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Teri Zenner Social Worker Safety Act

Bill: 111-hr-1490
Sponsor: Rep. Moore, Dennis [D-KS-3]
Introduced: 2009-03-12 in the House
Policy area: Social Welfare
Subjects: Drug, alcohol, tobacco use
Mental health
Social work, volunteer service, charitable organizations
Worker safety and health

Summary:
action_date: 2009-03-12
text: 
Teri Zenner Social Worker Safety Act - Authorizes the Secretary of Health and Human Services, through the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, to award grants to states to provide safety measures to social workers and other professionals working with violent, drug-using, or other at-risk populations. 
 
Authorizes such grants to be used to provide or support: (1) the procurement and installation of safety equipment, including communications systems to assist agencies in locating staff, and technical assistance and training for safety communications; (2) training exercises for self-defense and crisis management; (3) facility safety improvements; (4) provision of pepper spray for self-defense; (5) training in cultural competency and on strategies for de-escalating a situation that could turn volatile; (6) training to help workers who work with mentally ill communities and who need help coping; and (7) educational resources and materials to train staff on safety and awareness measures.
 
Directs the Secretary to establish guidelines for assuring the cost-effectiveness and quality of the safety measures funded. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-05-14
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Healthy Families and Communities.
action_date: 2009-03-12
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and Labor.
action_date: 2009-03-12
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-03-12
text: Introduced in House
Securing Equity for the Economic Development of Low Income Areas Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-1491
Sponsor: Rep. Moore, Gwen [D-WI-4]
Introduced: 2009-03-12 in the House
Policy area: Commerce
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Business investment and capital
Economic development
Executive agency funding and structure
Financial services and investments
Government lending and loan guarantees
Government studies and investigations
Manufacturing
Public contracts and procurement
Small Business Administration
Small business

Summary:
action_date: 2009-03-12
text: 
Securing Equity for the Economic Development of Low Income Areas Act of 2009 - Amends the Small Business Investment Act of 1958 to direct the Administrator of the Small Business Administration (SBA), in selecting companies to participate in the New Markets Venture Capital Program (Program), to select at least one company from each geographic region of the SBA. Requires (current law authorizes) the Administrator to make grants to such companies to be used for loans to new-market small businesses, and to guarantee debentures issued by such companies.
 
Establishes the Office of New Markets Venture Capital, headed by a Director, to administer the Program.
 
Revises the definition of &quot;low income geographic area&quot; for Program eligibility purposes.
 
Requires a study by the SBA's Chief Counsel for Advocacy on the availability of equity capital in low-income urban and rural areas.
 
Authorizes operational assistance grants to conditionally approved companies.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-03-12
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Finance and Tax.
action_date: 2009-03-12
text: Referred to the House Committee on Small Business.
action_date: 2009-03-12
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-03-12
text: Introduced in House
To establish a pilot program to provide assistance for partnerships supporting applied sciences in renewable energy.

Bill: 111-hr-1492
Sponsor: Rep. Murphy, Patrick J. [D-PA-8]
Introduced: 2009-03-12 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Alternative and renewable resources
Education programs funding
Educational facilities and institutions
Elementary and secondary education
Higher education
Science and engineering education
Teaching, teachers, curricula

Summary:
action_date: 2009-03-12
text: 
Directs the Secretary of Energy to establish a research pilot program for awarding grants to certain partnerships to improve education and training in support of applied sciences in renewable energy as part of a comprehensive program to enhance the quality of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics instruction at the secondary school and undergraduate levels of education. Describes what activities grants may be used for and the types of partnerships to which grants shall be awarded. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-03-12
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and Labor.
action_date: 2009-03-12
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-03-12
text: Introduced in House
Quality Health Care Coalition Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-1493
Sponsor: Rep. Paul, Ron [R-TX-14]
Introduced: 2009-03-12 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Competition and antitrust
Contracts and agency
Health care costs and insurance
Health personnel

Summary:
action_date: 2009-03-12
text: 
Quality Health Care Coalition Act of 2009 - Exempts health care professionals from federal antitrust laws in connection with negotiations with a health plan regarding contract terms under which the professionals provide health care items or services for which plan benefits are provided.
 
