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Healthy Housing Council Act of 2009

Bill: 111-s-1658
Sponsor: Sen. Reed, Jack [D-RI]
Introduced: 2009-09-10 in the Senate
Policy area: Housing and Community Development
Subjects: Consumer affairs
Energy efficiency and conservation
Environmental health
Executive agency funding and structure
Housing and community development funding
Housing industry and standards
Low- and moderate-income housing

Summary:
action_date: 2009-09-10
text: 
Healthy Housing Council Act of 2009 - Establishes in the executive branch an independent Interagency Council on Healthy Housing.
 
Requires the Council to: (1) review federal programs and services that provide housing, health, energy, or environmental services to families and individuals; (2) monitor, evaluate, and recommend improvements in existing programs and services administered, funded, or financed by federal, state, and local agencies; (3) recommend ways to reduce duplication among federal programs and services; and (4) ensure collaboration among and within agencies in the provision and availability of such programs and services.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-09-10
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs. (text of measure as introduced: CR S9266-9268)
action_date: 2009-09-10
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S9265-9266)
action_date: 2009-09-10
text: Introduced in Senate
Senior Investor Protections Enhancement Act of 2009

Bill: 111-s-1659
Sponsor: Sen. Casey, Robert P., Jr. [D-PA]
Introduced: 2009-09-10 in the Senate
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: Aging
Civil actions and liability
Criminal procedure and sentencing
Financial services and investments
Fraud offenses and financial crimes
Securities
U.S. Sentencing Commission

Summary:
action_date: 2009-09-10
text: 
Senior Investor Protections Enhancement Act of 2009 - Amends the Securities Act of 1933, the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the Investment Company Act of 1940, and the Investment Advisers Act of 1940 to authorize the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to impose, in addition to any other civil penalty, a maximum civil penalty of $50,000 for each violation that is directed toward, targets, or is committed against a person who, at the time of the violation is age 62 or older.
 
Directs the United States Sentencing Commission to review and amend federal sentencing guidelines and policy statements to ensure that guideline offense levels and enhancements appropriately punish criminal violations of the securities laws against seniors.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-09-10
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.
action_date: 2009-09-10
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S9268)
action_date: 2009-09-10
text: Introduced in Senate
Senior Investment Protection Act of 2009

Bill: 111-s-1661
Sponsor: Sen. Kohl, Herb [D-WI]
Introduced: 2009-09-10 in the Senate
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Aging
Consumer affairs
Credit and credit markets
Criminal investigation, prosecution, interrogation
Finance and Financial Sector
Financial services and investments
Fraud offenses and financial crimes
Insurance industry and regulation
Law enforcement administration and funding
Marketing and advertising
Securities

Summary:
action_date: 2009-09-10
text: 
 Senior Investment Protection Act of 2009 - Directs the Attorney General to establish a program of grants to states to: (1) investigate and prosecute misleading and fraudulent marketing practices; or (2) develop educational materials and training aimed at reducing misleading and fraudulent marketing of financial products toward seniors. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-09-10
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2009-09-10
text: Introduced in Senate
Business Incubator Promotion Act

Bill: 111-s-1662
Sponsor: Sen. Brown, Sherrod [D-OH]
Introduced: 2009-09-10 in the Senate
Policy area: Economics and Public Finance
Subjects: Business investment and capital
Economic development
Economic performance and conditions
Employment and training programs
Small business
Unemployment

Summary:
action_date: 2009-09-10
text: 
Business Incubator Promotion Act - Amends the Public Works and Economic Development Act to include among the Act's goals encouraging distressed communities to support the formation of business incubators to promote innovation and entrepreneurship in economically distressed areas. 
 
Defines &quot;business incubator&quot; as an entity established to foster the startup of businesses or accelerate the growth of fledgling companies by providing entrepreneurs with resources and services to produce viable businesses that can help create jobs and restore vitality to distressed areas, excluding an entity organized primarily as for-profit venture.
 
Modifies criteria for the eligibility of an area for grants under such Act for public works and economic development or economic adjustment projects to require an area to have had an unemployment rate of at least 1% greater than the national average for the most recent 12-month (currently, 24-month) period for which data are available. 
 
Authorizes the Secretary of Commerce to: (1) increase the federal share for public works and economic development project grants based upon an area's unemployment rate or per capita income compared to the national average; and (2) reduce or waive the non-federal or local share required for participation in such grant assistance for a special need area in cases of severe economic distress.
 
Authorizes the Secretary to provide competitive grants for: (1) the development and implementation of feasibility studies and plans for the creation or expansion of business incubators; and (2) the temporary support of operations of business incubators that is essential to self-sustainability. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-09-10
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.
action_date: 2009-09-10
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to make available funds from the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008 for funding a voluntary employees' beneficiary association with respect to former employees of Delphi Corporation.

