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A bill to amend the National and Community Service Act of 1990 to establish a Veterans Corps program.

Bill: 111-s-606
Sponsor: Sen. Warner, Mark R. [D-VA]
Introduced: 2009-03-17 in the Senate
Policy area: Social Welfare
Subjects: Aging
Disability assistance
Education of the disadvantaged
Military personnel and dependents
National and community service
Social work, volunteer service, charitable organizations
Veterans' education, employment, rehabilitation

Summary:
action_date: 2009-03-17
text: 
Amends the National and Community Service Act of 1990 to include as an authorized national service program a Veteran Corps program that meets specified unmet needs of members of the Armed Forces and veterans, as well as their families.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-03-17
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2009-03-17
text: Introduced in Senate
Common Sense in Consumer Product Safety Act of 2009

Bill: 111-s-608
Sponsor: Sen. Tester, Jon [D-MT]
Introduced: 2009-03-17 in the Senate
Policy area: Commerce
Subjects: Child health
Hazardous wastes and toxic substances
Product safety and quality

Summary:
action_date: 2009-03-17
text: 
Common Sense in Consumer Product Safety Act of 2009 - Amends the Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act of 2008 to prohibit considering a sale after the first retail sale or a repair of a used children's product to be an introduction into interstate commerce under provisions of the Federal Hazardous Substances Act concerning children's products containing lead (effectively making children's product lead limits inapplicable to secondary sales or repairs of such products).
 
Prohibits considering a vehicle designed or intended primarily for children seven years of age or older to be a children's product under such provisions.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-03-17
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. (text of measure as introduced: CR S3166)
action_date: 2009-03-17
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S3165-3166)
action_date: 2009-03-17
text: Introduced in Senate
Nonprofit Capacity Building Act of 2009

Bill: 111-s-609
Sponsor: Sen. Baucus, Max [D-MT]
Introduced: 2009-03-17 in the Senate
Policy area: Social Welfare
Subjects: National and community service
Social work, volunteer service, charitable organizations

Summary:
action_date: 2009-03-17
text: 
Nonprofit Capacity Building Act of 2009 - Amends the National and Community Service Act of 1990 to establish a Nonprofit Capacity Building program requiring the Corporation for National and Community Service to award matching grants to intermediary nonprofit organizations for the delivery of organizational development assistance to small and midsize nonprofit organizations, especially those facing resource hardship challenges.
 
Directs the Corporation, to the extent practicable, to award such a grant to an intermediary nonprofit organization in each state.
 
Requires grantees to raise their share of the costs of providing such assistance through contributions from third parties, except where the grantee is a private foundation or specified charity.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-03-17
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2009-03-17
text: Introduced in Senate
Patent Reform Act of 2009

Bill: 111-s-610
Sponsor: Sen. Kyl, Jon [R-AZ]
Introduced: 2009-03-17 in the Senate
Policy area: Commerce
Subjects: Administrative remedies
Civil actions and liability
Department of Commerce
Government trust funds
Intellectual property
Legal fees and court costs

Summary:
action_date: 2009-03-17
text: 
Patent Reform Act of 2009 - Amends federal patent law to rewrite provisions concerning the conditions for patentability.
 
Defines &quot;effective filing date of a claimed invention&quot; as the filing date of the patent or the application for patent containing the claim to the invention (thus establishing a first-to-file system).
 
Revises various other rights and requirements related to patents, including regarding: (1) damages; (2) post-grant procedures; (3) citation of prior art; (4) 
inter partes 
reexaminations; (5) submissions by third parties; (6) venue; (7) the regulatory authority of the Patent and Trademark Office; and (8) inequitable conduct.
 
Replaces the Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences with the Patent Trial and Appeal Board.
 
Shields a financial institution that infringes by using a check collection system from the infringement remedies of civil actions, injunctions, damages, and attorney's fees, but does not (in specified circumstances) limit the enforcement rights of the patent's original owner. Applies the amendment made by this paragraph to any civil action for infringement pending or filed on or after the date of enactment of this Act.
 
 Establishes a revolving fund to be known as the United States Patent and Trademark Office Public Enterprise Fund. Deposits into the Fund fees received under specified provisions and makes Fund amounts available for all expenses of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-03-17
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. (text of measure as introduced: CR S3166-3175)
action_date: 2009-03-17
text: Introduced in Senate
Responsible Education About Life Act

Bill: 111-s-611
Sponsor: Sen. Lautenberg, Frank R. [D-NJ]
Introduced: 2009-03-17 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Child health
Drug, alcohol, tobacco use
HIV/AIDS
Health programs administration and funding
Health promotion and preventive care
Performance measurement
Sex and reproductive health
Sexually transmitted diseases

Summary:
action_date: 2009-03-17
text: 
Responsible Education About Life Act - Authorizes the Secretary of Health and Human Services to make grants to states for sex education programs, including education on abstinence and contraception, to prevent teenage pregnancy and sexually transmitted diseases.
 