Declares that this Act: (1) applies only to health care professionals excluded from the National Labor Relations Act; and (2) does not apply to such negotiations relating to Medicare or Medicaid programs, the State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP), medical and dental care for members of the uniformed services, veterans' medical care, the federal employees health benefits program, or the Indian Health Care Improvement Act.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-04-27
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Courts and Competition Policy.
action_date: 2009-03-12
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2009-03-12
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E655-656)
action_date: 2009-03-12
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-03-12
text: Introduced in House
Nursing Home Emergency Assistance Act

Bill: 111-hr-1494
Sponsor: Rep. Paul, Ron [R-TX-14]
Introduced: 2009-03-12 in the House
Policy area: Emergency Management
Subjects: Aging
Disaster relief and insurance
Health facilities and institutions
Long-term, rehabilitative, and terminal care

Summary:
action_date: 2009-03-12
text: 
Nursing Home Emergency Assistance Act - Amends the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act to allow the President to provide reimbursement to private for-profit nursing homes for damages and expenses from a major disaster or emergency. Requires that such nursing homes: (1) be located within 30 miles of the disaster or emergency; and (2) have acted during the disaster or emergency in accordance with any relevant requirements applicable to private nonprofit nursing homes seeking reimbursement. Limits the amount of reimbursement to not greater than the amount available under such Act to a public or private nonprofit nursing home for similar damages or expenses after a disaster or emergency.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-03-13
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Economic Development, Public Buildings and Emergency Management.
action_date: 2009-03-12
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2009-03-12
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E659)
action_date: 2009-03-12
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-03-12
text: Introduced in House
Comprehensive Health Care Reform Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-1495
Sponsor: Rep. Paul, Ron [R-TX-14]
Introduced: 2009-03-12 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Employee benefits and pensions
Health care costs and insurance
Income tax credits
Income tax deductions
Income tax exclusion

Summary:
action_date: 2009-03-12
text: 
Comprehensive Health Care Reform Act of 2009 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) revise the tax credit for the health insurance costs of a taxpayer, the taxpayer's spouse, and dependents to increase the amount of, and expand eligibility criteria for, such credit; (2) permit up to $500 of unused health benefits under a health flexible spending arrangement to be carried over to a succeeding plan year or paid directly to an employee as compensation; (3) revise the tax deduction for payments to a health savings account to eliminate the requirement for coverage under a high deductible health plan; and (4) repeal the 7.5% threshold limitation on the tax deduction of medical and dental expenses.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-03-12
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2009-03-12
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E650)
action_date: 2009-03-12
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-03-12
text: Introduced in House
Child Health Care Affordability Act

Bill: 111-hr-1496
Sponsor: Rep. Paul, Ron [R-TX-14]
Introduced: 2009-03-12 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Cancer
Child health
Disability and paralysis
Family relationships
Health care costs and insurance
Hospital care
Income tax credits
Income tax deductions
Inflation and prices
Long-term, rehabilitative, and terminal care

Summary:
action_date: 2009-03-12
text: 
Child Health Care Affordability Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow a tax credit for the medical expenses of a dependent. Limits the amount of such credit to $500 (adjusted for inflation) per dependent. Increases the amount of the credit to $3,000 (adjusted for inflation) for a dependent who has a terminal disease, cancer, a disability, or any other health condition requiring hospitalization or other forms of specialized care. (Coordinates the credit allowed by this Act with the income tax credit for household and dependent care expenses and the income tax deduction for medical expenses to prevent a double tax benefit.)


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-03-12
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2009-03-12
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E653)
action_date: 2009-03-12
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-03-12
text: Introduced in House
Treat Physicians Fairly Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-1497
Sponsor: Rep. Paul, Ron [R-TX-14]
Introduced: 2009-03-12 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Emergency medical services and trauma care
Health care costs and insurance
Health facilities and institutions
Health personnel
Hospital care
Income tax credits
Income tax deductions

Summary:
action_date: 2009-03-12
text: 
Treat Physicians Fairly Act of 2009 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow medical care providers a tax credit and hospitals a tax deduction for all uncompensated emergency medical care which is not paid within six months after such care is provided.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-03-12
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2009-03-12
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E657)
action_date: 2009-03-12
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-03-12
text: Introduced in House
Freedom From Unnecessary Litigation Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-1498
Sponsor: Rep. Paul, Ron [R-TX-14]
Introduced: 2009-03-12 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Alternative dispute resolution, mediation, arbitration
Civil actions and liability
Health care costs and insurance
Health care quality
Income tax credits
Income tax deductions
Surgery and anesthesia

