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Secondary Metal Theft Prevention Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-1006
Sponsor: Rep. Stupak, Bart [D-MI-1]
Introduced: 2009-02-11 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Business records
Civil actions and liability
Crimes against property
Government information and archives
Metals
Solid waste and recycling

Summary:
action_date: 2009-02-11
text: 
Secondary Metal Theft Prevention Act of 2009 - Expresses the sense of Congress that government agencies should work with representatives of the secondary metal recycling industry to combat the theft and sale of stolen secondary metal. Defines &quot;secondary metal&quot; as: (1) wire or cable commonly used by communications and electrical utilities; and (2) copper, aluminum, or other metal (including when combined with other materials) that is valuable for recycling or reuse as raw metal.

Makes it unlawful to sell certain secondary metal unless the seller documents ownership and maintains written or electronic records of each secondary metal purchase. Includes within the prohibition: (1) secondary metal that is marked with the name, logo, or initials of a railroad, a utility company, or a state or local government; (2) highway or street poles, fixtures, rails, or signs; (3) unused or undamaged building construction or utility material; (4) historical markers or grave markers; and (5) large bulk containers for beer. Prohibits cash purchases of secondary metal in excess of $75 or small multiple cash purchases within a 48-hour period. Requires purchasers of secondary metal in excess of $75 to pay by check.

Empowers the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and state attorneys general to enforce this Act. Imposes a civil penalty for violations. 

Declares that this Act does not preempt any state or local law regulating the sale or purchase of secondary metal. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-02-12
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Commerce, Trade and Consumer Protection.
action_date: 2009-02-11
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2009-02-11
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-02-11
text: Introduced in House
To establish the Mississippi Delta National Heritage Area and the Mississippi Hills National Heritage Area, and for other purposes.

Bill: 111-hr-1007
Sponsor: Rep. Thompson, Bennie G. [D-MS-2]
Introduced: 2009-02-11 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Historic sites and heritage areas
Historical and cultural resources
Lakes and rivers
Land use and conservation
Mississippi
Mississippi River
Parks, recreation areas, trails

Summary:
action_date: 2009-02-11
text: 
Mississippi Delta National Heritage Area Act of 2009 - Establishes the Mississippi Delta National Heritage Area. Designates the Mississippi Delta National Heritage Partnership as the coordinating entity for the Area. Requires the Partnership to develop and submit a management plan for the Area.

Mississippi Hills National Heritage Area Act of 2009 - Establishes the Mississippi Hills National Heritage Area. Designates the Mississippi Hills Heritage Area Alliance as the coordinating entity for the Area. Requires the Alliance to develop and submit a management plan for the Area. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-02-18
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests and Public Lands.
action_date: 2009-02-11
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2009-02-11
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-02-11
text: Introduced in House
Intelligence Community Audit Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-1008
Sponsor: Rep. Thompson, Bennie G. [D-MS-2]
Introduced: 2009-02-11 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Congressional oversight
Government information and archives
Intelligence activities, surveillance, classified information

Summary:
action_date: 2009-02-11
text: 
Intelligence Community Audit Act of 2009 - Reaffirms the authority of the Comptroller General to audit and evaluate financial transactions, programs, and activities of elements of the intelligence community (those elements identified in the National Security Act of 1947) and obtain access to records for such purposes.
 
Allows the Comptroller General to conduct an audit or evaluation of intelligence sources and methods or covert actions only upon a request of a congressional intelligence committee or the majority or minority leader of the Senate or the House of Representatives. Requires the Comptroller General to disclose the results of any such audit or evaluation only to the original requestor, the Director of National Intelligence, and the head of the relevant element of the intelligence community. 

Requires the Comptroller General to establish safeguards to protect the unauthorized disclosure of all classified and other sensitive information furnished to the Comptroller General in conducting an audit or evaluation.

Requires elements of the intelligence community to cooperate with the Comptroller General in providing documentation and information necessary for audits and evaluations.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-02-11
text: Referred to the Committee on Intelligence (Permanent Select), 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: 2009-02-11
text: Referred to House Oversight and Government Reform
action_date: 2009-02-11
text: Referred to House Intelligence (Permanent)
action_date: 2009-02-11
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-02-11
text: Introduced in House
For the relief of Corina de Chalup Turcinovic.

Bill: 111-hr-1009
Sponsor: Rep. Lipinski, Daniel [D-IL-3]
Introduced: 2009-02-11 in the House
Policy area: Private Legislation

Summary:
action_date: 2009-02-11
text: Provides for the relief of Corina de Chalup Turcinovic.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-02-20
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration, Citizenship, Refugees, Border Security, and International Law.
action_date: 2009-02-11
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2009-02-11
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-02-11
text: Introduced in House
Black Lung Benefits Survivors Equity Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-1010
Sponsor: Rep. Rahall, Nick J., II [D-WV-3]
Introduced: 2009-02-12 in the House
Policy area: Social Welfare
Subjects: Coal
Disability assistance
Employee benefits and pensions
Evidence and witnesses
Mining

Summary:
action_date: 2009-02-12
text: 
Black Lung Benefits Survivors Equity Act of 2009 - Amends the Black Lung Benefits Act, with respect to claims filed on or after the effective date of the Black Lung Benefits Amendments of 1981, to eliminate exceptions to: (1) the applicability of certain provisions regarding rebuttable presumptions; and (2) the prohibition against requiring eligible survivors of a miner determined to be eligible for black lung benefits to file a new claim or refile or otherwise revalidate the miner's claim. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-03-23
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Workforce Protections.
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
Community Mental Health Services Improvement Act

Bill: 111-hr-1011
Sponsor: Rep. Green, Gene [D-TX-29]
Introduced: 2009-02-12 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Computers and information technology
Drug, alcohol, tobacco use
Education programs funding
Government information and archives
Government lending and loan guarantees
Government studies and investigations
Health care coverage and access
Health information and medical records
Health personnel
Health programs administration and funding
Health technology, devices, supplies
Medical education
Mental health
Student aid and college costs
Wages and earnings

Summary:
action_date: 2009-02-12
text: 
Community Mental Health Services Improvement Act - Amends the Public Health Service Act to require the Secretary of Health and Human Services, acting through the Administrator of the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), to award grants for demonstration projects to provide coordinated and integrated services to individuals with mental illnesses who have co-occurring primary care conditions and chronic diseases through the co-location of primary and specialty care services in community-based mental and behavioral health settings.
 
