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Justice for the Newark College Students Act

Bill: 111-hr-1663
Sponsor: Rep. Dent, Charles W. [R-PA-15]
Introduced: 2009-03-23 in the House
Policy area: Immigration
Subjects: Border security and unlawful immigration
Criminal investigation, prosecution, interrogation
Criminal justice information and records
Detention of persons
Government information and archives
Immigration status and procedures
Intergovernmental relations
State and local government operations
Violent crime

Summary:
action_date: 2009-03-23
text: 
Justice for the Newark College Students Act - Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to require: (1) the Secretary of Homeland Security (current law refers to the Attorney General) to make investigative resources available to state and local law enforcement agencies to determine whether an individual arrested for a felony or an aggravated felony (current law refers to only an aggravated felony) is unlawfully in the United States; (2) state and local agencies to use such information to determine whether an arrested individual is unlawfully in the United States and to provide the appropriate court with such information; (3) the court to report such case's disposition to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS); and (4) mandatory federal detention of such individuals pending removal, and release only in furtherance of the felony case for which the arrest was made. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-04-27
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration, Citizenship, Refugees, Border Security, and International Law.
action_date: 2009-03-23
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2009-03-23
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-03-23
text: Introduced in House
Safe Markets Development Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-1666
Sponsor: Rep. Doggett, Lloyd [D-TX-25]
Introduced: 2009-03-23 in the House
Policy area: Environmental Protection
Subjects: Air quality
Climate change and greenhouse gases
Environmental regulatory procedures
Executive agency funding and structure
Government information and archives
Government trust funds
Licensing and registrations
Pollution liability

Summary:
action_date: 2009-03-23
text: 
Safe Markets Development Act of 2009 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to require the Secretary of the Treasury to: (1) conduct auctions of allowances (authorizations to emit one carbon dioxide equivalent of greenhouse gas) in accordance with procedures established by the Climate Program Oversight and Coordination Board (established by this Act); (2) establish an allowance transfer system to issue, record, and track emission allowances; (3) maintain a registry of allowances for each recorded holder of allowances; and (4) provide for allowance banking.
 
Provides that the privilege of purchasing, holding, and transferring emission allowances shall not be restricted to the owners and operators of covered facilities.
 
Requires: (1) the owner or operator of a covered facility to submit to the Secretary an emission allowance for each carbon dioxide equivalent attributable to such facility as calculated by the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) under a greenhouse gases emissions registry; and (2) revenues from the auctions to be deposited in the Auction Revenue Trust Fund (established by this Act). Sets forth penalties for excess emissions. 
 
Requires the Board to forecast and select gradually rising annual allowance prices for 2012-2020.
 
Specifies initial expectation amounts of greenhouse gas emissions of covered facilities in the cap and trade program for each of calendar years 2012-2050.
 
Provides for reductions in the emissions target for 2020 and the expected emissions for 2021-2030 by specified amounts of any cumulative emissions of covered entities for 2012-2020 in excess of the specified expected emission levels over such years.
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-03-24
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Environment.
action_date: 2009-03-23
text: Referred to House Energy and Commerce
action_date: 2009-03-23
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: 2009-03-23
text: Referred to House Ways and Means
action_date: 2009-03-23
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR H3710-3711)
action_date: 2009-03-23
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-03-23
text: Introduced in House
War Profiteering Prevention Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-1667
Sponsor: Rep. Abercrombie, Neil [D-HI-1]
Introduced: 2009-03-23 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Conflicts and wars
Criminal investigation, prosecution, interrogation
Criminal procedure and sentencing
Evidence and witnesses
Federal district courts
Fraud offenses and financial crimes
Jurisdiction and venue
Military procurement, research, weapons development
Organized crime
Public contracts and procurement

Summary:
action_date: 2009-03-23
text: 
War Profiteering Prevention Act of 2009 - Amends the federal criminal code to prohibit profiteering and fraud involving a contract or the provision of goods or services in connection with a mission of the U.S. Government overseas. Imposes: (1) a fine of not more than $1 million and/or a prison term of up to 20 years for knowingly defrauding the United States or a provisional authority in connection with such a mission or for materially overvaluing any goods or services with the intent to defraud; (2) a fine of not more than $1 million and/or a prison term of up to 10 years for falsification or concealment, false statements, or false documents in connection with such contracts or goods or services. 
 
