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New Markets Tax Credit Extension Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-2628
Sponsor: Rep. Neal, Richard E. [D-MA-2]
Introduced: 2009-05-21 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Economic development
Financial services and investments
Income tax credits
Inflation and prices

Summary:
action_date: 2009-05-21
text: 
New Markets Tax Credit Extension Act of 2009 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) extend the new markets tax credit through 2013; (2) provide for an inflation adjustment to the limitation amount for such credit after 2009; and (3) allow an offset against the alternative minimum tax (AMT) for such credit. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-05-21
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2009-05-21
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-05-21
text: Introduced in House
Coercion is Not Health Care Act

Bill: 111-hr-2629
Sponsor: Rep. Paul, Ron [R-TX-14]
Introduced: 2009-05-21 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Health care costs and insurance
Health care coverage and access

Summary:
action_date: 2009-05-21
text: 
 Coercion is Not Health Care Act - Prohibits requiring the purchase or maintenance of health insurance coverage as a condition for participation in, or access to, any federal program or for federal benefit eligibility.
 
 Prohibits any individual or agency of the federal government from requiring any individual to purchase health insurance coverage.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-06-02
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2009-05-21
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2009-05-21
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E1239-1240)
action_date: 2009-05-21
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-05-21
text: Introduced in House
Protect Patients and Physicians Privacy Act

Bill: 111-hr-2630
Sponsor: Rep. Paul, Ron [R-TX-14]
Introduced: 2009-05-21 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Government information and archives
Health care costs and insurance
Health information and medical records
Right of privacy

Summary:
action_date: 2009-05-21
text: 
Protect Patients and Physicians Privacy Act - Grants individuals the ability to opt out of any federally mandated, created, or funded electronic system for maintaining health care information.
 
Amends title XI of the Social Security Act to repeal: (1) the requirement that the Secretary of Health and Human Servives adopt standards providing for standard unique health identifiers; and (2) the offense of wrongful disclosure of individually identifiable health information.
 
Prohibits the use of federal funds to support, encourage, or otherwise promote the use of standard unique health identifiers in any federal, state, or private health care plan.
 
 
Requires informed consent for the sharing from electronic medical records of any information created pursuant to a federally mandated, created, or funded program.
 
Prohibits health information from an individual medical record from being placed in a federally mandated, created, or funded electronic system of health information, absent a signed, informed consent from the patient involved.
 
States that the federal government may not require a health care provider to participate in any federally mandated, created, or funded electronic system of maintaining health care information. 
 
Prohibits sanctions against a health care provider for failing to participate in such a system. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-06-02
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2009-05-21
text: Referred to House Ways and Means
action_date: 2009-05-21
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: 2009-05-21
text: Referred to House Energy and Commerce
action_date: 2009-05-21
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E1242-1243)
action_date: 2009-05-21
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-05-21
text: Introduced in House
Affordable Gas Price Act

Bill: 111-hr-2631
Sponsor: Rep. Paul, Ron [R-TX-14]
Introduced: 2009-05-21 in the House
Policy area: Energy
Subjects: Alaska
Appropriations
Asia
Business investment and capital
Energy prices
Energy storage, supplies, demand
Environmental assessment, monitoring, research
Government studies and investigations
Income tax credits
Income tax deductions
Industrial facilities
Judicial review and appeals
Kazakhstan
Marine and coastal resources, fisheries
Monetary policy
Motor fuels
Normal trade relations, most-favored-nation treatment
Oil and gas
Russia
Sales and excise taxes
Wilderness and natural areas, wildlife refuges, wild rivers, habitats

Summary:
action_date: 2009-05-21
text: 
Affordable Gas Price Act - Declares without force or effect all provisions of existing federal law that prohibit spending appropriated funds to conduct oil or natural gas leasing and preleasing activities for any area of the Outer Continental Shelf.
 
Revokes all existing withdrawals by the President under the authority of the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act.
 
Amends the Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act to repeal: (1) the withdrawal of public lands within the Coastal Plain from entry or appropriation under federal mining or mineral leasing laws; and (2) the prohibition against the production, leasing, and development of oil and gas from the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR).
 
Amends the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 to shield from judicial review mandatory statements by certain federal officials regarding the environmental impact of federal actions upon the quality of the human environment.
 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) set forth additional incentives for investment in oil refineries; (2) suspend the tax on highway motor fuels when retail gasoline exceeds a certain benchmark; and (3) increase mileage reimbursement rates.
 
