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Troubled Assets Relief Program Targeted Assets Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-421
Sponsor: Rep. Meek, Kendrick B. [D-FL-17]
Introduced: 2009-01-09 in the House
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Bank accounts, deposits, capital
Banking and financial institutions regulation
Department of the Treasury
Financial crises and stabilization
Housing finance and home ownership
Securities

Summary:
action_date: 2009-01-09
text: 
Troubled Assets Relief Program Targeted Assets Act of 2009 - Amends the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008 (EESA) to authorize the Secretary of the Treasury to establish the Troubled Asset Restoration and Assistance Program (TARAP) to allow the Treasury to purchase lender or servicer losses on rehabilitated mortgages, on terms and conditions determined by the Secretary.
 
Directs the Treasury, acting through TARAP, to pay up to 80% of the difference between the original asset and the rehabilitated asset to the lender or servicer under certain conditions.

Permits the portion of the difference between the original asset and the rehabilitated asset to the lender or servicer that is not paid for by the Secretary to be written to loss.
 
Requires any regulations and other guidance the Secretary may issue to determine qualifications for an independent appraiser, and make final determinations as to: (1) whether an asset is troubled; (2) what the values are that will determine the amount of purchase; (3) the amount of reductions in the purchase price for certain otherwise ineligible assets; and (4) any other functionality issues required to operate the program.
 
Authorizes the Secretary, conforming to specified guidelines, to make all necessary rules and determinations regarding documented best efforts, required timelines, and other processes and procedures.
 
Identifies criteria for eligible assets and eligible lenders or servicers.
 
Sunsets TARAP on December 31, 2009.

Prohibits, for a 90-day period, a mortgage servicer, or holder, from taking action to initiate a foreclosure, or any action in connection with a foreclosure already instituted (other than to suspend it), with respect to any eligible mortgage of a consumer.
 
Entitles a consumer to defer initiation of a foreclosure, or any action in connection with one already instituted by any creditor, servicer, or holder of a mortgage, until the end of the 90-day period beginning on the date of the enactment of this Act.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-01-09
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2009-01-09
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-01-09
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to extend the research credit through 2010 and to increase and make permanent the alternative simplified research credit.

Bill: 111-hr-422
Sponsor: Rep. Meek, Kendrick B. [D-FL-17]
Introduced: 2009-01-09 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Income tax credits
Research and development

Summary:
action_date: 2009-01-09
text: 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to extend through 2010 the tax credit for increasing research activities and increase and make permanent the alternative simplified research tax credit.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-01-09
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2009-01-09
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-01-09
text: Introduced in House
Samuel B. Moody Bataan Death March Compensation Act

Bill: 111-hr-423
Sponsor: Rep. Mica, John L. [R-FL-7]
Introduced: 2009-01-09 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Asia
Conflicts and wars
Japan
Military history
Military personnel and dependents
Philippines
Veterans' pensions and compensation

Summary:
action_date: 2009-01-09
text: Samuel B. Moody Bataan Death March Compensation Act - Directs the Secretary of the military department concerned to pay certain compensation to individuals (or their survivors) who, as members of the Armed Forces during World War II: (1) were captured on the peninsula of Bataan or the island of Corregidor in the Philippines by Japanese forces; and (2) participated in and survived the Bataan Death March. 
Allows a survivor payment to be made to the nearest surviving relative of such individual.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-02-06
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Military Personnel.
action_date: 2009-01-09
text: Referred to the House Committee on Armed Services.
action_date: 2009-01-09
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-01-09
text: Introduced in House
Protecting Senior's Nest Egg Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-424
Sponsor: Rep. Murphy, Tim [R-PA-18]
Introduced: 2009-01-09 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Employee benefits and pensions
Income tax deferral
Tax administration and collection, taxpayers

Summary:
action_date: 2009-01-09
text: 
Protecting Senior's Nest Egg Act of 2009 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to extend through 2010 the suspension of minimum distribution rules for tax-deferred retirement plans.
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-01-09
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2009-01-09
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-01-09
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to prevent the alternative minimum tax from effectively repealing the Federal tax exemption for interest on State and local private activity bonds.

