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Skilled Trades Second Responders Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-652
Sponsor: Rep. King, Peter T. [R-NY-3]
Introduced: 2009-01-22 in the House
Policy area: Emergency Management
Subjects: Building construction
Disaster relief and insurance
Emergency planning and evacuation
Employment and training programs
Government information and archives
Public-private cooperation
Terrorism
Worker safety and health

Summary:
action_date: 2009-01-22
text: 
Skilled Trades Second Responders Act of 2009 - Amends the Public Health Service Act to require the Director of the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences to establish a national program for the training, certification, registration, tracking, and integration of skilled construction workers to assist first responders in responding to disasters, including natural and manmade disasters and terrorist attacks.
 
Requires the Director to coordinate and consult with the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), including the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), other relevant agencies, and private organizations, including construction industry contractors, joint labor-management training funds, and building trade unions, that are experienced in providing rescue and recovery assistance to first responders and in the cleanup, demolition, rehabilitation, and reconstruction of disaster sites after recovery operations.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-01-23
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2009-01-23
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Economic Development, Public Buildings and Emergency Management.
action_date: 2009-01-22
text: Referred to House Transportation and Infrastructure
action_date: 2009-01-22
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, 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: 2009-01-22
text: Referred to House Energy and Commerce
action_date: 2009-01-22
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-01-22
text: Introduced in House
National Childhood Brain Tumor Prevention Network Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-653
Sponsor: Rep. Lee, Barbara [D-CA-9]
Introduced: 2009-01-22 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Advisory bodies
Cancer
Child health
Health information and medical records
Health programs administration and funding
Health promotion and preventive care
Medical research

Summary:
action_date: 2009-01-22
text: 
National Childhood Brain Tumor Prevention Network Act of 2009 - Amends the Public Health Service Act to require the Director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), acting through the Director of the National Cancer Institute, to establish, administer, and coordinate a National Childhood Brain Tumor Prevention Network to: (1) provide grants for research on the causes of and risk factors associated with childhood brain tumors; (2) assemble a panel of experts to provide ongoing guidance and recommendations on research funded by the Network, including on a common study design and standard protocols; and (3) designate a central laboratory to collect, analyze, and aggregate data with respect to research funded by the Network and to make such data and analysis available to researchers.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-01-23
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2009-01-22
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2009-01-22
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-01-22
text: Introduced in House
Poverty Impact Trigger Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-654
Sponsor: Rep. Lee, Barbara [D-CA-9]
Introduced: 2009-01-22 in the House
Policy area: Congress
Subjects: Congressional Budget Office (CBO)
Congressional agencies
Congressional operations and organization
Executive agency funding and structure
Government information and archives
House of Representatives
Legislative rules and procedure
Poverty and welfare assistance

Summary:
action_date: 2009-01-22
text: 
Poverty Impact Trigger Act of 2009 - Amends Rule XXI (Restrictions on Certain Bills) of the Rules of the House of Representatives to make it out of order to consider a public bill or joint resolution authorizing an appropriation of $10 million or more, unless: (1) the accompanying committee report includes a Congressional Budget Office (CBO) Poverty Impact Division impact statement; or (2) the chair of the committee reporting the legislation submits such statement for publication in the Congressional Record before consideration of the measure.
 
Amends the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 to establish the CBO Poverty Impact Division to prepare and submit poverty impact statements to the chair of House committees.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-01-22
text: Referred to House Budget
action_date: 2009-01-22
text: Referred to the Committee on Rules, and in addition to the Committee on the Budget, 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: 2009-01-22
text: Referred to House Rules
action_date: 2009-01-22
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-01-22
text: Introduced in House
Assessment Accuracy and Improvement Act

Bill: 111-hr-655
Sponsor: Rep. Petri, Thomas E. [R-WI-6]
Introduced: 2009-01-22 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Academic performance and assessments
Elementary and secondary education

Summary:
action_date: 2009-01-22
text: 
Assessment Accuracy and Improvement Act - Amends the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to allow states to require the use of adaptive assessments of student progress toward state academic performance standards that accurately assess student achievement above and below grade level while also measuring grade-level performance. 
 
Defines an &quot;adaptive assessment&quot; as one that changes in difficulty in accordance with a student's performance, but reports its outcome on a scale common to all students.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-01-22
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and Labor.
action_date: 2009-01-22
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E125)
action_date: 2009-01-22
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-01-22
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow certain individuals who have attained age 50 and who are unemployed to receive distributions from qualified retirement plans without incurring a 10 percent additional tax.

