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A bill to authorize a cost of living adjustment for the Federal judiciary.

Bill: 110-s-3711
Sponsor: Sen. Reid, Harry [D-NV]
Introduced: 2008-11-20 in the Senate
Policy area: Law
Subjects: Cost of living adjustments
Judicial compensation
Supreme Court justices

Summary:
action_date: 2008-11-20
text: 
Authorizes a cost of living adjustment for FY2009 for justices and judges of the United States.

action_date: 2008-11-20
text: 

(This measure has not been amended since it was introduced. The summary of that version is repeated here.)

 
Authorizes a cost of living adjustment for FY2009 for justices and judges of the United States.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-12-09
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2008-12-09
text: Received in the House.
action_date: 2008-11-24
text: Message on Senate action sent to the House.
action_date: 2008-11-20
text: Introduced in the Senate, read twice, considered, read the third time, and passed without amendment by Unanimous Consent. (consideration: CR S10768-10769; text as passed Senate: CR S10769; text of measure as introduced: CR S10746)
action_date: 2008-11-20
text: Passed/agreed to in Senate: Introduced in the Senate, read twice, considered, read the third time, and passed without amendment by Unanimous Consent.(consideration: CR S10768-10769; text as passed Senate: CR S10769; text of measure as introduced: CR S10746)
action_date: 2008-11-20
text: Introduced in Senate
Captain James A. Lovell Federal Health Care Center of 2008

Bill: 110-s-3713
Sponsor: Sen. Durbin, Richard J. [D-IL]
Introduced: 2008-11-20 in the Senate
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Ambulatory care
Commemorations
Congressional tributes
Health
Illinois
Military hospitals
Military medicine
Names
Navy
Parking facilities
Transportation and Public Works
Veterans' hospitals
Veterans' medical care

Summary:
action_date: 2008-11-20
text: 
Captain James A. Lovell Federal Health Care Center Act of 2008 - Authorizes the Secretary of Defense (Secretary), upon the conclusion of a resource-sharing agreement between the Secretary and the Secretary of Veterans Affairs, to transfer to the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) the Navy ambulatory care center, parking structure, supporting facilities, and related medical personal property and equipment in Great Lakes, Illinois. Designates such facility and supporting facilities as the Captain James A. Lovell Federal Health Care Center (Center). Provides a reversionary interest to the Secretary if the property is not used in accordance with the resource-sharing agreement or in the event of lack of facilities integration. Authorizes the Secretary to transfer to the VA functions necessary for Center operation.
 
Extends through FY2020 a joint Department of Defense (DOD)-VA program to identify, implement, and evaluate creative health care coordination and sharing initiatives at the facility, intraregional, and nationwide levels.
 
Deems the Center a military facility for purposes of the eligibility of members of the Armed Forces to receive care and services there.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-11-20
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Armed Services. (text of measure as introduced: CR S10746-10747)
action_date: 2008-11-20
text: Introduced in Senate
Derivatives Trading Integrity Act of 2008

Bill: 110-s-3714
Sponsor: Sen. Harkin, Tom [D-IA]
Introduced: 2008-11-20 in the Senate
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Commodity Futures Trading Commission
Commodity exchanges
Derivative securities
Government Operations and Politics
Independent regulatory commissions
Law
Swaps (Finance)

Summary:
action_date: 2008-11-20
text: 
Derivatives Trading Integrity Act of 2008 - Amends the Commodity Exchange Act to: (1) repeal the exemption or exclusion from regulation by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) of specified derivative transactions, swap transactions, and related electronic trading facilities; (2) restrict futures trading to contract markets or derivatives transaction execution facilities; and (3) abolish exempt boards of trade.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-11-20
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry. (text of measure as introduced: CR S10747-10748)
action_date: 2008-11-20
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S10747)
action_date: 2008-11-20
text: Introduced in Senate
Special Inspector General for the Troubled Asset Relief Program Act of 2008

Bill: 110-s-3716
Sponsor: Sen. McCaskill, Claire [D-MO]
Introduced: 2008-11-20 in the Senate
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: Auditing
Bank failures
Economic stabilization
Economics and Public Finance
Employee selection
Federal employees
Financial crises
Government Operations and Politics
Governmental investigations
Inspectors general

Summary:
action_date: 2008-11-20
text: 
Special Inspector General for the Troubled Asset Relief Program Act of 2008 - Amends the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008 to authorize the Special Inspector General to exercise specified employment authorities for additional personnel, but not after six months following enactment of this Act.
 
