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Security through Termination Of Proliferation Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-485
Sponsor: Rep. Ros-Lehtinen, Ileana [R-FL-18]
Introduced: 2009-01-13 in the House
Policy area: International Affairs
Subjects: Arms control and nonproliferation
Asia
Congressional oversight
Detention of persons
Foreign and international corporations
Government trust funds
Immigration status and procedures
Income tax credits
International organizations and cooperation
Iran
Middle East
North Korea
Nuclear power
Nuclear weapons
Sanctions
Syria
Tax administration and collection, taxpayers
Taxation of foreign income
Trade restrictions
Visas and passports

Summary:
action_date: 2009-01-13
text: 
Security through Termination Of Proliferation Act of 2009 or the STOP Act of 2009 - States that specified U.S. sanctions with respect to Iran, North Korea, or Syria shall remain in effect until the President certifies to the appropriate congressional committees that such country has verifiably dismantled its weapons of mass destruction programs.
 
Amends the Iran, North Korea, and Syria Nonproliferation Act to include within the scope of such Act (including identification/reporting and sanction provisions) persons involved in the transshipment (as defined by this Act) of certain goods, services, or technology.
 
Establishes restrictions on nuclear cooperation with a country that is assisting the nuclear program of, or transferring advanced conventional weapons or missiles to, Iran, North Korea, or Syria.
 
Provides for exclusion from the United States (with a discretionary national security waiver by the President) of an alien who is a senior government official of a foreign government or a corporate principal or significant shareholder of a foreign person identified as involved in proliferation activities respecting Iran, North Korea, or Syria.
 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) deny a foreign tax credit to a taxpayer engaged in business activity with Iran that is prohibited by U.S. law; and (2) set forth income tax provisions respecting a foreign corporation engaged in business activity with Iran that is prohibited by U.S. law.
 
Establishes the Compensation for Former United States Hostages in Iran Fund.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-03-16
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration, Citizenship, Refugees, Border Security, and International Law.
action_date: 2009-01-13
text: Referred to House Financial Services
action_date: 2009-01-13
text: Referred to House Oversight and Government Reform
action_date: 2009-01-13
text: Referred to House Judiciary
action_date: 2009-01-13
text: Referred to House Ways and Means
action_date: 2009-01-13
text: Referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, and in addition to the Committees on Ways and Means, the Judiciary, Oversight and Government Reform, and 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: 2009-01-13
text: Referred to House Foreign Affairs
action_date: 2009-01-13
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-01-13
text: Introduced in House
Judicial Transparency and Ethics Enhancement Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-486
Sponsor: Rep. Sensenbrenner, F. James, Jr. [R-WI-5]
Introduced: 2009-01-13 in the House
Policy area: Law
Subjects: Government ethics and transparency, public corruption
Government studies and investigations
Judicial procedure and administration

Summary:
action_date: 2009-01-13
text: 
Judicial Transparency and Ethics Enhancement Act of 2009 - Amends the federal judicial code to establish the Office of Inspector General for the Judicial Branch of the U.S. government, to be headed by an Inspector General appointed by the Chief Justice. Sets a term of four years, which may be extended by additional reappointments. Authorizes the Chief Justice to remove an Inspector General from office.
 
Requires the Office, except with respect to the Supreme Court, to: (1) conduct investigations of alleged misconduct in the Judicial Branch; (2) conduct and supervise audits and investigations; and (3) prevent and detect waste, fraud, and abuse.
 
Provides for whistleblower protection.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-02-09
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Courts and Competition Policy.
action_date: 2009-01-13
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2009-01-13
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-01-13
text: Introduced in House
To waive the 35-mile requirement for designation of a critical access hospital under the Medicare program.

Bill: 111-hr-487
Sponsor: Rep. Skelton, Ike [D-MO-4]
Introduced: 2009-01-13 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Health facilities and institutions
Hospital care
Medicare
Missouri

Summary:
action_date: 2009-01-13
text: 
Waives the 35-mile requirement for designation of a critical access hospital (CAH) under title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act for a hospital located in Osceola, Missouri. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-01-13
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2009-01-13
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-01-13
text: Introduced in House
To decrease the matching funds requirement and authorize additional appropriations for Keweenaw National Historical Park in the State of Michigan.

