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Paperless Enrollment for School Meals Act of 2009

Bill: 111-s-1226
Sponsor: Sen. Casey, Robert P., Jr. [D-PA]
Introduced: 2009-06-10 in the Senate
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Department of Agriculture
Education of the disadvantaged
Elementary and secondary education
Food assistance and relief
Poverty and welfare assistance

Summary:
action_date: 2009-06-10
text: 
Paperless Enrollment for School Meals Act of 2009 - Amends the Richard B. Russell National School Lunch Act to allow schools and local educational agencies (LEAs) to receive special assistance payments for free or reduced price meals under the school lunch or breakfast programs that are based not on applications for such meals, but on estimates of the number of children eligible for such meals.
 
Requires such estimates to be derived from recent data, such as survey, welfare, or tax data.
 
Permits schools and LEAs from high poverty areas to receive special assistance payments for free or reduced price meals that are not based on applications, if they directly certify a specified minimum percentage of their students as eligible for free meals due to such students' eligibility for certain other public assistance. Reimburses such schools and LEAs pursuant to a formula that factors in the percentage of students directly certified as eligible for free meals.
 
Requires schools and LEAs reimbursed on the basis of estimates or certifications to provide free meals to all their students under the school lunch and breakfast programs and cover, from nonfederal sources, the costs of serving such meals that exceed the assistance received under such programs.
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-06-10
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry. (text of measure as introduced: CR S6457-6458)
action_date: 2009-06-10
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S6457)
action_date: 2009-06-10
text: Introduced in Senate
Truth in Employment Act of 2009

Bill: 111-s-1227
Sponsor: Sen. DeMint, Jim [R-SC]
Introduced: 2009-06-10 in the Senate
Policy area: Labor and Employment
Subjects: Employment discrimination and employee rights
Labor-management relations

Summary:
action_date: 2009-06-10
text: 
Truth in Employment Act of 2009 - Amends the National Labor Relations Act to provide that nothing in specified prohibitions against unfair labor practices by employers shall be construed as requiring an employer to employ any person who seeks or has sought employment with the employer in furtherance of other employment or agency status. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-06-10
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2009-06-10
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to amend chapter 63 of title 5, United States Code, to modify the rate of accrual of annual leave for administrative law judges,  contract appeals board members, and immigration judges.

Bill: 111-s-1228
Sponsor: Sen. Akaka, Daniel K. [D-HI]
Introduced: 2009-06-10 in the Senate
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Employee leave
Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management
Judges

Summary:
action_date: 2009-06-10
text: 
Modifies the rate of accrual of annual leave for administrative law judges, contract appeals board members, and immigration judges to require accrual of one day of annual leave for each full biweekly pay period.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-07-16
text: Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs referred to Subcommittee on Oversight of Government Management, the Federal Workforce, and the District of Columbia.
action_date: 2009-06-10
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. (text of measure as introduced: CR S6459)
action_date: 2009-06-10
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S6458-6459)
action_date: 2009-06-10
text: Introduced in Senate
Home Buyer Tax Credit Act of 2009

Bill: 111-s-1230
Sponsor: Sen. Isakson, Johnny [R-GA]
Introduced: 2009-06-10 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Housing finance and home ownership
Income tax credits

Summary:
action_date: 2009-06-10
text: 
Home Buyer Tax Credit Act of 2009 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to replace the current tax credit for first-time homebuyers with a one-time credit for 10% of the purchase price of a principal residence, up to $15,000. Requires repayment of credit amounts if the taxpayer sells or fails to occupy the residence within 24 months after the date of purchase.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-06-10
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2009-06-10
text: Introduced in Senate
action_date: 2009-06-09
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S6355-6356)
Standards to Provide Educational Achievement for Kids Act

Bill: 111-s-1231
Sponsor: Sen. Dodd, Christopher J. [D-CT]
Introduced: 2009-06-10 in the Senate
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Academic performance and assessments
Education programs funding
Elementary and secondary education
Government information and archives
Science and engineering education
Teaching, teachers, curricula

Summary:
action_date: 2009-06-10
text: 
Standards to Provide Educational Achievement for Kids Act or the SPEAK Act - Amends the National Assessment of Educational Progress Authorization Act (the Act) to require the Commissioner for Educational Statistics to add science to the mandatory biennial national and state academic achievement assessments of students in grades four, eight, and twelve in reading and mathematics. Amends the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to require states receiving school improvement funds to participate in such science assessments of students in grades four and eight, beginning with the 2010-2011 school year.
 
