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Heavy Duty Hybrid Truck Incentives Improvement Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-3367
Sponsor: Rep. Levin, Sander M. [D-MI-12]
Introduced: 2009-07-28 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Energy efficiency and conservation
Hybrid, electric, and advanced technology vehicles
Income tax credits
Motor vehicles

Summary:
action_date: 2009-07-28
text: 
Heavy Duty Hybrid Truck Incentives Improvement Act of 2009 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) extend through 2014 the tax credit for the purchase of a new qualified hybrid motor vehicle; (2) increase the incremental cost levels for computing credit amounts for such vehicles; (3) allow a 10% credit for comparable vehicles that achieve an increased city fuel economy; and (4) allow a credit for electric vehicles with a gross vehicle weight rating of not less than 8,500 pounds.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-07-28
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2009-07-28
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-07-28
text: Introduced in House
Honor Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-3368
Sponsor: Rep. Markey, Betsy [D-CO-4]
Introduced: 2009-07-28 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Congressional oversight
Department of Defense
Department of Veterans Affairs
Health personnel
Medical education
Mental health
Military medicine
Military operations and strategy
Neurological disorders
Student aid and college costs
Veterans' education, employment, rehabilitation
Veterans' medical care
Veterans' pensions and compensation

Summary:
action_date: 2009-07-28
text: 
Honor Act of 2009 - Directs the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to carry out a program to provide scholarships for the pursuit of a graduate or postgraduate degree in behavioral health sciences to veterans who performed active-duty service in a theater of combat or during a contingency operation overseas. Requires the veteran, following completion of the degree requirements, to serve for an agreed-upon period with either the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) or Department of Defense (DOD) furnishing mental health services to veterans or to members of the Armed Forces (members). 
 
Directs the Secretary of Defense to carry out a program to employ and train former members who performed service described above as DOD psychiatric technicians and nurses providing mental health counseling and related services to members deployed to a combat zone.
 
Directs the Secretary of Veterans Affairs, upon request, to provide: (1) referral and related assistance to former members not otherwise authorized for counseling through the VA; and (2) readjustment counseling and mental health services to former members through Vet Centers.
 
Requires the suicide of a former member with a medical history of a combat-related mental health condition, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), or traumatic brain injury (TBI) that occurs within a two-year period after separation or retirement to be treated as a death in the line of active duty for purposes of eligibility for active-duty survivors' benefits provided through the VA.
 
Requires the Secretaries of Defense and Veterans Affairs, jointly and annually, to: (1) review and assess their respective programs for the reintegration of members and veterans into civilian life following their retirement, discharge, or release; and (2) report review and assessment results to Congress.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-10-28
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Military Personnel.
action_date: 2009-07-31
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2009-07-28
text: Referred to House Ways and Means
action_date: 2009-07-28
text: Referred to House Armed Services
action_date: 2009-07-28
text: Referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs, and in addition to the Committees on Armed Services, and Ways and Means, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2009-07-28
text: Referred to House Veterans' Affairs
action_date: 2009-07-28
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-07-28
text: Introduced in House
IMPROVE Act

Bill: 111-hr-3369
Sponsor: Rep. Murphy, Patrick J. [D-PA-8]
Introduced: 2009-07-28 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Bank accounts, deposits, capital
Medicaid
Medicare

Summary:
action_date: 2009-07-28
text: 
IMPROVE Act - Amends titles XVIII (Medicare) and XIX (Medicaid) of the Social Security Act to require provider and supplier payments under Medicare and Medicaid to be made through direct deposit or electronic funds transfer (EFT) at depository institutions that are federally insured or eligible for federal insurance.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-07-29
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2009-07-28
text: Referred to House Ways and Means
action_date: 2009-07-28
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Ways and Means, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2009-07-28
text: Referred to House Energy and Commerce
action_date: 2009-07-28
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-07-28
text: Introduced in House
Vessel Repair Enhancement Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-3370
Sponsor: Rep. Davis, Artur [D-AL-7]
Introduced: 2009-07-29 in the House
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Business investment and capital
Income tax deferral
Marine and inland water transportation
Tax administration and collection, taxpayers

Summary:
action_date: 2009-07-29
text: 
Vessel Repair Enhancement Act of 2009 - Expands, for capital construction fund provisions, the definition of &quot;qualified vessel&quot; to include: (1) a vessel documented under U.S. laws and maintained or repaired in a privately owned shipyard in the United States; and (2) any floating dry dock and related shipyard infrastructure (including marine railways) located in the United States and used to build, maintain, or repair U.S.-documented vessels.
 