Bill: 111-hr-488
Sponsor: Rep. Stupak, Bart [D-MI-1]
Introduced: 2009-01-13 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Historic sites and heritage areas
Intergovernmental relations
Michigan
Parks, recreation areas, trails
State and local finance

Summary:
action_date: 2009-01-13
text: 
Decreases the matching funds requirement, and authorizes additional appropriations, for the Keweenaw National Historical Park in Michigan. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-02-04
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests and Public Lands.
action_date: 2009-01-13
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2009-01-13
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-01-13
text: Introduced in House
Strategic Communication Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-489
Sponsor: Rep. Thornberry, Mac [R-TX-13]
Introduced: 2009-01-13 in the House
Policy area: International Affairs
Subjects: Area studies and international education
Cultural exchanges and relations
Department of Defense
Department of Homeland Security
Department of Justice
Department of State
Diplomacy, foreign officials, Americans abroad
Director of National Intelligence
Federal officials
Government information and archives
Human rights
Intelligence activities, surveillance, classified information
International exchange and broadcasting
Military operations and strategy
Public-private cooperation
Tax-exempt organizations

Summary:
action_date: 2009-01-13
text: 
Strategic Communication Act of 2009 - Directs the Secretary of State to solicit from tax-exempt national security and foreign policy research organizations offers to establish a Center for Strategic Communication, and select one organization to establish such Center. 
 
Includes among Center duties: (1) provision of information and analysis to the Department of State, the Department of Defense (DOD), the Department of Justice, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), and the Director of National Intelligence on U.S. security and foreign policy issues; (2) development of U.S. communications strategies and monitoring techniques; (3) support of government-wide strategic communication through services provided on a cost-recovery basis; (4) contracting with private sector and academic entities; and (5) mobilization of nongovernment initiatives.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-01-13
text: Referred to the House Committee on Foreign Affairs.
action_date: 2009-01-13
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-01-13
text: Introduced in House
Quadrennial Foreign Affairs Review Act

Bill: 111-hr-490
Sponsor: Rep. Thornberry, Mac [R-TX-13]
Introduced: 2009-01-13 in the House
Policy area: International Affairs
Subjects: Advisory bodies
Department of State
Diplomacy, foreign officials, Americans abroad
Executive agency funding and structure
General foreign operations matters
Government information and archives
Government studies and investigations
Performance measurement

Summary:
action_date: 2009-01-13
text: 
Quadrennial Foreign Affairs Review Act - Directs: (1) the Secretary of State to submit every four years to the House Committee on Foreign Affairs and the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations a quadrennial foreign affairs and Department of State review; and (2) the Foreign Affairs Panel to submit to the Secretary a report responding to such review. 
 
Directs the Secretary to establish every four years a nonpartisan independent National Foreign Affairs Panel, which shall terminate 30 days after submission of its report. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-01-13
text: Referred to the House Committee on Foreign Affairs.
action_date: 2009-01-13
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-01-13
text: Introduced in House
To direct the Secretary of Transportation to waive non-Federal share requirements for certain transportation programs and activities through September 30, 2009.

Bill: 111-hr-491
Sponsor: Rep. Welch, Peter [D-VT-At Large]
Introduced: 2009-01-13 in the House
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Intergovernmental relations
Roads and highways
Transportation programs funding

Summary:
action_date: 2009-01-13
text: 
Directs the Secretary of Transportation to waive, through FY2009, any requirement that would otherwise require a state or local government to contribute non-federal funds toward the cost of a covered transportation program or activity authorized by the Safe, Accountable, Flexible, Efficient Transportation Equity Act: A Legacy for Users (SAFTETEA-LU) or an amendment made by that Act.
 
Declares, however, that nothing in this Act shall be construed to prohibit a state or local government from contributing non-federal funds toward the cost of a covered transportation program or activity.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-01-13
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2009-01-13
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Highways and Transit.
action_date: 2009-01-13
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-01-13
text: Introduced in House
For the relief of Esther Karinge.

