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Green Jobs Improvement Act

Bill: 111-hr-2026
Sponsor: Rep. Kline, John [R-MN-2]
Introduced: 2009-04-22 in the House
Policy area: Labor and Employment
Subjects: Alternative and renewable resources
Employment and training programs
Employment discrimination and employee rights
Energy efficiency and conservation
Environmental technology

Summary:
action_date: 2009-04-22
text: 
Green Jobs Improvement Act - Amends the Workforce Investment Act of 1998 to make nonunion training programs eligible for federal funding under the energy efficiency and renewable energy worker training program (Green Jobs program). Applies certain worker protections and nondiscrimination requirements to such programs.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-05-21
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Workforce Protections.
action_date: 2009-05-21
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Higher Education, Lifelong Learning, and Competitiveness.
action_date: 2009-04-22
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and Labor.
action_date: 2009-04-22
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-04-22
text: Introduced in House
Aircraft Passenger Whole-Body Imaging Limitations Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-2027
Sponsor: Rep. Chaffetz, Jason [R-UT-3]
Introduced: 2009-04-22 in the House
Policy area: Emergency Management
Subjects: Aviation and airports
Department of Homeland Security
Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management
Government ethics and transparency, public corruption
Government information and archives
Homeland security
Right of privacy
Terrorism
Transportation safety and security

Summary:
action_date: 2009-04-22
text: 
Aircraft Passenger Whole-Body Imaging Limitations Act of 2009 - Directs the Assistant Secretary of Homeland Security (Transportation Security Administration) (TSA) to ensure that whole-body imaging technology is used for the screening of passengers only in accordance with this Act.
 
Prohibits the use of whole-body imaging technology as the sole or primary method of screening aircraft passengers. Allows its use only if another method of screening, such as metal detection, demonstrates cause for preventing a passenger from boarding an aircraft.
 
Requires that passengers: (1) be provided information on the operation of such technology and specified related matters, including privacy policies and the right to request a pat-down search; and (2) be offered such a pat-down search in lieu of such screening.
 
Prohibits the storage, transfer, sharing, or copying in any form of an image of a passenger generated by whole-body imaging technology after a boarding determination is made.
 
Imposes criminal penalties upon any U.S. officer or employee who knowingly stores, transfers, shares, or copies whole-body screening images.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-05-26
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.
action_date: 2009-05-04
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Transportation Security and Infrastructure Protection.
action_date: 2009-04-22
text: Referred to House Judiciary
action_date: 2009-04-22
text: Referred to the Committee on Homeland Security, 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: 2009-04-22
text: Referred to House Homeland Security
action_date: 2009-04-22
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-04-22
text: Introduced in House
National Marine Mammal Research Program Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-2029
Sponsor: Rep. Abercrombie, Neil [D-HI-1]
Introduced: 2009-04-22 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Environmental assessment, monitoring, research
Executive agency funding and structure
Marine Mammal Commission
Marine and coastal resources, fisheries
Public-private cooperation
Wildlife conservation and habitat protection

Summary:
action_date: 2009-04-22
text: 
National Marine Mammal Research Program Act of 2009 - Amends the Marine Mammal Protection Act of 1972 to require the Marine Mammal Commission to establish the National Marine Mammal Research Program and a National Marine Mammal Research Program Office for the Research Program. Includes in the Program's purposes: (1) undertaking research on marine mammals, the factors that affect their populations and habitats, and related mitigation; and (2) coordinating and strengthening scientific research by developing partnerships among federal agencies, academia, industry, and other members of the oceanographic and marine mammal scientific communities. Authorizes the Commission to enter into contracts, make grants, or enter other arrangements as necessary to carry out the Program.
 
Directs the President to create a National Marine Mammal Research Coordinating Committee, including in its duties: (1) developing a national marine mammal research plan; and (2) seeking to enter into an agreement with the National Research Council to periodically evaluate the scientific content of the plan and the implementation of research conducted under the Program.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-04-27
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Insular Affairs, Oceans and Wildlife.
action_date: 2009-04-22
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2009-04-22
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-04-22
text: Introduced in House
Senator Paul Simon Water for the World Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-2030
Sponsor: Rep. Blumenauer, Earl [D-OR-3]
Introduced: 2009-04-22 in the House
Policy area: International Affairs
Subjects: Child health
Congressional oversight
Department of State
Executive agency funding and structure
Foreign aid and international relief
HIV/AIDS
Health promotion and preventive care
Infectious and parasitic diseases
Solid waste and recycling
Water resources funding
Water use and supply
Women's health
World health

Summary:
action_date: 2009-04-22
text: 
Senator Paul Simon Water for the World Act of 2009 - Amends the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 to direct the Administrator of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) to establish the Office of Water within the Bureau for Economic Growth, Agriculture, and Trade to: (1) give assistance to provide safe water and sanitation for people worldwide; and (2) be headed by a Director for Safe Water and Sanitation. Outlines the Director's duties.
 