Bill: 111-hr-656
Sponsor: Rep. Platts, Todd Russell [R-PA-19]
Introduced: 2009-01-22 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Aging
Employee benefits and pensions
Sales and excise taxes
Unemployment

Summary:
action_date: 2009-01-22
text: 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to make the 10% additional tax on early distributions from qualified retirement plans inapplicable to individuals who have attained the age of 50 and who have been receiving unemployment compensation for 12 consecutive weeks.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-01-22
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2009-01-22
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-01-22
text: Introduced in House
To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 369 Martin Luther King Jr. Drive in Jersey City, New Jersey, as the "Bishop Ralph E. Brower Post Office Building".

Bill: 111-hr-657
Sponsor: Rep. Sires, Albio [D-NJ-13]
Introduced: 2009-01-22 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Congressional tributes
Government buildings, facilities, and property
New Jersey
Postal service

Summary:
action_date: 2009-01-22
text: Designates the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 369 Martin Luther King Jr. Drive in Jersey City, New Jersey, as the "Bishop Ralph E. Brower Post Office Building."

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-01-22
text: Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.
action_date: 2009-01-22
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-01-22
text: Introduced in House
Access to Postal Services Act

Bill: 111-hr-658
Sponsor: Rep. Sires, Albio [D-NJ-13]
Introduced: 2009-01-22 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Administrative remedies
Executive agency funding and structure
Government information and archives
Government studies and investigations
Postal Regulatory Commission
Postal service

Summary:
action_date: 2009-01-22
text: 
 Access to Postal Services Act - Modifies the procedures the U.S. Postal Service must follow in connection with the closing or consolidation of any postal facility, including: (1) requiring an assessment of the need for the closure or consolidation; (2) eliminating a requirement to consider the resulting Postal Service economic savings; (3) requiring a posting in each affected postal facility at least 90 days before the final decision is made; and (4) requiring (under current law, allowing) suspension of the determination pending an appeal to the Postal Regulatory Commission. Exempts emergency suspensions (as defined under Postal Service regulations) or lease termination or cancellation by a party other than the Postal Service.
 
Defines &quot;postal facility,&quot; for the provisions amended by this Act, to include an office, branch, station, or other facility operated by the Postal Service.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-02-24
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Federal Workforce, Post Office, and the District of Columbia.
action_date: 2009-01-22
text: Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.
action_date: 2009-01-22
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-01-22
text: Introduced in House
For the relief of certain aliens who were aboard the Golden Venture.

Bill: 111-hr-659
Sponsor: Rep. Platts, Todd Russell [R-PA-19]
Introduced: 2009-01-22 in the House
Policy area: Private Legislation

Summary:
action_date: 2009-01-22
text: Provides for the relief of certain aliens who were aboard the Golden Venture.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-02-05
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration, Citizenship, Refugees, Border Security, and International Law.
action_date: 2009-01-22
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2009-01-22
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-01-22
text: Introduced in House
For the relief of Carlos Espinal Castillo-Reynolds.

Bill: 111-hr-660
Sponsor: Rep. Wamp, Zach [R-TN-3]
Introduced: 2009-01-22 in the House
Policy area: Private Legislation

Summary:
action_date: 2009-01-22
text: Provides for the relief of Carlos Espinal Castillo-Reynolds.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-02-05
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration, Citizenship, Refugees, Border Security, and International Law.
action_date: 2009-01-22
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2009-01-22
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-01-22
text: Introduced in House
To provide additional coupons for the digital-to-analog converter box program and to expedite delivery of coupons under such program.

Bill: 111-hr-661
Sponsor: Rep. Barton, Joe [R-TX-6]
Introduced: 2009-01-23 in the House
Policy area: Science, Technology, Communications
Subjects: Broadcasting, cable, digital technologies
Licensing and registrations
Postal service
Public contracts and procurement
Television and film

Summary:
action_date: 2009-01-23
text: 
Amends the Digital Television Transition and Public Safety Act of 2005 to increase funding for the program to provide coupons for digital-to-analog converter boxes.
 
Directs the Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Communications and Information to: (1) expedite the distribution of such coupons by delivering them via presorted first class mail service until February 17, 2009; and (2) continue such delivery after that date if the Assistant Secretary determines that doing so will significantly improve coupon redemption rates without jeopardizing the availability of administrative funds.
 
