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To amend the Act of August 21, 1957, to allocate funds from certain electric power sales from the Niagara Power Project in New York to capital needs of Western New York, and for other purposes.

Bill: 111-hr-2133
Sponsor: Rep. Higgins, Brian [D-NY-27]
Introduced: 2009-04-28 in the House
Policy area: Energy
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Dams and canals
Department of Energy
Electric power generation and transmission
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC)
Government corporations and government-sponsored enterprises
Health facilities and institutions
Intergovernmental relations
Museums, exhibitions, cultural centers
Navigation, waterways, harbors
New York State
Parks, recreation areas, trails
Public utilities and utility rates
Seashores and lakeshores
State and local government operations
Urban and suburban affairs and development
Water resources funding

Summary:
action_date: 2009-04-28
text: 
Authorizes Niagara, Erie, and Chautauqua Counties, New York, to establish a Regional Development Corporation. 
 
Requires submission to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) for approval of any agreement to establish the Corporation.
 
Limits the use of Corporation funds to construction, engineering, architecture, and related projects for the development of the waterfront in Niagara, Chautauqua, and Erie Counties, the Erie Canal Harbor Development Corporation, the Olmsted Park system, regional cultural institutions in Niagara, Chautauqua, and Erie Counties, downtown Niagara Falls redevelopment initiatives, and the Buffalo Niagara Medical campus.
 
Requires transfer to the Corporation by the New York Power Authority of all unused proceeds from the sale of electric power generated by the Niagara Power Project and allocated to the replacement power and expansion power programs.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-04-29
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Environment.
action_date: 2009-04-28
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2009-04-28
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-04-28
text: Introduced in House
To amend section 254 of the Communications Act of 1934 to provide that funds received as universal service contributions and the universal service support programs established pursuant to that section are not subject to certain provisions of title 31, United States Code, commonly known as the Antideficiency Act.

Bill: 111-hr-2135
Sponsor: Rep. Rehberg, Denny [R-MT-At Large]
Introduced: 2009-04-28 in the House
Policy area: Science, Technology, Communications
Subjects: Appropriations
Educational facilities and institutions
Elementary and secondary education
Internet and video services
Internet, web applications, social media
Libraries and archives
Telecommunication rates and fees

Summary:
action_date: 2009-04-28
text: 
Amends the Communications Act of 1934 to make federal provisions which prohibit the obligation or expenditure of funds either in excess of appropriated amounts or in violation of sequestration orders under the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1986 inapplicable to: (1) any amount collected or received as federal universal service contributions; or (2) the expenditure or obligation of amounts attributable to such contributions.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-04-29
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Communications, Technology, and the Internet.
action_date: 2009-04-28
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2009-04-28
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-04-28
text: Introduced in House
Routine HIV Screening Coverage Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-2137
Sponsor: Rep. Waters, Maxine [D-CA-35]
Introduced: 2009-04-28 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Employee benefits and pensions
Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management
HIV/AIDS
Health care costs and insurance
Health care coverage and access
Medical tests and diagnostic methods

Summary:
action_date: 2009-04-28
text: 
Routine HIV Screening Coverage Act of 2009 - Amends the Public Health Service Act, the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA), and the Internal Revenue Code to require a group health plan to provide coverage for routine HIV screening under terms and conditions no less favorable than for other routine screenings. Prohibits such a plan from taking specified actions to avoid the requirements of this Act.
 
Applies such requirements to health insurance coverage offered in the individual market and coverage offered under the Federal Employees Health Benefits Program (FEHBP).


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-06-04
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2009-04-29
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2009-04-28
text: Referred to House Oversight and Government Reform
action_date: 2009-04-28
text: Referred to House Ways and Means
action_date: 2009-04-28
text: Referred to House Education and Labor
action_date: 2009-04-28
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Education and Labor, Ways and Means, and 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: 2009-04-28
text: Referred to House Energy and Commerce
action_date: 2009-04-28
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-04-28
text: Introduced in House
SERV Act

Bill: 111-hr-2138
Sponsor: Rep. Kennedy, Patrick J. [D-RI-1]
Introduced: 2009-04-28 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Criminal procedure and sentencing
Drug, alcohol, tobacco use
Juvenile crime and gang violence
Law enforcement administration and funding
Mental health
Specialized courts
Veterans' education, employment, rehabilitation
Veterans' medical care

Summary:
action_date: 2009-04-28
text: 
Services, Education, and Rehabilitation for Veterans Act or the SERV Act - Requires the Director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy to delegate to the Department of Justice (DOJ) the authority to administer the veteran's treatment courts program established by this Act.
 