Grants extraterritorial federal jurisdiction over war profiteering and fraud offenses. Permits venue for the prosecution of such offenses in any district where any act in furtherance of an offense took place or where any party to a contract or provider of goods or services is located. 
 
Allows criminal forfeiture of property obtained from a war profiteering or fraud offense. Makes war profiteering and fraud a predicate offense for prosecuting money laundering and racketeering offenses.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-04-01
text: Committee Hearings Held.
action_date: 2009-03-23
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2009-03-23
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-03-23
text: Introduced in House
Border Control and Contractor Accountability Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-1668
Sponsor: Rep. Brown-Waite, Ginny [R-FL-5]
Introduced: 2009-03-23 in the House
Policy area: Immigration
Subjects: Border security and unlawful immigration
Department of Homeland Security
Detention of persons
Executive agency funding and structure
Foreign labor
Government information and archives
Government lending and loan guarantees
Public contracts and procurement
Small business

Summary:
action_date: 2009-03-23
text: 
Border Control and Contractor Accountability Act of 2009 - Requires a federal contractor who employs directly or through a subcontractor an alien who is not authorized to work to: (1) be debarred or suspended from federal contracting for three years; and (2) have the contract terminated unless the contractor or subcontractor agrees to terminate the employment of any such alien.
 
Directs the Secretary of Homeland Security to establish the position of Small Business Administration Liaison within United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement to ensure that the Small Business Administration (SBA) does not make or guarantee a loan to an alien who is unlawfully present in the United States. 
 
Authorizes the Secretary to contract with private entities for domestic transport from Border Patrol custody to detention facilities of aliens apprehended at or along U.S. international land or maritime borders. 
 
Prohibits the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) from contracting with a company that employs individuals unless the company has elected to participate in the basic pilot employment confirmation program (the E-verify program). 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-03-26
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Management, Investigations, and Oversight.
action_date: 2009-03-23
text: Referred to House Oversight and Government Reform
action_date: 2009-03-23
text: Referred to the Committee on Homeland Security, and in addition to the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, 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: 2009-03-23
text: Referred to House Homeland Security
action_date: 2009-03-23
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-03-23
text: Introduced in House
Federal Municipal Bond Marketing Support and Securitization Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-1669
Sponsor: Rep. Connolly, Gerald E. [D-VA-11]
Introduced: 2009-03-23 in the House
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: Credit and credit markets
Financial crises and stabilization
Government lending and loan guarantees
Intergovernmental relations
Securities
State and local finance

Summary:
action_date: 2009-03-23
text: 
Federal Municipal Bond Marketing Support and Securitization Act of 2009 - Requires the Secretary of the Treasury and the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System to consult with each other for the purpose of: (1) finding solutions for the grave effects of the current financial crisis on the markets for municipal securities; and (2) cooperating in authorized activities to alleviate such effects on those markets.
 
Directs the Secretary to establish a program to: (1) purchase municipal securities; (2) issue securities backed by pools of municipal securities; and (3) provide credit enhancement or guarantees for municipal securities.
 
Authorizes the Federal Financing Bank to: (1) make commitments to purchase and sell any municipal security issued under a specified plan approved by the Secretary; (2) guarantee repayment of principal and interest on any municipal security issued under a plan approved by the Secretary; and (3) issue and sell instruments representing interests in a pool of municipal securities purchased by the Bank.
 
Prohibits the purchase or guarantee of a municipal security under this Act unless the Secretary has approved, prior to its issuance, the method, source, and timing of financing, as well as all terms and conditions.
 
States that municipal securities sold by the Secretary or the Bank under this Act, and instruments issued by the Secretary or the Bank that represent pools of municipal securities, may be insured as to the payment of principal or interest by the Secretary or the Bank, respectively.
 
