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Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-3933
Sponsor: Rep. Rangel, Charles B. [D-NY-15]
Introduced: 2009-10-27 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Bank accounts, deposits, capital
Foreign and international banking
Income tax deductions
Interest, dividends, interest rates
Tax administration and collection, taxpayers

Summary:
action_date: 2009-10-27
text: 
Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act of 2009 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to revise and add reporting and other requirements relating to income from assets held abroad, including by: (1) requiring foreign financial and nonfinancial institutions to withhold 30% of payments made to such institutions by U.S. individuals unless such institutions agree to disclose the identity of such individuals and report on their bank transactions; (2) denying a tax deduction for interest on non-registered bonds issued outside the United States; (3) requiring any individual who holds more than $50,000 in a depository or custodial account maintained by a foreign financial institution to report on such accounts; (4) imposing an enhanced tax penalty for underpayments attributable to undisclosed foreign financial assets; (5) extending the limitation period for assessment of underpayments with respect to assets held outside the United States; (6) requiring certain tax advisors who assist U.S. individuals in acquiring a direct or indirect interest in a foreign entity to file an information return disclosing the identity of the foreign entity and the individual investors; (7) requiring shareholders of a passive foreign investment company to file informational returns; (8) enhancing tax rules and penalties relating to foreign trusts with U.S. beneficiaries; and (9) requiring withholding of tax on dividend equivalent payments received by foreign individuals.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-10-27
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2009-10-27
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-10-27
text: Introduced in House
To amend title 5, United States Code, to require at least biennial review of the per diem allowances and the maximum reimbursement amounts established for official travel by Federal employees to localities that include, or that are adjacent to localities that include, certain military installations.

Bill: 111-hr-3934
Sponsor: Rep. Coble, Howard [R-NC-6]
Introduced: 2009-10-27 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management
Military facilities and property
Transportation costs
Travel and tourism

Summary:
action_date: 2009-10-27
text: 
Directs the Administrator of General Services (GSA), at least every two years, to review and, as appropriate, prescribe per diem allowances and maximum reimbursement amounts for federal employees traveling on official business for a locality that includes, or is adjacent to one that includes, a military installation within the continental United States. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-02-12
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Federal Workforce, Post Office, and the District of Columbia.
action_date: 2009-10-27
text: Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.
action_date: 2009-10-27
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-10-27
text: Introduced in House
Save Our Dairy Farmers Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-3935
Sponsor: Rep. LaTourette, Steven C. [R-OH-14]
Introduced: 2009-10-27 in the House
Policy area: Agriculture and Food
Subjects: Agricultural marketing and promotion
Agricultural prices, subsidies, credit
Food industry and services

Summary:
action_date: 2009-10-27
text: 
Save Our Dairy Farmers Act of 2009 - Establishes the temporary minimum price for Class II and Class III milk under federal milk marketing orders as: (1) $17.23 per hundredweight for Class II milk; and (2) $16.81 per hundredweight for Class III milk.
 
Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to report to Congress regarding dairy price stabilization options.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-06-18
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Livestock, Dairy, and Poultry.
action_date: 2009-10-27
text: Referred to the House Committee on Agriculture.
action_date: 2009-10-27
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-10-27
text: Introduced in House
Preserve Benefits and Jobs Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-3936
Sponsor: Rep. Pomeroy, Earl [D-ND-At Large]
Introduced: 2009-10-27 in the House
Policy area: Labor and Employment
Subjects: Bankruptcy
Business investment and capital
Employee benefits and pensions
Financial services and investments
Income tax deductions

Summary:
action_date: 2009-10-27
text: 
Preserve Benefits and Jobs Act of 2009 - Amends the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA) and the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) allow a sponsor of a single-employer defined benefit pension plan to elect in 2009 or 2010 extended amortization periods (9 or 15 years) for investment losses incurred in prior years; (2) allow an increase in the valuation range of plan assets; (3) use the funded status of a plan in 2008 to determine benefit restrictions in 2009 and 2010 and prohibit the use of credit balances by pension plans that are under 80% funded in the prior year; (4) exclude plan-related administrative expenses (including investment expenses) from normal cost targets; (5) delay until 2012 the application of certain benefit restrictions to collectively bargained plans; and (6) require a 120% funding target for plans adopting ad hoc amendments that allow lump sum benefits payments and increased plan liabilities.
 
Revises rules relating to information reporting and reportable events.
 
