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Dairy Fairness Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-3166
Sponsor: Rep. Welch, Peter [D-VT-At Large]
Introduced: 2009-07-09 in the House
Policy area: Agriculture and Food
Subjects: Agricultural prices, subsidies, credit
Inflation and prices

Summary:
action_date: 2009-07-09
text: 
Dairy Fairness Act of 2009 - Amends the Food, Conservation, and Energy Act of 2008 to annually index for inflation payments under the milk income loss contract program. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-06-22
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Livestock, Dairy, and Poultry.
action_date: 2009-07-09
text: Referred to the House Committee on Agriculture.
action_date: 2009-07-09
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-07-09
text: Introduced in House
To allow mail carriers to serve in temporary enumerator positions in connection with the 2010 decennial census.

Bill: 111-hr-3167
Sponsor: Rep. Chaffetz, Jason [R-UT-3]
Introduced: 2009-07-10 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Census and government statistics
Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management
Postal service
U.S. Postal Service

Summary:
action_date: 2009-07-10
text: 
Directs the Secretary of Commerce, with the agreement of the Postmaster General, to utilize the services of mail carriers to serve as temporary enumerators in the 2010 decennial census before resorting to nonfederal personnel.
 
Provides that a carrier selected to serve as an enumerator shall not be required to: (1) perform any postal duties on a day on which that carrier is serving as an enumerator; and (2) serve as an enumerator more than one day a week or after the services of letter carriers as enumerators are no longer required.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-07-10
text: Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.
action_date: 2009-07-10
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-07-10
text: Introduced in House
United States Optimal Use of Trade to Develop Outerwear and Outdoor Recreation Act

Bill: 111-hr-3168
Sponsor: Rep. Blumenauer, Earl [D-OR-3]
Introduced: 2009-07-10 in the House
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Competitiveness, trade promotion, trade deficits
Government trust funds
Manufacturing
Outdoor recreation
Research and development
Tariffs

Summary:
action_date: 2009-07-10
text: 
United States Optimal Use of Trade to Develop Outerwear and Outdoor Recreation Act or U.S. OUTDOOR Act - Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to provide for the duty-free treatment of certain recreational performance outerwear.
 
Establishes the Sustainable Textile and Apparel Research Fund (STAR Fund). 
 
Requires the Secretary of the Treasury to charge and collect, with specified exceptions, a fee of 1.5% of the appraised value of imported recreational performance outerwear and to deposit amounts collected into the STAR Fund. 
 
Requires the Secretary of Commerce to make quarterly distributions from the STAR Fund to one or more appropriate organizations to conduct applied research, development, and education activities to enhance the competitiveness of U.S. businesses in clean, eco-friendly apparel, other textile and apparel products, and sewn-product design and manufacturing.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-07-14
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Technology and Innovation.
action_date: 2009-07-10
text: Referred to House Science and Technology
action_date: 2009-07-10
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Science and Technology, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2009-07-10
text: Referred to House Ways and Means
action_date: 2009-07-10
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E1722)
action_date: 2009-07-10
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-07-10
text: Introduced in House
To require the Secretary of the Army to carry out a study to determine the most effective manner by which to carry out the Lake Pontchartrain flood control project, to authorize the Secretary of the Army to construct a new pumping station at Lake Pontchartrain, Louisiana, and for other purposes.

Bill: 111-hr-3169
Sponsor: Rep. Scalise, Steve [R-LA-1]
Introduced: 2009-07-10 in the House
Policy area: Water Resources Development
Subjects: Floods and storm protection
Lakes and rivers
Louisiana
Water resources funding

Summary:
action_date: 2009-07-10
text: 
Modifies the Lake Pontchartrain flood control project, Louisiana, to authorize the Secretary of the Army to construct a pumping station specifically designed to evacuate storm water from the Hoey's Basin area at a specified cost and federal share. 
 
