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Medicare Secondary Payer Enhancement Act of 2010

Bill: 111-hr-4796
Sponsor: Rep. Murphy, Patrick J. [D-PA-8]
Introduced: 2010-03-09 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Business records
Civil actions and liability
Government trust funds
Health care costs and insurance
Health information and medical records
Life, casualty, property insurance
Medicare
User charges and fees

Summary:
action_date: 2010-03-09
text: 
Medicare Secondary Payer Enhancement Act of 2010 - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act with respect to any settlement, judgment, award, or other payment between a Medicare claimant and an applicable plan involving a payment made for items and services by the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS). Prescribes requirements for a voluntary calculation and direct reimbursement by a Medicare claimant and an applicable plan to the Hospital Insurance Trust Fund or the Supplementary Medical Insurance Trust Fund, as appropriate, of a conditional payment of Medicare secondary payer claims for settlement purposes. Grants the Secretary the right to contest the amount of any such reimbursement, and the right of the claimant and plan to request a final recovery demand for reimbursement.
 
Declares that requirements to reimburse the appropriate Trust Fund for any payment made by the Secretary with respect to an item or service shall not apply with respect to any settlement, judgment, award, or other payment by an applicable plan: (1) constituting a total payment obligation to a claimant of not more than $5,000; or (2) involving the ongoing responsibility for other medical payments of not more than $5,000.
 
 Changes from mandatory to discretionary the current civil money penalty for failure of an applicable plan to submit certain information to the Secretary with respect to any claimant. Prescribes requirements for the creation of safe harbors from such sanctions.
 
Directs the Secretary to modify reporting requirements for liability insurance (including self-insurance), no fault insurance, and workers' compensation laws and plans so that entities responsible for reporting information are not required to access or report to the Secretary beneficiary Social Security numbers or health identification numbers.
 
Sets a statute of limitations with respect to the recovery of payments by the United States.
 
Establishes $30 user fees, adjusted annually for inflation, for requests submitted to the Secretary for direct conditional payment reimbursement and for final demand of a conditional payment. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-03-09
text: Referred to House Energy and Commerce
action_date: 2010-03-09
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: 2010-03-09
text: Referred to House Ways and Means
action_date: 2010-03-09
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-03-09
text: Introduced in House
Federal Bird-Safe Buildings Act of 2010

Bill: 111-hr-4797
Sponsor: Rep. Quigley, Mike [D-IL-5]
Introduced: 2010-03-09 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Animal protection and human-animal relationships
Birds
Building construction
Government buildings, facilities, and property

Summary:
action_date: 2010-03-09
text: 
Federal Bird-Safe Buildings Act of 2010 - Requires each public building constructed, altered, or acquired by the Administrator of General Services (GSA) to incorporate bird-safe building materials and design features. Directs the Administrator to: (1) incorporate such materials and features into existing public buildings; and (2) address the impacts of interior and exterior lighting on native bird species.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-03-10
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Economic Development, Public Buildings and Emergency Management.
action_date: 2010-03-09
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2010-03-09
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-03-09
text: Introduced in House
Small Community Options for Regulatory Equity Act of 2010

Bill: 111-hr-4798
Sponsor: Rep. Simpson, Michael K. [R-ID-2]
Introduced: 2010-03-09 in the House
Policy area: Water Resources Development
Subjects: Administrative remedies
Hazardous wastes and toxic substances
State and local government operations
Water quality
Water use and supply

Summary:
action_date: 2010-03-09
text: 
Small Community Options for Regulatory Equity Act of 2010 - Amends the Safe Drinking Water Act to require states exercising primary enforcement responsibility for public water systems to exempt any nonprofit small public water system (serving 10,000 or fewer persons) that so requests in accordance with this Act from the requirements of any national primary drinking water regulation for naturally occurring contaminants, including arsenic, radon, radium, uranium, and specified disinfection byproducts.
 
Requires exemption requests to include a finding that the system's compliance with applicable national primary drinking water regulations is not economically feasible. Precludes judicial or administrative review of such findings.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-03-09
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2010-03-09
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-03-09
text: Introduced in House
Retraining a New Health Care Workforce Act of 2010

Bill: 111-hr-4799
Sponsor: Rep. Space, Zachary T. [D-OH-18]
Introduced: 2010-03-09 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Employment and training programs
Health personnel
Licensing and registrations
Medical education
Unemployment

Summary:
action_date: 2010-03-09
text: 
Retraining a New Health Care Workforce Act of 2010 - Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) to develop and submit to Congress within nine months a strategic plan to retrain displaced workers to become health care professionals serving areas with a shortage of the type professionals involved. Requires the plan to include: (1) an overview of national shortages in health care professions; (2) an assessment of how existing federal health care workforce programs may be used to retrain displaced workers; and (3) recommendations for legislative and administrative changes for making such programs more effective.
 
