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To amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to reauthorize the State Criminal Alien Assistance Program.

Bill: 111-hr-2282
Sponsor: Rep. King, Peter T. [R-NY-3]
Introduced: 2009-05-06 in the House
Policy area: Immigration
Subjects: Border security and unlawful immigration
Canada
Correctional facilities and imprisonment
Department of Homeland Security
Executive agency funding and structure
Latin America
Law enforcement administration and funding
Mexico

Summary:
action_date: 2009-05-06
text: 
Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to direct the Secretary of Homeland Security, in carrying out the state criminal alien assistance program (SCAAP), to give priority to compensating states and state political subdivisions: (1) located on the U.S. border with Canada or Mexico; or (2) having one of the five largest populations of unauthorized aliens.
 
Authorizes appropriations for SCAAP through FY2014.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-06-12
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration, Citizenship, Refugees, Border Security, and International Law.
action_date: 2009-05-06
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2009-05-06
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-05-06
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Clean Air Act to permit the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency to waive the lifecycle greenhouse gas emission reduction requirements for renewable fuel production, and for other purposes.

Bill: 111-hr-2283
Sponsor: Rep. Moran, Jerry [R-KS-1]
Introduced: 2009-05-06 in the House
Policy area: Environmental Protection
Subjects: Air quality
Alternative and renewable resources
Climate change and greenhouse gases
Environmental assessment, monitoring, research

Summary:
action_date: 2009-05-06
text: 
Amends the Clean Air Act to revise the definition of &quot;lifecycle greenhouse gas emissions&quot; to: (1) exclude significant indirect emissions; (2) provide that emissions are to be determined by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator based on the most recent observable data and on consideration of regional differences of renewable fuel production; and (3) require the Administrator to make the model used in measuring emissions publicly available before publishing any administrative action on such emissions.
 
 
Authorizes a renewable fuel manufacturer to petition the Administrator to waive, and the Administrator to waive, the lifecycle greenhouse gas emission reduction requirements for renewable fuel production if the requirements: (1) are the primary or contributing factor of a failure to achieve the applicable renewable fuels standard for biomass-based diesel, conventional biofuel, cellulosic biofuel, or advanced biofuel; (2) are causing economic harm within the biofuels industry; or (3) are increasing U.S. dependence on foreign oil.
 
Authorizes a renewable fuel manufacturer to petition the Administrator to certify an innovative production method that may result in lower lifecycle greenhouse gas emissions than the lifecycle greenhouse gas emissions of a renewable fuel. Considers a petition to be approved if the Administrator does not approve or deny it within 90 days of its receipt. 
 
Prohibits such waivers from being granted in the case of a state low-carbon fuel standard or similar policy that requires a reduction in lifecycle greenhouse gas emissions for renewable fuels, unless the state standard or policy applies a lifecycle greenhouse gas emission baseline identical to the lifecycle greenhouse gas emissions as determined by EPA and used for the federal renewable fuels standard. Requires measurements taken under a state standard to be based on observable data relating to the direct lifecycle greenhouse gas emissions from the renewable fuel.
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-05-07
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Environment.
action_date: 2009-05-06
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2009-05-06
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-05-06
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow individuals to defer tax on income reinvested in a partnership or S corporation.

Bill: 111-hr-2284
Sponsor: Rep. Paulsen, Erik [R-MN-3]
Introduced: 2009-05-06 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Financial services and investments
Income tax deferral
Income tax exclusion
Small business

Summary:
action_date: 2009-05-06
text: 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow individual taxpayers an exclusion from gross income for certain items of partnership and S corporation pass-thru income up to $250,000 ($500,000 for married couples filing joint returns). 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-05-06
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2009-05-06
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR H5273)
action_date: 2009-05-06
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-05-06
text: Introduced in House
Vehicle Efficiency Heightening Investment Credit to Lift our Economy Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-2285
Sponsor: Rep. Peters, Gary C. [D-MI-9]
Introduced: 2009-05-06 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Business investment and capital
Energy efficiency and conservation
Income tax credits
Motor vehicles

