and training programs
Income tax credits
Income tax deductions

Summary:
action_date: 2010-05-26
text: 
Incentives for Successful Companies Act of 2010 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow through 2014: (1) certain businesses designated as successful companies a business-related tax credit for job training expenses; and (2) an increase to $250,000 in the expensing allowance for depreciable business assets placed in service by such companies. Defines a &quot;successful company&quot; as a U.S. company or enterprise that maintains a long-term U.S. growth plan, meets certain financial and creditworthiness criteria, and had an average of not fewer than 5 or more than 500 employees in the most recent calendar year. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-05-26
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2010-05-26
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-05-26
text: Introduced in House
To authorize the Secretary of Agriculture to make grants for the prevention of cruelty to animals to States that have enacted laws prohibiting the devocalization of dogs and cats for purposes of convenience.

Bill: 111-hr-5422
Sponsor: Rep. Ruppersberger, C. A. Dutch [D-MD-2]
Introduced: 2010-05-27 in the House
Policy area: Animals
Subjects: Animal protection and human-animal relationships
Mammals
State and local government operations
Surgery and anesthesia

Summary:
action_date: 2010-05-27
text: 
Authorizes the Secretary of Agriculture to make grants for the prevention of cruelty to animals to states that have enacted laws prohibiting the performance of devocalization procedures on dogs and cats for purposes of convenience.
 
Defines: (1) &quot;devocalization procedure&quot; as a surgical procedure that prevents an animal's larynx from producing sound or reduces the ability of the larynx to produce sound; and (2) &quot;for purposes of convenience&quot; meaning that the procedure is not performed primarily for the animal's therapeutic benefit.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-06-18
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Livestock, Dairy, and Poultry.
action_date: 2010-05-27
text: Referred to the House Committee on Agriculture.
action_date: 2010-05-27
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-05-27
text: Introduced in House
Transparent Review of the Affordability and Cost of Electricity (TRACE) Renewable Energy Act of 2010

Bill: 111-hr-5423
Sponsor: Rep. Foster, Bill [D-IL-14]
Introduced: 2010-05-27 in the House
Policy area: Energy
Subjects: Accounting and auditing
Electric power generation and transmission
Government information and archives

Summary:
action_date: 2010-05-27
text: 
Transparent Review of the Affordability and Cost of Electricity (TRACE) Renewable Energy Act of 2010 - Amends the Public Utility Regulatory Policies Act of 1978 to direct the Secretary of Energy, acting through the Administrator of the Energy Information Administration, to prepare and publish an annual report setting forth the costs of electricity production per kilowatt hour, by sector and energy source, for each type of electric energy generation.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-05-27
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2010-05-27
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-05-27
text: Introduced in House
Reform Americans Can Afford Act of 2010

Bill: 111-hr-5424
Sponsor: Rep. Herger, Wally [R-CA-2]
Introduced: 2010-05-27 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Abortion
Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Administrative remedies
Advisory bodies
Bankruptcy
Civil actions and liability
Comprehensive health care
Consumer affairs
Department of Health and Human Services
Disability and health-based discrimination
Drug safety, medical device, and laboratory regulation
Employee benefits and pensions
Executive agency funding and structure
Family relationships
Federal-Indian relations
Government information and archives
Health care costs and insurance
Health care coverage and access
Health care quality
Health programs administration and funding
Health promotion and preventive care
Income tax credits
Intellectual property
Judicial procedure and administration
Licensing and registrations
Medicaid
Medical research
Medicare
Small business
State and local government operations
State and local taxation
User charges and fees

Summary:
action_date: 2010-05-27
text: 
Reform Americans Can Afford Act of 2010 - Repeals the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010, effective as of their enactment. Restores provisions of law amended by such Acts.
 
Enacts the Common Sense Health Care Reform and Affordability Act (H.R. 4038), as introduced in the House of Representatives on November 9, 2009.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-08-10
text: Motion to Discharge Committee filed by Mr. Herger. Petition No: 111-12. (<a href="http://clerk.house.gov/111/lrc/pd/Petitions/Dis12.htm">Discharge petition</a> text with signatures.)
action_date: 2010-06-29
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2010-06-01
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Trade.
action_date: 2010-05-27
text: Referred to House Rules
action_date: 2010-05-27
text: Referred to House Administration
action_date: 2010-05-27
text: Referred to House Natural Resources
action_date: 2010-05-27
text: Referred to House Judiciary
action_date: 2010-05-27
text: Referred to House Education and Labor
action_date: 2010-05-27
text: Referred to House Ways and Means
action_date: 2010-05-27
text: Referred to House Appropriations
action_date: 2010-05-27
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Appropriations, Ways and Means, Education and Labor, the Judiciary, Natural Resources, House Administration, and 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: 2010-05-27
text: Referred to House Energy and Commerce
action_date: 2010-05-27
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-05-27
text: Introduced in House
STOP the FEDS Act

