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Medicare VA Reimbursement Act of 2011

Bill: 112-hr-814
Sponsor: Rep. Filner, Bob [D-CA-51]
Introduced: 2011-02-18 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Appropriations
Congressional oversight
Government studies and investigations
Government trust funds
Health programs administration and funding
Medicare
Veterans' medical care

Summary:
action_date: 2011-02-18
text: 
Medicare VA Reimbursement Act of 2011 - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to direct the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS), in cooperation with the Secretary of Veterans Affairs (VA), to establish a Medicare VA reimbursement program under which the HHS Secretary shall reimburse the VA Secretary, from the Medicare trust funds, for any item or service: (1) furnished to a Medicare-eligible veteran by a VA medical facility for the treatment of a non-service-connected condition; and (2) covered by Medicare or determined to be medically necessary by the VA Secretary.
 
Requires the HHS Secretary to enter a memorandum of understanding with the VA Secretary concerning administration of the program. Specifies required conditions in the memorandum.
 
Directs the Comptroller General to report to Congress on the program every three years.
 
Declares the sense of Congress that the amount of funds appropriated to the VA for medical care in any fiscal year should not be reduced as a result of the implementation of the Medicare VA reimbursement program.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-03-15
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2011-02-28
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2011-02-23
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2011-02-18
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committees on Energy and Commerce, and Veterans' Affairs, 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: 2011-02-18
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committees on Energy and Commerce, and Veterans' Affairs, 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: 2011-02-18
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committees on Energy and Commerce, and Veterans' Affairs, 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: 2011-02-18
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-02-18
text: Introduced in House
Justice for Public Servants Act of 2011

Bill: 112-hr-815
Sponsor: Rep. Gerlach, Jim [R-PA-6]
Introduced: 2011-02-18 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Congressional officers and employees
Crime victims
Criminal procedure and sentencing
Emergency medical services and trauma care
Fires
First responders and emergency personnel
Health personnel
Law enforcement officers
Members of Congress
Violent crime

Summary:
action_date: 2011-02-18
text: 
Justice for Public Servants Act of 2011 - Amends the federal criminal code to make the killing of a Member of Congress or an employee of Congress, or the killing or attempted killing of a law enforcement officer, firefighter, or other first responder, an aggravating factor in death penalty determinations.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-02-28
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.
action_date: 2011-02-18
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2011-02-18
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-02-18
text: Introduced in House
Provider Shield Act of 2011

Bill: 112-hr-816
Sponsor: Rep. Gingrey, Phil [R-GA-11]
Introduced: 2011-02-18 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Civil actions and liability
Drug safety, medical device, and laboratory regulation
Evidence and witnesses
Health care quality
Health personnel
Product safety and quality

Summary:
action_date: 2011-02-18
text: 
Provider Shield Act of 2011 - Declares that the development, recognition, or implementation of any guideline or other standard under specified Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) provisions related to health care quality shall not be construed to establish the standard of care or duty of care owed by a health care provider to a patient in any medical malpractice or medical product liability case.
 
Repeals a PPACA provision requiring the Comptroller General to study whether the development, recognition, or implementation of any such guideline or other standard would result in the establishment of a new cause of action or claim.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-02-28
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2011-02-28
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on the Constitution.
action_date: 2011-02-18
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on the Judiciary, 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: 2011-02-18
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on the Judiciary, 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: 2011-02-18
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-02-18
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Antiquities Act of 1906 to place additional requirements on the establishment of national monuments under that Act, and for other purposes.

