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Bonus Depreciation and Enhanced Expensing for Small Businesses Extension Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-4311
Sponsor: Rep. Halvorson, Deborah L. [D-IL-11]
Introduced: 2009-12-15 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Business investment and capital
Income tax credits
Income tax deductions
Research and development
Small business

Summary:
action_date: 2009-12-15
text: 
Bonus Depreciation and Enhanced Expensing for Small Businesses Extension Act of 2009 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to extend through 2010: (1) the increased expensing allowance for depreciable small business assets (i.e., $250,000); (2) bonus depreciation for depreciable business property; and (3) the taxpayer election to accelerate alternative minimum tax and research tax credits in lieu of bonus depreciation. Sets forth special rules for taxpayers who previously elected acceleration of such credits and for those who did not.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-12-15
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2009-12-15
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-12-15
text: Introduced in House
To permit the District of Columbia to use Federal funds to provide scholarships for enrollment in participating schools under the DC School Choice Incentive Act of 2003 to students who did not receive such scholarships in the 2009-2010 school year.

Bill: 111-hr-4312
Sponsor: Rep. Burgess, Michael C. [R-TX-26]
Introduced: 2009-12-15 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: District of Columbia
Education of the disadvantaged
Education programs funding
Elementary and secondary education
Student aid and college costs

Summary:
action_date: 2009-12-15
text: 
Amends the District of Columbia Appropriations Act, 2010, to permit the District of Columbia to use federal funds to provide opportunity scholarships to students who did not receive such scholarships in the 2009-2010 school year. (Also known as the D.C. Voucher program, the D.C. Opportunity Scholarship program provides scholarships to low-income students in the District of Columbia to attend private elementary and secondary schools in the city.)


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-05-25
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Federal Workforce, Post Office, and the District of Columbia.
action_date: 2009-12-15
text: Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.
action_date: 2009-12-15
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-12-15
text: Introduced in House
To amend Part B of title XVIII of the Social Security Act to eliminate the sunset for reimbursement for services furnished by certain Indian hospitals and clinics.

Bill: 111-hr-4313
Sponsor: Rep. Young, Don [R-AK-At Large]
Introduced: 2009-12-15 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Federal-Indian relations
Hospital care
Medicare

Summary:
action_date: 2009-12-15
text: 
Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to eliminate the December 31, 2009, sunset for reimbursement for all Medicare part B (Supplementary Medical Insurance Benefits for Aged and Disabled) services furnished by certain Indian hospitals and clinics. Makes such reimbursement requirement permanent.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-12-16
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2009-12-16
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2009-12-15
text: Referred to House Ways and Means
action_date: 2009-12-15
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: 2009-12-15
text: Referred to House Energy and Commerce
action_date: 2009-12-15
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-12-15
text: Introduced in House
United States War Bonds Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-4315
Sponsor: Rep. Burgess, Michael C. [R-TX-26]
Introduced: 2009-12-15 in the House
Policy area: Economics and Public Finance
Subjects: Afghanistan
Asia
Defense spending
Iraq
Middle East
Military operations and strategy
Securities
Terrorism

Summary:
action_date: 2009-12-15
text: 
United States War Bonds Act of 2009 - Authorizes the Secretary of the Treasury to issue United States War Bonds to aid in the funding of the operations in Iraq and Afghanistan and other military operations abroad identified by the Secretary of Defense as being part of the international conflicts against terrorism.
 
 
 
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-12-15
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2009-12-15
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-12-15
text: Introduced in House
Affordable Footwear Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-4316
Sponsor: Rep. Crowley, Joseph [D-NY-7]
Introduced: 2009-12-15 in the House
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Tariffs

Summary:
action_date: 2009-12-15
text: Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to suspend temporarily the duty on certain footwear, and for other purposes.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-12-16
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Trade.
action_date: 2009-12-15
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2009-12-15
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-12-15
text: Introduced in House
Foster Care Mentoring Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-4317
Sponsor: Rep. Crowley, Joseph [D-NY-7]
Introduced: 2009-12-15 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Adoption and foster care
Education of the disadvantaged
Education programs funding
Elementary and secondary education
Government information and archives
Government lending and loan guarantees
Higher education
Student aid and college costs
Teaching, teachers, curricula

Summary:
action_date: 2009-12-15
text: 
Foster Care Mentoring Act of 2009 - Amends part B (Child-Welfare Services) of title IV of the Social Security Act to direct the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) to award grants to states to support the establishment or expansion and operation of programs using networks of public and private community entities to provide mentoring for children in foster care. Authorizes a grant award directly to a political subdivision if the subdivision serves a substantial number of foster care youth.
 