Bill: 111-hr-5425
Sponsor: Rep. Fleming, John [R-LA-4]
Introduced: 2010-05-27 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Comprehensive health care
Health care costs and insurance
Health care coverage and access
Intergovernmental relations
State and local government operations

Summary:
action_date: 2010-05-27
text: 
Stop the Federal Exchanges from Destroying States Act or the STOP the FEDS Act - Amends the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act to authorize a state to elect not to establish any required Exchanges for the state (or to cease the operation of all required Exchanges for the state) if the state enacts a law that provides for such election. Authorizes a state to repeal such a law and provide for the establishment of an Exchange for the state. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-05-27
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2010-05-27
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-05-27
text: Introduced in House
To require the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency to finalize a proposed rule to amend the spill prevention, control, and countermeasure rule to tailor and streamline the requirements for the dairy industry, and for other purposes.

Bill: 111-hr-5426
Sponsor: Rep. Miller, Candice S. [R-MI-10]
Introduced: 2010-05-27 in the House
Policy area: Environmental Protection
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Agricultural conservation and pollution
Agricultural practices and innovations
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
Oil and gas
Water quality

Summary:
action_date: 2010-05-27
text: 
Requires the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), within 30 days after this Act's enactment, to finalize the proposed rule entitled &quot;Oil Pollution Prevention; Spill Prevention, Control, and Countermeasure Rule Requirements--Amendments&quot; to exempt certain milk containers and associated piping and appurtenance from the Spill Prevention, Control, and Countermeasure program. Prohibits the Administrator from taking regulatory action against dairy and dairy product producers, processors, handlers, and distributors related to such exemption until the effective date of the finalized rule.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-05-28
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment.
action_date: 2010-05-27
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2010-05-27
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-05-27
text: Introduced in House
Rattlesnake Mountain Public Access Act of 2010

Bill: 111-hr-5427
Sponsor: Rep. Hastings, Doc [R-WA-4]
Introduced: 2010-05-27 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Land use and conservation
Monuments and memorials
Roads and highways
Travel and tourism
Washington State
Wilderness and natural areas, wildlife refuges, wild rivers, habitats

Summary:
action_date: 2010-05-27
text: 
Rattlesnake Mountain Public Access Act of 2010 - Directs the Secretary of the Interior to provide access to the summit of Rattlesnake Mountain in the Hanford Reach National Monument in the state of Washington for educational, recreational, historical, scientific, cultural, and other purposes. 
 
Authorizes the Secretary to enter into cooperative agreements to facilitate access to the summit of Rattlesnake Mountain for guided tours, including motorized tours, and to maintain the access road to the summit. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-06-03
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests and Public Lands.
action_date: 2010-05-27
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2010-05-27
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-05-27
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-05-26
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR H3840)
To direct the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to educate certain staff of the Department of Veterans Affairs and to inform veterans about the Injured and Amputee Veterans Bill of Rights, and for other purposes.

Bill: 111-hr-5428
Sponsor: Rep. Filner, Bob [D-CA-51]
Introduced: 2010-05-27 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Disability and paralysis
Government information and archives
Government studies and investigations
Health care coverage and access
Health care quality
Health information and medical records
Health personnel
Veterans' education, employment, rehabilitation
Veterans' loans, housing, homeless programs
Veterans' medical care

Summary:
action_date: 2010-05-27
text: 
Directs the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to ensure that an Injured and Amputee Veterans Bill of Rights is printed on signage in accessible formats and displayed prominently and conspicuously in each Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) prosthetics and orthotics clinic. Requires VA employees who work at such clinics, as well as patient advocates of veterans who receive care there, to receive training on such Bill of Rights. Directs the Secretary to conduct outreach to inform veterans of such Bill of Rights.
 
Includes in the Bill of Rights the right to: (1) access the highest quality prosthetic and orthotic care; (2) select the practitioner that best meets their prosthetic and orthotic needs; (3) timely and efficient prosthetic and orthotic care; and (4) transition and readjust to civilian life in an honorable manner, including by having ample access to vocational rehabilitation, employment programs, and housing assistance.
 
Directs: (1) the Secretary to collect information relating to the alleged mistreatment of injured and amputee veterans; (2) the veteran liaison at each VA medical center to submit quarterly to the VA's Chief Consultant of Prosthetics and Sensory Aids a report on such information; and (3) the Chief Consultant to investigate and address such information.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-09-29
text: Subcommittee Hearings Held.
action_date: 2010-05-28
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2010-05-27
text: Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2010-05-27
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-05-27
text: Introduced in House
Investor Deposit Yardstick Act

Bill: 111-hr-5429
Sponsor: Rep. Harman, Jane [D-CA-36]
Introduced: 2010-05-27 in the House
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: Bank accounts, deposits, capital
Bankruptcy

Summary:
action_date: 2010-05-27
text: 
Investor Deposit Yardstick Act - Extends retroactively the increase in the standard maximum deposit insurance amount pursuant to the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008 (EESA) to include depositors in any institution for which the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) was appointed as receiver or conservator on or after January 1, 2008, and before October 3, 2008.
 
