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Save Our Children: Stop the Predators Against Children DNA Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-382
Sponsor: Rep. Jackson-Lee, Sheila [D-TX-18]
Introduced: 2009-01-09 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Crime prevention
Crimes against children
Criminal justice information and records
Criminal procedure and sentencing
Government information and archives
Law enforcement administration and funding
State and local government operations
Violent crime

Summary:
action_date: 2009-01-09
text: 
Save Our Children: Stop the Predators Against Children DNA Act of 2009 - Directs the Attorney General to establish and maintain a database solely for collecting DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid) information with respect to predators against children. Authorizes federal, state, and local agencies and other entities to submit DNA information for the database and to compare DNA information within the database. 

Directs the Attorney General to make grants to states to improve programs to decrease recidivism of such predators. 
Requires the maximum sentence to be imposed for a crime against an individual under age 18 that would, in and of itself, establish the offender as such a predator, without regard to any mitigating circumstance that would otherwise apply.
Defines a &quot;predator against children&quot; as a person who commits a sex crime against an individual under age of 18. Excludes a person who commits a sex crime against an individual who has not attained the age of 18 years if: (1) the individual against whom such crime was committed has attained 16 years of age or older; (2) the person who commits such crime is not more than four years older than such individual; and (3) the conduct resulting in the commission of such crime was consensual.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-03-16
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.
action_date: 2009-01-09
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2009-01-09
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-01-09
text: Introduced in House
To authorize the Secretary of the Interior to participate in additional phases of the project to reclaim and reuse water within the service area of the Orange County Water District in California.

Bill: 111-hr-383
Sponsor: Rep. Sanchez, Loretta [D-CA-47]
Introduced: 2009-01-09 in the House
Policy area: Water Resources Development
Subjects: California
Water resources funding
Water use and supply

Summary:
action_date: 2009-01-09
text: 
Amends the Reclamation Wastewater and Groundwater Study and Facilities Act to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to participate in the design, planning, and construction of the Orange County Regional Water Reclamation Project, California (current law authorizes the Secretary to participate in phase 1 of the Project).
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-02-04
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Water and Power.
action_date: 2009-01-09
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2009-01-09
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-01-09
text: Introduced in House
CAR Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-385
Sponsor: Rep. Rogers, Mike D. [R-AL-3]
Introduced: 2009-01-09 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Consumer credit
Income tax deductions
Income tax exclusion
Interest, dividends, interest rates
Motor vehicles
Sales and excise taxes
State and local taxation

Summary:
action_date: 2009-01-09
text: 
Consumer Auto Relief Act of 2009 or the CAR Act of 2009 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow individual taxpayers a tax deduction for: (1) up to $7,500 of the purchase price of a new passenger automobile or light truck that is purchased in 2009; (2) interest paid on any loan to purchase such vehicles; and (3) state and local sales taxes paid on a vehicle purchase. Excludes from the gross income of lenders 50% of the interest paid on any consumer loan for the purchase of a new passenger automobile or light truck. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-01-09
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2009-01-09
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR H94)
action_date: 2009-01-09
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-01-09
text: Introduced in House
CLASS Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-386
Sponsor: Rep. Doggett, Lloyd [D-TX-25]
Introduced: 2009-01-09 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Higher education
Income tax credits
Student aid and college costs

Summary:
action_date: 2009-01-09
text: 
College Learning Access Simplicity and Savings Act of 2009 or the CLASS Act of 2009 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to replace the Hope Scholarship tax credit with the College Affordability Credit, which shall allow: (1) a partially refundable tax credit of up to $1,200 for qualified tuition and related expenses (including required course materials) at an institution of higher education; and (2) an additional 50% tax credit for such expenses exceeding $1,200 but not exceeding $4,800. 

Repeals the tax deduction for qualified tuition and related expenses.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-01-15
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR H370)
action_date: 2009-01-09
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2009-01-09
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-01-09
text: Introduced in House
TARP Accountability Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-387
Sponsor: Rep. LaTourette, Steven C. [R-OH-14]
Introduced: 2009-01-09 in the House
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: Bank accounts, deposits, capital
Business records
Consumer credit
Financial crises and stabilization
Government information and archives

Summary:
action_date: 2009-01-09
text: 
TARP Accountability Act of 2009 - Amends the Federal Deposit Insurance Act (FDIA) to require inclusion within each report of condition filed by an insured depository institution which received assistance under the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) the amount of any increase in new lending during the period covered by the report (or the amount of any reduction in any decrease in new lending) that is attributable to TARP assistance.
 