Authorizes the Special Inspector General to conduct, supervise, and coordinate an audit or investigation of any action taken under such Act, except any action related to: (1) graduated authorization to purchase troubled assets; (2) oversight and audits by the Comptroller General; (3) the Comptroller General's study and report on margin authority; and (4) the Congressional Oversight Panel.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-11-20
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.
action_date: 2008-11-20
text: Introduced in Senate
Dental Health Promotion Act of 2008

Bill: 110-s-3717
Sponsor: Sen. Stabenow, Debbie [D-MI]
Introduced: 2008-11-20 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Dental care
Flexible benefit plans
Health
Income tax
Labor and Employment
Preventive medicine
Tax exclusion

Summary:
action_date: 2008-11-20
text: 
Dental Health Promotion Act of 2008 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow reimbursement from flexible spending accounts for products used to diagnose, cure, mitigate, treat, or prevent the onset of tooth decay (caries), periodontal diseases, and conditions ailing the teeth, gums, and mouth, or affecting their functioning.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-11-20
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2008-11-20
text: Introduced in Senate
Unemployment Benefit Tax Suspension Act of 2008

Bill: 110-s-3718
Sponsor: Sen. Snowe, Olympia J. [R-ME]
Introduced: 2008-12-08 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Income tax
Labor and Employment
Tax exclusion
Unemployment insurance

Summary:
action_date: 2008-12-08
text: 
Unemployment Benefit Tax Suspension Act of 2008 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to suspend, for taxable years beginning after December 31, 2007, and before January 1, 2010, the taxation of unemployment compensation.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-12-08
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. (text of measure as introduced: CR S10813)
action_date: 2008-12-08
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S10813)
action_date: 2008-12-08
text: Introduced in Senate
Retirement Account Distribution Improvement Act of 2008

Bill: 110-s-3719
Sponsor: Sen. Snowe, Olympia J. [R-ME]
Introduced: 2008-12-08 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Income tax
Individual retirement accounts
Labor and Employment
Tax exclusion
Tax-deferred compensation plans

Summary:
action_date: 2008-12-08
text: 
Retirement Account Distribution Improvement Act of 2008 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to suspend in 2008, 2009, and 2010 requirements for minimum distributions from tax-deferred retirement plans. Permits taxpayers who have already received a minimum distribution in 2008 to recontribute such distribution to their retirement plans by July 1, 2009.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-12-08
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. (text of measure as introduced: CR S10813-10814)
action_date: 2008-12-08
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S10813)
action_date: 2008-12-08
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to suspend the minimum required pension distribution rules for 2008 and 2009.

Bill: 110-s-3720
Sponsor: Sen. Specter, Arlen [R-PA]
Introduced: 2008-12-08 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Income tax
Individual retirement accounts
Labor and Employment
Tax exclusion
Tax-deferred compensation plans

Summary:
action_date: 2008-12-08
text: 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to suspend in 2008 and 2009 requirements for minimum distributions from tax-deferred retirement plans. Permits taxpayers who have already received a minimum distribution to recontribute such distribution to their retirement plans. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-12-08
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2008-12-08
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S10814-10815)
action_date: 2008-12-08
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to prohibit the use of funds to transfer individuals detained by the United States at Naval Station, Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, to the United States Disciplinary Barracks, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas.

Bill: 110-s-3721
Sponsor: Sen. Brownback, Sam [R-KS]
Introduced: 2008-12-08 in the Senate
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Appropriations
Caribbean area
Cuba
Detention of persons
Economics and Public Finance
Kansas
Latin America
Military bases
Prisoners
Prisons

Summary:
action_date: 2008-12-08
text: 
Prohibits federal funds from being used to transfer any individual detained by the United States at Naval Station Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, to the United States Disciplinary Barracks, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-12-08
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Armed Services. (text of measure as introduced: CR S10815)
action_date: 2008-12-08
text: Introduced in Senate
Bipartisan Electronic Voting Reform Act of 2008

Bill: 110-s-3722
Sponsor: Sen. Feinstein, Dianne [D-CA]
Introduced: 2008-12-08 in the Senate
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Absentee voting
Administrative procedure
Ballots
Computer software
Congress
Congressional elections
Economics and Public Finance
Election administration
Federal Election Commission
Federal advisory bodies
Grants-in-aid
Laboratories
Law
Presidential elections
Science, Technology, Communications
Security measures
Standards
Test facilities
Voter registration
Voting
Voting machines

Summary:
action_date: 2008-12-08
text: 
Bipartisan Electronic Voting Reform Act of 2008 - Amends the Help America Vote Act of 2002 to require any voting system other than one using paper ballots personally marked by the voter to permit independent verification of cast ballots by various specified means, including paper or electronic.
 
Requires each state to conduct an audit of every federal election to ensure that each certificate of election is justified by the vote totals. Directs the Federal Election Commission to establish an Audit Guidelines Development Task Force to assist the Commission in developing model audit guidelines. 
 