Calculates the amount of any pension plan guarantee by the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC) using the date of plan termination rather than the date of a plan bankruptcy filing.
 
Amends ERISA provisions relating to multiemployer pension plans to: (1) allow such plans to elect alternative amortization plans and valuation methods in 2009 and 2010 for investment losses; (2) extend by five years the funding improvement period for plans in endangered or critical status; (3) permit multiemployer plans to merge or form alliances with other plans; and (4) increase PBGC guarantees for insolvent plans to increase participant benefits. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-12-08
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2009-10-27
text: Referred to House Ways and Means
action_date: 2009-10-27
text: Referred to House Education and Labor
action_date: 2009-10-27
text: Referred to the Committee on Education and Labor, 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: 2009-10-27
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-10-27
text: Introduced in House
To suspend temporarily the duty on certain nonwoven polypropylene zippered sleeping bag carry cases, not under 77.5 cm in circumference and not exceeding 106.7 cm in circumference.

Bill: 111-hr-3938
Sponsor: Rep. Aderholt, Robert B. [R-AL-4]
Introduced: 2009-10-27 in the House
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Tariffs

Summary:
action_date: 2009-10-27
text: Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to suspend temporarily the duty on certain nonwoven polypropylene zippered sleeping bag carry cases, not under 77.5 cm in circumference and not exceeding 106.7 cm in circumference.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-10-27
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2009-10-27
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-10-27
text: Introduced in House
Truth in Trials Act

Bill: 111-hr-3939
Sponsor: Rep. Farr, Sam [D-CA-17]
Introduced: 2009-10-27 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Criminal procedure and sentencing
Drug trafficking and controlled substances
Evidence and witnesses
Prescription drugs
State and local government operations

Summary:
action_date: 2009-10-27
text: 
Truth in Trials Act - Amends the federal criminal code to: (1) allow any person on trial for a federal marijuana-related offense to introduce evidence that the alleged marijuana-related activities were performed in compliance with state law regarding the medical use of marijuana; (2) allow an affirmative defense to a marijuana prosecution that the alleged marijuana-related activities complied with state law regarding the medical use of marijuana; (3) limit the criminal liability of persons convicted of federal marijuana-related offenses; (4) require the preservation and return (if a defendant is acquitted) of property seized in connection with a marijuana prosecution; and (5) prohibit the seizure of plants grown or stored under a physician's recommendation or by order of a state or municipal agency in accordance with state law regarding the medical use of marijuana. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-10-27
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2009-10-27
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-10-27
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to eliminate the temporary increase in unemployment tax.

Bill: 111-hr-3941
Sponsor: Rep. Burgess, Michael C. [R-TX-26]
Introduced: 2009-10-27 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Employment taxes
Income tax rates

Summary:
action_date: 2009-10-27
text: 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to establish a permanent 6.0% tax rate on wages paid to employees under the Federal Insurance Contributions Act (FICA). 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-10-27
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2009-10-27
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-10-27
text: Introduced in House
Veterans Health Care Stamp Act

Bill: 111-hr-3942
Sponsor: Rep. Burgess, Michael C. [R-TX-26]
Introduced: 2009-10-27 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Postal service
Veterans' medical care

Summary:
action_date: 2009-10-27
text: 
Veterans Health Care Stamp Act - Requires the U.S. Postal Service to provide for the issuance and sale of a veterans health care stamp to help fund the medical care and treatment of veterans. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-10-30
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2009-10-27
text: Referred to House Veterans' Affairs
action_date: 2009-10-27
text: Referred to the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, and in addition to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2009-10-27
text: Referred to House Oversight and Government Reform
action_date: 2009-10-27
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-10-27
text: Introduced in House
Post 9/11 Troops to Teachers Enhancement Act

Bill: 111-hr-3943
Sponsor: Rep. Courtney, Joe [D-CT-2]
Introduced: 2009-10-27 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Advisory bodies
Education of the disadvantaged
Education programs funding
Elementary and secondary education
Higher education
Military personnel and dependents
National Guard and reserves
Teaching, teachers, curricula
Veterans' education, employment, rehabilitation

Summary:
action_date: 2009-10-27
text: 
Post 9/11 Troops to Teachers Enhancement Act - Amends the Troops-to-Teachers program of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (which provides veterans with teacher certification stipends in exchange for three years of service in a high-need local educational agency [LEA] or public charter school).
 