Bill: 111-hr-425
Sponsor: Rep. Neal, Richard E. [D-MA-2]
Introduced: 2009-01-09 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Income tax rates
Interest, dividends, interest rates
Securities

Summary:
action_date: 2009-01-09
text: 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to eliminate tax-exempt interest earned on private activity bonds as an item of tax preference for purposes of calculating the alternative minimum tax. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-01-09
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2009-01-09
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-01-09
text: Introduced in House
GREETA of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-426
Sponsor: Rep. Pascrell, Bill, Jr. [D-NJ-8]
Introduced: 2009-01-09 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Accounting and auditing
Building construction
Business investment and capital
Energy efficiency and conservation
Income tax deductions
Industrial facilities

Summary:
action_date: 2009-01-09
text: 
 Green Roofing Energy Efficiency Tax Act of 2009 or GREETA of 2009 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) classify as 20-year property for depreciation purposes any roof system which meets the requirements of Standard 90.1-2004 of the American Society of Heating, Refrigerating, and Air Conditioning Engineers and is on nonresidential real property; and (2) require use of the straight line method for depreciation of such property.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-01-09
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2009-01-09
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-01-09
text: Introduced in House
Notify Americans Before Outsourcing Personal Information Act

Bill: 111-hr-427
Sponsor: Rep. Poe, Ted [R-TX-2]
Introduced: 2009-01-09 in the House
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: Business records
Civil actions and liability
Consumer affairs
Contracts and agency
Financial services and investments
Foreign and international corporations
Right of privacy

Summary:
action_date: 2009-01-09
text: 
Notify Americans Before Outsourcing Personal Information Act - Prohibits a business from transferring personally identifiable information of a U.S. citizen to any foreign affiliate or subcontractor in another country without providing notice to such citizen that the information may be transferred to such affiliate or subcontractor. Authorizes a private cause of action in a state court to enforce compliance with this Act.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-01-09
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2009-01-09
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-01-09
text: Introduced in House
Consumer Cellphone Number Distribution Protection Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-428
Sponsor: Rep. Poe, Ted [R-TX-2]
Introduced: 2009-01-09 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Business records
Consumer affairs
Criminal procedure and sentencing
Right of privacy
Telephone and wireless communication

Summary:
action_date: 2009-01-09
text: 
Consumer Cellphone Number Distribution Protection Act of 2009 - Amends the federal criminal code to impose a fine and/or prison term of up to six months for knowingly disclosing a wireless subscriber's unlisted cell phone number to another, for gain, without the express permission of such subscriber. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-03-16
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.
action_date: 2009-01-09
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2009-01-09
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-01-09
text: Introduced in House
To permit the televising of Supreme Court proceedings.

Bill: 111-hr-429
Sponsor: Rep. Poe, Ted [R-TX-2]
Introduced: 2009-01-09 in the House
Policy area: Law
Subjects: Broadcasting, cable, digital technologies
Due process and equal protection
Supreme Court
Television and film

Summary:
action_date: 2009-01-09
text: 
Requires the Supreme Court to permit television coverage of all open sessions of the Court unless it decides by majority vote that allowing such coverage in a particular case would violate the due process rights of any of the parties involved.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-01-09
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2009-01-09
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-01-09
text: Introduced in House
Lance Corporal Jeremy Burris Act

Bill: 111-hr-430
Sponsor: Rep. Poe, Ted [R-TX-2]
Introduced: 2009-01-09 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Cemeteries and funerals
Crimes against property
Criminal procedure and sentencing
Monuments and memorials

Summary:
action_date: 2009-01-09
text: 
Lance Corporal Jeremy Burris Act - Amends the federal criminal code to modify the prohibition against destruction of veterans' memorials to include knowingly destroying the grave, headstone, or marker of any person in the Armed Forces and to extend such prohibition to memorials, graves, headstones, or markers on private as well as public property.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-03-16
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.
action_date: 2009-01-09
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2009-01-09
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-01-09
text: Introduced in House
Emergency Fueling Station Designation Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-431
Sponsor: Rep. Poe, Ted [R-TX-2]
Introduced: 2009-01-09 in the House
Policy area: Emergency Management
Subjects: Alabama
Disaster relief and insurance
Emergency planning and evacuation
Energy storage, supplies, demand
Florida
Georgia
Louisiana
Mississippi
Natural disasters
North Carolina
South Carolina
Texas
Virginia

Summary:
action_date: 2009-01-09
text: 
Emergency Fueling Station Designation Act of 2009 - Amends the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act to direct the Administrator of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to establish a program to address the shortage of fuel along hurricane evacuation routes by providing funds to eligible states (Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Texas, and Virginia) to assist in the purchase and installation of transfer switches and generators at designated emergency fueling stations.
 