Requires the Secretary to: (1) conduct a study to carry out an analysis of the residual risks associated with specified options described in the project report and an independent peer review of the effectiveness of concept designs and preliminary cost estimates associated with each option; (2) report to specified congressional committees regarding the option that is more technically advantageous and more effective from an operational perspective in providing greater reliability and reducing the risk of flooding to the New Orleans area over the long term and that would increase the overall drainage capacity of the region, reduce local flooding to the greatest extent practicable, and provide the greatest system flexibility; and (3) resume project implementation with that option without regard to the funds available.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-07-13
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment.
action_date: 2009-07-10
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2009-07-10
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-07-10
text: Introduced in House
Bridging Bank to Recovery Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-3171
Sponsor: Rep. Baca, Joe [D-CA-43]
Introduced: 2009-07-10 in the House
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: Bank accounts, deposits, capital
Consumer credit
Financial literacy
Financial services and investments
Housing finance and home ownership
Income tax exclusion
Interest, dividends, interest rates

Summary:
action_date: 2009-07-10
text: 
Bridging Bank to Recovery Act of 2009 - Authorizes an appropriate federal or state banking agency to charter and license a de novo bridging bank depository institution to enable underbanked and unbanked consumers, and consumers with credit scores at or below 680, to transition or return to the financial mainstream more easily through comprehensive banking services, including access to credit products, financial and credit training, loan restructurings and other tailored financial products and services to meet the needs of such consumers.
 
Defines underbanked consumers as individuals or families who have a deposit account with an insured depository institution or credit union, but who have limited or no ability to access nondepository services from such institutions.
 
Defines unbanked consumers as individuals or families who have neither an account with an insured depository institution or insured credit union, nor a transaction account with a money market mutual fund or brokerage firm.
 

 

 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) exempt from federal income taxation the interest on deposits paid by bridging bank depository institutions; and (2) exclude from gross income the income from the discharge of indebtedness in connection with modification or repurchase of a subprime debt instrument if the beneficial owner of such instrument is a bridging bank depository institution.
 
States that modification of a subprime debt instrument shall not result, for purposes of nonrecognition of gain or loss, in a sale or other disposition of property if a bridging bank depository institution is the beneficial owner of such instrument at the time of modification.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-07-10
text: Referred to House Ways and Means
action_date: 2009-07-10
text: Referred to the Committee on Financial Services, and in addition to the Committee on Ways and Means, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2009-07-10
text: Referred to House Financial Services
action_date: 2009-07-10
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-07-10
text: Introduced in House
Asian Carp Prevention and Control Act

Bill: 111-hr-3173
Sponsor: Rep. Biggert, Judy [R-IL-13]
Introduced: 2009-07-10 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Aquatic ecology
Fishes
Smuggling and trafficking
Trade restrictions
Wildlife conservation and habitat protection

Summary:
action_date: 2009-07-10
text: 
Asian Carp Prevention and Control Act - Amends the Lacey Act to add the bighead carp of the species Hypophthalmichthys nobilis to the list of injurious species that are prohibited from being shipped or imported into the United States.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-08-19
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.
action_date: 2009-07-10
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2009-07-10
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-07-10
text: Introduced in House
Photo Identification Security Act

Bill: 111-hr-3174
Sponsor: Rep. Blackburn, Marsha [R-TN-7]
Introduced: 2009-07-10 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Computer security and identity theft
Fraud offenses and financial crimes
Government information and archives
Photography and imaging
Visas and passports

Summary:
action_date: 2009-07-10
text: 
Photo Identification Security Act - Restricts the forms of individual identification that may be accepted by the federal government or by financial institutions to the following: (1) a Social Security card accompanied by a photo identification card issued by the federal or a state government; (2) a driver's license or identification card issued by a state that is in compliance with the REAL ID Act of 2005; (3) a passport issued by the United States or a foreign government; and (4) a photo identification card issued by the Secretary of Homeland Security (acting through the Director of the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services).


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-07-31
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Government Management, Organization, and Procurement.
action_date: 2009-07-10
text: Referred to House Financial Services
action_date: 2009-07-10
text: Referred to the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, and in addition to the Committee on Financial 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: 2009-07-10
text: Referred to House Oversight and Government Reform
action_date: 2009-07-10
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-07-10
text: Introduced in House
To direct the Secretary of Agriculture to convey to Miami-Dade County certain federally owned land in Florida, and for other purposes.

Bill: 111-hr-3175
Sponsor: Rep. Diaz-Balart, Lincoln [R-FL-21]
Introduced: 2009-07-10 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Agricultural research
Florida
Horticulture and plants
Land transfers

Summary:
action_date: 2009-07-10
text: 
Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to convey to Miami-Dade County, Florida, federally owned land comprising the Subtropical Horticulture Research Station in Miami-Dade County, Florida.
 