Amends the Communications Act of 1934 to extend through September 30, 2012 (currently until September 30, 2011), the authority of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to grant a license or permit under provisions relating to competitive bidding. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-01-26
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Communications, Technology, and the Internet.
action_date: 2009-01-23
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2009-01-23
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-01-23
text: Introduced in House
Employee Verification Amendment Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-662
Sponsor: Rep. Giffords, Gabrielle [D-AZ-8]
Introduced: 2009-01-23 in the House
Policy area: Immigration
Subjects: Border security and unlawful immigration
Department of Homeland Security
Executive agency funding and structure
Foreign labor
Government information and archives
Government studies and investigations
Small business
Social Security Administration
Social security and elderly assistance

Summary:
action_date: 2009-01-23
text: 
Employee Verification Amendment Act of 2009 - Amends the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996 to extend the employment eligibility confirmation pilot programs (which includes the E-Verify basic pilot program).
 
Directs the Commissioner of Social Security and the Secretary of Homeland Security to enter into a fiscal year agreement which shall: (1) provide funds to the Commissioner for such programs' full costs in quarterly advances; and (2) require an annual accounting and reconciliation of costs incurred and funds provided. Provides for funding continuation in the absence of an agreement.
 
Requires that the Government Accountability Office (GAO) conduct studies regarding: (1) erroneous tentative nonconfirmations under the E-Verify program; and (2) such program's effects on small entities. 
 

 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-03-23
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Workforce Protections.
action_date: 2009-03-16
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration, Citizenship, Refugees, Border Security, and International Law.
action_date: 2009-01-23
text: Referred to House Ways and Means
action_date: 2009-01-23
text: Referred to House Education and Labor
action_date: 2009-01-23
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committees on Education and Labor, and 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: 2009-01-23
text: Referred to House Judiciary
action_date: 2009-01-23
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-01-23
text: Introduced in House
Economic Stimulus Enhancement and Tax Relief Permanency Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-664
Sponsor: Rep. Graves, Sam [R-MO-6]
Introduced: 2009-01-23 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Capital gains tax
Income tax credits
Income tax deductions
Income tax rates
Tax treatment of families
Transfer and inheritance taxes

Summary:
action_date: 2009-01-23
text: 
Economic Stimulus Enhancement and Tax Relief Permanency Act of 2009 - Makes permanent: (1) the Economic Growwth and Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2001; and (2) the reductions in dividend and capital gains income tax rates enacted by the Jobs and Growth Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2003.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-01-23
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2009-01-23
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-01-23
text: Introduced in House
District of Columbia Voting Rights Restoration Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-665
Sponsor: Rep. Rohrabacher, Dana [R-CA-46]
Introduced: 2009-01-23 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Congressional elections
Congressional operations and organization
District of Columbia
Elections, voting, political campaign regulation
Maryland
Members of Congress
Political representation
Voting rights

Summary:
action_date: 2009-01-23
text: 
District of Columbia Voting Rights Restoration Act of 2009 - Restores the right of District of Columbia residents to participate as Maryland residents in congressional elections and presidential elections.
 
Repeals provisions of: (1) the District of Columbia Delegate Act that establishes the office of District of Columbia Delegate to the House of Representatives; and (2) the District of Columbia Statehood Constitution Convention Initiative of 1979 that provides for electing a Senator and Representative for the District.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-06-12
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights, and Civil Liberties.
action_date: 2009-01-23
text: Referred to House Judiciary
action_date: 2009-01-23
text: Referred to House Oversight and Government Reform
action_date: 2009-01-23
text: Referred to the Committee on House Administration, and in addition to the Committees on Oversight and Government Reform, and 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: 2009-01-23
text: Referred to House Administration
action_date: 2009-01-23
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-01-23
text: Introduced in House
Military Valor Roll of Honor Act

Bill: 111-hr-666
Sponsor: Rep. Salazar, John T. [D-CO-3]
Introduced: 2009-01-23 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Congressional tributes
Department of Defense
Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management
Government information and archives
Marine and inland water transportation
Military personnel and dependents