Requires states applying for funds to provide: (1) identification of hurricane zones and evacuation routes; (2) the estimated number of designated and adjacent emergency fueling stations determined to be necessary by such state using population figures along hurricane evacuation routes as a guide in selecting stations; and (3) specified assurances, including that a fueling station will not be selected as a designated emergency fueling station unless it has not less than 10 fueling positions and is located within one mile of a hurricane evacuation route.

Directs the Administrator to make available to an eligible state that applies for funds 50% of the cost for the purchase and installation of transfer switches and generators for designated emergency fueling stations, and 30% of that cost of adjacent emergency fueling stations, selected by the state.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-01-09
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Economic Development, Public Buildings and Emergency Management.
action_date: 2009-01-09
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2009-01-09
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-01-09
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow parents of murdered children to continue to claim the deduction for the personal exemption with respect to such child.

Bill: 111-hr-432
Sponsor: Rep. Poe, Ted [R-TX-2]
Introduced: 2009-01-09 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Crimes against children
Family relationships
Income tax deductions
Violent crime

Summary:
action_date: 2009-01-09
text: 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow parents of a murdered child to continue to claim a personal tax exemption for such child for five years after the death of such child or the date on which such child would have attained the age of 18, whichever is earlier. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-01-09
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2009-01-09
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-01-09
text: Introduced in House
REWARD Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-433
Sponsor: Rep. Poe, Ted [R-TX-2]
Introduced: 2009-01-09 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Income tax credits
National Guard and reserves
Wages and earnings

Summary:
action_date: 2009-01-09
text: 
Ready Employers Willing to Assist Reservists' Deployment Act of 2009 or the REWARD Act of 2009 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow employers a tax credit for 50% of the wages paid to their employees on active military duty for more than 90 days as Ready Reserve or National Guard and for 50% of the wages paid to temporary replacement employees. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-01-09
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2009-01-09
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-01-09
text: Introduced in House
To amend title 5, United States Code, to permit access to databases maintained by the Federal Emergency Management Agency for purposes of complying with sex offender registry and notification laws, and for other purposes.

Bill: 111-hr-434
Sponsor: Rep. Poe, Ted [R-TX-2]
Introduced: 2009-01-09 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Criminal justice information and records
Disaster relief and insurance
Emergency planning and evacuation
Government information and archives
Sex offenses

Summary:
action_date: 2009-01-09
text: 
Amends the Privacy Act of 1974 to authorize the disclosure to government agencies of Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) records on assistance provided to individuals in connection with a major disaster or emergency for purposes of complying with a federal or state sex offender registry or notification law. 

Conditions receipt of federal funds by non-governmental organizations under the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act on the organization providing assurances satisfactory to the President that it will disclose its records for the purpose of permitting a requesting jurisdiction to comply with a federal or state sex offender registry or notification law.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-02-24
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Information Policy, Census, and National Archives.
action_date: 2009-01-09
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Economic Development, Public Buildings and Emergency Management.
action_date: 2009-01-09
text: Referred to House Transportation and Infrastructure
action_date: 2009-01-09
text: Referred to the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, 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: 2009-01-09
text: Referred to House Oversight and Government Reform
action_date: 2009-01-09
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-01-09
text: Introduced in House
Renewable Energy Production Tax Credit Extension Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-435
Sponsor: Rep. Pomeroy, Earl [D-ND-At Large]
Introduced: 2009-01-09 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Alternative and renewable resources
Electric power generation and transmission
Income tax credits