Directs the County to pay specified costs.

action_date: 2009-09-10
text: 

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

 
Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to convey to Miami-Dade County, Florida, federally owned land comprising the Subtropical Horticulture Research Station in Miami-Dade County, Florida.
 
Directs the County to pay specified costs.

action_date: 2009-09-15
text: 

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

 
Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to convey to Miami-Dade County, Florida, federally owned land comprising the Subtropical Horticulture Research Station in Miami-Dade County, Florida.
 
Directs the County to pay specified costs.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-09-16
text: Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry.
action_date: 2009-09-15
text: Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
action_date: 2009-09-15
text: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill Agreed to by voice vote. (text: CR H9514-9515)
action_date: 2009-09-15
text: Passed/agreed to in House: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill Agreed to by voice vote.(text: CR H9514-9515)
action_date: 2009-09-15
text: DEBATE - The House proceeded with forty minutes of debate on H.R. 3175.
action_date: 2009-09-15
text: Considered under suspension of the rules. (consideration: CR H9514-9516)
action_date: 2009-09-15
text: Mr. Holden moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill.
action_date: 2009-09-10
text: Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 140.
action_date: 2009-09-10
text: Reported by the Committee on Agriculture. H. Rept. 111-252.
action_date: 2009-09-10
text: Reported by the Committee on Agriculture. H. Rept. 111-252.
action_date: 2009-07-29
text: Ordered to be Reported by Voice Vote.
action_date: 2009-07-29
text: Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
action_date: 2009-07-10
text: Referred to the House Committee on Agriculture.
action_date: 2009-07-10
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-07-10
text: Introduced in House
Optometric Fairness in Medicaid Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-3176
Sponsor: Rep. Engel, Eliot L. [D-NY-17]
Introduced: 2009-07-10 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Health personnel
Hearing, speech, and vision care
Medicaid

Summary:
action_date: 2009-07-10
text: 
Optometric Fairness in Medicaid Act of 2009 - Amends title XIX (Medicaid) of the Social Security Act to require Medicaid coverage of professional medical services of optometrists. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-07-13
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2009-07-10
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2009-07-10
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-07-10
text: Introduced in House
Fusion Engineering Science and Fusion Energy Planning Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-3177
Sponsor: Rep. Lofgren, Zoe [D-CA-16]
Introduced: 2009-07-10 in the House
Policy area: Science, Technology, Communications
Subjects: Energy research
Nuclear power
Research administration and funding
Research and development

Summary:
action_date: 2009-07-10
text: 
Fusion Engineering Science and Fusion Energy Planning Act of 2009 - Directs the Secretary of Energy to enhance the U.S. capability in fusion engineering science (materials science and technology that focus on fusion energy plasmas) in order to ensure: (1) full U.S. benefit from the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER) project; and (2) U.S. leadership in fusion engineering science and in the next steps toward the development of a fusion energy facility.
 
Directs the Secretary, in response to recent study and planning activities undertaken by the Fusion Energy Sciences Advisory Committee and the Office of Fusion Energy Sciences, to develop and provide to Congress a comprehensive plan identifying the full range of research and development, including fusion engineering science, and the facilities needed to achieve practical fusion energy.
 



Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-07-14
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Environment.
action_date: 2009-07-10
text: Referred to the House Committee on Science and Technology.
action_date: 2009-07-10
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-07-10
text: Introduced in House
Small Business Growth Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-3178
Sponsor: Rep. Markey, Betsy [D-CO-4]
Introduced: 2009-07-10 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Business investment and capital
Income tax deductions
Small business

Summary:
action_date: 2009-07-10
text: 
Small Business Growth Act of 2009 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow small business taxpayers with gross receipts of $5 million or less to elect to expense certain depreciable real property in the year such property is placed in service. Limits the amount of such expensing allowance to $125,000, adjusted for inflation after 2009.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-07-10
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2009-07-10
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E1725)
action_date: 2009-07-10
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-07-10
text: Introduced in House
SCORE (Strengthening Community Opportunities through Rural Education) Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-3180
Sponsor: Rep. Perriello, Thomas S.P. [D-VA-5]
Introduced: 2009-07-10 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Education programs funding
Educational facilities and institutions
Educational technology and distance education
Elementary and secondary education
Rural conditions and development
Teaching, teachers, curricula