Amends federal merchant marine law and the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) allow capital construction funds to be used for maintenance or repair of vessels documented under the laws of the United States; (2) establish the order of withdrawal for purposes of the tax treatment of qualified withdrawals from such funds; and (3) disallow a basis reduction for maintenance or repair withdrawals.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-07-30
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Coast Guard and Maritime Transportation.
action_date: 2009-07-29
text: Referred to House Transportation and Infrastructure
action_date: 2009-07-29
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, 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: 2009-07-29
text: Referred to House Ways and Means
action_date: 2009-07-29
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-07-29
text: Introduced in House
To provide for a study relating to the feasibility of using postal employees as census enumerators.

Bill: 111-hr-3373
Sponsor: Rep. Chaffetz, Jason [R-UT-3]
Introduced: 2009-07-29 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Census and government statistics
Congressional oversight
Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management
Government studies and investigations
Postal service
U.S. Postal Service

Summary:
action_date: 2009-07-29
text: 
Directs the United States Postal Service to study and report to the appropriate congressional committees by January 1, 2012, on the feasibility of using postal employees to serve as enumerators in the 2020 decennial census.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-07-29
text: Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.
action_date: 2009-07-29
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-07-29
text: Introduced in House
Medicare and Medicaid Access Project through Information Technology (MAP IT) Act

Bill: 111-hr-3374
Sponsor: Rep. Smith, Adam [D-WA-9]
Introduced: 2009-07-29 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Computers and information technology
Health information and medical records
Health technology, devices, supplies
Long-term, rehabilitative, and terminal care
Medicaid
Medicare

Summary:
action_date: 2009-07-29
text: 
Medicare and Medicaid Access Project through Information Technology (MAP IT) Act - Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services to establish at least one two-year project to demonstrate the impact of health information technology on chronic disease management under the Medicare and Medicaid programs under titles XVIII and XIX of the Social Security Act. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-07-30
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2009-07-29
text: Referred to House Ways and Means
action_date: 2009-07-29
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Ways and Means, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2009-07-29
text: Referred to House Energy and Commerce
action_date: 2009-07-29
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-07-29
text: Introduced in House
Stop White-collar Assistance to Terrorists Act

Bill: 111-hr-3375
Sponsor: Rep. Kratovil, Frank,  Jr. [D-MD-1]
Introduced: 2009-07-29 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Criminal procedure and sentencing
Fraud offenses and financial crimes
Terrorism
U.S. Sentencing Commission
White-collar crime

Summary:
action_date: 2009-07-29
text: 
Stop White-collar Assistance to Terrorists Act - Amends the federal criminal code to increase the maximum prison terms for: (1) certain fraud, money laundering, and bribery offenses if committed to facilitate an act of domestic or international terrorism; and (2) providing material support or resources to terrorists. 
 
Directs the U.S. Sentencing Commission to review and, if appropriate, amend sentencing guidelines and policy statements for offenses committed to facilitate terrorism to reflect congressional intent that the penalties for such offenses be increased.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-08-19
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.
action_date: 2009-07-29
text: Referred to House Ways and Means
action_date: 2009-07-29
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committee on Ways and Means, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2009-07-29
text: Referred to House Judiciary
action_date: 2009-07-29
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-07-29
text: Introduced in House
To authorize the Secretary of the Interior to designate the Dr. Norman E. Borlaug Birthplace and Childhood Home in Cresco, Iowa, as a National Historic Site and unit of the National Park System, and for other purposes.

Bill: 111-hr-3378
Sponsor: Rep. Latham, Tom [R-IA-4]
Introduced: 2009-07-29 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Agricultural practices and innovations
Historic sites and heritage areas
Iowa
Land transfers
Parks, recreation areas, trails