Summary:
action_date: 2009-01-09
text: 
Renewable Energy Production Tax Credit Extension Act of 2009 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to extend for five years the tax credit for producing electricity from certain facilities using renewable resources.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-01-09
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2009-01-09
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-01-09
text: Introduced in House
Certain Estate Tax Relief Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-436
Sponsor: Rep. Pomeroy, Earl [D-ND-At Large]
Introduced: 2009-01-09 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Transfer and inheritance taxes

Summary:
action_date: 2009-01-09
text: 
Certain Estate Tax Relief Act of 2009 - Repeals provisions of the Economic Growth and Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2001 (EGTRRA) eliminating the tax on estates and generation-skipping transfers and the step-up in basis provisions for property acquired from a decedent for estates of decedents dying after 2009. Declares that the sunset provision (general terminating date of December 10, 2010) of EGTRRA shall not apply to title V of such Act ( Estate, Gift, and Generation-Skipping Transfer Tax Provisions). 
 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) provide for an increase to $3.5 million of the estate tax exclusion (eliminating the phase-in period); (2) impose a maximum estate tax rate of 45% ; (3) restore the phaseout of graduated estate tax rates and the unified credit against the estate tax; (4) set forth estate valuation rules for certain transfers of nonbusiness assets; and (5) limit estate tax discounts for certain individuals with minority interests in a business acquired from a decedent.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-01-09
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2009-01-09
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-01-09
text: Introduced in House
Madera Water Supply Enhancement Act

Bill: 111-hr-437
Sponsor: Rep. Radanovich, George [R-CA-19]
Introduced: 2009-01-09 in the House
Policy area: Water Resources Development
Subjects: California
Intergovernmental relations
State and local finance
Water resources funding
Water storage
Water use and supply

Summary:
action_date: 2009-01-09
text: 
Madera Water Supply Enhancement Act - Declares that the Madera Water Supply Enhancement Project, California, is feasible and that no further studies or actions regarding feasibility are necessary. 
 
Requires all planning, design, and construction of the Project to be undertaken in accordance with a cooperative agreement between the Secretary of the Interior and the Madera Irrigation District. Authorizes the Secretary to enter into a cooperative agreement for the support of Project design and construction. Limits: (1) the total cost of the Project for purposes of determining the federal share; and (2) the federal share of Project capital costs.
 
 Considers capital, planning, design, permitting, construction, and land acquisition costs incurred by the District prior to this Act's enactment to be part of the nonfederal share. Requires the District to receive credit toward the nonfederal share for: (1) in-kind services that the Secretary determines would contribute substantially toward completion of the Project; (2) reasonable costs incurred from participation in the planning, design, permitting, and construction of the Project; and (3) the acquisition costs of lands used or acquired for the Project.
 
Prohibits the Secretary from providing funds for operation or maintenance. Makes Project operation, ownership, and maintenance the sole responsibility of the District. Directs the Secretary, before obligating funds, to work cooperatively with the District to use plans, designs, and engineering and environmental analyses that have already been prepared by the District. Authorizes appropriations. Terminates the Secretary's authority to carry out this Act 10 years after its enactment. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-02-04
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Water and Power.
action_date: 2009-01-09
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2009-01-09
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-01-09
text: Introduced in House
Tuolumne Me-Wuk Land Transfer Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-438
Sponsor: Rep. Radanovich, George [R-CA-19]
Introduced: 2009-01-09 in the House
Policy area: Native Americans
Subjects: California
Federal-Indian relations
Indian lands and resources rights
Land transfers

Summary:
action_date: 2009-01-09
text: 
Tuolumne Me-Wuk Land Transfer Act of 2009 - Declares that specified federal lands are to be held in trust by the United States for the benefit of the Tuolumne Band of Me-Wuk Indians of the Tuolumne Rancheria of California (the Tribe) for nongaming purposes. 

Subjects: (1) such lands to the same terms and conditions as those lands described in the California Indian Land Transfer Act; and (2) specified lands taken or to be taken into trust for the Tribe's benefit to the Act's requirements regarding the applicability of laws governing lands which are to be held in trust for the benefit of a tribe, band, or group of Indians pursuant to the Act. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-01-09
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2009-01-09
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-01-09
text: Introduced in House