Expresses the sense of Congress that states are encouraged, although not required, to provide matching funds to receive such grants. 
Requires the Secretary to provide for a national evaluation of a representative sample of such programs for effectiveness in delaying the initiation of sexual intercourse and other high-risk behaviors, preventing pregnancy and sexually transmitted disease, and increasing contraceptive knowledge and behavior. Requires states receiving such grants to provide for an individual evaluation of the state's program by an external, independent entity. 
Prohibits such programs from discriminating on the basis of sex, race, ethnicity, national origin, disability, religion, sexual orientation, or gender identity. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-03-17
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2009-03-17
text: Introduced in Senate
OPEN FOIA Act of 2009

Bill: 111-s-612
Sponsor: Sen. Leahy, Patrick J. [D-VT]
Introduced: 2009-03-17 in the Senate
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Freedom of information
Government information and archives

Summary:
action_date: 2009-03-17
text: 
OPEN FOIA Act of 2009 - Amends the Freedom of Information Act to require statutory exemptions to its disclosure requirements to specifically cite its provision that authorizes such exemptions.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-03-17
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. (text of measure as introduced: CR S3175-3176)
action_date: 2009-03-17
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S3175)
action_date: 2009-03-17
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to prohibit the use of Federal funds to approve certain biologics license applications by the Food and Drug Administration.

Bill: 111-s-613
Sponsor: Sen. Brownback, Sam [R-KS]
Introduced: 2009-03-17 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Department of Health and Human Services
Drug safety, medical device, and laboratory regulation
Executive agency funding and structure
Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
Government studies and investigations
Hazardous wastes and toxic substances
Iran
Licensing and registrations
Middle East
Sanctions
Trade restrictions

Summary:
action_date: 2009-03-17
text: 
Prohibits the use of funds by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to process a biologics license application for any biologic product that is, bears, or contains an agent or toxin listed in federal regulations as dangerous to life, property, or the environment and that has been marketed, sold, or distributed to the Islamic Republic of Iran by an entity under investigation for potential violations of the Iran Sanctions Act of 1996. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-03-17
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2009-03-17
text: Introduced in Senate
Enhancing Safety in Medicine Utilizing Leading Advanced Simulation Technologies to Improve Outcomes Now Act of 2009

Bill: 111-s-616
Sponsor: Sen. Harkin, Tom [D-IA]
Introduced: 2009-03-17 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Advanced technology and technological innovations
Advisory bodies
Computers and information technology
Department of Health and Human Services
Executive agency funding and structure
Government information and archives
Health programs administration and funding
Health technology, devices, supplies
Medical education
Medical research
Research administration and funding
Research and development

Summary:
action_date: 2009-03-17
text: 
Enhancing Safety in Medicine Utilizing Leading Advanced Simulation Technologies to Improve Outcomes Now Act of 2009 - Amends the Public Health Service Act to require the Director of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality to conduct and support research, evaluations, initiatives, and demonstration projects, and provide grants or enter into contracts or cooperative agreements, to enhance the deployment of medical simulation technologies and the incorporation of such technologies and equipment into medical, nursing, allied health, podiatric, osteopathic, and dental education and training protocols.

Requires the Director to: (1) establish medical simulation centers of excellence; (2) promote innovation by conducting and supporting research on complex or challenging medical simulation and interdisciplinary simulation technologies and developing an electronic clearinghouse of such technologies; and (3) award grants for purchasing, incorporating, and deploying such technologies for training of physicians, nurses, allied health professionals, and qualified students. 

Establishes within the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) the Federal Medical Simulation Coordinating Council. Requires the Director to establish an advisory panel to make recommendations on how to structure programs established by this Act.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-03-17
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2009-03-17
text: Introduced in Senate
Lower Brule and Crow Creek Tribal Compensation Act

Bill: 111-s-617
Sponsor: Sen. Johnson, Tim [D-SD]
Introduced: 2009-03-17 in the Senate
Policy area: Native Americans
Subjects: Dams and canals
Government trust funds
Indian claims
Indian lands and resources rights
Missouri River
South Dakota

Summary:
action_date: 2009-03-17
text: 
Lower Brule and Crow Creek Tribal Compensation Act - Amends the Lower Brule Sioux Tribe Infrastructure Development Trust Fund Act to increase the aggregate amount to be deposited into the Lower Brule Sioux Tribe Infrastructure Development Trust Fund by the Secretary of the Treasury to provide compensation to the Lower Brule Tribe of South Dakota for damage to tribal land caused by Pick-Sloan projects along the Missouri River.
 