Summary:
action_date: 2009-01-23
text: 
Military Valor Roll of Honor Act - Directs the Secretary of Defense to establish the Military Valor Roll of Honor registry which shall: (1) contain the names and citations of all members of the Armed Forces, members of the U.S. merchant marine (including the Army Transport Service and the Naval Transport Service), and civilians affiliated with the Armed Forces who have been awarded the medal of honor or any other medal authorized by Congress for the Armed Forces, the U.S. merchant marine, or affiliated civilians; and (2) be a publicly available database. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-01-23
text: Referred to the House Committee on Armed Services.
action_date: 2009-01-23
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-01-23
text: Introduced in House
Heroes at Home Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-667
Sponsor: Rep. Salazar, John T. [D-CO-3]
Introduced: 2009-01-23 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Computers and information technology
Disability and paralysis
Emergency medical services and trauma care
Government information and archives
Government studies and investigations
Health information and medical records
Home and outpatient care
Medical education
Mental health
Military medicine
Military personnel and dependents
Neurological disorders
Veterans' medical care

Summary:
action_date: 2009-01-23
text: 
Heroes at Home Act of 2009 - Directs the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to: (1) establish a program on training and certification of family caregivers of veterans and members with traumatic brain injury (TBI); and (2) conduct outreach to enhance awareness of veterans and the public about the symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and TBI and the services provided by the Department of Veterans Affairs to veterans with such symptoms. 
 
 Directs the Secretaries of Defense and Veterans Affairs to jointly: (1) establish a demonstration project to assess the feasibility and advisability of using telehealth technology to assess cognitive functioning of members who have sustained head trauma in order to improve their diagnosis and treatment; and (2) conduct an ongoing study of all matters relating to the telehealth and telemental health services of the Departments of Defense and Veterans Affairs.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-02-06
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Military Personnel.
action_date: 2009-01-30
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2009-01-23
text: Referred to House Armed Services
action_date: 2009-01-23
text: Referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs, and in addition to the Committee on Armed Services, 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: 2009-01-23
text: Referred to House Veterans' Affairs
action_date: 2009-01-23
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-01-23
text: Introduced in House
Critical Access Hospital Flexibility Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-668
Sponsor: Rep. Walden, Greg [R-OR-2]
Introduced: 2009-01-23 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Health care coverage and access
Health facilities and institutions
Medicare
Rural conditions and development
Veterans' medical care

Summary:
action_date: 2009-01-23
text: 

 
Critical Access Hospital Flexibility Act of 2009 - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act with respect to state Medicare rural hospital flexibility programs, in particular the criteria for designation of critical access hospitals.
 
Revises requirements for the counting of beds for purposes of determining whether a hospital may be designated as a critical access hospital. Allows a facility to provide a maximum of 20 (currently 25) acute care inpatient beds, as determined on an annual, average basis. Declares that only occupied beds shall be counted. 
 
Exempts from the critical access hospital inpatient bed limitation beds provided to certain veterans.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-01-23
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2009-01-23
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-01-23
text: Introduced in House
Save our Border Communities Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-670
Sponsor: Rep. Filner, Bob [D-CA-51]
Introduced: 2009-01-26 in the House
Policy area: Emergency Management
Subjects: Border security and unlawful immigration
Canada
Emergency medical services and trauma care
Fires
Health personnel
Health programs administration and funding
Latin America
Law enforcement administration and funding
Law enforcement officers
Mexico

Summary:
action_date: 2009-01-26
text: 
Save our Border Communities Act of 2009 - Directs the Secretary of Homeland Security to provide payment to first responders for costs associated with providing emergency services at U.S. international borders, but only to the extent that such costs are not otherwise reimbursed through any federal program and cannot otherwise be recovered.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-01-27
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Economic Development, Public Buildings and Emergency Management.
action_date: 2009-01-26
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2009-01-26
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-01-26
text: Introduced in House
In Memory Medal for Forgotten Veterans Act

Bill: 111-hr-671
Sponsor: Rep. Filner, Bob [D-CA-51]
Introduced: 2009-01-26 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Asia
Conflicts and wars
Military personnel and dependents
Vietnam

Summary:
action_date: 2009-01-26
text: 
In Memory Medal For Forgotten Veterans Act - Establishes the &quot;Jesus (Chuchi) Salgado Medal&quot; to be issued by the Secretary of Defense to a qualifying veteran who died after serving in the Vietnam War but whose death is determined to be a direct result of such service and whose name is not eligible for placement on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-02-06
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Military Personnel.
action_date: 2009-01-28
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E164)
action_date: 2009-01-26
text: Referred to the House Committee on Armed Services.
action_date: 2009-01-26
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-01-26
text: Introduced in House