Authorizes the Attorney General to make grants to states and other entities: (1) to develop, implement, or enhance veteran's treatment courts or to expand operational drug courts to serve veterans; and (2) for programs that involve continuing judicial supervision over nonviolent offenders with substance abuse or mental health problems who have served in the U.S. military. Requires such programs to include mandatory periodic testing for the use of drugs, substance abuse and mental health treatment, opportunities for diversion, probation, or supervised release, and programmatic, offender management, and aftercare services. 
 
Directs the National Drug Court Institute to conduct national training programs for state and local communities to improve the professional skills of drug court practitioners and provide comprehensive technical assistance to adult, juvenile, and family dependency drug courts.
 

 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-05-26
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Courts and Competition Policy.
action_date: 2009-04-28
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2009-04-28
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-04-28
text: Introduced in House
Initiating Foreign Assistance Reform Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-2139
Sponsor: Rep. Berman, Howard L. [D-CA-28]
Introduced: 2009-04-28 in the House
Policy area: International Affairs
Subjects: Disaster relief and insurance
Economic development
Foreign aid and international relief
Government information and archives
Performance measurement

Summary:
action_date: 2009-04-28
text: 
Initiating Foreign Assistance Reform Act of 2009 - Directs the President to develop and implement: (1) a National Strategy for Global Development to further the U.S. foreign policy objective of reducing poverty and contributing to economic growth in developing countries, including responding to humanitarian crises; and (2) a system to monitor and evaluate the effectiveness of U.S. foreign assistance.
 
Expresses the sense of Congress that American taxpayers and foreign assistance recipients should have, to the maximum extent practicable, full access to U.S. foreign assistance information.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-04-28
text: Referred to the House Committee on Foreign Affairs.
action_date: 2009-04-28
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E1002)
action_date: 2009-04-28
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-04-28
text: Introduced in House
Parimutuel Conformity and Equality Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-2140
Sponsor: Rep. Yarmuth, John A. [D-KY-3]
Introduced: 2009-04-28 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Gambling
Tax administration and collection, taxpayers

Summary:
action_date: 2009-04-28
text: 
Parimutuel Conformity and Equality Act of 2009 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to eliminate withholding of tax requirements on certain proceeds in a parimutuel pool.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-04-28
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2009-04-28
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-04-28
text: Introduced in House
Interagency Council on Homelessness Reform Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-2141
Sponsor: Rep. Cohen, Steve [D-TN-9]
Introduced: 2009-04-28 in the House
Policy area: Housing and Community Development
Subjects: Executive agency funding and structure
Homelessness and emergency shelter
Housing and community development funding
Interagency Council on Homelessness
Intergovernmental relations
Public-private cooperation
State and local government operations

Summary:
action_date: 2009-04-28
text: 
Interagency Council on Homelessness Reform Act of 2009 - Amends the McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act to declare that the mission of the U.S. Interagency Council on Homelessness is to: (1) coordinate the federal response to homelessness; and (2) create a national partnership at every level of government and with the private sector to reduce and end homelessness in the nation while maximizing the effectiveness of federal contributions to end homelessness.
 
Adds to the membership of such Council the Commissioner of Social Security, the U.S. Attorney General, and the Director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), or their respective designees.
 
Requires: (1) the Council to meet quarterly (currently, annually); and (2) rotation of the position of Chairperson and Vice Chairperson at the first meeting of each year.
 
Requires the President (currently, the Council) to appoint an Executive Director of the Council, with the advice and consent of the Senate, to serve at the pleasure of the President
 
Directs the Council to develop, make available for public comment, and submit to the President and Congress a biennial national plan to end homelessness for all Americans.
 
