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Savings for Working Families Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-1234
Sponsor: Rep. Pitts, Joseph R. [R-PA-16]
Introduced: 2009-02-26 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Bank accounts, deposits, capital
Business investment and capital
Financial literacy
Higher education
Housing finance and home ownership
Income tax credits
Income tax exclusion
Indian social and development programs
Poverty and welfare assistance
Small business
Student aid and college costs
Tax-exempt organizations

Summary:
action_date: 2009-02-26
text: 
Savings for Working Families Act of 2009 - Allows certain low-income individuals between age 18 and 61 to establish tax-exempt individual development accounts (IDAs) to pay for certain qualified expenses, including education expenses, first-time homebuyer costs, and business capitalization or expansion costs. Sets forth rules for the establishment, maintenance, and termination of IDAs. Permits tax-free withdrawals from IDAs for qualified expenses, but requires IDA beneficiaries to complete one or more financial education courses prior to making an IDA withdrawal.

Allows certain financial institutions, tax-exempt organizations, and Indian tribes to sponsor and administer IDAs. Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow such entities a business-related tax credit for the cost of administering IDAs and for making matching contributions to IDAs in parallel accounts. 

Provides that IDA amounts shall be disregarded for purposes of determining eligibility for assistance under certain means-tested federal programs.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-02-26
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2009-02-26
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-02-26
text: Introduced in House
To award a Congressional Gold Medal to Ray Charles in recognition of his many contributions to the Nation.

Bill: 111-hr-1235
Sponsor: Rep. Rangel, Charles B. [D-NY-15]
Introduced: 2009-02-26 in the House
Policy area: Arts, Culture, Religion
Subjects: Art, artists, authorship
Congressional tributes
Music

Summary:
action_date: 2009-02-26
text: 
Directs the Speaker of the House of Representatives and the President Pro Tempore of the Senate to arrange for the presentation, on behalf of Congress, to the personal representative of Ray Charles, a gold medal in recognition of Ray Charles's many contributions to the nation as one of America's greatest and most influential musical artists. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-02-26
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2009-02-26
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-02-26
text: Introduced in House
Compassionate Assistance for Rape Emergencies Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-1236
Sponsor: Rep. Rothman, Steven R. [D-NJ-9]
Introduced: 2009-02-26 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Abortion
Crime victims
Crimes against women
Emergency medical services and trauma care
Family planning and birth control
Health care coverage and access
Health facilities and institutions
Health information and medical records
Hospital care
Medicaid
Medicare
Sex offenses

Summary:
action_date: 2009-02-26
text: 
Compassionate Assistance for Rape Emergencies Act of 2009 - Prohibits any federal funds from being provided to a hospital under title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act or to a state, with respect to hospital services, under title XIX (Medicaid) of such Act, unless the hospital meets certain conditions related to a woman who is a victim of sexual assault, including that the hospital: (1) provides the woman with accurate and unbiased information about emergency contraception; (2) offers emergency contraception to the woman; (3) provides the woman such contraception at the hospital on her request; and (4) does not deny any such services because of the inability of the woman or her family to pay.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-03-02
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2009-02-26
text: Referred to House Ways and Means
action_date: 2009-02-26
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: 2009-02-26
text: Referred to House Energy and Commerce
action_date: 2009-02-26
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-02-26
text: Introduced in House
Fairness in Nursing Home Arbitration Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-1237
Sponsor: Rep. Sánchez, Linda T. [D-CA-39]
Introduced: 2009-02-26 in the House
Policy area: Law
Subjects: Aging
Alternative dispute resolution, mediation, arbitration
Contracts and agency
Health facilities and institutions
Long-term, rehabilitative, and terminal care

Summary:
action_date: 2009-02-26
text: 
Fairness in Nursing Home Arbitration Act of 2009 - Provides that a pre-dispute arbitration agreement between a long-term care facility and a resident (or anyone acting on the resident's behalf) shall not be valid or specifically enforceable.
 