Summary:
action_date: 2009-03-12
text: Freedom From Unnecessary Litigation Act of 2009 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) allow a tax credit for insurance purchased to cover the costs of a negative outcome from surgery, including negative outcomes caused by physician malpractice; and (2) exclude from gross income medical malpractice awards granted in binding arbitration.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-03-12
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2009-03-12
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E665)
action_date: 2009-03-12
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-03-12
text: Introduced in House
Firefighter Fatality Reduction Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-1499
Sponsor: Rep. Perlmutter, Ed [D-CO-7]
Introduced: 2009-03-12 in the House
Policy area: Emergency Management
Subjects: Advisory bodies
Fires
Government studies and investigations
Worker safety and health

Summary:
action_date: 2009-03-12
text: 
Firefighter Fatality Reduction Act of 2009 - Directs the Secretary of Homeland Security to conduct a survey of, and report to Congress on, the compliance of fire departments in the United States with national voluntary consensus standards for staffing, training, safe operations, personal protective equipment, and fitness. 
 
Requires the Secretary to establish a Task Force to Enhance Firefighter Safety to: (1) consult with the Secretary to conduct such survey; and (2) develop a plan to enhance firefighter safety by increasing compliance with such standards, including by reviewing and evaluating the report to determine the extent of and barriers to achieving compliance and by considering ways the federal government, states, and localities can promote, encourage, or require compliance.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-03-17
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Technology and Innovation.
action_date: 2009-03-12
text: Referred to the House Committee on Science and Technology.
action_date: 2009-03-12
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-03-12
text: Introduced in House
Helping Families Afford to Work Act

Bill: 111-hr-1500
Sponsor: Rep. Peters, Gary C. [D-MI-9]
Introduced: 2009-03-12 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Adult day care
Child care and development
Income tax credits

Summary:
action_date: 2009-03-12
text: 
Helping Families Afford to Work Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code relating to the dependent care tax credit to: (1) increase from $15,000 to $20,000 the income threshold at which the rate of such credit is reduced; (2) increase the rate of such credit from 35 to 50%; (3) increase the maximum dollar amount of such credit; and (4) make such credit refundable. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-03-12
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2009-03-12
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-03-12
text: Introduced in House
Puerto Rico Medicare Reimbursement Equity Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-1501
Sponsor: Resident Commissioner Pierluisi, Pedro R. [D-PR-At Large]
Introduced: 2009-03-12 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Caribbean area
Health facilities and institutions
Hospital care
Medicare
Puerto Rico
U.S. territories and protectorates

Summary:
action_date: 2009-03-12
text: 
Puerto Rico Medicare Reimbursement Equity Act of 2009 - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to revise the formula for the Medicare inpatient hospital services payment rate for Puerto Rico hospitals to: (1) reduce the applicable Puerto Rico percentage from 25% to zero; and (2) increase the applicable federal percentage from 75% to 100%.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-03-12
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2009-03-12
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-03-12
text: Introduced in House
Puerto Rico Hospitals Medicare DSH Equity Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-1502
Sponsor: Resident Commissioner Pierluisi, Pedro R. [D-PR-At Large]
Introduced: 2009-03-12 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Caribbean area
Health facilities and institutions
Hospital care
Medicare
Puerto Rico
U.S. territories and protectorates

Summary:
action_date: 2009-03-12
text: 
Puerto Rico Hospitals Medicare DSH Equity Act of 2009 - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to prescribe a formula for the calculation of Medicare disproportionate share hospital (DSH) payments for prospective payment system hospitals in Puerto Rico.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-03-12
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2009-03-12
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-03-12
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to require the principal campaign committee of a candidate for election to the office of President to include with the committee's statement of organization a copy of the candidate's birth certificate, together with such other documentation as may be necessary to establish that the candidate meets the qualifications for eligibility to the Office of President under the Constitution.

