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HRIFA Improvement Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-1567
Sponsor: Rep. Meek, Kendrick B. [D-FL-17]
Introduced: 2009-03-17 in the House
Policy area: Immigration
Subjects: Administrative remedies
Caribbean area
Department of Homeland Security
Family relationships
Fraud offenses and financial crimes
Haiti
Immigration status and procedures
Latin America
Refugees, asylum, displaced persons

Summary:
action_date: 2009-03-17
text: 
HRIFA Improvement Act of 2009 - Amends the Haitian Refugee Immigration Fairness Act of 1998 to: (1) require determinations with respect to children to be made using the age and status of an individual on October 21, 1998 (enactment date of the Haitian Refugee Immigration Fairness Act of 1998); (2) permit an application based upon child status to be filed by a parent or guardian if the child is present in the United States on such filing date; and (3) include document fraud among the grounds of inadmissibility which shall not preclude an otherwise qualifying Haitian alien from permanent resident status adjustment.
 
Permits new status adjustment applications to be filed for a limited time period. 
 
Directs the Secretary of Homeland Security to establish procedures for reopening status adjustment applications that are affected by amendments made by this Act.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-04-27
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration, Citizenship, Refugees, Border Security, and International Law.
action_date: 2009-03-17
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2009-03-17
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-03-17
text: Introduced in House
COPS and KIDS Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-1568
Sponsor: Rep. Schiff, Adam B. [D-CA-29]
Introduced: 2009-03-17 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Appropriations
Crime prevention
Department of Justice
Executive agency funding and structure
Juvenile crime and gang violence
Law enforcement administration and funding

Summary:
action_date: 2009-03-17
text: 
Community Oriented Policing Services and Key Investments in Developmental Services Act of 2009 or the COPS and KIDS Act of 2009 - Amends the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 to increase and extend the authorization of appropriations for the community oriented policing services (COPS) grant program through FY2014. 
 
Renames the Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act of 1974 as the Key Investments in Developmental Services Act (KIDS Act). Authorizes appropriations for FY2010-FY2015 for KIDS Act grant programs. 
 
Expresses the sense of Congress that the yearly appropriations for the COPS grant program should be equal to the yearly appropriations for juvenile prevention and intervention programs under the KIDS Act. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-05-14
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Healthy Families and Communities.
action_date: 2009-04-27
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.
action_date: 2009-03-17
text: Referred to House Judiciary
action_date: 2009-03-17
text: Referred to the Committee on Education and Labor, and in addition to the Committee on the Judiciary, 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: 2009-03-17
text: Referred to House Education and Labor
action_date: 2009-03-17
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-03-17
text: Introduced in House
Every Student Counts Act

Bill: 111-hr-1569
Sponsor: Rep. Scott, Robert C. "Bobby" [D-VA-3]
Introduced: 2009-03-17 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Academic performance and assessments
Education of the disadvantaged
Education programs funding
Elementary and secondary education
Government information and archives
Language arts
Minority education
Special education
Women's education

Summary:
action_date: 2009-03-17
text: 
Every Student Counts Act - Amends the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to require, beginning by the 2010-2011 school year, states, local educational agencies (LEAs), and secondary schools annually to include on the report cards required under title I of the Act: (1) their four-year adjusted cohort graduation rate; (2) their cumulative graduation rate; (3) the number and percentage of students graduating in more than four years with a regular secondary school diploma; (4) the number and percentage of students who have been removed from the adjusted cohort; (5) the number and percentage of students from each previous adjusted cohort who remain in secondary school after four years; and (6) the percentage of secondary school students in each grade, except the graduating grade, prepared to advance to the next grade.
 
Requires such data, except for data on students who remain in secondary school after four years, to be disaggregated by race, ethnicity, gender, disability status, migrant status, English proficiency, and status as economically disadvantaged.
 
Directs states, LEAs, and secondary schools in states that lack a statewide longitudinal data system with individual student identifiers to make certain annual interim graduation rate calculations; but prohibits the use of such interim calculations after the 2010-2011 school year.
 
