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Equality for Women Farmers Act

Bill: 111-hr-4264
Sponsor: Rep. DeLauro, Rosa L. [D-CT-3]
Introduced: 2009-12-10 in the House
Policy area: Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Subjects: Administrative remedies
Agricultural prices, subsidies, credit
Alternative dispute resolution, mediation, arbitration
Department of Agriculture
Disaster relief and insurance
Government information and archives
Government lending and loan guarantees
Government liability
Government studies and investigations
Legal fees and court costs
Minority and disadvantaged businesses
Sex, gender, sexual orientation discrimination
Women in business

Summary:
action_date: 2009-12-10
text: 
Equality for Women Farmers Act - Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to attempt to notify potential claimants of a three-year opportunity to submit a claim for gender discrimination damages against the Department of Agriculture for failing to provide or review applications for farm loans, farm loan servicing, or disaster loans during the period January 1, 1981, through the date of enactment of this Act.
 
Directs the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service to appoint a Special Master to adjudicate such claims.
 
Prohibits the Department from initiating foreclosure on collateral or secured property of an eligible claimant during such three-year period.
 
Sets forth audit and reporting provisions.
 
 
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-03-29
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Conservation, Credit, Energy, and Research.
action_date: 2009-12-10
text: Referred to House Ways and Means
action_date: 2009-12-10
text: Referred to House Agriculture
action_date: 2009-12-10
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committees on Agriculture, 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: 2009-12-10
text: Referred to House Judiciary
action_date: 2009-12-10
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-12-10
text: Introduced in House
To direct the Administrator of the Small Business Administration to establish and carry out a direct lending program for small business concerns, and for other purposes.

Bill: 111-hr-4265
Sponsor: Rep. Yarmuth, John A. [D-KY-3]
Introduced: 2009-12-10 in the House
Policy area: Commerce
Subjects: Government lending and loan guarantees
Interest, dividends, interest rates
Small business

Summary:
action_date: 2009-12-10
text: 
Directs the Administrator of the Small Business Administration (SBA) to establish and carry out a program of making loans directly to small businesses. Limits loan amounts to the lesser of 10% of annual business revenues or $500,000.
 
Provides program funding from unobligated amounts available under title I (Troubled Asset Relief Program [TARP]) of the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-12-10
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Finance and Tax.
action_date: 2009-12-10
text: Referred to House Financial Services
action_date: 2009-12-10
text: Referred to the Committee on Small Business, 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: 2009-12-10
text: Referred to House Small Business
action_date: 2009-12-10
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-12-10
text: Introduced in House
To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 4110 Almeda Road in Houston, Texas, as the "George Thomas 'Mickey' Leland Post Office Building".

Bill: 111-hr-4266
Sponsor: Rep. Jackson-Lee, Sheila [D-TX-18]
Introduced: 2009-12-10 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Congressional tributes
Government buildings, facilities, and property
House of Representatives
Members of Congress
Postal service
Texas

Summary:
action_date: 2009-12-10
text: Designates the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 4110 Almeda Road in Houston, Texas, as the "George Thomas 'Mickey' Leland Post Office Building."

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-12-10
text: Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.
action_date: 2009-12-10
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-12-10
text: Introduced in House
Military Whistleblower Protection Enhancement Act

Bill: 111-hr-4267
Sponsor: Rep. Carter, John R. [R-TX-31]
Introduced: 2009-12-10 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Criminal justice information and records
Employment discrimination and employee rights
Evidence and witnesses
Military personnel and dependents
Subversive activities
Terrorism

Summary:
action_date: 2009-12-10
text: 
Military Whistleblower Protection Enhancement Act - Provides whistleblower protections to a member of the Armed Forces who complains or discloses evidence of ideologically based threats or actions of another member that the providing member reasonably believes could be counterproductive or detrimental to U.S. interests or security.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-12-10
text: Referred to the House Committee on Armed Services.
action_date: 2009-12-10
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-12-10
text: Introduced in House
Put America to Work Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-4268
Sponsor: Rep. Ellison, Keith [D-MN-5]
Introduced: 2009-12-10 in the House
Policy area: Labor and Employment
Subjects: Building construction
Child care and development
Education of the disadvantaged
Educational facilities and institutions
Elementary and secondary education
Employment and training programs
Energy efficiency and conservation
Food assistance and relief
Health care coverage and access
Housing and community development funding
Libraries and archives
Parks, recreation areas, trails
Poverty and welfare assistance
Preschool education
Residential rehabilitation and home repair
Rural conditions and development
Teaching, teachers, curricula
Unemployment
Urban and suburban affairs and development

Summary:
action_date: 2009-12-10
text: 
Put America to Work Act of 2009 - Directs the Secretary of Labor to make grants to states, local government units, and Indian tribes to create employment opportunities for unemployed and underemployed residents of distressed communities.
 
