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Housing Opportunity and Mortgage Equity Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-230
Sponsor: Rep. Cardoza, Dennis A. [D-CA-18]
Introduced: 2009-01-07 in the House
Policy area: Housing and Community Development
Subjects: Executive agency funding and structure
Federal Reserve System
Government lending and loan guarantees
Housing finance and home ownership
Interest, dividends, interest rates
Securities

Summary:
action_date: 2009-01-07
text: 
Housing Opportunity and Mortgage Equity Act of 2009 - Directs the Federal National Mortgage Association (Fannie Mae) and the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation (Freddie Mac) (the enterprises) to implement a program to purchase and securitize qualified refinancing mortgages and qualified new mortgages on single-family housing in accordance with policies and procedures established by the Director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA).

Sets forth requirements for the purchase and securitization of qualified mortgages.

Directs the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System to establish a credit facility of the Federal Reserve System to make credit available to the enterprises at interest rates comparable to certain rates on securities issued by the Secretary of the Treasury.

Terminates the requirement under this Act for the enterprises to purchase mortgages after December 31, 2010.


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
To require certain warning labels to be placed on video games that are given certain ratings due to violent content.

Bill: 111-hr-231
Sponsor: Rep. Baca, Joe [D-CA-43]
Introduced: 2009-01-07 in the House
Policy area: Commerce
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Child safety and welfare
Consumer Product Safety Commission
Consumer affairs
Internet and video services
Internet, web applications, social media
Marketing and advertising
Product safety and quality
Violent crime

Summary:
action_date: 2009-01-07
text: 
Requires the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) to issue regulations requiring that a specified warning label be placed on the packaging of any video game that is rated T (Teen) or higher by the Electronics Software Ratings Board.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-01-14
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Commerce, Trade and Consumer Protection.
action_date: 2009-01-07
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2009-01-07
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-01-07
text: Introduced in House
Greenhouse Gas Registry Act

Bill: 111-hr-232
Sponsor: Rep. Baldwin, Tammy [D-WI-2]
Introduced: 2009-01-07 in the House
Policy area: Environmental Protection
Subjects: Air quality
Business records
Civil actions and liability
Climate change and greenhouse gases
Electric power generation and transmission
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
Environmental assessment, monitoring, research
Environmental regulatory procedures
Government information and archives
Industrial facilities
Public utilities and utility rates

Summary:
action_date: 2009-01-07
text: 
Greenhouse Gas Registry Act - Requires the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to: (1) determine and publish the quantity of each greenhouse gas (GHG) that makes the same contribution to global warming as one metric ton of carbon dioxide; and (2) designate as a GHG any directly emitted anthropogenic gas that is included in the Inventory of the United States Greenhouse Gases and Sinks, one metric ton of which makes the same or greater contribution to global warming as one metric ton of carbon dioxide. Directs each covered entity to report to the Administrator its GHG emissions for the prior calendar year.

Directs the Administrator to issue regulations establishing a federal GHG registry. Specifies that such regulations shall: (1) ensure accuracy and reliability of data submitted; (2) take into account best practices for measuring, accounting, reporting, and verifying GHG emissions and the latest scientific research; (3) require that submitted data are monitored using monitoring systems for fuel use, fuel flow, or emissions, wherever feasible; (4) require annual reporting on the emission of GHGs; (5) establish consistent policies for calculating carbon content and GHG emissions for each type of fossil fuel reported; (6) provide for immediate public dissemination of data reported, with certain exceptions; and (7) take into account the work done by the Climate Registry and other mandatory state or multistate authorized programs and explain the major differences in approach between the system established under the regulations and the respective registries or programs. Provides that nothing in this Act preempts any state or regional GHG registry efforts.

Authorizes the Administrator to bring a civil action against entities that fail to comply with this Act's requirements. Sets forth civil penalties for violations.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-01-14
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Environment.
action_date: 2009-01-07
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2009-01-07
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-01-07
text: Introduced in House
Nevada Cancer Institute Expansion Act

Bill: 111-hr-234
Sponsor: Rep. Berkley, Shelley [D-NV-1]
Introduced: 2009-01-07 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Cancer
Floods and storm protection
Health facilities and institutions
Land transfers
Medical research
Nevada
Social work, volunteer service, charitable organizations
Water use and supply

Summary:
action_date: 2009-01-07
text: 

Nevada Cancer Institute Expansion Act - Authorizes the Secretary of the Interior, acting through the Director of the Bureau of Land Management (BLM), to accept the relinquishment of all or part of the Alta-Hualapai Site by the city of Las Vegas, Nevada. 

