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Architect of the Capitol Appointment Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-2185
Sponsor: Rep. Wasserman Schultz, Debbie [D-FL-20]
Introduced: 2009-04-30 in the House
Policy area: Congress
Subjects: Architect of the Capitol
Congressional agencies
Congressional officers and employees
Presidents and presidential powers, Vice Presidents
U.S. Capitol

Summary:
action_date: 2009-04-30
text: 
Architect of the Capitol Appointment Act of 2009 - Requires the Architect of the Capitol (AOC) to be appointed jointly by the Speaker of the House of Representatives, the Majority Leader of the Senate, the Minority Leaders of the House of Representatives and Senate, the chair and ranking Minority Members of the congressional appropriations committees, the chair and ranking Minority Member of the House Committee on House Administration, and the chair and ranking Minority Member of the Senate Committee on Rules and Administration.
 
Establishes a 10-year term for the AOC, as under current law, but permits additional reappointments.
 
Repeals the requirement of the Legislative Branch Appropriations Act, 1990 that the AOC be appointed by the President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-05-01
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Economic Development, Public Buildings and Emergency Management.
action_date: 2009-04-30
text: Referred to House Transportation and Infrastructure
action_date: 2009-04-30
text: Referred to the Committee on House Administration, 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: 2009-04-30
text: Referred to House Administration
action_date: 2009-04-30
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-04-30
text: Introduced in House
To extend the supplemental security income program to American Samoa.

Bill: 111-hr-2186
Sponsor: Del. Faleomavaega, Eni F. H. [D-AS-At Large]
Introduced: 2009-04-30 in the House
Policy area: Social Welfare
Subjects: American Samoa
Poverty and welfare assistance
U.S. territories and protectorates

Summary:
action_date: 2009-04-30
text: 
Amends title XI of the Social Security Act (SSA) to extend the Supplemental Security Income (SSI) program under SSA title XVI to American Samoa. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-04-30
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2009-04-30
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-04-30
text: Introduced in House
To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 34 A Street NE in Miami, Oklahoma, as the "Steve Owens Post Office Building".

Bill: 111-hr-2191
Sponsor: Rep. Boren, Dan [D-OK-2]
Introduced: 2009-04-30 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Congressional tributes
Government buildings, facilities, and property
Oklahoma
Postal service

Summary:
action_date: 2009-04-30
text: Designates the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 34 A Street NE. in Miami, Oklahoma, as the "Steve Owens Post Office Building."

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-04-30
text: Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.
action_date: 2009-04-30
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-04-30
text: Introduced in House
Affordable Reloaded Munitions Supply (ARMS) Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-2193
Sponsor: Rep. Chaffetz, Jason [R-UT-3]
Introduced: 2009-04-30 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Firearms and explosives
Manufacturing
Military assistance, sales, and agreements

Summary:
action_date: 2009-04-30
text: 
Affordable Reloaded Munitions Supply (ARMS) Act of 2009 - Prohibits the Secretary of Defense from implementing any policy that would prevent or place undue restriction on the sale of intact spent military small arms ammunition casings to domestic manufacturers of small arms ammunition that are approved under trade security controls.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-04-30
text: Referred to the House Committee on Armed Services.
action_date: 2009-04-30
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-04-30
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Federal Power Act to provide additional authorities to adequately protect the critical electric infrastructure against cyber attack, and for other purposes.

Bill: 111-hr-2195
Sponsor: Rep. Thompson, Bennie G. [D-MS-2]
Introduced: 2009-04-30 in the House
Policy area: Energy
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Computer security and identity theft
Electric power generation and transmission
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC)
Government studies and investigations

Summary:
action_date: 2009-04-30
text: 
Directs the Secretary of Homeland Security, working with other national security and intelligence agencies, to conduct research and determine if the security of federally owned programmable electronic devices and communication networks (including hardware, software, and data) essential to the operation of critical electric infrastructure has been compromised. 
 
Amends the Federal Power Act to direct the Secretary to make ongoing assessments and provide periodic reports with respect to: (1) cyber vulnerabilities or threats to critical infrastructure, including critical electric infrastructure and advanced metering infrastructure; and (2) the enhancement of domestic preparedness for a cyber attack.
 
