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Social Security Caregiver Credit Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-769
Sponsor: Rep. Lowey, Nita M. [D-NY-18]
Introduced: 2009-01-28 in the House
Policy area: Social Welfare
Subjects: Adult day care
Aging
Child care and development
Disability and paralysis
Family relationships
Social security and elderly assistance
Wages and earnings

Summary:
action_date: 2009-01-28
text: 
Social Security Caregiver Credit Act of 2009 - Amends title II (Old Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance) (OASDI) of the Social Security Act with respect to determining entitlement to and the amount of any monthly benefit, including any lump-sum death payment, payable under OASDI on the basis of the wages and self-employment income of any individual. Deems such an individual to have been paid a wage (according to a specified formula) during each month during which the individual was engaged for at least 80 hours in providing care to a dependent relative without monetary compensation for up to five years of such service. Makes this Act inapplicable in the case of any monthly benefit or lump-sum death payment if a larger benefit or payment would be payable without its application. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-01-28
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2009-01-28
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-01-28
text: Introduced in House
To amend title II of the Social Security Act to repeal the 7-year restriction on eligibility for widow's and widower's insurance benefits based on disability.

Bill: 111-hr-770
Sponsor: Rep. Lowey, Nita M. [D-NY-18]
Introduced: 2009-01-28 in the House
Policy area: Social Welfare
Subjects: Disability and paralysis
Social security and elderly assistance

Summary:
action_date: 2009-01-28
text: 

 
 
Amends title II (Old Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance) (OASDI) of the Social Security Act to repeal the seven-year restriction on eligibility for widow's and widower's insurance benefits based on disability.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-01-28
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2009-01-28
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-01-28
text: Introduced in House
To amend title II of the Social Security Act to eliminate the two-year waiting period for divorced spouse's benefits following the divorce.

Bill: 111-hr-771
Sponsor: Rep. Lowey, Nita M. [D-NY-18]
Introduced: 2009-01-28 in the House
Policy area: Social Welfare
Subjects: Social security and elderly assistance

Summary:
action_date: 2009-01-28
text: 
Amends title II (Old Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance) (OASDI) of the Social Security Act to eliminate the two-year waiting period following a divorce for a divorced spouse to become entitled to a spouse's OASDI benefits.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-01-28
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2009-01-28
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-01-28
text: Introduced in House
To amend title II of the Social Security Act to provide for full benefits for disabled widows and widowers without regard to age.

Bill: 111-hr-772
Sponsor: Rep. Lowey, Nita M. [D-NY-18]
Introduced: 2009-01-28 in the House
Policy area: Social Welfare
Subjects: Disability and paralysis
Marriage and family status
Social security and elderly assistance

Summary:
action_date: 2009-01-28
text: 
Amends title II (Old Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance) (OASDI) of the Social Security Act to provide for full benefits for disabled widows and widowers without regard to age or any previous reduction in OASDI benefits.
 
Declares that there shall be no reduction in the widow's or widower's insurance benefit of an individual for any month in which such individual is under a disability. 
 

 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-01-28
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2009-01-28
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-01-28
text: Introduced in House
To amend title II of the Social Security Act to provide for increases in widow's and widower's insurance benefits by reason of delayed retirement.

Bill: 111-hr-773
Sponsor: Rep. Lowey, Nita M. [D-NY-18]
Introduced: 2009-01-28 in the House
Policy area: Social Welfare
Subjects: Social security and elderly assistance

Summary:
action_date: 2009-01-28
text: 
Amends title II (Old Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance) (OASDI) of the Social Security Act to provide for: (1) increases in widow's and widower's insurance benefits by reason of delayed retirement; and (2) the treatment of delayed retirement in cases of simultaneous entitlement to OASDI benefits and widow's or widower's insurance benefits.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-01-28
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2009-01-28
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-01-28
text: Introduced in House
Military Surviving Spouses Equity Act

Bill: 111-hr-775
Sponsor: Rep. Ortiz, Solomon P. [D-TX-27]
Introduced: 2009-01-28 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Military personnel and dependents
Veterans' pensions and compensation

