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Children's Product Safety Enhancement and Clarification Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-1046
Sponsor: Rep. Putnam, Adam H. [R-FL-12]
Introduced: 2009-02-12 in the House
Policy area: Commerce
Subjects: Child safety and welfare
Hazardous wastes and toxic substances
Manufacturing
Product safety and quality
Retail and wholesale trades
Small business
Social work, volunteer service, charitable organizations

Summary:
action_date: 2009-02-12
text: 
Children's Product Safety Enhancement and Clarification Act of 2009 - Amends the Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act of 2008 to exempt a children's product made solely out of fabric from provisions limiting the amount of lead in children's products.
 
Requires the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC), in implementing those lead limits with regard to a small business, a person who sells used goods, or a charity to: (1) work cooperatively with the entity; (2) take into account economic, administrative, or other limits on the entity's compliance ability; and (3) construe those provisions favorably to the entity.
 
Exempts a children's product made solely out of fabric from provisions requiring a manufacturer to certify, based on third party testing, that the product complies with an applicable children's product safety rule before importing, warehousing, or distributing the product.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-02-13
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Commerce, Trade and Consumer Protection.
action_date: 2009-02-12
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2009-02-12
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-02-12
text: Introduced in House
To amend the National and Community Service Act of 1990 to establish the Silver Scholarship program to encourage increased volunteer work by seniors.

Bill: 111-hr-1047
Sponsor: Rep. Sestak, Joe [D-PA-7]
Introduced: 2009-02-12 in the House
Policy area: Social Welfare
Subjects: Aging
Education programs funding
Elementary and secondary education
Higher education
Social work, volunteer service, charitable organizations
Student aid and college costs

Summary:
action_date: 2009-02-12
text: 
Amends the National and Community Service Act of 1990 to authorize the Corporation for National and Community Service to award grants to public agencies or private nonprofit organizations experienced in administering service programs to provide Silver Scholarships to individuals who: (1) perform, over a 12-month period, at least 500 hours of volunteer service after attaining age 55; and (2) have received, during the five-year period preceding the award, fewer than two such scholarships.
 
Allows the proration of such scholarships when an individual, due to compelling personal circumstances, cannot perform 500, but performs at least 250, hours of service within the 12-month period.
 
Allows a scholarship recipient to designate another individual to use such scholarship.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-03-30
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Healthy Families and Communities.
action_date: 2009-02-12
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and Labor.
action_date: 2009-02-12
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-02-12
text: Introduced in House
Asset Management Improvement Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-1048
Sponsor: Rep. Sires, Albio [D-NJ-13]
Introduced: 2009-02-12 in the House
Policy area: Housing and Community Development
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Border security and unlawful immigration
Department of Housing and Urban Development
Firearms and explosives
Housing and community development funding
Housing finance and home ownership
Public housing
User charges and fees

Summary:
action_date: 2009-02-12
text: 
Asset Management Improvement Act of 2009 - Prohibits the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development from imposing restrictions or limitations on the amount of management and related fees for a public housing project which the public housing agency (PHA) determines reasonable, unless such restriction or limitation: (1) is determined pursuant to a negotiated rulemaking convened by the Secretary no earlier than April 1, 2010, with representatives from interested parties; and (2) is effective only on or after January 1, 2012.
 
Allows any PHA that owns or operates fewer than 500 public housing units under the United States Housing Act of 1937 to elect to be exempt from asset management requirements imposed by the Secretary.
 
Prohibits the Secretary from imposing any requirement relating to asset management restricting the use by PHAs of amounts for Capital Fund assistance for costs of any PHA central office.
 
Requires the Secretary to ensure that PHAs encourage the reasonable efforts of residents to organize.
 
Prohibits anything in this Act from being construed to make illegal immigrants eligible for housing assistance. 
 
Prohibits the Secretary from accepting any fees for enforcing a lease that requires the registration, or prohibits the possession, of firearms for personal protection or sport, if the registration or possession is not prohibited by law.
 
Amends the Quality Housing and Work Responsibility Act of 1998 to permit a PHA or owner of federally assisted housing to terminate the tenancy or assistance for any household with a member illegally using a firearm.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-02-12
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2009-02-12
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-02-12
text: Introduced in House
To prohibit the sale of kitchen ranges or ovens which do not include a design, bracket, or other device which complies with an applicable consensus product safety standard intended to prevent the product from tipping.