Prescribes election security requirements for voting systems, including: (1) chain of custody protocols; (2) disclosure of election-dedicated software; and (3) minimum state standards to ensure the integrity of the voting process and education and training of poll workers.
 
Directs the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) to establish a Voting System Software Review Committee which, upon request by the Commission or a state's chief election official, shall review voting system software that has not been certified by the Commission.
 
Establishes accreditation requirements for laboratories involved in testing of voting system hardware and software. Directs the Commission to establish the Election Assistance Commission Voting System Testing Revolving Fund for payments to accredited laboratories for testing of such hardware and software.
 
Requires the Commission to make grants for: (1) development and testing of new voting systems, technologies, and innovations to meet independent verification requirements under this Act; and (2) pilot programs for such testing.
 
Directs the Commission to establish a task force to study and develop recommendations regarding the appropriate level of funding for requirements payments.
 
Amends the Uniformed and Overseas Citizens Absentee Voting Act to prohibit state refusal to accept voter registration and absentee ballot applications and federal write-in absentee ballots for failure to meet nonessential requirements.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-12-08
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Rules and Administration.
action_date: 2008-12-08
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to establish a framework for coordination and cooperation on energy and environmental issues among the United States, the People's Republic of China, and India, and for other purposes.

Bill: 110-s-3723
Sponsor: Sen. Cantwell, Maria [D-WA]
Introduced: 2008-12-08 in the Senate
Policy area: International Affairs
Subjects: Air pollution control
Alternative energy sources
China
Congressional-executive relations
East Asia
Ecosystem management
Energy
Energy development
Environmental Protection
Environmental technology
Foreign Trade and International Finance
Forest conservation
India
International environmental cooperation
Negotiations
Public Lands and Natural Resources
Science, Technology, Communications
South Asia
Technological innovations
Water Resources Development
Water pollution control
Wetlands

Summary:
action_date: 2008-12-08
text: 
Declares it to be the policy of the United States to develop an informed dialogue with China and India on the sustainable use of energy and the protection of the environment, the promotion of best practices for clean energy and technology investments, and the development and transfer of energy and environmental technologies.

Establishes a Congressional-Executive Commission on Clean Energy Trade Between Key Consuming Nations to coordinate energy and environmental issues relating to the United States, China, and India and to establish a dialogue among such nations on the development and promotion of clean energy production, clean air and water, clean and efficient transportation, and the conservation and management of forests and wetlands and their ecosystems. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-12-08
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations.
action_date: 2008-12-08
text: Introduced in Senate
Elko Indian Colony Expansion Act of 2008

Bill: 110-s-3724
Sponsor: Sen. Reid, Harry [D-NV]
Introduced: 2008-12-08 in the Senate
Policy area: Native Americans
Subjects: Indian lands
Minorities
Nevada
Public Lands and Natural Resources

Summary:
action_date: 2008-12-08
text: 
Elko Indian Colony Expansion Act of 2008 - Requires that approximately 373 acres of land administered by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) and identified on the map entitled &quot;Te-moak Tribal Land Expansion,&quot; dated September 30, 2008, be held in trust by the United States for the benefit and use of the Te-moak Tribe of Western Shoshone Indians of Nevada as part of the Tribe's reservation.

Directs the Secretary of the Interior, acting through the Director of the BLM, to complete a survey to establish the boundaries of the land taken into trust.

Provides that such land shall not be eligible for class II or class III gaming. Requires the Tribe to limit the use of the land to traditional and customary uses, stewardship conservation for the Tribe's benefit, and residential or recreational development or commercial use. Authorizes the Secretary, in coordination with the Tribe, to carry out any fuels reduction and other landscape restoration activities on that land that is beneficial to the Tribe and the BLM.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-12-08
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. (text of measure as introduced: CR S10815-10816)
action_date: 2008-12-08
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S10815)
action_date: 2008-12-08
text: Introduced in Senate
Green Jobs and Infrastructure Act of 2008

Bill: 110-s-3725
Sponsor: Sen. Stabenow, Debbie [D-MI]
Introduced: 2008-12-10 in the Senate
Policy area: Energy
Subjects: Air conditioning
Alternative energy sources
Biomass energy
Block grants
Building construction
Carbon cycle
Carbon dioxide
Cogeneration of electric power and heat
Commerce
Construction industries
Economics and Public Finance
Electric appliances
Energy efficiency
Environmental Protection
Fuel cells
Geothermal resources
Government lending
Heating
Housing and Community Development
Industrial buildings
Industrial engineering
Labor and Employment
Landfills
Manufacturing industries
Methane
Natural gas
Ocean energy resources
Recycling of waste products
Small business
Solar energy
Wind power

