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Rural Health Clinic Patient Access and Improvement Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-3896
Sponsor: Rep. Emerson, Jo Ann [R-MO-8]
Introduced: 2009-10-21 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Congressional oversight
Digestive and metabolic diseases
Health care coverage and access
Health care quality
Health facilities and institutions
Health personnel
Health programs administration and funding
Medicaid
Medicare
Nutrition and diet
Rural conditions and development

Summary:
action_date: 2009-10-21
text: 
Rural Health Clinic Patient Access and Improvement Act of 2009 - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act with respect to rural health clinic reimbursement.
 
Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) to make incentive payments to rural health clinic employees or contractors for satisfactory reporting of data on clinic quality measures.
 
Amends the Public Health Service Act to allow a community health center to contract with a federally certified rural health clinic for the delivery of primary health care services to individuals who would otherwise be eligible for free or reduced cost care if they were able to obtain it at the community health center.
 
Directs the Comptroller General to report to Congress on the diabetes education and medical nutrition therapy counseling services provided by federally qualified health clinics.
 
Directs the Secretary to establish a demonstration project of grants to states to examine whether health care professionals can be recruited or retained to work in underserved rural areas by providing them with medical malpractice subsidies.
 
States that a rural health clinic qualified under Medicare or Medicaid may be defined and certified by the Secretary as rural even if it fails to satisfy the requirement that it not be located in an urbanized area.
 
Amends SSA title XVIII to establish the minimum Medicare Advantage plan payment rate for services furnished by a rural health clinic.
 
Expresses the sense of the Senate concerning the adequacy of network-based health plans.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-10-22
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2009-10-21
text: Referred to House Ways and Means
action_date: 2009-10-21
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: 2009-10-21
text: Referred to House Energy and Commerce
action_date: 2009-10-21
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-10-21
text: Introduced in House
Removing Reward for Section 8 Fraud Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-3897
Sponsor: Rep. Gallegly, Elton [R-CA-24]
Introduced: 2009-10-21 in the House
Policy area: Housing and Community Development
Subjects: Low- and moderate-income housing
Poverty and welfare assistance
Public housing

Summary:
action_date: 2009-10-21
text: 
Removing Reward for Section 8 Fraud Act of 2009 - Amends the United States Housing Act of 1937 to apply to a family residing in a dwelling unit covered by a contract for project-based rental (voucher) assistance under section 8 certain requirements for treatment of families whose welfare or public assistance benefits are reduced under a federal, state, or local law because of: (1) the failure of a family member to comply with requirements to participate in an economic self-sufficiency program or engage in work activities; or (2) an act of fraud by a family member.
 

 

 

 

 



Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-10-21
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2009-10-21
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-10-21
text: Introduced in House
Small Business Property Reinvestment Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-3898
Sponsor: Rep. Kratovil, Frank,  Jr. [D-MD-1]
Introduced: 2009-10-22 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Business investment and capital
Income tax deductions

Summary:
action_date: 2009-10-22
text: 
Small Business Property Reinvestment Act of 2009 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to extend through 2010 the increased expensing allowance for depreciable business assets.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-10-22
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2009-10-22
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-10-22
text: Introduced in House
To extend temporarily the duty on 1,3-bis(4-aminophenoxy)benzene (RODA).

Bill: 111-hr-3899
Sponsor: Rep. Olson, Pete [R-TX-22]
Introduced: 2009-10-22 in the House
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Tariffs

Summary:
action_date: 2009-10-22
text: Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to extend temporarily the duty on 1,3-bis(4-aminophenoxy)benzene (RODA).

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-10-22
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2009-10-22
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-10-22
text: Introduced in House
To extend temporarily the duty suspension on 4,4'-Oxydiphthalic anhydride (ODPA).

Bill: 111-hr-3900
Sponsor: Rep. Olson, Pete [R-TX-22]
Introduced: 2009-10-22 in the House
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Tariffs

Summary:
action_date: 2009-10-22
text: Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to extend temporarily the duty suspension on 4,4'-Oxydiphthalic anhydride (ODPA).