Authorizes the Board to establish a credit facility to provide financial resources for the purchase of municipal securities by federal reserve banks or member banks or other persons.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-03-23
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2009-03-23
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E738-739)
action_date: 2009-03-23
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-03-23
text: Introduced in House
Community Choice Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-1670
Sponsor: Rep. Davis, Danny K. [D-IL-7]
Introduced: 2009-03-23 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Allied health services
Disability and paralysis
Health care coverage and access
Health care quality
Health programs administration and funding
Long-term, rehabilitative, and terminal care
Medicaid
Medicare

Summary:
action_date: 2009-03-23
text: 
Community Choice Act of 2009 - Amends title XIX (Medicaid) of the Social Security Act (SSA) to require state Medicaid plan coverage of community-based attendant services and supports for certain Medicaid-eligible individuals.
 
Outlines requirements for: (1) an enhanced federal medical assistance percentage (FMAP) for ongoing activities of early coverage states that enhance and promote the use of community-based attendant services and supports; and (2) increased federal financial participation for certain expenditures incurred by the state for the provision of such services and supports.
 
Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services to: (1) award grants to eligible states which have established a Consumer Task Force to assist the state in its development of real choice systems change initiatives; and (2) conduct a demonstration project for the purpose of evaluating service coordination and cost-sharing approaches with respect to the provision of community-based services and supports to dually eligible individuals.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-03-24
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2009-03-23
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2009-03-23
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-03-23
text: Introduced in House
Meth Mouth Prevention and Community Recovery Act

Bill: 111-hr-1671
Sponsor: Rep. Larsen, Rick [D-WA-2]
Introduced: 2009-03-23 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Dental care
Drug, alcohol, tobacco use
Health facilities and institutions
Health personnel
Health programs administration and funding
Health promotion and preventive care
Indian social and development programs
Medical education
Medical research
Minority health

Summary:
action_date: 2009-03-23
text: 
Meth Mouth Prevention and Community Recovery Act - Requires the Director of the Center for Substance Abuse Prevention to make grants to enable public and private nonprofit entities to determine whether educating youth about meth mouth (oral decay that is commonly associated with methamphetamine use) is an effective strategy for preventing or reducing methamphetamine use. Reserves a portion of appropriated funds for Indian tribes and tribal organizations.

Amends the Public Health Service Act to require the Secretary of Health and Human Services to expand and intensify the clinical research, health services research, and public health research on associations between substance use disorders, oral health, and the provision of dental care.

Requires the Secretary to study the effect methamphetamine use has on the demand for, and provision of, dental care.

Directs the Administrator of the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration to support training and offer technical assistance to ensure that dentists and allied dental personnel are prepared to: (1) recognize signs of alcohol or drug addiction; (2) discuss the nature of substance abuse as it relates to their area of expertise; (3) understand how certain dental therapies can affect the relapse potential of substance dependent patients; and (4) help those affected by a substance use disorder find appropriate treatment for their conditions.

Authorizes the Administrator to collaborate with professional accrediting bodies to develop and support substance abuse training courses for oral health professionals.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-03-24
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2009-03-23
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2009-03-23
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-03-23
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008 with respect to bonus payments.

Bill: 111-hr-1673
Sponsor: Rep. Lungren, Daniel E. [R-CA-3]
Introduced: 2009-03-23 in the House
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: Contracts and agency
Corporate finance and management
Financial crises and stabilization
Financial services and investments
Wages and earnings

Summary:
action_date: 2009-03-23
text: 
Amends the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008 (EESA) to repeal the statement that the prohibition against bonus, retention award, or incentive compensation to recipients under the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) shall not be construed to prohibit any bonus payment required to be paid pursuant to a written employment contract executed on or before February 11, 2009, as such valid employment contracts are determined by the Secretary of the Treasury (or designee).
 
(Thus makes no exceptions to the prohibition.)


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-03-23
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2009-03-23
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-03-23
text: Introduced in House
National Consumer Cooperative Bank Act Amendments of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-1674
Sponsor: Rep. Maloney, Carolyn B. [D-NY-14]
Introduced: 2009-03-23 in the House
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: Banking and financial institutions regulation
Federally chartered organizations
Financial services and investments

Summary:
action_date: 2009-03-23
text: 
National Consumer Cooperative Bank Act Amendments of 2009 - Amends the National Consumer Cooperative Bank Act to declare that a nonprofit corporation (established to succeed the abolished Office of Self-Help Development and Technical Assistance) shall be deemed to be a community development financial institution, unless the National Consumer Cooperative Bank or any of its affiliates participates in certain depository institution incentives under the Community Development Banking and Financial Institutions Act of 1994.

