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National Parents Corps Act of 2008

Bill: 110-hr-7225
Sponsor: Rep. Lewis, John [D-GA-5]
Introduced: 2008-09-29 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Alcoholism
Child safety
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Crime and Law Enforcement
Crime prevention
Criminal justice information
Drug abuse
Drug abuse prevention
Drug addiction
Drugs and youth
Economics and Public Finance
Elementary and secondary education
Elementary education
Employee selection
Families
Federal aid to education
Fund raising
Gangs
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Identification of criminals
Juvenile delinquency
Nonprofit organizations
Parent-school relationships
School personnel
School security
Secondary education
Social Welfare
Youth violence

Summary:
action_date: 2008-09-29
text: 
National Parents Corps Act of 2008 - Directs the Administrator of the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, subject to the availability of appropriations, to award a grant to a nonprofit entity (to be known as the NPCP Nonprofit Partner) to establish a National Parents Corps program to promote safety and combat youth violence and substance abuse in public middle or secondary schools.
 
Requires the NPCP Nonprofit Partner to: (1) select for program participation annually schools that agree to host a Parent Leader for a number of years equal to the number of grade levels they offer; and (2) employ, after a background check, a Parent Leader from among the parents of students enrolled in the lowest grade at each participating school to work on a full-time basis with students, other parents, and school officials to treat, prevent, and reduce violence and drug, alcohol, and tobacco addiction among students.
 
Urges participating schools to take the measures necessary to secure funding for the employment of Parent Leaders after federal funding becomes unavailable.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-09-29
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and Labor.
action_date: 2008-09-29
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2008-09-29
text: Introduced in House
Net Worth Certificate Program Act of 2008

Bill: 110-hr-7226
Sponsor: Rep. Shadegg, John B. [R-AZ-3]
Introduced: 2008-09-29 in the House
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Bank accounts, deposits, capital
Banking and financial institutions regulation
Corporate finance and management
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC)
Financial crises and stabilization
Government lending and loan guarantees
Securities
Wages and earnings

Summary:
action_date: 2008-09-29
text: 
Net Worth Certificate Program Act of 2008 - Directs the Chairman of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) to create a net worth certificate program that will settle the financial markets without significant expense to taxpayers.
 
States that such program will be authorized to purchase net worth certificates by issuing FDIC senior notes to the banks in the form of subordinated debentures, or in any other form the Chairman determines meets program goals and requirements.
 
Requires the Chairman to certify that a bank eligible for the program is both: (1) in danger of failing; and (2) could be viable if given more time.
 
Requires the Chairman to issue new, strict supervision rules for banks that wish to enter the program, including oversight of top executive compensation and removal of poor management.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-09-29
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2008-09-29
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2008-09-29
text: Introduced in House
Death in Custody Reporting Act of 2008

Bill: 110-hr-7227
Sponsor: Rep. Scott, Robert C. "Bobby" [D-VA-3]
Introduced: 2008-09-29 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Correctional facilities and imprisonment
Criminal justice information and records
Detention of persons
Government studies and investigations
Law enforcement administration and funding

Summary:
action_date: 2008-09-29
text: 
Death in Custody Reporting Act of 2008 - Requires states that receive certain criminal justice assistance grants to report to the Attorney General on a quarterly basis certain information regarding the death of any person who is detained, under arrest, en route to incarceration, or incarcerated in state or local facilities or a boot camp prison. Imposes penalties on states that fail to comply with such reporting requirements.

Requires the Attorney General to: (1) study the information obtained from states relating to deaths in custody; and (2) collect information regarding the death of any person in custody for each fiscal year.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-09-29
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2008-09-29
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2008-09-29
text: Introduced in House
Main Street Protection Act of 2008

Bill: 110-hr-7228
Sponsor: Rep. Bartlett, Roscoe G. [R-MD-6]
Introduced: 2008-09-29 in the House
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: Bank accounts, deposits, capital
Financial crises and stabilization
Financial services and investments

Summary:
action_date: 2008-09-29
text: 
Main Street Protection Act of 2008 - Requires the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) to insure deposits under the Federal Deposit Insurance Act without regard to the amount on deposit in any account or the amount of the deposits of any customer.
 
Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to establish a program for insuring the principal amounts on deposit in any money market account using the U.S. Treasury stabilization fund without limitation on the amount insured in any such account. Authorizes the Secretary to make appropriate assessments against the institution holding such accounts to cover the cost of providing such insurance.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-09-29
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2008-09-29
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2008-09-29
text: Introduced in House
Children's Budget Act

Bill: 110-hr-7229
Sponsor: Rep. Davis, Danny K. [D-IL-7]
Introduced: 2008-09-29 in the House
Policy area: Economics and Public Finance
Subjects: Aid to dependent children
Appropriations
Authorization
Cash welfare block grants
Child health
Child welfare
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Education
Elementary and secondary education
Elementary education
Entitlements
Families
Federal aid programs
Federal aid to child health services
Federal aid to education
Federal budgets
Health
Secondary education
Social Welfare

Summary:
action_date: 2008-09-29
text: 
Children's Budget Act - Requires the President's annual budget to Congress to include a detailed, separate analysis for the prior fiscal year, the current fiscal year, the fiscal year for which the budget is submitted, and the ensuing fiscal year identifying the amounts of gross and net appropriations or obligational authority and outlays directed to children and children's programs within the United States and territories.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-09-29
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Budget.
action_date: 2008-09-29
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2008-09-29
text: Introduced in House
Save America's Utility Infrastructure and Secure America Now Act of 2008

Bill: 110-hr-7230
Sponsor: Rep. Jackson-Lee, Sheila [D-TX-18]
Introduced: 2008-09-29 in the House
Policy area: Energy
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Criminal procedure and sentencing
Department of Energy
Electric power generation and transmission
Emergency planning and evacuation
Executive agency funding and structure
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC)
Government studies and investigations
Public utilities and utility rates

Summary:
action_date: 2008-09-29
text: 
Save America's Utility Infrastructure and Secure America Now Act of 2008 - Amends the Federal Power Act to grant the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) enforcement powers with respect to electric reliability standards. (Currently such powers are exercised by an Electric Reliability Organization [ERO].)
 
Revises penalty guidelines to subject to federal criminal law any person who violates a FERC-approved electric reliability standard.
 

 
Requires FERC to issue a rule in connection with electric reliability standards to prohibit disturbances (other than planned maintenance) lasting greater than five days at certain substations.
 
Instructs the Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security to study and report to Congress on gaps in emergency planning preparedness and management as related to specified, vulnerable populations.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-09-30
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Economic Development, Public Buildings and Emergency Management.
action_date: 2008-09-29
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Air Quality.
action_date: 2008-09-29
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, 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.
action_date: 2008-09-29
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, 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.
action_date: 2008-09-29
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, 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.
action_date: 2008-09-29
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2008-09-29
text: Introduced in House
To repeal the exemption for hydraulic fracturing in the Safe Drinking Water Act, and for other purposes.

Bill: 110-hr-7231
Sponsor: Rep. DeGette, Diana [D-CO-1]
Introduced: 2008-09-29 in the House
Policy area: Environmental Protection
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
Environmental regulatory procedures
Hazardous wastes and toxic substances
Oil and gas
Water quality

Summary:
action_date: 2008-09-29
text: 
Amends the Safe Drinking Water Act to permit federal regulation of hydraulic fracturing (a process for extracting oil and gas from wells by the injection of fluids at high pressure).


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-09-29
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Environment and Hazardous Materials.
action_date: 2008-09-29
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2008-09-29
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2008-09-29
text: Introduced in House
To reform the Federal Deposit Insurance System, and for other purposes.

Bill: 110-hr-7232
Sponsor: Rep. Gohmert, Louie [R-TX-1]
Introduced: 2008-09-29 in the House
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: Bank accounts, deposits, capital
Congressional oversight
Employee benefits and pensions
Financial crises and stabilization
Government information and archives
Inflation and prices

Summary:
action_date: 2008-09-29
text: 
Amends the Federal Deposit Insurance Act to increase the standard maximum amount of deposit insurance from $100,000 to: (1) $500,000, at the option of the insured depository institution; and (2) $250,000 or $500,000 for eligible retirement accounts, at the institution's option. Requires an annual inflation adjustment.
 