Requires the Secretary of State, in order to increase the capacity of the Department of State to address international issues regarding safe water, sanitation, integrated river basin management, and other international water programs, to establish a Special Coordinator for International Water. Outlines the Special Coordinator's duties.
 
Amends the Senator Paul Simon Water for the Poor Act of 2005 to: (1) revise requirements concerning the safe water and sanitation strategy; (2) provide for the establishment of a program to build the capacity of host country institutions and officials responsible for water and sanitation in countries that receive assistance to provide safe water and sanitation under the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961; (3) expand the list of activities that may be supported by assistance furnished by the President for programs in developing countries to provide affordable and equitable access to safe water and sanitation; and (4) require the report regarding water for peace and security to include an assessment of political tensions over water sources and a multidisciplinary assessment of the expected impacts of global climate change on water supplies in 10, 25, and 50 years.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-04-22
text: Referred to the House Committee on Foreign Affairs.
action_date: 2009-04-22
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E936)
action_date: 2009-04-22
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-04-22
text: Introduced in House
To amend Public Law 106-206 to direct the Secretary of the Interior and the Secretary of Agriculture to require annual permits and assess annual fees for commercial filming activities on Federal land for film crews of 5 persons or fewer.

Bill: 111-hr-2031
Sponsor: Rep. Boren, Dan [D-OK-2]
Introduced: 2009-04-22 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: General public lands matters
Licensing and registrations
Television and film
User charges and fees

Summary:
action_date: 2009-04-22
text: 
Directs the Secretary of the Interior and the Secretary of Agriculture (the Secretary), for any film crew of five persons or fewer, to require a permit and assess an annual fee of $200 for commercial filming activities or similar projects on federal lands and waterways administered by the Secretary. Makes such a permit valid for such activities or projects that occur in areas designated for public use during public hours on all federal lands and waterways administered by the Secretary for a 12-month period. 
 
Prohibits the Secretary, for persons holding such a permit, from assessing any additional fee for commercial filming activities and similar projects that occur in those areas during those hours. 
 
Bars the Secretary from prohibiting, as a motorized vehicle or under any other purposes, the use of cameras or related equipment used for commercial filming activities or similar projects in accordance with this Act on federal lands and waterways administered by the Secretary. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-06-22
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Department Operations, Oversight, Nutrition and Forestry.
action_date: 2009-04-27
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests and Public Lands.
action_date: 2009-04-22
text: Referred to House Agriculture
action_date: 2009-04-22
text: Referred to the Committee on Natural Resources, 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: 2009-04-22
text: Referred to House Natural Resources
action_date: 2009-04-22
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-04-22
text: Introduced in House
Savannah's Law

Bill: 111-hr-2032
Sponsor: Rep. Burton, Dan [R-IN-5]
Introduced: 2009-04-22 in the House
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: Bankruptcy
Civil actions and liability
Disability and paralysis

Summary:
action_date: 2009-04-22
text: 
Savannah's Law - Amends federal bankruptcy law to declare nondischargeable in bankruptcy any debts for a personal injury that results in a permanent disability.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-05-26
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Commercial and Administrative Law.
action_date: 2009-04-22
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2009-04-22
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-04-22
text: Introduced in House
To apply an alternative payment amount under the Medicare Program for certain graduate medical education programs established to train residents displaced by natural disasters.

Bill: 111-hr-2033
Sponsor: Rep. Cassidy, Bill [R-LA-6]
Introduced: 2009-04-22 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Disaster relief and insurance
Health facilities and institutions
Medical education
Medicare

Summary:
action_date: 2009-04-22
text: 
Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services, for a cost reporting period beginning on or after July 1, 2005, to provide for payments of direct graduate education costs under title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act in accordance with an alternative payment methodology for eligible hospitals in or adjacent to a major disaster area which have established a program to educate residents displaced from a graduate medical education (GME) program impacted by such disaster.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-04-23
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2009-04-22
text: Referred to House Energy and Commerce
action_date: 2009-04-22
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, 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: 2009-04-22
text: Referred to House Ways and Means
action_date: 2009-04-22
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-04-22
text: Introduced in House
Rural Homeowners Protection Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-2034
Sponsor: Rep. Clay, Wm. Lacy [D-MO-1]
Introduced: 2009-04-22 in the House
Policy area: Housing and Community Development
Subjects: Government lending and loan guarantees
Housing finance and home ownership
Rural conditions and development
User charges and fees