Bill: 111-hr-1049
Sponsor: Rep. Stupak, Bart [D-MI-1]
Introduced: 2009-02-12 in the House
Policy area: Commerce
Subjects: Consumer affairs
Government information and archives
Product safety and quality

Summary:
action_date: 2009-02-12
text: 
Prohibits, under the Consumer Product Safety Act, the manufacture, sale, distribution, importation, or installation of a residential kitchen range or oven which does not include a device which complies with a consensus product safety standard intended to prevent product tipping.
 
Requires the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) to conduct a campaign to educate consumers about range and oven tipping danger and the importance of installing such products in accordance with an applicable consensus product safety standard.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-02-13
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Commerce, Trade and Consumer Protection.
action_date: 2009-02-12
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2009-02-12
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-02-12
text: Introduced in House
Human Cloning Prohibition Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-1050
Sponsor: Rep. Stupak, Bart [D-MI-1]
Introduced: 2009-02-12 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: 2009-02-12
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: 2009-03-16
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.
action_date: 2009-02-12
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2009-02-12
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-02-12
text: Introduced in House
Sole Community Hospital Preservation Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-1051
Sponsor: Rep. Tanner, John S. [D-TN-8]
Introduced: 2009-02-12 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Government studies and investigations
Health facilities and institutions
Home and outpatient care
Hospital care
Medicare
Rural conditions and development

Summary:
action_date: 2009-02-12
text: 
Sole Community Hospital Preservation Act of 2009 - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act with respect to the prospective payment system (PPS) for hospital outpatient department (OPD) services, particularly the transitional adjustment for sole community hospitals to limit any decline in payment. Continues to hold sole community hospitals harmless from any decline in payment. Increases the payment for covered OPD services furnished on or after January 1, 2010, in a sole community hospital by the amount of any difference between the pre-Balanced Budget Act of 1997 (pre-BBA) amount and a lesser PPS amount.
 
Prescribes an increase of 7.1% in payment for such services (before the application of outliers and coinsurance). Permits the Secretary of Health and Human Services to revise such percentage based on a study comparing costs incurred by sole community hospitals located in rural areas by ambulatory payment classification groups (APCs) to costs incurred by hospitals located in urban areas. Bars any such increase in payment for devices, drugs, or biologicals.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-02-13
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2009-02-12
text: Referred to House Ways and Means
action_date: 2009-02-12
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: 2009-02-12
text: Referred to House Energy and Commerce
action_date: 2009-02-12
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-02-12
text: Introduced in House
Ensuring Military Readiness Through Stability and Predictability Deployment Policy Act

Bill: 111-hr-1052
Sponsor: Rep. Tauscher, Ellen O. [D-CA-10]
Introduced: 2009-02-12 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Afghanistan
Asia
Conflicts and wars
Iraq
Middle East
Military operations and strategy
Military personnel and dependents
Military readiness
National Guard and reserves

Summary:
action_date: 2009-02-12
text: 
Ensuring Military Readiness Through Stability and Predictability Deployment Policy Act - Prohibits any unit of the regular Armed Forces from being deployed for Operations Iraqi Freedom or Enduring Freedom unless the period between the most recent previous deployment and a subsequent deployment is equal to or longer than the period of the most recent previous deployment. Expresses the sense of Congress that the optimal minimum period between such deployments should be equal to or longer than twice the period of the most recent previous deployment.
 
Prohibits any unit of the reserves from being deployed for such Operations unless the period between the most recent previous deployment and a subsequent deployment is at least three times longer than the period of the most recent previous deployment. Expresses the sense of Congress that units of the reserves should not be mobilized continuously for more than one year, and that the optimal minimum period between such deployments should be five years.
 
Provides exceptions from deployment requirements.
 
Authorizes the President or chief of staff of the military department concerned to waive such requirements under certain circumstances.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-04-27
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Military Personnel.
action_date: 2009-02-12
text: Referred to the House Committee on Armed Services.
action_date: 2009-02-12
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-02-12
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Marine Mammal Protection Act of 1972 to allow importation of polar bear trophies taken in sport hunts in Canada before the date the polar bear was determined to be a threatened species under the Endangered Species Act of 1973.

