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To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to modify the application of the tonnage tax on vessels operating in the dual United States domestic and foreign trades, and for other purposes.

Bill: 111-hr-3049
Sponsor: Rep. Blumenauer, Earl [D-OR-3]
Introduced: 2009-06-25 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Income tax rates
Marine and inland water transportation

Summary:
action_date: 2009-06-25
text: 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to modify the alternative tax on qualifying shipping activities to treat a corporation electing such tax as continuing to use a qualifying vessel in the U.S. foreign trade during any period of use in the U.S. domestic trade, thus eliminating the 30 day limitation on operating in U.S. domestic trade under current law. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-06-26
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E1575)
action_date: 2009-06-25
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2009-06-25
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-06-25
text: Introduced in House
American Family Farm and Ranchland Protection Act

Bill: 111-hr-3050
Sponsor: Rep. Blumenauer, Earl [D-OR-3]
Introduced: 2009-06-25 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Agricultural conservation and pollution
Farmland
Land use and conservation
Transfer and inheritance taxes

Summary:
action_date: 2009-06-25
text: 
American Family Farm and Ranchland Protection Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to increase to $5 million the limitation on the estate tax exclusion for land subject to a qualified conservation easement and to increase the percentage of the value of such land that is excludable.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-06-26
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E1597)
action_date: 2009-06-25
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2009-06-25
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-06-25
text: Introduced in House
Plain Language in Health Insurance Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-3051
Sponsor: Rep. Braley, Bruce L. [D-IA-1]
Introduced: 2009-06-25 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Consumer affairs
Department of Health and Human Services
Health care costs and insurance
Health information and medical records

Summary:
action_date: 2009-06-25
text: 
Plain Language in Health Insurance Act of 2009 - Requires any health insurance issuer, health plan, and federal health care program to use plain language in any publicly distributed document.
 
Requires the Secretary of Health and Human Services to issue guidance on implementing such requirements.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-06-26
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2009-06-25
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2009-06-25
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-06-25
text: Introduced in House
To limit liability under the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980 for service station dealers with respect to the release or threatened release of recycled oil.

Bill: 111-hr-3052
Sponsor: Rep. Capuano, Michael E. [D-MA-8]
Introduced: 2009-06-25 in the House
Policy area: Environmental Protection
Subjects: Hazardous wastes and toxic substances
Oil and gas
Pollution liability
Retail and wholesale trades

Summary:
action_date: 2009-06-25
text: 
Amends the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980, with respect to abatement actions because of the release of recycled oil and liability for costs or damages resulting from such oil's release in the course of disposal or transport, to limit liability of a service station dealer with respect to any period between November 8, 1986, and the effective date of certain corrective action regulations or standards promulgated under the Solid Waste Disposal Act if the dealer complied with all applicable laws and regulations relating to disposal. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-06-26
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment.
action_date: 2009-06-26
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Environment.
action_date: 2009-06-25
text: Referred to House Transportation and Infrastructure
action_date: 2009-06-25
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, 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: 2009-06-25
text: Referred to House Energy and Commerce
action_date: 2009-06-25
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-06-25
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 to repeal the denial to drug felons of eligibility for benefits under the program of temporary assistance for needy families.

Bill: 111-hr-3053
Sponsor: Rep. Carson, Andre [D-IN-7]
Introduced: 2009-06-25 in the House
Policy area: Social Welfare
Subjects: Drug trafficking and controlled substances
Drug, alcohol, tobacco use
Poverty and welfare assistance

Summary:
action_date: 2009-06-25
text: 
Amends the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 to repeal the denial to drug felons of eligibility for benefits under the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) program. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-06-25
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2009-06-25
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-06-25
text: Introduced in House
Sunshine in the Courtroom Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-3054
Sponsor: Rep. Delahunt, Bill [D-MA-10]
Introduced: 2009-06-25 in the House
Policy area: Law
Subjects: Broadcasting, cable, digital technologies
Evidence and witnesses
Judicial procedure and administration
Photography and imaging
Sound recording
Television and film

Summary:
action_date: 2009-06-25
text: 
Sunshine in the Courtroom Act of 2009 - Authorizes the presiding judge of a U.S. appellate court or U.S. district court to permit the photographing, electronic recording, broadcasting, or televising to the public of court proceedings over which that judge presides, except when such action would constitute a violation of the due process rights of any party.
 
