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To require the Forest Service to accommodate, to the extent consistent with the management objectives and limitations applicable to the National Forest System lands at issue, individuals with mobility disabilities who need to use a power-driven mobility device for reasonable access to such lands.

Bill: 111-hr-4228
Sponsor: Rep. Alexander, Rodney [R-LA-5]
Introduced: 2009-12-08 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Disability and paralysis
Forests, forestry, trees
Government information and archives
Motor vehicles

Summary:
action_date: 2009-12-08
text: 
Directs the Secretary of Agriculture, through the Chief of the Forest Service, to require Forest Service personnel, in the implementation of off-road vehicle management under the Forest Service Travel Management Rule, to endeavor to accommodate individuals with mobility disabilities who would need to use a power-driven mobility device for access to such lands. 
 
Requires Forest Service personnel to provide an individual with mobility disabilities who uses a power-driven mobility device to access specific National Forest System lands, who seeks permission to access such lands, and who is denied such access, with an explanation for the denial of access to such lands.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-03-29
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Department Operations, Oversight, Nutrition and Forestry.
action_date: 2009-12-09
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests and Public Lands.
action_date: 2009-12-08
text: Referred to House Natural Resources
action_date: 2009-12-08
text: Referred to House Agriculture
action_date: 2009-12-08
text: Referred to the Committee on Agriculture, and in addition to the Committee on Natural Resources, 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: 2009-12-08
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-12-08
text: Introduced in House
Borrowers' Right to Inspect Closing Documents Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-4229
Sponsor: Rep. Bean, Melissa L. [D-IL-8]
Introduced: 2009-12-08 in the House
Policy area: Housing and Community Development
Subjects: Banking and financial institutions regulation
Housing finance and home ownership
Real estate business

Summary:
action_date: 2009-12-08
text: 
Borrowers' Right to Inspect Closing Documents Act of 2009 - Amends the Real Estate Settlement Procedures Act of 1974 (RESPA) to revise procedures governing the furnishing of closing documents to borrowers.
 
Requires the lender to furnish to the settlement agent, at least four business days before the scheduled date of a real estate settlement, the completed promissory note, the mortgage instrument, and all other items needed to complete the uniform settlement statement, the final Truth-in-Lending Act disclosure, and the final closing instructions.
 
Requires the settlement agent to furnish the borrower, at least three business days before the scheduled settlement date, with the completed documents and the completed uniform settlement statement, as long as the lender has timely provided the agent with those items.
 
Shields the settlement agent from liability for the lender's noncompliance with this Act. Cites circumstances under which the settlement agent may correct the uniform settlement statement and related documents prior to the scheduled settlement date.
 
Authorizes the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development to exempt settlements from the requirements of this Act in certain circumstances.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-12-08
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2009-12-08
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-12-08
text: Introduced in House
Health Care Reality Check Act

Bill: 111-hr-4230
Sponsor: Rep. Blumenauer, Earl [D-OR-3]
Introduced: 2009-12-08 in the House
Policy area: Congress
Subjects: Comprehensive health care
Disability and health-based discrimination
Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management
Health care costs and insurance
Health care coverage and access
Medicare
Members of Congress
Veterans' medical care

Summary:
action_date: 2009-12-08
text: 
Health Care Reality Check Act - Makes a Member of Congress ineligible for any government-administered health care benefit until the first day of the first month following the date on which comprehensive health reform legislation is signed into law.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-12-16
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2009-12-09
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2009-12-08
text: Referred to House Veterans' Affairs
action_date: 2009-12-08
text: Referred to House Energy and Commerce
action_date: 2009-12-08
text: Referred to House Ways and Means
action_date: 2009-12-08
text: Referred to House Oversight and Government Reform
action_date: 2009-12-08
text: Referred to the Committee on House Administration, and in addition to the Committees on Oversight and Government Reform, Ways and Means, Energy and Commerce, and 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: 2009-12-08
text: Referred to House Administration
action_date: 2009-12-08
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E2911-2912)
action_date: 2009-12-08
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-12-08
text: Introduced in House
Safe Cities Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-4231
Sponsor: Rep. Cao, Anh "Joseph" [R-LA-2]
Introduced: 2009-12-08 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Criminal investigation, prosecution, interrogation
Criminal justice information and records
Drug trafficking and controlled substances
Government information and archives
Intergovernmental relations
Law enforcement administration and funding
Sex offenses
State and local government operations
Urban and suburban affairs and development
Violent crime