Summary:
action_date: 2009-01-28
text: Military Surviving Spouses Equity Act - Repeals certain provisions which require the offset of amounts paid in dependency and indemnity compensation from Survivor Benefit Plan (SBP) annuities for the surviving spouses of former military personnel who are entitled to military retired pay or who would be entitled to retired pay except for being under 60 years of age. 
 Prohibits requiring repayment of certain amounts previously paid to SBP recipients in the form of a retired pay refund. 
Repeals the optional authority of (and instead requires) the Secretary of the military department concerned to pay an annuity to a member's dependent children when there is no eligible surviving spouse. 
Directs the Secretary concerned to restore annuity eligibility to a surviving spouse who earlier agreed to transfer such eligibility to a surviving child or children of a member.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-03-15
text: Motion to Discharge Committee filed by Mr. Jones. Petition No: 111-10. (<a href="http://clerk.house.gov/111/lrc/pd/Petitions/Dis10.htm">Discharge petition</a> text with signatures.)
action_date: 2009-02-17
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Military Personnel.
action_date: 2009-01-28
text: Referred to the House Committee on Armed Services.
action_date: 2009-01-28
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-01-28
text: Introduced in House
Toxic Right-to-Know Protection Act

Bill: 111-hr-776
Sponsor: Rep. Pallone, Frank, Jr. [D-NJ-6]
Introduced: 2009-01-28 in the House
Policy area: Environmental Protection
Subjects: Environmental regulatory procedures
Government information and archives
Hazardous wastes and toxic substances

Summary:
action_date: 2009-01-28
text: 
Toxic Right-to-Know Protection Act - Amends the Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know Act of 1986 to repeal provisions authorizing the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to modify the frequency of submitting toxic chemical release forms.
 
Requires the Administrator to establish the eligibility threshold regarding the use of a form A certification statement under the toxic release inventory program at not greater than 500 pounds for nonpersistent bioaccumulative and toxic chemicals. Prohibits the use of such form with respect to any chemical of special concern identified by the Administrator. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-02-02
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Environment.
action_date: 2009-01-28
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2009-01-28
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-01-28
text: Introduced in House
To prohibit the Administrator of the Federal Emergency Management Agency from updating flood maps until the Administrator submits to Congress a community outreach plan, and for other purposes.

Bill: 111-hr-777
Sponsor: Rep. Pallone, Frank, Jr. [D-NJ-6]
Introduced: 2009-01-28 in the House
Policy area: Emergency Management
Subjects: Disaster relief and insurance
Income tax credits
Natural disasters

Summary:
action_date: 2009-01-28
text: 
Prohibits the Administrator of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) from updating a floodplain area or flood-risk zone under the National Flood Insurance Act of 1968 until the Administrator submits a community outreach plan to Congress.

Amends the Internal Revenue Code to provide for a credit equal to the premium paid by the taxpayer for flood insurance covering any residential property which is a qualified flood risk property, subject to an income-based limitation. Defines &quot;qualified flood risk property&quot; as a residential property: (1) that is located in a floodplain area or flood-risk zone depicted on a flood insurance rate map revised and updated pursuant to such Act; (2) that was outside of any floodplain area or flood-risk zone prior to such revision; and (3) that the taxpayer owned on the date such map became effective or the purchase or construction of which by the taxpayer was subject to a binding written contract on such date.

Makes this Act applicable to any flood insurance rate map that becomes effective pursuant to such Act. Provides that if a refund or credit of any overpayment resulting from this Act is prevented at any time before one year after enactment of this Act, such refund or credit may occur if the claim is filed before the close of that period.

Amends such Act to require the community rating system program to provide grants to communities for projects to improve the rating of communities under the program.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-01-28
text: Referred to House Ways and Means
action_date: 2009-01-28
text: Referred to the Committee on Financial Services, 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: 2009-01-28
text: Referred to House Financial Services
action_date: 2009-01-28
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-01-28
text: Introduced in House
To authorize the interstate traffic of unpasteurized milk and milk products that are packaged for direct human consumption.

Bill: 111-hr-778
Sponsor: Rep. Paul, Ron [R-TX-14]
Introduced: 2009-01-28 in the House
Policy area: Agriculture and Food
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Agricultural marketing and promotion
Civil actions and liability
Food supply, safety, and labeling

Summary:
action_date: 2009-01-28
text: 
Prohibits any federal department, agency, or court from taking any action (administrative, civil, criminal, or otherwise) that would prohibit, interfere with, regulate, or otherwise restrict the interstate traffic of milk, or a milk product, that is unpasteurized and packaged for direct human consumption, solely on the basis that the milk or milk product is unpasteurized and is therefore adulterated, misbranded, or otherwise in violation of federal law.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-02-02
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2009-01-28
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2009-01-28
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E160)
action_date: 2009-01-28
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-01-28
text: Introduced in House
Tax Free Tips Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-779
Sponsor: Rep. Paul, Ron [R-TX-14]
Introduced: 2009-01-28 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Employment taxes
Income tax exclusion
Wages and earnings