Summary:
action_date: 2009-05-06
text: 
Vehicle Efficiency Heightening Investment Credit to Lift our Economy Act of 2009 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow a business-related tax credit for the purchase of up to 15 fleet vehicles in a taxable year. Specifies the credit amount for each fleet vehicle depending upon its fuel economy value. Defines &quot;fleet vehicle&quot; as a passenger automobile, nonpassenger automobile, or work truck. Terminates such credit after 2010.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-05-06
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2009-05-06
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-05-06
text: Introduced in House
Social Security Exemption Relief Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-2286
Sponsor: Rep. Rohrabacher, Dana [R-CA-46]
Introduced: 2009-05-06 in the House
Policy area: Social Welfare
Subjects: Contracts and agency
Employment taxes
Social security and elderly assistance

Summary:
action_date: 2009-05-06
text: 
Social Security Exemption Relief Act of 2009 - Amends title II (Old Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance) (OASDI) of the Social Security Act and the Internal Revenue Code to allow an employee, whose employment is not otherwise covered for Social Security benefit purposes (as in the case of an independent contractor), to elect irrevocably to have that employment treated as so covered and the employer be subject to Social Security taxes. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-05-06
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2009-05-06
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-05-06
text: Introduced in House
No Social Security for Illegal Immigrants Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-2287
Sponsor: Rep. Rohrabacher, Dana [R-CA-46]
Introduced: 2009-05-06 in the House
Policy area: Social Welfare
Subjects: Border security and unlawful immigration
Social security and elderly assistance

Summary:
action_date: 2009-05-06
text: 
No Social Security for Illegal Immigrants Act of 2009 - Amends title II (Old Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance) (OASDI) of the Social Security Act to exclude from creditable wages and self-employment income any wages earned for services by aliens performed in the United States, and self-employment income derived from a trade or business conducted in the United States, while the alien was not authorized to be so employed or to perform a function or service in such a trade or business. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-05-06
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2009-05-06
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-05-06
text: Introduced in House
Juvenile Justice Accountability and Improvement Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-2289
Sponsor: Rep. Scott, Robert C. "Bobby" [D-VA-3]
Introduced: 2009-05-06 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Correctional facilities and imprisonment
Crime victims
Criminal procedure and sentencing
Government information and archives
Juvenile crime and gang violence
Law enforcement administration and funding
Lawyers and legal services
State and local government operations

Summary:
action_date: 2009-05-06
text: 
Juvenile Justice Accountability and Improvement Act of 2009 - Requires states to: (1) enact laws and adopt policies to grant child offenders who are serving a life sentence a meaningful opportunity for parole or supervised release at least once during their first 15 years of incarceration and at least once every three years thereafter; and (2) provide notice of such laws and policies to the public and to victims of child offenders. Defines &quot;child offender who is serving a life sentence&quot; as an individual who is convicted of a criminal offense before attaining the age of 18 and sentenced to a term of imprisonment for life or a term exceeding 15 years.
 
Requires the Attorney General to: (1) establish and implement a system of early release for each child offender who is under a life sentence in a federal prison; and (2) award grants to states to improve legal representation and other services for child defendants charged with an offense carrying a possible sentence of life in prison. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-06-09
text: Subcommittee Hearings Held.
action_date: 2009-06-05
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.
action_date: 2009-05-06
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2009-05-06
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-05-06
text: Introduced in House
International Uranium Extraction and Milling Control Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-2290
Sponsor: Rep. Sherman, Brad [D-CA-27]
Introduced: 2009-05-06 in the House
Policy area: International Affairs
Subjects: Arms control and nonproliferation
Asia
Congressional oversight
Iran
Metals
Middle East
Mining
North Korea
Nuclear weapons
Syria
Technology transfer and commercialization
Trade restrictions

Summary:
action_date: 2009-05-06
text: 
International Uranium Extraction and Milling Control Act of 2009 - States that it shall be U.S. policy to: (1) oppose the transfer to Iran, North Korea, and Syria of goods, services, or technology relevant to their capability to extract or mill uranium ore; and (2) work with like-minded countries to impose international restrictions on such transfers.
 