Requires the use of aggregate and disaggregated cumulative graduation rates in determining the success of each secondary school and LEA in making adequate yearly progress (AYP) toward state academic performance standards under the Act. Requires states, LEAs, and schools that have a cumulative graduation rate below 90% overall or for any of the student subgroups, to make specified yearly progress in improving such rate or be deemed as failing to make AYP.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-05-14
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education.
action_date: 2009-03-17
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and Labor.
action_date: 2009-03-17
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E691-692)
action_date: 2009-03-17
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-03-17
text: Introduced in House
Congenital Heart Futures Act

Bill: 111-hr-1570
Sponsor: Rep. Space, Zachary T. [D-OH-18]
Introduced: 2009-03-17 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Advisory bodies
Cardiovascular and respiratory health
Child health
Government information and archives
Health care coverage and access
Health information and medical records
Health programs administration and funding
Health promotion and preventive care
Hereditary and development disorders
Medical research
Minority health

Summary:
action_date: 2009-03-17
text: 
Congenital Heart Futures Act - Amends the Public Health Service Act to authorize the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS), acting through the Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in collaboration with appropriate congenital heart disease patient organizations and professional organizations, to conduct, support, and promote a comprehensive public education campaign to increase awareness regarding congenital heart disease, including the need for lifelong treatment.
 
Authorizes the Secretary to: (1) award a grant to one entity to enhance and expand infrastructure to track the epidemiology of congenital heart disease and to organize such information into a comprehensive National Congenital Heart Disease Registry with the purpose of facilitating research into the types of health services patients use and identifying possible areas for educational outreach and prevention; and (2) establish an Advisory Committee on Congenital Heart Disease.
 
Authorizes the Director of the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute to expand, intensify, and coordinate research and related activities of the Institute regarding congenital heart disease.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-03-18
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2009-03-17
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2009-03-17
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-03-17
text: Introduced in House
Private Investment in Commuter Vanpooling Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-1571
Sponsor: Rep. Tauscher, Ellen O. [D-CA-10]
Introduced: 2009-03-17 in the House
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Commuting
Intergovernmental relations
Motor carriers
Public transit
State and local finance
Transportation programs funding

Summary:
action_date: 2009-03-17
text: 
Private Investment in Commuter Vanpooling Act of 2009 - Allows the local matching share provided by a public transportation capital project assistance recipient to include expenditures by a private commuter vanpooling service provider to acquire rolling stock (vans).
 
Authorizes such a private provider to use vanpool revenues exceeding operating costs to acquire such vans, if there is a binding agreement requiring the vans to be used in the state or local government's service area.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-03-18
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Highways and Transit.
action_date: 2009-03-17
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2009-03-17
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-03-17
text: Introduced in House
Taxpayer Protection Act

Bill: 111-hr-1572
Sponsor: Rep. Thompson, Mike [D-CA-1]
Introduced: 2009-03-17 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Corporate finance and management
Financial crises and stabilization
Income tax rates
Wages and earnings

Summary:
action_date: 2009-03-17
text: 
Taxpayer Protection Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to impose a 90% income tax on bonuses paid to employees after 2008 by entities that received financial assistance under the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP).


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-03-17
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2009-03-17
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-03-17
text: Introduced in House
National Home Energy Savings Revolving Fund Act

Bill: 111-hr-1573
Sponsor: Rep. Van Hollen, Chris [D-MD-8]
Introduced: 2009-03-17 in the House
Policy area: Energy
Subjects: Energy efficiency and conservation
Government lending and loan guarantees
Government trust funds
Housing and community development funding
Housing finance and home ownership
Residential rehabilitation and home repair

Summary:
action_date: 2009-03-17
text: 
National Home Energy Savings Revolving Fund Act - Establishes within the Department of Energy (DOE) the National Home Energy Savings Revolving Fund to provide funds to local governments for use in making loans to homeowners for the costs of conducting a qualified home energy audit and implementing, acquiring, and installing certified energy savings improvements. 
 
Requires the Secretary of Energy to establish procedures and techniques for home energy audits that: (1) establish priorities for selection of energy savings improvements based on their cost-effectiveness, payback period, and contribution to energy savings; (2) measure the energy requirement of individual dwellings and the rate of return of the total energy savings investment in a dwelling; and (3) account for interaction among energy savings measures. 
 
Sets forth requirements concerning loan eligibility and repayment. Limits the total loan amount to a single homeowner to $10,000.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-03-18
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Environment.
action_date: 2009-03-17
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2009-03-17
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-03-17
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Act titled "An Act to provide for the establishment of the Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore, and for other purposes" to allow the acquisition of lands by payment of delinquent taxes.