 Expands program eligibility to cover certain individuals: (1) who, on or after September 11, 2001, serve at least 90 continuous days on active duty in the Armed Forces before being honorably released from such service; or (2) who, on or after January 8, 2002, are separated or released from active duty after at least four (currently, six) years of continuous active duty immediately preceding such separation or release, and agree to serve in the Armed Forces Reserves for at least three years.
 
 Makes any LEA that is receiving school improvement funds eligible to host Troops-to-Teachers program participants.
 
Directs the Secretary of Education to establish an Advisory Board, composed of federal, state, and veteran service organization representatives, to collect, study, and disseminate feedback from the program and report to Congress on how the program is operating and might be improved.
 
Reserves specified funding to carry out the Troops-to-Teachers program through FY2014.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-12-08
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education.
action_date: 2009-11-05
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Military Personnel.
action_date: 2009-10-27
text: Referred to House Armed Services
action_date: 2009-10-27
text: Referred to the Committee on Education and Labor, and in addition to the Committee on Armed Services, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2009-10-27
text: Referred to House Education and Labor
action_date: 2009-10-27
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-10-27
text: Introduced in House
Let's Re-Up the Troops-to-Cops Program Act

Bill: 111-hr-3944
Sponsor: Rep. Filner, Bob [D-CA-51]
Introduced: 2009-10-27 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Law enforcement administration and funding
Law enforcement officers
Military facilities and property
Veterans' education, employment, rehabilitation

Summary:
action_date: 2009-10-27
text: 
Let's Re-Up the Troops-to-Cops Program Act - Amends the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 to allow public safety and community policing grants to be used, during the three-year period beginning on January 1, 2010, to hire former honorably-discharged members of the Armed Forces to serve as career law enforcement officers for community-oriented policing, particularly in communities that are adversely affected by a recent military base closing.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-01-04
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.
action_date: 2009-10-27
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2009-10-27
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-10-27
text: Introduced in House
To suspend temporarily the duty on Himic Anhydride.

Bill: 111-hr-3945
Sponsor: Rep. Spratt, John M., Jr. [D-SC-5]
Introduced: 2009-10-27 in the House
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Tariffs

Summary:
action_date: 2009-10-27
text: Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to suspend temporarily the duty on Himic Anhydride.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-10-27
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2009-10-27
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-10-27
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Federal Water Pollution Control Act to prohibit the sale of dishwashing detergent in the United States if the detergent contains a high level of phosphorus, and for other purposes.

Bill: 111-hr-3946
Sponsor: Rep. Stupak, Bart [D-MI-1]
Introduced: 2009-10-27 in the House
Policy area: Environmental Protection
Subjects: Congressional oversight
Environmental assessment, monitoring, research
Great Lakes
Retail and wholesale trades
Water quality

Summary:
action_date: 2009-10-27
text: 
Amends the Federal Water Pollution Control Act (commonly known as the Clean Water Act) to require the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to prohibit the sale in the United States of residential dishwashing detergent that contains phosphorus in any form in excess of 0.5% (by weight expressed as elemental phosphorus) beginning July 1, 2010.
 
Requires the Administrator to: (1) review the available scientific information pertaining to nutrient excesses in the Great Lakes; and (2) recommend to Congress actions to be taken by EPA to address such nutrient excesses.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-10-28
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment.
action_date: 2009-10-27
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2009-10-27
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-10-27
text: Introduced in House
Locomotive Fleet Investment Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-3947
Sponsor: Rep. Dahlkemper, Kathleen A. [D-PA-3]
Introduced: 2009-10-28 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Air quality
Income tax credits
Railroads

Summary:
action_date: 2009-10-28
text: 
Locomotive Fleet Investment Act of 2009 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow a business-related tax credit for 30% of the cost of qualified locomotive property. Defines &quot;qualified locomotive property&quot; as a newly built or remanufactured diesel line-haul, passenger, or switch locomotive (whether or not owned by a railroad) which is acquired after December 31, 2009, and which meets applicable standards under the Clean Air Act for emissions from locomotives, as in effect on December 31, 2009. Terminates such credit after December 31, 2013.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-10-28
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2009-10-28
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR H11983)
action_date: 2009-10-28
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-10-28
text: Introduced in House
Test Prep for Heroes Act

Bill: 111-hr-3948
Sponsor: Rep. Putnam, Adam H. [R-FL-12]
Introduced: 2009-10-28 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Academic performance and assessments
Higher education
User charges and fees
Veterans' education, employment, rehabilitation