 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-06-21
text: Subcommittee on Commercial and Administrative Law Discharged.
action_date: 2009-03-16
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Commercial and Administrative Law.
action_date: 2009-02-26
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2009-02-26
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-02-26
text: Introduced in House
To prohibit the presence in the United States of any alien formerly detained at the Department of Defense detention facility at Naval Station, Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

Bill: 111-hr-1238
Sponsor: Rep. Shadegg, John B. [R-AZ-3]
Introduced: 2009-02-26 in the House
Policy area: Immigration
Subjects: Caribbean area
Correctional facilities and imprisonment
Cuba
Detention of persons
Immigration status and procedures
Latin America
Military facilities and property
Refugees, asylum, displaced persons

Summary:
action_date: 2009-02-26
text: 
Makes an alien who is detained at the Department of Defense (DOD) detention facility at Naval Station, Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, permanently ineligible for: (1) U.S. admission for any purpose, including refugee admission; and (2) parole into the United States or any other physical presence in the United States that is not regarded as an admission, including transfer for detention purposes.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-03-16
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration, Citizenship, Refugees, Border Security, and International Law.
action_date: 2009-02-26
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2009-02-26
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-02-26
text: Introduced in House
Property Mitigation Assistance Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-1239
Sponsor: Rep. Thompson, Bennie G. [D-MS-2]
Introduced: 2009-02-26 in the House
Policy area: Emergency Management
Subjects: Business investment and capital
Disaster relief and insurance
Emergency planning and evacuation
Government lending and loan guarantees
Housing and community development funding
Residential rehabilitation and home repair

Summary:
action_date: 2009-02-26
text: 
Property Mitigation Assistance Act of 2009 - Amends the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Assistance and Emergency Relief Act to direct the Administrator of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to establish a grant program to provide assistance to states to promote pre-disaster property mitigation measures within their jurisdictions.
 
Requires a state, to be eligible for assistance, to have: (1) submitted a mitigation plan; (2) established a process for accepting and processing grant and loan applications from individual homeowners and business owners; (3) established a revolving loan fund to which any grant amounts received under this Act shall be deposited; and (4) submitted a detailed plan for how terms and conditions for authorized loans and grants will be set.

Directs the Administrator to allocate grant amounts to eligible states according to a formula based on specified factors, including the nature and extent of potential hazards to property in the state, the number of properties at risk in the event that a hazard or natural disaster should occur, the amount of prior property damage incurred by the state during any previous hazard or natural disaster, and any available data on the future risk of occurrence of any hazard or natural disaster in a state.

Sets forth provisions regarding baseline amounts for eligible states and matching requirements. 

Authorizes each state to make grants or loans to assist individual homeowners and businesses in undertaking pre-disaster property mitigation measures from a revolving loan fund established under this Act.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-02-27
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Economic Development, Public Buildings and Emergency Management.
action_date: 2009-02-26
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2009-02-26
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-02-26
text: Introduced in House
Teaching Geography is Fundamental Act

Bill: 111-hr-1240
Sponsor: Rep. Van Hollen, Chris [D-MD-8]
Introduced: 2009-02-26 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Earth sciences
Education programs funding
Elementary and secondary education
Higher education
Teaching, teachers, curricula

Summary:
action_date: 2009-02-26
text: 
Teaching Geography is Fundamental Act - Amends the Higher Education Act of 1965 to establish a geography education grant program under title II, Teacher Quality Enhancement.
 
Authorizes the Secretary of Education to award a grant to a national nonprofit educational organization or consortium, with 75% to be used for subgrants to institutions of higher education associated with state geographic alliances, nonprofit educational organizations, or state or local educational agencies. 
 
Requires various grantee and subgrantee activities designed to expand geographic literacy among kindergarten through grade 12 students by improving their teachers' professional development programs offered through institutions of higher education. Includes among such activities state-based conferences to assess geographic literacy and identify improvement strategies.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-04-29
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education.
action_date: 2009-02-26
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and Labor.
action_date: 2009-02-26
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E493)
action_date: 2009-02-26
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-02-26
text: Introduced in House
To increase the penalty for failure to file a partnership or S corporation return.

Bill: 111-hr-1241
Sponsor: Del. Norton, Eleanor Holmes [D-DC-At Large]
Introduced: 2009-03-02 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Small business
Tax administration and collection, taxpayers

Summary:
action_date: 2009-03-02
text: 
Increases the penalty for failure to file a partnership or S corporation tax return in taxable years beginning in 2010 and 2011.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-03-02
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2009-03-02
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-03-02
text: Introduced in House
To provide for the award of a gold medal on behalf of the Congress to Tiger Woods, in recognition of his service to the Nation in promoting excellence and good sportsmanship, and in breaking barriers with grace and dignity by showing that golf is a sport for all people.

