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1. H.CON.RES.252 : Expressing the sense of Congress that no Federal or State requirement to increase energy efficient lighting in public buildings should require a hospital, school, day care center, mental health facility, or nursing home to install or utilize such energy efficient lighting if the lighting contains mercury.
Sponsor: Rep Burgess, Michael C. [TX-26] (introduced 11/9/2007)      Cosponsors (None)
Committees: House Transportation and Infrastructure; House Energy and Commerce
Latest Major Action: 11/13/2007 Referred to House subcommittee. Status: Referred to the Subcommittee on Economic Development, Public Buildings and Emergency Management.

2. H.CON.RES.425 : Expressing the sense of Congress regarding the need to pass meaningful legislation to protect commercial and government data from data breaches.
Sponsor: Rep Burgess, Michael C. [TX-26] (introduced 9/24/2008)      Cosponsors (8)
Committees: House Science and Technology; House Oversight and Government Reform
Latest Major Action: 9/24/2008 Referred to House committee. Status: Referred to the Committee on Science and Technology, and in addition to the Committee on 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.

3. H.RES.271 : Recognizing the heroism and sacrifice of Medal of Honor recipients, commending the efforts of the Medal of Honor Host City Program in Gainesville, Texas, to celebrate and honor the contributions of Medal of Honor recipients, and encouraging the expansion of the program.
Sponsor: Rep Burgess, Michael C. [TX-26] (introduced 3/26/2007)      Cosponsors (16)
Committees: House Armed Services
Latest Major Action: 4/3/2007 Referred to House subcommittee. Status: Referred to the Subcommittee on Military Personnel.

4. H.RES.339 : Supporting the goals of Motorcycle Safety Awareness Month.
Sponsor: Rep Burgess, Michael C. [TX-26] (introduced 4/26/2007)      Cosponsors (21)
Committees: House Transportation and Infrastructure
House Reports: 110-655
Latest Major Action: 5/21/2008 Passed/agreed to in House. Status: On motion to suspend the rules and agree to the resolution, as amended Agreed to by voice vote.

5. H.RES.863 : Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives that the Medicare physician payment system must be immediately reformed in a long-term manner in order to stabilize Medicare payment to doctors, return equity to the program, and ensure that Medicare patients have access to a doctor of their choice.
Sponsor: Rep Burgess, Michael C. [TX-26] (introduced 12/11/2007)      Cosponsors (15)
Committees: House Energy and Commerce; House Ways and Means
Latest Major Action: 12/11/2007 Referred to House subcommittee. Status: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.

6. H.RES.937 : Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives that the emergency communications services provided by the American Red Cross are vital resources for military service members and their families.
Sponsor: Rep Burgess, Michael C. [TX-26] (introduced 1/23/2008)      Cosponsors (46)
Committees: House Foreign Affairs
Latest Major Action: 9/9/2008 Passed/agreed to in House. Status: On motion to suspend the rules and agree to the resolution, as amended Agreed to by the Yeas and Nays: (2/3 required): 411 - 0 (Roll no. 571).

7. H.R.377 : To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to increase the dollar limitation on employer-provided group term life insurance that can be excluded from the gross income of the employee.
Sponsor: Rep Burgess, Michael C. [TX-26] (introduced 1/10/2007)      Cosponsors (None)
Committees: House Ways and Means
Latest Major Action: 1/10/2007 Referred to House committee. Status: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.

8. H.R.927 : To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to increase the credit for biodiesel used as a fuel.
Sponsor: Rep Burgess, Michael C. [TX-26] (introduced 2/8/2007)      Cosponsors (7)
Committees: House Ways and Means
Latest Major Action: 2/8/2007 Referred to House committee. Status: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.

9. H.R.1013 : To amend title XXI of the Social Security Act to prohibit the approval or continuation of section 1115 waivers insofar as they provide coverage of nonpregnant adults under the State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP).
Sponsor: Rep Burgess, Michael C. [TX-26] (introduced 2/13/2007)      Cosponsors (2)
Committees: House Energy and Commerce
Latest Major Action: 2/14/2007 Referred to House subcommittee. Status: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.