Directs the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) to establish mandatory interim measures to protect against known cyber vulnerabilities or threats to the operation of the critical electric infrastructure in the United States.
 
Amends the the Homeland Security Act of 2002 to direct the Secretary to evaluate the capacity and authority of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and other federal agencies to ensure the security against a cyber attack and resilience of electronic devices and communication networks essential to the critical infrastructure sectors.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-05-26
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Emerging Threats, Cybersecurity, and Science and Technology.
action_date: 2009-05-04
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Environment.
action_date: 2009-04-30
text: Referred to House Homeland Security
action_date: 2009-04-30
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Homeland Security, 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: 2009-04-30
text: Referred to House Energy and Commerce
action_date: 2009-04-30
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E1025)
action_date: 2009-04-30
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-04-30
text: Introduced in House
Design Piracy Prohibition Act

Bill: 111-hr-2196
Sponsor: Rep. Delahunt, Bill [D-MA-10]
Introduced: 2009-04-30 in the House
Policy area: Commerce
Subjects: Civil actions and liability
Fraud offenses and financial crimes
Government information and archives
Intellectual property
Marine and inland water transportation
Product development and innovation

Summary:
action_date: 2009-04-30
text: 
Design Piracy Prohibition Act - Extends copyright protection to fashion designs. Includes as protected items clothing, handbags, duffel bags, tote bags, and eyeglass frames. Excludes from such protection designs embodied in a useful article made public by the designer more than six months before the registration of copyright application. Prohibits considering certain factors in determining the originality of a fashion design. Sets the term of protection at three years.
 
Declares that it is not infringement to make, have made, import, sell, or distribute any article which was created without reasonable grounds to know that design protection is claimed.
 
Prohibits deeming a fashion design to have been copied from a protected design if it: (1) is original and not closely and substantially similar in overall visual appearance to a protected design; (2) merely reflects a trend; or (3) is the result of independent creation.
 
Prohibits deeming a vessel hull design to have been copied from a protected design if it is original and not substantially similar in appearance to a protected design.
 
Applies the doctrines of secondary infringement or secondary liability to actions related to original designs.
 
Requires that applications for design registration be made within two years after the design is made public for vessel hulls and within six months after the design is made public for fashion designs. (Current law sets such a time limit at two years for designs in general.)
 
Increases allowable damage awards for infringement of original designs and for false representation.
 
Requires the Register of Copyrights to establish and maintain an electronically searchable fashion design database available to the public without charge.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-04-30
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2009-04-30
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-04-30
text: Introduced in House
Temporary Employees Franchise Improvement Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-2197
Sponsor: Rep. Bean, Melissa L. [D-IL-8]
Introduced: 2009-04-30 in the House
Policy area: Commerce
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Employment and training programs
Small Business Administration
Small business
Temporary and part-time employment

Summary:
action_date: 2009-04-30
text: 
Temporary Employees Franchise Improvement Act of 2009 - Directs the Administrator of the Small Business Administration (SBA), in determining whether a franchisee is affiliated with a franchisor in the temporary employee services industry (industry), to: (1) continue to apply historically considered affiliation factors; (2) promulgate necessary rules and regulations to determine affiliation in a manner consistent with the Small Business Act; and (3) consider the processing of payroll and billing by a franchisor as customary and common practice in the industry that does not provide probative weight on affiliation, to the extent that temporary staffing personnel are interviewed, hired, trained, assigned, and subject to discharge by the franchisee.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-04-30
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Regulations and Healthcare .
action_date: 2009-04-30
text: Referred to the House Committee on Small Business.
action_date: 2009-04-30
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-04-30
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide a shorter recovery period for the depreciation of certain systems installed in nonresidential real property or residential rental property.