Amends the Act to task the National Assessment Governing Board with creating or adopting voluntary American education content standards in mathematics and science for kindergarten through grade 12 which reflect the knowledge students need to enter college or the workforce and compete in the global economy.
 
Requires the Secretary of Education to establish the American Standards Incentive fund to award competitive four-year grants to states which agree to: (1) adopt such voluntary mathematics and science standards as the core of their own academic content standards in such subjects; and (2) align their teacher certification and professional development requirements to such standards. Provides additional funds to successful grantees for the enhancement of their student performance data systems.
 
Authorizes the Secretary to extend by two to four years for such grantees the 12-year period at the end of which students must meet or exceed state academic performance standards established under the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965.
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-06-10
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. (text of measure as introduced: CR S6472-6475)
action_date: 2009-06-10
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S6471-6472)
action_date: 2009-06-10
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to modify the prohibition on recognition by United States courts of certain rights relating to certain marks, trade names, or commercial names.

Bill: 111-s-1234
Sponsor: Sen. Lieberman, Joseph I. [ID-CT]
Introduced: 2009-06-11 in the Senate
Policy area: Law
Subjects: Caribbean area
Civil actions and liability
Cuba
Evidence and witnesses
Intellectual property
Jurisdiction and venue
Latin America
Property rights

Summary:
action_date: 2009-06-11
text: 
Amends the Department of Commerce and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 1999 to prohibit U.S. courts from recognizing, enforcing, or otherwise validating any assertion of rights by an individual (under current law, by a designated Cuban national) of a mark, trade name, or commercial name that was used in connection with a business or assets that were confiscated by the Cuban government unless the original owner of such mark or name, or such owner's bona fide successor, has expressly consented. Applies such prohibition only if the individual asserting the rights knew or had reason to know at the time of acquiring the rights asserted that the mark or name was the same or substantially similar to the mark or name used in connection with the business or assets that were confiscated. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-06-11
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2009-06-11
text: Introduced in Senate
Children's Access to Reconstructive Evaluation & Surgery (CARES) Act of 2009

Bill: 111-s-1235
Sponsor: Sen. Landrieu, Mary L. [D-LA]
Introduced: 2009-06-11 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Accidents
Child health
Emergency medical services and trauma care
Employee benefits and pensions
Health care costs and insurance
Health care coverage and access
Hereditary and development disorders
Surgery and anesthesia

Summary:
action_date: 2009-06-11
text: 
Children's Access to Reconstructive Evaluation & Surgery (CARES) Act of 2009 - Amends the Public Health Service Act, the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA), and the Internal Revenue Code to require a group health plan that covers surgical benefits to also cover outpatient and inpatient diagnosis and treatment of a congenital or developmental deformity, disease, or injury of a minor child (defined as child under the age of 22).
 
Requires that such coverage: (1) be subject to pre-authorization or pre-certification requirements of the plan or issuer; and (2) include any surgical treatment deemed by the treating physician to be medically necessary to approximate a normal appearance. Defines &quot;treatment&quot; to include reconstructive surgical procedures that are performed on abnormal structures of the body caused by congenital defects, abnormalities, trauma, infection, tumors, or disease, including: (1) procedures that do not materially affect the function of the body part being treated; and (2) procedures for secondary conditions and follow-up treatment. Excludes cosmetic surgery performed to reshape normal structures of the body to improve appearance or self-esteem. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-06-11
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2009-06-11
text: Introduced in Senate
GPCI Justice Act of 2009

Bill: 111-s-1236
Sponsor: Sen. Feinstein, Dianne [D-CA]
Introduced: 2009-06-11 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: California
Health care costs and insurance
Health personnel
Medicare

Summary:
action_date: 2009-06-11
text: 
GPCI Justice Act of 2009 - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act, with respect to the geographic practice cost index (GPCI) for adjustments to physician fee schedule areas, to direct the Secretary of Health and Human Services to revise the fee schedule areas for California to use the Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA) iterative Geographic Adjustment Factor methodology, in accordance with specified requirements.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-06-11
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. (text of measure as introduced: CR S6545-6546)
action_date: 2009-06-11
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S6545)
action_date: 2009-06-11
text: Introduced in Senate
Green Jobs Improvement Act

Bill: 111-s-1238
Sponsor: Sen. Isakson, Johnny [R-GA]
Introduced: 2009-06-11 in the Senate
Policy area: Labor and Employment
Subjects: Alternative and renewable resources
Employment and training programs
Employment discrimination and employee rights
Energy efficiency and conservation
Environmental technology