10. H.R.1040 : To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide taxpayers a flat tax alternative to the current income tax system.
Sponsor: Rep Burgess, Michael C. [TX-26] (introduced 2/14/2007)      Cosponsors (8)
Committees: House Ways and Means; House Rules
Latest Major Action: 2/14/2007 Referred to House committee. Status: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Rules, 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.

11. H.R.1046 : To amend titles XI and XVIII of the Social Security Act to modernize the quality improvement organization (QIO) program.
Sponsor: Rep Burgess, Michael C. [TX-26] (introduced 2/14/2007)      Cosponsors (5)
Committees: House Energy and Commerce; House Ways and Means
Latest Major Action: 2/27/2007 Referred to House subcommittee. Status: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.

12. H.R.1076 : To promote health care coverage parity for individuals participating in legal recreational activities or legal transportation activities.
Sponsor: Rep Burgess, Michael C. [TX-26] (introduced 2/15/2007)      Cosponsors (122)
Committees: House Energy and Commerce; House Ways and Means; House Education and Labor
Latest Major Action: 6/5/2007 Referred to House subcommittee. Status: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions.

13. H.R.1666 : To amend title XIX of the Social Security Act to provide for increased price transparency of hospital information and to provide for additional research on consumer information on charges and out-of-pocket costs.
Sponsor: Rep Burgess, Michael C. [TX-26] (introduced 3/23/2007)      Cosponsors (1)
Committees: House Energy and Commerce
Latest Major Action: 3/26/2007 Referred to House subcommittee. Status: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.

14. H.R.2340 : To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to expand coverage of bone mass measurements under part B of the Medicare Program to all individuals at clinical risk for osteoporosis.
Sponsor: Rep Burgess, Michael C. [TX-26] (introduced 5/16/2007)      Cosponsors (None)
Committees: House Energy and Commerce; House Ways and Means
Latest Major Action: 5/25/2007 Referred to House subcommittee. Status: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.

15. H.R.2454 : To include B20 biodiesel blends as an alternative fuel for corporate average fuel economy purposes.
Sponsor: Rep Burgess, Michael C. [TX-26] (introduced 5/23/2007)      Cosponsors (None)
Committees: House Energy and Commerce
Latest Major Action: 5/23/2007 Referred to House subcommittee. Status: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.

16. H.R.2583 : To amend title VII of the Public Health Service Act to establish a loan program for eligible hospitals to establish residency training programs.
Sponsor: Rep Burgess, Michael C. [TX-26] (introduced 6/6/2007)      Cosponsors (23)
Committees: House Energy and Commerce; Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions
House Reports: 110-872
Latest Major Action: 10/2/2008 Referred to Senate committee. Status: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.

17. H.R.2584 : To amend the Public Health Service Act to alleviate critical shortages of physicians in the fields of family practice, internal medicine, pediatrics, emergency medicine, general surgery, and obstetrics-gynecology, and for other purposes.
Sponsor: Rep Burgess, Michael C. [TX-26] (introduced 6/6/2007)      Cosponsors (12)
Committees: House Energy and Commerce; House Ways and Means
Latest Major Action: 6/6/2007 Referred to House subcommittee. Status: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.

18. H.R.2585 : To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to modify Medicare physician reimbursement policies to ensure a future physician workforce, and for other purposes.
Sponsor: Rep Burgess, Michael C. [TX-26] (introduced 6/6/2007)      Cosponsors (23)
Committees: House Energy and Commerce; House Ways and Means
Latest Major Action: 6/18/2007 Referred to House subcommittee. Status: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.

19. H.R.3509 : To provide health care liability reform, and for other purposes.
Sponsor: Rep Burgess, Michael C. [TX-26] (introduced 9/10/2007)      Cosponsors (None)
Committees: House Judiciary
Latest Major Action: 9/10/2007 Referred to House committee. Status: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.