Requires the Council to: (1) develop constructive alternatives to criminalizing homelessness and eliminate laws and policies that prohibit sleeping, feeding, sitting, resting, or lying in public spaces when there are no suitable alternatives; (2) evaluate the federal role in interacting and coordinating with state and local entities that address homelessness; and (3) conduct research and develop methods to improve pre-existing coordination between it and federal agencies.
 

 



Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-04-28
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2009-04-28
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-04-28
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow the Secretary of the Treasury to not impose a penalty for failure to disclose reportable transactions when there is reasonable cause for such failure, to modify such penalty, and for other purposes.

Bill: 111-hr-2143
Sponsor: Rep. Donnelly, Joe [D-IN-2]
Introduced: 2009-04-28 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Tax administration and collection, taxpayers

Summary:
action_date: 2009-04-28
text: 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) allow a waiver of the penalty for failure to disclose reportable transactions (i.e., transactions which have a potential for tax avoidance or evasion) if such failure is due to reasonable cause and not due to willful neglect; (2) revise the amount of the penalty for such failure; and (3) limit the imposition of such penalty to the taxpayer (currently, any person).
 
Reaffirms the authority of the Commissioner of Internal Revenue to rescind all or any portion of the penalty for failure to furnish information regarding reportable transactions.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-04-28
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2009-04-28
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-04-28
text: Introduced in House
Highway Fairness and Reform Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-2144
Sponsor: Rep. Flake, Jeff [R-AZ-6]
Introduced: 2009-04-28 in the House
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Government trust funds
Motor carriers
Roads and highways
Transportation programs funding
Transportation safety and security

Summary:
action_date: 2009-04-28
text: 
Highway Fairness and Reform Act of 2009 - Directs the Secretary of Transportation, beginning with FY2011, to carry out a direct federal-aid highway program to permit a state governor or chief executive officer, at least 90 days before the beginning of a fiscal year, to elect to: (1) waive the state's right to receive apportioned or allocated funds under the federal-aid highway program; and (2) receive instead a prorated amount of the taxes appropriated to the Highway Trust Fund (other than from the Mass Transit Account) which are attributable to highway users in the state. Requires a pro rata reduction of such tax-equivalent amount in order to fund contract authority for programs of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) and the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA).
 
 
Requires the Secretary to accept a state's election if: (1) the state has an interstate maintenance program; (2) it submits a plan describing the purposes, projects, and uses to which such amounts will be put and the federal-aid highway programmatic requirements the state elects to continue; (3) the state agrees to obligate program amounts exclusively for projects that would be eligible for surface transportation program funding; and (4) it continues to suballocate surface transportation program funds to urbanized and other areas using certain formulae and rules.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-04-29
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Highways and Transit.
action_date: 2009-04-28
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2009-04-28
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-04-28
text: Introduced in House
Windfall Elimination Provision Relief Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-2145
Sponsor: Rep. Frank, Barney [D-MA-4]
Introduced: 2009-04-28 in the House
Policy area: Social Welfare
Subjects: Social security and elderly assistance

Summary:
action_date: 2009-04-28
text: 
Windfall Elimination Provision Relief Act of 2009 - Amends title II (Old Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance) (OASDI) of the Social Security Act to: (1) restrict the application of the windfall elimination requirement to individuals whose combined monthly income from the primary OASDI insurance amount and the portion of the monthly periodic payment attributable to noncovered service performed after 1956 exceeds the cost-of-living adjusted amount of $2,500; and (2) provide for a graduated implementation of such requirement on amounts above such threshold by applying applicable percentages determined according to a specified formula.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-04-28
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2009-04-28
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-04-28
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to extend the additional standard deduction for State and local real property taxes.

