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Palo Alto Battlefield National Historical Park Boundary Expansion and Redesignation Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-279
Sponsor: Rep. Ortiz, Solomon P. [D-TX-27]
Introduced: 2009-01-07 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Conflicts and wars
Historic sites and heritage areas
Land transfers
Latin America
Mexico
Military history
Parks, recreation areas, trails
Texas

Summary:
action_date: 2009-01-07
text: 
Palo Alto Battlefield National Historical Park Boundary Expansion and Redesignation Act of 2009 - Redesignates the Palo Alto Battlefield National Historic Site (located in Brownsville, Texas, and dedicated to the preservation and interpretation of the Mexican-American War) as the &quot;Palo Alto Battlefield National Historical Park.&quot; 

Amends the Palo Alto Battlefield National Historic Site Act of 1991 to expand the boundaries of the Park to include certain land. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-02-04
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests and Public Lands.
action_date: 2009-01-07
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2009-01-07
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR H3750)
action_date: 2009-01-07
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-01-07
text: Introduced in House
Paterson Great Falls National Historical Park Act

Bill: 111-hr-280
Sponsor: Rep. Pascrell, Bill, Jr. [D-NJ-8]
Introduced: 2009-01-07 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Historic sites and heritage areas
New Jersey
Parks, recreation areas, trails
Sports and recreation facilities

Summary:
action_date: 2009-01-07
text: 
Paterson Great Falls National Historical Park Act - Establishes the Paterson Great Falls National Historical Park in New Jersey as a unit of the National Park System. 

Sets forth conditions concerning the establishment of the Park. 

 Sets forth provisions regarding the administration of the Park.

 Requires the Secretary of the Interior to complete a management plan for the Park. 

 Establishes the Paterson Great Falls National Historical Park Advisory Commission to advise the Secretary in the development of the management plan. 

 Directs the Secretary to complete a study regarding the preservation and interpretation of Hinchliffe Stadium as listed on the National Register of Historic Places, which shall include an assessment of the potential for listing it as a National Historic Landmark as well as options for maintaining its historic integrity. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-02-04
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests and Public Lands.
action_date: 2009-01-07
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2009-01-07
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E29-30)
action_date: 2009-01-07
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-01-07
text: Introduced in House
Transparency in Corporate Filings Act

Bill: 111-hr-281
Sponsor: Rep. Roskam, Peter J. [R-IL-6]
Introduced: 2009-01-07 in the House
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Broadcasting, cable, digital technologies
Business records
Corporate finance and management
Financial services and investments
Government information and archives
Internet and video services
Internet, web applications, social media
Securities
Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)

Summary:
action_date: 2009-01-07
text: 
Transparency in Corporate Filings Act - Amends the Securities Act of 1933, the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, and the Investment Company Act of 1940, with respect to mandatory public disclosures in either registration statements, prospectuses, reports, or broadcasts, to authorize the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to provide that a disclosure form, periodic report, or document need not be filed if the SEC has otherwise prescribed another means for public disclosure of such information (such as on a website).

Amends the Investment Company Act of 1940 to authorize the SEC to: (1) permit or require one or more alternative means of public disclosure (such as on a website) in lieu of, or in addition to, filing with the SEC or transmitting to security holders a registration statement, prospectus, application, report, account, record, or other document; and (2) determine whether any information so disclosed shall be deemed filed or transmitted under the Act.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-01-07
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2009-01-07
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-01-07
text: Introduced in House
Delay Congressional Pay Raise Act

Bill: 111-hr-282
Sponsor: Rep. Sestak, Joe [D-PA-7]
Introduced: 2009-01-07 in the House
Policy area: Congress
Subjects: Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management
Members of Congress

Summary:
action_date: 2009-01-07
text: 
Delay Congressional Pay Raise Act - Declares that no automatic pay adjustment shall be considered to have taken effect in FY2010 in the rates of basic pay for Members of Congress under the General Schedule (thus eliminating the pay adjustment for Members for such fiscal year).