Bill: 111-hr-1574
Sponsor: Rep. Visclosky, Peter J. [D-IN-1]
Introduced: 2009-03-17 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Indiana
Land transfers
Seashores and lakeshores
State and local taxation
Tax administration and collection, taxpayers

Summary:
action_date: 2009-03-17
text: Permits the Secretary of the Interior, with respect to the Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore in Indiana, to make acquisitions to the boundaries of the Lakeshore from units of state or local government by satisfaction of delinquent state or local taxes.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-03-23
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests and Public Lands.
action_date: 2009-03-17
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2009-03-17
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-03-17
text: Introduced in House
For the relief of Daniel Wachira.

Bill: 111-hr-1576
Sponsor: Rep. Rangel, Charles B. [D-NY-15]
Introduced: 2009-03-17 in the House
Policy area: Private Legislation

Summary:
action_date: 2009-03-17
text: Provides for the relief of Daniel Wachira.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-04-27
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration, Citizenship, Refugees, Border Security, and International Law.
action_date: 2009-03-17
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2009-03-17
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-03-17
text: Introduced in House
To require the Secretary of the Treasury to pursue every legal means to stay or recoup certain incentive bonus payments and retention payments made by American International Group, Inc. to its executives and employees, and to require the Secretary's approval of such payments by any financial institution who receives.

Bill: 111-hr-1577
Sponsor: Rep. Paulsen, Erik [R-MN-3]
Introduced: 2009-03-18 in the House
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: Administrative remedies
Bank accounts, deposits, capital
Banking and financial institutions regulation
Contracts and agency
Corporate finance and management
Department of the Treasury
Financial crises and stabilization
Insurance industry and regulation
Life, casualty, property insurance
Wages and earnings

Summary:
action_date: 2009-03-18
text: 
Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to: (1) pursue every legal means to stay or recoup incentive bonuses and retention payments paid by American International Group, Inc. (AIG) to its executives and employees after September 16, 2008; (2) prohibit payments or other federal assistance to AIG unless current AIG executives and employees return to the Treasury any incentive bonuses and retention payments paid to them after September 16, 2008; and (3) require any financial institution that has received any assistance under the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) and that has not repaid such assistance in full within two weeks after the enactment of this Act to submit to the Secretary for approval plans for making any incentive bonuses or retention payments to its executives or employees and any contracts that require such payments. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-03-18
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2009-03-18
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-03-18
text: Introduced in House
Fast Track to College Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-1578
Sponsor: Rep. Kildee, Dale E. [D-MI-5]
Introduced: 2009-03-18 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Education of the disadvantaged
Education programs funding
Elementary and secondary education
Higher education
Student aid and college costs
Teaching, teachers, curricula

Summary:
action_date: 2009-03-18
text: 
Fast Track to College Act of 2009 - Authorizes the Secretary of Education to award matching six-year grants to local educational agencies (LEAs) that partner with institutions of higher education (IHEs) to establish or support dual enrollment programs, such as early college high schools, that allow high school students to earn credit simultaneously toward a high school diploma and a postsecondary degree or certificate.
 
Gives grant priority to applicants: (1) that propose to establish or support a dual enrollment program for a student body at least 40% of which is impoverished; and (2) from states that provide assistance to dual enrollment programs, such as assistance defraying the costs of higher education.
 
Requires applicants to make assurances that: (1) students will not be required to pay tuition or fees for postsecondary courses; and (2) those courses will be taught by faculty that meet their partner IHE's normal standards.
 
Authorizes the Secretary to award matching five-year grants to states to: (1) plan and implement statewide strategies to make dual enrollment programs more accessible to students who are underrepresented in postsecondary education; (2) provide technical assistance to dual enrollment programs; and (3) engage in outreach, assessment, and teacher training activities designed to strengthen such programs.
 
Directs the Secretary to: (1) contract for an independent evaluation of this Act's programs; and (2) provide technical assistance to LEAs and their partners, and disseminate information concerning best practices in dual enrollment programs.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-03-22
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education.
action_date: 2009-05-14
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Higher Education, Lifelong Learning, and Competitiveness.
action_date: 2009-03-18
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and Labor.
action_date: 2009-03-18
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-03-18
text: Introduced in House
Communities Committed to College Tax Credit Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-1579
Sponsor: Rep. Fattah, Chaka [D-PA-2]
Introduced: 2009-03-18 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Education of the disadvantaged
Higher education
Income tax credits
Social work, volunteer service, charitable organizations
Student aid and college costs