Summary:
action_date: 2009-04-22
text: 
 Rural Homeowners Protection Act of 2009 - Amends the Doug Bereuter Section 502 Single Family Housing Loan Guarantee Act and the Housing Act of 1949 to: (1) increase from 1% to 2% the guarantee fee on loans for housing and buildings on adequate farms; and (2) authorize the Secretary of Agriculture to guarantee a loan made to refinance one made by a private lender to an individual to acquire or construct a single-family residence located in a rural area.
 
Requires the Secretary to charge a guarantee fee for refinancing such a loan at levels necessary, but no higher than needed, to allow such class of loans to be guaranteed without resulting in a need for an appropriation for a credit subsidy.

action_date: 2009-07-29
text: 

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

 
Rural Homeowners Protection Act of 2009 - Amends the Doug Bereuter Section 502 Single Family Housing Loan Guarantee Act and the Housing Act of 1949 to: (1) increase from 1% to 2% the guarantee fee on loans for housing and buildings on adequate farms; and (2) authorize the Secretary of Agriculture to guarantee a loan made to refinance one made by a private lender to an individual to acquire or construct a single-family residence located in a rural area.
 
Requires the Secretary to charge a guarantee fee for refinancing such a loan at levels necessary, but no higher than needed, to allow such class of loans to be guaranteed without resulting in a need for an appropriation for a credit subsidy.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-07-30
text: Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.
action_date: 2009-07-29
text: Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
action_date: 2009-07-29
text: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill Agreed to by voice vote. (text: CR H8971)
action_date: 2009-07-29
text: Passed/agreed to in House: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill Agreed to by voice vote.(text: CR H8971)
action_date: 2009-07-29
text: DEBATE - The House proceeded with forty minutes of debate on H.R. 2034.
action_date: 2009-07-29
text: Considered under suspension of the rules. (consideration: CR H8971)
action_date: 2009-07-29
text: Mr. Moore (KS) moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill.
action_date: 2009-04-22
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2009-04-22
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-04-22
text: Introduced in House
Jacob K. Javits Gifted and Talented Students Education Enhancement Act

Bill: 111-hr-2036
Sponsor: Rep. Gallegly, Elton [R-CA-24]
Introduced: 2009-04-22 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Education programs funding
Elementary and secondary education
Research administration and funding
Research and development
Teaching, teachers, curricula

Summary:
action_date: 2009-04-22
text: 
Jacob K. Javits Gifted and Talented Students Education Enhancement Act - Creates a part E (Gifted and Talented Students) under title II of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965. 
 
Directs the Secretary of Education to make grants to, or contract with, states, local educational agencies (LEAs), institutions of higher education (IHEs), and other public or private agencies and organizations to assist them in meeting the educational needs of gifted and talented students, including by training school personnel in the identification and education of gifted and talented students.
 
Requires the Secretary to establish a National Research Center for the Education of Gifted and Talented Children and Youth through grants to, or contracts with, one or more IHEs, states, or a combination or consortium of such entities and other public or private agencies and organizations. 
 
Directs the Secretary to make grants to states, based on each state's share of individuals aged 5-17, to fund competitive subgrants to LEAs for the development or expansion of gifted and talented education programs.
 
Gives highest part E funding priority to programs and projects designed to develop new information that: (1) improves the capability of schools to identify and serve gifted and talented students; and (2) assists schools in identifying and providing services to gifted and talented students who may not be identified and served through traditional assessment methods.
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-05-21
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education.
action_date: 2009-04-22
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and Labor.
action_date: 2009-04-22
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-04-22
text: Introduced in House
Rural Energy Equity Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-2037
Sponsor: Rep. Herseth Sandlin, Stephanie [D-SD-At Large]
Introduced: 2009-04-22 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Alternative and renewable resources
Electric power generation and transmission
Government lending and loan guarantees
Income tax credits
Rural conditions and development

Summary:
action_date: 2009-04-22
text: 
Rural Energy Equity Act of 2009 - Amends Internal Revenue Code provisions requiring a reduction in the tax credit for the production of electricity from renewable resources by grants and other credits to exempt certain loan guarantees or grants issued by the Secretary of Agriculture under the Farm Security and Rural Investment Act of 2002 (i.e., Rural Energy for America (REAP) Program). 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-04-22
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2009-04-22
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-04-22
text: Introduced in House
CLEAR Act