Directs the Secretary, after relinquishment of all or part of the Alta-Hualapai Site, to convey to the Nevada Cancer Institute (the Institute) in Las Vegas, the part of the Site that is necessary for the development of a nonprofit cancer institute. 

Requires the Secretary, after a request from the city, to convey to the city any remaining part of the Alta-Hualapai Site necessary for ancillary medical or nonprofit use compatible with the Institute's mission. 

Requires the Secretary to submit a report on all transactions conducted under Public Law 105-263 (the Southern Nevada Public Land Management Act of 1998). 

Authorizes the Secretary to grant rights-of-way to the Las Vegas Valley Water District on a portion of the Alta-Hualapai Site for a flood control project and a water pumping facility. 


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
Social Security Fairness Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-235
Sponsor: Rep. Berman, Howard L. [D-CA-28]
Introduced: 2009-01-07 in the House
Policy area: Social Welfare
Subjects: Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management
Social security and elderly assistance

Summary:
action_date: 2009-01-07
text: 
Social Security Fairness Act of 2009 - Amends title II (Old Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance) (OASDI) of the Social Security Act to repeal: (1) government pension offset requirements applicable to husband's and wife's insurance benefits, widow's and widower's insurance benefits, and mother's and father's insurance benefits with respect to OASDI payments; and (2) windfall elimination requirements with respect to computation of an individual's primary insurance amount.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-01-07
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2009-01-07
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-01-07
text: Introduced in House
Social Security Protection Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-236
Sponsor: Rep. Brown-Waite, Ginny [R-FL-5]
Introduced: 2009-01-07 in the House
Policy area: Social Welfare
Subjects: Inflation and prices
Legislative rules and procedure
Social security and elderly assistance

Summary:
action_date: 2009-01-07
text: 
Social Security Protection Act of 2009 - Amends the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 to make it out of order in the House of Representatives or the Senate to consider any bill or joint resolution (or related amendment or conference report) that: (1) reduces or has the effect of reducing any current benefits under the old-age, survivors, and disability insurance (OASDI) programs under title II of the Social Security Act; or (2) provides for or has the effect of providing for cost-of-living increases of OASDI benefits that are less than what would be provided as of the day of the measure's consideration.
 

 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-01-07
text: Referred to House Budget
action_date: 2009-01-07
text: Referred to the Committee on Rules, and in addition to the Committee on the Budget, 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 Rules
action_date: 2009-01-07
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-01-07
text: Introduced in House
Military Retiree Health Care Relief Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-237
Sponsor: Rep. Emerson, Jo Ann [R-MO-8]
Introduced: 2009-01-07 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Health care costs and insurance
Income tax credits
Medicare
Military personnel and dependents
Veterans' medical care

Summary:
action_date: 2009-01-07
text: Military Retiree Health Care Relief Act of 2009 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow a refundable tax credit for premiums paid to enroll military retirees and their spouses and surviving spouses for supplementary medical insurance under part B of title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-01-07
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2009-01-07
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-01-07
text: Introduced in House
Notch Baby Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-238
Sponsor: Rep. Emerson, Jo Ann [R-MO-8]
Introduced: 2009-01-07 in the House
Policy area: Social Welfare
Subjects: Social security and elderly assistance

Summary:
action_date: 2009-01-07
text: 
Notch Baby Act of 2009 - Amends title II (Old Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance) of the Social Security Act with respect to the benefit computation formula for individuals affected by the changes in benefit computation rules enacted in the Social Security Amendments of 1977 who became eligible (at age 62) for (early retirement) old-age insurance benefits after 1978 and before 1989 (and reached age 65 for full-retirement benefits after 1981 and before 1992).
 
