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Law Enforcement Officers Equity Act

Bill: 111-hr-673
Sponsor: Rep. Filner, Bob [D-CA-51]
Introduced: 2009-01-26 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Department of the Treasury
Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management
Internal Revenue Service (IRS)
Law enforcement officers
Tax administration and collection, taxpayers

Summary:
action_date: 2009-01-26
text: 
Law Enforcement Officers Equity Act - Amends the definition of the term "law enforcement officer" under provisions of the Federal Employees Retirement System (FERS) and the Civil Service Retirement System (CSRS) to include: (1) federal employees not otherwise covered by such term whose duties include the investigation or apprehension of suspected or convicted individuals and who are authorized to carry a firearm; and (2) such employees of the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) whose duties are primarily the collection of delinquent taxes and the securing of delinquent returns.
 
Requires such service that is performed by an incumbent law enforcement officer: (1) after enactment of this Act to be treated as service performed as a law enforcement officer for federal retirement purposes; and (2) before, on, or after enactment as service performed as such an officer for federal retirement purposes only if an appropriate written election is submitted to the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) within five years after enactment or before separation from government service, whichever is earlier. 
Provides that nothing under current law respecting mandatory separation from government service under CSRS or FERS shall cause the involuntary separation of an officer before the end of the three-year period following enactment.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-05-04
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Federal Workforce, Post Office, and the District of Columbia.
action_date: 2009-01-28
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E161-162)
action_date: 2009-01-26
text: Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.
action_date: 2009-01-26
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-01-26
text: Introduced in House
Fair Taxes for Seniors Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-674
Sponsor: Rep. Filner, Bob [D-CA-51]
Introduced: 2009-01-26 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Aging
Capital gains tax
Housing finance and home ownership
Income tax exclusion

Summary:
action_date: 2009-01-26
text: Fair Taxes for Seniors Act of 2009 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to provide a one-time increase (from $250,000 to $500,000, or from $500,000 to $1 million for married taxpayers filing joint returns) in the exclusion of gain from the sale of a principal residence by a taxpayer who has attained the age of 50 before such sale. Provides that in the case of a joint return, only one spouse need satisfy the age requirement.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-01-28
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E165)
action_date: 2009-01-26
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2009-01-26
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-01-26
text: Introduced in House
To amend title 10, United States Code, to provide police officers, criminal investigators, and game law enforcement officers of the Department of Defense with authority to execute warrants, make arrests, and carry firearms.

Bill: 111-hr-675
Sponsor: Rep. Filner, Bob [D-CA-51]
Introduced: 2009-01-26 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Department of Defense
Firearms and explosives
Law enforcement administration and funding
Law enforcement officers

Summary:
action_date: 2009-01-26
text: 
Allows the Secretary of Defense to authorize a Department of Defense (DOD) law enforcement officer to: (1) execute and serve a warrant or other process; (2) make an arrest without a warrant for any offense committed in the presence of the officer, or for any felony if the officer has probable cause to believe that the person arrested has committed or is committing the felony; and (3) carry firearms. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-03-16
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.
action_date: 2009-01-26
text: Referred to House Judiciary
action_date: 2009-01-26
text: Referred to the Committee on Armed Services, and in addition to the Committee on the Judiciary, 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: 2009-01-26
text: Referred to House Armed Services
action_date: 2009-01-26
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E163)
action_date: 2009-01-26
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-01-26
text: Introduced in House
FAIR (Foreign Air Impact Regulation) AIR Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-677
Sponsor: Rep. Filner, Bob [D-CA-51]
Introduced: 2009-01-26 in the House
Policy area: Environmental Protection
Subjects: Administrative remedies
Air quality
Diplomacy, foreign officials, Americans abroad
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
Environmental regulatory procedures
International organizations and cooperation

Summary:
action_date: 2009-01-26
text: 
FAIR (Foreign Air Impact Regulation) AIR Act of 2009 - Amends the Clean Air Act to delay the effective date of reclassification of a nonattainment area to a higher classification of nonattainment for failing to meet national ambient air quality standards by applicable deadlines if: (1) the area is adjacent to a foreign country; and (2) the state in which the area is located submits a claim to the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) that the area would have attained the relevant standard by the attainment date but for emissions emanating from outside the United States.