Bill: 112-hr-817
Sponsor: Rep. Herger, Wally [R-CA-2]
Introduced: 2011-02-18 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Congressional oversight
Historical and cultural resources
Land use and conservation
Monuments and memorials
Presidents and presidential powers, Vice Presidents

Summary:
action_date: 2011-02-18
text: 
Amends the Antiquities Act of 1906 to require, in addition to a presidential declaration, congressional approval prior to the establishment of a national monument.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-09-13
text: Subcommittee Hearings Held.
action_date: 2011-02-24
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests and Public Lands.
action_date: 2011-02-18
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2011-02-18
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-02-18
text: Introduced in House
Government Shutdown Fairness Act

Bill: 112-hr-819
Sponsor: Rep. Moran, James P. [D-VA-8]
Introduced: 2011-02-18 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Appropriations
Budget deficits and national debt
Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management
Members of Congress
Presidents and presidential powers, Vice Presidents

Summary:
action_date: 2011-02-18
text: 
Government Shutdown Fairness Act - Prohibits Members of Congress and the President from receiving basic pay for any period in which: (1) there is more than a 24-hour lapse in appropriations for any federal agency or department as a result of a failure to enact a regular appropriations bill or continuing resolution, or (2) the federal government is unable to make payments or meet obligations because the public debt limit has been reached.
 

 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2012-08-20
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Federal Workforce, U.S. Postal Service, and Labor Policy.
action_date: 2011-02-18
text: Referred to the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, and in addition to the Committee on House Administration, 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: 2011-02-18
text: Referred to the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, and in addition to the Committee on House Administration, 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: 2011-02-18
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-02-18
text: Introduced in House
Prescribe A Book Act

Bill: 112-hr-820
Sponsor: Rep. Payne, Donald M. [D-NJ-10]
Introduced: 2011-02-18 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Books and print media
Child health
Education programs funding
Elementary and secondary education
Health personnel
Language arts
Preschool education
Social work, volunteer service, charitable organizations

Summary:
action_date: 2011-02-18
text: 
Prescribe A Book Act - Creates a Pediatric Early Literacy program under which the Secretary of Education awards matching grants to nonprofit organizations for the implementation of three-part models through which: (1) health care providers encourage parents to read aloud to their children and offer them recommendations and strategies for doing so; (2) health care providers give each visiting child between the ages of six months and five-years a new, developmentally appropriate children's book to take home and keep; and (3) volunteers reading to children in health care facility waiting areas show parents the techniques and pleasures of reading aloud to children.
 
Requires that the books provided to children under the program be obtained at a discount.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-03-04
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education.
action_date: 2011-02-18
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2011-02-18
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-02-18
text: Introduced in House
To require zero-based budgeting for departments and agencies of the Government.

Bill: 112-hr-821
Sponsor: Rep. Ross, Dennis A. [R-FL-12]
Introduced: 2011-02-18 in the House
Policy area: Economics and Public Finance
Subjects: Appropriations
Budget process
Executive agency funding and structure

Summary:
action_date: 2011-02-18
text: 
Requires the President to submit with materials related to each federal budget transmitted to Congress by January 1, 2013, a budget for each agency that contains: (1) a description of each activity for which an agency receives an appropriation in the current fiscal year or for which the agency requests an appropriation for the budget year; (2) the legal basis for each activity; (3) for each activity, three alternative funding levels for the budget year (at least two of which shall be below the funding level for the current fiscal year), a summary of the priorities that would be accomplished within each level, and the additional increments of value that would be added by the higher funding levels; and (4) for each activity, one or more measures of its cost efficiency and effectiveness.
 
Requires the Director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) to publish guidelines to carry out this Act that shall require: (1) the baseline budget of each agency to be assumed to be zero, and (2) each proposed expenditure to be justified as if it were a new expenditure.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-02-18
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Budget.
action_date: 2011-02-18
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-02-18
text: Introduced in House
For the relief of Maria Carmen Castro Ramirez and J. Refugio Carreno Rojas.