Prescribes program implementation guidelines, including: (1) application requirements; (2) training; (3) screening; (4) educational requirements; (5) federal and nonfederal share of funds for the program; (6) considerations in awarding grants; and (7) use of funds. 
Sets forth a maximum grant amount to be awarded to a state or political subdivision. 
Authorizes the Secretary to award a competitive grant to an eligible entity to establish a National Hotline Service or website to provide information to individuals interested in becoming mentors to youth in foster care. 
Instructs the Secretary of Education to implement a program to provide for the discharge or cancellation of the federal student loan indebtedness of an eligible mentor.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-02-23
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Healthy Families and Communities.
action_date: 2009-12-16
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Income Security and Family Support.
action_date: 2009-12-15
text: Referred to House Education and Labor
action_date: 2009-12-15
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, 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: 2009-12-15
text: Referred to House Ways and Means
action_date: 2009-12-15
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-12-15
text: Introduced in House
21st Century Civilian Conservation Corps Act

Bill: 111-hr-4318
Sponsor: Rep. Kaptur, Marcy [D-OH-9]
Introduced: 2009-12-15 in the House
Policy area: Labor and Employment
Subjects: Animal and plant health
Employment and training programs
Fires
Floods and storm protection
Forests, forestry, trees
Land use and conservation
Parks, recreation areas, trails

Summary:
action_date: 2009-12-15
text: 
21st Century Civilian Conservation Corps Act - Authorizes the President, in order to relieve widespread unemployment, restore depleted natural resources in the United States, and advance public works programs, to establish a Civilian Conservation Corps to employ unemployed or underemployed U.S. citizens in the construction, maintenance, and carrying on of works of a public nature, such as forestation of U.S. and state lands, prevention of forest fires, floods, and soil erosion, and construction and repair of National Park System paths and trails.
 
Authorizes the President to extend Corps activities to state- and private- owned lands to prevent and control forest fires and floods and attacks of forest tree pests and diseases.
 
Authorizes the President to provide housing and transportation for Corps employees. Prohibits discrimination in the hiring of Corps employees.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-02-23
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Workforce Protections.
action_date: 2009-12-15
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and Labor.
action_date: 2009-12-15
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-12-15
text: Introduced in House
Specially Adapted Housing Assistance Enhancement Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-4319
Sponsor: Rep. Moran, Jerry [R-KS-1]
Introduced: 2009-12-15 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Housing for the elderly and disabled
Veterans' loans, housing, homeless programs

Summary:
action_date: 2009-12-15
text: 
Specially Adapted Housing Assistance Enhancement Act of 2009 - Requires that, during FY2011, any grant provided by the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to assist veterans in residing temporarily in housing owned by another family member shall not count against the aggregate limit on all specially adapted housing assistance provided to veterans through the VA.
 
Includes any loss of use of an individual's extremities for which the individual is entitled to veterans' disability compensation when determining eligibility for specially adapted housing assistance.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-06-10
text: Committee Hearings Held.
action_date: 2010-06-10
text: Subcommittee Hearings Held.
action_date: 2009-12-18
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Economic Opportunity.
action_date: 2009-12-15
text: Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2009-12-15
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-12-15
text: Introduced in House
Post-9/11 GI Education Fairness Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-4320
Sponsor: Rep. Murphy, Scott [D-NY-20]
Introduced: 2009-12-15 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Academic performance and assessments
Aviation and airports
Business investment and capital
Employment and training programs
Higher education
Small business
Veterans' education, employment, rehabilitation
Vocational and technical education

Summary:
action_date: 2009-12-15
text: 
Post-9/11 GI Educational Fairness Act of 2009 -Amends the veterans' post-9/11 educational assistance program to remove the requirement that a program of education must be offered by an institution of higher learning in ordered to be approved.
 
States that the purpose of this Act is to allow activities such as apprenticeship or other on-job training, entrepreneurship training, correspondence training, and flight training.
 