Summary:
action_date: 2009-10-28
text: 
Test Prep for Heroes Act - Authorizes the use of entitlement assistance under the Post-9/11 veterans' educational assistance program for payment for a test preparatory course in connection with licensing or certification in a vocation or profession.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-03-10
text: Ordered to be Reported (Amended) by Voice Vote.
action_date: 2010-03-10
text: Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
action_date: 2010-03-04
text: Forwarded by Subcommittee to Full Committee (Amended) by Voice Vote .
action_date: 2010-03-04
text: Subcommittee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
action_date: 2010-03-04
text: Ordered to be Reported (Amended) by Voice Vote.
action_date: 2010-03-04
text: Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
action_date: 2010-02-25
text: Subcommittee Hearings Held.
action_date: 2009-10-30
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Economic Opportunity.
action_date: 2009-10-28
text: Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2009-10-28
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-10-28
text: Introduced in House
Improving Mathematics and Science Teacher Quality Act

Bill: 111-hr-3950
Sponsor: Rep. Ehlers, Vernon J. [R-MI-3]
Introduced: 2009-10-28 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Department of Education
Education programs funding
Elementary and secondary education
Executive agency funding and structure
Higher education
Public-private cooperation
Science and engineering education
Teaching, teachers, curricula

Summary:
action_date: 2009-10-28
text: 
Improving Mathematics and Science Teacher Quality Act - Amends part B of title II of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (ESEA) to authorize the inclusion of informal science education centers and business consortia as partners in the grant program to improve the quality of elementary and secondary school mathematics and science teachers. Requires the inclusion of teacher training departments of institutions of higher education in such partnerships, but removes state educational agencies as partnership participants.
 
Authorizes the Secretary of Education to award such grants to states for redistribution as competitive subgrants to eligible partnerships. (Currently, the Secretary awards grants directly to such partnerships if appropriations do not exceed a specified amount.) 
 
Requires that grant priority be given to eligible partnerships that carry out activities modeled after programs which are to be identified and disseminated by the Secretary, in consultation and coordination with the Director of the National Science Foundation, for replication on a more expansive basis.
 
Removes the provision of financial incentives to recruit and retain teachers from authorized grant uses.
 
Reauthorizes appropriations for the programs under parts A and B of title II of the ESEA through FY2015.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-12-08
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education.
action_date: 2009-10-28
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and Labor.
action_date: 2009-10-28
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-10-28
text: Introduced in House
Helping Small Businesses Grow and Prosper Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-3952
Sponsor: Rep. Titus, Dina [D-NV-3]
Introduced: 2009-10-28 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Income tax deductions
Small business

Summary:
action_date: 2009-10-28
text: 
Helping Small Businesses Grow and Prosper Act of 2009 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to increase the amount of business-related meal and entertainment expenses allowed as a tax deduction for businesses that employ an average of less than 50 employees in a taxable year to 80% (currently, 50%) of such expenses. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-10-28
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2009-10-28
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-10-28
text: Introduced in House
Back to Work Tax Credit Act

Bill: 111-hr-3953
Sponsor: Rep. Boccieri, John A. [D-OH-16]
Introduced: 2009-10-28 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Income tax credits
Unemployment

Summary:
action_date: 2009-10-28
text: 
Back to Work Tax Credit Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow employers a work opportunity tax credit for hiring long-term unemployed individuals. Defines &quot;long-term unemployed individual&quot; as an individual certified as receiving federal or state unemployment compensation for not less than 26 consecutive weeks during the one-year period ending on the hiring date.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-10-28
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2009-10-28
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-10-28
text: Introduced in House
Surveillance, Tracking, Observation, and Prevention of Obesity Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-3955
Sponsor: Rep. Carney, Christopher P. [D-PA-10]
Introduced: 2009-10-28 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Child health
Government information and archives
Government studies and investigations
Health information and medical records
Performance measurement
Physical fitness and lifestyle

Summary:
action_date: 2009-10-28
text: 
Surveillance, Tracking, Observation, and Prevention of Obesity Act of 2009 - Amends the Public Health Service Act to direct the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) to: (1) make grants to 10 states for demonstration projects for the expansion of state registries on childhood immunization or health to include data on body mass index, collected and submitted to the state by health care providers; (2) require such registries to meet data standards and to be interoperable to ensure that registry data can be analyzed by the federal government and by other state governments; and (3) study and report on the effectiveness of such demonstration projects.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-10-29
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2009-10-28
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2009-10-28
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-10-28
text: Introduced in House