Bill: 112-hr-823
Sponsor: Rep. Pelosi, Nancy [D-CA-8]
Introduced: 2011-02-18 in the House
Policy area: Private Legislation

Summary:
action_date: 2011-02-18
text: Provides for the relief of Maria Carmen Castro Ramirez and J. Refugio Carreno Rojas.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2012-12-05
text: Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2012-12-04
text: Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
action_date: 2012-12-04
text: On passage Passed without objection.
action_date: 2012-12-04
text: Passed/agreed to in House: On passage Passed without objection.
action_date: 2012-12-04
text: Considered from the Private Calendar.
action_date: 2012-07-24
text: Placed on the Private Calendar, Calendar No. 3.
action_date: 2012-07-24
text: Reported by the Committee on Judiciary. H. Rept. 112-619.
action_date: 2012-07-24
text: Reported by the Committee on Judiciary. H. Rept. 112-619.
action_date: 2012-06-28
text: Ordered to be Reported by Voice Vote.
action_date: 2012-06-28
text: Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
action_date: 2012-06-26
text: Subcommittee on Immigration Policy and Enforcement Discharged.
action_date: 2011-02-28
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration Policy and Enforcement.
action_date: 2011-02-18
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2011-02-18
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-02-18
text: Introduced in House
For the relief of Daniel Wachira.

Bill: 112-hr-824
Sponsor: Rep. Rangel, Charles B. [D-NY-15]
Introduced: 2011-02-18 in the House
Policy area: Private Legislation

Summary:
action_date: 2011-02-18
text: Provides for the relief of Daniel Wachira.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2012-12-05
text: Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2012-12-04
text: Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
action_date: 2012-12-04
text: On passage Passed without objection.
action_date: 2012-12-04
text: Passed/agreed to in House: On passage Passed without objection.
action_date: 2012-12-04
text: Considered from the Private Calendar.
action_date: 2012-07-24
text: Placed on the Private Calendar, Calendar No. 2.
action_date: 2012-07-24
text: Reported by the Committee on Judiciary. H. Rept. 112-618.
action_date: 2012-07-24
text: Reported by the Committee on Judiciary. H. Rept. 112-618.
action_date: 2012-06-28
text: Ordered to be Reported by Voice Vote.
action_date: 2012-06-28
text: Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
action_date: 2012-06-26
text: Subcommittee on Immigration Policy and Enforcement Discharged.
action_date: 2011-02-28
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration Policy and Enforcement.
action_date: 2011-02-18
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2011-02-18
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E331)
action_date: 2011-02-18
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-02-18
text: Introduced in House
Surface Transportation Safety Act of 2011

Bill: 112-hr-825
Sponsor: Rep. Rahall, Nick J., II [D-WV-3]
Introduced: 2011-02-28 in the House
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Department of Transportation
Fires
Government information and archives
Railroads
Roads and highways
Rural conditions and development
Transportation employees
Transportation programs funding
Transportation safety and security
Worker safety and health

Summary:
action_date: 2011-02-28
text: 
Surface Transportation Safety Act of 2011 - Directs the Secretary of Transportation to modify certain federal regulations to: (1) allow fire services personnel to wear high visibility apparel meeting certain requirements, and (2) ensure that positive protective measures (including temporary longitudinal traffic barriers) are used to separate workers on highway construction projects from motorized traffic.
 
Directs the Secretary to approve the use of federal-aid highway funds by a state for patented or proprietary items that further the goals of state strategic highway safety plans.
 
Revises requirements for the highway safety improvement program to count installation, replacement, and upgrade of highway signs and pavement markings as a highway safety improvement project. Authorizes: (1) states to obligate highway safety improvement program funds apportioned to them for projects to maintain minimum levels of retroreflectivity in highway signs or pavement markings on public roads, whether or not such projects are included in state plans; and (2) a federal share of costs of 100% for such projects.
 