Authorizes the President to extend normal trade relations treatment to the products of the Russian Federation and Kazakhstan.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-06-02
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources.
action_date: 2009-05-21
text: Referred to House Financial Services
action_date: 2009-05-21
text: Referred to House Natural Resources
action_date: 2009-05-21
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committees on Natural Resources, and 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: 2009-05-21
text: Referred to House Ways and Means
action_date: 2009-05-21
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E1247)
action_date: 2009-05-21
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-05-21
text: Introduced in House
Korean War Veterans Recognition Act

Bill: 111-hr-2632
Sponsor: Rep. Rangel, Charles B. [D-NY-15]
Introduced: 2009-05-21 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Asia
Commemorative events and holidays
Conflicts and wars
National symbols
North Korea
South Korea
U.S. history

Summary:
action_date: 2009-05-21
text: Korean War Veterans Recognition Act - Adds National Korean War Veterans Armistice Day, July 27, to the list of days on which the flag of the United States should be displayed.
action_date: 2009-07-27
text: 

(This measure has not been amended since it was introduced. The summary of that version is repeated here.)

 
Korean War Veterans Recognition Act - Adds National Korean War Veterans Armistice Day, July 27, to the list of days on which the flag of the United States should be displayed.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-07-27
text: Became Public Law No: 111-41.
action_date: 2009-07-27
text: Became Public Law No: 111-41.
action_date: 2009-07-27
text: Signed by President.
action_date: 2009-07-27
text: Signed by President.
action_date: 2009-07-27
text: Presented to President.
action_date: 2009-07-27
text: Presented to President.
action_date: 2009-07-24
text: Cleared for White House.
action_date: 2009-07-24
text: Message on Senate action sent to the House.
action_date: 2009-07-24
text: Passed Senate without amendment by Unanimous Consent. (consideration: CR S8101)
action_date: 2009-07-24
text: Passed/agreed to in Senate: Passed Senate without amendment by Unanimous Consent.(consideration: CR S8101)
action_date: 2009-07-22
text: Received in the Senate, read twice.
action_date: 2009-07-21
text: Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
action_date: 2009-07-21
text: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill Agreed to by the Yeas and Nays: (2/3 required): 421 - 0 (Roll no. 604). (text: CR 7/20/2009 H8379)
action_date: 2009-07-21
text: Passed/agreed to in House: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill Agreed to by the Yeas and Nays: (2/3 required): 421 - 0 (Roll no. 604).(text: CR 7/20/2009 H8379)
action_date: 2009-07-21
text: Considered as unfinished business. (consideration: CR H8457-8458)
action_date: 2009-07-20
text: At the conclusion of debate, the Yeas and Nays were demanded and ordered. Pursuant to the provisions of clause 8, rule XX, the Chair announced that further proceedings on the motion would be postponed.
action_date: 2009-07-20
text: DEBATE - The House proceeded with forty minutes of debate on H.R. 2632.
action_date: 2009-07-20
text: Considered under suspension of the rules. (consideration: CR H8379-8381)
action_date: 2009-07-20
text: Mr. Johnson (GA) moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill.
action_date: 2009-05-21
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2009-05-21
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-05-21
text: Introduced in House

Enacted as: number: 111-41
To amend the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008 to prohibit automobile manufacturers receiving assistance under the Troubled Asset Relief Program from opening a new foreign subsidiary or expanding their current foreign subsidiaries.

Bill: 111-hr-2633
Sponsor: Rep. Rogers, Mike J. [R-MI-8]
Introduced: 2009-05-21 in the House
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: Business investment and capital
Corporate finance and management
Financial crises and stabilization
Manufacturing
Motor vehicles
U.S. and foreign investments

Summary:
action_date: 2009-05-21
text: 
Amends the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008 (EESA) to prohibit automobile manufacturers receiving assistance under the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) from opening a new foreign subsidiary or expanding any current foreign subsidiary.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-05-21
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2009-05-21
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-05-21
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008 to prohibit automobile manufacturers receiving assistance under the Troubled Asset Relief Program from opening a new foreign subsidiary or expanding their current foreign subsidiaries.

