[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 155 (2009), Part 11]
[Senate]
[Pages 14318-14319]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




              INTRODUCTION OF BILLS AND JOINT RESOLUTIONS

  The following bills and joint resolutions were introduced, read the 
first and second times by unanimous consent, and referred as indicated:

           By Mr. SCHUMER:
       S. 1211. A bill to designate the facility of the United 
     States Postal Service located at 60 School Street, Orchard 
     Park, New York, as the ``Jack F. Kemp Post Office Building''; 
     to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental 
     Affairs.
           By Mr. DURBIN:
       S. 1212. A bill to amend the antitrust laws to ensure 
     competitive market-based fees and terms for merchants' access 
     to electronic payment systems; to the Committee on the 
     Judiciary.
           By Mr. BAUCUS (for himself and Mr. Conrad):
       S. 1213. A bill to amend title XI of the Social Security 
     Act to provide for the conduct of comparative effectiveness 
     research and to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to 
     establish a Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Trust Fund, 
     and for other purposes; to the Committee on Finance.
           By Mr. LIEBERMAN (for himself, Mr. Casey, Mr. Bond, Ms. 
             Stabenow, Mr. Cardin, Mr. Sanders, Mr. Whitehouse, 
             and Mr. Crapo):
       S. 1214. A bill to conserve fish and aquatic communities in 
     the United States through partnerships that foster fish 
     habitat conservation, to improve the quality of life for the 
     people of the United States, and for other purposes; to the 
     Committee on Environment and Public Works.
           By Mr. CASEY (for himself and Mr. Schumer):
       S. 1215. A bill to amend the Safe Drinking Water Act to 
     repeal a certain exemption for hydraulic fracturing, and for 
     other purposes; to the Committee on Environment and Public 
     Works.
           By Ms. KLOBUCHAR (for herself and Mr. Nelson of 
             Florida):
       S. 1216. A bill to amend the Consumer Product Safety Act to 
     require residential carbon monoxide detectors to meet the 
     applicable ANSI/UL standard by treating that standard as a 
     consumer product safety rule, to encourage States to require 
     the installation of such detectors in homes, and for other 
     purposes; to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and 
     Transportation.
           By Ms. STABENOW (for herself, Mrs. Lincoln, and Mr. 
             Begich):
       S. 1217. A bill to amend title XIX of the Social Security 
     Act to improve and protect rehabilitative services and case 
     management services provided under Medicaid to improve the 
     health and welfare of the nation's most vulnerable seniors 
     and children; to the Committee on Finance.
           By Mr. MENENDEZ (for himself and Mr. Lautenberg):
       S. 1218. A bill to amend title XVIII of the Social Security 
     Act to preserve access to urban Medicare-dependent hospitals; 
     to the Committee on Finance.
           By Mr. KOHL:
       S. 1219. A bill to amend subtitle A of the Antitrust 
     Criminal Penalty Enhancement and Reform Act of 2004 to extend 
     the operation of such subtitle for a 1-year period ending 
     June 22, 2010; to the Committee on the Judiciary.
           By Mr. SPECTER (for himself and Mr. Wyden):
       S. 1220. A bill to require that certain complex diagnostic 
     laboratory tests performed

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     by an independent laboratory after a hospital outpatient 
     encounter or inpatient stay during which the specimen 
     involved was collected shall be treated as services for which 
     payment may be made directly to the laboratory under part B 
     of title XVIII of the Social Security Act; to the Committee 
     on Finance.
           By Mr. SPECTER (for himself and Mr. Roberts):
       S. 1221. A bill to amend title XVIII of the Social Security 
     Act to ensure more appropriate payment amounts for drugs and 
     biologicals under part B of the Medicare Program by excluding 
     customary prompt pay discounts extended to wholesalers from 
     the manufacturer's average sales price; to the Committee on 
     Finance.
           By Mrs. LINCOLN (for herself, Ms. Snowe, Mr. Kerry, Ms. 
             Landrieu, Mr. Vitter, Ms. Cantwell, Mrs. Gillibrand, 
             Mr. Burris, and Mr. Schumer):
       S. 1222. A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 
     to extend and expand the benefits for business operating in 
     empowerment zones, enterprise communities, or renewal 
     communities, and for other purposes; to the Committee on 
     Finance.
           By Mr. McCONNELL (for himself, Mrs. Feinstein, Mr. 
             McCain, and Mr. Durbin):
       S.J. Res. 17. A joint resolution approving the renewal of 
     import restrictions contained in the Burmese Freedom and 
     Democracy Act of 2003, and for other purposes; to the 
     Committee on Finance.

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