Sets forth a schedule of additional benefit increases for such beneficiaries (and related beneficiaries), with percentages declining from 60% to 10% keyed to the year an individual became eligible for (early retirement) benefits between 1978 and 1989. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-01-07
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2009-01-07
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-01-07
text: Introduced in House
Securing our Borders and our Data Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-239
Sponsor: Rep. Engel, Eliot L. [D-NY-17]
Introduced: 2009-01-07 in the House
Policy area: Law
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Border security and unlawful immigration
Computers and information technology
Constitution and constitutional amendments
Criminal investigation, prosecution, interrogation
Department of Homeland Security
Evidence and witnesses
Government information and archives
Government studies and investigations
Law enforcement officers
Right of privacy
Telephone and wireless communication

Summary:
action_date: 2009-01-07
text: 
Securing Our Borders and Our Data Act of 2009 - Sets forth rules for the search or seizure at a U.S. border of digital electronic devices or digital storage media. Prohibits a search of the digital contents of such devices or media unless such search is based on: (1) a reasonable suspicion regarding the owner of such devices or media; and (2) an independent constitutional authority to make a seizure (other than the authority for border searches). 

Requires officers at U.S. borders to receive appropriate training to make searches of digital devices or media to minimize the possibility of irreparable damage to such devices or media. Allows the owners of such devices and media to request that searches be conducted out of public view. 

Requires the Secretary of Homeland Security to: (1) make rules regarding border searches of digital devices and storage media, including rules to protect the integrity of digital data, for the retrieval of seized devices or media by owners, and for sharing such data with other governmental agencies; and (2) publish such rules on the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) website. 

Requires the Commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border Protection to conduct an annual study of searches and seizures of digital devices and storage media at U.S. borders and report to Congress on such study.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-02-09
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration, Citizenship, Refugees, Border Security, and International Law.
action_date: 2009-02-05
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Border, Maritime, and Global Counterterrorism.
action_date: 2009-01-07
text: Referred to House Homeland Security
action_date: 2009-01-07
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committee on Homeland Security, 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 Judiciary
action_date: 2009-01-07
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-01-07
text: Introduced in House
Individual AMT Repeal Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-240
Sponsor: Rep. Garrett, Scott [R-NJ-5]
Introduced: 2009-01-07 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Income tax rates
Tax administration and collection, taxpayers

Summary:
action_date: 2009-01-07
text: 
Individual AMT Repeal Act of 2009 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to eliminate the alternative minimum tax on individual taxpayers for taxable years beginning after 2008.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-01-07
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2009-01-07
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-01-07
text: Introduced in House
To amend title 10, United States Code, to require the amounts reimbursed to institutional providers of health care services under the TRICARE program to be the same as amounts reimbursed under Medicare, and to require the Secretary of Defense to contract for health care services with at least one teaching hospital in urban areas.

Bill: 111-hr-241
Sponsor: Rep. Green, Gene [D-TX-29]
Introduced: 2009-01-07 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Health facilities and institutions
Health programs administration and funding
Hospital care
Medical education
Medicare
Military personnel and dependents
Military procurement, research, weapons development
Urban and suburban affairs and development

Summary:
action_date: 2009-01-07
text: 
Amends the Civilian Health and Medical Program of the Uniformed Services (CHAMPUS) to require the TRICARE Program (a Department of Defense managed health care program): (1) reimbursement of institutional providers of health care services to be identical (currently, the same to the extent practicable) to reimbursement provided under Medicare (title XVIII of the Social Security Act); and (2) in contracting for the delivery of health care, to contract with at least one teaching hospital in each large urban area.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-01-30
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Military Personnel.
action_date: 2009-01-07
text: Referred to the House Committee on Armed Services.
action_date: 2009-01-07
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-01-07
text: Introduced in House
To direct the Secretary of Labor to revise regulations concerning the recording and reporting of occupational injuries and illnesses under the Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970.

