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Commonsense Auto Recovery Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-100
Sponsor: Rep. Dreier, David [R-CA-26]
Introduced: 2009-01-06 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Income tax credits
Motor vehicles
Sales and excise taxes
State and local taxation

Summary:
action_date: 2009-01-06
text: 
Commonsense Auto Recovery Act of 2009 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow individuals and small employers a tax credit for state and local sales taxes paid on the purchase of a passenger motor vehicle (not more than two axles) the purchase price of which does not exceed $50,000. Terminates such credit after 2010.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-01-06
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2009-01-06
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-01-06
text: Introduced in House
Economic Recovery Through Responsible Homeownership Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-101
Sponsor: Rep. Dreier, David [R-CA-26]
Introduced: 2009-01-06 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Housing finance and home ownership
Income tax credits

Summary:
action_date: 2009-01-06
text: 
Economic Recovery Through Responsible Homeownership Act of 2009 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow an individual taxpayer a refundable tax credit for the purchase in 2009 or 2010 of a residence located in the United States if the construction of such residence began before 2009. Allows a credit of either $2,000, $5,000, or $10,000 for downpayments of 5, 10, or 15% of the residence's purchase price respectively.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-01-06
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2009-01-06
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-01-06
text: Introduced in House
To authorize appropriations for the San Gabriel Basin Restoration Fund.

Bill: 111-hr-102
Sponsor: Rep. Dreier, David [R-CA-26]
Introduced: 2009-01-06 in the House
Policy area: Water Resources Development
Subjects: Aquatic ecology
California
Government trust funds
Intergovernmental relations
State and local finance
Water quality
Water resources funding
Water use and supply
Watersheds

Summary:
action_date: 2009-01-06
text: 
Amends the Miscellaneous Appropriations Act, 2001 to establish a 35% non-federal matching requirement for specified federal funds made available to: (1) the San Gabriel Water Quality Authority; and (2) the Central Basin Municipal Water District.
 
Increases the authorization of appropriations for the San Gabriel Restoration Fund. Sets aside a specified sum to carry out the Central Basin Water Quality Project.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-02-04
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Water and Power.
action_date: 2009-01-06
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2009-01-06
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E14)
action_date: 2009-01-06
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-01-06
text: Introduced in House
Caging Prohibition Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-103
Sponsor: Rep. Conyers, John, Jr. [D-MI-14]
Introduced: 2009-01-06 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Elections, voting, political campaign regulation
Evidence and witnesses
Government information and archives
State and local government operations
Voting rights

Summary:
action_date: 2009-01-06
text: 
Caging Prohibition Act of 2009 - Amends the federal criminal code to prohibit state or local election officials from preventing an individual from registering or voting in any election for federal office, or from permitting a formal challenge under state law to an individual's registration status or eligibility to vote, if the basis for such decision is evidence consisting of: (1) a voter caging document or voter caging list; (2) an unverified match list; (3) an error or omission on voter application or registration documents that is not material to an individual's eligibility to vote; or (4) any other evidence so designated by the Election Assistance Commission. 

Defines &quot;voter caging document&quot; as: (1) a nonforwardable document that is returned to the sender or a third party as undelivered or undeliverable despite an attempt to deliver it to the address of a registered voter or applicant; or (2) any document with instructions to an addressee that the document be returned to a sender or third party but is not so returned, despite an attempt to deliver it to the address of a registered voter, unless at least two federal election cycles have passed since the date of the attempted delivery.

Defines &quot;unverified match list&quot; as a list produced by matching the information of registered voters or applicants to a list of individuals ineligible to vote in the registrar's jurisdiction due to death, conviction, change of address, or otherwise, unless one of the pieces of information matched includes a signature, photograph, or unique identifying number ensuring that the information from each source refers to the same individual. 

Requires any private individual who challenges the right of another citizen to vote to set forth in writing, under penalty of perjury, personal, first-hand knowledge establishing the grounds for ineligibility. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-01-07
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E26)
action_date: 2009-01-06
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2009-01-06
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-01-06
text: Introduced in House
To establish a national commission on presidential war powers and civil liberties.

