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State and Local Education Flexibility Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-2958
Sponsor: Rep. Terry, Lee [R-NE-2]
Introduced: 2009-06-18 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Academic performance and assessments
Education of the disadvantaged
Education programs funding
Elementary and secondary education
Foreign language and bilingual programs
Government information and archives
Government studies and investigations
School administration
Special education
Teaching, teachers, curricula

Summary:
action_date: 2009-06-18
text: 
State and Local Education Flexibility Act of 2009 - Amends part A of title I of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (ESEA) to revise requirements for determining whether states, local educational agencies (LEAs), and schools are making adequate yearly progress (AYP) toward state academic performance standards.
 
Provides for state and local flexibility, under specified conditions, to: (1) exclude from AYP and academic assessments the performance of certain limited English proficient students; (2) include in favorable AYP graduation rates certain students who require extra time to graduate due to exceptional circumstances or disability; (3) modify academic content and achievement standards in the individual education plans of students with disabilities; (4) develop assessments locally and use multiple assessments; and (5) have alternative qualification requirements for special education teachers and rural teachers. 
 
Subjects social studies teachers to ESEA competence requirements. Treats teacher competence in general science or social sciences as competence in those subjects' subdisciplines.
 
Directs the Comptroller General to study the adequacy of ESEA school improvement funds.
 
Allows states, which meet certain requirements, to measure AYP using individual growth models measuring individual student progress from grade to grade.
 
Requires that each school be given a grade based on the percentage of AYP factors it has attained. Gives grade A schools greater flexibility in the use of school improvement funds and states and LEAs greater flexibility in choosing the ESEA intervention they consider appropriate for lower-graded schools that fail to make AYP for two years. 
 
Requires schools to provide parents with student progress report cards showing the school's AYP grade. Requires states to include their performance on the National Assessment of Educational Progress on schoolwide and statewide progress report cards.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-06-18
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and Labor.
action_date: 2009-06-18
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-06-18
text: Introduced in House
Accountable Care Promotion Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-2959
Sponsor: Rep. Welch, Peter [D-VT-At Large]
Introduced: 2009-06-18 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Health care costs and insurance
Health care quality
Medicare

Summary:
action_date: 2009-06-18
text: 
Accountable Care Promotion Act of 2009 - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to direct the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) to conduct a pilot program to test different payment incentive models designed to reduce the growth of expenditures and improve health outcomes in the provision to beneficiaries of items and services by qualifying accountable care organizations (ACOs) of physicians.
 
Specifies among payment incentive models a performance target model and a partial capitation model. Allows the Secretary to develop other models.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-06-19
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2009-06-18
text: Referred to House Energy and Commerce
action_date: 2009-06-18
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: 2009-06-18
text: Referred to House Ways and Means
action_date: 2009-06-18
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-06-18
text: Introduced in House
To authorize the Secretary of Defense to pay an additional amount of assignment special pay to members of the Armed Forces who agree to serve in Afghanistan for up to six years or the duration of the United States mission in that country.

Bill: 111-hr-2960
Sponsor: Rep. Kirk, Mark Steven [R-IL-10]
Introduced: 2009-06-19 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Academic performance and assessments
Afghanistan
Asia
Foreign language and bilingual programs
Military operations and strategy
Military personnel and dependents

Summary:
action_date: 2009-06-19
text: 
Authorizes the payment of assignment pay in a total amount of $250,000 to members of the armed forces who agree to serve on active duty in Afghanistan for six years or for the duration of the U.S. mission in Afghanistan, whichever occurs first. Provides for an increase in the amount of such pay if such a member scores a 4.0 on the Foreign Service Institute test for the dominant languages of Pashto and Dari. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-08-03
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Military Personnel.
action_date: 2009-06-19
text: Referred to the House Committee on Armed Services.
action_date: 2009-06-19
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E1506)
action_date: 2009-06-19
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-06-19
text: Introduced in House
To create additional permanent and temporary judgeships for the eastern district of California, to provide for an additional place of holding court in the eastern district of California, and for other purposes.