Summary:
action_date: 2009-12-08
text: 
Safe Cities Act of 2009 - Amends the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994 to: (1) authorize the Attorney General to designate a Violent and Drug Crime Zone (i.e., a metropolitan area with a higher than average rate of homicides, violent felonies, sex offenses, and drug and gang-related crimes) in each state; (2) establish a drug and violent crime intervention team and a Safe Cities Task Force in each Zone, consisting of state and local law enforcement officials, to coordinate the investigation, apprehension, and prosecution of criminal activity; (3) require the use of grant funds under such Act to increase the number of prosecutors available to work with drug and violent crime intervention teams; and (4) require the Office of Justice Programs of the Department of Justice (DOJ) to award grants to states to establish and maintain a state-wide database to track criminals, arrests, prosecutions, and convictions. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-01-04
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.
action_date: 2009-12-08
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2009-12-08
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-12-08
text: Introduced in House
To extend the temporary duty suspension on certain rayon staple fibers.

Bill: 111-hr-4232
Sponsor: Rep. Castle, Michael N. [R-DE-At Large]
Introduced: 2009-12-08 in the House
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Tariffs

Summary:
action_date: 2009-12-08
text: Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to extend the temporary duty suspension on certain rayon staple fibers.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-12-16
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Trade.
action_date: 2009-12-08
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2009-12-08
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-12-08
text: Introduced in House
Healthy Forests Restoration Amendments Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-4233
Sponsor: Rep. Herseth Sandlin, Stephanie [D-SD-At Large]
Introduced: 2009-12-08 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Environmental assessment, monitoring, research
Fires
Forests, forestry, trees
Rural conditions and development
Urban and suburban affairs and development

Summary:
action_date: 2009-12-08
text: 
Healthy Forests Restoration Amendments Act of 2009 - Amends the Healthy Forests Restoration Act of 2003 to expand the purposes of the Act to include providing for the protection, restoration, and enhancement of forest ecosystem components to protect infrastructure in rural communities.
 

 

 
Expands federal land areas eligible for hazardous fuel reduction projects. 
 
Repeals the total federal land acreage limitation on authorized hazardous fuel reduction projects.
 
 
 
 Revises requirements regarding the alternative analysis process for authorized hazardous fuel reduction projects in the wildland-urban interface. Bars the Secretary of Agriculture or the Secretary of the Interior from being required to study, develop, or describe more than the proposed agency action and a no action alternative in an environmental assessment or environmental impact statement for specified proposed authorized hazardous fuel reduction projects.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-03-29
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Department Operations, Oversight, Nutrition and Forestry.
action_date: 2009-12-10
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests and Public Lands.
action_date: 2009-12-08
text: Referred to House Natural Resources
action_date: 2009-12-08
text: Referred to the Committee on Agriculture, and in addition to the Committee on Natural Resources, 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: 2009-12-08
text: Referred to House Agriculture
action_date: 2009-12-08
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-12-08
text: Introduced in House
Korean War 60th Anniversary Commemoration Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-4234
Sponsor: Rep. Johnson, Sam [R-TX-3]
Introduced: 2009-12-08 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Asia
Commemorative events and holidays
Conflicts and wars
Military history
North Korea
South Korea

Summary:
action_date: 2009-12-08
text: 
Korean War 60th Anniversary Commemoration Act of 2009 - Directs the Secretary of Defense to: (1) plan, develop, and execute programs and activities to commemorate, during 2010 through 2013, the 60th anniversary of each year of the Korean War; (2) encourage private organizations and state and local governments to organize and participate in such programs and activities; (3) facilitate and coordinate such programs and activities; and (4) establish a committee to assist with the commemoration.
 
Allows the Secretary to accept voluntary services in furtherance of such programs and activities.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-01-12
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Readiness.
action_date: 2009-12-08
text: Referred to the House Committee on Armed Services.
action_date: 2009-12-08
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-12-08
text: Introduced in House
Women's Hospitals Education Equity Act

Bill: 111-hr-4235
Sponsor: Rep. Kennedy, Patrick J. [D-RI-1]
Introduced: 2009-12-08 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Education programs funding
Health facilities and institutions
Health programs administration and funding
Medical education
Women's health

Summary:
action_date: 2009-12-08
text: 
Women's Hospitals Education Equity Act - Amends the Public Health Service Act to direct the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) to make two payments to each eligible women's hospital for each of FY2010-FY2014: (1) one payment for direct expenses associated with operating approved graduate medical residency training programs; and (2) one for indirect expenses associated with the treatment of more severely ill patients and the additional costs relating to teaching residents in such programs.
 
