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Honest Opportunity Probation with Enforcement (HOPE) Initiative Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-4055
Sponsor: Rep. Schiff, Adam B. [D-CA-29]
Introduced: 2009-11-06 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Crime prevention
Criminal procedure and sentencing
Drug trafficking and controlled substances
Drug, alcohol, tobacco use
Law enforcement administration and funding
Performance measurement

Summary:
action_date: 2009-11-06
text: 
Honest Opportunity Probation with Enforcement (HOPE) Initiative Act of 2009 - Authorizes the Attorney General to award grants for probation demonstration programs that reduce drug use, crime, and recidivism by requiring swift, predictable, and graduated sanctions for noncompliance with conditions of probation. Requires grant funds to be used for specified purposes, including: (1) identifying high risk probationers; (2) monitoring probationers for illicit drug use; (3) responding to probation violations with immediate arrest; (4) rewarding probationers who comply with probation rules; and (5) providing for substance abuse treatment. Requires the Attorney General to annually evaluate probation programs for cost savings and to select an evaluation coordinator for such programs.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-05-11
text: Subcommittee Hearings Held.
action_date: 2010-01-04
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.
action_date: 2009-11-06
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2009-11-06
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E2741-2742)
action_date: 2009-11-06
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-11-06
text: Introduced in House
Jobs Opportunity and Business Stability Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-4056
Sponsor: Rep. Sestak, Joe [D-PA-7]
Introduced: 2009-11-06 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Government studies and investigations
Income tax credits
Small business
Social work, volunteer service, charitable organizations

Summary:
action_date: 2009-11-06
text: 
Jobs Opportunity and Business Stability Act of 2009 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow certain small business owners with fewer than 20 employees and annual gross receipts not exceeding $5,000,000 a refundable tax credit for increasing their payrolls in 2010 and 2011 by specified percentages.
 
Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to study and report to Congress on ways to provide benefits to nonprofit organizations that are comparable to the tax credit provided by this Act. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-11-06
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2009-11-06
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-11-06
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Wool Suit and Textile Trade Extension Act of 2004 to provide for certain payments from the Wool Apparel Manufacturers Trust Fund, and for other purposes.

Bill: 111-hr-4057
Sponsor: Rep. Slaughter, Louise McIntosh [D-NY-28]
Introduced: 2009-11-06 in the House
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Government trust funds
Manufacturing
Tariffs

Summary:
action_date: 2009-11-06
text: 
Amends the Wool Suit and Textile Trade Extension Act of 2004 to require the Bureau of Customs and Border Protection (CBP) to make certain additional payments from the Wool Apparel Manufacturers Trust Fund (consisting of duties paid on imported wool) to each wool manufacturer that provides to the Bureau in a year in which a payment may otherwise be payable an affidavit stating that it remains a wool manufacturer in the United States.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-11-06
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2009-11-06
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-11-06
text: Introduced in House
Veterans to Work Pilot Program Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-4058
Sponsor: Rep. Smith, Adam [D-WA-9]
Introduced: 2009-11-06 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Building construction
Employment and training programs
Military facilities and property
Military procurement, research, weapons development
Veterans' education, employment, rehabilitation

Summary:
action_date: 2009-11-06
text: 
Veterans to Work Pilot Program Act of 2009 - Directs the Secretary of Defense (DOD) to establish the Veterans to Work pilot program to determine: (1) the maximum extent to which apprentices may be employed on designated military construction projects; (2) the maximum extent to which such apprentices are veterans; and (3) the feasibility of expanding the employment of apprentices to military construction projects other than those designated. Requires the Secretary, for each of FY2011-FY2015, to designate for the pilot program at least 20 military construction projects, taking into account specified considerations.
 
Requires each contractor or subcontractor on a designated project to assure that it participates in a qualified apprenticeship or other training program for each craft or trade classification of worker that it intends to employ on the construction project.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-11-18
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Readiness.
action_date: 2009-11-06
text: Referred to the House Committee on Armed Services.
action_date: 2009-11-06
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-11-06
text: Introduced in House
Online Age Verification and Child Safety Act

Bill: 111-hr-4059
Sponsor: Rep. Stupak, Bart [D-MI-1]
Introduced: 2009-11-06 in the House
Policy area: Science, Technology, Communications
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Banking and financial institutions regulation
Child safety and welfare
Computer security and identity theft
Consumer affairs
Crimes against children
Drug, alcohol, tobacco use
Federal Trade Commission (FTC)
Financial services and investments
Firearms and explosives
Foreign and international banking
Gambling
Government information and archives
Internet and video services
Internet, web applications, social media
Organized crime
Pornography
Retail and wholesale trades

Summary:
action_date: 2009-11-06
text: 
Online Age Verification and Child Safety Act - 

Makes it unlawful for an operator of a pornographic website to display any pornographic material without first verifying that any user is at least 18 years old.
 
