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Warren County National Debt Reduction Act

Bill: 111-hr-2226
Sponsor: Rep. Turner, Michael R. [R-OH-3]
Introduced: 2009-05-04 in the House
Policy area: Economics and Public Finance
Subjects: Appropriations
Budget deficits and national debt
Financial crises and stabilization
Ohio
Public transit
Transportation programs funding

Summary:
action_date: 2009-05-04
text: 
Warren County National Debt Reduction Act - Rescinds specified funds to be derived from the amount apportioned to Ohio under formula grants for other than urbanized areas and made available from division A of title XII of P.L. 111-5 (American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009) for the Federal Transit Administration (FTA) for transit capital assistance.
 
Declares that: (1) such stimulus funding was rejected by the Warren County Ohio Board of Commissioners because it was not needed; and (2) the purpose of this bill is to ensure that such funding is returned to the U.S. Treasury to reduce the national debt to be inherited by future generations.
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-05-04
text: Referred to the House Committee on Appropriations.
action_date: 2009-05-04
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-05-04
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to allow States to count certain students formerly identified as limited English proficient as being within the limited English proficient subgroup, and certain students formerly identified as students with disabilities as being within the students with disabilities subgroup.

Bill: 111-hr-2228
Sponsor: Rep. Boozman, John [R-AR-3]
Introduced: 2009-05-04 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Academic performance and assessments
Disability and paralysis
Education of the disadvantaged
Education programs funding
Elementary and secondary education
Language arts
Special education

Summary:
action_date: 2009-05-04
text: 
Amends the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to allow states, when determining whether disabled or limited English proficient student subgroups are making adequate yearly progress (AYP) toward state academic performance standards, to include in such subgroups students who are no longer identified as disabled or limited English proficient but who were so identified during any of the preceding three school years.
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-06-04
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education.
action_date: 2009-05-04
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and Labor.
action_date: 2009-05-04
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-05-04
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to allow States to adopt alternate and modified standards for students with disabilities.

Bill: 111-hr-2229
Sponsor: Rep. Boozman, John [R-AR-3]
Introduced: 2009-05-04 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Academic performance and assessments
Disability and paralysis
Education of the disadvantaged
Education programs funding
Elementary and secondary education
Special education

Summary:
action_date: 2009-05-04
text: 
Amends the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to allow states to adopt alternate and modified academic performance standards for disabled students who, consistent with their individualized education programs, should be given opportunities to achieve grade-level proficiency beyond a given school year. Requires such modified standards to reflect ambitious annual academic achievement goals.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-06-04
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education.
action_date: 2009-05-04
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and Labor.
action_date: 2009-05-04
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-05-04
text: Introduced in House
Teacher Tax Credit Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-2230
Sponsor: Rep. Boozman, John [R-AR-3]
Introduced: 2009-05-04 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Elementary and secondary education
Income tax credits
Teaching, teachers, curricula

Summary:
action_date: 2009-05-04
text: Teacher Tax Credit Act of 2009 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow an eligible educator an annual $2,000 tax credit. 
Defines: (1) "eligible educator" as an individual who is a kindergarten through grade 12 teacher, instructor, counselor, principal, or aide in an eligible elementary or secondary school for at least 900 hours during a school year; and (2) "eligible elementary or secondary school" as a school that is eligible for schoolwide assistance under the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-05-04
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2009-05-04
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-05-04
text: Introduced in House
Public Health Emergency Response Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-2231
Sponsor: Rep. Capps, Lois [D-CA-23]
Introduced: 2009-05-04 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Emergency medical services and trauma care
Health care coverage and access
Health information and medical records
Health programs administration and funding
Social work, volunteer service, charitable organizations

Summary:
action_date: 2009-05-04
text: 
Public Health Emergency Response Act of 2009 - Amends the Public Health Service Act to allow the Secretary of Health and Human Services to activate the coverage of short-term emergency health care services if the Secretary determines that there is a public health emergency. Sets forth factors for the Secretary to consider, including the degree to which the emergency is likely to overwhelm health care providers in the region.
 
Requires the Secretary to establish a medical monitoring program for monitoring and reporting on the health care needs of the affected population over time.
 