Summary:
action_date: 2008-12-10
text: 
Green Jobs and Infrastructure Act of 2008 - Requires the Secretary of Energy to implement a program to provide loans to manufacturers to help finance the cost of: (1) reequipping, expanding, or establishing a manufacturing facility in the United States to produce clean technology products and significant component parts of those products, including wind turbines, solar energy products, fuel cells, advanced batteries and storage devices, biomass engines, and geothermal equipment; and (2) improving the energy-efficiency of the industrial processes of the manufacturers other than through the production of products and component parts for retrofitting a manufacturing facility. Applies such loans to: (1) facilities and equipment placed in service before December 30, 2012; and (2) costs incurred between the date of this Act's enactment and December 30, 2020. Requires the Secretary to give priority to facilities in regions with the highest unemployment rates. Authorizes the Secretary to provide awards or loans to idle facilities.

Amends the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007 to require the Secretary to establish the High-Performance Building Block Grant Program to provide grants to assist eligible entities in implementing large-scale, multi-building projects to improve and provide high-performance building, green building, and renewable energy services and financing to homeowners and small businesses. 

Amends the National and Community Service Act of 1990 to include among national service programs eligible for assistance under the National and Community Service State Grant Program a Clean Energy Service Corps program in which participants: (1) promote clean energy technologies; or (2) enable communities and nonprofit organizations to assist businesses and households in matters relating to clean energy technologies and in becoming more energy efficient.

Amends the Workforce Investment Act to require the Secretary of the Treasury to transfer to the Secretary a specified amount of funding for the energy efficiency and renewable energy worker training program.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-12-10
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
action_date: 2008-12-10
text: Introduced in Senate
Crime-Free Rural States Reauthorization Act

Bill: 110-s-3726
Sponsor: Sen. Leahy, Patrick J. [D-VT]
Introduced: 2008-12-10 in the Senate
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Authorization
Crime prevention
Drug abuse
Drug abuse prevention
Economics and Public Finance
Federal aid to law enforcement
Housing and Community Development
Rural crime
Violence

Summary:
action_date: 2008-12-10
text: 
Crime-Free Rural States Reauthorization Act - Amends the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 to authorize appropriations for FY2009-FY2012 for the grant program to assist rural states in the prevention and reduction of crime, violence, and substance abuse. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-12-10
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. (text of measure as introduced: CR S10882)
action_date: 2008-12-10
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S10881-10882)
action_date: 2008-12-10
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to require the designation of the Federal building located at McKinley Avenue and Third Street, S.W., Canton, Ohio, as the "Ralph Regula Federal Building".

Bill: 110-s-3727
Sponsor: Sen. Brown, Sherrod [D-OH]
Introduced: 2008-12-10 in the Senate
Policy area: Commemorations
Subjects: Congress
Congressional tributes
Ex-Members of Congress
Federal office buildings
House of Representatives
Names
Ohio

Summary:
action_date: 2008-12-10
text: 
Directs the Administrator of General Services to ensure that the federal building located at McKinley Avenue and Third Street, S.W., Canton, Ohio, is designated as the "Ralph Regula Federal Building.&quot; 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-12-10
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.
action_date: 2008-12-10
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to direct the Secretary of Transportation to waive non-Federal share requirements for certain transportation programs and activities through September 30, 2009.

Bill: 110-s-3728
Sponsor: Sen. Sanders, Bernard [I-VT]
Introduced: 2008-12-10 in the Senate
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Economics and Public Finance
Federal aid to transportation
Federal-local relations
Federal-state relations
Government Operations and Politics
Highway finance
Infrastructure
Intergovernmental fiscal relations
Transportation engineering

Summary:
action_date: 2008-12-10
text: 
Directs the Secretary of Transportation to waive, through FY2009, any requirement that would otherwise require a state or local government to contribute non-federal funds toward the cost of a covered transportation program or activity authorized by the Safe, Accountable, Flexible, Efficient Transportation Equity Act: A Legacy for Users (SAFETEA-LU) or an amendment made by that Act.

Declares, however, that nothing in this Act shall be construed to prohibit a state or local government from contributing non-federal funds toward the cost of a covered transportation program or activity.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-12-10
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.
action_date: 2008-12-10
text: Introduced in Senate
Livestock Emissions Tax Ban Act

Bill: 110-s-3729
Sponsor: Sen. Dorgan, Byron L. [D-ND]
Introduced: 2008-12-10 in the Senate
Policy area: Environmental Protection
Subjects: Agricultural pollution
Agriculture and Food
Air pollution control
Animals
Fees
Livestock
Methane
Taxation

Summary:
action_date: 2008-12-10
text: 
Livestock Emissions Tax Ban Act - Amends the Clean Air Act to prohibit the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) from imposing a fee or tax under such Act on any direct gaseous emissions by livestock.
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-12-10
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.
action_date: 2008-12-10
text: Introduced in Senate