 Requires, in the alternative, that if the institution cannot accurately quantify the effect such assistance has had on new lending, then it report the total amount of the increase in new lending, if any, during the covered period.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-01-09
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2009-01-09
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-01-09
text: Introduced in House
Family Fairness Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-389
Sponsor: Rep. Baldwin, Tammy [D-WI-2]
Introduced: 2009-01-09 in the House
Policy area: Labor and Employment
Subjects: Employee leave
Family relationships

Summary:
action_date: 2009-01-09
text: 
Family Fairness Act of 2009 - Amends the Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993 to make an employee eligible for coverage under such Act if that employee has been employed for at least 12 months by a covered employer with respect to whom such leave is requested. (Eliminates the requirement, under current law, that the employee have served at least 1,250 hours during the 12-month period before the leave request.)


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-01-09
text: Referred to House Administration
action_date: 2009-01-09
text: Referred to House Oversight and Government Reform
action_date: 2009-01-09
text: Referred to the Committee on Education and Labor, and in addition to the Committees on Oversight and Government Reform, and House Administration, 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: 2009-01-09
text: Referred to House Education and Labor
action_date: 2009-01-09
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-01-09
text: Introduced in House
College Football Playoff Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-390
Sponsor: Rep. Barton, Joe [R-TX-6]
Introduced: 2009-01-09 in the House
Policy area: Commerce
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Federal Trade Commission (FTC)
Higher education
Marketing and advertising
School athletics

Summary:
action_date: 2009-01-09
text: 
College Football Playoff Act of 2009 - Prohibits promoting, marketing, or advertising a post-season National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS) game as a championship or national championship game (or any merchandise that refers to the game as a championship or national championship game) unless such game is the final game of a single elimination post-season playoff system for which all NCAA Division I FBS conferences and unaffiliated Division I FBS teams are eligible.
 
Treats a violation as an unfair or deceptive act or practice under the Federal Trade Commission Act. 

Makes this Act applicable to any game that occurs after January 31, 2011.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-12-09
text: Forwarded by Subcommittee to Full Committee (Amended) by Voice Vote .
action_date: 2009-12-09
text: Subcommittee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
action_date: 2009-01-15
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Commerce, Trade and Consumer Protection.
action_date: 2009-01-09
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2009-01-09
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-01-09
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Clean Air Act to provide that greenhouse gases are not subject to the Act, and for other purposes.

Bill: 111-hr-391
Sponsor: Rep. Blackburn, Marsha [R-TN-7]
Introduced: 2009-01-09 in the House
Policy area: Environmental Protection
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Air quality
Climate change and greenhouse gases
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)

Summary:
action_date: 2009-01-09
text: 
Amends the Clean Air Act to: (1) exclude from the definition of the term &quot;air pollutant&quot; carbon dioxide, water vapor, methane, nitrous oxide, hydrofluorocarbons, perfluorocarbons, or sulfur hexafluoride; and (2) declare that nothing in the Act shall be treated as authorizing or requiring the regulation of climate change or global warming.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-07-23
text: Motion to Discharge Committee filed by Mrs. Blackburn. Petition No: 111-5. (<a href="http://clerk.house.gov/111/lrc/pd/Petitions/Dis5.htm">Discharge petition</a> text with signatures.)
action_date: 2009-01-14
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Environment.
action_date: 2009-01-09
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2009-01-09
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-01-09
text: Introduced in House
Boutique Fuel Reduction Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-392
Sponsor: Rep. Blunt, Roy [R-MO-7]
Introduced: 2009-01-09 in the House
Policy area: Energy
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Air quality
Energy storage, supplies, demand
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
Government information and archives
Motor fuels
Pipelines

Summary:
action_date: 2009-01-09
text: 
Boutique Fuel Reduction Act of 2009 - Amends the Clean Air Act to add as &quot;extreme and unusual circumstances that prevent the distribution of an adequate supply of fuel or fuel additives to consumers&quot; under which the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) may temporarily waive a control or prohibition on the use of a fuel or fuel additive circumstances that are the result of unexpected problems with equipment necessary for transportation and delivery of fuel or fuel additives. 

States that EPA shall have no authority, when considering a state implementation plan (SIP) or SIP revision, to approve any fuel included in such plan or revision if the effect of such approval increases the total number of fuels set forth on the published list of approved fuels (currently EPA does not have the authority to approve a fuel if it increases the total number of fuels approved as of September 1, 2004, in all SIPs).