Amends the Iran, North Korea, and Syria Nonproliferation Act to include in the President's proliferation report to the House Committee on Foreign Affairs and the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations identification of every foreign person who on or after January 1, 2009, transferred to Iran, Syria, or North Korea goods, services, or technology that could assist efforts to extract or mill uranium ore within the territory or control of Iran, North Korea, or Syria.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-05-06
text: Referred to the House Committee on Foreign Affairs.
action_date: 2009-05-06
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-05-06
text: Introduced in House
Medicare Early Detection of Cancer Promotion Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-2291
Sponsor: Rep. Thompson, Mike [D-CA-1]
Introduced: 2009-05-06 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Cancer
Health care costs and insurance
Medical tests and diagnostic methods
Medicare
Women's health

Summary:
action_date: 2009-05-06
text: 
Medicare Early Detection of Cancer Promotion Act of 2009 - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to eliminate the 20% coinsurance for screening mammography and colorectal cancer screening tests.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-05-07
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2009-05-06
text: Referred to House Ways and Means
action_date: 2009-05-06
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: 2009-05-06
text: Referred to House Energy and Commerce
action_date: 2009-05-06
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-05-06
text: Introduced in House
Healthy Kids for Healthy Futures Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-2292
Sponsor: Rep. Thompson, Mike [D-CA-1]
Introduced: 2009-05-06 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Child health
Employee benefits and pensions
Health care costs and insurance
Health care coverage and access
Health promotion and preventive care
Income tax deductions

Summary:
action_date: 2009-05-06
text: 
Healthy Kids for Healthy Futures Act of 2009 - Amends the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA), the Public Health Service Act, and the Internal Revenue Code to require a group health plan to provide coverage for appropriate preventive care for a participant's dependent child who is not more than 18 years of age. Defines &quot;appropriate preventive care&quot; to mean medical care that meets the most recent Bright Futures Guidelines for Health Supervision of Infants, Children, and Adolescents. Prohibits a group health plan from imposing any cost-sharing for such preventive services.
 
Prohibits a group health plan from taking specified actions to avoid the requirements of this Act.
 
Applies the provisions of this Act to individual health insurance coverage.
 
Excludes a plan from being treated as a high deductible health plan unless the requirements of this Act are met.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-06-04
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2009-05-07
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2009-05-06
text: Referred to House Energy and Commerce
action_date: 2009-05-06
text: Referred to House Education and Labor
action_date: 2009-05-06
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committees on Education and Labor, and Energy and Commerce, 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: 2009-05-06
text: Referred to House Ways and Means
action_date: 2009-05-06
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-05-06
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Trade Act of 1974 to require a Public Health Advisory Committee on Trade to be included in the trade advisory committee system, to require public health organizations to be included on the Advisory Committee for Trade Policy and Negotiations and other relevant sectoral or functional advisory committees, and for other purposes.

Bill: 111-hr-2293
Sponsor: Rep. Van Hollen, Chris [D-MD-8]
Introduced: 2009-05-06 in the House
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Advisory bodies
Congressional oversight
Health care costs and insurance
Health care coverage and access
Health promotion and preventive care
Trade agreements and negotiations
World health

Summary:
action_date: 2009-05-06
text: 
Amends the Trade Act of 1974 to require the President to establish a Public Health Advisory Committee on Trade.
 
Requires the composition of the Advisory Committee for Trade Policy and Negotiations to include representatives from nonprofit nongovernmental public health organizations or coalitions that promote the public health, increase access to affordable health-related services or products, or prevent and reduce major disease, illness, or a public health problem.
 
Requires the United States Trade Representative (USTR) and the Secretaries of Agriculture, Commerce, Health and Human Services (HHS), Labor, Defense, or other executive departments to seek written advisory opinions from the advisory committees established under such Act throughout the trade agreement negotiation process.
 
Requires such committees, each appropriate policy committee, and each appropriate sectoral or functional committee, before the President's notification to Congress of an intention to enter into a trade agreement, to report to the President, Congress, and the USTR on the effects of the trade agreement.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-05-06
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2009-05-06
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-05-06
text: Introduced in House
Keep Terrorists Out of America Act

Bill: 111-hr-2294
Sponsor: Rep. Boehner, John A. [R-OH-8]
Introduced: 2009-05-07 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Caribbean area
Congressional oversight
Correctional facilities and imprisonment
Cuba
Detention of persons
Intergovernmental relations
Latin America
Military facilities and property
State and local government operations
Terrorism

Summary:
action_date: 2009-05-07
text: 
Keep Terrorists Out of America Act - Expresses the sense of Congress that individuals currently detained at the Naval Station Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, should not be transferred or released into the United States.
 
