Bills: Senate

S.41 - POWER Act

A bill to require a 50-hour workweek for Federal prison inmates, to reform inmate work programs, and for other purposes.

S.42 - Social Security Totalization Agreement Reform Act of 2009

A bill to amend title II of the Social Security Act to preserve and protect Social Security benefits of American workers and to help ensure greater congressional oversight of the Social Security system by requiring that both Houses of Congress approve a totalization agreement before the agreement, giving foreign workers Social Security benefits, can go into effect.

S.43 - Permanent Internet Tax Freedom Act of 2009

A bill to make the moratorium on Internet access taxes and multiple and discriminatory taxes on electronic commerce permanent.

S.44

A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to treat income earned by mutual funds from exchange-traded funds holding precious metal bullion as qualifying income.

S.45 - MCAP Act

A bill to improve patient access to health care services and provide improved medical care by reducing the excessive burden the liability system places on the health care delivery system.

S.46 - Medicare Access to Rehabilitation Services Act of 2009

A bill to amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to repeal the Medicare outpatient rehabilitation therapy caps.

S.47 - Telephone Excise Tax Repeal Act of 2009

A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to repeal the excise tax on telephone and other communication services.

S.48 - Voting Integrity and Verification Act of 2009

A bill to amend the Help America Vote Act of 2002 to require new voting systems to provide a voter-verified permanent record, to develop better accessible voting machines for individuals with disabilities, and for other purposes.

S.49 - Public Corruption Prosecution Improvements Act

A bill to help Federal prosecutors and investigators combat public corruption by strengthening and clarifying the law.

S.50 - Clinical Social Workers' Recognition Act of 2009

A bill to amend chapter 81 of title 5, United States Code, to authorize the use of clinical social workers to conduct evaluations to determine work-related emotional and mental illnesses.

S.51

A bill to amend title 10, United States Code, to recognize the United States Military Cancer Institute as an establishment within the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, to require the Institute to promote the health of members of the Armed Forces and their dependents by enhancing cancer research and treatment, to provide for a study of the epidemiological causes of cancer among various ethnic groups for cancer prevention and early detection efforts, and for other purposes.

S.52 - Native Hawaiian Medicaid Coverage Act of 2009

A bill to amend title XIX of the Social Security Act to provide 100 percent reimbursement for medical assistance provided to a Native Hawaiian through a Federally-qualified health center or a Native Hawaiian health care system.

S.53 - Nursing School Clinics Act of 2009

A bill to amend title XIX of the Social Security Act to provide for coverage of services provided by nursing school clinics under State Medicaid programs.

S.54 - Registered Nurse Safe Staffing Act of 2009

A bill to amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to provide for patient protection by establishing minimum nurse staffing ratios at certain Medicare providers, and for other purposes.

S.55 - Equity for Clinical Social Workers Act of 2009

A bill to amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to provide improved reimbursement for clinical social worker services under the Medicare program.

S.56 - Autonomy for Psychologists and Social Workers Act of 2009

A bill to amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to remove the restriction that a clinical psychologist or clinical social worker provide services in a comprehensive outpatient rehabilitation facility to a patient only under the care of a physician.

S.57 - Psychologists in the Service of the Public Act of 2009

A bill to amend title VII of the Public Health Service Act to establish a psychology post-doctoral fellowship program, and for other purposes.

S.58

A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to modify the application of the tonnage tax on vessels operating in the dual United States domestic and foreign trades, and for other purposes.

S.59 - Strengthen the Public Health Service Act

A bill to amend title VII of the Public Health Service Act to make certain graduate programs in professional psychology eligible to participate in various health professions loan programs.

S.61 - Helping Families Save Their Homes in Bankruptcy Act of 2009

A bill to amend title 11 of the United States Code with respect to modification of certain mortgages on principal residences, and for other purposes.

S.62 - Broadcaster Freedom Act of 2009

A bill to prevent the Federal Communications Commission from repromulgating the fairness doctrine.

S.63 - Medicaid Advanced Practice Nurses and Physician Assistants Access Act of 2009

A bill to amend title XIX of the Social Security Act to improve access to advanced practice nurses and physicians assistants under the Medicaid Program.

S.64

A bill to amend the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act to require approval by the Congress for certain expenditures for the Troubled Asset Relief Program.

S.65

A bill to provide relief to the Pottawatomi Nation in Canada for settlement of certain claims against the United States.

S.66

A bill to amend title 10, United States Code, to permit former members of the Armed Forces who have a service-connected disability rated as total to travel on military aircraft in the same manner and to the same extent as retired members of the Armed Forces are entitled to travel on such aircraft.

S.67

A bill to amend title 10, United States Code, to authorize certain disabled former prisoners of war to use Department of Defense commissary and exchange stores.

S.68

A bill to require the Secretary of the Army to determine the validity of the claims of certain Filipinos that they performed military service on behalf of the United States during World War II.

S.69 - Commission on Wartime Relocation and Internment of Latin Americans of Japanese Descent Act

A bill to establish a fact-finding Commission to extend the study of a prior Commission to investigate and determine facts and circumstances surrounding the relocation, internment, and deportation to Axis countries of Latin Americans of Japanese descent from December 1941 through February 1948, and the impact of those actions by the United States, and to recommend appropriate remedies, and for other purposes.

S.70

A bill to restore the traditional day of observance of Memorial Day, and for other purposes.