Bill: 111-hr-2961
Sponsor: Rep. McCarthy, Kevin [R-CA-22]
Introduced: 2009-06-19 in the House
Policy area: Law
Subjects: California
Federal district courts
Judges

Summary:
action_date: 2009-06-19
text: 
Directs the President to appoint: (1) four additional permanent district judges for the eastern district of California; and (2) one temporary judgeship for such district.
 
Makes Bakersfield an additional place of holding court for the eastern district.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-07-23
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Courts and Competition Policy.
action_date: 2009-06-19
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2009-06-19
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E1510)
action_date: 2009-06-19
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-06-19
text: Introduced in House
Integrity in Medicare Advanced Diagnostic Imaging Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-2962
Sponsor: Rep. Speier, Jackie [D-CA-12]
Introduced: 2009-06-19 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Health personnel
Health technology, devices, supplies
Medical ethics
Medical tests and diagnostic methods
Medicare

Summary:
action_date: 2009-06-19
text: 
Integrity in Medicare Advanced Diagnostic Imaging Act of 2009 - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to exclude certain advanced diagnostic imaging services from the in-office ancillary services exception to the prohibition on physician self-referral.
 
(Thus prohibits a physician [or an immediate family member] who has an ownership or investment relationship or compensation arrangement with an entity from referring a patient to the entity for certain advanced diagnostic imaging services for which a Medicare payment otherwise may be made.)


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-06-23
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2009-06-19
text: Referred to House Ways and Means
action_date: 2009-06-19
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Ways and Means, 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: 2009-06-19
text: Referred to House Energy and Commerce
action_date: 2009-06-19
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-06-19
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide incentives for improving small manufacturers' computer technology.

Bill: 111-hr-2963
Sponsor: Rep. Dahlkemper, Kathleen A. [D-PA-3]
Introduced: 2009-06-19 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Business investment and capital
Computers and information technology
Income tax credits
Manufacturing
Small business

Summary:
action_date: 2009-06-19
text: 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow certain small manufacturers a tax credit for their computer hardware and software expenses. Limits such credit to the lesser of 50% of such expenses or $35,000. Terminates such credit after 2011. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-06-19
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2009-06-19
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-06-19
text: Introduced in House
Mobile Mammography Promotion Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-2964
Sponsor: Rep. Heller, Dean [R-NV-2]
Introduced: 2009-06-19 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Cancer
Medical tests and diagnostic methods
Motor fuels
Motor vehicles
Sales and excise taxes
Women's health

Summary:
action_date: 2009-06-19
text: 
Mobile Mammography Promotion Act of 2009 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to exempt from the motor fuel excise tax fuel used in any highway vehicle designed exclusively to provide mobile mammography services. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-06-19
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2009-06-19
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-06-19
text: Introduced in House
Say No to Drug Ads Act

Bill: 111-hr-2966
Sponsor: Rep. Nadler, Jerrold [D-NY-8]
Introduced: 2009-06-19 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Income tax deductions
Marketing and advertising
Prescription drugs

Summary:
action_date: 2009-06-19
text: 
Say No to Drug Ads Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to deny a tax deduction for the cost of direct-to-consumer advertisement of a prescription drug. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-06-19
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2009-06-19
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-06-19
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to deny the alternative fuel and alternative fuel mixture credits for black liquor.

Bill: 111-hr-2967
Sponsor: Rep. Kirkpatrick, Ann [D-AZ-1]
Introduced: 2009-06-19 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Alternative and renewable resources
Motor fuels
Sales and excise taxes

Summary:
action_date: 2009-06-19
text: 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to deny the alternative fuels excise tax credit for fuels (including lignin, wood residues, or spent pulping liquors) derived from the production of paper or pulp. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-06-19
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2009-06-19
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-06-19
text: Introduced in House
To amend title 38, United States Code, to eliminate the required reduction in the amount of the accelerated death benefit payable to certain terminally-ill persons insured under Servicemembers' Group Life Insurance or Veterans' Group Life Insurance.