Bill: 111-hr-1054
Sponsor: Rep. Young, Don [R-AK-At Large]
Introduced: 2009-02-12 in the House
Policy area: Animals
Subjects: Animal protection and human-animal relationships
Canada
Endangered and threatened species
Mammals
Outdoor recreation
Trade restrictions

Summary:
action_date: 2009-02-12
text: 
Directs the Secretary of the Interior to issue a permit for the importation of polar bear parts taken in a sport hunt in Canada, if legally harvested before: (1) February 18, 1997; or (2) May 15, 2008, from a bear population from which a sport-hunted trophy could be imported before such date. (Polar bears were listed as a threatened species by the Department of the Interior on May 14, 2008.)


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-09-22
text: Subcommittee Hearings Held.
action_date: 2009-02-20
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Insular Affairs, Oceans and Wildlife.
action_date: 2009-02-12
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2009-02-12
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-02-12
text: Introduced in House
Restoration of the U.S.-Russia Polar Bear Conservation Fund Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-1055
Sponsor: Rep. Young, Don [R-AK-At Large]
Introduced: 2009-02-12 in the House
Policy area: Animals
Subjects: Animal protection and human-animal relationships
Canada
Endangered and threatened species
Mammals
Outdoor recreation
Trade restrictions

Summary:
action_date: 2009-02-12
text: 
Restoration of the U.S.-Russia Polar Bear Conservation Fund Act of 2009 - Amends the Marine Mammal Protection Act of 1972 to allow the importation of polar bear parts taken legally in sport hunts in Canada.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-02-18
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Insular Affairs, Oceans and Wildlife.
action_date: 2009-02-12
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2009-02-12
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-02-12
text: Introduced in House
For the relief of Rosa Isela Figueroa Rincon, Miguel Angel Figueroa Rincon, Blanca Azucena Figueroa Rincon, and Nancy Araceli Figueroa Rincon.

Bill: 111-hr-1056
Sponsor: Rep. DeGette, Diana [D-CO-1]
Introduced: 2009-02-12 in the House
Policy area: Private Legislation

Summary:
action_date: 2009-02-12
text: Provides for the relief of Rosa Isela Figueroa Rincon, Miguel Angel Figueroa Rincon, Blanca Azucena Figueroa Rincon, and Nancy Araceli Figueroa Rincon.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-03-10
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration, Citizenship, Refugees, Border Security, and International Law.
action_date: 2009-02-12
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2009-02-12
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-02-12
text: Introduced in House
To authorize the Secretary of the Department in which the Coast Guard is operating to issue a certificate of documentation for operation in the coastwise trade for the vessel MAYA.

Bill: 111-hr-1057
Sponsor: Rep. Herger, Wally [R-CA-2]
Introduced: 2009-02-12 in the House
Policy area: Private Legislation

Summary:
action_date: 2009-02-12
text: 
Authorizes the Secretary of the department in which the Coast Guard is operating, notwithstanding specified provisions, to issue a certificate of documentation with a coastwise endorsement for the vessel MAYA (United States official number 1107319).


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-02-13
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Coast Guard and Maritime Transportation.
action_date: 2009-02-12
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2009-02-12
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-02-12
text: Introduced in House
Seniors Financial Security Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-1058
Sponsor: Rep. Franks, Trent [R-AZ-2]
Introduced: 2009-02-13 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Employee benefits and pensions
Income tax exclusion
Railroads
Social security and elderly assistance
Transportation employees

Summary:
action_date: 2009-02-13
text: 
Seniors Financial Security Act of 2009 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to repeal the inclusion in gross income for income tax purposes of social security and tier 1 railroad retirement benefits.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-02-13
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2009-02-13
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-02-13
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act to provide eligibility for an heir of a deceased homeowner to receive certain housing-related disaster assistance.

Bill: 111-hr-1059
Sponsor: Rep. Blackburn, Marsha [R-TN-7]
Introduced: 2009-02-13 in the House
Policy area: Emergency Management
Subjects: Disaster relief and insurance
Housing finance and home ownership

Summary:
action_date: 2009-02-13
text: 
Amends the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act to provide eligibility for an heir of a deceased homeowner to receive certain housing-related disaster assistance (i.e., financial assistance for the repair or replacement of owner-occupied private residences damaged by a major disaster).


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-02-13
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Economic Development, Public Buildings and Emergency Management.
action_date: 2009-02-13
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2009-02-13
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-02-13
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to clarify that a NADBank guarantee is not considered a Federal guarantee for purposes of determining the tax-exempt status of bonds.