Prohibits such reclassification from taking effect unless: (1) the Secretary of State has entered into negotiations with the foreign country involved to develop an air quality improvement plan for the international area encompassing the nonattainment area and submitted that plan to Congress; and (2) taking such plan into consideration, the Administrator has taken appropriate action to improve air quality in the nonattainment area.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-01-28
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E167)
action_date: 2009-01-27
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Environment.
action_date: 2009-01-26
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2009-01-26
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-01-26
text: Introduced in House
Huntington's Disease Parity Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-678
Sponsor: Rep. Filner, Bob [D-CA-51]
Introduced: 2009-01-26 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Hereditary and development disorders
Medicare
Neurological disorders
Social Security Administration
Social security and elderly assistance

Summary:
action_date: 2009-01-26
text: 
Huntington's Disease Parity Act of 2009 - Directs the Commissioner of Social Security to revise the medical criteria for evaluating disability caused by adult-onset and juvenile Huntington's Disease.
 
Amends title II (Old Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance) (OASDI) of the Social Security Act to eliminate the 24-month waiting period for Medicare eligibility for individuals disabled by Huntington's Disease.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-01-26
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2009-01-26
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E168)
action_date: 2009-01-26
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-01-26
text: Introduced in House
Air Force One Built in America Act

Bill: 111-hr-680
Sponsor: Rep. Poe, Ted [R-TX-2]
Introduced: 2009-01-26 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Aviation and airports
Buy American requirements
Military facilities and property
Presidents and presidential powers, Vice Presidents
Public contracts and procurement

Summary:
action_date: 2009-01-26
text: 
Air Force One Built in America Act - Authorizes the Secretary of Defense to enter into a contract for the procurement of an aircraft for use as Air Force One by the President only if it is manufactured in the United States by an American-owned company.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-01-26
text: Referred to the House Committee on Armed Services.
action_date: 2009-01-26
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR H506)
action_date: 2009-01-26
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-01-26
text: Introduced in House
Digital Television Transition Extension Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-681
Sponsor: Rep. Waxman, Henry A. [D-CA-30]
Introduced: 2009-01-26 in the House
Policy area: Science, Technology, Communications
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Broadcasting, cable, digital technologies
Consumer affairs
Department of Commerce
Emergency communications systems
Federal Communications Commission (FCC)
Licensing and registrations
Postal service
Rural conditions and development
Telecommunication rates and fees
Television and film

Summary:
action_date: 2009-01-26
text: 
Digital Television Transition Extension Act of 2009 - Amends the Communications Act of 1934 and the Digital Television Transition and Public Safety Act of 2005 to extend for approximately four months the deadlines related to the transition from analog to digital television broadcasting.
 
Requires the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to extend for 116 days the terms of the licenses for recovered spectrum.
 
Requires, on request, the reissue of any household digital-to-analog converter box coupons that expired without being redeemed.
 
Requires expediting the delivery of household digital-to-analog converter box coupons by sending them via presorted first class mail.
 
Allows a station to terminate analog broadcasting (and to continue broadcasting exclusively in digital signals) before the date established by law for termination of all full power analog station licenses. Requires the FCC to permit public safety entities to use spectrum thus relinquished if the FCC determines that such use does not cause harmful interference to full-power television stations in the analog or digital service.
 
Extends until September 30, 2012 (currently, September 30, 2011) the FCC's spectrum auction authority.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-01-27
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Communications, Technology, and the Internet.
action_date: 2009-01-26
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2009-01-26
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-01-26
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 with respect to the proper tax treatment of certain indebtedness discharged in 2009 or 2010, and for other purposes.

Bill: 111-hr-683
Sponsor: Rep. Berkley, Shelley [D-NV-1]
Introduced: 2009-01-26 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Corporate finance and management
Income tax exclusion
Securities

Summary:
action_date: 2009-01-26
text: 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow an exclusion from gross income for income attributable to the discharge of indebtedness relating to securities issued by certain financial entities and discharged after December 31, 2008, and before January 1, 2011. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-01-26
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2009-01-26
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-01-26
text: Introduced in House
Medicare Prescription Drug Savings and Choice Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-684
Sponsor: Rep. Berry, Marion [D-AR-1]
Introduced: 2009-01-26 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Administrative remedies
Department of Health and Human Services
Medicare
Prescription drugs