Summary:
action_date: 2009-01-28
text: 
Tax Free Tips Act of 2009 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to exempt tips from the income tax, social security and railroad retirement taxes, unemployment taxes, and tax withholding. Defines &quot;tips&quot; as any gratuity provided to a salaried employee by a customer or client of the employer's business. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-01-28
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2009-01-28
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E167)
action_date: 2009-01-28
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-01-28
text: Introduced in House
Student Internet Safety Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-780
Sponsor: Rep. Putnam, Adam H. [R-FL-12]
Introduced: 2009-01-28 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Child safety and welfare
Computer security and identity theft
Crimes against children
Education programs funding
Elementary and secondary education
Internet and video services
Internet, web applications, social media
Pornography

Summary:
action_date: 2009-01-28
text: 
Student Internet Safety Act of 2009 - Amends the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to allow local educational agencies to use state subgrants under the Enhancing Education through Technology program and the Safe and Drug-Free Schools and Communities program to develop and implement programs promoting safe internet use by students.

action_date: 2009-06-16
text: 
Student Internet Safety Act of 2009 - Amends the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to allow local educational agencies to use state subgrants under the Enhancing Education through Technology program and the Safe and Drug-Free Schools and Communities program to develop and implement programs promoting safe internet use by students.
 
Includes among such programs, those that: (1) educate students about appropriate online behavior; (2) protect students against online predators, cyberbullying, or unwanted exposure to inappropriate material; or (3) promote parental involvement in their children's internet use.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-06-17
text: Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2009-06-16
text: The title of the measure was amended. Agreed to without objection.
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, as amended Agreed to by the Yeas and Nays: (2/3 required): 416 - 0 (Roll no. 341). (text: CR 06/15/2009 H6766)
action_date: 2009-06-16
text: Passed/agreed to in House: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended Agreed to by the Yeas and Nays: (2/3 required): 416 - 0 (Roll no. 341).(text: CR 06/15/2009 H6766)
action_date: 2009-06-16
text: Considered as unfinished business. (consideration: CR H6846-6847)
action_date: 2009-06-15
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: 2009-06-15
text: DEBATE - The House proceeded with forty minutes of debate on H.R. 780.
action_date: 2009-06-15
text: Considered under suspension of the rules. (consideration: CR H6766-6767)
action_date: 2009-06-15
text: Mr. Sablan moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended.
action_date: 2009-01-28
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and Labor.
action_date: 2009-01-28
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-01-28
text: Introduced in House
Student Protection Act

Bill: 111-hr-781
Sponsor: Rep. Putnam, Adam H. [R-FL-12]
Introduced: 2009-01-28 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Crimes against children
Criminal investigation, prosecution, interrogation
Criminal justice information and records
Education programs funding
Elementary and secondary education
Government information and archives
State and local government operations
Teaching, teachers, curricula

Summary:
action_date: 2009-01-28
text: 
Student Protection Act - Requires that by FY2012 states have in effect laws and policies that require disciplining of any school, state, or local educational agency employee who, having reason to believe another employee has committed an act of sexual misconduct against a student, fails to report such act in the same manner the state requires the reporting of child abuse and neglect or, in the absence of such a requirement, as quickly as practicable.
 
Requires each state to have a single, statewide commission for receiving and documenting such reports that: (1) establishes policies for investigating and reporting such allegations; and (2) has a toll-free number that can be used anonymously to report such allegations.
 
Directs states to report to the Secretary of Education whenever an employee is terminated or punished on the basis of an act of sexual misconduct toward a student, including the reason such action was taken and the identification and last known address such individual.
 
Authorizes the Secretary to penalize noncompliant states by reducing their funding under the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 by up to 5%.
 
Directs the Secretary to maintain a national database that contains, at a minimum, the details this Act requires each state to report.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-01-28
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and Labor.
action_date: 2009-01-28
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-01-28
text: Introduced in House
Taxpayer Choice Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-782
Sponsor: Rep. Ryan, Paul [R-WI-1]
Introduced: 2009-01-28 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Capital gains tax
Income tax deductions
Income tax rates
Tax reform and tax simplification

Summary:
action_date: 2009-01-28
text: 
Taxpayer Choice Act of 2009 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) repeal the alternative minimum tax on individual taxpayers after 2008; and (2) allow taxpayers to elect an alternative income tax system.

Makes permanent the capital gains and dividends rate reductions enacted by the Jobs and Growth Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2001.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-01-28
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2009-01-28
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-01-28
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Internal Revenue Code to make permanent the credit for increasing research activities.

