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Tracking Registered And Convicted Known (TRACK) Sex Offenders Act

Bill: 111-hr-1750
Sponsor: Rep. Bachmann, Michele [R-MN-6]
Introduced: 2009-03-26 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Criminal justice information and records
Government information and archives
Intergovernmental relations
Sex offenses
State and local government operations

Summary:
action_date: 2009-03-26
text: 
Tracking Registered And Convicted Known (TRACK) Sex Offenders Act - Amends title IV (Grants to States for Aid and Services to Needy Families with Children and for Child-Welfare Services) of the Social Security Act to require the Secretary of Health and Human Services to disclose to the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) information in the National Directory of New Hires to assist in the enforcement of a federal or state law requiring the registration of sex offenders. Authorizes the FBI to disclose such information to state or local law enforcement agencies for purposes of enforcing sex offender registration laws. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-04-27
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.
action_date: 2009-03-26
text: Referred to House Judiciary
action_date: 2009-03-26
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, 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: 2009-03-26
text: Referred to House Ways and Means
action_date: 2009-03-26
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-03-26
text: Introduced in House
American Dream Act

Bill: 111-hr-1751
Sponsor: Rep. Berman, Howard L. [D-CA-28]
Introduced: 2009-03-26 in the House
Policy area: Immigration
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Administrative remedies
Border security and unlawful immigration
Citizenship and naturalization
Department of Homeland Security
Higher education
Immigration status and procedures
Military personnel and dependents
Student aid and college costs

Summary:
action_date: 2009-03-26
text: 
American Dream Act - Amends the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996 to repeal the denial of an unlawful alien's eligibility for higher education benefits based on state residence unless a U.S. national is similarly eligible without regard to such state residence.
 
Authorizes the Secretary of Homeland Security to cancel the removal of, and adjust to conditional permanent resident status, an alien who: (1) entered the United States before his or her 16th birthday and has been present in the United States for at least five years immediately preceding enactment of this Act; (2) is a person of good moral character; (3) is not inadmissible or deportable under specified grounds of the Immigration and Nationality Act; and (4) at the time of application, has been admitted to an institution of higher education or has earned a high school or equivalent diploma.
 
Sets forth the conditions for conditional permanent resident status.
 
Authorizes an alien who has satisfied the appropriate requirements prior to enactment of this Act to petition the Secretary for conditional permanent resident status. 
 
Sets forth requirements respecting: (1) exclusive jurisdiction; (2) confidentiality; (3) fee prohibitions; (4) higher education assistance; and (5) a Government Accountability Office (GAO) report respecting the number of aliens adjusted under this Act.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-05-14
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Higher Education, Lifelong Learning, and Competitiveness.
action_date: 2009-04-27
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration, Citizenship, Refugees, Border Security, and International Law.
action_date: 2009-03-26
text: Referred to House Education and Labor
action_date: 2009-03-26
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, 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: 2009-03-26
text: Referred to House Judiciary
action_date: 2009-03-26
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E797)
action_date: 2009-03-26
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-03-26
text: Introduced in House
One Strike Act

Bill: 111-hr-1753
Sponsor: Rep. Brown-Waite, Ginny [R-FL-5]
Introduced: 2009-03-26 in the House
Policy area: Immigration
Subjects: Border security and unlawful immigration
Immigration status and procedures

Summary:
action_date: 2009-03-26
text: 
One Strike Act - Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to include in the definition of &quot;aggravated felony&quot; a criminal violation committed by an alien who improperly entered the United States.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-04-27
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration, Citizenship, Refugees, Border Security, and International Law.
action_date: 2009-03-26
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2009-03-26
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-03-26
text: Introduced in House
Rural Early Education Access Act

Bill: 111-hr-1755
Sponsor: Rep. Hare, Phil [D-IL-17]
Introduced: 2009-03-26 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Child health
Education programs funding
Elementary and secondary education
Higher education
Language arts
Medical tests and diagnostic methods
Nutrition and diet
Preschool education
Rural conditions and development
School administration
Special education
Teaching, teachers, curricula

Summary:
action_date: 2009-03-26
text: 
Rural Early Education Access Act - Directs the Secretary of Education to award renewable five-year matching grants to states and, through them, subgrants to rural preschool providers.
 
Requires subgrantees to: (1) have no more than 20 students per class and a student-to-teacher ratio of at least 10 to 1; (2) adhere to comprehensive early learning standards; and (3) provide at least one highly nutritious meal for each child for every 3 hours of participation per day and at least one highly nutritious snack for each child participating up to 3 hours per day.
 