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-10-22
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2009-10-22
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-10-22
text: Introduced in House
Homebuyer Tax Credit Improvement Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-3901
Sponsor: Rep. Lewis, John [D-GA-5]
Introduced: 2009-10-22 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Fraud offenses and financial crimes
Housing finance and home ownership
Income tax credits
Marriage and family status
Tax administration and collection, taxpayers

Summary:
action_date: 2009-10-22
text: 
Homebuyer Tax Credit Improvement Act of 2009 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code, with respect to the first-time homebuyer tax credit, to: (1) deny such credit to taxpayers under the age of 18; (2) require a taxpayer claiming such credit to attach to their returns a properly executed copy of the settlement statement used to purchase their residence; and (3) prohibit a credit for residences acquired from a spouse.
 
Requires tax return preparers to file tax returns electronically unless they reasonably expect to file 100 or fewer individual income returns in a calendar year.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-10-22
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2009-10-22
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-10-22
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to extend the first-time homebuyer tax credit and to eliminate the first-time homebuyer requirement and increase the adjusted gross income limitations with respect to such credit, and for other purposes.

Bill: 111-hr-3902
Sponsor: Rep. Heller, Dean [R-NV-2]
Introduced: 2009-10-22 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Housing finance and home ownership
Income tax credits
Military personnel and dependents
Tax administration and collection, taxpayers

Summary:
action_date: 2009-10-22
text: 
Amends Internal Revenue Code provisions relating to the first-time homebuyer tax credit to: (1) extend such credit to all purchasers of a principal residence (currently, limited to first-time homebuyers); (2) extend such credit and its waiver of recapture provisions (for sales of principal residences before the required holding period) through June 30, 2010; (3) extend through December 31, 2009, the election to treat, for tax purposes, a residence purchased in 2009 as having been purchased on December 31, 2008; (4) allow taxpayers to treat, for tax purposes, a residence purchased after December 31, 2009, and before July 1, 2010, as having been purchased on December 31, 2009; (5) increase adjusted gross income thresholds for determining eligibility for such credit; and (6) allow a waiver of recapture for members of the Armed Forces who are relocated.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-10-22
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2009-10-22
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-10-22
text: Introduced in House
Securing Tomorrow by Saving Today Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-3903
Sponsor: Rep. Rehberg, Denny [R-MT-At Large]
Introduced: 2009-10-22 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Bank accounts, deposits, capital
Employee benefits and pensions
Income tax deferral
Income tax exclusion
Interest, dividends, interest rates

Summary:
action_date: 2009-10-22
text: 
Securing Tomorrow by Saving Today Act of 2009 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) allow an exclusion from gross income of interest earned on deposits with certain financial institutions; (2) allow increased contributions, including catch-up contributions, to retirement plans in 2009, 2010, and 2011; and (3) suspend minimum distribution requirements from tax-deferred pension plans and individual retirement accounts between 2008 and 2013.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-10-22
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2009-10-22
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-10-22
text: Introduced in House
Overdraft Protection Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-3904
Sponsor: Rep. Maloney, Carolyn B. [D-NY-14]
Introduced: 2009-10-22 in the House
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Bank accounts, deposits, capital
Banking and financial institutions regulation
Congressional oversight
Consumer affairs
Consumer credit
Federal Reserve System
Marketing and advertising

Summary:
action_date: 2009-10-22
text: 
 Overdraft Protection Act of 2009 - Amends the Truth in Lending Act to prohibit a depository institution from engaging in unfair or deceptive acts or practices in connection with overdraft coverage, or in acts designed to evade the provisions of this Act.
 
Requires each depository institution that provides overdraft coverage for transaction accounts to clearly and conspicuously disclose overdraft coverage fees.
 
Subjects overdraft coverage fees to the consumer's written, electronic, or other consent.
 
Requires a depository institution to provide specified consumer disclosures regarding its overdraft protection program, including: (1) periodic statements for any transaction account that has an overdraft coverage program feature; and (2) prompt notification of the account's overdraft status.
 
Prescribes overdraft coverage fee limits.
 
Prohibits an overdraft coverage fee if the overdraft results solely from a debit hold amount that exceeds the actual dollar amount of the transaction. 
 
Requires a depository institution to provide consumers who have not consented to participate in an overdraft coverage program transaction accounts with the same terms as those provided to consumers who have consented to participate in such program.
 
Prohibits a depository institution from charging a non-sufficient fund fee for any transaction at an automated teller machine, or a debit card transaction.
 
Prohibits a depository institution from reporting negative information regarding consumer use of overdraft coverage to any consumer reporting agency when the overdraft amounts and coverage fees are paid under the terms of an overdraft coverage program.
 



Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-10-22
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2009-10-22
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-10-22
text: Introduced in House
Estate Tax Relief Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-3905
Sponsor: Rep. Berkley, Shelley [D-NV-1]
Introduced: 2009-10-22 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Inflation and prices
Transfer and inheritance taxes

Summary:
action_date: 2009-10-22
text: 
Estate Tax Relief Act of 2009 - Repeals provisions of the Economic Growth and Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2001 (EGTRRA) eliminating the tax on estates and generation-skipping transfers and the step-up in basis provisions for property acquired from a decedent for estates of decedents dying after 2009. Declares that the sunset provision (general terminating date of December 10, 2010) of EGTRRA shall not apply to title V of such Act (Estate, Gift, and Generation-Skipping Transfer Tax Provisions). 
 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) allow annual increases in the estate tax exclusion amount until it reaches $5 million in 2019 and inflation adjustments to such amount after 2019; and (2) phase in annual reductions in the estate tax rate between 2009 and 2019 (45% to 35% in 2019 and thereafter) and eliminate the deduction for state estate, inheritance, legacy, or succession taxes over the same period.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-10-22
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2009-10-22
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-10-22
text: Introduced in House
To amend title 38, United States Code, to authorize appropriations for the Department of Veterans Affairs program to provide financial assistance for supportive services for very low-income veteran families in permanent housing.

Bill: 111-hr-3906
Sponsor: Rep. Teague, Harry [D-NM-2]
Introduced: 2009-10-22 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Department of Veterans Affairs
Executive agency funding and structure
Veterans' loans, housing, homeless programs

Summary:
action_date: 2009-10-22
text: 
Authorizes appropriations for the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) for FY2012 and thereafter for a program of financial assistance to provide supportive services (outreach, case management, assistance in obtaining benefits) for very low-income veteran families occupying permanent housing. (Under current law, such program's authorization terminates at the end of FY2011.)


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-10-23
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2009-10-22
text: Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2009-10-22
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-10-22
text: Introduced in House
Pet Safety and Protection Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-3907
Sponsor: Rep. Doyle, Michael F. [D-PA-14]
Introduced: 2009-10-22 in the House
Policy area: Animals
Subjects: Animal protection and human-animal relationships
Medical research

Summary:
action_date: 2009-10-22
text: 
Pet Safety and Protection Act of 2009 - Amends the Animal Welfare Act to list permissible sources of dogs and cats used by research facilities to include dogs and cats obtained: (1) from a licensed dealer; (2) from a publicly owned and operated pound or shelter that meets specified requirements; (3) by donation from a person who bred and raised the dog or cat or owned it for not less than one year; or (4) from a research facility licensed by the Secretary of Agriculture. Sets forth additional monetary penalties for related violations. 
 
Prohibits federal facilities from purchasing or otherwise acquiring dogs or cats for exhibition purposes (currently, for research, experimentation, or exhibition purposes) except from: (1) the operator of an auction that comports with legal requirements; or (2) a person holding a valid dealer or exhibitor license.
 
Prohibits dealers from selling or otherwise providing any research facility (currently, any individual or entity) with random source dogs or cats unless specified certification requirements are met.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-06-18
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Livestock, Dairy, and Poultry.
action_date: 2009-10-22
text: Referred to the House Committee on Agriculture.
action_date: 2009-10-22
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E2613)
action_date: 2009-10-22
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-10-22
text: Introduced in House
Families of Disabled Veterans Work Opportunity Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-3908
Sponsor: Rep. Halvorson, Deborah L. [D-IL-11]
Introduced: 2009-10-22 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Disability and paralysis
Family relationships
Income tax credits
Veterans' education, employment, rehabilitation
Wages and earnings

Summary:
action_date: 2009-10-22
text: 
Families of Disabled Veterans Work Opportunity Act of 2009 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow a work opportunity tax credit for wages paid to a certified family member of a veteran with a service-connected disability who is unable to work.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-10-22
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2009-10-22
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-10-22
text: Introduced in House
Renewable Energy Investment Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-3909
Sponsor: Rep. Halvorson, Deborah L. [D-IL-11]
Introduced: 2009-10-22 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Air quality
Alternative and renewable resources
Business investment and capital
Electric power generation and transmission
Energy research
Income tax credits
Motor fuels
Research administration and funding
Research and development
Sales and excise taxes
Securities

Summary:
action_date: 2009-10-22
text: 
Renewable Energy Investment Act of 2009 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) extend through 2014 the tax credit for producing electricity from renewable resources; (2) increase and extend through 2014 the authority for issuing new clean renewable energy bonds; (3) extend through 2018 the energy tax credit for investment in solar energy and fuel cell property, small wind energy property, and geothermal heat pump systems; (4) increase the energy tax credit for investment in advanced energy facilities; and (5) extend through 2011 the income and excise tax credits for alcohol fuels, biodiesel, and renewable diesel.
 