Summary:
action_date: 2009-03-18
text: 
Communities Committed to College Tax Credit Act of 2009 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow a tax credit for 50% of any contribution to a tax-exempt scholarship funding trust established to provide scholarships for individuals with demonstrated financial need to attend institutions of higher education. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-03-18
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2009-03-18
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-03-18
text: Introduced in House
Patient-Focused Critical Care Enhancement Act

Bill: 111-hr-1581
Sponsor: Rep. Schakowsky, Janice D. [D-IL-9]
Introduced: 2009-03-18 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Emergency medical services and trauma care
Health care coverage and access
Health care quality
Health technology, devices, supplies
Hospital care
Internet and video services
Internet, web applications, social media
Medical education
Medical research
Medicare
Rural conditions and development
Student aid and college costs

Summary:
action_date: 2009-03-18
text: 
Patient-Focused Critical Care Enhancement Act - Requires the Secretary of Health and Human Services, acting through the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), to conduct research to assess: (1) the standardization of critical care protocols, intensive care unit layout, equipment interoperability, and medical informatics; and (2) the impact of differences in staffing, organization, size, and structure of intensive care units on access, quality, and efficiency of care.
 
Requires the Secretary to undertake demonstration projects to: (1) optimize the provision of critical care services to Medicare beneficiaries through innovations in such areas as staffing and utilization of technology; and (2) measure and evaluate outcomes derived from a &quot;family-centered&quot; approach to the provision of inpatient critical care services that includes direct and sustained communication and contact with the beneficiary family members, involvement of family members in the critical care decisionmaking process, and responsiveness of critical care providers to family requests.
 
Amends the Food, Agriculture, Conservation and Trade Act of 1990 to authorize appropriations for FY2010-FY2012 for augmenting the delivery of critical care services in the rural inpatient setting through the use of telecommunications systems that allow for consultation with critical care providers not located in the rural facility regarding the care of such patients. Amends the Public Health Service Act to require the Secretary to give preference in awarding telehealth grant funds to entities to develop plans for, or to establish, such critical care telehealth networks.
 
Requires the Secretary to undertake an initiative to recruit providers of critical care services into the National Health Service Corps Loan Repayment Program.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-04-23
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Rural Development, Biotechnology, Specialty Crops, and Foreign Agriculture.
action_date: 2009-03-19
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2009-03-18
text: Referred to House Agriculture
action_date: 2009-03-18
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Agriculture, 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: 2009-03-18
text: Referred to House Energy and Commerce
action_date: 2009-03-18
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-03-18
text: Introduced in House
Executive Bonus Repeal Act

Bill: 111-hr-1582
Sponsor: Rep. LaTourette, Steven C. [R-OH-14]
Introduced: 2009-03-18 in the House
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: Corporate finance and management
Financial crises and stabilization
Wages and earnings

Summary:
action_date: 2009-03-18
text: 
Executive Bonus Repeal Act - Amends the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008 to repeal the exception to the general prohibition against payments of bonuses by companies receiving assistance under the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) for bonus payments that were required by a written employment contract executed on or before February 11, 2009.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-03-18
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2009-03-18
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-03-18
text: Introduced in House
Insurance Industry Competition Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-1583
Sponsor: Rep. DeFazio, Peter A. [D-OR-4]
Introduced: 2009-03-18 in the House
Policy area: Commerce
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Competition and antitrust
Department of Justice
Federal Trade Commission (FTC)
Insurance industry and regulation

Summary:
action_date: 2009-03-18
text: 
Insurance Industry Competition Act of 2009 - Amends the McCarran-Ferguson Act to make the Federal Trade Commission Act, as it relates to areas other than unfair methods of competition, applicable to the business of insurance to the extent that such business is not regulated by state law.
 
Authorizes the Department of Justice (DOJ) and the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to issue joint statements of their antitrust enforcement policies regarding joint activities in the business of insurance.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-04-27
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Courts and Competition Policy.
action_date: 2009-03-19
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Commerce, Trade and Consumer Protection.
action_date: 2009-03-18
text: Referred to House Financial Services
action_date: 2009-03-18
text: Referred to House Energy and Commerce
action_date: 2009-03-18
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committees on Energy and Commerce, and Financial Services, 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: 2009-03-18
text: Referred to House Judiciary
action_date: 2009-03-18
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-03-18
text: Introduced in House