Bill: 111-hr-1503
Sponsor: Rep. Posey, Bill [R-FL-15]
Introduced: 2009-03-12 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Elections, voting, political campaign regulation
Government information and archives
Presidents and presidential powers, Vice Presidents

Summary:
action_date: 2009-03-12
text: 
Amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to require the principal campaign committee of a candidate for election to the Office of President to include with the committee's statement of organization a copy of the candidate's birth certificate, together with such other documentation as may be necessary to establish that the candidate meets the qualifications for eligibility to the Office of President under the Constitution. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-03-12
text: Referred to the House Committee on House Administration.
action_date: 2009-03-12
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-03-12
text: Introduced in House
To require that, in the questionnaires used in the taking of any decennial census of population, a checkbox or other similar option be included so that respondents may indicate Dominican extraction or descent.

Bill: 111-hr-1504
Sponsor: Rep. Rangel, Charles B. [D-NY-15]
Introduced: 2009-03-12 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Caribbean area
Census and government statistics
Dominican Republic
Latin America

Summary:
action_date: 2009-03-12
text: 
Requires the Secretary of Commerce to include in any questionnaire used in a decennial census to determine state populations an option for respondents to indicate Dominican extraction or descent.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-05-04
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Information Policy, Census, and National Archives.
action_date: 2009-03-12
text: Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.
action_date: 2009-03-12
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-03-12
text: Introduced in House
Birth Parent Assistance Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-1505
Sponsor: Rep. Schmidt, Jean [R-OH-2]
Introduced: 2009-03-12 in the House
Policy area: Families
Subjects: Adoption and foster care
Family relationships
Health personnel
Health programs administration and funding
Mental health
Social work, volunteer service, charitable organizations

Summary:
action_date: 2009-03-12
text: 
Birth Parent Assistance Act of 2009 - Authorizes the Secretary of Health and Human Services to provide certain services for birth parents who have placed a child for adoption, either directly or by grant to or contract with state or local governmental entities or public or private agencies or organizations, including licensed child welfare or adoption agencies or adoptive family groups and faith-based organizations.
 
Specifies such services for birth parents as: (1) post-legal adoption services; (2) individual, group, and family counseling; and (3) training of mental health professionals, social workers, and staff at hospitals and other appropriate birth care facilities relating to their interaction with birth parents and adoptive families.
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-03-12
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and Labor.
action_date: 2009-03-12
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-03-12
text: Introduced in House
To provide that claims of the United States to certain documents relating to Franklin Delano Roosevelt shall be treated as waived and relinquished in certain circumstances.

Bill: 111-hr-1506
Sponsor: Rep. Slaughter, Louise McIntosh [D-NY-28]
Introduced: 2009-03-12 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Government information and archives
Presidential administrations
U.S. history

Summary:
action_date: 2009-03-12
text: 
Requires any claim of the United States to certain property relating to Franklin Delano Roosevelt, his family, or staff to be treated as having been waived and relinquished on the day before any person makes a gift of such property to the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA).
 
 Describes such property as any part of the collection of documents, papers, and memorabilia relating to Roosevelt or any member of his family or staff that was in the possession of Grace Tully and retained by her at the time of her death.
 
Specifies that the date of such gift is any date after the physical delivery of the property to NARA as specified by the donor.

action_date: 2009-11-16
text: 

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

Requires any claim of the United States to certain property relating to Franklin Delano Roosevelt, his family, or staff to be treated as having been waived and relinquished on the day before any person makes a gift of such property to the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA).

 Describes such property as any part of the collection of documents, papers, and memorabilia relating to Roosevelt or any member of his family or staff that was in the possession of Grace Tully and retained by her at the time of her death.

Specifies that the date of such gift is any date after the physical delivery of the property to NARA as specified by the donor.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-12-11
text: Read twice. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 226.
action_date: 2009-11-17
text: Received in the Senate.
action_date: 2009-11-16
text: Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
action_date: 2009-11-16
text: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill Agreed to by voice vote. (text: CR H12977)
action_date: 2009-11-16
text: Passed/agreed to in House: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill Agreed to by voice vote.(text: CR H12977)
action_date: 2009-11-16
text: DEBATE - The House proceeded with forty minutes of debate on H.R. 1506.
action_date: 2009-11-16
text: Considered under suspension of the rules. (consideration: CR H12977-12978)
action_date: 2009-11-16
text: Mr. Lynch moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill.
action_date: 2009-10-29
text: Ordered to be Reported by Voice Vote.
action_date: 2009-10-29
text: Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
action_date: 2009-03-12
text: Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.
action_date: 2009-03-12
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-03-12
text: Introduced in House