Summary:
action_date: 2009-07-29
text: 
Requires, if the Secretary of the Interior acquires by donation from the Borlaug Heritage Foundation fee simple and unencumbered title to the Norman E. Borlaug Birthplace site and the Norman E. Borlaug Childhood Home site (both in Cresco, Iowa) and any related personal property, designation of all such property as a National Historic Site and as a unit of the National Park System, to be known as the &quot;Dr. Norman E. Borlaug Birthplace Home National Historic Site.&quot; 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-08-04
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests and Public Lands.
action_date: 2009-07-29
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2009-07-29
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-07-29
text: Introduced in House
Lowering Oil Price Speculation for Infrastructure Dedicated to Economic Development Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-3379
Sponsor: Rep. DeFazio, Peter A. [D-OR-4]
Introduced: 2009-07-29 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Commodities markets
Financial services and investments
Government trust funds
Oil and gas
Roads and highways
Sales and excise taxes
Tax administration and collection, taxpayers
Transportation programs funding

Summary:
action_date: 2009-07-29
text: 
Lowering Oil Price Speculation for Infrastructure Dedicated to Economic Development Act of 2009 or the LOPSIDED Oil Prices Act of 2009 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) impose an excise tax on transactions in oil futures and options, to be paid by the trading facility on which the transactions occur or the buyer of the transactions; (2) require withholding of such tax; and (3) deposit revenues from the tax into the Highway Trust Fund. Exempts from such tax certain commercial oil traders and bona fide hedging transactions.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-07-29
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2009-07-29
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-07-29
text: Introduced in House
Promoting Lending to America's Small Businesses Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-3380
Sponsor: Rep. Kanjorski, Paul E. [D-PA-11]
Introduced: 2009-07-29 in the House
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: Bank accounts, deposits, capital
Banking and financial institutions regulation
Credit and credit markets
Small business

Summary:
action_date: 2009-07-29
text: 
Promoting Lending to America's Small Businesses Act of 2009 - Amends the Federal Credit Union Act to increase the total permissible amount of member business loans by an insured credit union (excluding those made to nonprofit religious organizations) to a limit of 25% of the credit union's total assets.
 
Increases from $50,000 to $250,000 the maximum total extensions of credit a borrower or associated member of an insured credit union may have before any extension of credit shall be considered a member business loan.
 
Revises the prohibition against an increase in the total amount of member business loans by an undercapitalized insured credit union until it becomes adequately capitalized. Repeals the condition of becoming adequately capitalized, and requires only that the National Credit Union Administration Board approve the increase.
 Excludes from the definition of &quot;member business loan&quot; any extension of credit, meeting other specified criteria, that is made to a member for commercial, corporate, business, farm, or agricultural purposes in an underserved area. 

 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-07-29
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2009-07-29
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-07-29
text: Introduced in House
Protect America's Wildlife Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-3381
Sponsor: Rep. Miller, George [D-CA-7]
Introduced: 2009-07-29 in the House
Policy area: Animals
Subjects: Animal protection and human-animal relationships
Aviation and airports
Crimes against animals and natural resources
Endangered and threatened species
Wildlife conservation and habitat protection

Summary:
action_date: 2009-07-29
text: 
Protect America's Wildlife Act of 2009 - Amends the Fish and Wildlife Act of 1956 to impose criminal penalties on anyone who knowingly violates any regulation prohibiting the shooting or harassing of birds, fish, or other animals from aircraft (airborne hunting). Increases the monetary penalty for airborne hunting from $5,000 to $50,000. Expands the exceptions to the prohibition against airborne hunting to include enhancing the propagation and survival of wildlife or preventing the extinction of a species threatened or endangered under the Endangered Species Act of 1973.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-08-02
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Insular Affairs, Oceans and Wildlife.
action_date: 2009-07-29
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2009-07-29
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E2083-2084)
action_date: 2009-07-29
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-07-29
text: Introduced in House
Home Improvements Revitalize the Economy Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-3382
Sponsor: Rep. Johnson, Henry C. "Hank," Jr. [D-GA-4]
Introduced: 2009-07-29 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Energy efficiency and conservation
Environmental technology
Income tax credits
Income tax deductions
Residential rehabilitation and home repair
Retail and wholesale trades

Summary:
action_date: 2009-07-29
text: 
Home Improvements Revitalize the Economy Act of 2009 or the HIRE Act of 2009 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow: (1) an income-based tax deduction (up to $2,000) for the purchase of residential building products and furnishings (up to $4,000 for products and furnishings that meet specified environmental standards); (2) a tax credit for 20% (up to $500) of the purchase price of residential building products and furnishings; and (3) a general business tax credit for the purchase of residential building products and furnishings for resale to customers. Terminates such deduction and credits after 2011. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-07-29
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2009-07-29
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-07-29
text: Introduced in House
Idling Reduction Tax Credit Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-3383
Sponsor: Rep. Blumenauer, Earl [D-OR-3]
Introduced: 2009-07-29 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Air quality
Business investment and capital
Electric power generation and transmission
Energy efficiency and conservation
Environmental technology
Income tax credits
Motor carriers