Bill: 111-hr-492
Sponsor: Rep. Markey, Edward J. [D-MA-7]
Introduced: 2009-01-13 in the House
Policy area: Private Legislation

Summary:
action_date: 2009-01-13
text: Provides for the relief of Esther Karinge.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-02-05
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration, Citizenship, Refugees, Border Security, and International Law.
action_date: 2009-01-13
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2009-01-13
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-01-13
text: Introduced in House
Coal Ash Reclamation, Environment, and Safety Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-493
Sponsor: Rep. Rahall, Nick J., II [D-WV-3]
Introduced: 2009-01-14 in the House
Policy area: Environmental Protection
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Coal
Department of the Interior
Environmental assessment, monitoring, research
Environmental health
Mining
Solid waste and recycling
Water quality

Summary:
action_date: 2009-01-14
text: 
Coal Ash Reclamation, Environment, and Safety Act of 2009 - Directs the Secretary of the Interior to promulgate regulations that: (1) establish design, engineering, and performance standards that provide for safe storage and disposal of covered wastes in impoundments; and (2) contain requirements that are substantially similar to the requirements that apply to impoundments under provisions in the Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act of 1977 concerning environmental protection performance standards for surface coal mining and reclamation operations and standards and criteria for coal mine waste piles. Prohibits persons from constructing or operating impoundments for the storage or disposal of covered wastes on any land in any state except as in accordance with such regulations.
 
Provides for the monitoring and enforcement of such requirements and prohibitions.
 
Requires the Secretary to complete an inventory of existing impoundments for the deposit and maintenance of covered wastes. Authorizes the Secretary to issue orders necessary to ensure that impoundments comply with requirements.
 
 
Defines the term &quot;covered wastes&quot; to mean wastes in areas other than the mine working or excavations, including coal ash, slag, and flue gas desulfurization materials stored or disposed of in liquid, semi-liquid, or solid form. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-02-12
text: Subcommittee Hearings Held.
action_date: 2009-02-04
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources.
action_date: 2009-01-14
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2009-01-14
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E82-83)
action_date: 2009-01-14
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-01-14
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Trade Act of 1974 to require the Secretary of Labor to certify a group of workers in a subdivision of a firm as eligible to apply for assistance under the trade adjustment assistance program if the subdivision is a seller of articles of the firm that employed a group of workers who received a certification of eligibility under such program and such sales are related to the article that was the basis for such certification.

Bill: 111-hr-494
Sponsor: Rep. Spratt, John M., Jr. [D-SC-5]
Introduced: 2009-01-14 in the House
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Trade adjustment assistance
Unemployment

Summary:
action_date: 2009-01-14
text: 
Amends the Trade Act of 1974 to require the Secretary of Labor to certify an adversely affected secondary group of workers in a subdivision of a firm as eligible to apply for trade adjustment assistance (TAA) if the Secretary determines that: (1) a significant number of workers have become, or are threatened to become, totally or partially separated; (2) the workers' subdivision is a seller of articles of the firm (or another subdivision) that employed a group of workers who received a certification of TAA eligibility and such sales are related to the article that was the basis for such certification; and (3) a loss of business by the workers' subdivision with the firm (or another subdivision) contributed to the workers' separation or threat of separation.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-01-14
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2009-01-14
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-01-14
text: Introduced in House
Southwest Border Violence Reduction Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-495
Sponsor: Rep. Rodriguez, Ciro D. [D-TX-23]
Introduced: 2009-01-14 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Border security and unlawful immigration
Criminal investigation, prosecution, interrogation
Firearms and explosives
International organizations and cooperation
Latin America
Law enforcement officers
Mexico
Organized crime
Smuggling and trafficking

Summary:
action_date: 2009-01-14
text: 
Southwest Border Violence Reduction Act of 2009 - Directs the Attorney General to: (1) to expand resources for the Project Gunrunner initiative of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF) to identify, investigate, and prosecute firearms trafficking across the U.S.- Mexico border; and (2) provide ATF agents, equipment, and training to assist Mexican law enforcement officers in combating firearms trafficking and other criminal enterprises.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-03-16
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.
action_date: 2009-01-14
text: Referred to House Foreign Affairs
action_date: 2009-01-14
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, 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: 2009-01-14
text: Referred to House Judiciary
action_date: 2009-01-14
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-01-14
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide incentives for improving mine safety.

Bill: 111-hr-497
Sponsor: Rep. Ellsworth, Brad [D-IN-8]
Introduced: 2009-01-14 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Accidents
Air quality
Emergency communications systems
Emergency planning and evacuation
Employment and training programs
Hazardous wastes and toxic substances
Income tax credits
Income tax rates
Mining
Worker safety and health

Summary:
action_date: 2009-01-14
text: 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow a tax credit for 50% of the cost of qualified advanced mine safety equipment property (in lieu of the existing taxpayer election to expense 50% of such property in the current taxable year). Defines such property to include: (1) an emergency communication technology or device for constant communication with individuals outside the mine; (2) an electronic identification and location device; (3) an emergency oxygen-generating device; (4) pre-positioned oxygen supplies; and (5) a comprehensive atmospheric monitoring system to monitor levels of carbon monoxide and other gases present in a mine.