Makes it unlawful for an operator of a website to carry out any financial transaction involving any product or service whose sale or access to persons under a legally specified age is prohibited by federal or state law without first verifying that any user meets the age requirement.
 
Imposes criminal penalties.
 
Requires any Internet payment service provider or business performing financial transactions relating to pornographic material or to age-restricted products or services only process age-verified transactions. Establishes safe harbors. 
 
Requires: (1) violations to be treated as violations of a rule regarding unfair or deceptive acts or practices; and (2) the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to enforce this title.
 

 
Prohibits construing this Act as providing a private right of action, including a class action.
 

 

 

 
Prohibits any financial institution from processing a financial transaction denominated in or otherwise involving an electronic currency not backed by the full faith and credit of a United Nations (UN) member state.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-11-07
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Communications, Technology, and the Internet.
action_date: 2009-11-07
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Commerce, Trade and Consumer Protection.
action_date: 2009-11-06
text: Referred to House Energy and Commerce
action_date: 2009-11-06
text: Referred to House Financial Services
action_date: 2009-11-06
text: Referred to the Committee on Financial Services, and in addition to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, 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: 2009-11-06
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-11-06
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Department of the Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2010 to repeal a provision of that Act relating to geothermal energy receipts.

Bill: 111-hr-4060
Sponsor: Rep. Thompson, Mike [D-CA-1]
Introduced: 2009-11-06 in the House
Policy area: Energy
Subjects: Alternative and renewable resources
Energy revenues and royalties
State and local finance

Summary:
action_date: 2009-11-06
text: 
Amends the Department of the Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2010 to repeal provisions that require all monies received by the United States in FY2010 from sales, bonuses, rentals, and royalties under the Geothermal Steam Act of 1970 to be disposed of as provided by such Act as in effect immediately before enactment of the Energy Policy Act of 2005. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-11-09
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources.
action_date: 2009-11-06
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2009-11-06
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-11-06
text: Introduced in House
Veterans' Health and Radiation Safety Act

Bill: 111-hr-4062
Sponsor: Rep. Adler, John H. [D-NJ-3]
Introduced: 2009-11-07 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Congressional oversight
Department of Veterans Affairs
Hazardous wastes and toxic substances
Health care quality
Health facilities and institutions
Health personnel
Medical tests and diagnostic methods
Performance measurement
Public contracts and procurement
Radiation
Veterans' medical care

Summary:
action_date: 2009-11-07
text: 
Veterans' Health and Radiation Safety Act - Requires the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to to report annually to Congress on the low-volume (treating 100 patients or fewer) programs at each medical facility of the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA).
 
Directs the Secretary to ensure that all employees at a VA hospital where radioactive isotopes are used in the administration of medical services receive appropriate training on what constitutes a medical event and when and to whom a medical event should be reported. Prohibits such isotopes from being used at a VA hospital where such training is not provided.
 
Requires the Secretary to carry out specified evaluations and peer reviews of all medical services provided under contract with a non-government entity. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-05-27
text: Subcommittee Hearings Held.
action_date: 2009-11-13
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2009-11-07
text: Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2009-11-07
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-11-07
text: Introduced in House
To grant the Congressional Gold Medal to the members of the messman and steward branches of United States Navy, Marine Corps, and Coast Guard that served during World War II.

Bill: 111-hr-4063
Sponsor: Rep. Edwards, Donna F. [D-MD-4]
Introduced: 2009-11-07 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Conflicts and wars
Congressional tributes
Military history
Military personnel and dependents
Museums, exhibitions, cultural centers
Smithsonian Institution

Summary:
action_date: 2009-11-07
text: 
Directs the Speaker of the House of Representatives and the President pro tempore of the Senate to award a single Congressional gold medal in honor of the steward and messman branches of the Navy, Marine Corps, and Coast Guard that served during World War II in recognition of their personal sacrifice and service to their country. Requires, after presentation, that the medal be given to the Smithsonian Institution.
 