Bill: 111-hr-104
Sponsor: Rep. Conyers, John, Jr. [D-MI-14]
Introduced: 2009-01-06 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Advisory bodies
Criminal investigation, prosecution, interrogation
Detention of persons
Due process and equal protection
Government studies and investigations
Human rights
Intelligence activities, surveillance, classified information
Military law
Presidential administrations
Presidents and presidential powers, Vice Presidents
Right of privacy
Terrorism
War and emergency powers

Summary:
action_date: 2009-01-06
text: 
Establishes the National Commission on Presidential War Powers and Civil Liberties to investigate, and report to the President and Congress on, the broad range of policies of the Bush Administration that were undertaken under claims of unreviewable war powers, including: (1) detention by the Armed Forces and the intelligence community; (2) the use by such entities of enhanced interrogation techniques or techniques not authorized by the Uniform Code of Military Justice; (3) &quot;ghosting&quot; or other policies intended to conceal an individual's capture or detention; (4) extraordinary rendition; and (5) domestic warrantless electronic surveillance.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-06-12
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights, and Civil Liberties.
action_date: 2009-01-06
text: Referred to House Foreign Affairs
action_date: 2009-01-06
text: Referred to House Judiciary
action_date: 2009-01-06
text: Referred to House Intelligence (Permanent)
action_date: 2009-01-06
text: Referred to the Committee on Armed Services, and in addition to the Committees on Intelligence (Permanent Select), the Judiciary, and Foreign 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: 2009-01-06
text: Referred to House Armed Services
action_date: 2009-01-06
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-01-06
text: Introduced in House
American Opportunity Tax Credit Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-106
Sponsor: Rep. Fattah, Chaka [D-PA-2]
Introduced: 2009-01-06 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Higher education
Income tax credits
Social work, volunteer service, charitable organizations
Student aid and college costs

Summary:
action_date: 2009-01-06
text: 
American Opportunity Tax Credit Act of 2009 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow a refundable tax credit for higher education expenses up to $4,000.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-01-06
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2009-01-06
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-01-06
text: Introduced in House
Disabled Veterans Commissary and Exchange Store Benefits Act

Bill: 111-hr-108
Sponsor: Rep. Fortenberry, Jeff [R-NE-1]
Introduced: 2009-01-06 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Disability assistance
Military facilities and property
Veterans' pensions and compensation

Summary:
action_date: 2009-01-06
text: 
Disabled Veterans Commissary and Exchange Store Benefits Act - Permits a veteran with any compensable service-connected disability (and the veteran's dependents) to use commissary and exchange stores on the same basis as a member of the Armed Forces entitled to retired or retainer pay.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-01-30
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Military Personnel.
action_date: 2009-01-06
text: Referred to the House Committee on Armed Services.
action_date: 2009-01-06
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-01-06
text: Introduced in House
America's Affordable Health Care Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-109
Sponsor: Rep. Fortenberry, Jeff [R-NE-1]
Introduced: 2009-01-06 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Government information and archives
Government studies and investigations
Health care costs and insurance
Health care coverage and access
Health programs administration and funding
Intergovernmental relations
Licensing and registrations
State and local finance

Summary:
action_date: 2009-01-06
text: 
America's Affordable Health Care Act of 2009 - Authorizes a health insurance issuer to apply to the Secretary of Health and Human Services to certify health insurance coverage policies offered in the individual market in any state as Health Benefit Plans. Allows certified plans to be offered to individuals in all states without regard to state and local laws respecting mandates for benefits. Requires such plans to cover inpatient hospital services and physicians' surgical and medical services. 
 
Requires the Secretary to review the impact of this Act on the availability and purchase of health insurance coverage.
 
Amends the Public Health Service Act to increase the authorization of appropriations for FY2010-FY2014 for grants to states for the creation and operation of qualified high risk health insurance pools.
 
Conditions eligibility for receiving an operating grant on a state submitting to the Secretary evidence-based information on the operation of such pool for purposes of creating best practice guidelines. Requires the Secretary to: (1) recommend and publicly post a list of best practices on the operation of qualified high risk pools; and (2) give a bonus grant to states that demonstrate that their pool was operated in accordance with such best practices.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-01-14
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2009-01-06
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2009-01-06
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-01-06
text: Introduced in House
Human Cloning Prohibition Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-110
Sponsor: Rep. Fortenberry, Jeff [R-NE-1]
Introduced: 2009-01-06 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Cell biology and embryology
Criminal procedure and sentencing
Genetics
Medical ethics
Medical research
Trade restrictions

Summary:
action_date: 2009-01-06
text: 
Human Cloning Prohibition Act of 2009 - Amends the federal criminal code to prohibit any public or private person or entity, in or affecting interstate commerce, from: (1) performing or attempting to perform human cloning; (2) participating in an attempt to perform human cloning; or (3) shipping, receiving, or importing the product of human cloning for any purpose. Sets forth criminal and civil penalties for violations.

