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SPEAK Act

Bill: 111-hr-2790
Sponsor: Rep. Ehlers, Vernon J. [R-MI-3]
Introduced: 2009-06-10 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Academic performance and assessments
Education programs funding
Elementary and secondary education
Government information and archives
Science and engineering education
Teaching, teachers, curricula

Summary:
action_date: 2009-06-10
text: 
Standards to Provide Educational Achievement for Kids Act or the SPEAK Act - Amends the National Assessment of Educational Progress Authorization Act (the Act) to require the Commissioner for Educational Statistics to add science to the mandatory biennial national and state academic achievement assessments of students in grades four, eight, and twelve in reading and mathematics. Amends the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to require states receiving school improvement funds to participate in such science assessments of students in grades four and eight, beginning with the 2010-2011 school year.
 
Amends the Act to task the National Assessment Governing Board with creating or adopting voluntary American education content standards in mathematics and science for kindergarten through grade 12 which reflect the knowledge students need to enter college or the workforce and compete in the global economy.
 
Requires the Secretary of Education to establish the American Standards Incentive fund to award competitive four-year grants to states which agree to: (1) adopt such voluntary mathematics and science standards as the core of their own academic content standards in such subjects; and (2) align their teacher certification and professional development requirements to such standards. Provides additional funds to successful grantees for the enhancement of their student performance data systems.
 
Authorizes the Secretary to extend by two to four years for such grantees the 12-year period at the end of which students must meet or exceed state academic performance standards established under the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965.
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-06-10
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and Labor.
action_date: 2009-06-10
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-06-10
text: Introduced in House
To permit each of the territories of the United States to provide and furnish a statue honoring a citizen of the territory to be placed in Statuary Hall in the same manner as statues honoring citizens of the States are placed in Statuary Hall.

Bill: 111-hr-2791
Sponsor: Del. Faleomavaega, Eni F. H. [D-AS-At Large]
Introduced: 2009-06-10 in the House
Policy area: Congress
Subjects: American Samoa
Art, artists, authorship
Guam
Monuments and memorials
Northern Mariana Islands
Puerto Rico
U.S. Capitol
U.S. territories and protectorates
Virgin Islands

Summary:
action_date: 2009-06-10
text: 
Permits statues honoring deceased citizens of U.S. territories (American Samoa, Guam, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands) to be placed in Statuary Hall of the U.S. Capitol. Limits such statues to one per jurisdiction.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-06-10
text: Referred to the House Committee on House Administration.
action_date: 2009-06-10
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-06-10
text: Introduced in House
Retirement Savings Transparency Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-2792
Sponsor: Rep. Davis, Susan A. [D-CA-53]
Introduced: 2009-06-10 in the House
Policy area: Labor and Employment
Subjects: Consumer affairs
Employee benefits and pensions
Financial services and investments
User charges and fees

Summary:
action_date: 2009-06-10
text: 
Retirement Savings Transparency Act of 2009 - Amends the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA) to require, for calendar quarters beginning on or after January 1, 2010, pension benefit statements of individual account plans which permit a participant or beneficiary to direct the investment of plan assets to include appropriate and consistent points of comparison (including differences between classes and types of investments) for: (1) fees assessed in connection with each investment option made available for election under the plan; and (2) historic returns net of fees and expenses for each investment option for the previous year, 5 years, and 10 years (or for the period since inception, if shorter), including a separate point of comparison with respect to each time period.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-06-10
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and Labor.
action_date: 2009-06-10
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E1368-1369)
action_date: 2009-06-10
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-06-10
text: Introduced in House
Auto Dealers' Pension Fairness Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-2793
Sponsor: Rep. Kline, John [R-MN-2]
Introduced: 2009-06-10 in the House
Policy area: Labor and Employment
Subjects: Bankruptcy
Civil actions and liability
Congressional oversight
Employee benefits and pensions
Manufacturing
Motor vehicles
Retail and wholesale trades

Summary:
action_date: 2009-06-10
text: 
Auto Dealers' Pension Fairness Act of 2009 - Requires the Presidential Task Force on the Auto Industry to report to Congress on the closing of vehicle dealerships in connection with the commencement of bankruptcy proceedings for Chrysler Corporation and General Motors Corporation in 2009.
 
Declares that during a specified period no withdrawal liability to a multiemployer pension benefit plan under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA), in connection with bankruptcy proceedings commenced in 2009, may be imposed on any contributing sponsor by reason of the closing of a Chrysler or General Motors vehicle dealership the sponsor owned or operated.
 