Bill: 111-hr-1244
Sponsor: Rep. Baca, Joe [D-CA-43]
Introduced: 2009-03-02 in the House
Policy area: Sports and Recreation
Subjects: Athletes
Congressional tributes
Professional sports
Racial and ethnic relations

Summary:
action_date: 2009-03-02
text: Provides for the presentation of a congressional gold medal to Tiger Woods in recognition of his service to the nation in promoting excellence and good sportsmanship and in breaking barriers with grace and dignity by showing that golf is a sport for all people.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-03-02
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2009-03-02
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-03-02
text: Introduced in House
Homebuyer Tax Credit Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-1245
Sponsor: Rep. Calvert, Ken [R-CA-44]
Introduced: 2009-03-02 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Housing finance and home ownership
Income tax credits

Summary:
action_date: 2009-03-02
text: 
Homebuyer Tax Credit Act of 2009 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to replace the current tax credit for first-time homebuyers with a one-time credit for 10% of the purchase price of a principal residence, up to $15,000. Requires repayment of credit amounts if the taxpayer sells or fails to occupy the residence within 24 months after the date of purchase.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-03-02
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2009-03-02
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-03-02
text: Introduced in House
Protecting Tenants at Foreclosure Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-1247
Sponsor: Rep. Ellison, Keith [D-MN-5]
Introduced: 2009-03-02 in the House
Policy area: Housing and Community Development
Subjects: Contracts and agency
Housing and community development funding
Housing finance and home ownership
Public housing

Summary:
action_date: 2009-03-02
text: 
Protecting Tenants at Foreclosure Act of 2009 - States that any immediate successor in interest to residential property in foreclosure assumes such interest subject to: (1) giving an existing tenant at least 90-day notice to vacate; and (2) specified rights of such tenant to occupy the premises until the end of the lease.
 
Amends the United States Housing Act of 1937 to require a housing assistance payment contract to provide that in the case of an owner who is an immediate successor in interest pursuant to foreclosure: (1) during the initial term of the lease vacating the property prior to sale shall not constitute other good cause for termination of the lease; but (2) in subsequent lease terms vacating the property prior to sale may constitute good cause if the property is unmarketable while occupied, or if such owner will occupy the unit as a primary residence.
 
Authorizes: (1) a housing assistance payment contract entered into by the public housing agency and the owner of a dwelling unit to provide that the immediate successor in interest to property in foreclosure in which a housing assistance recipient resides assumes such interest subject to the lease between the prior owner and the tenant, and subject to the housing assistance payments contract between the prior owner and the public housing agency for the occupied unit; and (2) the public housing agency, where the successor owner cannot be identified, to use rental funds to pay for the property's utilities if owed by the owner or for reasonable moving costs, including security deposits.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-03-02
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2009-03-02
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-03-02
text: Introduced in House
Anthrax Attacks Investigation Act

Bill: 111-hr-1248
Sponsor: Rep. Holt, Rush [D-NJ-12]
Introduced: 2009-03-02 in the House
Policy area: Emergency Management
Subjects: Advisory bodies
Criminal investigation, prosecution, interrogation
Executive agency funding and structure
Government information and archives
Government studies and investigations
Hazardous wastes and toxic substances
Terrorism

Summary:
action_date: 2009-03-02
text: 
Anthrax Attacks Investigation Act - Establishes the National Commission on the Anthrax Attacks Upon the United States to: (1) conduct an investigation of the anthrax letter attacks of September and October 2001; and (2) submit interim reports to the President and Congress and a final report on its findings with recommendations for corrective measures to prevent and respond to acts of bioterrorism. Directs the Commission to hold public hearings and release its reports to the public.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-08-19
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.
action_date: 2009-03-02
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2009-03-02
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-03-02
text: Introduced in House
Equipping a 21st Century Green Workforce Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-1249
Sponsor: Rep. Murphy, Patrick J. [D-PA-8]
Introduced: 2009-03-02 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Alternative and renewable resources
Electric power generation and transmission
Higher education
Income tax deductions
Social work, volunteer service, charitable organizations
Tax-exempt organizations
Vocational and technical education

Summary:
action_date: 2009-03-02
text: 
Equipping a 21st Century Green Workforce Act of 2009 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow an increased charitable tax deduction for contributions of certain alternative energy property for educational purposes.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-03-02
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2009-03-02
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-03-02
text: Introduced in House
Public Good IRA Rollover Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-1250
Sponsor: Rep. Pomeroy, Earl [D-ND-At Large]
Introduced: 2009-03-02 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Employee benefits and pensions
Income tax exclusion
Social work, volunteer service, charitable organizations

Summary:
action_date: 2009-03-02
text: 
Public Good IRA Rollover Act of 2009 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to exclude from gross income distributions from individual retirement accounts for certain charitable purposes. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-03-02
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2009-03-02
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-03-02
text: Introduced in House
To amend title 39, United States Code, to provide that the United States Postal Service may not carry out a change-of-address request unless it first receives a signed confirmation that the request was in fact made by or on behalf of the addressee.