Bill: 111-hr-1060
Sponsor: Rep. Gonzalez, Charles A. [D-TX-20]
Introduced: 2009-02-13 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Government lending and loan guarantees
Income tax exclusion
Interest, dividends, interest rates
Securities
State and local finance

Summary:
action_date: 2009-02-13
text: 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to provide that a loan guarantee by the North American Development Bank (NADBank) shall not be treated as a federal guarantee for purposes of the tax exclusion for interest on state and local bonds. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-02-13
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2009-02-13
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-02-13
text: Introduced in House
United States Foreign Assistance Partner Vetting System Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-1062
Sponsor: Rep. Ros-Lehtinen, Ileana [R-FL-18]
Introduced: 2009-02-13 in the House
Policy area: International Affairs
Subjects: Administrative remedies
Congressional oversight
Department of State
Foreign aid and international relief
Government information and archives
Terrorism

Summary:
action_date: 2009-02-13
text: 
United States Foreign Assistance Partner Vetting System Act of 2009 - States that it is U.S. policy to protect the people, property, and territory of the United States against acts of international terrorism through the implementation of a system to verify that persons who receive U.S. foreign assistance funds do not commit or support acts of international terrorism.
 
Amends the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 to direct the Secretary of State to: (1) establish a system to verify that persons receiving U.S. foreign assistance funds are not affiliated with or supporting foreign terrorist organizations, or otherwise commiting or supporting acts of international terrorism; and (2) ensure that persons denied assistance pursuant to such vetting system are provided specified information and afforded specified procedural safeguards.
 
Sets forth system elements.
 
Prohibits providing foreign assistance funds to persons determined, pursuant to such system, to be affiliated with or supporting such organizations or commit or support international terrorism.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-02-13
text: Referred to the House Committee on Foreign Affairs.
action_date: 2009-02-13
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-02-13
text: Introduced in House
To repeal a requirement with respect to the procurement and acquisition of alternative fuels.

Bill: 111-hr-1063
Sponsor: Rep. Hensarling, Jeb [R-TX-5]
Introduced: 2009-02-13 in the House
Policy area: Energy
Subjects: Alternative and renewable resources
Climate change and greenhouse gases
Motor fuels
Public contracts and procurement

Summary:
action_date: 2009-02-13
text: 
Amends the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007 to repeal provisions prohibiting any federal agency from entering into a contract for procurement of an alternative or synthetic fuel for any mobility-related use, other than for research or testing, unless the contract specifies that the lifecycle greenhouse gas emissions associated with the production and combustion of the fuel must be less than or equal to such emissions from the equivalent conventional fuel.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-05-04
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Government Management, Organization, and Procurement.
action_date: 2009-02-13
text: Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.
action_date: 2009-02-13
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-02-13
text: Introduced in House
Peace Corps Expansion Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-1066
Sponsor: Rep. Farr, Sam [D-CA-17]
Introduced: 2009-02-13 in the House
Policy area: International Affairs
Subjects: Executive agency funding and structure
Foreign aid and international relief
Peace Corps
Social work, volunteer service, charitable organizations
Wages and earnings

Summary:
action_date: 2009-02-13
text: 
Peace Corps Expansion Act of 2009 - Amends the Peace Corps Act to: (1) authorize appropriations for the Peace Corps; and (2) increase readjustment allowances for Peace Corps volunteers and volunteer leaders. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-02-13
text: Referred to the House Committee on Foreign Affairs.
action_date: 2009-02-13
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-02-13
text: Introduced in House
Notch Fairness Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-1067
Sponsor: Rep. Hall, Ralph M. [R-TX-4]
Introduced: 2009-02-13 in the House
Policy area: Social Welfare
Subjects: Social security and elderly assistance

Summary:
action_date: 2009-02-13
text: 
Notch Fairness Act of 2009 - Amends title II (Old Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance) (OASDI) of the Social Security Act to revise the formula for the computation of minimum Old Age Insurance benefits for individuals who reached age 65 in or after 1979, and to whom applies the 15-year transition period for the changes in benefit computation rules enacted in the Social Security Amendments of 1977. 
 
Sets forth a schedule of additional benefit increases for such beneficiaries (and related beneficiaries), with percentages declining from 55% to 5% and keyed to the year an individual became eligible for such benefits between 1979 and 1988. 
 
Allows such beneficiaries, in the alternative, to receive lump sum payments over four years totaling $5,000.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-02-13
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2009-02-13
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-02-13
text: Introduced in House