Limits eligibility for coverage of emergency health care services to: (1) uninsured or underinsured emergency victims who need health care services due to injuries or disease resulting from the public health emergency; or (2) uninsured individuals residing in the affected area whose ability to access care or medicine is disrupted as a result of the emergency.
 
Directs the Secretary to: (1) establish a streamlined process for determining eligibility for emergency health care services; (2) report to Congress on the number and adequacy of volunteers enrolled in the Emergency System for Advance Registration of Volunteer Health Professionals (ESAR-VHP) who will be available to each state in the event of a public health emergency; and (3) conduct an outreach and public education campaign to inform health care providers and the general public about the availability of emergency health care coverage during the period of the emergency.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-05-05
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2009-05-04
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2009-05-04
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-05-04
text: Introduced in House
To amend title 23, United States Code, to direct the Secretary of Transportation to establish national tunnel inspection standards for the proper safety inspection and evaluation of all highway tunnels, and for other purposes.

Bill: 111-hr-2232
Sponsor: Rep. Capuano, Michael E. [D-MA-8]
Introduced: 2009-05-04 in the House
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Employment and training programs
Roads and highways
Transportation employees
Transportation programs funding
Transportation safety and security

Summary:
action_date: 2009-05-04
text: 
Directs the Secretary of Transportation to establish: (1) a national highway tunnel inspection program, including standards for the proper safety inspection and evaluation of all highway tunnels; (2) a training and certification program for highway tunnel inspectors; and (3) a national inventory of highway tunnels. 
 
Includes tunnel construction, rehabilitation, and operational improvements (including safety inspection of such tunnels) as eligible projects under the federal surface transportation program.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-05-05
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Highways and Transit.
action_date: 2009-05-04
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2009-05-04
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-05-04
text: Introduced in House
Health Empowerment Zone Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-2233
Sponsor: Del. Christensen, Donna M. [D-VI-At Large]
Introduced: 2009-05-04 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Health care coverage and access
Health programs administration and funding
Health promotion and preventive care

Summary:
action_date: 2009-05-04
text: 
Health Empowerment Zone Act of 2009 - Authorizes the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS), at the request of a broad-based community partnership, to designate a community that experiences disproportionate disparities in health status and health care as a health empowerment zone. Requires federal officials to give priority in awarding competitive grants to grants used in or benefiting a health empowerment zone. 
 
Directs the Secretary to provide: (1) technical assistance (or grants) to entities seeking to form a community partnership or obtain a health empowerment zone designation for a community; and (2) grants to community partnerships for implementation of the strategic plan for a health empowerment zone.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-05-05
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2009-05-04
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2009-05-04
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-05-04
text: Introduced in House
To amend part B of title XVIII of the Social Security Act to limit the penalty for late enrollment under part B of the Medicare Program to 10 percent and twice the period of no enrollment, and to exclude periods of COBRA and retiree coverage from such late enrollment penalty.

Bill: 111-hr-2235
Sponsor: Rep. Frank, Barney [D-MA-4]
Introduced: 2009-05-04 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Employee benefits and pensions
Health care costs and insurance
Health care coverage and access
Medicare

Summary:
action_date: 2009-05-04
text: 
Amends part B (Supplementary Medical Insurance) of title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to: (1) limit the penalty for late enrollment under part B to 10% and twice the period of no enrollment; and (2) exclude periods of COBRA and retiree coverage from such late enrollment penalty.
 
Provides for a special enrollment period for individuals whose COBRA or retiree coverage terminates.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-05-05
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2009-05-04
text: Referred to House Ways and Means
action_date: 2009-05-04
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: 2009-05-04
text: Referred to House Energy and Commerce
action_date: 2009-05-04
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-05-04
text: Introduced in House
Grieving Families Insurance Protection Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-2236
Sponsor: Rep. Halvorson, Deborah L. [D-IL-11]
Introduced: 2009-05-04 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Business ethics
Disability and health-based discrimination
Health care costs and insurance
Health care coverage and access
Mental health

Summary:
action_date: 2009-05-04
text: 
Grieving Families Insurance Protection Act of 2009 - Amends the Public Health Service Act to prohibit a health insurance issuer offering health insurance coverage in the individual market from: (1) establishing or maintaining rules of eligibility of any individual to enroll under the terms of the coverage based on any individual's receipt of grief counseling at any time; or (2) reducing the benefits covered or offered for coverage on such basis.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-05-05
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2009-05-04
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2009-05-04
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-05-04
text: Introduced in House
Civil Reserve Air Fleet Missile Defense Pilot Program Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-2237
Sponsor: Rep. Israel, Steve [D-NY-2]
Introduced: 2009-05-04 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Aviation and airports
Military procurement, research, weapons development
National Guard and reserves
Terrorism
Transportation safety and security