Declares further that any payment of existing withdrawal liability imposed before such period as a result of a dealership closure shall not be payable.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-07-23
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Commercial and Administrative Law.
action_date: 2009-06-10
text: Referred to House Judiciary
action_date: 2009-06-10
text: Referred to the Committee on Education and Labor, 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: 2009-06-10
text: Referred to House Education and Labor
action_date: 2009-06-10
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-06-10
text: Introduced in House
Promoting Mortgage Responsibility Act

Bill: 111-hr-2794
Sponsor: Rep. Fudge, Marcia L. [D-OH-11]
Introduced: 2009-06-10 in the House
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: Banking and financial institutions regulation
Consumer credit
Housing finance and home ownership

Summary:
action_date: 2009-06-10
text: 
Promoting Mortgage Responsibility Act - Amends the Truth in Lending Act to prohibit prepayment fees or penalties under any consumer credit transaction secured by the consumer's owner-occupied principal dwelling. 
 
Makes any prepayment penalty in violation of this prohibition unenforceable.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-06-10
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2009-06-10
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-06-10
text: Introduced in House
Automobile Dealer Economic Rights Restoration Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-2796
Sponsor: Rep. LaTourette, Steven C. [R-OH-14]
Introduced: 2009-06-10 in the House
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: Bankruptcy
Contracts and agency
Manufacturing
Motor vehicles
Retail and wholesale trades

Summary:
action_date: 2009-06-10
text: 
Automobile Dealer Economic Rights Restoration Act of 2009 - Prohibits any automobile manufacturer (manufacturer) in which the federal government has a financial or ownership interest from depriving an automobile dealer (dealer) of its economic rights under a dealer agreement. Requires the manufacturer to assume (or assign to a successor) each agreement in existence before the commencement of a federal bankruptcy case by the manufacturer.
 
Directs any such manufacturer, if a valid dealer agreement is not assumed or assigned, to require the new entity created in the bankruptcy case to enter into a new agreement, under the same terms.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-06-10
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2009-06-10
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-06-10
text: Introduced in House
Support Investment Protection for Customers Reform Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-2798
Sponsor: Rep. Arcuri, Michael A. [D-NY-24]
Introduced: 2009-06-10 in the House
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: Advisory bodies
Banking and financial institutions regulation
Bankruptcy
Civil actions and liability
Consumer affairs
Executive agency funding and structure
Financial services and investments
Fraud offenses and financial crimes
International law and treaties
International monetary system and foreign exchange
Securities
Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)
Specialized courts
U.S. and foreign investments

Summary:
action_date: 2009-06-10
text: 
Support Investment Protection for Customers Reform Act of 2009 - Amends the Securities Investor Protection Act to increase from $100,000 to $250,000 (with inflation adjustments) the amount of an investor's net equity claim for cash that the Securities Investor Protection Corporation (SIPC) (a nonprofit, nongovernment, membership corporation funded by its broker-dealer members) insures in the event the investor's broker-dealer becomes insolvent.
 
Increases the federal line of credit available to the SIPC.
 
Increases from $150 to $1,000 the minimum annual assessment paid by SIPC members.
 
Allows the SIPC to appoint itself or one of its employees as trustee, without regard to the amount of liabilities to unsecured general creditors and to subordinated lenders involved, if there appear to be fewer than 5,000 (currently 500) customers of a broker-dealer member facing liquidation.
 
Prohibits SIPC advances to the insiders of failed or failing broker-dealers.
 
Raises the aggregate customer claim limit on the SIPC's authority to use the direct payment procedure rather than instituting a liquidation proceeding with regard to failed or failing members.
 
Increases the maximum fine imposed on SIPC members that engage in certain prohibited acts.
 
Establishes civil liability and criminal penalties for misrepresentations of SIPC membership or protection.
 
Creates, within the Office of Inspector General of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), a Commission on International Financial Fraud to study the potential structure of, and benefits of establishing, an international financial court and process for the adjudication of financial fraud cases.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-06-10
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2009-06-10
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-06-10
text: Introduced in House
United States Marshals Service 225th Anniversary Commemorative Coin Act

Bill: 111-hr-2799
Sponsor: Rep. Boozman, John [R-AR-3]
Introduced: 2009-06-10 in the House
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: Child safety and welfare
Commemorative events and holidays
Crimes against children
Currency
Department of Justice
Higher education
Law enforcement administration and funding
Law enforcement officers
Monuments and memorials
Museums, exhibitions, cultural centers
Student aid and college costs

Summary:
action_date: 2009-06-10
text: 
United States Marshals Service 225th Anniversary Commemorative Coin Act - Directs the Secretary of the Treasury, in commemoration of the 225th anniversary of the establishment of the United States Marshals Service, to mint and issue $5 gold and $1 silver coins emblematic of the 225 years of exemplary and unparalleled achievements of the U.S. Marshals Service.
 