Summary:
action_date: 2009-01-26
text: 
Medicare Prescription Drug Savings and Choice Act of 2009 - Amends part D (Voluntary Prescription Drug Benefit Program) of title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to provide for: (1) establishment of one or more Medicare operated prescription drug plan options; and (2) an appeals process for denials of benefits under a Medicare operated prescription drug plan. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-01-27
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2009-01-26
text: Referred to House Ways and Means
action_date: 2009-01-26
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: 2009-01-26
text: Referred to House Energy and Commerce
action_date: 2009-01-26
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-01-26
text: Introduced in House
To amend title XIX of the Social Security Act to permit local public agencies to act as Medicaid enrollment brokers.

Bill: 111-hr-686
Sponsor: Rep. Davis, Susan A. [D-CA-53]
Introduced: 2009-01-26 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Medicaid
Public contracts and procurement
State and local government operations

Summary:
action_date: 2009-01-26
text: 
Amends title XIX (Medicaid) of the Social Security Act (SSA) to permit local public agencies to act as Medicaid enrollment brokers.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-01-27
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2009-01-26
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2009-01-26
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-01-26
text: Introduced in House
Highway Trust Fund Reform Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-687
Sponsor: Rep. Foxx, Virginia [R-NC-5]
Introduced: 2009-01-26 in the House
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Public contracts and procurement
Public transit
Roads and highways
Transportation programs funding
Wages and earnings

Summary:
action_date: 2009-01-26
text: 
Highway Trust Fund Reform Act of 2009 - Repeals the Davis-Bacon Act (which requires that the locally prevailing wage rate be paid to laborers and mechanics working on federal-aid highway construction projects and public transportation construction projects).


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-01-27
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Highways and Transit.
action_date: 2009-01-26
text: Referred to House Education and Labor
action_date: 2009-01-26
text: Referred to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, 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: 2009-01-26
text: Referred to House Transportation and Infrastructure
action_date: 2009-01-26
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-01-26
text: Introduced in House
Kids First Act

Bill: 111-hr-688
Sponsor: Rep. Granger, Kay [R-TX-12]
Introduced: 2009-01-26 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Child health
Health care costs and insurance
Health care coverage and access
Health facilities and institutions
Health programs administration and funding
Hospital care
Medicaid

Summary:
action_date: 2009-01-26
text: 
Kids First Act - Amends title XXI (State Children's Health Insurance) (SCHIP) of the Social Security Act (SSA) to revise, reauthorize, and extend the SCHIP program through FY2013 at increased levels. Repeals the limitation on the availability of SCHIP funding for FY2008-FY2009.

Provides for determination of allotments for the 50 states and the District of Columbia based on expenditures and numbers of low-income children. 

Sets limitations on matching rates for populations other than targeted low-income children or pregnant women covered through a Section 1115 waiver.

Prohibits the Secretary of Health and Human Services from approving, extending, renewing, or amending a waiver, experimental, pilot, or demonstration project with respect to a state after the enactment of this Act that would allow funds made available under SCHIP to be used to provide child health assistance or other health benefits coverage for any adult other than a pregnant woman whose family income does not exceed the income eligibility level specified for a targeted low-income child in that state under a waiver or approved project.

Requires a state to determine family income eligibility for child health assistance or other health benefits coverage under the state child health plan solely on the basis of the family's gross income.

Directs the Secretary to award grants to eligible entities to conduct outreach and enrollment efforts designed to increase the enrollment and participation of eligible children under SCHIP and SSA title XIX (Medicaid).

Allows a state to elect to offer a premium assistance subsidy for qualified employer sponsored coverage to all targeted low-income children eligible for child health assistance.

Allows any state the option to include an unborn child as a child under SCHIP.

Repeals current federal payment rates at different specified percentages for different specified aspects of Medicaid administrative costs to prescribe a flat 50% rate for all such costs.

Requires a 25% reduction in payments for Medicaid administrative costs (to prevent duplication of such payments under part A [Temporary Assistance for Needy Families] [TANF] of SSA title IV).