Prohibits the President from transferring or releasing any such individual into the United States unless 60 days prior to such transfer: (1) the President submits to the governor and legislature of the state to which the President intends to transfer or release such an individual certification that the individual does not pose a security risk to the United States; (2) the governor and state legislature of the state in which the President intends to transfer an individual consent to the transfer; and (3) the President notifies the Congress of, among other things, the name of the individual being transferred, the installation the individual is being transferred to, a justification for the transfer, and a certification that the President has mitigated any risks to national security posed by the transfer.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-11-18
text: Motion to Discharge Committee filed by Mr. Hoekstra. Petition No: 111-7. (<a href="http://clerk.house.gov/111/lrc/pd/Petitions/Dis7.htm">Discharge petition</a> text with signatures.)
action_date: 2009-05-07
text: Referred to the House Committee on Armed Services.
action_date: 2009-05-07
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-05-07
text: Introduced in House
Defense Communities Assistance Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-2295
Sponsor: Rep. Farr, Sam [D-CA-17]
Introduced: 2009-05-07 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Civil actions and liability
Congressional oversight
Economic development
Hazardous wastes and toxic substances
Land transfers
Military facilities and property
Military procurement, research, weapons development
Public contracts and procurement

Summary:
action_date: 2009-05-07
text: 
Defense Communities Assistance Act of 2009 - Expresses the sense of Congress on the necessity of assisting local communities coping with the impact of base closures and realignments and other military actions.
 
Extends permanently (under current law, terminated at the end of FY2008) the authority of the Secretary of the military department concerned to convey, for certain purposes, real property on a military installation determined to be excess to the needs of the Department of Defense (DOD).
 
Authorizes the Secretary concerned to contract for the procurement of municipal services for a U.S. military installation from a county, municipal government, or other local governmental unit in the area. Authorizes such Secretary to so contract using procedures other than competitive procedures, under certain conditions and after congressional notification.
 
Amends the Ronald W. Reagan National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2005 to extend through FY2020 a pilot program for the purchase of certain municipal services for military installations.
 
Amends the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1993 to broaden the indemnification provided to transferees of military properties.
 
Reinstates provisions of the Defense Base Closure and Realignment Act of 1990 which allow military departments to transfer surplus real and personal property at closed or realigned military installations without consideration to local redevelopment authorities when used for economic development purposes, without the requirement to assess the property's value.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-06-08
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Readiness.
action_date: 2009-05-07
text: Referred to the House Committee on Armed Services.
action_date: 2009-05-07
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-05-07
text: Introduced in House
White House Conference on Food and Nutrition

Bill: 111-hr-2297
Sponsor: Rep. McGovern, James P. [D-MA-3]
Introduced: 2009-05-07 in the House
Policy area: Agriculture and Food
Subjects: Congressional agencies
Congressional oversight
Food assistance and relief
Government information and archives
House Committee on Agriculture
Nutrition and diet
Poverty and welfare assistance
Presidential administrations
Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry

Summary:
action_date: 2009-05-07
text: 
The White House Conference on Food and Nutrition - Directs: (1) the President to call the White House Conference on Food and Nutrition to be convened in order to make fundamental policy recommendations on ways to end hunger and to improve nutrition in the United States; and (2) the Secretary of Health and Human Services, the Secretary of Agriculture, and the Secretary of the Treasury to plan and conduct the Conference.
 
Sets forth Conference provisions.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-06-22
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Department Operations, Oversight, Nutrition and Forestry.
action_date: 2009-05-18
text: Subcommittee Hearings Held.
action_date: 2009-05-08
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Rules and Organization of the House.
action_date: 2009-05-07
text: Referred to House Rules
action_date: 2009-05-07
text: Referred to the Committee on Agriculture, and in addition to the Committee on Rules, 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: 2009-05-07
text: Referred to House Agriculture
action_date: 2009-05-07
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-05-07
text: Introduced in House
Expanding Dependent and Child Care Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-2298
Sponsor: Rep. Yarmuth, John A. [D-KY-3]
Introduced: 2009-05-07 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Adult day care
Child care and development
Employee benefits and pensions
Income tax exclusion
Inflation and prices

Summary:
action_date: 2009-05-07
text: 
Expanding Dependent and Child Care Act of 2009 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to increase to $7,500 the amount of employer-provided dependent care assistance that an employee may exclude from gross income. Allows an annual inflation adjustment to such increased amount after 2010. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-05-07
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2009-05-07
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-05-07
text: Introduced in House