Directs the Secretary to: (1) carry out a program to improve traffic signs and pavement markings for older drivers and pedestrians in all states; (2) review the safety of all highway-rail grade crossings in the United States and, based on such review, compile a list of the ten highway-rail grade crossings having the greatest need for safety improvements; (3) establish a national database of information on the safety of highway-rail grade crossings in the United States; and (4) allocate $20 million to each state with a population density of less than 20 persons per square mile for each fiscal year beginning with FY2011 for rural highway safety improvement projects.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-03-01
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Highways and Transit.
action_date: 2011-02-28
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2011-02-28
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-02-28
text: Introduced in House
Military Active Shooter Training Act of 2011

Bill: 112-hr-826
Sponsor: Rep. Carter, John R. [R-TX-31]
Introduced: 2011-02-28 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Firearms and explosives
Law enforcement officers
Military education and training
Military facilities and property

Summary:
action_date: 2011-02-28
text: 
Military Active Shooter Training Act of 2011 - Directs the Secretary of Defense (DOD) to establish policy and promulgate guidelines to ensure that civilian and military law enforcement personnel charged with security functions on military installations receive Active Shooter Training as described in the document entitled &quot;Protecting the Force: Lessons From Fort Hood.&quot;


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-03-15
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Military Personnel.
action_date: 2011-02-28
text: Referred to the House Committee on Armed Services.
action_date: 2011-02-28
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-02-28
text: Introduced in House
To amend title 49, United States Code, to allow for additional flights beyond the perimeter restriction applicable to Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport, and for other purposes.

Bill: 112-hr-827
Sponsor: Rep. Schweikert, David [R-AZ-5]
Introduced: 2011-02-28 in the House
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Aviation and airports
Motor carriers
Virginia

Summary:
action_date: 2011-02-28
text: 
Allows certain air carriers that hold or operate air carrier slots at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport, which are used for scheduled air service between that airport and a large hub airport, to use such slots also to provide nonstop air transportation service between Reagan National Airport and another airport more than 1,250 statute miles away (perimeter rule limit).
 
Prohibits an air carrier using such an exemption for beyond-perimeter flight operations from using multi-aisle or widebody aircraft to provide such service.
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-03-01
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Aviation.
action_date: 2011-02-28
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2011-02-28
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-02-28
text: Introduced in House
Contracting and Tax Accountability Act of 2011

Bill: 112-hr-829
Sponsor: Rep. Chaffetz, Jason [R-UT-3]
Introduced: 2011-02-28 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Public contracts and procurement
Tax administration and collection, taxpayers

Summary:
action_date: 2011-02-28
text: 
Contracting and Tax Accountability Act of 2011- Prohibits any person who has a seriously delinquent tax debt from obtaining a federal government contract or grant. Requires federal agency heads to require prospective recipients of a contract or grant in excess of an amount equal to the simplified acquisition threshold to: (1) certify that they do not have such a debt; and (2) authorize the Secretary of the Treasury to disclose information describing whether they have such a debt. 
 
Defines &quot;seriously delinquent tax debt&quot; as an outstanding tax debt for which a notice of lien has been filed in public records.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-04-13
text: Ordered to be Reported (Amended) by Voice Vote.
action_date: 2011-04-13
text: Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
action_date: 2011-03-18
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Technology, Information Policy, Intergovernmental Relations and Procurement Reform .
action_date: 2011-02-28
text: Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.
action_date: 2011-02-28
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-02-28
text: Introduced in House
To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to provide for treatment of clinical psychologists as physicians for purposes of furnishing clinical psychologist services under the Medicare Program.

Bill: 112-hr-831
Sponsor: Rep. Schakowsky, Janice D. [D-IL-9]
Introduced: 2011-02-28 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Health personnel
Medicare
Mental health

Summary:
action_date: 2011-02-28
text: 
Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to treat as a physician, for Medicare purposes, a clinical psychologist acting within the scope of a psychologist's license (or other state law authorization), but only with respect to the furnishing of clinical psychologists services which the psychologist is legally authorized to perform by the state. 
 

 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-03-11
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2011-03-04
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2011-02-28
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: 2011-02-28
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: 2011-02-28
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-02-28
text: Introduced in House