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Veterans Small Business Verification Act

Bill: 111-hr-2461
Sponsor: Rep. Herseth Sandlin, Stephanie [D-SD-At Large]
Introduced: 2009-05-18 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Disability and paralysis
Government information and archives
Public contracts and procurement
Small business
Veterans' education, employment, rehabilitation

Summary:
action_date: 2009-05-18
text: 
Veterans Small Business Verification Act - Provides that application by a veteran small business owner for inclusion in a database of veteran-owned small businesses maintained by the Secretary of Veterans Affairs shall constitute permission for the Secretary to verify information included in the application. Provides that, if the Secretary receives an application from an individual whose status as a veteran cannot be verified, the Secretary may not include that small business in the database until the Secretary receives sufficient information to verify such status.
 
Prohibits a small business from being listed in the database until the Secretary has verified that: (1) the small business is owned and controlled by veterans; and (2) when an owner indicates that the small business is owned and controlled by a veteran with a service-connected disability, the person is a veteran with a service-connected disability.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-10-28
text: Provisions of measure incorporated into H.R. 3949.
action_date: 2009-10-08
text: Forwarded by Subcommittee to Full Committee by Voice Vote .
action_date: 2009-10-08
text: Subcommittee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
action_date: 2009-09-24
text: Subcommittee Hearings Held.
action_date: 2009-05-22
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Economic Opportunity.
action_date: 2009-05-18
text: Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2009-05-18
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-05-18
text: Introduced in House
Convicted Child Sex Offender DNA Index System Support Act

Bill: 111-hr-2462
Sponsor: Rep. King, Peter T. [R-NY-3]
Introduced: 2009-05-18 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Crimes against children
Criminal investigation, prosecution, interrogation
Criminal justice information and records
Evidence and witnesses
Genetics
Sex offenses

Summary:
action_date: 2009-05-18
text: Convicted Child Sex Offender DNA Index System Support Act - Requires the Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) to develop a plan to assist states in performing DNA analyses of samples collected from convicted child sex offenders, with the objective of eliminating the backlog of samples awaiting analysis in state or local forensic laboratory storage and providing for entry of those analyses into the combined DNA Indexing System (CODIS). 
Provides that the plan shall require that: (1) the Director establish requirements for the performance of DNA analyses by private forensic laboratories; (2) only laboratories determined to satisfy such requirements perform DNA analyses; (3) the Director provide assistance only pursuant to arrangements with those laboratories; and (4) each DNA sample collected and analyzed be accessible only under specified circumstances for criminal justice agencies, in judicial proceedings, for a criminal defendant, or for validation studies and protocol development purposes. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-06-12
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.
action_date: 2009-05-18
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2009-05-18
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-05-18
text: Introduced in House
Taxpayers' Cancer Research Funding Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-2463
Sponsor: Rep. King, Peter T. [R-NY-3]
Introduced: 2009-05-18 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Cancer
Government trust funds
Medical research
Research administration and funding
Tax administration and collection, taxpayers
Women's health

Summary:
action_date: 2009-05-18
text: 
Taxpayers' Cancer Research Funding Act of 2009- Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow taxpayers to designate on their tax returns a $5 contribution to the Breast and Prostate Cancer Research Fund ($10 for joint returns). 
 
Establishes in the Treasury the Breast and Prostate Cancer Research Fund to award grants for breast or prostate cancer research.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-05-19
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2009-05-18
text: Referred to House Energy and Commerce
action_date: 2009-05-18
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2009-05-18
text: Referred to House Ways and Means
action_date: 2009-05-18
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-05-18
text: Introduced in House
COVERT Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-2464
Sponsor: Rep. Lowey, Nita M. [D-NY-18]
Introduced: 2009-05-18 in the House
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Aviation and airports
Government studies and investigations
Homeland security
Transportation employees
Transportation safety and security

Summary:
action_date: 2009-05-18
text: 
Catching Operational Vulnerabilities by Ensuring Random Testing Act of 2009 or the COVERT Act of 2009 - Requires the Secretary of Homeland Security to make sure that advance notice of a covert test of a transportation security system is not provided to any individual (including any security screener) before completion of the test, except: (1) that such information may be provided to certain federal, state, and local government employees, officers, and contractors (including military personnel); and (2) an individual conducting such a test may disclose his or her status if a security screener or other non-covered employee identifies such tester as a potential threat. 
 