Authorizes the Secretary of the Treasury strike and sell duplicates in bronze of the gold medal, depositing receipts in the United States Mint Public Enterprise Fund.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-11-07
text: Referred to House Administration
action_date: 2009-11-07
text: Referred to House Financial Services
action_date: 2009-11-07
text: Referred to the Committee on Financial Services, and in addition to the Committee on House Administration, 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: 2009-11-07
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-11-07
text: Introduced in House
To make certain improvements in the Post-9/11 Educational Assistance Program.

Bill: 111-hr-4064
Sponsor: Rep. Giffords, Gabrielle [D-AZ-8]
Introduced: 2009-11-07 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Educational technology and distance education
Family relationships
Veterans' education, employment, rehabilitation
Veterans' loans, housing, homeless programs

Summary:
action_date: 2009-11-07
text: 
Extends eligibility for the transfer of educational assistance entitlement under the Post-9/11 educational assistance program to those former members of the Armed Forces who: (1) retired on or after September 10, 2001, and on or before July 31, 2009; or (2) medically retired or separated on or after September 10, 2001, due to a disability determined to be service-connected.
 
Provides special rules for individuals entitled to Post-9/11 educational assistance as well as to basic educational assistance under the Montgomery GI Bill educational assistance program due to service on or before September 10, 2011.
 
Establishes the authorized monthly housing stipend amount for individuals who receive Post-9/11 educational assistance and pursue an approved program of education offered in whole or in part through distance learning.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-11-13
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Economic Opportunity.
action_date: 2009-11-07
text: Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2009-11-07
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-11-07
text: Introduced in House
Foreign Language Education Partnership Program Act

Bill: 111-hr-4065
Sponsor: Rep. Holt, Rush [D-NJ-12]
Introduced: 2009-11-07 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Academic performance and assessments
Area studies and international education
Education programs funding
Elementary and secondary education
Foreign language and bilingual programs
Government information and archives
Higher education
Teaching, teachers, curricula

Summary:
action_date: 2009-11-07
text: 
Foreign Language Education Partnership Program Act - Amends the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to replace the program providing incentive payments to public elementary schools for foreign language instruction with a partnership program in foreign languages that provides matching incentive payments to partnerships composed of state or local educational agencies and institutions of higher education.
 
Requires such partnerships to establish, improve, or expand model programs of foreign language learning from kindergarten through grade 12 that increase the number of high school graduates who attain advanced proficiency in at least one foreign language.
 
Requires each model program to have a dimension allowing the student to gain an understanding of the historic, geographic, cultural, economic, and other contextual factors of countries whose people speak the language studied. Conditions a partnership's continued funding for two additional five-year periods, after an initial four-year funding period, on its demonstrating its program's effectiveness based on nationally recognized standardized foreign language assessments.
 
Directs the Secretary of Education to collect and analyze data on such programs annually and disseminate aggregated program data nationally, as well as information on successful programs and practices.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-01-04
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education.
action_date: 2009-11-07
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and Labor.
action_date: 2009-11-07
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-11-07
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to make permanent the alternative fuel credit and the alternative fuel mixture credit.

Bill: 111-hr-4066
Sponsor: Rep. Kagen, Steve [D-WI-8]
Introduced: 2009-11-07 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Alternative and renewable resources
Motor fuels
Sales and excise taxes

Summary:
action_date: 2009-11-07
text: 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to make permanent the alternative fuel and alternative fuel mixture excise tax credits.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-11-07
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2009-11-07
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-11-07
text: Introduced in House
Business Checking Fairness Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-4067
Sponsor: Rep. Murphy, Scott [D-NY-20]
Introduced: 2009-11-07 in the House
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: Bank accounts, deposits, capital
Interest, dividends, interest rates

Summary:
action_date: 2009-11-07
text: 
Business Checking Fairness Act of 2009 - Amends the Federal Reserve Act, the Home Owners' Loan Act, and the Federal Deposit Insurance Act to repeal the prohibition against the payment of interest on demand deposits.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-11-07
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2009-11-07
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-11-07
text: Introduced in House
Small Business Penalty Relief Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-4068
Sponsor: Rep. Lewis, John [D-GA-5]
Introduced: 2009-11-16 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Congressional oversight
Tax administration and collection, taxpayers