Directs the FDIC to take necessary actions to carry out deposit insurance requirements under the Federal Deposit Insurance Act (FDIA) with respect to such depositors, without regard to any time limitations under such Act.
 
Deems any payment on a deposit claim made by FDIC as receiver or conservator to a depositor above the standard maximum deposit insurance amount in effect at the time of the FDIC's appointment as receiver or conservator to be part of the net amount due to the depositor under the FDIA.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-05-28
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E980)
action_date: 2010-05-27
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2010-05-27
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-05-27
text: Introduced in House
Partnerships for Wellness Act

Bill: 111-hr-5430
Sponsor: Rep. McCarthy, Carolyn [D-NY-4]
Introduced: 2010-05-27 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Child health
Education programs funding
Elementary and secondary education
Nutrition and diet
Physical fitness and lifestyle

Summary:
action_date: 2010-05-27
text: 
Partnerships for Wellness Act - Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to award competitive matching grants to local educational agencies (LEAs) participating in the school lunch and breakfast programs for projects that leverage community resources to increase student access to physical activity, nutrition education, and nutritious foods during the regular school calendar.
 
Requires LEA grantees to partner with a community-based organization, a child- and youth-serving organization, an institution of higher education, a health care provider, or another business or community partner in implementing such projects.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-06-29
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Healthy Families and Communities.
action_date: 2010-05-27
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and Labor.
action_date: 2010-05-27
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-05-27
text: Introduced in House
Start Healthy Habits Early Act

Bill: 111-hr-5431
Sponsor: Rep. McCarthy, Carolyn [D-NY-4]
Introduced: 2010-05-27 in the House
Policy area: Families
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Adult day care
Child care and development
Child health
Child safety and welfare
Department of Agriculture
Food assistance and relief
Nutrition and diet
Physical fitness and lifestyle
Poverty and welfare assistance
Water use and supply

Summary:
action_date: 2010-05-27
text: 
Start Healthy Habits Early Act - Amends the child and adult care food program (CACFP) under the Richard B. Russell National School Lunch Act. 
 
Requires the Secretary of Agriculture, at least once every ten years, to review and, as appropriate, update nutritional requirements for meals and snacks served under the CACFP to ensure that they meet the most recent Dietary Guidelines for Americans and promote the health of those served.
 
Prohibits CACFP providers from using reimbursable meal service as a punishment or reward.
 
Requires fluid milk served as part of a reimbursable meal or snack to meet the most recent Dietary Guidelines and appropriate authoritative scientific recommendations for young children. Allows nondairy substitutes to be served to children who cannot consume fluid milk, provided the substitutes are nutritionally equivalent to fluid milk and meet certain nutritional standards.
 
Requires CACFP providers to make potable water available to children throughout the day, including at meal times.
 
Directs the Secretary to provide technical assistance and guidance to CACFP providers and states regarding: (1) nutritional requirements; (2) age-appropriate physical activity and electronic media use by children; (3) parental involvement in nutrition and wellness initiatives; and (4) food choking hazards.
 
Requires the Secretary to: (1) award competitive grants to states and, through them, subgrants to institutions participating in the CACFP to promote health and nutrition in child care settings; and (2) provide states and such institutions with best practices for implementing effective nutrition and wellness initiatives.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-06-29
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Healthy Families and Communities.
action_date: 2010-05-27
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and Labor.
action_date: 2010-05-27
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-05-27
text: Introduced in House
Service for Healthier Kids Act

Bill: 111-hr-5432
Sponsor: Rep. McCarthy, Carolyn [D-NY-4]
Introduced: 2010-05-27 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Child health
Elementary and secondary education
Food assistance and relief
National and community service
Nutrition and diet
Poverty and welfare assistance

Summary:
action_date: 2010-05-27
text: 
Service for Healthier Kids Act - Authorizes the Secretary of Agriculture to enter into an interagency agreement with the Corporation for National and Community Service that provides the Corporation with funding for a Nutrition Corps to carry out national service programs that: (1) increase access to, participation in, and the quality of, the nutrition assistance programs the Secretary administers; and (2) support local agriculture and farm to school initiatives undertaken by the Secretary.
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-06-30
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Department Operations, Oversight, Nutrition and Forestry.
action_date: 2010-06-29
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Healthy Families and Communities.
action_date: 2010-05-27
text: Referred to House Agriculture
action_date: 2010-05-27
text: Referred to the Committee on Education and Labor, and in addition to the Committee on Agriculture, 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: 2010-05-27
text: Referred to House Education and Labor
action_date: 2010-05-27
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-05-27
text: Introduced in House