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-01-07
text: Referred to House Oversight and Government Reform
action_date: 2009-01-07
text: Referred to the Committee on House Administration, 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: 2009-01-07
text: Referred to House Administration
action_date: 2009-01-07
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-01-07
text: Introduced in House
Hopewell Culture National Historical Park Boundary Adjustment Act

Bill: 111-hr-283
Sponsor: Rep. Space, Zachary T. [D-OH-18]
Introduced: 2009-01-07 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: General Native American affairs matters
Historic sites and heritage areas
Land transfers
Ohio
Parks, recreation areas, trails

Summary:
action_date: 2009-01-07
text: 
Hopewell Culture National Historical Park Boundary Adjustment Act - Modifies the boundary of the Hopewell Culture National Historical Park in Ohio to include certain lands marked for inclusion in the Park. Permits the acquisition of lands added under this Act only from willing sellers. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-02-04
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests and Public Lands.
action_date: 2009-01-07
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2009-01-07
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-01-07
text: Introduced in House
Battle of Camden Study Act

Bill: 111-hr-284
Sponsor: Rep. Spratt, John M., Jr. [D-SC-5]
Introduced: 2009-01-07 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Conflicts and wars
Europe
Government studies and investigations
Historic sites and heritage areas
Parks, recreation areas, trails
South Carolina
United Kingdom

Summary:
action_date: 2009-01-07
text: 
 Battle of Camden Study Act - Directs the Secretary of the Interior to complete a special resource study of the site of the Battle of Camden, South Carolina, and of Historic Camden, South Carolina, to determine the suitability and feasibility of designating such sites as a unit or units of the National Park System. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-02-04
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests and Public Lands.
action_date: 2009-01-07
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2009-01-07
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-01-07
text: Introduced in House
North Bay Water Reuse Program Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-285
Sponsor: Rep. Thompson, Mike [D-CA-1]
Introduced: 2009-01-07 in the House
Policy area: Water Resources Development
Subjects: California
Environmental assessment, monitoring, research
Intergovernmental relations
State and local finance
Water quality
Water resources funding
Water use and supply
Watersheds

Summary:
action_date: 2009-01-07
text: 
North Bay Water Reuse Program Act of 2009 - Amends the Reclamation Wastewater and Groundwater Study and Facilities Act to authorize the Secretary of the Interior, contingent upon a finding of feasibility and acting through a cooperative agreement with the state of California or a subdivision thereof, to enter into cooperative agreements with eligible entities in the North San Pablo Bay watershed located in Marin, Napa, Solano, and Sonoma Counties for the planning, design, and construction of water reclamation and reuse facilities and recycled water conveyance and distribution systems. 
 
Directs the Secretary and such an entity to use the design work and environmental evaluations initiated by non-federal entities and the Corps of Engineers in that watershed to the maximum extent practicable.

Requires any such cooperative agreement to require the program to be carried out in two phases, during which the Secretary and an entity shall complete the planning, design, and construction of: (1) the main treatment and main conveyance systems; and (2) the sub-regional distribution systems.
 
Limits the federal share to 25% of the total cost of the first phase of the project. Allows the non-federal share to be in the form of in-kind services that the Secretary determines would contribute substantially toward the completion of the water reclamation and reuse project. Prohibits the Secretary from providing funds for operation and maintenance of the project. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-02-04
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Water and Power.
action_date: 2009-01-07
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2009-01-07
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-01-07
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Dayton Aviation Heritage Preservation Act of 1992 to add sites to the Dayton Aviation Heritage National Historical Park, and for other purposes.

Bill: 111-hr-286
Sponsor: Rep. Turner, Michael R. [R-OH-3]
Introduced: 2009-01-07 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Aviation and airports
Historic sites and heritage areas
Industrial facilities
Land transfers
Museums, exhibitions, cultural centers
Ohio
Parks, recreation areas, trails

Summary:
action_date: 2009-01-07
text: 
Amends the Dayton Aviation Heritage Preservation Act of 1992 to provide for the acquisition and inclusion of certain additional sites to the Dayton Aviation Heritage National Historical Park.
 
Authorizes the Secretary of the Interior to make grants to partners of the Park, including the Aviation Trail, Inc., the Ohio Historical Society, and Dayton History, for projects not requiring federal involvement other than providing financial assistance, identifying the specific partner grantee and the specific project. Limits projects funded through these grants to construction and development on non-federal property within the boundaries of the Park. Instructs that any project funded by such grants support the purposes of the Park, be consistent with the Park's general management plan, and enhance public use and enjoyment of the park. 
 