Bill: 111-hr-2198
Sponsor: Rep. Bean, Melissa L. [D-IL-8]
Introduced: 2009-04-30 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Business investment and capital
Energy efficiency and conservation
Environmental technology
Income tax deductions
Lighting and heating
Lighting, heating, cooling

Summary:
action_date: 2009-04-30
text: 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to provide for accelerated depreciation of certain energy-efficient heating, ventilation, air conditioning, or commercial refrigeration property installed in nonresidential real property or residential rental property and placed in service before January 1, 2013. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-04-30
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2009-04-30
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-04-30
text: Introduced in House
Protecting Workers From Imminent Dangers Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-2199
Sponsor: Rep. Bishop, Timothy H. [D-NY-1]
Introduced: 2009-04-30 in the House
Policy area: Labor and Employment
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Administrative remedies
Civil actions and liability
Department of Labor
Employment discrimination and employee rights
Labor standards
Occupational Safety and Health Review Commission
Worker safety and health

Summary:
action_date: 2009-04-30
text: 
Protecting Workers From Imminent Dangers Act of 2009 - Amends the Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970 to require the Department of Labor to: (1) inform employers and employees and their representatives when a condition or practice in a place of employment is such that an imminent danger to safety or health exists that could reasonably be expected to cause death, serious physical harm, or permanent impairment of the health or functional capacity of employees if not corrected immediately or before the danger can be eliminated through prescribed enforcement procedures; and (2) request that the condition or practice be corrected immediately or that employees be immediately removed from exposure to such danger.
 
Requires the Department, if an employer refuses to comply with such request, to immediately issue an order requiring the employer to cause all persons to be withdrawn from, and to be prohibited from entering, such area until the Department determines that such imminent danger and the conditions or practices which caused it no longer exist. Declares that such an order shall not preclude issuing a citation or proposing a penalty for a violation under such Act.
 
Prohibits the Department from preventing: (1) the entry or continued activity of employees whose presence is necessary to avoid, correct, or remove such imminent danger or to maintain the capacity of a continuous process operation to resume normal operations without a complete cessation of operations; and (2) a necessary cessation of operations from being accomplished in a safe and orderly manner.
 
Prohibits persons from discharging or discriminating against an employee for the refusal to perform a duty that has been identified by an order as the source of an imminent danger. 
 
Sets forth penalties for violations.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-04-30
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and Labor.
action_date: 2009-04-30
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-04-30
text: Introduced in House
Medicare Equity and Accessibility Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-2201
Sponsor: Rep. Braley, Bruce L. [D-IA-1]
Introduced: 2009-04-30 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Health personnel
Medicare

Summary:
action_date: 2009-04-30
text: 
Medicare Equity and Accessibility Act of 2009 - Amends part B (Supplementary Medical Insurance) of title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act with respect to certain factors and indices in geographic adjustments to the fee schedule for determination of payments for physicians' services.
 
Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services to increase the practice expense geographic index to 1.0 for any location for which the practice expense geographic index is less than 1.0.
 
Repeals the current termination date in order to extend permanently the 1.0 floor for the work expense geographic index.
 

 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-05-04
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2009-04-30
text: Referred to House Ways and Means
action_date: 2009-04-30
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: 2009-04-30
text: Referred to House Energy and Commerce
action_date: 2009-04-30
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-04-30
text: Introduced in House
Child Safety and Home Security Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-2202
Sponsor: Rep. Cardoza, Dennis A. [D-CA-18]
Introduced: 2009-04-30 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Child safety and welfare
Firearms and explosives
Government information and archives
Income tax credits

Summary:
action_date: 2009-04-30
text: Child Safety and Home Security Act of 2009 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to provide for a nonrefundable tax credit for the purchase of a residential safe storage device to secure firearms. 
Prohibits the creation of a database identifying gun owners using information from tax returns on which the credit under this Act is claimed.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-04-30
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2009-04-30
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-04-30
text: Introduced in House
Telephone Excise Tax Repeal Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-2203
Sponsor: Rep. Connolly, Gerald E. [D-VA-11]
Introduced: 2009-04-30 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Sales and excise taxes
Telephone and wireless communication

