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Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac Full Disclosure Act

Bill: 111-hr-1353
Sponsor: Rep. Putnam, Adam H. [R-FL-12]
Introduced: 2009-03-05 in the House
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Banking and financial institutions regulation
Corporate finance and management
Government corporations and government-sponsored enterprises
Housing finance and home ownership
Licensing and registrations
Securities
Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)
User charges and fees

Summary:
action_date: 2009-03-05
text: 
Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac Full Disclosure Act - Amends the Federal National Mortgage Association Charter Act to declare that stock, obligations, securities, participations, or other instruments issued by the Federal National Mortgage Association (Fannie Mae) shall not be exempt securities within the meaning of the laws administered by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) (thus subjecting such securities to SEC regulation).
 
Amends the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation Act to declare that any securities issued or guaranteed by the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation (Freddie Mac) shall not be exempt securities within the meaning of SEC-administered laws (thus subjecting such securities also to SEC regulation).
 
States that transactions involving the initial disposition by an approved seller of pooled certificates acquired by the seller from Fannie Mae or Freddie Mac upon the initial issuance of the pooled certificates shall be deemed to be transactions by a person other than as an issuer, underwriter, or dealer within the meaning of the laws administered by the SEC.
 
Defines pooled certificates as single class mortgage-backed securities guaranteed by Fannie Mae or Freddie Mac that have been issued by Fannie or Freddie directly to the approved seller in exchange for the mortgage loans underlying such mortgage-backed securities.
 
Amends the Securities Act of 1933 to exempt specified applicants filing a securities registration statement subject to a fee from being required to pay aggregate fees in excess of 5% of the target offsetting collection amount for the fiscal year. 
 
States that fees paid in connection with registration statements relating to business combinations shall not be included in calculating the total fees paid by any applicant.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-03-05
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2009-03-05
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-03-05
text: Introduced in House
Veterans Eagle Parks Pass Act

Bill: 111-hr-1354
Sponsor: Rep. Rehberg, Denny [R-MT-At Large]
Introduced: 2009-03-05 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Parks, recreation areas, trails
User charges and fees
Veterans' pensions and compensation

Summary:
action_date: 2009-03-05
text: 
Veterans Eagle Parks Pass Act - Makes the National Parks and Federal Recreational Lands Pass available at a discount to certain veterans. 

Makes a National Parks and Federal Recreational Lands Pass made available under this Act valid for one year from the date of issuance. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-04-23
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Department Operations, Oversight, Nutrition and Forestry.
action_date: 2009-03-10
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests and Public Lands.
action_date: 2009-03-10
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR H3111)
action_date: 2009-03-05
text: Referred to House Agriculture
action_date: 2009-03-05
text: Referred to the Committee on Natural Resources, and in addition to the Committee on Agriculture, 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: 2009-03-05
text: Referred to House Natural Resources
action_date: 2009-03-05
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-03-05
text: Introduced in House
National Labor Relations Modernization Act

Bill: 111-hr-1355
Sponsor: Rep. Sestak, Joe [D-PA-7]
Introduced: 2009-03-05 in the House
Policy area: Labor and Employment
Subjects: Civil actions and liability
Employment discrimination and employee rights
Government studies and investigations
Labor standards
Labor-management relations
Wages and earnings

Summary:
action_date: 2009-03-05
text: 
National Labor Relations Modernization Act - Amends the National Labor Relations Act to set forth special procedural requirements for reaching an initial collective bargaining agreement following certification or recognition of an individual or labor organization as the elected exclusive collective bargaining representative of a unit of 20 or more employees.
 
Revises enforcement requirements with respect to unfair labor practices during union organizing drives, particularly a preliminary investigation of an alleged unfair labor practice (ULP) which may lead to proceedings for injunctive relief. 
 
Requires that priority be given to a preliminary investigation of any charge that, while employees were seeking representation by a labor organization, or during the period after a labor organization was recognized as a representative, but before the first collective bargaining contract is entered into, an employer: (1) discharged or otherwise discriminated against an employee to encourage or discourage membership in the labor organization; (2) threatened to discharge or to otherwise discriminate against an employee in order to interfere with, restrain, or coerce employees in the exercise of guaranteed self-organization or collective bargaining rights; or (3) engaged in any other related ULP that significantly interferes with, restrains, or coerces employees in the exercise of such guaranteed rights.
 
Adds to remedies for such violations: (1) back pay plus double liquidated damages; and (2) additional civil penalties.
 