Bill: 111-hr-2146
Sponsor: Rep. Halvorson, Deborah L. [D-IL-11]
Introduced: 2009-04-28 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Income tax deductions
State and local taxation

Summary:
action_date: 2009-04-28
text: 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to extend through 2011 the standard deduction for state and local real property taxes.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-04-28
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2009-04-28
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-04-28
text: Introduced in House
Global Warming Economic Oversight Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-2147
Sponsor: Rep. Hodes, Paul W. [D-NH-2]
Introduced: 2009-04-28 in the House
Policy area: Energy
Subjects: Advisory bodies
Air quality
Alternative and renewable resources
Climate change and greenhouse gases
Congressional oversight
Economic performance and conditions
Employment and training programs
Public contracts and procurement
Small business

Summary:
action_date: 2009-04-28
text: 
Global Warming Economic Oversight Act of 2009 - Establishes the Global Warming Economic Oversight Commission to conduct ongoing oversight of, and report to the appropriate congressional committees on, the use by the federal government of funds from any auction or sale of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions allowances.
 
Requires the Commission to focus on the use of funds to: (1) create new jobs in industries that produce renewable energy; (2) preserve jobs in existing, previously carbon-intensive industries; (3) assist working families with any increases in the costs of energy, transportation, housing, health care, food, and other necessities that result from federal laws designed to limit GHG emissions; and (4) assist small businesses with increases in energy costs that result from such laws, including costs relating to transportation, facilities, and equipment.
 



Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-04-29
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Environment.
action_date: 2009-04-28
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2009-04-28
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-04-28
text: Introduced in House
SMA Treatment Acceleration Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-2149
Sponsor: Rep. Kennedy, Patrick J. [D-RI-1]
Introduced: 2009-04-28 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Department of Health and Human Services
Executive agency funding and structure
Government information and archives
Health information and medical records
Health programs administration and funding
Medical education
Medical research
Musculoskeletal and skin diseases
National Institutes of Health (NIH)
Neurological disorders
Research administration and funding

Summary:
action_date: 2009-04-28
text: 
SMA Treatment Acceleration Act of 2009 - Amends the Public Health Service Act to require the Director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to establish a national clinical trials network for spinal muscular atrophy by upgrading and unifying spinal muscular atrophy clinical trial sites and recruiting new investigators and sites. Requires the Director to ensure that such network: (1) conducts coordinated, multisite, clinical trials of therapies and clinical approaches to the treatment of spinal muscular atrophy; and (2) rapidly and efficiently disseminates scientific findings to the field.
 
Requires the Director to: (1) establish a data coordinating center with respect to spinal muscular atrophy; and (2) expand and intensify NIH programs with respect to preclinical translation research related to spinal muscular atrophy.
 
Requires the Secretary of Health and Human Services, acting through the Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), to enhance and support a spinal muscular atrophy patient registry to provide for expanded epidemiological research towards improving awareness, management, treatment, and prevention of spinal muscular atrophy. Requires the Secretary to ensure the collection and analysis of longitudinal data related to individuals of all ages.
 
Directs the Secretary to establish the Interagency Spinal Muscular Atrophy Research Coordinating Committee. Sets forth the duties of the Committee, including to develop a comprehensive strategy related to spinal muscular atrophy research and other related neurological diseases and disorders.
 
Requires the Secretary to establish a program to provide information and education on spinal muscular atrophy to health professionals and the general public.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-04-29
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2009-04-28
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2009-04-28
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E993)
action_date: 2009-04-28
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-04-28
text: Introduced in House
To increase the amount of direct loans that may be provided by the Secretary of Energy to improve facilities for advanced technology vehicles manufacturing.

Bill: 111-hr-2150
Sponsor: Rep. Levin, Sander M. [D-MI-12]
Introduced: 2009-04-28 in the House
Policy area: Energy
Subjects: Air quality
Climate change and greenhouse gases
Energy efficiency and conservation
Government lending and loan guarantees
Hybrid, electric, and advanced technology vehicles
Industrial facilities
Manufacturing

Summary:
action_date: 2009-04-28
text: 
Amends the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007 to increase the amount of loans the Secretary of Energy may provide for facility funding under the advanced technology vehicles manufacturing incentive program from $25 billion to $50 billion.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-04-29
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Environment.
action_date: 2009-04-28
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2009-04-28
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-04-28
text: Introduced in House