Requires the head of each covert testing office to make sure that a covert testing person or group is accompanied by a cover team to monitor the test and confirm the identity of personnel involved. States, however, that a cover team is not required to be present during a test of the screening of persons or baggage at an aviation security checkpoint if the test: (1) is approved by the Federal Security Director for the airport; and (2) is administered under an aviation screening assessment program of the Department of Homeland Security.
 
Directs the Secretary to study the impact of implementing covert testing procedures under this Act on the Department's efforts to improve transportation security.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-05-26
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Transportation Security and Infrastructure Protection.
action_date: 2009-05-18
text: Referred to the House Committee on Homeland Security.
action_date: 2009-05-18
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-05-18
text: Introduced in House
AID for America Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-2465
Sponsor: Rep. Lowey, Nita M. [D-NY-18]
Introduced: 2009-05-18 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Disaster relief and insurance
Income tax credits
Social work, volunteer service, charitable organizations
Wages and earnings

Summary:
action_date: 2009-05-18
text: 
Assistance to Individuals Delivering for America Act of 2009 or the AID for America Act of 2009- Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow employers a business tax credit for 50 percent of the wages paid to employees serving as disaster relief volunteers. Limits the amount of such credit to $100 per day per employee.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-05-18
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2009-05-18
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-05-18
text: Introduced in House
Guard and Reserve Financial Stability Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-2466
Sponsor: Rep. Lowey, Nita M. [D-NY-18]
Introduced: 2009-05-18 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Income tax credits
National Guard and reserves
Small business
Temporary and part-time employment
Wages and earnings

Summary:
action_date: 2009-05-18
text: 
Guard and Reserve Financial Stability Act of 2009 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow small employers (employers with 50 or fewer employees) a business tax credit for 50 percent of the lesser of: (1) actual compensation paid to each Ready Reserve-National Guard employee while on active duty or hospitalized incident to such duty; or (2) $30,000. Terminates such credit after 2009.
 
Allows employers a work opportunity tax credit for the hiring of temporary employees to replace Ready Reserve-National Guard employees for the period such employees are on active duty.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-05-18
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2009-05-18
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-05-18
text: Introduced in House
To authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2010 for military activities of the Department of Defense, for military construction, and for defense activities of the Department of Energy, to prescribe military personnel strengths for such fiscal year, to provide special pays and allowances to certain members of the Armed Forces, expand concurrent receipt of military retirement and VA disability benefits to disabled military retirees, and for other purposes.

Bill: 111-hr-2467
Sponsor: Rep. Lynch, Stephen F. [D-MA-9]
Introduced: 2009-05-18 in the House
Policy area: Housing and Community Development
Subjects: Accounting and auditing
Government lending and loan guarantees
Government studies and investigations
Government trust funds
Housing finance and home ownership

Summary:
action_date: 2009-05-18
text: 
FHA Enhanced Oversight Act of 2009 - Amends the National Housing Act to change from annual to semiannual: (1) the independent actuarial studies of the Mutual Mortgage Insurance Fund of the Federal Housing Administration (FHA); and (2) the report of the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) on the results of each study.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-05-18
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2009-05-18
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-05-18
text: Introduced in House
United States-India Interparliamentary Exchange Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-2468
Sponsor: Rep. McDermott, Jim [D-WA-7]
Introduced: 2009-05-18 in the House
Policy area: International Affairs
Subjects: Asia
Congressional operations and organization
Cultural exchanges and relations
Diplomacy, foreign officials, Americans abroad
India

Summary:
action_date: 2009-05-18
text: 
United States-India Interparliamentary Exchange Act of 2009 - Establishes the United States-India Interparliamentary Exchange Group.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-05-18
text: Referred to the House Committee on Foreign Affairs.
action_date: 2009-05-18
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-05-18
text: Introduced in House
Drug Trafficking Elimination Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-2469
Sponsor: Rep. Poe, Ted [R-TX-2]
Introduced: 2009-05-18 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Child safety and welfare
Correctional facilities and imprisonment
Drug trafficking and controlled substances
Drug, alcohol, tobacco use
Educational facilities and institutions
Government buildings, facilities, and property
Hazardous wastes and toxic substances
Organized crime
Sex and reproductive health
Violent crime