Requires the Secretary to establish a grant program for states to assist displaced workers to become state-licensed or certified health care professionals serving areas with a shortage of health care professionals.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-03-09
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2010-03-09
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-03-09
text: Introduced in House
Restoring Protection to Victims of Persecution Act

Bill: 111-hr-4800
Sponsor: Rep. Stark, Fortney Pete [D-CA-13]
Introduced: 2010-03-10 in the House
Policy area: Immigration
Subjects: Immigration status and procedures
Refugees, asylum, displaced persons

Summary:
action_date: 2010-03-10
text: 
Restoring Protection to Victims of Persecution Act - Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to eliminate the one-year deadline for application for U.S. asylum.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-04-26
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration, Citizenship, Refugees, Border Security, and International Law.
action_date: 2010-03-10
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2010-03-10
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-03-10
text: Introduced in House
Risk Retention Modernization Act of 2010

Bill: 111-hr-4802
Sponsor: Rep. Moore, Dennis [D-KS-3]
Introduced: 2010-03-10 in the House
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Business ethics
Business records
Corporate finance and management
Department of the Treasury
Federal preemption
Government studies and investigations
Insurance industry and regulation
Life, casualty, property insurance
State and local government operations

Summary:
action_date: 2010-03-10
text: 
Risk Retention Modernization Act of 2010 - Amends the Liability Risk Retention Act of 1986 to direct the Secretary of the Treasury to: (1) report periodically to the President and Congress on the extent of state compliance with the Act's prohibition of state regulation of risk retention and purchasing groups that are not domiciliaries of the state; and (2) issue certain corporate governance standards, meeting specified criteria, for risk retention groups.
 

 
Extends the coverage of the Act to risk retention groups offering commercial property insurance. Applies to commercial property insurance the exemption of purchasing groups from state law.
 
Revises procedures for: (1) submitting financial documents to state insurance commissioners; and (2) mandatory disclosures.
 
Imposes a fiduciary duty upon the board of directors of a risk retention group to operate in the best interests of the group.
 
Directs the Comptroller General to study and report to Congress on actions to ensure that states do not interfere with or regulate risk retention or purchasing groups in an extraterritorial manner precluded by the Act.
 
Redesignates the Act as the Risk Retention Act.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-03-10
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2010-03-10
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-03-10
text: Introduced in House
Patients' Right to Know Act

Bill: 111-hr-4803
Sponsor: Rep. Barton, Joe [R-TX-6]
Introduced: 2010-03-10 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Consumer affairs
Health care costs and insurance
Home and outpatient care
Hospital care
Medicaid
State and local government operations
Surgery and anesthesia

Summary:
action_date: 2010-03-10
text: 
Patients' Right to Know Act - Requires each entity offering a health benefits plan to make available to enrollees and potential enrollees specified information, including covered items and services, a list of limitations and restrictions, the claims appeal process, out-of-pocket cost-sharing, among other things. 
 
Amends title XIX (Medicaid) of the Social Security Act to require the state Medicaid plan to provide that the state will establish and maintain laws to require disclosure to the public and the Secretary of information on hospital and ambulatory surgical center prices and quality.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-05-06
text: Subcommittee Hearings Held.
action_date: 2010-03-11
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2010-03-10
text: Referred to House Oversight and Government Reform
action_date: 2010-03-10
text: Referred to House Ways and Means
action_date: 2010-03-10
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Ways and Means, and Oversight and Government Reform, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2010-03-10
text: Referred to House Energy and Commerce
action_date: 2010-03-10
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-03-10
text: Introduced in House
Every Child Deserves a Family Act

Bill: 111-hr-4806
Sponsor: Rep. Stark, Fortney Pete [D-CA-13]
Introduced: 2010-03-10 in the House
Policy area: Families
Subjects: Adoption and foster care
Government studies and investigations
Marriage and family status
Sex, gender, sexual orientation discrimination
State and local government operations

Summary:
action_date: 2010-03-10
text: 
Every Child Deserves a Family Act - Prohibits an entity that receives federal assistance and is involved in adoption or foster care placements from discriminating against prospective adoptive or foster parents solely on the basis of their sexual orientation, gender identification, or marital status or on the basis of the sexual orientation or gender identity of the child involved.
 