Bill: 111-s-1663
Sponsor: Sen. Brown, Sherrod [D-OH]
Introduced: 2009-09-11 in the Senate
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: Bankruptcy
Employee benefits and pensions
Financial crises and stabilization
Health care costs and insurance
Manufacturing
Motor vehicles
Social work, volunteer service, charitable organizations

Summary:
action_date: 2009-09-11
text: 
Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to enter into an agreement with a volunteer employees' beneficiary association (VEBA) established after enactment of this Act for the benefit of eligible separated employees of Delphi Corporation (and their dependents) in order to transfer amounts to the VEBA for purposes of establishing, or obtaining coverage under, a health care plan for the benefit of such employees (and dependents).
 
Limits the application of this Act to employees with respect to whom the obligation of Delphi Corporation or General Motors Corporation to provide health care coverage has been discharged in a bankruptcy proceeding.
 
Directs the Secretary to make available up to $3 billion in Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) funds, under the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008 (EESA), to provide health care coverage that is substantially the same as the coverage the obligation for which was so discharged.
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-09-11
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.
action_date: 2009-09-11
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to amend title 10, United States Code, to modify the appointment and grade of the Chief of the Army Medical Specialist Corps.

Bill: 111-s-1664
Sponsor: Sen. Johnson, Tim [D-SD]
Introduced: 2009-09-14 in the Senate
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Military medicine
Military personnel and dependents

Summary:
action_date: 2009-09-14
text: 
Requires that an appointee to the position of Chief of the Army Medical Specialist Corps be of a rank not less than lieutenant colonel. (Current minimum rank is captain.)
 
Requires an appointee to such position holding a lower grade to be appointed in the regular grade of major general.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-09-14
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Armed Services.
action_date: 2009-09-14
text: Introduced in Senate
ATPDEA Expansion and Extension Act of 2009

Bill: 111-s-1665
Sponsor: Sen. Lugar, Richard G. [R-IN]
Introduced: 2009-09-14 in the Senate
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Free trade and trade barriers
Latin America
Paraguay
Tariffs
Uruguay

Summary:
action_date: 2009-09-14
text: 
ATPDEA Expansion and Extension Act of 2009 - Amends the Andean Trade Preference Act (ATPA), as amended and expanded by Andean Trade Promotion and Drug Eradication Act (ATPDEA), to include Paraguay and Uruguay on the list of countries eligible for duty-free treatment and other preferential treatment for their products as designated beneficiary countries and ATPDEA beneficiary countries.
 
Extends preferential treatment to certain wool apparel articles that are both cut and sewn or otherwise assembled in the United States, or in one or more ATPDEA beneficiary countries, or both.
 
Terminates the extension of such treatment to Paraguayan and Uruguayan products after December 31, 2012.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-09-14
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2009-09-14
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to require the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency to satisfy certain conditions before issuing to producers of mid-level ethanol blends a waiver from certain requirements under the Clean Air Act, and for other purposes.

Bill: 111-s-1666
Sponsor: Sen. Collins, Susan M. [R-ME]
Introduced: 2009-09-14 in the Senate
Policy area: Environmental Protection
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Air quality
Alternative and renewable resources
Consumer affairs
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
Motor fuels

Summary:
action_date: 2009-09-14
text: 
Authorizes the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to allow the introduction into commerce of a mid-level ethanol blend (an ethanol-gasoline blend containing greater than 10% ethanol) for use in conventional gasoline-powered onroad or nonroad vehicles and nonroad engines only if: (1) EPA's Science Advisory Board submits to the Administrator, and the Administrator provides for public notice and comment, a report describing the impact of the blend on such vehicles, emissions, and associated materials compatibility and consumer issues, the ability of the gasoline distribution infrastructure to introduce the blend without widespread misfueling by consumers, and the estimated ability of consumers to purchase gasoline other than that blend in in all areas of the United States by five years after the blend is introduced; (2) the permit or authorization is granted through the fuels and fuel additives waiver process under the Clean Air Act and the Administrator formally responds to the Board's recommendations in the waiver announcement; and (3) the blend is introduced for general use in all conventional gasoline-powered onroad and nonroad vehicles and nonroad engines in widespread use as of the date on which the Administrator authorizes that introduction.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-09-14
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works. (text of measure as introduced: CR S9329)
action_date: 2009-09-14
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S9328)
action_date: 2009-09-14
text: Introduced in Senate
Abrupt Climate Change Research Act of 2009

Bill: 111-s-1667
Sponsor: Sen. Collins, Susan M. [R-ME]
Introduced: 2009-09-14 in the Senate
Policy area: Environmental Protection
Subjects: Climate change and greenhouse gases
Department of Commerce
Environmental assessment, monitoring, research
Executive agency funding and structure

Summary:
action_date: 2009-09-14
text: 
Abrupt Climate Change Research Act of 2009 - Directs the Secretary of Commerce to establish within the Office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and carry out a program of extramural awards to conduct scientific research on abrupt climate change (defined as change in climate that occurs so rapidly or unexpectedly that human or natural systems have difficulty adapting).