Summary:
action_date: 2009-06-11
text: 
Green Jobs Improvement Act - Amends the Workforce Investment Act of 1998 to make nonunion training programs eligible for federal funding under the energy efficiency and renewable energy worker training program (Green Jobs program). Applies certain worker protections and nondiscrimination requirements to such programs.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-06-11
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2009-06-11
text: Introduced in Senate
340B Program Improvement and Integrity Act of 2009

Bill: 111-s-1239
Sponsor: Sen. Bingaman, Jeff [D-NM]
Introduced: 2009-06-11 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Alternative dispute resolution, mediation, arbitration
Child health
Health care costs and insurance
Health care coverage and access
Health information and medical records
Hospital care
Medicaid
Medicare
Prescription drugs
Rural conditions and development

Summary:
action_date: 2009-06-11
text: 
340B Program Improvement and Integrity Act of 2009 - Amends the Public Health Service Act to expand the drug discount program to allow participation as a covered entity by certain: (1) children's hospitals; (2) critical access hospitals; and (3) rural referral centers. Expands the program to include drugs used in connection with an inpatient or outpatient service by enrolled hospitals (currently, only outpatient drugs are covered under the program).
 
Prohibits enrolled hospitals from obtaining covered outpatient drugs through a group purchasing arrangement. Requires the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) to establish reasonable exceptions to such prohibition, including for drugs unavailable through the program and to facilitate generic substitution when a generic covered drug is available at a lower price. 
 
Requires a hospital enrolled in the 340B drug discount program to issue a credit to a state Medicaid program for inpatient drugs provided to Medicaid recipients.
 
Requires the Secretary to: (1) provide for improvements in compliance by manufacturers and covered entities with the requirements of the drug discount program; and (2) establish and implement an administrative process for resolving claims by covered entities and manufacturers of violations of such requirements.
 
Requires manufacturers to offer each covered entity covered drugs for purchase at or below the applicable ceiling price if such a drug is made available to any other purchaser at any price.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-06-11
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. (text of measure as introduced: CR S6546-6548)
action_date: 2009-06-11
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S6546)
action_date: 2009-06-11
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to amend Public Law 106-206 to direct the Secretary of the Interior and the Secretary of Agriculture to require annual permits and assess annual fees for commercial filming activities on Federal land for film crews of 5 persons or fewer.

Bill: 111-s-1241
Sponsor: Sen. Inhofe, James M. [R-OK]
Introduced: 2009-06-11 in the Senate
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: General public lands matters
Licensing and registrations
Television and film
User charges and fees

Summary:
action_date: 2009-06-11
text: 
Directs the Secretary of the Interior and the Secretary of Agriculture (the Secretary), for any film crew of five persons or fewer, to require a permit and assess an annual fee of $200 for commercial filming activities or similar projects on federal lands and waterways administered by the Secretary. Makes such a permit valid for such activities or projects that occur in areas designated for public use during public hours on all federal lands and waterways administered by the Secretary for a 12-month period. 
 
Prohibits the Secretary, for persons holding such a permit, from assessing any additional fee for commercial filming activities and similar projects that occur in those areas during those hours. 
 
Bars the Secretary from prohibiting, as a mechanized apparatus or under any other purposes, the use of cameras or related equipment used for commercial filming activities or similar projects in accordance with this Act on federal lands and waterways administered by the Secretary. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-04-28
text: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources Subcommittee on Public Lands and Forests. Hearings held.
action_date: 2009-06-11
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. (text of measure as introduced: CR S6549)
action_date: 2009-06-11
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S6548-6549)
action_date: 2009-06-11
text: Introduced in Senate
Government Ownership Exit Plan Act of 2009

Bill: 111-s-1242
Sponsor: Sen. Thune, John [R-SD]
Introduced: 2009-06-11 in the Senate
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: Budget deficits and national debt
Civil actions and liability
Congressional oversight
Corporate finance and management
Financial crises and stabilization
Fraud offenses and financial crimes
Government corporations and government-sponsored enterprises
Government ethics and transparency, public corruption
Housing finance and home ownership

Summary:
action_date: 2009-06-11
text: 
Government Ownership Exit Plan Act of 2009 - Prohibits the federal government from acquiring, directly or indirectly, any ownership interest in a troubled asset described in the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008 (EESA) that was purchased from a financial institution by the Secretary of the Treasury.
 