Summary:
action_date: 2009-07-29
text: 
Idling Reduction Tax Credit Act of 2009 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow a business tax credit for 50% of the cost of a qualified idling reduction device, up to $3,000. Defines &quot;qualified idling reduction device&quot; as any device that is: (1) used for highway transportation in combination with a trailer or semi-trailer to provide services that would otherwise require the operation of the main drive engine while the vehicle is temporarily parked or stationary; and (2) determined by the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to reduce long-duration idling. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-07-29
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2009-07-29
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E2089)
action_date: 2009-07-29
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-07-29
text: Introduced in House
S.O.S. (Save Our Schools) Act

Bill: 111-hr-3384
Sponsor: Rep. Baca, Joe [D-CA-43]
Introduced: 2009-07-29 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Academic performance and assessments
Education of the disadvantaged
Education programs funding
Elementary and secondary education
School administration

Summary:
action_date: 2009-07-29
text: 
S.O.S. (Save Our Schools) Act - Amends the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to eliminate the requirement that states conduct the yearly student academic assessments in mathematics, reading or language arts, and science that are used in determining whether states, local educational agencies (LEAs), and schools are making adequate yearly progress (AYP) toward state academic performance standards.
 
Eliminates related requirements, such as those subjecting LEAs and schools to certain improvements, corrective actions, or restructuring, if they fail to make AYP toward state academic performance standards for two consecutive years or more.
 

 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-10-22
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education.
action_date: 2009-07-29
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and Labor.
action_date: 2009-07-29
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-07-29
text: Introduced in House
To authorize the use of amounts in the Nuclear Waste Fund to promote recycling of spent nuclear fuel, and for other purposes.

Bill: 111-hr-3385
Sponsor: Rep. Barton, Joe [R-TX-6]
Introduced: 2009-07-29 in the House
Policy area: Energy
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Budget deficits and national debt
Government trust funds
Licensing and registrations
Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC)
Nuclear power
Radioactive wastes and releases
Solid waste and recycling

Summary:
action_date: 2009-07-29
text: 
Amends the Nuclear Waste Policy Act of 1982 to authorize the Secretary of Energy to use amounts in the Nuclear Waste Fund to make competitive grants to or enter into long-term contracts with private sector entities for the recycling of spent nuclear fuel.
 
Directs the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to complete a rulemaking establishing a process for licensing by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC), under the Atomic Energy Act of 1954, of facilities for the recycling of spent nuclear fuel. 
 
Amends the Nuclear Waste Policy Act of 1982 to provide that the receipt and disbursements of the Nuclear Waste Fund shall not be counted as new budget authority, outlays, receipts, or deficits or surplus for purposes of the executive budget, the congressional budget, or the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 (Gramm-Rudman-Hollings Act) (thereby moving the Fund off-budget).


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-07-30
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Environment.
action_date: 2009-07-29
text: Referred to House Budget
action_date: 2009-07-29
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on the Budget, 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: 2009-07-29
text: Referred to House Energy and Commerce
action_date: 2009-07-29
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-07-29
text: Introduced in House
Post-9/11 Terrorist Financing Review Act

Bill: 111-hr-3387
Sponsor: Rep. Castle, Michael N. [R-DE-At Large]
Introduced: 2009-07-29 in the House
Policy area: Emergency Management
Subjects: Congressional oversight
Foreign and international banking
Intelligence activities, surveillance, classified information
Terrorism

Summary:
action_date: 2009-07-29
text: 
Post-9/11 Terrorist Financing Review Act - Directs the President, through the Secretary of the Treasury, to submit the report on the current state of U.S. efforts to curtail the international financing of terrorism that is required to be submitted under the Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act of 2004. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-07-29
text: Referred to House Intelligence (Permanent)
action_date: 2009-07-29
text: Referred to the Committee on Financial Services, and in addition to the Committee on Intelligence (Permanent Select), 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: 2009-07-29
text: Referred to House Financial Services
action_date: 2009-07-29
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-07-29
text: Introduced in House