Bill: 111-hr-2968
Sponsor: Rep. Kirkpatrick, Ann [D-AZ-1]
Introduced: 2009-06-19 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Life, casualty, property insurance
Long-term, rehabilitative, and terminal care
Military personnel and dependents
Veterans' medical care
Veterans' pensions and compensation

Summary:
action_date: 2009-06-19
text: 
 Eliminates the required reduction in the amount of the accelerated death benefit payable to certain terminally ill persons insured under Servicemembers' Group Life Insurance or Veterans' Group Life Insurance. 
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-07-09
text: Forwarded by Subcommittee to Full Committee by Voice Vote .
action_date: 2009-07-09
text: Subcommittee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
action_date: 2009-06-24
text: Subcommittee Hearings Held.
action_date: 2009-06-19
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Disability Assistance and Memorial Affairs.
action_date: 2009-06-19
text: Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2009-06-19
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-06-19
text: Introduced in House
Water System Adaptation Partnerships Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-2969
Sponsor: Rep. Capps, Lois [D-CA-23]
Introduced: 2009-06-19 in the House
Policy area: Environmental Protection
Subjects: Air quality
Climate change and greenhouse gases
Energy efficiency and conservation
Environmental technology
Water quality
Water resources funding
Water use and supply

Summary:
action_date: 2009-06-19
text: 
Water System Adaptation Partnerships Act of 2009 - Directs the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to make grants to water systems to assist in planning, designing, constructing, implementing, or maintaining any program, strategy, or infrastructure improvement to: (1) conserve water or increase water use efficiency; (2) carry out water metering to measure water efficiency effectiveness of a water efficiency program; (3) preserve or improve water quality; (4) enhance water management by increasing source water preservation and protection, or natural or engineered green infrastructure, in the management, conveyance, or treatment of water, wastewater, or stormwater; (5) increase energy efficiency or the use and generation of renewable energy in the management, conveyance, or treatment of water, wastewater, or stormwater; (6) support the adoption and use of advanced water treatment, water supply management, or water demand management technologies or processes that maintain or increase water supply or improve water quality; (7) complete studies or assessments to project how climate change may impact the future operations and sustainability of the water system; or (8) carry out any other activity or project to address any ongoing or forecasted climate-related impact on the water quality or quantity of a region of the United States that increases the resiliency of a water system to the impacts of climate change.
 
Sets forth grant application requirements. Requires the Administrator to conduct a competitive process to select and fund applications, giving priority to applications that: (1) are submitted by water systems that are at the greatest and most immediate risk of facing significant climate-related negative impacts; (2) will impact the largest numbers of water users; and (3) will provide the greatest benefit per dollar expended. Limits the federal share to 50% of the cost.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-06-23
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Environment.
action_date: 2009-06-22
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment.
action_date: 2009-06-19
text: Referred to House Energy and Commerce
action_date: 2009-06-19
text: Referred to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, 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: 2009-06-19
text: Referred to House Transportation and Infrastructure
action_date: 2009-06-19
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-06-19
text: Introduced in House
To amend title 5, United States Code, to increase the maximum age limit for an original appointment to a position as a Federal law enforcement officer in the case of any individual who has been discharged or released from active duty in the Armed Forces under honorable conditions, and for other purposes.

Bill: 111-hr-2970
Sponsor: Rep. Bishop, Rob [R-UT-1]
Introduced: 2009-06-19 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management
Law enforcement officers
Veterans' education, employment, rehabilitation

Summary:
action_date: 2009-06-19
text: 
Sets a maximum age limit of 40 years for an original appointment to a position as a federal law enforcement officer in the case of individuals who have been discharged or released from active duty in the armed forces under honorable conditions. Increases the age at which such an individual must be separated from service as an officer to 60 years of age, with an authorized exemption until age 63.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-06-26
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Federal Workforce, Post Office, and the District of Columbia.
action_date: 2009-06-19
text: Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.
action_date: 2009-06-19
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-06-19
text: Introduced in House
To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 630 Northeast Killingsworth Avenue in Portland, Oregon, as the "Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Post Office".