Requires rural preschool providers to use the subgrants to: (1) provide one highly competent assistant teacher for each class of more than 10 children; (2) make at least 15 hours of high-quality teacher training available to each teacher per school year; (3) make health screening and referral services available to their students; (4) acquire the resources and staff needed to serve disabled and limited English proficient children; or (5) coordinate with local educational agencies.
 
Sets forth allowable uses of subgrant funds.
 
Lowers the matching requirement for state grantees whose rural preschool providers meet additional requirements to: (1) provide an assistant teacher with an associate's degree in early childhood education or a child development associate's credential in every classroom of more than 10 children; and (2) adopt a plan for requiring that, within 5 years, all their lead teachers hold a bachelor's degree in early childhood education or in a related field with specialized training in early childhood education.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-05-14
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education.
action_date: 2009-03-26
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and Labor.
action_date: 2009-03-26
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-03-26
text: Introduced in House
Small Business Microloan Modernization Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-1756
Sponsor: Rep. Heller, Dean [R-NV-2]
Introduced: 2009-03-26 in the House
Policy area: Commerce
Subjects: Business investment and capital
Credit and credit markets
Disability and paralysis
Government lending and loan guarantees
Interest, dividends, interest rates
Small business

Summary:
action_date: 2009-03-26
text: 
Small Business Microloan Modernization Act of 2009 - Amends provisions of the Small Business Act regarding the Microloan program (a program administered by the Small Business Administration [SBA] to provide small-scale loans to startup, newly established or growing small businesses for working capital or the acquisition of materials, supplies, or equipment) to: (1) require the SBA Administrator to establish a process under which a lender provides to the major credit reporting agencies information about the borrower that is relevant to credit reporting (such as loan payment activity); (2) remove the requirement that Microloan loans be short-term only; (3) revise Microloan intermediary eligibility requirements; (4) increase from $7,500 to $10,000 the limit for loans made to intermediaries that will receive a reduced interest rate; (5) increase from 25% to 35% of grant funds received by Microloan intermediaries the amount that may be used to provide information and technical assistance to small businesses that are prospective borrowers; and (6) include disabled entrepreneurs and small business owners under the Microloan program.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-03-26
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Finance and Tax.
action_date: 2009-03-26
text: Referred to the House Committee on Small Business.
action_date: 2009-03-26
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-03-26
text: Introduced in House
E85 and Biodiesel Access Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-1757
Sponsor: Rep. Herseth Sandlin, Stephanie [D-SD-At Large]
Introduced: 2009-03-26 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Air quality
Alternative and renewable resources
Business investment and capital
Hybrid, electric, and advanced technology vehicles
Income tax credits
Motor fuels
Retail and wholesale trades

Summary:
action_date: 2009-03-26
text: 
E85 and Biodiesel Access Act of 2009 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to set forth a special rule for increasing the tax credit for alternative fuel vehicle commercial refueling property expenditures in states in which 15% of the retail fuel facilities store and dispense clean-burning fuel.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-03-26
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2009-03-26
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-03-26
text: Introduced in House
Educational Opportunity and Equity Commission Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-1758
Sponsor: Rep. Honda, Michael M. [D-CA-15]
Introduced: 2009-03-26 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Advisory bodies
Education of the disadvantaged
Education programs funding
Elementary and secondary education
Government studies and investigations
State and local finance

Summary:
action_date: 2009-03-26
text: 
The Educational Opportunity and Equity Commission Act of 2009 - Establishes the Educational Opportunity and Equity Commission, composed of the Secretary of Education and 14 individuals appointed by the Secretary who are educational stakeholders or have relevant experience or knowledge.
 
Tasks the Commission with conducting a study and reporting to Congress on ways to enable all students to achieve their academic potential, with particular emphasis on: (1) ensuring that schools receive adequate resources; (2) developing methods for assessing students' educational needs; and (3) creating innovative strategies for state and local educational agencies to follow to enable students to achieve their academic potential, and to enable such agencies to participate in school funding reform efforts that result in educational equity.
 