Revises the tax credit for mine rescue team training expenses to: (1) increase the amount of such credit; (2) allow such credit as an offset against the alternative minimum tax; and (3) make such credit permanent. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-01-14
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2009-01-14
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-01-14
text: Introduced in House
Capital Gains and Estate Tax Relief Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-498
Sponsor: Rep. Mitchell, Harry E. [D-AZ-5]
Introduced: 2009-01-14 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Capital gains tax
Income tax rates
Inflation and prices
Transfer and inheritance taxes

Summary:
action_date: 2009-01-14
text: 
Capital Gains and Estate Tax Relief Act of 2009 - Makes permanent the reduction in capital gains tax rates (from 20 to 15%) enacted by the Jobs and Growth Tax Relief and Reconciliation Act of 2003.

Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) restore the unified credit against gift tax liability; (2) provide for annual increases in the estate tax exclusion amount between 2010 and 2015 and establish a permanent exclusion amount of $5 million for 2015 and thereafter; (3) provide for an inflation adjustment to the estate tax exclusion amount after 2015; (4) reduce estate tax rate brackets; and (5) allow a surviving spouse to use the unused unified estate tax credit of a deceased spouse. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-01-14
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2009-01-14
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E86)
action_date: 2009-01-14
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-01-14
text: Introduced in House
Nonmarket Economy Trade Remedy Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-499
Sponsor: Rep. Davis, Artur [D-AL-7]
Introduced: 2009-01-14 in the House
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Administrative remedies
Asia
China
Competitiveness, trade promotion, trade deficits
Congressional oversight
Foreign and international corporations
Government corporations and government-sponsored enterprises
Government studies and investigations
Legislative rules and procedure
Tariffs

Summary:
action_date: 2009-01-14
text: 
Nonmarket Economy Trade Remedy Act of 2009 - Amends the Tariff Act of 1930 to apply countervailing duties to nonmarket economies.
 
Excludes specified factors, including a subsidy's effect, from the administering authority's consideration when determining whether a countervailable subsidy exists with respect to merchandise imported from nonmarket economy countries.
 
Authorizes the use of alternative methodologies in determining whether a subsidy is countervailable with respect to the People's Republic of China (PRC).
 
Deems subsidies provided predominantly or disportionately by the PRC to a state-owned enterprise as specific to that enterprise.
 
Prohibits the administering authority from considering requests for market economy treatment at the individual business enterprise level in an antidumping duty proceeding involving a nonmarket economy country.
 
 Requires congressional approval for revocation of nonmarket economy country determinations made by the administering authority.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-01-14
text: Referred to House Rules
action_date: 2009-01-14
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Rules, 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: 2009-01-14
text: Referred to House Ways and Means
action_date: 2009-01-14
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-01-14
text: Introduced in House
America's Right-to-Eat Rescue Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-501
Sponsor: Rep. Baca, Joe [D-CA-43]
Introduced: 2009-01-14 in the House
Policy area: Agriculture and Food
Subjects: Alaska
Elementary and secondary education
Food assistance and relief
Poverty and welfare assistance

Summary:
action_date: 2009-01-14
text: 
America's Right-to-Eat Rescue Act of 2009 - Applies the poverty line used in making eligibility determinations under the Food Stamp and School Lunch programs in Alaska, for a specified six-month period, to the same eligibility determinations in all states and the District of Columbia.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-04-23
text: Executive Comment Requested from USDA.
action_date: 2009-04-23
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Department Operations, Oversight, Nutrition and Forestry.
action_date: 2009-01-14
text: Referred to House Education and Labor
action_date: 2009-01-14
text: Referred to the Committee on Agriculture, and in addition to the Committee on Education and Labor, 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: 2009-01-14
text: Referred to House Agriculture
action_date: 2009-01-14
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-01-14
text: Introduced in House
Health Care Freedom of Choice Act

Bill: 111-hr-502
Sponsor: Rep. Bachmann, Michele [R-MN-6]
Introduced: 2009-01-14 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Health care costs and insurance
Income tax deductions

Summary:
action_date: 2009-01-14
text: 
Health Care Freedom of Choice Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow the tax deduction for medical expenses without the gross income percentage limitation.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-01-14
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2009-01-14
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-01-14
text: Introduced in House