Requires all such coin sales to include a surcharge of: (1) $35 per $5 coin; and (2) $10 per $1 coin. Requires distribution of the first $5 million to the Director of the United States Marshals Service National Museum, for the preservation, maintenance, and display of artifacts and documents of the U.S. Marshals Service. Requires distribution of: (1) $1 million to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children; (2) $1 million to the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Fund in support of the National Law Enforcement Museum and the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial; (3) $1 million to the Federal Law Enforcement Officers Association; (4) $500,000 to the William &quot;Bill&quot; Degan Scholarship Fund (provides scholarships for spouses and children of law enforcement officers killed in the line of duty); (5) $500,000 to the Robert D. May Scholarship Fund (provides scholarships for spouses and children of law enforcement officers killed in the line of duty); (6) $500,000 to the Community Oriented Policing Service; and (7) $500,000 to the Retired United States Marshals Service Association.
 
Authorizes the Secretary to strike and sell bronze duplicates of the $5 gold coins.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-06-10
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2009-06-10
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-06-10
text: Introduced in House
Imported Food Safety Improvement Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-2800
Sponsor: Rep. Burgess, Michael C. [R-TX-26]
Introduced: 2009-06-10 in the House
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Agricultural trade
Food supply, safety, and labeling
Trade agreements and negotiations
Trade restrictions

Summary:
action_date: 2009-06-10
text: 
Imported Food Safety Improvement Act of 2009 - Amends the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to authorize the Secretary of Health and Human Services to refuse admission into the United States of any food (or any type of food) from a country, growing area, producer, manufacturer, or shipper if the Secretary determines that such food: (1) has been associated with repeated and separate outbreaks of foodborne disease or has been repeatedly determined to be adulterated; (2) presents a reasonable probability of causing significant adverse health consequences or death; and (3) is likely, without systemic intervention or changes, to cause disease or be adulterated again.
 
Directs the Secretary to rescind such a determination if it is no longer justified because of remedial action or other circumstances. Sets forth procedures for review of such determinations.

Authorizes the Secretary to make an emergency determination to refuse admission to food that has been strongly associated with a single outbreak of foodborne disease that has caused serious adverse health consequences or death. 

Requires that any refusal to admit food under this Act be done in a manner consistent with bilateral, regional, and multilateral trade agreements.
 
Provides that nothing in this Act shall be interpreted to diminish the authority of the Commissioner of Food and Drugs (FDA) to ensure the safety of food.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-06-11
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2009-06-10
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2009-06-10
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-06-10
text: Introduced in House
Home Ownership Moves the Economy (HOME) Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-2801
Sponsor: Rep. Coble, Howard [R-NC-6]
Introduced: 2009-06-10 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Housing finance and home ownership
Income tax credits
Tax administration and collection, taxpayers

Summary:
action_date: 2009-06-10
text: 
Home Ownership Moves the Economy (HOME) Act of 2009 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) extend the first-time homebuyer tax credit to all individuals who purchase a principal residence (currently, only first-time homebuyers as so defined); (2) extend such credit and the waiver of recapture requirements for such credit through 2010; and (3) repeal the limitation on such credit based on modified adjusted gross income. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-06-10
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2009-06-10
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-06-10
text: Introduced in House
Paperless Enrollment for School Meals Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-2803
Sponsor: Rep. Fattah, Chaka [D-PA-2]
Introduced: 2009-06-10 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Department of Agriculture
Education of the disadvantaged
Elementary and secondary education
Food assistance and relief
Poverty and welfare assistance

Summary:
action_date: 2009-06-10
text: 
Paperless Enrollment for School Meals Act of 2009 - Amends the Richard B. Russell National School Lunch Act to allow schools and local educational agencies (LEAs) to receive special assistance payments for free or reduced price meals under the school lunch or breakfast programs that are based not on applications for such meals, but on estimates of the number of children eligible for such meals.
 
 Requires such estimates to be derived from recent data, such as survey, welfare, or tax data.
 
Permits schools and LEAs from high poverty areas to receive special assistance payments for free or reduced price meals that are not based on applications, if they directly certify a specified minimum percentage of their students as eligible for free meals due to such students' eligibility for certain other public assistance. Reimburses such schools and LEAs pursuant to a formula that factors in the percentage of students directly certified as eligible for free meals.
 