Requires the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS), in order to ensure compliance with, and ensure understanding of the legal, practice, and culture changes required by this Act in making foster care and adoption placement decisions, to provide specified technical assistance to all entities covered by this Act.
 
Requires a Government Accountability Office study whether states have substantially complied with this Act in eliminating policies, practices, or statutes that deny adoption rights on the basis of these criteria.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-03-18
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Income Security and Family Support.
action_date: 2010-03-10
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2010-03-10
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-03-10
text: Introduced in House
Iran Sanctions Enhancement Act

Bill: 111-hr-4807
Sponsor: Rep. Kirk, Mark Steven [R-IL-10]
Introduced: 2010-03-10 in the House
Policy area: International Affairs
Subjects: Arms control and nonproliferation
Congressional oversight
Government information and archives
Government studies and investigations
Iran
Middle East
Sanctions
Trade restrictions

Summary:
action_date: 2010-03-10
text: 
Iran Sanctions Enhancement Act - Amends the Iran Sanctions Act of 1996 (ISA) to require: (1) the President to initiate an investigation into the possible imposition of sanctions against a person immediately upon U.S. receipt of credible information indicating that such person may have violated ISA; (2) the Government Accountability Office (GAO) to publish a monthly list of potential ISA violators; (3) the President to initiate an investigation of ISA violators based upon GAO information if an investigation has not already been initiated; and (4) the President to complete such investigation within 45 days and notify Congress of any person found in violation of ISA.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-03-10
text: Referred to the House Committee on Foreign Affairs.
action_date: 2010-03-10
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E346)
action_date: 2010-03-10
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-03-10
text: Introduced in House
Stem Cell Research Advancement Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-4808
Sponsor: Rep. DeGette, Diana [D-CO-1]
Introduced: 2010-03-10 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Cell biology and embryology
Department of Health and Human Services
Medical ethics
Medical research
National Institutes of Health (NIH)
Research administration and funding

Summary:
action_date: 2010-03-10
text: 
Stem Cell Research Advancement Act of 2009 - Amends the Public Health Service Act to require the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) to conduct and support research that utilizes human stem cells, including human embryonic stem cells. Limits such research to stem cells that meet the following requirements: (1) the stem cells were derived from human embryos donated from in vitro fertilization clinics, were created for the purposes of reproductive treatment, and were in excess of the needs of the individuals seeking such treatment; (2) it was determined through consultation with the individuals seeking reproductive treatment that the embryos would never be implanted in a woman and would otherwise be discarded; and (3) the individuals seeking reproductive treatment donated the embryos with written informed consent and received no financial or other inducements.
 
Requires the Secretary to maintain, review every three years, and update as scientifically warranted, guidelines applicable to the conduct or support of human stem cell research by HHS. 
 
Prohibits the Secretary from using any funds for the conduct or support of human cloning. 
 
Requires the Director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to include in its biennial report to Congress a summary of research activities on human stem cells.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-03-10
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2010-03-10
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-03-10
text: Introduced in House
FCC Commissioners' Technical Resource Enhancement Act

Bill: 111-hr-4809
Sponsor: Rep. McNerney, Jerry [D-CA-11]
Introduced: 2010-03-10 in the House
Policy area: Science, Technology, Communications
Subjects: Executive agency funding and structure
Federal Communications Commission (FCC)
Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management

Summary:
action_date: 2010-03-10
text: 
FCC Commissioners' Technical Resource Enhancement Act - Amends the Communications Act of 1934 to permit each commissioner to appoint an electrical engineer or computer scientist to provide technical consultation and to interface with the Office of Engineering and Technology and other Federal Communications Commission (FCC) bureaus and technical staff. 
 
Requires such engineer or scientist to hold an undergraduate or graduate degree in his or her respective field of expertise.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-03-10
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2010-03-10
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-03-10
text: Introduced in House
Local Jobs for America Act

Bill: 111-hr-4812
Sponsor: Rep. Miller, George [D-CA-7]
Introduced: 2010-03-10 in the House
Policy area: Labor and Employment
Subjects: Administrative remedies
Alternative dispute resolution, mediation, arbitration
Education programs funding
Elementary and secondary education
Employment and training programs
Fires
Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management
Government information and archives
Higher education
Indian social and development programs
Intergovernmental relations
Law enforcement administration and funding
Law enforcement officers
Minority education
Preschool education
State and local finance
State and local government operations
Teaching, teachers, curricula
Unemployment
Veterans' education, employment, rehabilitation

Summary:
action_date: 2010-03-10
text: 
Local Jobs for America Act - Directs the Secretary of Labor, acting through the Employment and Training Administration (ETA) of the Department of Labor, to provide for the allotment of funds to states, local government units, and community-based organizations to save and create local jobs through the retention, restoration, or expansion of services needed by local communities. Makes appropriations for this program.
 