Directs: (1) a district court, upon the request of any witness in a trial proceeding other than a party, to order the face and voice of the witness to be disguised or otherwise obscured to render the witness unrecognizable to the broadcast audience of the trial proceeding; and (2) the presiding judge in a trial proceeding to inform each witness who is not a party of the right to make such request. 
 
Authorizes the Judicial Conference of the United States to promulgate mandatory guidelines with respect to the management and administration of photographing, recording, broadcasting, or televising described in this Act.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-07-23
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Courts and Competition Policy.
action_date: 2009-06-25
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2009-06-25
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-06-25
text: Introduced in House
To amend title XIX of the Social Security Act to continue Medicaid spousal impoverishment protections for spouses of beneficiaries receiving home and community based services under a current waiver parallel to protections afforded spouses of nursing home residents.

Bill: 111-hr-3055
Sponsor: Rep. Engel, Eliot L. [D-NY-17]
Introduced: 2009-06-25 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Health care costs and insurance
Home and outpatient care
Marriage and family status
Medicaid

Summary:
action_date: 2009-06-25
text: 
Amends title XIX (Medicaid) of the Social Security Act to direct the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) to continue, for the duration of any state waiver effective as of December 31, 2008, Medicaid spousal income and resource (impoverishment) protections for spouses of beneficiaries receiving home- and community-based services under such a waiver parallel to protections afforded spouses of nursing home residents. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-06-26
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2009-06-25
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2009-06-25
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-06-25
text: Introduced in House
Home Office Tax Deduction Simplification and Improvement Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-3056
Sponsor: Rep. Gonzalez, Charles A. [D-TX-20]
Introduced: 2009-06-25 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Business investment and capital
Housing finance and home ownership
Income tax deductions

Summary:
action_date: 2009-06-25
text: 
Home Office Tax Deduction Simplification and Improvement Act of 2009 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow a taxpayer who uses a residence to conduct a trade or business to elect a standard tax deduction equal to the product of a standard rate determined by the Secretary of the Treasury and the square footage of the portion of a residence used to conduct a trade or business (home office tax deduction). Modifies the rules for the home office tax deduction to: (1) allow a deduction for the cost of dealing with patients, clients, or customers even if they are not physically present in the home office; and (2) establish a de minimis exemption for personal use of a home office.
 
Requires the Secretary to ensure that all self-employment tax forms and schedules separately state amounts attributable to real estate taxes, mortgage interest, and depreciation for purposes of the home office tax deduction.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-06-25
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2009-06-25
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-06-25
text: Introduced in House
Household Product Labeling Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-3057
Sponsor: Rep. Israel, Steve [D-NY-2]
Introduced: 2009-06-25 in the House
Policy area: Commerce
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Consumer Product Safety Commission
Consumer affairs
Hazardous wastes and toxic substances
Product safety and quality

Summary:
action_date: 2009-06-25
text: 
 Household Product Labeling Act of 2009 - Requires any household cleaning product or similar product to bear a label on the product's container or packaging that contains a complete and accurate list of all the product's ingredients. Treats a product without such a label as a misbranded hazardous substance under the Federal Hazardous Substances Act.
 
Defines &quot;household cleaning product or similar product&quot; as any substance which is customarily produced and distributed for use in or about a household as a cleaning agent, pesticide, epoxy, paint or stain, or similar substance.
 
 Authorizes the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) to issue related regulations, including regulations which expand on or exempt from the definition in this Act any product or product category.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-06-26
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Commerce, Trade and Consumer Protection.
action_date: 2009-06-25
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2009-06-25
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-06-25
text: Introduced in House
To authorize the voluntary purchase of certain properties in Treece, Kansas, endangered by the Cherokee County National Priorities List Site, and for other purposes.

Bill: 111-hr-3058
Sponsor: Rep. Jenkins, Lynn [R-KS-2]
Introduced: 2009-06-25 in the House
Policy area: Environmental Protection
Subjects: Environmental health
Hazardous wastes and toxic substances
Kansas
Land transfers
Oklahoma
Water use and supply

Summary:
action_date: 2009-06-25
text: 
Requires the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to make specified funds available to Kansas for the purchase (with the owners' consent) of, and to provide relocation assistance to the residents of: (1) properties in Treece, Kansas, that are in danger of being destroyed by subsidence relating to, and that may endanger the health of occupants as a result of risks posed by, the Cherokee County National Priorities List Site; and (2) residential properties of water customers of Picher, Oklahoma, residing in or near Treece, Kansas.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-06-26
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment.
action_date: 2009-06-25
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2009-06-25
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-06-25
text: Introduced in House
Access to Repair Parts Act