Bill: 111-hr-242
Sponsor: Rep. Green, Gene [D-TX-29]
Introduced: 2009-01-07 in the House
Policy area: Labor and Employment
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Business records
Contracts and agency
Department of Labor
Government information and archives
Labor standards
Worker safety and health

Summary:
action_date: 2009-01-07
text: 
Directs the Secretary of Labor to revise certain regulations under the Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970 so as to require site-controlling employers to keep a site log for all recordable injuries and illnesses occurring among all employees on the particular site, whether such employees are employed directly by the site-controlling employer or are employed by contractors or temporary help or employee leasing services.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-03-16
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Workforce Protections.
action_date: 2009-01-07
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and Labor.
action_date: 2009-01-07
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-01-07
text: Introduced in House
Labor Relations First Contract Negotiations Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-243
Sponsor: Rep. Green, Gene [D-TX-29]
Introduced: 2009-01-07 in the House
Policy area: Labor and Employment
Subjects: Contracts and agency
Labor-management relations

Summary:
action_date: 2009-01-07
text: 
Labor Relations First Contract Negotiations Act of 2009 - Amends the National Labor Relations Act to require mediation and, if necessary, binding arbitration of initial contract negotiation disputes. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-03-16
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2009-01-07
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and Labor.
action_date: 2009-01-07
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-01-07
text: Introduced in House
To provide for the security of critical energy infrastructure.

Bill: 111-hr-244
Sponsor: Rep. Green, Gene [D-TX-29]
Introduced: 2009-01-07 in the House
Policy area: Energy
Subjects: Disaster relief and insurance
Emergency planning and evacuation
Energy storage, supplies, demand
Government studies and investigations
Government trust funds

Summary:
action_date: 2009-01-07
text: 
Instructs the Secretary of Energy to report to Congress on the Secretary's review of the fuel supply plan components of state evacuation plans and the National Capital region. Prescribes report contents.

Authorizes the Secretary, during any federally declared emergency or disaster, to provide direct assistance to private sector entities that operate critical energy infrastructure, including refineries.

Allows such assistance to include emergency preparation and recovery assistance, particularly power generation equipment, other protective or emergency recovery equipment, assistance to restore access to water, power, or other raw materials, and transportation and housing for critical employees.

Establishes in the Treasury the Critical Energy Assurance Account.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-01-14
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Environment.
action_date: 2009-01-07
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2009-01-07
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-01-07
text: Introduced in House
Local Emergency Radio Service Preservation Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-245
Sponsor: Rep. Green, Gene [D-TX-29]
Introduced: 2009-01-07 in the House
Policy area: Science, Technology, Communications
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Broadcasting, cable, digital technologies
Emergency communications systems
Federal Communications Commission (FCC)
Spacecraft and satellites

Summary:
action_date: 2009-01-07
text: 
Local Emergency Radio Service Preservation Act of 2009 - Directs the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), consistent with the representations made by digital audio radio satellite service licensees that digital audio radio satellite service would be a national service, to revise its regulations to provide that digital audio radio satellite service (DARSS): (1) licensees shall not provide services that are locally differentiated or that result in programming being delivered to consumers in one geographic market that is different from programming delivered in any other geographic market; and (2) repeaters shall be restricted to simultaneously retransmitting the programming transmitted by satellite directly to DARSS subscribers' receivers.
 
Requires the FCC to complete a rulemaking proceeding to determine whether DARSS licensees should be permitted to provide locally oriented services on nationally distributed channels, taking into account, among other things, the ability of such licensees to afford listeners the same emergency and other information as is afforded listeners of local broadcast stations.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-01-14
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Communications, Technology, and the Internet.
action_date: 2009-01-07
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2009-01-07
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-01-07
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to exempt elementary and secondary schools from the fee imposed on employers filing petitions with respect to non-immigration workers under the H-1B program.

Bill: 111-hr-246
Sponsor: Rep. Green, Gene [D-TX-29]
Introduced: 2009-01-07 in the House
Policy area: Immigration
Subjects: Elementary and secondary education
Foreign labor
Immigrant health and welfare
Teaching, teachers, curricula
User charges and fees
Visas and passports

Summary:
action_date: 2009-01-07
text: 
Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to exempt elementary and secondary schools from the fee imposed on employers filing petitions for temporary nonimmigrant workers under the H-1B (specialty occupations) visa program.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-02-09
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
Protect Our Veterans Memorials Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-247
Sponsor: Rep. Green, Gene [D-TX-29]
Introduced: 2009-01-07 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Crimes against property
Jurisdiction and venue
Monuments and memorials

Summary:
action_date: 2009-01-07
text: 
Protect our Veterans Memorials Act of 2009 - Amends the federal criminal code to extend federal jurisdiction over the destruction of veterans' memorials to such memorials on state or local government property.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-02-09
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.
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