Prohibits the hiring of an individual for a position funded under this Act if: (1) it results in the layoff or partial displacement of an existing employee of a unit or organization, or (2) such individual will perform the same or substantially similar work that was performed by the previous employee of the unit or organization.
 
Makes appropriations to: (1) the Department of Education for an Education Jobs Fund, (2) the Department of Justice for community oriented policing services, (3) the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) for the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) for firefighter assistance grants, and (4) the Department of Labor for ETA for on-the-job training and employment services.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-03-22
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Workforce Protections.
action_date: 2010-03-22
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Higher Education, Lifelong Learning, and Competitiveness.
action_date: 2010-03-10
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and Labor.
action_date: 2010-03-10
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-03-10
text: Introduced in House
To prohibit the further extension or establishment of national monuments in Arizona except by express authorization of Congress.

Bill: 111-hr-4814
Sponsor: Rep. Flake, Jeff [R-AZ-6]
Introduced: 2010-03-10 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Arizona
Monuments and memorials
Wilderness and natural areas, wildlife refuges, wild rivers, habitats

Summary:
action_date: 2010-03-10
text: 
Prohibits any further extension or establishment of national parks and monuments in Arizona except by express authorization of Congress. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-03-16
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests and Public Lands.
action_date: 2010-03-10
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2010-03-10
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-03-10
text: Introduced in House
Community Airport Access and Protection Act of 2010

Bill: 111-hr-4815
Sponsor: Rep. Graves, Sam [R-MO-6]
Introduced: 2010-03-10 in the House
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Aviation and airports
Contracts and agency
Transportation programs funding

Summary:
action_date: 2010-03-10
text: 
Community Airport Access and Protection Act of 2010 - Allows sponsors of general aviation airports to enter into agreements granting persons owning property adjacent to the airport through-the-fence access for aircraft located on their property. Declares that sponsors who make such agreements shall not be ineligible for airport improvement project grant funds conditioned on general assurances on airport uses.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-03-11
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Aviation.
action_date: 2010-03-10
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2010-03-10
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-03-10
text: Introduced in House
Food and Drug Administration Improvement Act of 2010

Bill: 111-hr-4816
Sponsor: Rep. Hinchey, Maurice D. [D-NY-22]
Introduced: 2010-03-10 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Advisory bodies
Civil actions and liability
Consumer affairs
Department of Health and Human Services
Drug safety, medical device, and laboratory regulation
Executive agency funding and structure
Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
Government information and archives
Marketing and advertising
Medical ethics
Prescription drugs
User charges and fees

Summary:
action_date: 2010-03-10
text: 
Food and Drug Administration Improvement Act of 2010 - Amends the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (FFDCA) to require that all fees collected for the review of applications for human drugs, devices, animal drugs, or generic animal drugs be deposited in the general fund of the Treasury. Makes available amounts necessary for the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) to review such applications. Prohibits the Secretary from entering into agreements with persons from whom such fees are collected and terminates any existing agreements.
 
Requires the Secretary to: (1) establish the Center for Postmarket Drug, Device, and Biologic Safety and Effectiveness within the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to regulate approved drugs; and (2) transfer to the Center all responsibilities for such regulation from the Center for Drug Evaluation and Research, the Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research, or the Center for Devices and Radiological Health Organization.
 
Requires a statement regarding the reporting of negative side effects of prescription drugs in televised direct-to-consumer drug advertisements (currently required in published advertisements).
 
Requires the Commissioner of Food and Drugs to: (1) complete a review of the FDA's regulations and guidance pertaining to the labeling of drugs and biological products; and (2) post on the FDA's website all clinical trial adverse events included in the registry and results data bank of the National Institutes of Health (NIH). 
 
Requires payment of a fee to the Secretary for the advertisement of drugs and devices.
 
Requires doctors to inform patients and obtain consent to prescribe an approved drug for a purpose that has not been approved by the FDA.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-03-10
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2010-03-10
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-03-10
text: Introduced in House