Bill: 111-hr-3059
Sponsor: Rep. Lofgren, Zoe [D-CA-16]
Introduced: 2009-06-25 in the House
Policy area: Commerce
Subjects: Intellectual property
Manufacturing
Trade restrictions

Summary:
action_date: 2009-06-25
text: 
 Access to Repair Parts Act - Makes it not an act of infringement of any design patent to make, use, offer to sell, sell, or import into the United States any article that is a component part of another article, if the sole purpose of the component part is for the repair of the article of which it is a part so as to restore its original appearance.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-06-25
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2009-06-25
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-06-25
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow certain local tax debts to be collected through the reduction of Federal tax refunds.

Bill: 111-hr-3060
Sponsor: Rep. Moran, James P. [D-VA-8]
Introduced: 2009-06-25 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: State and local taxation
Tax administration and collection, taxpayers

Summary:
action_date: 2009-06-25
text: 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to direct the Secretary of the Treasury, upon receiving notice from a state or local government that a named individual owes a past-due legally enforceable tax obligation to a local goverment, to pay such tax debt from any federal tax refund due to such individual, after notifying such individual of the offset.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-06-26
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E1595-1596)
action_date: 2009-06-25
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2009-06-25
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-06-25
text: Introduced in House
Pine River Indian Irrigation Project Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-3061
Sponsor: Rep. Salazar, John T. [D-CO-3]
Introduced: 2009-06-25 in the House
Policy area: Native Americans
Subjects: Colorado
Government studies and investigations
Indian lands and resources rights
Water resources funding
Water use and supply

Summary:
action_date: 2009-06-25
text: 
Pine River Indian Irrigation Project Act of 2009 - Directs the Secretary of the Interior to study the irrigation infrastructure of the Pine River Indian Irrigation Project, Colorado, and develop a list of activities that are recommended to be implemented over a 10-year period to repair, rehabilitate, or reconstruct that infrastructure.
 
Requires the Secretary to prioritize activities based on: (1) a review of specified priority factors (i.e., threats to health and safety; the extent of disrepair and its effect on the ability of Project users to irrigate agricultural land; the extent to which infrastructure repair would provide an opportunity to conserve water; the economic and cultural impacts the disrepair has, and benefits the repair would have, on the Tribe; the opportunity to address water supply or environmental conflicts through repair; and overall benefits of the activity to efficient water operations on the land of the Tribe); (2) recommendations of the Tribe; and (3) a consideration of projected benefits on Project completion. 
 
Authorizes the Secretary to provide grants to, and enter into cooperative agreements with, the Tribe to repair, rehabilitate, reconstruct, or replace the Project's irrigation infrastructure. Prohibits such assistance from being used for on-farm improvements. Requires the Secretary, in providing assistance, to coordinate the activity with any work being conducted under the irrigation operations and maintenance program of the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA).
 
Caps the federal share of the total cost at 75%, subject to a waiver or limitation on the nonfederal share, at the Tribe's request.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-09-16
text: Subcommittee Hearings Held.
action_date: 2009-07-02
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Water and Power.
action_date: 2009-06-25
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2009-06-25
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-06-25
text: Introduced in House
To extend the temporary suspension of duty on bitolylene diisocyanate (TODI).

Bill: 111-hr-3062
Sponsor: Rep. Shea-Porter, Carol [D-NH-1]
Introduced: 2009-06-25 in the House
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Tariffs

Summary:
action_date: 2009-06-25
text: Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to extend the temporary suspension of duty on bitolylene diisocyanate (TODI).

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-06-25
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2009-06-25
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-06-25
text: Introduced in House
Energy Employees Occupational Illness Compensation Program Improvement Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-3063
Sponsor: Rep. Whitfield, Ed [R-KY-1]
Introduced: 2009-06-25 in the House
Policy area: Labor and Employment
Subjects: Employee benefits and pensions
Government liability
Hazardous wastes and toxic substances
Military procurement, research, weapons development
Nuclear weapons
Public contracts and procurement
Worker safety and health

Summary:
action_date: 2009-06-25
text: 
Energy Employees Occupational Illness Compensation Program Improvement Act of 2009 - Amends the Energy Employees Occupational Compensation Program Act of 2000 to replace the current requirements for occupational illness compensation to the survivors of a Department of Energy (DOE) contractor employee. Requires payment to a survivor of the compensation the deceased contractor employee would otherwise have been paid, if the employee dies after applying for the compensation but before receiving it. Requires payment of the compensation, if no survivors exist, to a claimant's surviving family members.
 