Directs the Board of Directors of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) and the National Credit Union Administration (NCUA) Board to report to Congress and publish in the Federal Register any such inflation adjustments to the standard maximum deposit insurance amount and to the standard maximum share insurance amount.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-09-29
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2008-09-29
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2008-09-29
text: Introduced in House
Integrated Risk Information System Authorization Act

Bill: 110-hr-7234
Sponsor: Rep. Miller, Brad [D-NC-13]
Introduced: 2008-09-29 in the House
Policy area: Environmental Protection
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
Environmental health
Environmental regulatory procedures
Government information and archives
Hazardous wastes and toxic substances
Health information and medical records
Medical research
Research administration and funding

Summary:
action_date: 2008-09-29
text: 
Integrated Risk Information System Authorization Act - Requires the Assistant Administrator for the Office of Research and Development of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to maintain a publicly accessible database of scientific information on the toxicity of chemicals, including hazard identification, dose response assessments, reference doses, and other information that would facilitate the development of risk assessments.

Requires the Assistant Administrator to: (1) publish final assessments for at least 15 new chemicals per year and at least five updates to existing assessments per year; (2) solicit nominations for chemical assessments; (3) issue a list of chemicals proposed for assessment two years prior to initiation of the assessment, which shall be made available on the database within four years of its appearance on such list; (4) determine the information to be used to assess chemicals and establish a process for reviewing chemical assessments prior to their inclusion on the database; (5) ensure that federal agencies with real or perceived conflicts of interests do not participate in the development or internal review of chemical assessments; and (6) finalize and publish within six months chemical assessments that have been in development for Integrated Risk Information System entries prior to this Act's enactment.

 Declares that such list is not subject to review or approval by other federal agencies or officials. Requires the Assistant Administrator to develop and review chemical assessments without review by the President and to publish final assessments without prior review by the President or other federal agencies or officials. Prohibits the preparation and review of chemical assessments from being subject to the provisions of Bulletin No. 07-02, Final Bulletin for Agency Good Guidance Practices, and the Final Information Quality Bulletin for Peer Review of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB).


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-09-29
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Environment and Hazardous Materials.
action_date: 2008-09-29
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2008-09-29
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2008-09-29
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Federal Deposit Insurance Act the amount of deposits insured under that Act.

Bill: 110-hr-7235
Sponsor: Rep. Shays, Christopher [R-CT-4]
Introduced: 2008-09-29 in the House
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: Bank accounts, deposits, capital
Employee benefits and pensions
Financial crises and stabilization
Government trust funds
User charges and fees

Summary:
action_date: 2008-09-29
text: 
Amends the Federal Deposit Insurance Act to: (1) increase from $100,000 to $300,000 the maximum amount of deposit insurance for accounts insured by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC); and (2) require the FDIC to adjust premiums for deposit insurance based on solvency of the Deposit Insurance Fund (DIF) to ensure that the Fund is funded by premiums from insured depository institutions, and not by taxpayer revenues.
 
Repeals the cap on the maximum amount of deposit insurance for deposits in an insured depository institution made in connection with specified kinds of retirement accounts, including individual retirement accounts (IRAs).


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-09-29
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2008-09-29
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2008-09-29
text: Introduced in House
Small Business Start-Up Support Act of 2008

Bill: 110-hr-7236
Sponsor: Rep. Shea-Porter, Carol [D-NH-1]
Introduced: 2008-09-29 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Business investment and capital
Income tax deductions
Small business

Summary:
action_date: 2008-09-29
text: 
Small Business Start-Up Support Act of 2008 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to increase from $5,000 to $10,000 the dollar amount of the tax deduction for trade or business start-up expenditures. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-09-29
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2008-09-29
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2008-09-29
text: Introduced in House
Middle Class Dependent Care Fairness Act of 2008

Bill: 110-hr-7237
Sponsor: Rep. Shea-Porter, Carol [D-NH-1]
Introduced: 2008-09-29 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Adult day care
Caregivers
Day care
Disabled
Families
Income tax
Married people
Social Welfare
Tax credits

Summary:
action_date: 2008-09-29
text: 
Middle Class Dependent Care Fairness Act of 2008 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to eliminate the mandatory reduction in the rate of the tax credit for household and dependent care services for taxpayers whose adjusted gross incomes exceed $15,000.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-09-29
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2008-09-29
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2008-09-29
text: Introduced in House
To provide a tax credit for qualified energy storage air conditioner property.