Requires an employer, within 30 days after the National Labor Relations Board orders an election, to: (1) notify the designated representative of activities the employer intends to engage in to oppose recognition; and (2) provide such representative with equal access to the place of employment to campaign in favor of such recognition. Makes it an ULP for an employer to fail to provide such representative with such notice and equal access.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-04-29
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2009-03-05
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and Labor.
action_date: 2009-03-05
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-03-05
text: Introduced in House
Homeownership Vesting Plan Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-1356
Sponsor: Rep. Sestak, Joe [D-PA-7]
Introduced: 2009-03-05 in the House
Policy area: Housing and Community Development
Subjects: Business records
Civil actions and liability
Contracts and agency
Financial services and investments
Government lending and loan guarantees
Housing finance and home ownership

Summary:
action_date: 2009-03-05
text: 
Home Ownership Vesting Plan Act of 2009 - Amends the National Housing Act to direct the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) to: (1) insure any mortgage covering a one- to four-family principal and sole residence that is made for the purpose of paying or prepaying outstanding obligations (refinancing) under an existing mortgage or mortgages meeting specified requirements; (2) pay $1,000 to the servicer of the existing senior mortgage refinanced by each mortgage insured under this Act; and (3) make a nonamortizing no-interest loan to the mortgagor, the proceeds of which shall be paid by the Secretary directly to the holder of the existing senior mortgage being refinanced.
 
Sets forth a schedule for repayment of principal only if the borrower defaults.
 

 
Shields a servicer from liability for entering into a loan modification or workout plan with respect to any such mortgage if the servicer acts consistent with the fiduciary duty of servicers of pooled residential mortgages under the Truth in Lending Act.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-03-05
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2009-03-05
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-03-05
text: Introduced in House
To authorize the Secretary of the Navy to convey the former Navy Extremely Low Frequency communications project site in Republic, Michigan, to Humboldt Township in Marquette County, Michigan.

Bill: 111-hr-1357
Sponsor: Rep. Stupak, Bart [D-MI-1]
Introduced: 2009-03-05 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Land transfers
Michigan
Military facilities and property

Summary:
action_date: 2009-03-05
text: 
Authorizes the Secretary of the Navy to convey certain real property, including improvements, that was formerly used by the Navy as an Extremely Low Frequency communications project site in Republic, Michigan, to Humboldt township in Marquette County, Michigan. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-04-27
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Readiness.
action_date: 2009-03-05
text: Referred to the House Committee on Armed Services.
action_date: 2009-03-05
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-03-05
text: Introduced in House
Burt Lake Band of Ottawa and Chippewa Indians Reaffirmation Act

Bill: 111-hr-1358
Sponsor: Rep. Stupak, Bart [D-MI-1]
Introduced: 2009-03-05 in the House
Policy area: Native Americans
Subjects: Federal-Indian relations
Indian lands and resources rights
Land transfers
Michigan

Summary:
action_date: 2009-03-05
text: 
Burt Lake Band of Ottawa and Chippewa Indians Reaffirmation Act - Reaffirms federal recognition and the rights and privileges of the Burt Lake Band of Ottawa and Chippewa Indians in Cheboygan County, Michigan. Extends to the Band eligibility for all federal services and benefits available to other federally recognized Indian tribes. Designates the service area for the delivery of federal services to the Band and to other Indians in the area of Cheboygan County, Michigan.

Directs the Secretary of the Interior to acquire land in Cheboygan County, Michigan, and in other geographic areas and to hold such lands in trust for the benefit of the Band.

Sets forth criteria and evidentiary requirements for determining the initial membership of the Band. Requires the Band to provide a copy of its base roll to the Assistant Secretary for Indian Affairs within one year after the enactment of this Act.

Provides that the initial constitution of the Band shall be the constitution submitted by the Band to the Office of Federal Acknowledgment on May 2, 2005.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-07-15
text: Committee Hearings Held.
action_date: 2009-03-05
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2009-03-05
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-03-05
text: Introduced in House
Secure and Responsible Drug Disposal Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-1359
Sponsor: Rep. Stupak, Bart [D-MI-1]
Introduced: 2009-03-05 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Department of Justice
Drug trafficking and controlled substances
Health facilities and institutions
Prescription drugs
Solid waste and recycling

Summary:
action_date: 2009-03-05
text: 
Secure and Responsible Drug Disposal Act of 2009 - Amends the Controlled Substances Act to allow an ultimate user who has lawfully obtained a controlled substance to deliver that substance to another person, without being registered, for the purpose of disposal if: (1) the person receiving the substance is authorized to engage in such activity; and (2) the disposal takes place in accordance with regulations issued by the Attorney General to prevent diversion of controlled substances.
 