Directs the Commission to conduct outreach programs with communities throughout the nation to engage them in a public dialogue on how to ensure that their schools enable all students to achieve their academic potential.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-05-14
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education.
action_date: 2009-03-26
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and Labor.
action_date: 2009-03-26
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-03-26
text: Introduced in House
Emission Migration Prevention with Long-term Output Yields Act

Bill: 111-hr-1759
Sponsor: Rep. Inslee, Jay [D-WA-1]
Introduced: 2009-03-26 in the House
Policy area: Environmental Protection
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Air quality
Climate change and greenhouse gases
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
Industrial facilities
Manufacturing
Tax administration and collection, taxpayers
User charges and fees

Summary:
action_date: 2009-03-26
text: 
EMPLOY Act or the Emission Migration Prevention with Long-term Output Yields Act - Requires the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to distribute emission allowances (authorizations to emit one carbon dioxide equivalent of greenhouse gas) annually in specified amounts to the owners and operators of facilities in eligible industrial sectors under a domestic cap and trade program, subject to a maximum quantity limitation.
 
Requires the Administrator to promulgate a rule designating the industrial sectors and subsectors (sectors) in which facility owners or operators may receive emission allowances. Requires allowances to be given to a owners or operators of facilities in sectors that are included in a six-digit classification of the 2007 North American Industrial Classification System and that meet either the energy intensity criteria or greenhouse gas (GHG) intensity criteria and the trade intensity criteria. Authorizes the Administrator to rescind the eligibility of a sector only if it does not meet such criteria and would not be subject to carbon leakage in the absence of the allowance distribution. Defines &quot;carbon leakage&quot; to mean any substantial increase in GHG emissions by manufacturing facilities located in countries without commensurate GHG regulation which is caused by an incremental cost of production increase in the United States as a result of a domestic cap and trade program.
 
Authorizes any person to petition the Administrator to designate as eligible to receive allowances any sector that does not meet such criteria but is subject to carbon leakage comparable to that of sectors that meet the criteria.
 
Sets forth the calculations to determine the quantity of allowances distributed to facilities.
 
Requires the Administrator to reduce in 2026 and each year thereafter on a pro-rata basis the amount of emission allowances distributed by an amount equal to 10% of the amount of emission allowances distributed in calendar year 2025. Provides for the review and elimination of such reduction under certain circumstances.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-03-30
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Environment.
action_date: 2009-03-26
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2009-03-26
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-03-26
text: Introduced in House
Black Carbon Emissions Reduction Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-1760
Sponsor: Rep. Inslee, Jay [D-WA-1]
Introduced: 2009-03-26 in the House
Policy area: Environmental Protection
Subjects: Air quality
Climate change and greenhouse gases
Environmental assessment, monitoring, research
Environmental health
Environmental technology
Foreign aid and international relief

Summary:
action_date: 2009-03-26
text: 
Black Carbon Emissions Reduction Act of 2009 - Requires the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to report to Congress on black carbon (light-absorbing component of carbonaceous aerosols) emissions, including : (1) a summary of current research identifying major sources, control technologies, quantifying metrics, and public health and environmental benefits associated with additional controls; and (2) recommendations regarding emissions monitoring techniques and capabilities, areas for additional study of technologies, operations, and strategies with the greatest potential to reduce emissions, and actions the government may take to encourage or require emission reductions.
 
Requires the Administrator, within a year, to finalize regulations under the Clean Air Act to reduce emissions of black carbon or propose a finding that existing regulations promulgated pursuant to such Act adequately regulate them.
 
Requires the Administrator to report to Congress on the amount, type, and direction of all present U.S. financial, technical, and related assistance to foreign countries to reduce, mitigate, and abate black carbon emissions.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-04-02
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Environment.
action_date: 2009-03-30
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Environment.
action_date: 2009-03-26
text: Referred to House Science and Technology
action_date: 2009-03-26
text: Referred to House Foreign Affairs
action_date: 2009-03-26
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Foreign Affairs, and Science and Technology, 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: 2009-03-26
text: Referred to House Energy and Commerce
action_date: 2009-03-26
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-03-26
text: Introduced in House
Responsible Use of Taxpayer Help Act

Bill: 111-hr-1761
Sponsor: Rep. Kildee, Dale E. [D-MI-5]
Introduced: 2009-03-26 in the House
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: Bank accounts, deposits, capital
Business investment and capital
Buy American requirements
Financial crises and stabilization
Financial services and investments
Foreign and international banking
Foreign and international corporations
International monetary system and foreign exchange
Wages and earnings

Summary:
action_date: 2009-03-26
text: 
Responsible Use of Taxpayer Help Act - Amends the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008 (EESA) to prohibit a financial institution from using any assistance under the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) to: (1) purchase or invest in any foreign asset or business; (2) transfer money to, or invest in, a foreign subsidiary of the financial institution; (3) pay any type of compensation to an employee of the financial institution unless such employee is a U.S. citizen or lawful permanent resident; or (4) make any other purchase, payment, transfer, or investment, the primary effect of which is to benefit a foreign entity.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-03-26
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2009-03-26
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-03-26
text: Introduced in House
To repeal section 10(f) of Public Law 93-531, commonly known as the "Bennett Freeze".