Removes the Neil Armstrong Air & Space Museum, Wapakoneta, Ohio, from inclusion in the boundaries of the the National Aviation Heritage Area.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-02-04
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests and Public Lands.
action_date: 2009-01-07
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2009-01-07
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-01-07
text: Introduced in House
For relief of Enrique Soriano and Areli Soriano.

Bill: 111-hr-287
Sponsor: Rep. Green, Gene [D-TX-29]
Introduced: 2009-01-07 in the House
Policy area: Private Legislation

Summary:
action_date: 2009-01-07
text: 
Provides for the relief of Enrique Soriano and Areli Soriano.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-02-02
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration, Citizenship, Refugees, Border Security, and International Law.
action_date: 2009-01-07
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2009-01-07
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-01-07
text: Introduced in House
Save Our Children: Stop the Violent Predators Against Children DNA Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-288
Sponsor: Rep. Jackson-Lee, Sheila [D-TX-18]
Introduced: 2009-01-08 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Crime prevention
Crimes against children
Criminal justice information and records
Criminal procedure and sentencing
Government information and archives
Law enforcement administration and funding
State and local government operations
Violent crime

Summary:
action_date: 2009-01-08
text: 
Save Our Children: Stop the Violent Predators Against Children DNA Act of 2009 - Directs the Attorney General to establish and maintain a database solely for collecting DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid) information with respect to violent predators against children. Authorizes federal, state, and local agencies and other entities to submit DNA information for the database and to compare DNA information within the database. 

Directs the Attorney General to make grants to states to improve programs to decrease recidivism of such predators. 
Requires the maximum sentence to be imposed for a crime against an individual under age 18 that would, in and of itself, establish the offender as such a predator, without regard to any mitigating circumstance that would otherwise apply. 
Defines a &quot;violent predator against children&quot; as a person who commits a crime of violence (including a sex crime) against an individual under age of 18. Excludes a person who commits a sex crime against an individual who has not attained the age of 18 years if: (1) the individual against whom such crime was committed has attained 16 years of age or older; (2) the person who commits such crime is not more than four years older than such individual; and (3) the conduct resulting in the commission of such crime was consensual.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-01-08
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2009-01-08
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-01-08
text: Introduced in House
To authorize the President to posthumously award a gold medal on behalf of the Congress to the seven members of the crew of the space shuttle Columbia in recognition of their outstanding and enduring contributions to the Nation.

Bill: 111-hr-289
Sponsor: Rep. Jackson-Lee, Sheila [D-TX-18]
Introduced: 2009-01-08 in the House
Policy area: Science, Technology, Communications
Subjects: Congressional tributes
Space flight and exploration

Summary:
action_date: 2009-01-08
text: 
Authorizes the President to award a gold medal to each of the seven crew members who perished aboard the space shuttle Columbia: Rick D. Husband; Michael P. Anderson; Laurel Clark; David M. Brown; William C. McCool; Kapana Chawla; and Ilan Ramon. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-01-08
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2009-01-08
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-01-08
text: Introduced in House
Unemployment Insurance Modernization Act

Bill: 111-hr-290
Sponsor: Rep. McDermott, Jim [D-WA-7]
Introduced: 2009-01-08 in the House
Policy area: Labor and Employment
Subjects: Employment taxes
Government trust funds
Intergovernmental relations
State and local government operations
Unemployment

Summary:
action_date: 2009-01-08
text: 
Unemployment Insurance Modernization Act - Amends the Social Security Act to require the Secretary of Labor to make unemployment compensation modernization incentive payments in FY2008-FY2011 by certain transfers from the federal unemployment account to the accounts of the states in the Unemployment Trust Fund.
 
Prescribes a formula for determining the maximum allowable incentive payments.
 
Specifies requirements state law must meet for the state to qualify for such a payment.
 
Limits the use of transferred amounts to the payment of cash unemployment benefits to individuals (including for dependents' allowances and for unemployment compensation, exclusive of administrative expenses).
 
Requires the Secretary of the Treasury to reserve specified funds out of the federal unemployment account for such incentive payments.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-01-08
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2009-01-08
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-01-08
text: Introduced in House
Unemployment Supplemental Assistance Act

Bill: 111-hr-291
Sponsor: Rep. McDermott, Jim [D-WA-7]
Introduced: 2009-01-08 in the House
Policy area: Labor and Employment
Subjects: Intergovernmental relations
State and local government operations
Unemployment

Summary:
action_date: 2009-01-08
text: 
Unemployment Supplemental Assistance Act - Provides for federal-state agreements for increased regular unemployment compensation payments to individuals.
 