Summary:
action_date: 2009-05-18
text: 
Drug Trafficking Elimination Act of 2009 - Amends the Controlled Substances Act and the Controlled Substances Import and Export Act to increase prison terms or impose mandatory minimum prison terms for: (1) manufacturing, distributing, dispensing, or possessing certain large amounts of heroin, marihuana, or methamphetamine; (2) importing or exporting such drugs; (3) manufacturing or cultivating a controlled substance on federal property; (4) using hazardous substances on federal land in connection with illegal drug activities; (5) possessing a listed chemical with intent to manufacture a controlled substance; (6) committing a crime of violence during and in relation to a drug trafficking crime; (7) engaging in a dangerous drug trafficking organization; (8) distributing controlled substances to persons under age 21 or to a pregnant person; (9) distributing controlled substances in or near schools; and (10) employing or involving persons under age 18 in illegal drug activities.
 
Directs the Attorney General to develop a National Drug Trafficking Enforcement Strategy. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-06-12
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.
action_date: 2009-05-19
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2009-05-18
text: Referred to House Energy and Commerce
action_date: 2009-05-18
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2009-05-18
text: Referred to House Judiciary
action_date: 2009-05-18
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-05-18
text: Introduced in House
Uranium Enrichment Decontamination and Decommissioning Fund Reauthorization Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-2471
Sponsor: Rep. Whitfield, Ed [R-KY-1]
Introduced: 2009-05-18 in the House
Policy area: Energy
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Administrative remedies
Department of Energy
Employee benefits and pensions
Government trust funds
Income tax deferral
Income tax exclusion
Judicial review and appeals
Kentucky
Nuclear power
Ohio
Public contracts and procurement
Radioactive wastes and releases

Summary:
action_date: 2009-05-18
text: 
Uranium Enrichment Decontamination and Decomissioning Fund Reauthorization Act of 2009 - Amends the Atomic Energy Act of 1954 to reauthorize, and increase the maximum mandatory amounts in, the Uranium Enrichment Decontamination and Decommissioning Fund.
 
Directs the Secretary of Energy to establish a program to pay any affected participant under the USEC Privatization Act a one-time sum payment of benefits in an amount to be determined by the Secretary.
 
Limits affected participants to persons who: (1) retired from active employment at one of the gaseous diffusion plants on or before the United States Enrichment Corporation (USEC) privatization date as vested participants in a pension; and (2) are employed by the USEC's operating contractor on or before the privatization date and are vested participants in a pension plan.
 
 
Directs the Secretary to develop, complete, and publish in the Federal Register a plan to re-enrich and sell certain cylinders of uranium tailings.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-05-19
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Environment.
action_date: 2009-05-18
text: Referred to House Ways and Means
action_date: 2009-05-18
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: 2009-05-18
text: Referred to House Energy and Commerce
action_date: 2009-05-18
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-05-18
text: Introduced in House
Social Security Number Fraud and Identity Theft Prevention Act

Bill: 111-hr-2472
Sponsor: Rep. Coffman, Mike [R-CO-6]
Introduced: 2009-05-19 in the House
Policy area: Immigration
Subjects: Border security and unlawful immigration
Computer security and identity theft
Foreign labor
Fraud offenses and financial crimes
Government information and archives
Social security and elderly assistance
Visas and passports

Summary:
action_date: 2009-05-19
text: 
Social Security Number Fraud and Identity Theft Prevention Act - Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to authorize the Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), the Secretary of Labor, and the Attorney General to require an individual to provide the individual's Social Security account number for inclusion in any: (1) record of the individual maintained by either such Secretary or the Attorney General; or (2) any application, document, or form provided under or required by the immigration laws. (Currently, the Attorney General is authorized to require any alien to provide a Social Security account number for inclusion in any record maintained by the Attorney General or the Bureau of Citizenship and Immigration Services.)
 