Requires the Secretary to: (1) make the payments in 12 equal interim installments based on the number of residents reported in the hospital's most recently filed Medicare cost report; (2) withhold up to 25% from each installment to ensure a hospital will not be overpaid on an interim basis; (3) determine, prior to the end of each fiscal year, any changes to the number of residents reported to determine the final amount; and (4) recoup any overpayments based on such determination. Considers the final amount so determined to be a final intermediary determination, subject to administrative and judicial review, under the Social Security Act.
 
 Applies to women's hospitals funded under this Act annual reporting requirements and provisions regarding direct graduate medical education payments and indirect medical education payments applicable to children's hospitals that operate graduate medical education programs.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-12-09
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2009-12-08
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2009-12-08
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-12-08
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide a temporary exclusion of 100 percent of the gain on the sale or exchange of certain small business stock.

Bill: 111-hr-4236
Sponsor: Rep. Levin, Sander M. [D-MI-12]
Introduced: 2009-12-08 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Capital gains tax
Financial services and investments
Income tax exclusion
Securities
Small business

Summary:
action_date: 2009-12-08
text: 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) increase from 50 to 100% the exclusion from gross income allowed for gain from the sale or exchange of qualified small business stock that is acquired during 2010; and (2) exempt gain from such stock in calculating the alternative minimum tax. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-12-08
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2009-12-08
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-12-08
text: Introduced in House
To ensure that the courts of the United States may provide an impartial forum for claims brought by United States citizens and others against any railroad organized as a separate legal entity, arising from the deportation of United States citizens and others to Nazi concentration camps on trains owned or operated by such railroad, and by the heirs and survivors of such persons.

Bill: 111-hr-4237
Sponsor: Rep. Maloney, Carolyn B. [D-NY-14]
Introduced: 2009-12-08 in the House
Policy area: Law
Subjects: Civil actions and liability
Crime victims
Europe
Federal district courts
France
Government liability
Human rights
International law and treaties
Jurisdiction and venue
Railroads
War crimes, genocide, crimes against humanity
World history

Summary:
action_date: 2009-12-08
text: 
Grants U.S. district courts original jurisdiction over any civil action for damages for personal injury or death that: (1) arose from the deportation of persons to Nazi concentration camps between January 1, 1942, and December 31, 1944; and (2) is brought by or on behalf of such person against a railroad that owned or operated the trains on which the persons were deported and that was organized as a separate legal entity.

Provides that: (1) no law limiting the jurisdiction of the U.S. courts shall preclude any such action; and (2) no such action shall be barred because a statute of limitations has expired. Makes this Act applicable to any action pending on or commenced after January 1, 2002.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-12-08
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2009-12-08
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-12-08
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to modify the exception from the 10 percent penalty for early withdrawals from governmental plans for Federal and State qualified public safety employees.

Bill: 111-hr-4239
Sponsor: Rep. Meek, Kendrick B. [D-FL-17]
Introduced: 2009-12-08 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Emergency medical services and trauma care
Fires
Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management
Health personnel
Income tax exclusion
Law enforcement officers
Tax administration and collection, taxpayers

Summary:
action_date: 2009-12-08
text: 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) modify the exemption from the 10% penalty for premature distributions from governmental employee benefit plans to qualified public safety employees to eliminate the restriction that such plans be defined benefit plans; (2) expand the definition of &quot;qualified public safety employee&quot; to include federal employees; and (3) exempt from tax penalties certain periodic payments made to qualified public safety employees before the enactment of the Pension Protection Act of 2006 (i.e., August 17, 2006).


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-12-08
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2009-12-08
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-12-08
text: Introduced in House
To provide for a grace period in which durable medical equipment suppliers may meet Medicare accreditation and surety bond requirements.