Bill: 111-hr-2634
Sponsor: Rep. Rogers, Mike J. [R-MI-8]
Introduced: 2009-05-21 in the House
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: Business investment and capital
Corporate finance and management
Financial crises and stabilization
Manufacturing
Motor vehicles
U.S. and foreign investments

Summary:
action_date: 2009-05-21
text: 
Amends the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008 (EESA) to prohibit automobile manufacturers receiving assistance under the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) from opening a new foreign subsidiary or expanding any current foreign subsidiary.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-05-21
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2009-05-21
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-05-21
text: Introduced in House
Gender Equity in Health Premiums Act

Bill: 111-hr-2635
Sponsor: Rep. Sánchez, Linda T. [D-CA-39]
Introduced: 2009-05-21 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Congressional oversight
Disability and health-based discrimination
Employee benefits and pensions
Government studies and investigations
Health care costs and insurance
Sex, gender, sexual orientation discrimination

Summary:
action_date: 2009-05-21
text: 
Gender Equity in Health Premiums Act - Amends the Public Health Service Act and the Internal Revenue Code to prohibit a group health plan from requiring any individual to pay a premium or contribution which is greater than that for a similarly situated individual enrolled in the plan on the basis of the gender of such individual or such individual's dependent.
 
Applies such prohibition to individual health insurance coverage.
 
Directs the Comptroller General to evaluate enforcement of group and individual health insurance market rules. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-06-02
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2009-05-21
text: Referred to House Ways and Means
action_date: 2009-05-21
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: 2009-05-21
text: Referred to House Energy and Commerce
action_date: 2009-05-21
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-05-21
text: Introduced in House
To amend title 10, United States Code, to authorize the establishment of a nonprofit corporation to support the athletic program of the Air Force Academy.

Bill: 111-hr-2636
Sponsor: Rep. Sanchez, Loretta [D-CA-47]
Introduced: 2009-05-21 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Government corporations and government-sponsored enterprises
Higher education
Military education and training
Military personnel and dependents
School athletics

Summary:
action_date: 2009-05-21
text: 
Authorizes the Secretary of the Air Force to establish (as a nonprofit corporation) the Air Force Academy Athletic Association, to support the athletic program of the Air Force Academy.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-06-08
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Military Personnel.
action_date: 2009-05-21
text: Referred to the House Committee on Armed Services.
action_date: 2009-05-21
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-05-21
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to increase the age at which distributions from qualified retirement plans are required to begin and to extend the waiver of required minimum distribution rules for certain retirement plans and accounts through 2010.

Bill: 111-hr-2637
Sponsor: Rep. Sensenbrenner, F. James, Jr. [R-WI-5]
Introduced: 2009-05-21 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Employee benefits and pensions
Income tax deferral

Summary:
action_date: 2009-05-21
text: 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) extend through 2010 the suspension of minimum distribution requirements for retirement plans; and (2) increase from 70 1/2 to 75 the age at which retirement plan beneficiaries must begin taking taxable distributions from their plans.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-05-21
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2009-05-21
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-05-21
text: Introduced in House
Veterans Stamp to Honor American Veterans Act

Bill: 111-hr-2638
Sponsor: Rep. Shuler, Heath [D-NC-11]
Introduced: 2009-05-21 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Postal service
Veterans' medical care

Summary:
action_date: 2009-05-21
text: 
Veterans Stamp to Honor American Veterans Act - Requires the U.S. Postal Service to provide for the issuance and sale of a veterans health care stamp to help fund veterans health care, including new shelters, improved medical facilities, and medical and prescription assistance.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-05-22
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2009-05-21
text: Referred to House Veterans' Affairs
action_date: 2009-05-21
text: Referred to the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, and in addition to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs, 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: 2009-05-21
text: Referred to House Oversight and Government Reform
action_date: 2009-05-21
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-05-21
text: Introduced in House
Global Poverty Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-2639
Sponsor: Rep. Smith, Adam [D-WA-9]
Introduced: 2009-05-21 in the House
Policy area: International Affairs
Subjects: Economic development
Foreign aid and international relief
Foreign loans and debt
HIV/AIDS
Infectious and parasitic diseases
International organizations and cooperation
Multilateral development programs
Nutrition and diet
Public-private cooperation
Solid waste and recycling
Water quality
Water use and supply
World health

Summary:
action_date: 2009-05-21
text: 
 Global Poverty Act of 2009 - Directs the President, through the Secretary of State, to develop and implement a comprehensive strategy to further the U.S. foreign policy objective of promoting the reduction of global poverty, the elimination of extreme global poverty, and the achievement of the United Nations Millennium Development Goal of reducing by one-half the proportion of people worldwide who live on less than $1 per day. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-05-21
text: Referred to the House Committee on Foreign Affairs.
action_date: 2009-05-21
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-05-21
text: Introduced in House
Consumer Assistance to Recycle and Save Act