Bill: 110-hr-7238
Sponsor: Rep. Thompson, Mike [D-CA-1]
Introduced: 2008-09-29 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Energy efficiency and conservation
Energy storage, supplies, demand
Environmental technology
Income tax credits
Residential rehabilitation and home repair

Summary:
action_date: 2008-09-29
text: 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow: (1) a residential energy efficient tax credit for 30% of the cost of qualified energy storage air conditioner property installed in a principal residence; and (2) an energy tax credit for 30% of qualified energy storage air conditioner property installed before January 1, 2015.

 Defines &quot;qualified energy storage air conditioner property&quot; as a cooling system that: (1) consists of thermal or ice storage components that create, store, and supply cooling energy to reduce peak electricity demand; (2) can deliver a minimum of 29,000 Btu and a maximum of 240,000 Btu of cooling capacity; (3) is designed to deliver such cooling capacity for a minimum continuous period of three hours; (4) is designed to reduce peak kilowatt demand by 90% for the cooling load served; and (5) is designed not to exceed the 24-hour energy consumption of conventional cooling equipment by more than 10%.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-09-29
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2008-09-29
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2008-09-29
text: Introduced in House
No BAILOUTS Act of 2008

Bill: 110-hr-7240
Sponsor: Rep. DeFazio, Peter A. [D-OR-4]
Introduced: 2008-10-02 in the House
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: Accounting and auditing
Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Bank accounts, deposits, capital
Banking and financial institutions regulation
Financial crises and stabilization
Financial services and investments
Government lending and loan guarantees
Securities
Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)

Summary:
action_date: 2008-10-02
text: 
Bringing Accounting, Increased Liquidity, Oversight and Upholding Taxpayer Security Act of 2008 or the No BAILOUTS Act of 2008 - Directs the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to report to Congress on the effect of its clarification on fair value accounting issued September 30, 2008.
 
States that the order of the SEC issued September 17, 2008, continues in effect until: (1) canceled or withdrawn by the SEC; or (2) repealed by an Act of Congress.
 
Directs the SEC to: (1) reinstate rule 10a-1 (uptick rule on short sales of securities); (2) rescind rule 201 of regulation SHO; and (3) reinstate the price test restrictions that applied to short sales of securities before its action in the proceeding entitled &quot;Regulation SHO and Rule 10a-1,&quot; adopted June 28, 2007.
 
Requires the Board of Directors of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) to establish a net worth certificate program to provide capital to assist insured depository institutions to resolve solvency problems.
 

 
Amends the Federal Deposit Insurance Act and the Federal Credit Union Act to increase from $100,000 to $250,000 the standard maximum deposit and share insurance amount.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-10-02
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2008-10-02
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2008-10-02
text: Introduced in House
Preserving Access to Healthcare (PATH) Act of 2008

Bill: 110-hr-7241
Sponsor: Rep. Engel, Eliot L. [D-NY-17]
Introduced: 2008-10-02 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Ambulatory care
Appropriations
California
Department of Health and Human Services
Economics and Public Finance
Family planning and birth control
Federal aid to education
Government Operations and Politics
Higher education
Hospital care
Law
Medicaid
Medical education
Medical personnel
Medicare
Social Welfare
Terminal care

Summary:
action_date: 2008-10-02
text: 
Preserving Access to Healthcare (PATH) Act of 2008 - Declares that between October 1, 2008, and March 31, 2009, specified regulations regarding the formula for determining the federal rate for inpatient hospital capital-related costs under the Medicare prospective payment system (PPS) shall apply without the mandatory phase out of the indirect medical education adjustment factor.
 
Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services to delay for six months following enactment of this Act any implementation of the Medicaid outpatient hospital services regulation proposed on September 28, 2007.
 
Prohibits the Secretary from phasing out or eliminating the Medicare hospice wage index budget neutrality adjustment factor before April 1, 2009. 
 
Directs the Secretary, acting through the Administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services and upon the request of the state of California, to extend approval, and full federal financial participation, of the state's Medicaid family planning demonstration project until June 30, 2009, under the eligibility requirements and processes that were in place before the project's first extension period.
 
Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to increase funding for the Medicare Improvement Fund.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-10-02
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2008-10-02
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Ways and Means, 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.
action_date: 2008-10-02
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Ways and Means, 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.
action_date: 2008-10-02
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Ways and Means, 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.
action_date: 2008-10-02
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2008-10-02
text: Introduced in House