Summary:
action_date: 2009-11-16
text: 
Small Business Penalty Relief Act of 2009 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to limit the penalty for failure to disclose a reportable transaction (a transaction determined by the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) as having a potential for tax avoidance or evasion) to 75% of the decrease in tax resulting from such transaction. Sets forth a maximum penalty for failure to report a reportable transaction and a minimum and maximum penalty for failure to report a listed transaction (a transaction specifically identified by the IRS as a tax avoidance transaction).
 
Requires the Commissioner of Internal Revenue to report by June 1, 2010, and then annually, to Congress on penalties relating to tax shelters and reportable transactions.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-11-16
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2009-11-16
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-11-16
text: Introduced in House
S Corporation Inventory Contribution Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-4069
Sponsor: Rep. Hare, Phil [D-IL-17]
Introduced: 2009-11-16 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Income tax deductions
Small business
Social work, volunteer service, charitable organizations

Summary:
action_date: 2009-11-16
text: 
S Corporation Inventory Contribution Act of 2009 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to extend the tax deduction for charitable contributions of inventory to S corporations. Limits the amount of such deduction for corporations other than C corporations to 10% of aggregate net income.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-11-16
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2009-11-16
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-11-16
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to modify the incentives for the production of biodiesel.

Bill: 111-hr-4070
Sponsor: Rep. Pomeroy, Earl [D-ND-At Large]
Introduced: 2009-11-16 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Alternative and renewable resources
Income tax credits
Motor fuels
Sales and excise taxes

Summary:
action_date: 2009-11-16
text: 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to revise the income and excise tax credits for biodiesel used as fuel to: (1) allow a $1.00 tax credit for each gallon of biodiesel produced; (2) provide for an increased income tax credit for small biodiesel producers; (3) revise the definitions of &quot;biodiesel&quot; and &quot;small biodiesel producer&quot;; (4) treat renewable diesel in the same manner as biodiesel for income tax purposes; and (5) treat biodiesel as a taxable fuel for excise tax purposes. Extends the biodiesel income and excise tax credits through December 31, 2014.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-11-16
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2009-11-16
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-11-16
text: Introduced in House
To require insurers of motor vehicles to provide coverage of bodily injuries in insurance policies.

Bill: 111-hr-4071
Sponsor: Rep. Grayson, Alan [D-FL-8]
Introduced: 2009-11-16 in the House
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: Insurance industry and regulation
Life, casualty, property insurance
Motor vehicles

Summary:
action_date: 2009-11-16
text: 
Requires insurance policies of insurers of motor vehicles to provide coverage of bodily injuries due to an accident of at least: (1) $25,000 in liability coverage for injuries to or death of an individual; and (2) $50,000 in total liability coverage for all injuries to or deaths of persons arising from such accident. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-11-16
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2009-11-16
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-11-16
text: Introduced in House
Rural Veterans Reimbursement Act

Bill: 111-hr-4073
Sponsor: Rep. Minnick, Walter [D-ID-1]
Introduced: 2009-11-16 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Transportation costs
Veterans' medical care
Veterans' pensions and compensation

Summary:
action_date: 2009-11-16
text: 
Rural Veterans Reimbursement Act - Directs the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to use the travel allowance or reimbursement rate in effect for federal employees traveling on official business in reimbursing a veteran for travel in connection with treatment for a service-connected disability or a scheduled compensation and pension examination when such travel is either more than 150 miles from the veteran's residence or requires lodging and subsistence because of inclement weather (as determined by the Secretary).


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-11-20
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2009-11-16
text: Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2009-11-16
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E2836)
action_date: 2009-11-16
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-11-16
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to eliminate the temporary increase in unemployment tax.

Bill: 111-hr-4074
Sponsor: Rep. Burgess, Michael C. [R-TX-26]
Introduced: 2009-11-16 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Employment taxes
Income tax rates

Summary:
action_date: 2009-11-16
text: 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to repeal the temporary (through June 2011) increase in the rate of the unemployment tax (thus reducing such rate from 6.2% to 6.0% of total wages).


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-11-16
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2009-11-16
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-11-16
text: Introduced in House