Authorizes the Secretary of Veterans Affairs (VA) to approve for such program the pursuit of flight training if: (1) such training is generally accepted as necessary for the attainment of a vocational objective in aviation; (2) the individual possesses a valid private pilot certificate and meets medical requirements necessary for a commercial pilot certificate; and (3) the flight school course meets Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) standards.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-12-18
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Economic Opportunity.
action_date: 2009-12-15
text: Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2009-12-15
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-12-15
text: Introduced in House
National Foundation on Physical Fitness and Sports Establishment Act

Bill: 111-hr-4322
Sponsor: Rep. Sarbanes, John P. [D-MD-3]
Introduced: 2009-12-15 in the House
Policy area: Sports and Recreation
Subjects: Intellectual property
Marketing and advertising
Physical fitness and lifestyle
Social work, volunteer service, charitable organizations

Summary:
action_date: 2009-12-15
text: 
National Foundation on Physical Fitness and Sports Establishment Act - Establishes the National Foundation on Physical Fitness and Sports as a charitable, nonprofit corporation to promote participation by private organizations in the activities of the President's Council on Physical Fitness and Sports. 
Subjects any person who uses the Council's or Foundation's official seal or any trademark, trade name, sign, symbol, or insignia falsely representing association with, or authorization by, the Council or Foundation for the purpose of trade, to induce the sale of any goods or services, or to promote any theatrical exhibition, athletic performance, or competition without the Foundation's consent to a civil action for remedies provided in the Trademark Act of 1946. Allows the Foundation, in conjunction with the Council, to authorize contributors and suppliers of goods or services to use such trade name, trademark, seal, symbol, insignia, or emblem in advertising under specified conditions.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-02-23
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Healthy Families and Communities.
action_date: 2009-12-15
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and Labor.
action_date: 2009-12-15
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-12-15
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow a credit against tax for certain costs relating to compliance with financial regulations.

Bill: 111-hr-4323
Sponsor: Rep. Souder, Mark E. [R-IN-3]
Introduced: 2009-12-15 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Banking and financial institutions regulation
Income tax credits
User charges and fees

Summary:
action_date: 2009-12-15
text: 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow insured depository banks with assets not exceeding $10 billion a general business tax credit for their financial regulation compliance expenditures. Defines &quot;financial regulation compliance expenditures&quot; as any state or federal fees or assessments imposed on insured depository institutions and any amounts paid by such institutions to comply with supervision or examination by state or federal bank regulators.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-12-15
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2009-12-15
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-12-15
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Homeowners Assistance Program of the Department of Defense to give the Secretary of Defense flexibility regarding setting the commencement date for homeowner assistance for members of the Armed Forces permanently reassigned during the mortgage crisis.

Bill: 111-hr-4324
Sponsor: Rep. Titus, Dina [D-NV-3]
Introduced: 2009-12-15 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Housing finance and home ownership
Military personnel and dependents

Summary:
action_date: 2009-12-15
text: 
Amends the Demonstration Cities and Metropolitan Development Act of 1966 to expand access to Department of Defense (DOD) homeowners assistance for qualified members of the Armed Forces permanently reassigned during a designated mortgage crisis to allow the Secretary of Defense greater flexibility regarding the dates of the availability of such assistance. 
 
Directs the Secretary, in exercising such authority, to consult with the Secretaries of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) and the Treasury regarding the condition of housing markets in the area of a base or installation.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-01-21
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Readiness.
action_date: 2009-12-15
text: Referred to House Financial Services
action_date: 2009-12-15
text: Referred to the Committee on Armed Services, 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: 2009-12-15
text: Referred to House Armed Services
action_date: 2009-12-15
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-12-15
text: Introduced in House
Universal Classroom Breakfast Expansion Act

Bill: 111-hr-4325
Sponsor: Rep. Tonko, Paul [D-NY-21]
Introduced: 2009-12-15 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Education of the disadvantaged
Education programs funding
Elementary and secondary education
Food assistance and relief
Poverty and welfare assistance

Summary:
action_date: 2009-12-15
text: 
Universal Classroom Breakfast Expansion Act - Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to award competitive grants to states and, through them, subgrants to schools to assist such schools in establishing universal free breakfast programs that provide all of their students with free breakfasts for at least three years under the school breakfast program. 
 
Requires students to be allowed to eat such breakfasts in the classroom after school starts.
 
Limits subgrant eligibility to elementary or secondary schools in which at least 40% of the students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunches under the school lunch program. 
 
Directs state grantees to provide: (1) technical assistance to schools in implementing such programs; (2) targeted outreach to schools with the highest percentage of students who are eligible for free or reduced-price lunches under the school lunch program; and (3) subgrant priority to schools in which 75% or more of the students are eligible for such lunches.
 