Permits the Attorney General to authorize long-term care facilities to dispose of controlled substances on behalf of ultimate users in a manner that will provide effective controls against diversion and that is consistent with public health and safety.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-04-27
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.
action_date: 2009-03-06
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2009-03-05
text: Referred to House Judiciary
action_date: 2009-03-05
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on the Judiciary, 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: 2009-03-05
text: Referred to House Energy and Commerce
action_date: 2009-03-05
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-03-05
text: Introduced in House
Contractor Accountability Act

Bill: 111-hr-1360
Sponsor: Rep. Sutton, Betty [D-OH-13]
Introduced: 2009-03-05 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Congressional oversight
Government information and archives
Public contracts and procurement

Summary:
action_date: 2009-03-05
text: 
Contractor Accountability Act - Requires the head of each federal agency to report to Congress annually on each covered contract or order awarded or issued by the agency during the year. Requires the report to contain: (1) a certification that the agency has exercised oversight over each contract or order sufficient to ensure that each contractor is fulfilling the obligations specified; and (2) a list of the names of each contractor found to not be fulfilling its obligations.
 
Requires each report to be publicly available on the agency's website. 

Requires the Comptroller General to report to Congress on agency compliance.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-05-04
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Government Management, Organization, and Procurement.
action_date: 2009-03-05
text: Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.
action_date: 2009-03-05
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-03-05
text: Introduced in House
Increased Student Achievement Through Increased Student Support Act

Bill: 111-hr-1361
Sponsor: Rep. Towns, Edolphus [D-NY-10]
Introduced: 2009-03-05 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Child health
Education of the disadvantaged
Education programs funding
Elementary and secondary education
Health personnel
Higher education
Mental health
Social work, volunteer service, charitable organizations
Student aid and college costs
Teaching, teachers, curricula
Wages and earnings

Summary:
action_date: 2009-03-05
text: 
Increased Student Achievement Through Increased Student Support Act - Directs the Secretary of Education to award competitive, renewable, five-year grants to partnerships between low-income local educational agencies (LEAs) and schools offering graduate programs in school counseling, social work, or psychology to increase the number of program graduates employed by low-income LEAs.
 
Defines &quot;low-income LEAs&quot; as those that: (1) serve students at least 20% of which are from low-income families; (2) have ratios of school counselors, social workers, and psychologists to students that fall at least 10% below specified target ratios; and (3) have been identified as needing improvement or corrective action or include at least one school identified as needing improvement, corrective action, or restructuring under the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965.
 
Allows the use of grant funds to: (1) provide program graduate students with field training at partnership LEA schools; (2) contribute to program graduates' salaries at such schools for up to three years after they graduate; (3) increase the number of school counselors, social workers, and psychologists per student, and from underrepresented backgrounds, in such schools; (4) enhance the capacity of partnership graduate schools to train such professionals; (5) develop course work designed to facilitate such graduates' service to low-income LEAs and at-risk students; and (6) provide tuition credits to such graduate students and student loan forgiveness to program graduates employed as school counselors, social workers, or psychologists by low-income LEAs for at least five consecutive years.
 
Directs the Secretary to establish a program providing student loan forgiveness to non-participants in this Act's grant program who have been employed for at least five consecutive years as school counselors, social workers, or psychologists by low-income LEAs.
 
Requires the Secretary to identify a formula for future use in designating regions as eligible for benefit programs because of having a shortage of such school personnel.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-04-29
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Higher Education, Lifelong Learning, and Competitiveness.
action_date: 2009-04-29
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education.
action_date: 2009-03-05
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and Labor.
action_date: 2009-03-05
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E578)
action_date: 2009-03-05
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-03-05
text: Introduced in House
GothamCorps Authorization Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-1363
Sponsor: Rep. Weiner, Anthony D. [D-NY-9]
Introduced: 2009-03-05 in the House
Policy area: Social Welfare
Subjects: Education programs funding
Higher education
National and community service
Student aid and college costs