Specifies grant uses, including funding of fast-track jobs for: (1) painting and repair of schools, community centers, and libraries; (2) restoration of abandoned and vacant properties; (3) expansion of emergency food programs to reduce hunger; (4) augmentation of staffing in Head Start and other early childhood education programs; and (5) renovation and maintenance of parks, playgrounds, and other public spaces. 
 
Requires grant recipients to use remaining grant funds to make grants to public entities, nonprofit organizations, public-private partnerships, or small businesses to create employment opportunities in: (1) construction, rehabilitation, and improvements in energy efficiency of residences or public facilities; (2) the provision of human services; (3) remediation and demolition of vacant and abandoned properties; and (4) programs that provide opportunities for employment, education, and training for disadvantaged youth.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-01-04
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Workforce Protections.
action_date: 2010-01-04
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Higher Education, Lifelong Learning, and Competitiveness.
action_date: 2009-12-10
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and Labor.
action_date: 2009-12-10
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-12-10
text: Introduced in House
BEST Practices Act

Bill: 111-hr-4269
Sponsor: Rep. Filner, Bob [D-CA-51]
Introduced: 2009-12-10 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Animal protection and human-animal relationships
Emergency medical services and trauma care
Medical education
Military education and training
Military medicine

Summary:
action_date: 2009-12-10
text: 
Battlefield Excellence through Superior Training Practices Act or BEST Practices Act - Requires the Secretary of Defense (DOD), no later than October 1, 2013, to only use human-based training methods for training members of the Armed Forces in the treatment of combat trauma injuries and the management of chemical and biological casualties. Prohibits the use of animals in such training.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-01-12
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Military Personnel.
action_date: 2009-12-10
text: Referred to the House Committee on Armed Services.
action_date: 2009-12-10
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-12-10
text: Introduced in House
Common Sense Tax Relief Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-4270
Sponsor: Rep. Frelinghuysen, Rodney P. [R-NJ-11]
Introduced: 2009-12-10 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Capital gains tax
Elementary and secondary education
Family relationships
Higher education
Income tax credits
Income tax deductions
Income tax rates
Interest, dividends, interest rates
Marriage and family status
Sales and excise taxes
State and local taxation
Student aid and college costs
Teaching, teachers, curricula
Transfer and inheritance taxes

Summary:
action_date: 2009-12-10
text: 
Common Sense Tax Relief Act of 2009 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to make permanent the tax deductions for state and local sales taxes, for certain expenses of elementary and secondary school teachers, and for tuition and related expenses.
 
Exempts certain provisions of the Economic Growth and Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2001 relating to the child tax credit, marriage penalty relief, repeal of the estate tax, and the tax deduction for higher education expenses from the general terminating date of that Act (i.e., December 31, 2010). 
 
Makes provisions of the Jobs and Growth Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2003 reducing tax rates on capital gains and dividend income permanent.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-12-10
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2009-12-10
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E2961)
action_date: 2009-12-10
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-12-10
text: Introduced in House
Workforce Investment Improvement Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-4271
Sponsor: Rep. Guthrie, Brett [R-KY-2]
Introduced: 2009-12-10 in the House
Policy area: Labor and Employment
Subjects: Adult education and literacy
Alternative and renewable resources
Department of Labor
Disability and health-based discrimination
Employment and training programs
Employment discrimination and employee rights
Energy efficiency and conservation
Executive agency funding and structure
Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management
Indian social and development programs
Intergovernmental relations
Migrant, seasonal, agricultural labor
Performance measurement
State and local government operations
Veterans' education, employment, rehabilitation
Vocational and technical education
Youth employment and child labor

Summary:
action_date: 2009-12-10
text: 
Workforce Investment Improvement Act of 2009 - Amends the Workforce Investment Act of 1998 (WIA) to revise requirements and reauthorize appropriations for: (1) WIA title I, workforce investment systems for job training and employment services; and (2) WIA title II, adult education and family literacy education programs. 
 