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-09-14
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. (text of measure as introduced: CR S9330)
action_date: 2009-09-14
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S9329-9330)
action_date: 2009-09-14
text: Introduced in Senate
National Guard Education Equality Act

Bill: 111-s-1668
Sponsor: Sen. Bennet, Michael F. [D-CO]
Introduced: 2009-09-14 in the Senate
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Aviation and airports
Border security and unlawful immigration
Disaster relief and insurance
National Guard and reserves
Transportation safety and security
Veterans' education, employment, rehabilitation

Summary:
action_date: 2009-09-14
text: 
National Guard Education Equality Act - Includes certain full-time active duty service in the Army or Air National Guard (including service such as part of an airport security mission or counterdrug activity) as qualifying service for veterans educational assistance purposes (Post-9/11 Educational Assistance).


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-10-21
text: Committee on Veterans' Affairs. Hearings held. Hearings printed: S.Hrg. 111-264.
action_date: 2009-09-14
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2009-09-14
text: Introduced in Senate
Equal Access to Medicare Options Act of 2009

Bill: 111-s-1669
Sponsor: Sen. Kerry, John F. [D-MA]
Introduced: 2009-09-15 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Digestive and metabolic diseases
Health care costs and insurance
Medicare

Summary:
action_date: 2009-09-15
text: 
Equal Access to Medicare Options Act of 2009 - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to provide all Medicare beneficiaries, regardless of whether they have enrolled in Medicare part B, as well as Medicare Advantage and Medicaid enrollees with the right to guaranteed issue of a supplemental insurance (Medigap) policy.
 
Amends part C (Medicare+Choice) of SSA title XVIII to permit enrollment of individuals with end stage renal disease (ESRD) in Medicare Advantage. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-09-15
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2009-09-15
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S9373)
action_date: 2009-09-15
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to enhance the reporting requirements on the status of the Arab League trade boycott of Israel and other trade boycotts of Israel.

Bill: 111-s-1671
Sponsor: Sen. Graham, Lindsey [R-SC]
Introduced: 2009-09-15 in the Senate
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Arab-Israeli relations
Congressional oversight
Foreign and international corporations
Free trade and trade barriers
International organizations and cooperation
Israel
Marketing and advertising
Middle East
Trade restrictions
U.S. and foreign investments

Summary:
action_date: 2009-09-15
text: 
Reaffirms congressional opposition to trade boycotts of Israel and calls on the President to take stronger steps to end all trade boycotts of Israel.
 
Amends the Trade Act of 1974 to direct the United States Trade Representative to include in: (1) the annual trade barrier report a list of each country (and specified boycott-related information about such country) that participates in any trade boycott of Israel; and (2) the National Trade Estimate a report on U.S. steps taken at the World Trade Organization (WTO) or other international fora to end the trade boycott of Israel.
 
 

 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-09-15
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2009-09-15
text: Introduced in Senate
National Oilheat Research Alliance Reauthorization Act of 2009

Bill: 111-s-1672
Sponsor: Sen. Reed, Jack [D-RI]
Introduced: 2009-09-15 in the Senate
Policy area: Energy
Subjects: Consumer affairs
Energy prices
Energy research
Lighting and heating
Lighting, heating, cooling
Oil and gas
Research and development
Retail and wholesale trades

Summary:
action_date: 2009-09-15
text: 
National Oilheat Research Alliance Reauthorization Act of 2009 - Amends the National Oilheat Research Alliance Act of 2000 to extend the national oilheat research alliance program until February 6, 2011.
 

action_date: 2009-12-16
text: 

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

 
National Oilheat Research Alliance Reauthorization Act of 2009 - Amends the National Oilheat Research Alliance Act of 2000 to extend the national oilheat research alliance program until February 6, 2011.
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-12-16
text: Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 229.
action_date: 2009-12-16
text: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Reported by Senator Bingaman without amendment. Without written report.
action_date: 2009-12-16
text: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Reported by Senator Bingaman without amendment. Without written report.
action_date: 2009-12-16
text: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Ordered to be reported without amendment favorably.
action_date: 2009-09-15
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. (text of measure as introduced: CR S9378)
action_date: 2009-09-15
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S9378)
action_date: 2009-09-15
text: Introduced in Senate
Alaska Native Conservation Parity Act of 2009