Summary:
action_date: 2009-03-05
text: 
GothamCorps Authorization Act of 2009 - Establishes the GothamCorps program. Directs the Corporation for National and Community Service to provide, through such program, for the award of grants to certain units of local government to carry out volunteer projects. Requires local government units to provide each participant in a volunteer project with a scholarship equal to the cost of one year's tuition at a local public college. Authorizes grant funding from amounts made available in the National Service Trust.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-04-29
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Healthy Families and Communities.
action_date: 2009-03-05
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and Labor.
action_date: 2009-03-05
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-03-05
text: Introduced in House
H.I.V. Education and Prevention Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-1364
Sponsor: Rep. Weiner, Anthony D. [D-NY-9]
Introduced: 2009-03-05 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Child health
Drug trafficking and controlled substances
Drug, alcohol, tobacco use
Family planning and birth control
HIV/AIDS
Health programs administration and funding
Health promotion and preventive care
Sex and reproductive health

Summary:
action_date: 2009-03-05
text: 
H.I.V. Education and Prevention Act of 2009 - Amends title V (Maternal and Child Health Services) of the Social Security Act to expand provisions for abstinence education to allow states to provide other sex education. Defines the term &quot;sex education&quot; to mean education about the functional, structural, or behavioral aspects of human reproduction and education about abstinence or contraception.
 
Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services to establish a pilot program to make grants to public and nonprofit entities to provide: (1) substance abuse treatment services in the form of long-term counseling; (2) substance abuse prevention services to individuals who are less than 21 years of age; and (3) services that facilitate interaction between individuals receiving treatment for substance abuse and individuals receiving prevention services in a manner that enhances both such services.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-03-06
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2009-03-05
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2009-03-05
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-03-05
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Truth in Lending Act to require a store in which a consumer may apply to open a credit or charge card account to display a sign, at each location where the application may be made, containing the same information required by such Act to be prominently placed in a tabular format on the application.

Bill: 111-hr-1365
Sponsor: Rep. Weiner, Anthony D. [D-NY-9]
Introduced: 2009-03-05 in the House
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: Consumer affairs
Consumer credit
Federal preemption

Summary:
action_date: 2009-03-05
text: 
Amends the Truth in Lending Act to require any person selling personal property to consumers on a business premises where credit or charge card account applications are made available to display conspicuously a sign that contains the same information required by the Act to be prominently placed in tabular format on the account application itself.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-03-05
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2009-03-05
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-03-05
text: Introduced in House
Innocent Check Depositor Protection Act

Bill: 111-hr-1366
Sponsor: Rep. Weiner, Anthony D. [D-NY-9]
Introduced: 2009-03-05 in the House
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: Bank accounts, deposits, capital
Banking and financial institutions regulation
User charges and fees

Summary:
action_date: 2009-03-05
text: 
Innocent Check Depositor Protection Act - Amends the Expedited Funds Availability Act to prohibit a receiving depository institution from imposing check dishonorment fees upon a depositor if the check is drawn on an account at an originating institution which subsequently dishonors it for lack of sufficient funds.
 
States that this Act shall not be construed as affecting any intervening depository institution or the costs of services it provides.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-03-05
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2009-03-05
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-03-05
text: Introduced in House
Stop Business with Terrorists Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-1367
Sponsor: Rep. Weiner, Anthony D. [D-NY-9]
Introduced: 2009-03-05 in the House
Policy area: International Affairs
Subjects: Business investment and capital
Civil actions and liability
Foreign and international corporations
Iran
Middle East
Sanctions
Terrorism
Trade restrictions
U.S. and foreign investments

Summary:
action_date: 2009-03-05
text: 
Stop Business with Terrorists Act of 2009 - Subjects the parent company of a foreign entity that violates certain executive orders prohibiting certain business transactions with Iran (or other such prohibitions imposed on Iran under the authority of the International Emergency Economic Powers Act) to penalties to the same extent as if the parent company had engaged in such violations. 
 
Makes such prohibitions and penalties inapplicable to a parent company of an entity on which the President imposed a penalty if the parent company divests or terminates its business with such entity not later than 90 days after enactment of this Act.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-03-05
text: Referred to the House Committee on Foreign Affairs.
action_date: 2009-03-05
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-03-05
text: Introduced in House
Auto File Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-1368
Sponsor: Rep. Weiner, Anthony D. [D-NY-9]
Introduced: 2009-03-05 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Income tax credits
Poverty and welfare assistance
Tax administration and collection, taxpayers

Summary:
action_date: 2009-03-05
text: 
Auto File Act of 2009 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to require the Secretary of the Treasury to establish a program for mailing pre-filled income tax returns to assist certain taxpayers who may be eligible for the earned income tax credit in completing their tax returns.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-03-05
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2009-03-05
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-03-05
text: Introduced in House