Revises and reauthorizes workforce investment systems with respect to: (1) state and local planning, allocation, work force investment board membership, and performance accountability; (2) one-stop centers; (3) consolidated funding for adult program activities, including job training, dislocated worker retraining, the employment service system, and reemployment grants; (4) training programs for both out-of-school and in-school youth, including challenge grants; and (5) national job training programs, including the Job Corps and programs for Native Americans, migrant and seasonal farmworkers, and veterans.
 
Requires the Employment and Training Administration of the Department of Labor to be the principal agency to administer WIA title I workforce investment systems for job training and employment services and title III (Job Corps). 
 
Exempts religious organizations, with respect to their employment of individuals of a particular religion, from WIA nondiscrimination requirements.
 
Prescribes requirements for the approval of state Workforce Innovation in Regional Economic Development (WIRED) plans for the carrying out of certain workforce development activities. 
 
Repeals Wagner-Peyser Act provisions relating to the U.S. Employment Service. Directs the Secretary of Labor to oversee the development, maintenance, and continuous improvement of a nationwide workforce and labor market information system. 
 
Revises requirements and reauthorizes appropriations for: (1) vocational rehabilitation services under the Rehabilitation Act of 1973; and (2) the Helen Keller National Center Act.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-12-10
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and Labor.
action_date: 2009-12-10
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-12-10
text: Introduced in House
Government Grants Accountability Act

Bill: 111-hr-4272
Sponsor: Rep. Hodes, Paul W. [D-NH-2]
Introduced: 2009-12-10 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Appropriations
Government information and archives
Performance measurement

Summary:
action_date: 2009-12-10
text: 
Government Grants Accountability Act - Requires each recipient of federal agency grant funds to report to that agency with respect to each fiscal year: (1) the total amount of grant funds received from that agency; (2) the amount expended or obligated to projects or activities; and (3) a detailed list of such projects or activities.
 Requires each agency with grant accounts, during the first quarter of each fiscal year, to: (1) identify any undisbursed balances in such accounts as of the end of the preceding fiscal year; and (2) return such undisbursed balances to the Treasury by the end of such quarter. 
 Applies such requirement to grant accounts whose period of availability is not greater than one fiscal year.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-12-10
text: Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.
action_date: 2009-12-10
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-12-10
text: Introduced in House
Pediatric Workforce Investment Act

Bill: 111-hr-4273
Sponsor: Rep. Kilpatrick, Carolyn C. [D-MI-13]
Introduced: 2009-12-10 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Child health
Health care coverage and access
Health personnel
Medical education
Mental health
Student aid and college costs
Surgery and anesthesia

Summary:
action_date: 2009-12-10
text: 
 Pediatric Workforce Investment Act - Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS), acting through the Administrator of the Health Resources and Services Administration, to establish and carry out a pediatric specialty loan repayment program under which a qualified physician agrees to be employed full-time for not less than two years in providing pediatric medical subspecialty, surgical specialty, or psychiatric subspecialty care in a shortage area in exchange for repayment of educational loans. Requires an area to be determined to be a shortage area based on: (1) waiting times for patient care; (2) recruitment for unfilled positions; or (3) the ratio of the number of children who reside in the area who are in need of such pediatric subspecialty care to the number of pediatric subspecialists furnishing such services within 100 miles of the area. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-12-11
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2009-12-10
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2009-12-10
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-12-10
text: Introduced in House
Ensuring All Students Year-round (EASY) Access to Meals and Snacks Act

Bill: 111-hr-4274
Sponsor: Rep. Larsen, Rick [D-WA-2]
Introduced: 2009-12-10 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Education of the disadvantaged
Elementary and secondary education
Food assistance and relief
Poverty and welfare assistance

Summary:
action_date: 2009-12-10
text: 
Ensuring All Students Year-round (EASY) Access to Meals and Snacks Act - Amends the Richard B. Russell National School Lunch Act to reimburse private nonprofit and local government service institutions (other than public schools) under the school lunch program for up to one meal and one snack per child each day during after-school hours, weekends, and school holidays during the regular school calendar. (Currently, such institutions are reimbursed for meals and snacks served to children over the summer months or to children who are on vacation under a continuous school calendar.)


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-01-04
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Healthy Families and Communities.
action_date: 2009-12-10
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and Labor.
action_date: 2009-12-10
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-12-10
text: Introduced in House
To authorize leases of up to 99 years for lands held in trust for Ohkay Owingeh Pueblo.