Bill: 111-hr-2640
Sponsor: Rep. Sutton, Betty [D-OH-13]
Introduced: 2009-05-21 in the House
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Consumer affairs
Department of Transportation
Energy efficiency and conservation
Government information and archives
Motor vehicles
Retail and wholesale trades

Summary:
action_date: 2009-05-21
text: 
Consumer Assistance to Recycle and Save Act - Establishes in the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) a Cash for Clunkers Temporary Vehicle Trade-in Program through which the Secretary of Transportation shall: (1) authorize the issuance of an electronic voucher to offset the purchase or lease price for a new fuel efficient automobile upon the surrender of an eligible trade-in vehicle to a participating dealer; (2) certify dealers for Program participation; (3) make payments to them for vouchers they accept between March 30, 2009, and April 1, 2010; (4) provide for the payment of rebates to qualifying persons; and (5) establish and provide for the enforcement of measures to prevent and penalize fraud under the Program.
 
Prescribes requirements, including combined fuel economy, for $3,500 and $4,500 vouchers to offset the purchase or lease price for a qualifying passenger automobile or truck.
 
Limits the number of vouchers to one per customer, including joint registered owners of a single eligible trade-in vehicle.
 
Requires a dealer to certify that each eligible trade-in vehicle: (1) will be crushed or shredded, or transferred to an entity that will ensure it will be crushed or shredded, within the period of the Program; and (2) has not been, and will not be, sold, leased, exchanged, or otherwise disposed of for use as an automobile in the United States or in any other country.
 
Makes any person who purchased or leased a new fuel efficient vehicle after March 30, 2009, and before the enactment of this Act eligible for a cash rebate equivalent to the appropriate voucher amount.
 
Prescribes standards which any regulations issued by the Secretary for the Program must meet.
 
Makes it unlawful for any person to violate this Act or any regulations issued under it, particularly by fraud. Prescribes civil penalties for any such violation.
 
Directs the Secretary to make Program information available on an Internet website and through other means.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-06-02
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Environment.
action_date: 2009-05-21
text: Referred to House Ways and Means
action_date: 2009-05-21
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: 2009-05-21
text: Referred to House Energy and Commerce
action_date: 2009-05-21
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-05-21
text: Introduced in House
Medicare Secondary Payer and Workers' Compensation Settlement Agreements Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-2641
Sponsor: Rep. Tanner, John S. [D-TN-8]
Introduced: 2009-05-21 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Administrative remedies
Department of Health and Human Services
Disability assistance
Employee benefits and pensions
Judicial review and appeals
Medicare
Worker safety and health

Summary:
action_date: 2009-05-21
text: 
Medicare Secondary Payer and Workers' Compensation Settlement Agreements Act of 2009 - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to: (1) create an exception to Medicare secondary payer requirements for certain workers' compensation settlement agreements; and (2) provide for the satisfaction of such requirements through use of qualified Medicare set-asides under workers' compensation settlement agreements.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-06-02
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2009-05-21
text: Referred to House Energy and Commerce
action_date: 2009-05-21
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, 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: 2009-05-21
text: Referred to House Ways and Means
action_date: 2009-05-21
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-05-21
text: Introduced in House
Veterans Missing in America Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-2642
Sponsor: Rep. Tiberi, Patrick J. [R-OH-12]
Introduced: 2009-05-21 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Cemeteries and funerals
Congressional tributes
Government information and archives
Social work, volunteer service, charitable organizations
Veterans' organizations and recognition
Veterans' pensions and compensation

Summary:
action_date: 2009-05-21
text: 
Veterans Missing in America Act of 2009 - Recognizes the tireless work and dedication of the Missing in America Project, in conjunction with numerous veterans service organizations, in identifying unclaimed remains of veterans.
 
Directs the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to cooperate with such organizations to assist entities in possession of unclaimed or abandoned human remains in determining if any such remains are the remains of veterans or other individuals eligible for burial in a national cemetery. Requires the Secretary, upon a positive determination with respect to any such remains, to provide for and cover the cost of the burial and funeral expenses if the Secretary determines that: (1) there is no next of kin or other person claiming the remains; and (2) there are no other sufficient resources to cover such expenses.
 
Directs the Secretary to establish a publicly accessible database of the names of any veteran or other individual so identified.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-05-22
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Disability Assistance and Memorial Affairs.
action_date: 2009-05-21
text: Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2009-05-21
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-05-21
text: Introduced in House