Requires notice and opportunity for comment before the Administrator removes a fuel from the list. Requires EPA to remove a fuel from the list if such fuel has ceased to be included in an SIP or is identical to a federal fuel control or prohibition. Repeals provisions prohibiting EPA from reducing the total number of authorized fuels. Requires EPA to publish a revised list reflecting the reduction in the number of fuels. Deletes as a condition under which the Administrator's authority to approve a control or prohibition respecting any new fuel is limited that such new fuel will increase the total number of fuels on the list.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-01-14
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Environment.
action_date: 2009-01-09
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2009-01-09
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-01-09
text: Introduced in House
Federal Sunset Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-393
Sponsor: Rep. Brady, Kevin [R-TX-8]
Introduced: 2009-01-09 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Advisory bodies
Congressional oversight
Executive agency funding and structure
Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management
Performance measurement

Summary:
action_date: 2009-01-09
text: 
Federal Sunset Act of 2009 - Establishes the Federal Agency Sunset Commission to: (1) submit to Congress a schedule for review by the Commission, at least once every 12 years, of the abolishment or reorganization of each agency; (2) review and evaluate the efficiency and public need for each agency using specified criteria; (3) recommend whether each agency should be abolished or reorganized; and (4) report to Congress on all legislation introduced that would establish a new agency or a new program to be carried out by an existing agency. Requires the abolishment of any agency within one year of the Commission's review, unless the agency is reauthorized by Congress. Authorizes the deadline for abolishing an agency to be extended for an additional two years by legislation enacted by a super majority of the House of Representatives and the Senate. 
 
Terminates the Commission on December 31, 2033.
 
Directs the Comptroller General and the Director of the Congressional Budget Office, in cooperation with the Director of the Congressional Research Service (CRS), to prepare an inventory of federal programs within each agency for the purpose of advising and assisting Congress and the Commission in carrying out the requirements of this Act.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-02-24
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Government Management, Organization, and Procurement.
action_date: 2009-01-09
text: Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.
action_date: 2009-01-09
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-01-09
text: Introduced in House
To amend title 38, United States Code, to authorize the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to increase the amount of the Medal of Honor special pension provided under that title by up to $1,000.

Bill: 111-hr-394
Sponsor: Rep. Brown, Henry E., Jr. [R-SC-1]
Introduced: 2009-01-09 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Congressional tributes
Veterans' organizations and recognition
Veterans' pensions and compensation

Summary:
action_date: 2009-01-09
text: 
 Authorizes the Secretary of Veterans Affairs, subject to the availability of appropriations, to increase by up to $1,000 a month the rate of the Medal of Honor special pension.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-01-16
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Disability Assistance and Memorial Affairs.
action_date: 2009-01-09
text: Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2009-01-09
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-01-09
text: Introduced in House
Stop the Congressional COLA Act

Bill: 111-hr-395
Sponsor: Rep. Burton, Dan [R-IN-5]
Introduced: 2009-01-09 in the House
Policy area: Congress
Subjects: Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management
Members of Congress

Summary:
action_date: 2009-01-09
text: 
Stop the Congressional COLA Act - Declares that no automatic pay adjustment shall be considered to have taken effect in FY2010 in the rates of basic pay for Members of Congress under the General Schedule (thus eliminating the pay adjustment for Members for such fiscal year).


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-01-09
text: Referred to House Oversight and Government Reform
action_date: 2009-01-09
text: Referred to the Committee on House Administration, and in addition to the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, 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: 2009-01-09
text: Referred to House Administration
action_date: 2009-01-09
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-01-09
text: Introduced in House
Senior Assets Verification Exemption (SAVE) from Capital Gains Tax Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-396
Sponsor: Rep. Cohen, Steve [D-TN-9]
Introduced: 2009-01-09 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Aging
Capital gains tax
Income tax deductions
Income tax exclusion
Income tax rates

Summary:
action_date: 2009-01-09
text: 
Senior Assets Verification Exemption (SAVE) from Capital Gains Tax Act of 2009 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow a tax deduction for the qualified net capital gain of taxpayers age 65 and older. Defines &quot;qualified net capital gain&quot; as the lesser of: (1) net capital gain; or (2) net capital gain only from assets held for at least 15 years. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-01-09
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2009-01-09
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-01-09
text: Introduced in House
To extend the authorization of the Quinebaug and Shetucket Rivers Valley National Heritage Corridor Act of 1994, and for other purposes.