Summary:
action_date: 2009-07-10
text: 
SCORE (Strengthening Community Opportunities through Rural Education) Act of 2009 - Establishes, in the Department of Education, the National Advisory Committee on Rural Education to study, and make policy recommendations for overcoming, the unique challenges faced by rural public elementary and secondary school systems, including: (1) difficulties in recruiting and retaining teachers; (2) deficient or inadequate school or transportation facilities; (3) difficulties in effectively incorporating information technology; (4) dwindling numbers of recent postsecondary graduates returning to rural communities; and (5) limited and varied levels of funding.
 
Requires the Secretary of Education or the Secretary's designee to appoint Advisory Committee members from among experts on rural public school systems.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-07-10
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and Labor.
action_date: 2009-07-10
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-07-10
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Workforce Investment Act of 1998 to permit the establishment of Jobs Corps centers in territories of the United States.

Bill: 111-hr-3181
Sponsor: Del. Sablan, Gregorio Kilili Camacho [D-MP-At Large]
Introduced: 2009-07-10 in the House
Policy area: Labor and Employment
Subjects: American Samoa
Caribbean area
Employment and training programs
Guam
Northern Mariana Islands
Puerto Rico
U.S. territories and protectorates
Virgin Islands

Summary:
action_date: 2009-07-10
text: 
Amends the Workforce Investment Act of 1998 to permit the establishment of Job Corps centers in outlying areas (U.S. territories).


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-03-22
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Higher Education, Lifelong Learning, and Competitiveness.
action_date: 2009-07-10
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and Labor.
action_date: 2009-07-10
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-07-10
text: Introduced in House
For the relief of Hotaru Nakama Ferschke.

Bill: 111-hr-3182
Sponsor: Rep. Duncan, John J., Jr. [R-TN-2]
Introduced: 2009-07-10 in the House
Policy area: Private Legislation

Summary:
action_date: 2009-07-10
text: Provides for the relief of Hotaru Nakama Ferschke.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-07-20
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration, Citizenship, Refugees, Border Security, and International Law.
action_date: 2009-07-10
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2009-07-10
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-07-10
text: Introduced in House
Medicare Independent Living Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-3184
Sponsor: Rep. Langevin, James R. [D-RI-2]
Introduced: 2009-07-13 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Health technology, devices, supplies
Home and outpatient care
Long-term, rehabilitative, and terminal care
Medicare

Summary:
action_date: 2009-07-13
text: 
 Medicare Independent Living Act of 2009 - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to eliminate the in-the-home restriction for Medicare coverage of mobility devices for individuals with expected long-term needs. Deems such devices to be durable medical equipment (DME) if they are used in customary settings for the purpose of normal domestic, vocational, or community activities.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-07-14
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2009-07-13
text: Referred to House Ways and Means
action_date: 2009-07-13
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Ways and Means, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2009-07-13
text: Referred to House Energy and Commerce
action_date: 2009-07-13
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-07-13
text: Introduced in House
To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to provide payment to hospitals for costs of expanded advanced practice nurse training programs.

Bill: 111-hr-3185
Sponsor: Rep. Capps, Lois [D-CA-23]
Introduced: 2009-07-13 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Health facilities and institutions
Hospital care
Medical education
Medicare
Nursing

Summary:
action_date: 2009-07-13
text: 
Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to include among reasonable costs for Medicare payment to hospitals specified educational costs of a hospital and affiliated schools and settings attributable to expanded training of advanced practice nurses. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-07-13
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2009-07-13
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-07-13
text: Introduced in House
Federal Firefighter Pay Equity Act

Bill: 111-hr-3186
Sponsor: Rep. Connolly, Gerald E. [D-VA-11]
Introduced: 2009-07-13 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Fires
Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management

Summary:
action_date: 2009-07-13
text: 
Federal Firefighter Pay Equity Act - Includes in the determination of a federal firefighter's average pay for purposes of computing retirement and annuity benefits one-half of a firefighter's basic hourly rate times the number of overtime hours included in such firefighter's regular tour of duty for a year.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-07-31
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Federal Workforce, Post Office, and the District of Columbia.
action_date: 2009-07-13
text: Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.
action_date: 2009-07-13
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-07-13
text: Introduced in House