action_date: 2009-06-16
text: 

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

National Consumer Cooperative Bank Act Amendments of 2009 - Amends the National Consumer Cooperative Bank Act to declare that a nonprofit corporation (established to succeed the abolished Office of Self-Help Development and Technical Assistance) shall be deemed to be a community development financial institution, unless the National Consumer Cooperative Bank or any of its affiliates participates in certain depository institution incentives under the Community Development Banking and Financial Institutions Act of 1994.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-06-17
text: Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.
action_date: 2009-06-16
text: Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
action_date: 2009-06-16
text: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill Agreed to by voice vote. (text: CR H6832)
action_date: 2009-06-16
text: Passed/agreed to in House: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill Agreed to by voice vote.(text: CR H6832)
action_date: 2009-06-16
text: DEBATE - The House proceeded with forty minutes of debate on H.R. 1674.
action_date: 2009-06-16
text: Considered under suspension of the rules. (consideration: CR H6832-6833)
action_date: 2009-06-16
text: Mrs. Maloney moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill.
action_date: 2009-03-23
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2009-03-23
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-03-23
text: Introduced in House
Empowerment Zone, Renewal Community and Enterprise Community Enhancement Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-1677
Sponsor: Rep. Davis, Artur [D-AL-7]
Introduced: 2009-03-24 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Business investment and capital
Financial services and investments
Income tax credits
Income tax deductions
Income tax exclusion
Interest, dividends, interest rates
Rural conditions and development
Securities
Tax administration and collection, taxpayers
Urban and suburban affairs and development
Wages and earnings

Summary:
action_date: 2009-03-24
text: 
Empowerment Zone, Renewal Community and Enterprise Community Enhancement Act of 2009 - Amends Internal Revenue Code provisions relating to tax-preferred empowerment zones, rural enterprise communities, and renewal communities to: (1) extend the period of designation for such areas through 2015; (2) provide a safe harbor standard for employee residency requirements in empowerment zones; (3) eliminate certain residency requirements for the empowerment zone employment tax credit; (4) grant authority to expand the boundaries of empowerment zones and enterprise communities, including those located in rural areas; (5) allow carryovers of unused expensing allowances for enterprise zone businesses; (6) allow certain empowerment zone businesses to elect to receive payments in lieu of tax benefits; (7) allow federal guarantees and tax exemptions for enterprise zones and renewal communities; and (8) allow the issuance of tax-exempt rural enterprise community bonds and empowerment zone facility bonds.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-03-24
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2009-03-24
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-03-24
text: Introduced in House
Mitigating the Impact of Uncompensated Service and Time Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-1678
Sponsor: Rep. Bono Mack, Mary [R-CA-45]
Introduced: 2009-03-24 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Emergency medical services and trauma care
Health care costs and insurance
Health personnel
Income tax deductions
Women's health

Summary:
action_date: 2009-03-24
text: 
Mitigating the Impact of Uncompensated Service and Time Act of 2009 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow certain physicians a bad debt tax deduction for their costs in providing uncompensated care as required under the Social Security Act to emergency room patients and pregnant women in labor.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-03-24
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2009-03-24
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-03-24
text: Introduced in House
Long-Term Care Life Safety Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-1680
Sponsor: Rep. Arcuri, Michael A. [D-NY-24]
Introduced: 2009-03-24 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Fires
Health facilities and institutions
Health programs administration and funding
Long-term, rehabilitative, and terminal care

Summary:
action_date: 2009-03-24
text: 
Long-Term Care Life Safety Act of 2009 - Requires the Secretary of Health and Human Services to establish a program to award grants to nursing homes, hospice facilities, assisted living facilities, residential care program facilities, board and care facilities and other appropriate facilities for the purpose of retrofitting such facilities with a professionally installed fire alarm detection system or other fire detection and prevention technology. Requires the Secretary to give priority to applicants that demonstrate a need or hardship. Allows the Secretary to consider such factors as the age and condition of the facilities, the need for facility beds in the community involved, and requirements imposed on the applicant to meet fire safety regulations under Medicare, Medicaid, other federal programs, or state or local licensing or building code standards.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-03-25
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2009-03-24
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2009-03-24
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-03-24
text: Introduced in House