Authorizes appropriations for advanced biofuels research, development, and demonstration that will create fuels that are fungible in existing infrastructure. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-10-26
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Environment.
action_date: 2009-10-22
text: Referred to House Science and Technology
action_date: 2009-10-22
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Science and Technology, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2009-10-22
text: Referred to House Ways and Means
action_date: 2009-10-22
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-10-22
text: Introduced in House
Longline Catcher Processor Subsector Single Fishery Cooperative Act

Bill: 111-hr-3910
Sponsor: Rep. Larsen, Rick [D-WA-2]
Introduced: 2009-10-22 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Alaska
Bering Sea
Endangered and threatened species
Marine and coastal resources, fisheries
Pacific Ocean

Summary:
action_date: 2009-10-22
text: 
Longline Catcher Processor Subsector Single Fishery Cooperative Act - Authorizes the Secretary of Commerce, upon the request of eligible members of the longline catcher processor subsector holding at least 80 percent of the licenses issued for that subsector, to approve a single fishery cooperative for the longline catcher processor subsector in the Bering Sea and Aleutian Islands Management Area (BSAI).
 
Requires an approved cooperative to include a limitation prohibiting any eligible member from harvesting a total of more than 20% of the Pacific cod available to be harvested in the longline catcher processor subsector, the violation of which is subject to the penalties under section the Magnuson-Stevens Act. Excepts from such limitation harvest amounts from quota assigned explicitly to a western Alaska community development quota group.
 
Provides procedures for the submission of a contract by the longline catcher processor subsector to implement the single fishery cooperative and Department of Justice review.
 
Sets forth BSAI Pacific cod harvest and prohibited species allocations for a single fishery cooperative approved under this Act and eligible members that operate in a non-cooperative limited access fishery.
 
Authorizes the North Pacific Fishery Management Council to recommend for approval by the Secretary harvest limitations of Pacific cod by the longline catcher processor subsector in the Western Gulf of Alaska and the Central Gulf of Alaska necessary to protect coastal communities and other Gulf of Alaska participants from potential competitive advantages provided by this Act to the longline catcher processor subsector.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-07-27
text: Subcommittee Hearings Held.
action_date: 2009-10-26
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Insular Affairs, Oceans and Wildlife.
action_date: 2009-10-22
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2009-10-22
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-10-22
text: Introduced in House
Osteoporosis Early Detection and Prevention Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-3911
Sponsor: Rep. Maloney, Carolyn B. [D-NY-14]
Introduced: 2009-10-22 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Department of Health and Human Services
Digestive and metabolic diseases
Drug therapy
Employee benefits and pensions
Health care costs and insurance
Health care coverage and access
Medical tests and diagnostic methods
Musculoskeletal and skin diseases

Summary:
action_date: 2009-10-22
text: 
Osteoporosis Early Detection and Prevention Act of 2009 - Amends the Public Health Service Act and the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA) to require a group health plan to include coverage for bone mass measurement for individuals who: (1) are at a clinical risk for osteoporosis, including estrogen-deficient women; (2) have vertebral abnormalities; (3) are receiving chemotherapy or long-term gluococorticoid (steroid) therapy; (4) have primary hyperparathyroidism, hyperthyroidism, or excess thyroid replacement; or (5) are being monitored to assess the response to or efficacy of approved osteoporosis drug therapy. 
 
Requires the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) to establish standards regulating the frequency with which individuals are eligible to be provided this benefit. Prohibits specified actions by health care plans to discourage the use of this benefit. 
 
Applies these requirements to coverage offered in the individual market. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-12-08
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2009-10-23
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2009-10-22
text: Referred to House Education and Labor
action_date: 2009-10-22
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Education and Labor, 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: 2009-10-22
text: Referred to House Energy and Commerce
action_date: 2009-10-22
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E2611-2612)
action_date: 2009-10-22
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-10-22
text: Introduced in House