Amends the Crow Creek Sioux Tribe Infrastructure Development Trust Fund Act of 1996 to increase the aggregate amount to be deposited into the Crow Creek Sioux Tribe Infrastructure Development Trust Fund by the Secretary to provide compensation to the Crow Creek Sioux Tribe of South Dakota for such damage.
 
States that this Act shall be considered to be full and final compensation to the Lower Brule Sioux Tribe and the Crow Creek Sioux Tribe for damages caused by the construction of the Fort Randall Dam and the Big Bend Dam under the Pick-Sloan Missouri River Basin Program.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-03-17
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs.
action_date: 2009-03-17
text: Introduced in Senate
Every Student Counts Act

Bill: 111-s-618
Sponsor: Sen. Harkin, Tom [D-IA]
Introduced: 2009-03-17 in the Senate
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Academic performance and assessments
Education of the disadvantaged
Education programs funding
Elementary and secondary education
Government information and archives
Language arts
Minority education
Special education
Women's education

Summary:
action_date: 2009-03-17
text: 
Every Student Counts Act - Amends the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to require, beginning by the 2010-2011 school year, states, local educational agencies (LEAs), and secondary schools annually to include on the report cards required under title I of the Act: (1) their four-year adjusted cohort graduation rate; (2) their cumulative graduation rate; (3) the number and percentage of students graduating in more than four years with a regular secondary school diploma; (4) the number and percentage of students who have been removed from the adjusted cohort; (5) the number and percentage of students from each previous adjusted cohort who remain in secondary school after four years; and (6) the percentage of secondary school students in each grade, except the graduating grade, prepared to advance to the next grade.
 
Requires such data, except for data on students who remain in secondary school after four years, to be disaggregated by race, ethnicity, gender, disability status, migrant status, English proficiency, and status as economically disadvantaged.
 
Directs states, LEAs, and secondary schools in states that lack a statewide longitudinal data system with individual student identifiers to make certain annual interim graduation rate calculations; but prohibits the use of such interim calculations after the 2010-2011 school year.
 
Requires the use of aggregate and disaggregated cumulative graduation rates in determining the success of each secondary school and LEA in making adequate yearly progress (AYP) toward state academic performance standards under the Act. Requires states, LEAs, and schools that have a cumulative graduation rate below 90% overall or for any of the student subgroups, to make specified yearly progress in improving such rate or be deemed as failing to make AYP.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-03-17
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2009-03-17
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S3178-3179)
action_date: 2009-03-17
text: Introduced in Senate
Preservation of Antibiotics for Medical Treatment Act of 2009

Bill: 111-s-619
Sponsor: Sen. Kennedy, Edward M. [D-MA]
Introduced: 2009-03-17 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Drug safety, medical device, and laboratory regulation
Livestock
Veterinary medicine and animal diseases

Summary:
action_date: 2009-03-17
text: 
Preservation of Antibiotics for Medical Treatment Act of 2009 - Amends the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to require the Secretary of Health and Human Services to deny an application for a new animal drug that is a critical antimicrobial animal drug unless the applicant demonstrates that there is a reasonably certainty of no harm to human health due to the development of antimicrobial resistance attributable to the nontherapeutic use of the drug. Defines &quot;critical antimicrobial animal drug&quot; as a drug intended for use in food-producing animals that contains specified antibiotics or other drugs used in humans to treat or prevent disease or infection caused by microorganisms.
 
Requires the Secretary to withdraw approval of a nontherapeutic use of such drugs in food-producing animals two years after the date of enactment of this Act unless certain safety requirements are met. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-03-17
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2009-03-17
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to repeal the provision of law that provides automatic pay adjustments for Members of Congress.

Bill: 111-s-620
Sponsor: Sen. Reid, Harry [D-NV]
Introduced: 2009-03-17 in the Senate
Policy area: Congress
Subjects: Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management
Members of Congress

Summary:
action_date: 2009-03-17
text: 
Amends the Legislative Reorganization Act of 1946 to eliminate automatic pay adjustments for Members of Congress. 

action_date: 2009-03-17
text: 