Bill: 111-hr-1251
Sponsor: Rep. Weiner, Anthony D. [D-NY-9]
Introduced: 2009-03-02 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Postal service
U.S. Postal Service

Summary:
action_date: 2009-03-02
text: 
Requires the U.S. Postal Service to implement procedures to ensure that no permanent change-of-address request is carried out unless the Postal Service first receives signed confirmation from the addressee (or the addressee's authorized agent) that the request was in fact made by (or on behalf of) the addressee.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-05-04
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Federal Workforce, Post Office, and the District of Columbia.
action_date: 2009-03-02
text: Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.
action_date: 2009-03-02
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-03-02
text: Introduced in House
For the relief of Wahab Munir and Hunain Munir.

Bill: 111-hr-1252
Sponsor: Rep. Crowley, Joseph [D-NY-7]
Introduced: 2009-03-02 in the House
Policy area: Private Legislation

Summary:
action_date: 2009-03-02
text: Provides for the relief of Wahab Munir and Hunain Munir.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-03-10
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration, Citizenship, Refugees, Border Security, and International Law.
action_date: 2009-03-02
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2009-03-02
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-03-02
text: Introduced in House
Restoring the Integrity of American Statistics Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-1254
Sponsor: Rep. Maloney, Carolyn B. [D-NY-14]
Introduced: 2009-03-03 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Census and government statistics
Department of Commerce
Executive agency funding and structure
Federal officials
Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management

Summary:
action_date: 2009-03-03
text: 
Restoring the Integrity of American Statistics Act of 2009 - Reestablishes the United States Census Bureau as an independent establishment in the executive branch, effective January 1, 2012. 
 
 Requires the Bureau Director to be: (1) appointed by the President without regard to political affiliation for a five-year term; and (2) compensated at level II of the Executive Schedule.
 
Provides for: (1) the transfer of functions, personnel, assets, and liabilities of the Bureau under the Department of Commerce; (2) transition rules; and (3) appointment of an Inspector General for the Bureau.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-05-04
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Information Policy, Census, and National Archives.
action_date: 2009-03-03
text: Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.
action_date: 2009-03-03
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E532)
action_date: 2009-03-03
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-03-03
text: Introduced in House
To protect the interests of each resident of intermediate care facilities for the mentally retarded in class action lawsuits on behalf of such resident.

Bill: 111-hr-1255
Sponsor: Rep. Frank, Barney [D-MA-4]
Introduced: 2009-03-03 in the House
Policy area: Law
Subjects: Civil actions and liability
Disability and paralysis
Health facilities and institutions

Summary:
action_date: 2009-03-03
text: 
Prohibits any entity that receives funds from the federal government from using them to file a class action lawsuit against an intermediate care facility for the mentally retarded on behalf of any facility resident unless the resident (or the resident's legal representative), after receiving notice of the proposed class action lawsuit, has the opportunity to elect not to have the action apply to the resident.
 

 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-03-03
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2009-03-03
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-03-03
text: Introduced in House
Damaged Vehicle Information Act

Bill: 111-hr-1257
Sponsor: Rep. Stearns, Cliff [R-FL-6]
Introduced: 2009-03-03 in the House
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Consumer affairs
Contracts and agency
Department of Transportation
Motor vehicles
Product safety and quality

Summary:
action_date: 2009-03-03
text: 
Damaged Vehicle Information Act - Directs the Secretary of Transportation to issue a regulation to require persons who terminate a motor vehicle contract due to flood or water damage, collision, fire damage, theft and recovery, or any circumstance that adversely affects the fair market value of the vehicle to disclose information of such vehicle damage to the public.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-03-04
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Commerce, Trade and Consumer Protection.
action_date: 2009-03-03
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2009-03-03
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-03-03
text: Introduced in House