Bill: 111-s-1673
Sponsor: Sen. Begich, Mark [D-AK]
Introduced: 2009-09-15 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Alaska
Alaska Natives and Hawaiians
Income tax deductions
Indian claims
Indian lands and resources rights
Land use and conservation

Summary:
action_date: 2009-09-15
text: 
Alaska Native Conservation Parity Act of 2009 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow Alaska Native Corporations an increased tax deduction for donations of conservation easements related to lands conveyed under the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act. Permits a 15-year carryover of contribution amounts that exceed annual limitations on the amount of such tax deduction.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-09-15
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2009-09-15
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S9378-9379)
action_date: 2009-09-15
text: Introduced in Senate
Energy Development Program Implementation Act of 2009

Bill: 111-s-1675
Sponsor: Sen. Akaka, Daniel K. [D-HI]
Introduced: 2009-09-16 in the Senate
Policy area: International Affairs
Subjects: Alternative and renewable resources
Arms control and nonproliferation
Congressional oversight
Energy storage, supplies, demand
Foreign aid and international relief
International exchange and broadcasting
International organizations and cooperation

Summary:
action_date: 2009-09-16
text: 
Directs the Secretary of Energy to develop and implement strategic plans for the energy development program consistent with title V of the Nuclear Nonproliferation Act of 1978. 
 
Requires the Secretary to report to the appropriate congressional committees respecting: (1) such plans; and (2) expanding specified cooperative activities into an international cooperative effort which shall include an analysis of an Alternative Energy Corps to encourage technically trained volunteers to live and work in developing countries. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-09-16
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations. (text of measure as introduced: CR S9438-9439)
action_date: 2009-09-16
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S9437-9438)
action_date: 2009-09-16
text: Introduced in Senate
Affordable Housing Preservation and Revitalization Act of 2009

Bill: 111-s-1676
Sponsor: Sen. Wyden, Ron [D-OR]
Introduced: 2009-09-16 in the Senate
Policy area: Housing and Community Development
Subjects: Housing and community development funding
Housing supply and affordability
Income tax credits
Low- and moderate-income housing
Residential rehabilitation and home repair

Summary:
action_date: 2009-09-16
text: 
Affordable Housing Preservation and Revitalization Act of 2009 - Amends the United States Housing Act of 1937 to direct the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) to ensure that funds in the residual receipts account of an eligible multifamily housing property are transferred, at the time of a qualified sale or exchange, to preservation entities.
 
Requires that funds in the residual receipts account be used, subject to housing agency approval, to: (1) pay for rehabilitation costs approved by the housing agency; (2) deposit funds into the property's replacement reserve account; and (3) pay for social and other services, associated acquisition costs, and any other costs that have been approved by the housing agency and will directly benefit such tenants.
 
Defines &quot;preservation entity&quot; as: (1) a nonprofit tax-exempt corporation; or (2) a limited partnership or limited liability company where the sole general partner or sole managing member of such ownership entity is a nonprofit tax-exempt corporation; and (3) that has the capacity to acquire and preserve an eligible multifamily housing property.
 
States that, for purposes of the low-income housing credit under the Internal Revenue Code, residual receipts used or transferred under this Act shall not be considered federal funds.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-09-16
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.
action_date: 2009-09-16
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S9439)
action_date: 2009-09-16
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to extend the first-time homebuyer tax credit, and for other purposes.

Bill: 111-s-1678
Sponsor: Sen. Cardin, Benjamin L. [D-MD]
Introduced: 2009-09-16 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Housing finance and home ownership
Income tax credits
Tax administration and collection, taxpayers

Summary:
action_date: 2009-09-16
text: 
Amends Internal Revenue Code provisions relating to the first-time homebuyer tax credit to: (1) extend such tax credit through May 31, 2010; (2) extend through December 31, 2009, the date until which purchases of a principal residence may be treated as made on December 31, 2008, for tax purposes; and (3) extend through May 31, 2010, the waiver of recapture requirements for residences purchased after December 31, 2008.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-09-16
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2009-09-16
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S9439-9440)
action_date: 2009-09-16
text: Introduced in Senate
Expanding Access to Medical Records Act

Bill: 111-s-1680
Sponsor: Sen. Whitehouse, Sheldon [D-RI]
Introduced: 2009-09-17 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Health information and medical records
Medicaid
Medicare

Summary:
action_date: 2009-09-17
text: 
Expanding Access to Medical Records Act - Amends titles XVIII (Medicare) and XIX (Medicaid) of the Social Security Act to require the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) grant the authorized representative of a deceased beneficiary full access to information with respect to the deceased beneficiary's benefits under the Medicare and Medicaid programs. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-09-17
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2009-09-17
text: Introduced in Senate