20. H.R.3967 : To amend the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to improve the safety of imported food, and for other purposes.
Sponsor: Rep Burgess, Michael C. [TX-26] (introduced 10/25/2007)      Cosponsors (None)
Committees: House Energy and Commerce
Latest Major Action: 11/8/2007 Referred to House subcommittee. Status: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.

21. H.R.4116 : To provide for the issuance of a veterans health care stamp.
Sponsor: Rep Burgess, Michael C. [TX-26] (introduced 11/8/2007)      Cosponsors (35)
Committees: House Oversight and Government Reform; House Veterans' Affairs
Latest Major Action: 11/8/2007 Referred to House committee. Status: Referred to the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, and in addition to the Committee on 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.

22. H.R.4190 : To amend title 5, United States Code, to exclude Members of Congress from the Federal employees health benefits program, and for other purposes.
Sponsor: Rep Burgess, Michael C. [TX-26] (introduced 11/15/2007)      Cosponsors (None)
Committees: House Administration; House Oversight and Government Reform
Latest Major Action: 11/15/2007 Referred to House committee. Status: Referred to the Committee on House Administration, and in addition to the Committee on 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.

23. H.R.5232 : To provide that no Federal or State requirement to increase energy efficient lighting in public buildings shall require a hospital, school, day care center, mental health facility, or nursing home to install or utilize such energy efficient lighting if the lighting contains mercury.
Sponsor: Rep Burgess, Michael C. [TX-26] (introduced 2/6/2008)      Cosponsors (6)
Committees: House Energy and Commerce; House Transportation and Infrastructure
Latest Major Action: 2/7/2008 Referred to House subcommittee. Status: Referred to the Subcommittee on Economic Development, Public Buildings and Emergency Management.

24. H.R.5544 : To amend the Public Health Service Act to authorize a demonstration project for integrated health systems to expand access to primary and preventive care for the medically underserved, and for other purposes.
Sponsor: Rep Burgess, Michael C. [TX-26] (introduced 3/6/2008)      Cosponsors (7)
Committees: House Energy and Commerce
Latest Major Action: 3/6/2008 Referred to House subcommittee. Status: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.

25. H.R.5545 : To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to modify Medicare physician reimbursement policies to ensure a future physician workforce, and for other purposes.
Sponsor: Rep Burgess, Michael C. [TX-26] (introduced 3/6/2008)      Cosponsors (6)
Committees: House Energy and Commerce; House Ways and Means
Latest Major Action: 3/6/2008 Referred to House subcommittee. Status: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.

26. H.R.5874 : To amend the Public Health Service Act to provide for the establishment of a permanent Multiple Sclerosis National Surveillance System.
Sponsor: Rep Burgess, Michael C. [TX-26] (introduced 4/22/2008)      Cosponsors (43)
Committees: House Energy and Commerce
Latest Major Action: 4/22/2008 Referred to House subcommittee. Status: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.

27. H.R.5885 : To promote a better health information system.
Sponsor: Rep Burgess, Michael C. [TX-26] (introduced 4/24/2008)      Cosponsors (None)
Committees: House Energy and Commerce; House Ways and Means
Latest Major Action: 4/25/2008 Referred to House subcommittee. Status: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.

28. H.R.5943 : To authorize the Secretary of Energy to establish monetary prizes for achievements in designing and proposing nuclear energy used fuel alternatives.
Sponsor: Rep Burgess, Michael C. [TX-26] (introduced 5/1/2008)      Cosponsors (2)
Committees: House Science and Technology
Latest Major Action: 5/1/2008 Referred to House subcommittee. Status: Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Environment.

29. H.R.5986 : To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to immediately terminate the excise tax on diesel fuel and the tax credits for ethanol and other alcohol fuels.
Sponsor: Rep Burgess, Michael C. [TX-26] (introduced 5/7/2008)      Cosponsors (None)
Committees: House Ways and Means
Latest Major Action: 5/7/2008 Referred to House committee. Status: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.