 Requires the Secretary to divest the government of any such interest not later than July 1, 2010, with exceptions allowing ownership interests of not more than six months if: (1) divestiture would have a significant adverse impact on taxpayers; and (2) there is a reasonable expectation that a waiver would allow recovery of the cost of acquiring such interest.
 
Amends EESA to state that the limit of authority to purchase troubled assets is $700 billion (under current law, such limitation, reduced by $1.259 billion, is described as &quot;outstanding at any one time&quot;).
 
Requires all repayments of obligations arising under EESA, and all proceeds from the sale of assets acquired by the government under that Act, to be paid into the general fund of the Treasury for reduction of the public debt.
 
Makes it unlawful for an officer or employee of the executive branch to knowingly make, with the intent to influence, a communication regarding a significant management decision of a recipient of EESA assistance to any officer or employee of the recipient.
 
Makes the Financial Stability Oversight Board responsible for reviewing the ownership interest termination provisions of this Act.
 
Establishes requirements for reports by the Secretary on: (1) ownership interests; (2) plans for compliance with this Act, including for winding down and divestiture; and (3) ending conservatorship and direct ownership by the government of the Federal National Mortgage Association and the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation (Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, respectively).


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-06-11
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.
action_date: 2009-06-11
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S6533-6534, S6549-6550)
action_date: 2009-06-11
text: Introduced in Senate
STAR Act of 2009

Bill: 111-s-1243
Sponsor: Sen. Hatch, Orrin G. [R-UT]
Introduced: 2009-06-11 in the Senate
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: Budget deficits and national debt
Financial crises and stabilization

Summary:
action_date: 2009-06-11
text: 
Stop Tarp Asset Recycling Act of 2009 or the STAR Act of 2009 - Amends the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008 (EESA) to require, beginning upon enactment of this Act, all repayments of funds and all proceeds from the sale of federally-acquired assets under the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) to be used to reduce the public debt.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-06-11
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.
action_date: 2009-06-11
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S6550-6551)
action_date: 2009-06-11
text: Introduced in Senate
Breastfeeding Promotion Act of 2009

Bill: 111-s-1244
Sponsor: Sen. Merkley, Jeff [D-OR]
Introduced: 2009-06-11 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Child health
Department of Health and Human Services
Employment discrimination and employee rights
Health care costs and insurance
Health technology, devices, supplies
Income tax credits
Income tax deductions
Labor standards
Women's employment
Women's health

Summary:
action_date: 2009-06-11
text: 
Breastfeeding Promotion Act of 2009 - Amends the Civil Rights Act of 1964 to include lactation (i.e., breastfeeding or the expressing of milk from the breast) as protected conduct under such Act. 
 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow employers a business-related tax credit for 50% of their qualified breastfeeding promotion and support expenditures, up to $10,000 for any taxable year. Defines &quot;qualified breastfeeding promotion and support expenditures&quot; as business expenses incurred for breast pumps and other equipment specially designed to assist mothers who are breastfeeding their children and for consultation services relating to breastfeeding. Expands the tax deduction for medical expenses to include expenses for breastfeeding equipment and consultation services.
 
Safe and Effective Breast Pumps Act - Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) to: (1) effect a performance standard for breast pumps without regard to their classification under the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act; and (2) issue a compliance policy guide to provide women with information about breast pumps. 
 
Amends the Fair Labor Standards Act to require employers with 50 or more employees to provide their breastfeeding employees with break time and private areas to express breast milk for their nursing children.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-06-11
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2009-06-11
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S6551-6552)
action_date: 2009-06-11
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide a tax credit for property owners who remove lead-based paint hazards.

Bill: 111-s-1245
Sponsor: Sen. Whitehouse, Sheldon [D-RI]
Introduced: 2009-06-11 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Child health
Child safety and welfare
Hazardous wastes and toxic substances
Income tax credits
Residential rehabilitation and home repair

Summary:
action_date: 2009-06-11
text: 
Home Lead Safety Tax Credit Act of 2009 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow a tax credit for 50 percent of the costs of reducing lead hazards in U.S. homes built before 1960 in which certain low-income children less than six years of age and women of child-bearing age reside. Allows a maximum credit of $3,000 for lead abatement costs and $1,000 for the cost of interim lead control measures.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-06-11
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2009-06-11
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S6552)
action_date: 2009-06-11
text: Introduced in Senate