Economic Recovery Act, 2008

Bill: 110-s-3604
Sponsor: Sen. Reid, Harry [D-NV]
Introduced: 2008-09-26 in the Senate
Policy area: Economics and Public Finance
Subjects: Agriculture and Food
Airports
Alternative energy sources
American Samoa
Animals
Architecture and the disabled
Armed Forces and National Security
Army Corps of Engineers
Asbestos
Border patrols
Boundaries
Broadband
Capitol (Washington, D.C.)
Cattle
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
Charter schools
Child support
Coast guard
Commerce
Commodity Futures Trading Commission
Community policing
Congress
Congressional agencies
Congressional investigations
Construction costs
Corporate reorganizations
Crime and Law Enforcement
Defense budgets
Department of Agriculture
Department of Commerce
Department of Defense
Department of Education
Department of Health and Human Services
Department of Homeland Security
Department of Housing and Urban Development
Department of Justice
Department of Labor
Department of Transportation
Department of the Interior
Department of the Treasury
Disabled
Dislocated workers
Distance education
District of Columbia
Drug abuse
Drug law enforcement
Economic impact statements
Economic stabilization
Education
Education of the disadvantaged
Elementary and secondary education
Energy
Energy efficiency
Environmental Protection
Environmental Protection Agency
Families
Farms
Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)
Federal aid to education
Federal aid to housing
Federal aid to law enforcement
Federal aid to transportation
Federal aid to water pollution control
Federal aid to water resources development
Federal installations
Federal office buildings
Federally-guaranteed loans
Fees
Finance and Financial Sector
Fines (Penalties)
Food relief
Food safety
Foreclosure
General Services Administration
Government Operations and Politics
Government lending
Government trust funds
Hazardous wastes
Health
Highway finance
Housing and Community Development
Housing authorities
Hydroelectric power
Ice breaking operations
Independent regulatory commissions
Infrastructure
Inspectors general
Intergovernmental fiscal relations
Judicial officers
Labor and Employment
Latin America
Law
Legal Services Corporation
Loan defaults
Maintenance and repair
Mass rapid transit
Medicaid
Medical research
Mexico
Minimum wages
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
National Institutes of Health (NIH)
National Railroad Passenger Corporation (Amtrak)
National parks
Northern Mariana Islands
Nuclear facilities
Nuclear security measures
Nuclear weapons
Nutrition
Old age assistance
Patrol ships
Police
Police training
Protection of animals
Psychiatric hospitals
Public Lands and Natural Resources
Public housing
Railroad passenger traffic
Reprogramming of appropriated funds
Research centers
Revolving funds
Road construction
Rural economic development
Rural housing
School buildings
Science, Technology, Communications
Sewage disposal
Shipbuilding
Small Business Administration
Small business
Social Welfare
Space activities
Space exploration
Space flight
Space shuttles
State laws
Supplemental appropriations
Telemedicine
Unemployment
Unemployment insurance
Uranium
Veterans' employment
WIC program
Waste water treatment
Water Resources Development

Summary:
action_date: 2008-09-26
text: 
Economic Recovery Act, 2008 - Makes emergency supplemental appropriations for FY2008 for infrastructure, energy, and economic recovery to: (1) the Department of Agriculture; (2) the Department of Commerce; (3) the Department of Justice (DOJ); (4) the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA); (5) the Legal Services Corporation; (6) the Department of Defense (DOD) - Civil Corps of Engineers; (7) the Department of the Interior; (8) the Department of Energy (DOE); (9) the Department of the Treasury, including the Office of Inspector General; (10) the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC); (11) the General Services Administration (GSA); (12) the Small Business Administration (SBA); (13) the Department of Homeland Security (DHS); (14) the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA); (15) the Department of Labor (DOL); (16) the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS); (17) the Department of Education; (18) the legislative branch; (19) the Department of Transportation (DOT); and (20) the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD).
 
Makes supplemental appropriations for FY2008 to provide a temporary increase in benefits under the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program.
 
Makes supplemental appropriations for FY2008 to provide a temporary: (1) increase in the Medicaid federal medical assistance percentage (FMAP) under the Social Security Act; and (2) reinstatement of authority to provide federal matching payments for state spending of child support incentive payments.
 
Makes supplemental appropriations for FY2008 to extend the period of emergency unemployment compensation (EUC).
 
Exempts weeks of unemployment between enactment of this Act and December 8, 2009, from the prohibition in the Federal-State Extended Unemployment Compensation Act of 1970 against federal matching payments to a state for the first week in an individual's eligibility period for which extended compensation or sharable regular compensation is paid if the state law of such state provides for payment (at any time or under any circumstances) of regular compensation to an individual for his or her first week of otherwise compensable unemployment. (Thus allows temporary federal matching for the first week of extended benefits for states with no waiting period.)
 
National Park Centennial Fund Act - Establishes in the Treasury the National Park Centennial Fund.
 
Designates each amount in the Economic Recovery Act, 2008 as: (1) an emergency requirement and necessary to meet emergency needs; and (2) a supplemental appropriation for FY2008, or, if enacted after FY2008, for FY2009.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-09-26
text: Referred to the Committee on Appropriations.
action_date: 2008-09-26
text: Motion to proceed to consideration of measure, having failed to achieve the required 60 votes in the affirmative, was not agreed to in Senate by Yea-Nay Vote. 52 - 42. Record Vote Number: 206.
action_date: 2008-09-26
text: Motion to proceed to consideration of measure made in Senate by Unanimous Consent. (consideration: CR S9574-9577)
action_date: 2008-09-26
text: Introduced in the Senate, read twice. (text of measure as introduced in Senate: CR S9660-9668)
action_date: 2008-09-26
text: Introduced in Senate