30. H.R.6125 : To provide a mechanism for the construction of petroleum refineries on military installations to provide a reliable source of petroleum products for use by the Armed Forces, and for other purposes.
Sponsor: Rep Burgess, Michael C. [TX-26] (introduced 5/22/2008)      Cosponsors (1)
Committees: House Armed Services; House Oversight and Government Reform
Latest Major Action: 6/23/2008 Referred to House subcommittee. Status: Referred to the Subcommittee on Readiness.

31. H.R.6129 : To amend part B of title XVIII of the Social Security Act to extend for 7 months the Medicare physician payment rates.
Sponsor: Rep Burgess, Michael C. [TX-26] (introduced 5/22/2008)      Cosponsors (24)
Committees: House Energy and Commerce; House Ways and Means
Latest Major Action: 6/3/2008 Referred to House subcommittee. Status: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.

32. H.R.6136 : To amend the Clean Air Act to authorize the President to waive any requirement for an applicable volume of renewable fuels if he finds that the applicable volume is not technologically feasible or that the fuel concerned is not commercially available in the required volume.
Sponsor: Rep Burgess, Michael C. [TX-26] (introduced 5/22/2008)      Cosponsors (22)
Committees: House Energy and Commerce
Latest Major Action: 5/22/2008 Referred to House subcommittee. Status: Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Air Quality.

33. H.R.6908 : To require that limitations and restrictions on coverage under group health plans be timely disclosed to group health plan sponsors and timely communicated to participants and beneficiaries under such plans in a form that is easily understandable.
Sponsor: Rep Burgess, Michael C. [TX-26] (introduced 9/16/2008)      Cosponsors (1)
Committees: House Energy and Commerce; House Education and Labor; House Ways and Means
House Reports: 110-870 Part 1
Latest Major Action: 9/25/2008 Received in the Senate.

34. H.AMDT.2 to H.R.547 Amendment originally sought to require the EPA, as part of a research and development program, to consider issues with respect to increased volatile emissions or increased nitrogen oxide emissions. As amended by the Eshoo amendment (A002), the original text was replaced with language that requires the EPA, as part of a research and development program, to consider strategies to minimize emissions from infrastructure.
Sponsor: Rep Burgess, Michael C. [TX-26] (introduced 2/8/2007)      Cosponsors (None)
Latest Major Action: 2/8/2007 House amendment agreed to. Status: On agreeing to the Burgess amendment (A001) as amended Agreed to by voice vote.

35. H.AMDT.10 to H.R.547 Amendment sought to add a new section providing for an increase in per gallon rates for biodiesel credit.
Sponsor: Rep Burgess, Michael C. [TX-26] (introduced 2/8/2007)      Cosponsors (None)
Latest Major Action: 2/8/2007 Mr. Lampson raised a point of order against the Burgess amendment (A009). Mr. Lampson stated that the provisions of the Burgess amendment are not germane. The Chair sustained the point of order.

36. H.AMDT.13 to H.R.547 Amendment sought to add a new section at the end of the bill providing that research and development under the Act shall address issues with respect to increased volatile emissions or increased nitrogen oxide emissions.
Sponsor: Rep Burgess, Michael C. [TX-26] (introduced 2/8/2007)      Cosponsors (None)
Latest Major Action: 2/8/2007 House amendment agreed to. Status: On agreeing to the Burgess amendment (A012) Agreed to by voice vote.

37. H.AMDT.263 to H.R.2638 Amendment increases funding (by transfer) for the Transportation Threat Assessment account by $15 million.
Sponsor: Rep Burgess, Michael C. [TX-26] (introduced 6/14/2007)      Cosponsors (None)
Latest Major Action: 6/15/2007 House amendment agreed to. Status: On agreeing to the Burgess amendment (A013) Agreed to by recorded vote: 251 - 171 (Roll no. 472).

38. H.AMDT.1151 to H.R.6599 An amendment numbered 35 printed in the Congressional Record to increase funding in the bill, by transfer, for design and construction of petroleum refineries for the Army, Navy, Marine Corps, and Air Force.
Sponsor: Rep Burgess, Michael C. [TX-26] (introduced 7/31/2008)      Cosponsors (None)
Latest Major Action: 7/31/2008 By unanimous consent, the Burgess amendment was withdrawn.

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