Rep. Zoe Lofgren

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District HD-CA-18
Party Democrat
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Bills Introduced 109

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US Congress 111th Congress

To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to provide payment to hospitals for costs of expanded advanced practice nurse training programs. [HB-3185]
Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to include among reasonable costs for Medicare payment to hospitals specified educational costs of a hospital and affiliated schools and settings attributable to expanded training of advanced practice nurses.

  

Sponsored by: Rep. Raul Grijalva Referred To The House Committee On Ways And Means. on 07/13/2009

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Emergency Medic Transition Act of 2010 [HB-3199]
Emergency Medic Transition Act of 2010 or the EMT Act of 2010 - Amends the Public Health Service Act to require the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) to establish a program of awarding grants to states to assist veterans who received and completed military emergency medical training while serving in the U.S. Armed Forces to become, upon their discharge or release from active duty service, state-licensed or certified emergency medical technicians. Allows such funds to be used to: (1) provide such veterans required course work and training (continued...)

  

Sponsored by: Rep. Jerry McNerney Received In The Senate And Read Twice And Referred To The Committee On Health, Education, Labor, And Pensions. on 09/24/2010

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Fairness in Cocaine Sentencing Act of 2009 [HB-3245]
Fairness in Cocaine Sentencing Act of 2009 - Repeals provisions of the Controlled Substances Act that provide different criminal penalties for the manufacturing, distributing, or dispensing of cocaine and cocaine base (i.e., crack cocaine), including the mandatory minimum five-year prison sentence for simple possessesion of cocaine base. Repeals provisions of the Controlled Substances Import and Export Act that provide different criminal penalties for the importing and exporting of cocaine and cocaine base.

  

Sponsored by: Rep. Raul Grijalva Reported By The Committee On Judiciary. H. Rept. 111-670, Part I. on 12/01/2010

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American Medical Isotopes Production Act of 2010 [HB-3276]
American Medical Isotopes Production Act of 2010 - (Sec. 2) Directs the Secretary of Energy to establish a technology-neutral program to evaluate and support projects for the production in the United States (domestic production), without the use of highly enriched uranium, of significant quantities of molybdenum-99 for medical uses, implemented in cooperation with non-federal entities, the costs of which shall be shared in accordance with certain cost sharing requirements of the Energy Policy Act of 2005. States that an existing reactor fueled with (continued...)

  

Sponsored by: Rep. James McGovern Placed On Senate Legislative Calendar Under General Orders. Calendar No. 263. on 01/28/2010

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Alzheimer's Breakthrough Act of 2009 [HB-3286]
Alzheimer's Breakthrough Act of 2009 - Authorizes appropriations for conducting and supporting research on Alzheimer's disease in FY2010-FY2014. Amends the Public Health Service Act to require the Director of the National Institute on Aging to: (1) give priority to conducting and supporting Alzheimer's disease research; (2) increase the emphasis on the need to conduct Alzheimer's disease prevention trials within the National Institutes of Health (NIH); (3) ensure that Alzheimer's disease is maintained as a high priority for NIH's neuroscience initiative; (continued...)

  

Sponsored by: Rep. Raul Grijalva Referred To The Subcommittee On Health. on 07/23/2009

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Preventing Unintended Pregnancies, Reducing the Need for Abortion, and Supporting Parents Act [HB-3312]
Preventing Unintended Pregnancies, Reducing the Need for Abortion, and Supporting Parents Act - Requires the Secretary of Health and Human Services ( HHS) to make matching grants for projects to provide comprehensive education on preventing teen pregnancies. Amends the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to reauthorize appropriations for the 21st Century Community Learning Centers and the Carol M. White Physical Education Program. Amends the Higher Education Act of 1965 to reauthorize appropriations for Federal TRIO Programs and Gaining (continued...)

  

Sponsored by: Rep. Barbara Lee Referred To The Subcommittee On Department Operations, Oversight, Nutrition And Forestry. on 06/22/2010

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Trans Fat Truth in Labeling Act of 2009 [HB-3317]
Trans Fat Truth in Labeling Act of 2009 - Directs the Commissioner of Food and Drugs (FDA) to promulgate a final regulation revising federal nutrition labeling regulations to require the label of a food that has less than .5 grams of trans fat per serving to express that information with an asterisk or other notation instead of expressing the trans fat content as zero when the trans fat content of such food is declared in the nutrition information on the label or in the labeling of the food.

  

Sponsored by: Rep. Zoe Lofgren Referred To The Subcommittee On Health. on 07/24/2009

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To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 440 South Gulling Street in Portola, California, as the "Army Specialist Jeremiah Paul McCleery Post Office Building". [HB-3319]
Designates the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 440 South Gulling Street in Portola, California, as the "Army Specialist Jeremiah Paul McCleery Post Office Building."

  

Sponsored by: Rep. Barbara Lee Became Public Law No: 111-131. on 01/29/2010

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Disabled Veterans Tax Termination Act [HB-333]
Disabled Veterans Tax Termination Act - Amends federal military retired pay provisions to: (1) permit veterans with a service-connected disability of less than 50% to concurrently receive both retired pay and disability compensation; (2) eliminate provisions requiring a phase in between January 1, 2004, and December 31, 2013, of concurrent receipt of retired pay and disability compensation; (3) eliminate the four-year phase-in of concurrent receipt of retired pay and disability compensation for disabled veterans determined to be individually unemployable; (continued...)

  

Sponsored by: Rep. Gerald Connolly Referred To The Subcommittee On Military Personnel. on 02/06/2009

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US and the World Education Act [HB-3359]
US and the World Education Act - Amends the Department of Education Organization Act to require the Deputy Assistant Secretary for International and Foreign Language Education to: (1) assist the Secretary of Education in administering this Act's grant program; and (2) develop an international education research repository and make it available to states and local educational agencies (LEAs). Directs the Secretary, acting through the Deputy Assistant Secretary, to award competitive grants to LEAs, or partnerships between LEAs and private organizations (continued...)

  

Sponsored by: Rep. Raul Grijalva Referred To The Subcommittee On Early Childhood, Elementary, And Secondary Education. on 10/22/2009

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