Summary:
action_date: 2009-05-04
text: 
Civil Reserve Air Fleet Missile Defense Pilot Program Act of 2009 - Directs the Secretary of Defense to: (1) carry out a two-year pilot program to determine the feasibility and desirability of equipping at least 20 turbojet aircraft in the Civil Reserve Air Fleet with a shoulder-fired missile defense system; and (2) report program results to the congressional defense and appropriations committees.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-02-18
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Readiness.
action_date: 2009-05-04
text: Referred to the House Committee on Armed Services.
action_date: 2009-05-04
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-05-04
text: Introduced in House
To direct the Administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration to issue an order regarding secondary cockpit barriers.

Bill: 111-hr-2238
Sponsor: Rep. Israel, Steve [D-NY-2]
Introduced: 2009-05-04 in the House
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Aviation and airports
Department of Transportation
Terrorism
Transportation safety and security

Summary:
action_date: 2009-05-04
text: 
Directs the Administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to issue an order to require: (1) the installation of secondary barriers to prevent access to the flight deck of a commercial aircraft; (2) with respect to an aircraft that is equipped with a cockpit door, that such barriers remain locked while the aircraft is in flight and the cockpit door separating the flight deck and the passenger area is open; and (3) with respect to an aircraft that is not equipped with a cockpit door, that such barriers remain locked as determined by the pilot.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-05-05
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Aviation.
action_date: 2009-05-04
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2009-05-04
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-05-04
text: Introduced in House
Secondary School Innovation Fund Act

Bill: 111-hr-2239
Sponsor: Rep. Loebsack, David [D-IA-2]
Introduced: 2009-05-04 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Academic performance and assessments
Education of the disadvantaged
Education programs funding
Educational technology and distance education
Elementary and secondary education
Higher education
Rural conditions and development
School administration
Vocational and technical education

Summary:
action_date: 2009-05-04
text: 
Secondary School Innovation Fund Act - Amends the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to authorize the Secretary of Education to establish a Secondary School Innovation Fund program awarding competitive matching grants to partnerships, which must include at least one state or local educational agency, for the implementation of innovative strategies to improve the achievement of at-risk students in secondary schools. Permits partnerships to award subgrants to schools for the implementation of such strategies.
 
Lists innovative strategies, one or more of which grantees or subgrantees must implement, that include: (1) creating multiple education pathways that offer students a range of educational options aligned with their needs and interests and preparing them for postsecondary education and the workforce; (2) giving students access to early college high school or other dual enrollment learning opportunities; (3) using secondary school early warning indicators and intervention systems attuned to the needs of at-risk students; (4) creating expanded learning time opportunities; (5) improving student transitions from middle school to high school or from high school to postsecondary education and the workforce; (6) increasing the autonomy and flexibility of secondary schools; (7) improving rural education through educational technology; (8) improving learning opportunities for students in the middle grades; (9) improving teaching and increasing academic rigor at the secondary school level; and (10) improving community and parental involvement in students' education.
 
Requires the Secretary to disseminate, and provide technical assistance regarding, best practices in improving secondary school student achievement. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-06-04
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education.
action_date: 2009-05-04
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and Labor.
action_date: 2009-05-04
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-05-04
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow a nonrefundable credit for mentoring and housing young adults.

Bill: 111-hr-2240
Sponsor: Rep. Meek, Kendrick B. [D-FL-17]
Introduced: 2009-05-04 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Child care and development
Income tax credits

Summary:
action_date: 2009-05-04
text: 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow a tax credit to individuals who provide mentoring services to young adults between the ages of 18 and 22. Requires such individuals to participate in a one-on-one relationship as a positive role model with such young adults and to conduct meetings and activities with them on not less than a monthly basis. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-05-04
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2009-05-04
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-05-04
text: Introduced in House
Equitable Compensation for American Victims of Torture Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-2241
Sponsor: Rep. Sestak, Joe [D-PA-7]
Introduced: 2009-05-04 in the House
Policy area: Law
Subjects: Civil actions and liability
Crime victims
Detention of persons
Government liability
Iraq
Middle East
Presidents and presidential powers, Vice Presidents
Terrorism
War crimes, genocide, crimes against humanity