Repeals: (1) the waiver of certain Medicaid provider tax provisions under the Balanced Budget Act of 1997; and (2) the requirement of special payments for certain public hospitals, without regard to the state DSH allotment limitations, under the Medicare, Medicaid, and SCHIP Benefits Improvement and Protection Act of 2000. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-01-27
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2009-01-26
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2009-01-26
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-01-26
text: Introduced in House
Modernize Our Bookkeeping In the Law for Employee's Cell Phone Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-690
Sponsor: Rep. Johnson, Sam [R-TX-3]
Introduced: 2009-01-26 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Business records
Income tax deductions
Telephone and wireless communication

Summary:
action_date: 2009-01-26
text: 
Modernize Our Bookkeeping In the Law for Employee's Cell Phone Act of 2009 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to remove certain limitations on the tax deduction for employee use of cellular telephones.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-01-26
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2009-01-26
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-01-26
text: Introduced in House
Broadband Access Equality Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-691
Sponsor: Rep. Meek, Kendrick B. [D-FL-17]
Introduced: 2009-01-26 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Broadcasting, cable, digital technologies
Business investment and capital
Computers and information technology
Income tax credits
Internet and video services
Internet, web applications, social media
Rural conditions and development

Summary:
action_date: 2009-01-26
text: 
Broadband Access Equality Act of 2009 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow a general business tax credit for broadband property installed in underserved and rural areas. Allow a 50% credit for the cost of such property installed in areas in which not more than the greater of 5% of households or 20 households have broadband access and a 30% credit for all other underserved and rural areas. Increases by 10% the rate of such credit for high speed broadband service.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-01-26
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2009-01-26
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-01-26
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to exclude from gross income compensation received by employees consisting of qualified distributions of employer stock.

Bill: 111-hr-692
Sponsor: Rep. Rohrabacher, Dana [R-CA-46]
Introduced: 2009-01-26 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Capital gains tax
Income tax exclusion
Securities
Wages and earnings

Summary:
action_date: 2009-01-26
text: 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to exclude from the gross income of an employee: (1) shares of stock received from an employer in a qualified employee stock distribution not exceeding the lowest number of shares received by any employee in such distribution; (2) any gain on such stock if held by such employee for not less than 10 years, and (3) in the case of any qualified disposition of stock that meets such holding requirement, any gain on so much stock acquired during the 60-day period beginning on the date of such disposition as does not exceed the fair market value of the stock so disposed.

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Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-01-26
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2009-01-26
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-01-26
text: Introduced in House
To designate a rail right-of-way as a corridor for inter-suburban commuter rail, and for other purposes.

Bill: 111-hr-693
Sponsor: Rep. Roskam, Peter J. [R-IL-6]
Introduced: 2009-01-26 in the House
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Commuting
Congressional oversight
Public transit
Railroads
Transportation programs funding
Urban and suburban affairs and development

Summary:
action_date: 2009-01-26
text: 
Requires the Secretary of Transportation to: (1) designate a rail right-of-way as a corridor for inter-suburban commuter rail based on certain qualifying factors and after a 30-day congressional review period; (2) provide technical assistance to expedite completion of inter-suburban rail service; and (3) prohibit increased usage of such corridor except to increase the availability of inter-suburban commuter rail.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-01-27
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Railroads, Pipelines, and Hazardous Materials.
action_date: 2009-01-27
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Highways and Transit.
action_date: 2009-01-26
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2009-01-26
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-01-26
text: Introduced in House
COBRA Coverage Extension Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-694
Sponsor: Rep. Sestak, Joe [D-PA-7]
Introduced: 2009-01-26 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Employee benefits and pensions
Health care costs and insurance
Health care coverage and access

Summary:
action_date: 2009-01-26
text: 
COBRA Coverage Extension Act of 2009 - Extends COBRA coverage (health insurance continuation benefits) that would currently end before the 12-month period following enactment of this Act because of the 18-month coverage limitation to the earlier of: (1) the end of the 12 calendar months following the date of enactment of this Act; or (2) 24 months after the date of the qualifying event.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-01-27
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2009-01-26
text: Referred to House Ways and Means
action_date: 2009-01-26
text: Referred to House Energy and Commerce
action_date: 2009-01-26
text: Referred to the Committee on Education and Labor, and in addition to the Committees on Energy and Commerce, and 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: 2009-01-26
text: Referred to House Education and Labor
action_date: 2009-01-26
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-01-26
text: Introduced in House