Bill: 111-hr-4240
Sponsor: Rep. Melancon, Charlie [D-LA-3]
Introduced: 2009-12-08 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Health technology, devices, supplies
Licensing and registrations
Medicare

Summary:
action_date: 2009-12-08
text: 
Establishes a six-month grace period following enactment of this Act during which otherwise qualifying durable medical equipment (DME) suppliers that do not yet meet Medicare accreditation and surety bond requirements must meet them. Requires such suppliers to be treated as having met the requirements between the effective date of the requirements and the date on which they first meet them, so long as they actually do meet them within six months after enactment of this Act.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-12-16
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2009-12-09
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2009-12-08
text: Referred to House Ways and Means
action_date: 2009-12-08
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, 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: 2009-12-08
text: Referred to House Energy and Commerce
action_date: 2009-12-08
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-12-08
text: Introduced in House
To amend chapter 17 of title 38, United States Code, to allow for increased flexibility in payments for State veterans homes.

Bill: 111-hr-4241
Sponsor: Rep. Michaud, Michael H. [D-ME-2]
Introduced: 2009-12-08 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Health care costs and insurance
Long-term, rehabilitative, and terminal care
Veterans' medical care

Summary:
action_date: 2009-12-08
text: 
Authorizes the Secretary of Veterans Affairs (VA), in lieu of making payments to state homes for furnishing nursing home care to veterans, to enter into agreements with such homes to furnish such care under federal provisions which allow the Secretary to transfer to non-VA homes (at the expense of the United States) veterans who have been furnished such care in a facility under the jurisdiction of the Department of Veterans Affairs.
 
Replaces provisions providing for payment of nursing home care at the lesser of the prevailing rate or the cost of daily care with provisions providing for payment at the rate determined for a state home that is the applicable or prevailing rate payable in the geographic area in which the state home is located.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-03-03
text: Subcommittee Hearings Held.
action_date: 2009-12-11
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2009-12-08
text: Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2009-12-08
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-12-08
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide incentives for used oil re-refining, and for other purposes.

Bill: 111-hr-4242
Sponsor: Rep. Moran, Jerry [R-KS-1]
Introduced: 2009-12-08 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Business investment and capital
Income tax credits
Income tax deductions
Oil and gas

Summary:
action_date: 2009-12-08
text: 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) expand the definition of &quot;qualified refinery&quot; for purposes of the taxpayer election to expense the costs of refinery property to include refineries for processing non-virgin lube oil from used, refined products (including used lube oil originally derived from crude oil or qualified fuels); (2) extend through 2016 the expensing allowance with respect to such refineries; and (3) allow a business-related tax credit for the production of qualified re-refined lubricating oil.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-12-08
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2009-12-08
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-12-08
text: Introduced in House
Clean Air and Water Investment Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-4243
Sponsor: Rep. Sánchez, Linda T. [D-CA-39]
Introduced: 2009-12-08 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Air quality
Environmental technology
Income tax exclusion
Securities
Water quality

Summary:
action_date: 2009-12-08
text: 
Clean Air and Water Investment Act of 2009 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to include air and water pollution control facilities among the projects for which tax-exempt facility bonds may be issued. 
 
Defines such facilities as any property: (1) to be used to abate or control water or atmospheric pollution or contamination by removing, altering, disposing, or storing pollutants, contaminants, wastes, or heat; (2) which is either land or of a character subject to the allowance for depreciation; and (3) that a federal, state, or local agency has certified is designed for abating or controlling atmospheric or water pollution or for meeting local requirements for controlling such pollution. Provides that a water pollution control facility includes the necessary intercepting sewers, pumping, power, and other equipment, and their appurtenances. 
 
Makes this Act applicable to bonds issued after December 31, 2008.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-12-08
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2009-12-08
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E2906)
action_date: 2009-12-08
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-12-08
text: Introduced in House
Small Business Research and Experimentation Simplification Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-4244
Sponsor: Rep. Schock, Aaron [R-IL-18]
Introduced: 2009-12-08 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Government studies and investigations
Income tax credits
Research and development
Small business

Summary:
action_date: 2009-12-08
text: 
Small Business Research and Experimentation Simplification Act of 2009 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow small business employers with an average of 500 or fewer employees in a calendar year a partially refundable tax credit for 20% of their research expenditures. Terminates such credit after 2015.
 
Requires the Comptroller General to report to Congress by June 30, 2015, on an analysis of the usefulness and effectiveness of any recommended changes in the research tax credit allowed by this Act. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-12-08
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2009-12-08
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-12-08
text: Introduced in House