Bill: 111-hr-1762
Sponsor: Rep. Kirkpatrick, Ann [D-AZ-1]
Introduced: 2009-03-26 in the House
Policy area: Native Americans
Subjects: Arizona
Indian lands and resources rights
Indian social and development programs
Real estate business

Summary:
action_date: 2009-03-26
text: 
Amends federal law to repeal the requirement regarding the freeze on the development of lands in litigation under the Navajo-Hopi Settlement Act of 1974.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-03-26
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2009-03-26
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-03-26
text: Introduced in House
Responsible Reinvestment Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-1763
Sponsor: Rep. Latta, Robert E. [R-OH-5]
Introduced: 2009-03-26 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Business investment and capital
Employee benefits and pensions
Health care costs and insurance
Income tax deductions
Manufacturing
Small business
Transfer and inheritance taxes

Summary:
action_date: 2009-03-26
text: 
Responsible Reinvestment Act of 2009 - Makes permanent the repeal of the estate tax. 
 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) increase to $500,000 the maximum expensing allowance for depreciable business assets; (2) allow first-year expensing of manufacturing and agricultural property; (3) allow a 20% tax deduction for qualified small business income; (4) allow a deduction from self-employment income for health insurance, health savings account contributions, and simplified employee pension plan contributions; and (5) increase the limit on the tax deduction for contributions to a simplified employee pension plan. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-03-26
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2009-03-26
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-03-26
text: Introduced in House
Helping Homeowners in Distressed Communities Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-1764
Sponsor: Rep. Matsui, Doris O. [D-CA-5]
Introduced: 2009-03-26 in the House
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: Bank accounts, deposits, capital
Financial crises and stabilization
Housing finance and home ownership

Summary:
action_date: 2009-03-26
text: 
Helping Homeowners in Distressed Communities Act of 2009 - Amends the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008 (EESA) to prohibit the Secretary of the Treasury from using any amounts of homeowner assistance provided to or for any financial institution that are voluntarily returned to the Secretary. Permits the use of such amounts, however, to refinance and modify mortgages of homeowners in accordance with the Making Home Affordable Program established by the Secretary.
 
Limits the allocation of any such returned amounts to areas disproportionately affected by home mortgage foreclosures.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-03-26
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2009-03-26
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-03-26
text: Introduced in House
To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act with respect to payment for the furnishing of intravenous immune globulin (IVIG) in a patient's home for the treatment of primary immune deficiency diseases and to cover certain disposable pumps as durable medical equipment in place of non-disposable pumps under the Medicare Program.

Bill: 111-hr-1765
Sponsor: Rep. Matsui, Doris O. [D-CA-5]
Introduced: 2009-03-26 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Cancer
Health technology, devices, supplies
Immunology and vaccination
Medicare

Summary:
action_date: 2009-03-26
text: 
Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to: (1) authorize Medicare coverage of and payment for intravenous immune globulin (IVIG) administered in the home; and (2) Medicare coverage of disposable pumps for administration of a drug to treat colorectal cancer in certain cases. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-03-30
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2009-03-26
text: Referred to House Ways and Means
action_date: 2009-03-26
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: 2009-03-26
text: Referred to House Energy and Commerce
action_date: 2009-03-26
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-03-26
text: Introduced in House
Green Acquisition Act

Bill: 111-hr-1766
Sponsor: Rep. Meek, Kendrick B. [D-FL-17]
Introduced: 2009-03-26 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Alternative and renewable resources
Environmental technology
Intergovernmental relations
Public contracts and procurement
State and local government operations

Summary:
action_date: 2009-03-26
text: 
Green Acquisition Act - Authorizes the Administrator of the General Services Administration (GSA) to provide for the use by state or local governments of federal supply schedules for environmentally preferable &quot;green&quot; commodities and services.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-05-04
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Government Management, Organization, and Procurement.
action_date: 2009-03-26
text: Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.
action_date: 2009-03-26
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-03-26
text: Introduced in House