Requires subgrantees to cover, from nonfederal sources, the costs of serving free breakfasts that exceed the assistance received under the school breakfast program. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-02-23
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Healthy Families and Communities.
action_date: 2009-12-15
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and Labor.
action_date: 2009-12-15
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-12-15
text: Introduced in House
Attorney-Client Privilege Protection Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-4326
Sponsor: Rep. Scott, Robert C. "Bobby" [D-VA-3]
Introduced: 2009-12-16 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Civil actions and liability
Criminal investigation, prosecution, interrogation
Employee benefits and pensions
Evidence and witnesses
Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management
Government studies and investigations
Lawyers and legal services
Legal fees and court costs

Summary:
action_date: 2009-12-16
text: 
Attorney-Client Privilege Protection Act of 2009 - Amends the federal criminal code to prohibit any U.S. agent or attorney, in any federal investigation or criminal or civil enforcement matter, from demanding, requesting, or conditioning treatment (&quot;giving cooperation credit&quot;) on the disclosure by an organization (or affiliated person) of any communication protected by the attorney-client privilege or any attorney work product.
 
Prohibits a U.S. agent or attorney from conditioning a civil or criminal charging decision relating to an organization (or affiliated person) on one or more specified actions, or from using one or more such actions as a factor in determining whether an organization or affiliated person is cooperating with the government.
 
Numbers among the actions a U.S. agent or attorney may not use as a charging decision condition or a cooperation-determining factor: (1) any valid assertion of the attorney-client privilege or privilege for attorney work product; (2) the provision of counsel to, or contribution to the legal defense fees or expenses of, an employee of the organization; (3) entry into a joint-defense, information-sharing, or common-interest agreement with an employee of the organization if the organization determines it has a common interest in defending against the investigation or enforcement matter; (4) the sharing of relevant information with an employee; or (5) a failure to terminate an employee's employment, or otherwise sanction an employee, because of the employee's decision to exercise his or her constitutional rights or other legal protections in response to a government request.
 
Prohibits a U.S. agent or attorney from demanding or requesting that an organization or an affiliated person not take any such action.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-04-26
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.
action_date: 2009-12-16
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2009-12-16
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-12-16
text: Introduced in House
Prisoner Incentive Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-4327
Sponsor: Rep. Scott, Robert C. "Bobby" [D-VA-3]
Introduced: 2009-12-16 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Correctional facilities and imprisonment
Criminal procedure and sentencing

Summary:
action_date: 2009-12-16
text: 
Prisoner Incentive Act of 2009 - Amends the federal criminal code to: (1) allow federal prisoners to earn up to 54 days of credit toward the service of a sentence for each year of the prisoner's sentence imposed by the court; and (2) authorize the Bureau of Prisons to subsequently restore any or all credit previously denied to a prisoner based on such prisoner maintaining good behavior. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-03-01
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.
action_date: 2009-12-16
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2009-12-16
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-12-16
text: Introduced in House
Literacy, Education, and Rehabilitation Act

Bill: 111-hr-4328
Sponsor: Rep. Scott, Robert C. "Bobby" [D-VA-3]
Introduced: 2009-12-16 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Correctional facilities and imprisonment
Criminal procedure and sentencing
Drug, alcohol, tobacco use
Elementary and secondary education
Employment and training programs
Mental health
Vocational and technical education

Summary:
action_date: 2009-12-16
text: 
Literacy, Education, and Rehabilitation Act - Amends the federal criminal code to allow a prisoner serving a term of imprisonment of more than one year to receive credit beyond time already served for up to 60 days each year, in addition to any credit received for satisfactory behavior, for earning a certificate of completion in, or for participating in or teaching, a designated program that benefits prisoners or the Bureau of Prisons, including specified educational and vocational, treatment, and work and developmental programs.
 
Requires the Director of the Bureau to establish the number of days of credit a prisoner may be awarded considering the difficulty, time required, responsibility expected, and rehabilitative benefits of the program.
 
 Makes any person sentenced to a term of imprisonment under the Attorney General's custody eligible for the credits, including prisoners transferred from foreign countries.
 
Allows: (1) federal prisoners to earn up to 54 days of credit toward the service of a sentence for each year of the prisoner's sentence imposed by the court if the Bureau determines the prisoner has displayed exemplary compliance with institutional disciplinary regulations; and (2) the Bureau to restore credit previously denied to a prisoner, based on such prisoner maintaining good behavior.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-03-01
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.
action_date: 2009-12-16
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2009-12-16
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-12-16
text: Introduced in House