Provides that nothing in this Act shall restrict areas of scientific research not specifically prohibited by this Act, including research in the use of nuclear transfer or other cloning techniques to produce molecules, DNA, cells other than human embryos, tissues, organs, plants, or animals other than humans.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-02-09
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.
action_date: 2009-01-06
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2009-01-06
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-01-06
text: Introduced in House
Community Choice in Real Estate Act

Bill: 111-hr-111
Sponsor: Rep. Kanjorski, Paul E. [D-PA-11]
Introduced: 2009-01-06 in the House
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: Banking and financial institutions regulation
Real estate business

Summary:
action_date: 2009-01-06
text: 
Community Choice in Real Estate Act - Amends the Bank Holding Company Act of 1956 and the Revised Statutes of the United States to prohibit the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System and the Secretary of the Treasury, respectively, from determining that real estate brokerage activity or real estate management activity is financial in nature, is incidental to any financial activity, or is complementary to a financial activity. (In effect, prohibits financial holding companies and national banks from engaging, directly or indirectly, in real estate brokerage or real estate management activities.)
 
Exempts from such prohibition: (1) activities of a bank holding company (or any affiliate) that directly relate to managing any real property owned by national banks or their affiliates; and (2) the right, power, or ability of any financial holding company to engage in any activity, or acquire or retain the shares of any company engaged in an activity authorized for financial holding companies on December 6, 2001 ("grandfather clause").

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-01-06
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2009-01-06
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-01-06
text: Introduced in House
Homestead National Monument of America Boundary Expansion Act

Bill: 111-hr-112
Sponsor: Rep. Fortenberry, Jeff [R-NE-1]
Introduced: 2009-01-06 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Housing finance and home ownership
Land transfers
Monuments and memorials
Nebraska

Summary:
action_date: 2009-01-06
text: 
Homestead National Monument of America Boundary Expansion Act - Authorizes the Secretary of the Interior to acquire by donation or by purchase with donated or appropriated funds, from willing sellers only, the approximately 140 acres located south of the Homestead National Monument of America in Nebraska and owned by the Friends of Homestead and the approximately 160 acres known as the &quot;Graff Parcel.&quot; 

Instructs the Secretary to revise the boundary of Homestead National Monument to reflect the acquisition upon its completion.

Requires any lands acquired under this Act to be administered by the Secretary as part of Homestead National Monument. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-02-04
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests and Public Lands.
action_date: 2009-01-06
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2009-01-06
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-01-06
text: Introduced in House
To provide for audits of programs, projects, and activities funded through earmarks.

Bill: 111-hr-113
Sponsor: Rep. Fortenberry, Jeff [R-NE-1]
Introduced: 2009-01-06 in the House
Policy area: Economics and Public Finance
Subjects: Accounting and auditing
Appropriations
Congressional oversight
Executive agency funding and structure
Government studies and investigations
Public contracts and procurement

Summary:
action_date: 2009-01-06
text: 
Requires the Comptroller General to develop and implement a systematic process to: (1) review audits by Inspectors General or external auditors of executive agency and government corporation programs, projects, and activities funded through earmarks; and (2) conduct annually an appropriate number of Government Accountability Office (GAO) audits of such earmark-funded programs, projects, and activities.
 
Requires the Comptroller General to report to Congress on the results of: (1) audits of executive agency and government corporation financial statements by Inspector Generals or external auditors which were then submitted to GAO; (2) GAO reviews of such audits; and (3) annual GAO audits of earmark-funded agency programs, projects, and activities.
 
Revises audit requirements for nonfederal entities that expend federal awards totaling at least $300,000 or another amount specified by the Director of the General Assistance Administration. Requires submission to the Comptroller General of the results of all executive agency and government corporation audits of earmark-funded programs, projects, or activities.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-05-04
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Government Management, Organization, and Procurement.
action_date: 2009-01-06
text: Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.
action_date: 2009-01-06
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-01-06
text: Introduced in House
Veterans Entrepreneurial Transition Business Benefit Act

Bill: 111-hr-114
Sponsor: Rep. Fortenberry, Jeff [R-NE-1]
Introduced: 2009-01-06 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Business investment and capital
Small business
Veterans' education, employment, rehabilitation

Summary:
action_date: 2009-01-06
text: 
Veterans Entrepreneurial Transition Business Benefit Act - Allows a veteran who is eligible to receive financial educational assistance under the Montgomery GI Bill to elect to use (with the approval of the Secretary of Veterans Affairs) any such assistance to establish and operate a business that the veteran will own and operate as his or her primary source of income.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-06-10
text: Committee Hearings Held.
action_date: 2010-06-10
text: Subcommittee Hearings Held.
action_date: 2009-01-09
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Economic Opportunity.
action_date: 2009-01-06
text: Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2009-01-06
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-01-06
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide for tax exempt qualified small issue bonds to finance agricultural processing property.