Bill: 111-hr-783
Sponsor: Rep. Sensenbrenner, F. James, Jr. [R-WI-5]
Introduced: 2009-01-28 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Income tax credits
Research and development

Summary:
action_date: 2009-01-28
text: 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to make the tax credit for increasing research activities permanent.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-01-28
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2009-01-28
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-01-28
text: Introduced in House
To amend title 38, United States Code, to direct the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to submit to Congress quarterly reports on vacancies in mental health professional positions in Department of Veterans Affairs medical facilities.

Bill: 111-hr-784
Sponsor: Rep. Tsongas, Niki [D-MA-5]
Introduced: 2009-01-28 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Department of Veterans Affairs
Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management
Health personnel
Mental health
Veterans' medical care

Summary:
action_date: 2009-01-28
text: 
Directs the Secretary to report quarterly to Congress describing any vacancy in a mental health professional position at any medical facility of the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA).


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-03-03
text: Subcommittee Hearings Held.
action_date: 2009-01-30
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2009-01-28
text: Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2009-01-28
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-01-28
text: Introduced in House
To direct the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to carry out a pilot program to provide outreach and training to certain college and university mental health centers relating to the mental health of veterans of Operation Iraqi Freedom and Operation Enduring Freedom, and for other purposes.

Bill: 111-hr-785
Sponsor: Rep. Tsongas, Niki [D-MA-5]
Introduced: 2009-01-28 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Afghanistan
Asia
Conflicts and wars
Health care coverage and access
Higher education
Iraq
Medical education
Mental health
Middle East
Military operations and strategy
Veterans' education, employment, rehabilitation
Veterans' medical care

Summary:
action_date: 2009-01-28
text: 
Directs the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to carry out a four-year pilot program to provide outreach and training services related to the mental health of veterans of Operations Iraqi Freedom and Enduring Freedom to counseling centers, student health or wellness centers, or student services centers at colleges or universities with large enrollments of such veterans.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-03-03
text: Subcommittee Hearings Held.
action_date: 2009-01-30
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2009-01-28
text: Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2009-01-28
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-01-28
text: Introduced in House
To make permanent the temporary increase in deposit insurance coverage, and for other purposes.

Bill: 111-hr-786
Sponsor: Rep. Frank, Barney [D-MA-4]
Introduced: 2009-02-02 in the House
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: Bank accounts, deposits, capital
Banking and financial institutions regulation
Government trust funds
User charges and fees

Summary:
action_date: 2009-02-02
text: 
Amends the Federal Deposit Insurance Act (FDIA) and the Federal Credit Union Act (FCUA) to redefine the standard maximum deposit insurance amount and the standard maximum share insurance amount as being $250,000, respectively (thus making such increase permanent). 
 
Amends the FDIA to: (1) extend from five years to eight years the period during which the restoration plan for the Deposit Insurance Fund (DIF) must rebuild its statutory reserve ratio; (2) increase to $100 billion the borrowing authority of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC); and (3) authorize the FDIC to impose special assessments upon depository institution holding companies to recover losses to the DIF.

action_date: 2009-02-23
text: 
Amends the Federal Deposit Insurance Act (FDIA) and the Federal Credit Union Act (FCUA) to redefine the standard maximum deposit insurance amount and the standard maximum share insurance amount as being $250,000, respectively (thus making such increase permanent). 
 
Amends the FDIA to: (1) extend from five years to eight years the period during which the restoration plan for the Deposit Insurance Fund (DIF) must rebuild its statutory reserve ratio; (2) increase to $100 billion the borrowing authority of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC); and (3) authorize the FDIC to impose special assessments upon depository institution holding companies to recover losses to the DIF.
 
Amends the FCUA to: (1) increase to $6 billion the borrowing authority of the National Credit Union Administration (NCUA); and (2) require the NCUA Board to establish a Share Insurance Fund (SIF) restoration plan whenever the Board projects that the SIF equity ratio will fall below, or the SIF equity ratio actually does fall below, the required minimum amount. Sets forth restoration plan requirements.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-02-23
text: Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 6.
action_date: 2009-02-23
text: Reported (Amended) by the Committee on Financial Services. H. Rept. 111-18.
action_date: 2009-02-23
text: Reported (Amended) by the Committee on Financial Services. H. Rept. 111-18.
action_date: 2009-02-04
text: Ordered to be Reported (Amended) by Voice Vote.
action_date: 2009-02-04
text: Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
action_date: 2009-02-02
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2009-02-02
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-02-02
text: Introduced in House