 Requires schools and LEAs reimbursed on the basis of estimates or certifications to provide free meals to all their students under the school lunch and breakfast programs and cover, from nonfederal sources, the costs of serving such meals that exceed the assistance received under such programs.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-06-10
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and Labor.
action_date: 2009-06-10
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-06-10
text: Introduced in House
Ensuring Continuous Coverage under SCHIP Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-2804
Sponsor: Rep. Green, Gene [D-TX-29]
Introduced: 2009-06-10 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Child health
Health care costs and insurance
Health care coverage and access
Medicaid
Poverty and welfare assistance

Summary:
action_date: 2009-06-10
text: 
Ensuring Continuous Coverage under SCHIP Act of 2009 - Amends title XXI (Children's Health Insurance) (CHIP, formerly known as SCHIP) of the Social Security Act (SSA) with respect to a state plan that provides child health insurance through a means other than through the state's plan under SSA title XIX (Medicaid).
 
Requires in such a case for the CHIP plan to implement the 12-month continuous eligibility option available under Medicaid for targeted low-income children whose family income is below 200% of the poverty line. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-06-11
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2009-06-10
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2009-06-10
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-06-10
text: Introduced in House
Ensuring Continuous Medicaid Coverage for Children Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-2805
Sponsor: Rep. Green, Gene [D-TX-29]
Introduced: 2009-06-10 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Child health
Health care coverage and access
Medicaid

Summary:
action_date: 2009-06-10
text: 
Ensuring Continuous Medicaid Coverage for Children Act of 2009 - Amends title XIX (Medicaid) of the Social Security Act to change from discretionary to mandatory the authority of state Medicaid plans to provide for 12-month continuous coverage of children under Medicaid.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-06-11
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2009-06-10
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2009-06-10
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-06-10
text: Introduced in House
America's Wildlife Heritage Act

Bill: 111-hr-2807
Sponsor: Rep. Kind, Ron [D-WI-3]
Introduced: 2009-06-10 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Department of Agriculture
Department of the Interior
Endangered and threatened species
Environmental assessment, monitoring, research
Federal-Indian relations
Forests, forestry, trees
Intergovernmental relations
Parks, recreation areas, trails
State and local government operations
Wilderness and natural areas, wildlife refuges, wild rivers, habitats
Wildlife conservation and habitat protection

Summary:
action_date: 2009-06-10
text: 
America's Wildlife Heritage Act - Sets forth requirements concerning the maintenance of viable populations of existing native and desired non-native species within each planning area in the National Forest System's or the Bureau of Land Management's (BLM) public lands. 
 
Directs the Secretary of Agriculture and the Secretary of the Interior to adopt and implement a strategically targeted monitoring program for determining the status and trends of native and desired non-native species populations on System and BLM lands. Defines: (1) native species to mean species of plants and animals indigenous to a planning area; and (2) desired non-native species to mean those wild species of plants and animals that are not indigenous to a planning area but are valued for their contribution to species diversity or their social, cultural, or economic value. 
 
Requires the Secretaries to coordinate the management of planning areas of the System and the BLM with the management of the National Wildlife Refuge System and National Park System, other federal agencies, state fish and wildlife agencies, other state agencies responsible for management of natural resources, tribes, local governments, and non-governmental organizations engaged in species conservation. 
 
Requires the Secretaries to issue regulations implementing this Act within one year of its enactment. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-06-22
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Conservation, Credit, Energy, and Research.
action_date: 2010-06-22
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Department Operations, Oversight, Nutrition and Forestry.
action_date: 2009-06-15
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Insular Affairs, Oceans and Wildlife.
action_date: 2009-06-15
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests and Public Lands.
action_date: 2009-06-10
text: Referred to House Agriculture
action_date: 2009-06-10
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: 2009-06-10
text: Referred to House Natural Resources
action_date: 2009-06-10
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-06-10
text: Introduced in House
Truth in Employment Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-2808
Sponsor: Rep. King, Steve [R-IA-5]
Introduced: 2009-06-10 in the House
Policy area: Labor and Employment
Subjects: Employment discrimination and employee rights
Labor-management relations

Summary:
action_date: 2009-06-10
text: 
Truth in Employment Act of 2009 - Amends the National Labor Relations Act to provide that nothing in specified prohibitions against unfair labor practices by employers shall be construed as requiring an employer to employ any person who seeks or has sought employment with the employer in furtherance of other employment or agency status.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-06-10
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and Labor.
action_date: 2009-06-10
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-06-10
text: Introduced in House