Requires the Commissioner of Social Security, if a Social Security account number has been used multiple times, to provide the DHS Secretary with information regarding: (1) the name, date of birth, and address of each individual who used the same Social Security account number; and (2) the name and address of the person reporting the earnings for each such individual.
 
Requires the Commissioner to provide such information to the DHS Secretary, in an electronic form, if more than one person reports earnings for an individual during a single tax year.
 
Directs the Commissioner, at the DHS Secretary's request and expense, to perform and report on a search or manipulation of Social Security Commission records if the Secretary certifies that the purpose is to obtain information likely to assist in identifying individuals (and their employers) who are: (1) using false names or Social Security account numbers; (2) sharing a single valid name and Social Security account number among multiple individuals; (3) using the Social Security account number of a person who is deceased, too young to work, or not authorized to work; or (4) otherwise engaged in a violation of the immigration laws.
 
Declares inadmissible to receive visas and to be admitted to the United States any alien who falsely represents himself or herself to be a U.S. national for any purpose or benefit under immigration and nationality or any other federal or state law.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-06-12
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration, Citizenship, Refugees, Border Security, and International Law.
action_date: 2009-06-12
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.
action_date: 2009-05-19
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2009-05-19
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-05-19
text: Introduced in House
To improve Department of Defense policies relating to body armor.

Bill: 111-hr-2473
Sponsor: Rep. Tsongas, Niki [D-MA-5]
Introduced: 2009-05-19 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Defense spending
Department of Defense
Executive agency funding and structure
Military procurement, research, weapons development
Research and development

Summary:
action_date: 2009-05-19
text: 
Directs the Secretary of Defense, with respect to the defense budget for FY2011 and thereafter, to ensure that within the research, development, test, and evaluation (RDT&E) account for each military department, a separate, dedicated program element is assigned to: (1) the RDT&E of body armor; and (2) the procurement of body armor.
 
Requires the Secretary to ensure that, from amounts authorized for RDT&E, necessary sums are available for: (1) research and development of lighter body armor while maintaining equivalent level of threat protection to the improved outer tactical vest and enhanced small arms protective inserts; and (2) the creation of a task force to carry out the RDT&E of lighter body armor.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-06-08
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Air and Land Forces.
action_date: 2009-05-19
text: Referred to the House Committee on Armed Services.
action_date: 2009-05-19
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-05-19
text: Introduced in House
Veterans Educational Equity Act

Bill: 111-hr-2474
Sponsor: Rep. McKeon, Howard P. "Buck" [R-CA-25]
Introduced: 2009-05-19 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Higher education
Student aid and college costs
Veterans' education, employment, rehabilitation

Summary:
action_date: 2009-05-19
text: 
Veterans Educational Equity Act - Provides that, in the case of an individual entitled to veterans' educational assistance under the Post-9/11 Educational Assistance program and who is enrolled at an institution of higher education in a state in which the public institutions charge only fees in lieu of tuition, the Secretary of Veterans Affairs (VA) shall allow the individual to use all or a portion of the amount payable under the educational assistance program to pay the tuition or fees for that program of education.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-05-22
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Economic Opportunity.
action_date: 2009-05-19
text: Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2009-05-19
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-05-19
text: Introduced in House
Chemical Facility Security Authorization Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-2477
Sponsor: Rep. Dent, Charles W. [R-PA-15]
Introduced: 2009-05-19 in the House
Policy area: Emergency Management
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Department of Homeland Security
Emergency planning and evacuation
Hazardous wastes and toxic substances
Homeland security
Industrial facilities
Performance measurement
Terrorism

Summary:
action_date: 2009-05-19
text: 
Chemical Facility Security Authorization Act of 2009 - Amends the Department of Homeland Security Appropriations Act, 2007 to extend the Secretary of Homeland Security's regulatory authority with respect to risk-based performance standards for security of chemical facilities and vulnerability assessments and the development and implementation of site security plans for such facilities until October 1, 2012.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-05-20
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Environment.
action_date: 2009-05-19
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2009-05-19
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-05-19
text: Introduced in House