Bill: 111-hr-4276
Sponsor: Rep. Lujan, Ben Ray [D-NM-3]
Introduced: 2009-12-10 in the House
Policy area: Native Americans
Subjects: Indian lands and resources rights
Land transfers
New Mexico

Summary:
action_date: 2009-12-10
text: 
Permits land held in trust for the Ohkay Owingeh Pueblo (New Mexico) to be leased for a term of up to 99 years.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-12-10
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2009-12-10
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-12-10
text: Introduced in House
To authorize the Secretary of Education to continue to waive certain requirements in order to ease fiscal burdens in States affected by Hurricane Katrina or Hurricane Rita.

Bill: 111-hr-4277
Sponsor: Rep. Melancon, Charlie [D-LA-3]
Introduced: 2009-12-10 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Alabama
Disaster relief and insurance
Education programs funding
Elementary and secondary education
Intergovernmental relations
Louisiana
Mississippi
Natural disasters
State and local finance
Texas

Summary:
action_date: 2009-12-10
text: 
Amends the Department of Defense, Emergency Supplemental Appropriations to Address Hurricanes in the Gulf of Mexico, and Pandemic Influenza Act, 2006 to extend, through FY2010, the authority of the Secretary of Education to waive or modify certain requirements relating to maintenance of effort, supplementary use of funds, and matching funds in providing assistance to Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, and Texas and, through them, to local educational agencies and non-public elementary and secondary schools serving areas in which a major disaster was declared relating to Hurricane Katrina or Rita.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-01-04
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education.
action_date: 2009-12-10
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and Labor.
action_date: 2009-12-10
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-12-10
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide a reduced rate of excise tax on beer produced domestically by certain small producers.

Bill: 111-hr-4278
Sponsor: Rep. Neal, Richard E. [D-MA-2]
Introduced: 2009-12-10 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Food industry and services
Sales and excise taxes
Small business

Summary:
action_date: 2009-12-10
text: 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to reduce the rate of the excise tax on beer produced within or imported into the United States for brewers who produce not more than 6 million barrels of beer a year. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-12-10
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2009-12-10
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E2963)
action_date: 2009-12-10
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-12-10
text: Introduced in House
To amend titles 38 and 10, United States Code, to authorize accelerated payments of educational assistance to certain veterans and members of the reserve components of the Armed Forces.

Bill: 111-hr-4279
Sponsor: Rep. Quigley, Mike [D-IL-5]
Introduced: 2009-12-10 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Military personnel and dependents
National Guard and reserves
Veterans' education, employment, rehabilitation

Summary:
action_date: 2009-12-10
text: 
Amends federal provisions concerning the provision of educational assistance for veterans and members of the reserves to allow an individual eligible for such assistance to be paid on an accelerated basis if: (1) the individual is enrolled in an approved program of education; (2) the Secretary of Veterans Affairs (VA) or of the military department concerned (in case of a reserve member) has not paid the established charges to the institution of higher learning within seven days after the academic quarter, semester, or term begins; and (3) failure to pay the established charges is through no fault of the individual. Requires: (1) the institution to certify the amount of established charges; (2) payment of the accelerated amount within 14 days after receipt of such certification; and (3) individuals to be charged against their educational assistance entitlement for any accelerated payments received.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-01-12
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Military Personnel.
action_date: 2009-12-11
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Economic Opportunity.
action_date: 2009-12-10
text: Referred to House Armed Services
action_date: 2009-12-10
text: Referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs, and in addition to the Committee on Armed 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: 2009-12-10
text: Referred to House Veterans' Affairs
action_date: 2009-12-10
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-12-10
text: Introduced in House
Fighting for American Jobs Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-4280
Sponsor: Rep. Visclosky, Peter J. [D-IN-1]
Introduced: 2009-12-10 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Business records
Buy American requirements
Foreign and international corporations
Government lending and loan guarantees
Public contracts and procurement
Unemployment
Wages and earnings

Summary:
action_date: 2009-12-10
text: 
Fighting for American Jobs Act of 2009 - Directs each federal agency that provides contracts, grants, loans, or loan guarantees to businesses to require, as a condition of such assistance, that such businesses provide annually information on: (1) the number of employees employed in the United States and its territories and possessions and the number employed outside the United States, as well as wage information on U.S. employees; and (2) the percentage of the workforce that has been laid off or forced to resign during the preceding year. Prohibits, until the situation is corrected, subsequent federal assistance to businesses that lay off a greater percentage of workers in the United States and its territories and possessions than in other countries.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-12-10
text: Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.
action_date: 2009-12-10
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-12-10
text: Introduced in House