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

 
Amends the Legislative Reorganization Act of 1946 to eliminate automatic pay adjustments for Members of Congress. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-03-18
text: Referred to House Oversight and Government Reform
action_date: 2009-03-18
text: Referred to the Committee on House Administration, and in addition to the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, 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: 2009-03-18
text: Referred to House Administration
action_date: 2009-03-18
text: Message on Senate action sent to the House.
action_date: 2009-03-18
text: Received in the House.
action_date: 2009-03-17
text: Introduced in the Senate, read twice, considered, read the third time, and passed without amendment by Unanimous Consent. (consideration: CR S3149; text as passed Senate: CR S3149; text of measure as introduced: CR S3180)
action_date: 2009-03-17
text: Passed/agreed to in Senate: Introduced in the Senate, read twice, considered, read the third time, and passed without amendment by Unanimous Consent.(consideration: CR S3149; text as passed Senate: CR S3149; text of measure as introduced: CR S3180)
action_date: 2009-03-17
text: Introduced in Senate
Congenital Heart Futures Act

Bill: 111-s-621
Sponsor: Sen. Durbin, Richard J. [D-IL]
Introduced: 2009-03-17 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Advisory bodies
Cardiovascular and respiratory health
Child health
Government information and archives
Health care coverage and access
Health information and medical records
Health programs administration and funding
Health promotion and preventive care
Hereditary and development disorders
Medical research
Minority health

Summary:
action_date: 2009-03-17
text: 
Congenital Heart Futures Act - Amends the Public Health Service Act to authorize the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS), acting through the Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in collaboration with appropriate congenital heart disease patient organizations and professional organizations, to conduct, support, and promote a comprehensive public education campaign to increase awareness regarding congenital heart disease, including the need for lifelong treatment.
 
Authorizes the Secretary to: (1) award a grant to one entity to enhance and expand infrastructure to track the epidemiology of congenital heart disease and to organize such information into a comprehensive National Congenital Heart Disease Registry with the purpose of facilitating research into the types of health services patients use and identifying possible areas for educational outreach and prevention; and (2) establish an Advisory Committee on Congenital Heart Disease.
 
Authorizes the Director of the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute to expand, intensify, and coordinate research and related activities of the Institute regarding congenital heart disease.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-03-17
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. (text of measure as introduced: CR S3180-3182)
action_date: 2009-03-17
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S3180)
action_date: 2009-03-17
text: Introduced in Senate
Imported Ethanol Parity Act

Bill: 111-s-622
Sponsor: Sen. Feinstein, Dianne [D-CA]
Introduced: 2009-03-17 in the Senate
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Alternative and renewable resources
Sales and excise taxes
Tariffs

Summary:
action_date: 2009-03-17
text: 
Imported Ethanol Parity Act - Requires the President to: (1) reduce semiannually the temporary duty imposed on ethanol by an amount equal to the reduction in any federal income or excise tax credit for alcohol and ethanol blends used as fuel; and (2) take other necessary actions to ensure that the combined temporary duty and any other duty imposed on ethanol is equal to, or lower than, any federal income or excise tax credit applicable to ethanol.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-03-17
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. (text of measure as introduced: CR S3183)
action_date: 2009-03-17
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S3182-3183)
action_date: 2009-03-17
text: Introduced in Senate
Pre-existing Condition Patient Protection Act of 2009

Bill: 111-s-623
Sponsor: Sen. Rockefeller, John D., IV [D-WV]
Introduced: 2009-03-17 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Disability and health-based discrimination
Employee benefits and pensions
Health care costs and insurance
Health care coverage and access

Summary:
action_date: 2009-03-17
text: 
Pre-existing Condition Patient Protection Act of 2009 - Amends the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA), the Public Health Service Act, and the Internal Revenue Code to prohibit a group health plan from: (1) imposing any preexisting condition exclusion; or (2) providing for an affiliation period for coverage offered by a health maintenance organization (HMO). Defines an &quot;affiliation period&quot; as a period of time before health insurance coverage becomes effective.
 
Requires each health insurance issuer offering coverage in the group market in a state to accept every employer in the state that applies for such coverage. 
 
Revises provisions governing individual health insurance coverage to apply certain prohibitions related to denying coverage and preexisting condition exclusions to coverage offered in an area (currently, a state). 
 
Requires the Secretary of Health and Human Services to report to Congress concerning the occurrence of adverse selection as a result of this Act. Requires health insurance issuers to which this Act applies to submit to the Secretary specified information on enrollees and claims. 
 
Directs the Secretary to require that group health plans and health insurance issuers provide data to the Secretary for compliance purposes. Sets forth civil penalties for violations. 
 
Directs the Government Accountability Office (GAO) to report to the Secretary on: (1) the impact of this Act and other relevant federal laws; and (2) this Act's effect on the affordability of health insurance coverage and on the expansion of coverage and reductions in the number of uninsured and underinsured.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-03-17
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. (text of measure as introduced: CR S3183-3185)
action_date: 2009-03-17
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S3183)
action_date: 2009-03-17
text: Introduced in Senate