Summary:
action_date: 2009-05-04
text: 
Equitable Compensation for American Victims of Torture Act of 2009 - Terminates the authority of the President to grant the government of Iraq immunity from actions by victims of terrorism seeking compensation for injuries caused by officials, employees, or agents of the government of Iraq during the 1991 Gulf War when such government was classified as a state sponsor of terrorism, unless the claims in specified cases of U.S. soldiers and civilians held in Iraq as POWs and hostages and subject to state-sponsored torture and terrorism have been adequately settled. 
 
Defines various adequate settlement amounts, depending on the victim, length of torture or detainment, etc.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-06-12
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration, Citizenship, Refugees, Border Security, and International Law.
action_date: 2009-05-04
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2009-05-04
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-05-04
text: Introduced in House
Enhancing Education through Tax Relief Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-2242
Sponsor: Rep. Space, Zachary T. [D-OH-18]
Introduced: 2009-05-04 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Books and print media
Computers and information technology
Educational facilities and institutions
Educational technology and distance education
Elementary and secondary education
Higher education
Income tax credits
Income tax deductions
Libraries and archives
Securities
Social work, volunteer service, charitable organizations
Student aid and college costs
Teaching, teachers, curricula

Summary:
action_date: 2009-05-04
text: 
Enhancing Education through Tax Relief Act of 2009 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to make permanent: (1) the tax deduction for certain expenses of elementary and secondary school teachers; (2) the expanded tax deduction for charitable contributions of book inventories to public schools; (3) the expanded tax deduction for charitable contributions of computer technology or equipment to schools, charities, and public libraries; (4) the tax credit for holders of qualified zone academy bonds; and (5) the tax deduction for qualified tuition and related expenses. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-05-04
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2009-05-04
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-05-04
text: Introduced in House
Surviving Spouses' Benefit Improvement Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-2243
Sponsor: Rep. Buyer, Steve [R-IN-4]
Introduced: 2009-05-05 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Marriage and family status
Veterans' pensions and compensation

Summary:
action_date: 2009-05-05
text: 
Surviving Spouses' Benefit Improvement Act of 2009 - Increases the monthly rates of veterans' dependency and indemnity compensation payable to surviving spouses through the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA).
 
Prohibits benefits under any other law (other than duplication of benefits) from being reduced or offset because the surviving spouse is eligible for dependency and indemnity compensation.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-10-08
text: Subcommittee Hearings Held.
action_date: 2009-05-08
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Disability Assistance and Memorial Affairs.
action_date: 2009-05-05
text: Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2009-05-05
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-05-05
text: Introduced in House
Single Parent Protection Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-2244
Sponsor: Rep. Lofgren, Zoe [D-CA-16]
Introduced: 2009-05-05 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Child care and development
Income tax credits
Income tax rates
Separation, divorce, custody, support

Summary:
action_date: 2009-05-05
text: 
Single Parent Protection Act of 2009 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) allow individual taxpayers who are entitled to receive child support a refundable tax credit for any unpaid portion of such support; and (2) increase the income tax liability of any individual required to pay child support by the amount of the unpaid child support allowed as a tax credit by this Act. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-05-05
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2009-05-05
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-05-05
text: Introduced in House
Community Building Code Administration Grant Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-2246
Sponsor: Rep. Moore, Dennis [D-KS-3]
Introduced: 2009-05-05 in the House
Policy area: Housing and Community Development
Subjects: Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management
Housing and community development funding
Housing industry and standards
State and local government operations

Summary:
action_date: 2009-05-05
text: 
Community Building Code Administration Grant Act of 2009 - Requires the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, to the extent amounts are made available for grants under this Act, to award grants, on a competitive basis and with federal matching funds, to qualified local building code enforcement departments to increase staffing, provide staff training, increase staff competence and professional qualifications, support individual certification or departmental accreditation, or for capital expenditures specifically dedicated to department administration.
 
Sets forth criteria for rating and ranking of grant proposals.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-05-05
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2009-05-05
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-05-05
text: Introduced in House