Summary:
action_date: 2009-04-30
text: 
Telephone Excise Tax Repeal Act of 2009 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to repeal the excise tax on communication services (i.e., local telephone service, toll telephone service, and teletypewriter exchange service). 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-04-30
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2009-04-30
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E1042)
action_date: 2009-04-30
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-04-30
text: Introduced in House
Medicare Access to Rural Anesthesiology Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-2204
Sponsor: Rep. Cuellar, Henry [D-TX-28]
Introduced: 2009-04-30 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Health personnel
Medicare
Rural conditions and development
Surgery and anesthesia

Summary:
action_date: 2009-04-30
text: 
Medicare Access to Rural Anesthesiology Act of 2009 - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to provide payment under Medicare part A (Hospital Insurance) on a reasonable cost basis for anesthesia services furnished by a physician who is an anesthesiologist in certain rural hospitals in the same manner as payment is made for anesthesia services furnished by a certified registered nurse anesthetists in such hospitals.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-04-30
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2009-04-30
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-04-30
text: Introduced in House
Education Begins at Home Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-2205
Sponsor: Rep. Davis, Danny K. [D-IL-7]
Introduced: 2009-04-30 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Child care and development
Child health
Child safety and welfare
Education of the disadvantaged
Education programs funding
Elementary and secondary education
Foreign language and bilingual programs
Government information and archives
Indian social and development programs
Language arts
Military personnel and dependents
Preschool education
Social work, volunteer service, charitable organizations

Summary:
action_date: 2009-04-30
text: 
Education Begins at Home Act of 2009 - Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) to make matching grants to states, Indians, territories, and possessions to establish or expand quality early childhood home visitation programs for families that are expecting a child or have pre-kindergarten children. 
 
Allots funds among state grantees on the basis of their share of children from birth through age five who are from impoverished families.
 
 Directs the Secretary to award competitive grants to local educational agencies (LEAs) and experienced public or private community-based entities to support and expand quality, local early childhood home visitation programs for families that have English language learners and are expecting a child or have pre-kindergarten children. 
 
Directs the Secretary of Defense to make competitive grants to LEAs, schools, and community-based organizations that serve military dependents to support and expand high quality early childhood home visitation programs for military families that are expecting a child or have pre-kindergarten children.
 
Requires each grantee to provide: (1) voluntary early childhood home visitation at least once a month to as many eligible families as is practicable; (2) training and technical assistance to program staff; and (3) program participants with access to other early childhood and family services.
 
Directs the Secretary to develop and implement a public information and educational campaign to inform the public and new parents about the importance of proper care for infants and children under five years of age. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-06-04
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education.
action_date: 2009-05-22
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Military Personnel.
action_date: 2009-04-30
text: Referred to House Armed Services
action_date: 2009-04-30
text: Referred to the Committee on Education and Labor, and in addition to the Committee on Armed Services, 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: 2009-04-30
text: Referred to House Education and Labor
action_date: 2009-04-30
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-04-30
text: Introduced in House
Grassroots Rural Water Systems Act

Bill: 111-hr-2206
Sponsor: Rep. Etheridge, Bob [D-NC-2]
Introduced: 2009-04-30 in the House
Policy area: Water Resources Development
Subjects: Appropriations
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
Executive agency funding and structure
Rural conditions and development
Water quality
Water resources funding
Water use and supply

Summary:
action_date: 2009-04-30
text: 
Grassroots Rural Water Systems Act - Calls for the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to prioritize the type of technical assistance that small communities find is the most beneficial.
 
Amends the Safe Drinking Water Act to authorize: (1) increased appropriations to the Administrator of EPA for FY2010-FY2015 for technical assistance to enable small public water systems to comply with national primary drinking water regulations; and (2) the Administrator to provide technical assistance to organizations providing on-site technical assistance, circuit-rider technical assistance programs, on-site and regional training, assistance with implementing source water protection plans, and assistance with implementation monitoring plans, rules, regulations, and water security enhancements and to give preference to nonprofit organizations determined to be qualified, effective, and to have the majority of support from small community water systems in the states.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-05-04
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Environment.
action_date: 2009-04-30
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2009-04-30
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-04-30
text: Introduced in House