Bill: 111-hr-2038
Sponsor: Rep. Hodes, Paul W. [D-NH-2]
Introduced: 2009-04-22 in the House
Policy area: Congress
Subjects: Appropriations
Congressional elections
Elections, voting, political campaign regulation
Government ethics and transparency, public corruption
Members of Congress
Public participation and lobbying

Summary:
action_date: 2009-04-22
text: 
Clean Law for Earmark Accountability Reform Act or the CLEAR Act - Amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to prohibit an authorized committee of a candidate who is a Member of Congress from accepting contributions from any entity for which the candidate sought a congressional earmark, or from any senior executive of such an entity, or any lobbyist for whom the entity was a client.
 
Prohibits the acceptance of any contribution from a separate segregated fund established and administered by a corporation or labor organization if the Member sought a congressional earmark for the corporation.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-04-22
text: Referred to the House Committee on House Administration.
action_date: 2009-04-22
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-04-22
text: Introduced in House
To authorize a process by which the Secretary of the Interior shall process acquisitions of certain real property of the Samish Indian Nation into trust, and for other purposes.

Bill: 111-hr-2040
Sponsor: Rep. Larsen, Rick [D-WA-2]
Introduced: 2009-04-22 in the House
Policy area: Native Americans
Subjects: Federal-Indian relations
Gambling
Indian lands and resources rights
Land transfers
Marine and coastal resources, fisheries
Washington State

Summary:
action_date: 2009-04-22
text: 
Directs the Secretary of the Interior, for the purpose of processing acquisitions of real property of the Samish Indian Nation, to process as on-reservation acquisitions any property in the islands within Skagit County, Washington, as described in this Act, which the Samish Indian Nation both acquires and requests to deed to the Secretary. 

Prohibits real property taken into trust under this Act from being used for gaming. States that the proclamation of a reservation for the Samish Indian Nation pursuant to the Indian Reorganization Act or the establishment of an initial reservation for them shall not alter such prohibition with regard to the lands taken into trust pursuant to this Act.

Bars this Act from granting, restoring, or diminishing any hunting, fishing, trapping, or gathering treaty right of the Samish Indian Nation. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-06-03
text: Committee Hearings Held.
action_date: 2009-04-22
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2009-04-22
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-04-22
text: Introduced in House
Child Care Public-Private Partnership Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-2041
Sponsor: Rep. Lowey, Nita M. [D-NY-18]
Introduced: 2009-04-22 in the House
Policy area: Labor and Employment
Subjects: Child care and development
Employee benefits and pensions
Licensing and registrations
Public-private cooperation
Small business
State and local government operations

Summary:
action_date: 2009-04-22
text: 
Child Care Public-Private Partnership Act of 2009 - Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services to establish a business-incentive grant program to provide child care through public-private partnerships.
 
Provides program grants to cover up to one-third of the costs for: (1) businesses or consortia to start up, or provide additional, employee child care services; and (2) nonprofit business organizations to provide technical information and assistance to enable businesses to provide such services. 
 
Requires such services to: (1) be provided equitably and affordably to low- and moderate-income employees; and (2) comply with state and local licensing requirements. 
 
Gives priority in grant selection to businesses with fewer than 100 full-time employees. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-05-21
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education.
action_date: 2009-04-22
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and Labor.
action_date: 2009-04-22
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-04-22
text: Introduced in House
Better Screening Test for Women Act

Bill: 111-hr-2042
Sponsor: Rep. Lowey, Nita M. [D-NY-18]
Introduced: 2009-04-22 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Cancer
Department of Health and Human Services
Executive agency funding and structure
Health information and medical records
Health programs administration and funding
Medical research
Medical tests and diagnostic methods
National Institutes of Health (NIH)
Research administration and funding
Women's health

Summary:
action_date: 2009-04-22
text: 
Better Screening Test for Women Act - Amends the Public Health Service Act to authorize appropriations for FY2010-FY2014 for the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to conduct and support: (1) clinical research and related activities concerning early detection and screening for breast cancer; and (2) research and data collection regarding the link between early detection of breast cancer and reduction of mortality rates. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-10-08
text: Subcommittee Hearings Held.
action_date: 2009-04-23
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2009-04-22
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2009-04-22
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-04-22
text: Introduced in House