Bill: 111-hr-397
Sponsor: Rep. Courtney, Joe [D-CT-2]
Introduced: 2009-01-09 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Appropriations
Connecticut
Government studies and investigations
Historic sites and heritage areas
Massachusetts
Watersheds

Summary:
action_date: 2009-01-09
text: 
Amends the Quinebaug and Shetucket Rivers Valley National Heritage Corridor Act of 1994 to extend the authority of the Secretary of the Interior to make grants or provide any assistance under the Act for the Quinebaug and Shetucket Rivers Valley National Heritage Corridor to September 30, 2015. 

Requires the Secretary to conduct an evaluation of the accomplishments of the Corridor by no later than three years before the date on which the authority for federal funding terminates for the Corridor, and based upon the evaluation, to prepare and submit to specified congressional committees a report that includes recommendations for the future role of the National Park Service (NPS), if any, with respect to the Corridor. 

 Increases the total amount that may be appropriated for the Corridor. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-02-04
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests and Public Lands.
action_date: 2009-01-09
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2009-01-09
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-01-09
text: Introduced in House
Prevention Through Affordable Access Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-398
Sponsor: Rep. Crowley, Joseph [D-NY-7]
Introduced: 2009-01-09 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Health care costs and insurance
Health care coverage and access
Health facilities and institutions
Higher education
Medicaid
Prescription drugs
Student aid and college costs

Summary:
action_date: 2009-01-09
text: 
Prevention Through Affordable Access Act of 2009 - Amends title XIX (Medicaid) of the Social Security Act to revise requirements for the best price component of the formula for determination of the Medicaid rebate for a covered single source outpatient drug or a covered innovator multiple source outpatient drug. (Under current law, best prices shall not take into account prices that are merely nominal in amount.)
 
Revises the list of entities to which sales by a manufacturer of covered outpatient drugs at nominal prices shall be considered to be sales at a nominal price, or merely nominal in amount (and thus excluded from computation of the best price for such drugs).
 
Adds to such list any entity that is: (1) operated by a health center of an institution of higher education, primarily for its students (university-based clinic); or (2) a public or private nonprofit entity that provides family planning services under the Public Health Service Act (safety-net clinic).


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-01-14
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2009-01-09
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2009-01-09
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-01-09
text: Introduced in House
To direct the Secretary of Labor to make a grant to a public university to establish the Center for the Study of Women and Workplace Policy.

Bill: 111-hr-399
Sponsor: Rep. Dingell, John D. [D-MI-15]
Introduced: 2009-01-09 in the House
Policy area: Labor and Employment
Subjects: Education programs funding
Employment discrimination and employee rights
Government information and archives
Higher education
Policy sciences
Sex, gender, sexual orientation discrimination
Wages and earnings
Women in business
Women's employment

Summary:
action_date: 2009-01-09
text: 
Directs the Secretary of Labor to make a grant, to a public university with specified characteristics, to establish the Center for the Study of Women and Workplace Policy. 
 
Requires the Center to: (1) compile and analyze available data and data sets on the difference between the earnings of men and women, including the Panel Study of Income Dynamics housed at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor; (2) identify factors which affect differences in earnings; and (3) disseminate findings, maintain a website as a clearinghouse, and publish an annual best practices guide.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-01-09
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and Labor.
action_date: 2009-01-09
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E62)
action_date: 2009-01-09
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-01-09
text: Introduced in House
Protecting Consumers through Proper Forbearance Procedures Act

Bill: 111-hr-400
Sponsor: Rep. Dingell, John D. [D-MI-15]
Introduced: 2009-01-09 in the House
Policy area: Science, Technology, Communications
Subjects: Administrative remedies
Broadcasting, cable, digital technologies
Federal Communications Commission (FCC)

Summary:
action_date: 2009-01-09
text: 
 Protecting Consumers through Proper Forbearance Procedures Act - Amends the Communications Act of 1934 to require the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to grant or deny, within one year, a petition by one or more telecommunications carriers or classes of carriers requesting that the FCC forbear from applying any regulation or provision under the Act. (Current law deems such a petition granted if not denied within one year.)


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-01-14
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Communications, Technology, and the Internet.
action_date: 2009-01-09
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2009-01-09
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-01-09
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-01-08
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E149)