Requires a survivor eligible for contractor employee compensation under this Act as well as survivor compensation under the regular compensation schedule for survivors to elect one or the other. Prohibits any payment to a survivor of both kinds of compensation.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-07-23
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration, Citizenship, Refugees, Border Security, and International Law.
action_date: 2009-06-25
text: Referred to House Education and Labor
action_date: 2009-06-25
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committee on Education and Labor, 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: 2009-06-25
text: Referred to House Judiciary
action_date: 2009-06-25
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-06-25
text: Introduced in House
For the relief of Benita Veliz-Castillo.

Bill: 111-hr-3064
Sponsor: Rep. Gonzalez, Charles A. [D-TX-20]
Introduced: 2009-06-25 in the House
Policy area: Private Legislation

Summary:
action_date: 2009-06-25
text: Provides for the relief of Benita Veliz-Castillo.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-07-06
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration, Citizenship, Refugees, Border Security, and International Law.
action_date: 2009-06-25
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2009-06-25
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-06-25
text: Introduced in House
Mental Illness Chronic Care Improvement Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-3065
Sponsor: Rep. Schakowsky, Janice D. [D-IL-9]
Introduced: 2009-06-26 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Health programs administration and funding
Medicaid
Medical tests and diagnostic methods
Mental health

Summary:
action_date: 2009-06-26
text: 
 Mental Illness Chronic Care Improvement Act of 2009 - Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services to enter into chronic care improvement program operator agreements with applicant states to provide for the development, testing, evaluation, and implementation of severe mental illness chronic care improvement demonstration programs.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-07-07
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2009-06-26
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2009-06-26
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-06-26
text: Introduced in House
Temporary Mortgage Assistance Loan Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-3066
Sponsor: Rep. Cummings, Elijah E. [D-MD-7]
Introduced: 2009-06-26 in the House
Policy area: Housing and Community Development
Subjects: Financial crises and stabilization
Government lending and loan guarantees
Housing finance and home ownership

Summary:
action_date: 2009-06-26
text: 
Temporary Mortgage Assistance Loan Act of 2009 - Authorizes the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) to make available, in the form of monthly payments, temporary mortgage assistance loans to mortgagees or mortgage servicers of qualified homeowners who are in default on their mortgages.
 
Prescribes conditions, time periods and repayment terms. 
 
Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to make certain funds that remain unobligated under the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008 (EESA) available to the Secretary to implement this Act.
 

 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-06-26
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2009-06-26
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-06-26
text: Introduced in House
TARP for Main Street Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-3068
Sponsor: Rep. Frank, Barney [D-MA-4]
Introduced: 2009-06-26 in the House
Policy area: Housing and Community Development
Subjects: Financial crises and stabilization
Government lending and loan guarantees
Government trust funds
Housing and community development funding
Housing finance and home ownership
Housing supply and affordability
Interest, dividends, interest rates
Residential rehabilitation and home repair

Summary:
action_date: 2009-06-26
text: 
TARP for Main Street Act of 2009 - Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to transfer specified funds, from dividends paid by financial institution recipients of financial assistance under the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) of the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008 (EESA), to the Housing Trust Fund and to the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development (HUD).
 
Requires the use of such funds for assistance to: (1) states and local governmental units to redevelop abandoned and foreclosed homes; (2) the Emergency Homeowners' Relief Fund (which the Secretary shall establish under the Emergency Housing Act of 1975) for emergency mortgage assistance; and (3) the Multifamily Mortgage Resolution Program to stabilize multifamily properties that are in default or foreclosure, or have recently been foreclosed.
 
Amends the Emergency Housing Act of 1975 to: (1) increase the maximum aggregate amount of insured emergency mortgage loans and advances; and (2) extend through FY2011 the program for insured loans and emergency mortgage relief payments made under the Act.
 
Directs the HUD Secretary to develop a program to ensure the protection of current and future tenants of at-risk multifamily properties.
 
Amends EESA to reduce the TARP authorization limit in order to offset the costs of loans, advances, insurance, and appropriations authorized under this Act.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-07-09
text: Committee Hearings Held.
action_date: 2009-06-26
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2009-06-26
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-06-26
text: Introduced in House