Bill: 111-hr-115
Sponsor: Rep. Fortenberry, Jeff [R-NE-1]
Introduced: 2009-01-06 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Business investment and capital
Food industry and services
Income tax exclusion
Industrial facilities
Land transfers
Securities

Summary:
action_date: 2009-01-06
text: 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow the issuance of tax-exempt small issue bonds to finance the purchase of property or land used primarily for the processing of agricultural products. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-01-06
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2009-01-06
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-01-06
text: Introduced in House
Robo Calls Off Phones (Robo COP) Act

Bill: 111-hr-116
Sponsor: Rep. Foxx, Virginia [R-NC-5]
Introduced: 2009-01-06 in the House
Policy area: Science, Technology, Communications
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Federal Trade Commission (FTC)
Political advertising
Telephone and wireless communication

Summary:
action_date: 2009-01-06
text: 
Robo COP Act: Robo Calls Off Phones - Directs the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), notwithstanding any other provision of law, to revise the do-not-call registry provisions of the Telemarketing Sales Rule to prohibit politically-oriented recorded message telephone calls to telephone numbers listed on that registry. 
 
Defines politically-oriented recorded message telephone call.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-01-14
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Commerce, Trade and Consumer Protection.
action_date: 2009-01-06
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2009-01-06
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-01-06
text: Introduced in House
To prohibit a State from imposing a discriminatory commuter tax on nonresidents, and for other purposes.

Bill: 111-hr-117
Sponsor: Rep. Frelinghuysen, Rodney P. [R-NJ-11]
Introduced: 2009-01-06 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Intergovernmental relations
State and local taxation
Tax administration and collection, taxpayers

Summary:
action_date: 2009-01-06
text: 
Prohibits a state from imposing a tax on the income earned in the state by nonresidents unless the tax is of substantial equality of treatment for the citizens of the state and the nonresidents so commuting.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-01-06
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2009-01-06
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-01-06
text: Introduced in House
To authorize the addition of 100 acres to Morristown National Historical Park.

Bill: 111-hr-118
Sponsor: Rep. Frelinghuysen, Rodney P. [R-NJ-11]
Introduced: 2009-01-06 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Historic sites and heritage areas
Land transfers
Military history
New Jersey

Summary:
action_date: 2009-01-06
text: 
Authorizes the addition of certain lands to the Morristown National Historical Park in New Jersey. 

action_date: 2009-11-16
text: 
Authorizes the addition of certain lands to the Morristown National Historical Park in New Jersey from willing sellers only.

action_date: 2009-12-07
text: 

(This measure has not been amended since it was reported to the House on November 16, 2009. The summary of that version is repeated here.)

 
Authorizes the addition of certain lands to the Morristown National Historical Park in New Jersey from willing sellers only. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-12-08
text: Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
action_date: 2009-12-07
text: Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
action_date: 2009-12-07
text: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended Agreed to by voice vote. (text: CR H13536)
action_date: 2009-12-07
text: Passed/agreed to in House: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended Agreed to by voice vote.(text: CR H13536)
action_date: 2009-12-07
text: DEBATE - The House proceeded with forty minutes of debate on H.R. 118.
action_date: 2009-12-07
text: Considered under suspension of the rules. (consideration: CR H13536-13537)
action_date: 2009-12-07
text: Ms. Bordallo moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended.
action_date: 2009-11-16
text: Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 193.
action_date: 2009-11-16
text: Reported (Amended) by the Committee on Natural Resources. H. Rept. 111-335.
action_date: 2009-11-16
text: Reported (Amended) by the Committee on Natural Resources. H. Rept. 111-335.
action_date: 2009-10-28
text: Ordered to be Reported (Amended) by Voice Vote.
action_date: 2009-10-28
text: Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
action_date: 2009-10-28
text: Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests and Public Lands Discharged.
action_date: 2009-10-01
text: Subcommittee Hearings Held.
action_date: 2009-02-04
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests and Public Lands.
action_date: 2009-01-06
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2009-01-06
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-01-06
text: Introduced in House