Requires federal payments to states to cover 100% of such additional payments.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-01-08
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2009-01-08
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-01-08
text: Introduced in House
Homeless Women Veterans and Homeless Veterans with Children Reintegration Grant Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-293
Sponsor: Rep. Buyer, Steve [R-IN-4]
Introduced: 2009-01-08 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Child care and development
Employment and training programs
Veterans' education, employment, rehabilitation
Veterans' loans, housing, homeless programs

Summary:
action_date: 2009-01-08
text: 
Homeless Women Veterans and Homeless Veterans with Children Reintegration Grant Act of 2009 - Directs the Secretary of Labor, subject to the availability of appropriations, to make grants to programs and facilities that provide dedicated services for homeless women veterans and homeless veterans with children. Requires grants to be used to provide job training, counseling, placement services, and child care services to expedite the reintegration of such veterans into the labor force.
 
Requires the Secretary to: (1) monitor the expenditure of funds under the grant program; and (2) carry out the program through the Assistant Secretary of Labor for Veterans' Employment and Training.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-01-09
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2009-01-08
text: Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2009-01-08
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E41-42)
action_date: 2009-01-08
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-01-08
text: Introduced in House
Veteran-Owned Small Business Promotion Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-294
Sponsor: Rep. Buyer, Steve [R-IN-4]
Introduced: 2009-01-08 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Business investment and capital
Department of Veterans Affairs
Disability and paralysis
Government buildings, facilities, and property
Government lending and loan guarantees
Interest, dividends, interest rates
National Guard and reserves
Public contracts and procurement
Small business
Terrorism
Veterans' education, employment, rehabilitation
Veterans' loans, housing, homeless programs

Summary:
action_date: 2009-01-08
text: 
Veteran-Owned Small Business Promotion Act of 2009 - Reinstates (under current law, terminated as of the end of FY1986) the veteran-owned small business loan program, under which the Secretary of Veterans Affairs may provide loans to veteran-owned small businesses for: (1) financing plant construction, conversion, or expansion; (2) financing the acquisition of equipment, facilities, machinery, supplies, or materials; or (3) supplying working capital.
 
Makes eligible for such loans small business owners who are veterans and have a disability rated at 10% (under current law, 30%) or more, and includes all veterans (under current law, limited to Vietnam era veterans and veterans discharged or released due to a disability incurred or aggravated in the line of duty).
 
Repeals the authority to make direct loans under the program (thereby allowing only loan guaranties).
 
Increases from $200,000 to $500,000 the maximum loan guaranty amount.
 
Authorizes the Secretary to subsidize a loan lender in order to reduce by up to 1/2% the interest rate paid by the veteran-owned small business.
 
Includes under a loan preference members of the National Guard and reserves activated in support of the Global War on Terrorism.
 
Limits performance bond requirements of veteran-owned small businesses with respect to the construction, alteration, or repair of any Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) public building or public work.
 
Treats a small business owned and controlled by veterans as a socially and economically disadvantaged small business for purposes of contracts awarded to the latter businesses under provisions of the Small Business Act.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-09-24
text: Subcommittee Hearings Held.
action_date: 2009-01-09
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Economic Opportunity.
action_date: 2009-01-08
text: Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2009-01-08
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E45-46)
action_date: 2009-01-08
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-01-08
text: Introduced in House
More Training for Veterans Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-295
Sponsor: Rep. Buyer, Steve [R-IN-4]
Introduced: 2009-01-08 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Department of Veterans Affairs
Employment and training programs
Executive agency funding and structure
Veterans' education, employment, rehabilitation

Summary:
action_date: 2009-01-08
text: 
More Training for Veterans Act of 2009 - Amends the Workforce Investment Act of 1998 to authorize appropriations for veterans' workforce investment programs.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-03-16
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Higher Education, Lifelong Learning, and Competitiveness.
action_date: 2009-01-08
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and Labor.
action_date: 2009-01-08
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E47)
action_date: 2009-01-08
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-01-08
text: Introduced in House