Bill: 111-hr-2971
Sponsor: Rep. Blumenauer, Earl [D-OR-3]
Introduced: 2009-06-19 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Congressional tributes
Government buildings, facilities, and property
Oregon
Postal service
Racial and ethnic relations

Summary:
action_date: 2009-06-19
text: Designates the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 630 Northeast Killingsworth Avenue in Portland, Oregon, as the "Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Post Office."

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-10-19
text: Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs referred to Subcommittee on Federal Financial Management, Government Information, Federal Services, and International Security.
action_date: 2009-09-23
text: Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.
action_date: 2009-09-22
text: Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
action_date: 2009-09-22
text: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill Agreed to by the Yeas and Nays: (2/3 required): 411 - 0 (Roll no. 721). (text: CR H9766)
action_date: 2009-09-22
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): 411 - 0 (Roll no. 721).(text: CR H9766)
action_date: 2009-09-22
text: Considered as unfinished business. (consideration: CR H9775-9776)
action_date: 2009-09-22
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: 2009-09-22
text: DEBATE - The House proceeded with forty minutes of debate on H.R. 2971.
action_date: 2009-09-22
text: Considered under suspension of the rules. (consideration: CR H9766-9767)
action_date: 2009-09-22
text: Mr. Lynch moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill.
action_date: 2009-07-10
text: Ordered to be Reported by Unanimous Consent.
action_date: 2009-07-10
text: Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
action_date: 2009-06-19
text: Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.
action_date: 2009-06-19
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E1513)
action_date: 2009-06-19
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-06-19
text: Introduced in House
To require the Secretary of the Interior to notify units of local government when a Native American group files a petition to become a federally recognized Indian tribe and before the decision on the petition is made, and for other purposes.

Bill: 111-hr-2973
Sponsor: Rep. Campbell, John [R-CA-48]
Introduced: 2009-06-19 in the House
Policy area: Native Americans
Subjects: Federal-Indian relations
Gambling
Indian lands and resources rights
Intergovernmental relations
Land transfers
State and local government operations

Summary:
action_date: 2009-06-19
text: 
Requires the Secretary of the Interior, acting through the Bureau of Indian Affairs, to notify certain local governments: (1) within 60 days after a petition is filed requesting that a tribe be recognized, acknowledged, or reacknowledged as a federally recognized Indian tribe; (2) within 30 days after enactment of this Act regarding pending petitions; and (3) 90 days before a decision on a petition is announced.
 
Describes a local government to be notified as a local city, parish, or county government located within a 25-mile radius of land that would be taken into trust for or transferred to, or for which jurisdiction would be given to, a tribe pursuant to such a petition.
 
Prohibits Secretary from taking land into trust for the benefit of an Indian tribe or member thereof unless an Act enacted after this Act specifically instructs the Secretary to do so.
 
 Amends the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act to make the Act inapplicable to an Indian tribe or to Indian lands of an Indian tribe until that tribe has been a federally recognized Indian tribe for at least 25 continuous years, except for tribes that were federally recognized before enactment of this Act.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-06-19
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2009-06-19
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-06-19
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow individuals eligible for veterans health benefits to contribute to health savings accounts.

Bill: 111-hr-2974
Sponsor: Rep. Campbell, John [R-CA-48]
Introduced: 2009-06-19 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Health care costs and insurance
Income tax deductions
Veterans' medical care

Summary:
action_date: 2009-06-19
text: 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to provide that individual taxpayers who receive Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) periodic health care or medical services shall not be disqualified from making tax deductible contributions to health savings accounts.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-06-19
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2009-06-19
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-06-19
text: Introduced in House