Requires the Secretary to make funds available for the development or expansion of programs to provide integrated treatment services for individuals with a serious mental illness and a co-occurring substance abuse disorder.
 
Deems qualified community mental health centers to be automatically designated as having health professional shortage areas for purposes of the National Health Service Corps.
 
Requires the Secretary, acting through the Administrator of the Health Resources and Services Administration, to award matching grants to states, territories, and Indian tribes or tribal organizations for programs to address behavioral and mental health workforce needs of designated mental health professional shortage areas.
 
Directs the Secretary, acting through the Administrator of SAMHSA, to award grants for: (1) establishing or expanding accredited behavioral and mental health education programs; and (2) providing tele-mental health services in medically-underserved areas.
 
Requires the Secretary to: (1) implement a plan for ensuring that various components of the National Health Information Infrastructure address the needs of mental health and substance abuse treatment providers; and (2) finance related infrastructure improvements, technical support, personnel training, and ongoing quality improvements.
 
Provides for reports to Congress on: (1) the paperwork burden on community mental health providers; and (2) the compensation structure for such providers.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-02-13
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
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
Guantanamo Bay Detention Facility Safe Closure Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-1012
Sponsor: Rep. Cole, Tom [R-OK-4]
Introduced: 2009-02-12 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Appropriations
Caribbean area
Correctional facilities and imprisonment
Cuba
Defense spending
Department of Defense
Executive agency funding and structure
Latin America
Military facilities and property

Summary:
action_date: 2009-02-12
text: 
Guantanamo Bay Detention Facility Safe Closure Act of 2009 - Prohibits federal funds from being used to: (1) transfer any enemy combatant detained at the Naval Station Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, to the United States; or (2) coordinate with any other department or agency to transfer any such individual to the United States.
 
Prohibits the Secretary of Defense from: (1) using any facility closed through a base closure process for housing any such individual; or (2) constructing, modifying, or improving any facility in the United States or its territories for housing any such individual.


Legislative actions:
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
Hazardous Materials Cooperative Research Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-1013
Sponsor: Rep. Cummings, Elijah E. [D-MD-7]
Introduced: 2009-02-12 in the House
Policy area: Environmental Protection
Subjects: Hazardous wastes and toxic substances
Research administration and funding
Transportation safety and security

Summary:
action_date: 2009-02-12
text: 
Hazardous Materials Cooperative Research Act of 2009 - Directs the Secretary of Transportation to establish: (1) a hazardous materials cooperative research program; and (2) an independent governing board to select cooperative research projects and studies of hazardous materials transportation to be carried out under the program that will yield results immediately applicable to risk analysis and mitigation or that will strengthen the ability of first responders to respond to accidents involving the transportation of hazardous materials.
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-02-25
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Technology and Innovation.
action_date: 2009-02-12
text: Referred to the House Committee on Science and Technology.
action_date: 2009-02-12
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-02-12
text: Introduced in House
No Taxation Without Representation Act

Bill: 111-hr-1014
Sponsor: Rep. Gohmert, Louie [R-TX-1]
Introduced: 2009-02-12 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: District of Columbia
Income tax exclusion

Summary:
action_date: 2009-02-12
text: 
No Taxation Without Representation Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow bona fide residents of the District of Columbia an exclusion from gross income for income derived from sources within the District of Columbia and for income effectively connected with a trade or business within the District of Columbia.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-02-12
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2009-02-12
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-02-12
text: Introduced in House
District of Columbia-Maryland Reunion Act

Bill: 111-hr-1015
Sponsor: Rep. Gohmert, Louie [R-TX-1]
Introduced: 2009-02-12 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Congressional districts and representation
Congressional oversight
District of Columbia
House of Representatives
Maryland
Members of Congress
State and local government operations

Summary:
action_date: 2009-02-12
text: 
District of Columbia-Maryland Reunion Act - Cedes the District of Columbia to Maryland after Maryland's acceptance of such retrocession. Declares that the National Capital Service Area in the District of Columbia shall not be ceded and relinquished to such state and shall continue to serve as the permanent seat of the federal government. Maintains the exclusive legislative authority and control of Congress over the Area. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-07-23
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights, and Civil Liberties.
action_date: 2009-02-12
text: Referred to House Oversight and Government Reform
action_date: 2009-02-12
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, 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: 2009-02-12
text: Referred to House Judiciary
action_date: 2009-02-12
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-02-12
text: Introduced in House
State Video Tax Fairness Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-1019
Sponsor: Rep. Conyers, John, Jr. [D-MI-14]
Introduced: 2009-02-12 in the House
Policy area: Science, Technology, Communications
Subjects: Broadcasting, cable, digital technologies
Intergovernmental relations
Internet and video services
Internet, web applications, social media
State and local taxation
Television and film

Summary:
action_date: 2009-02-12
text: 
State Video Tax Fairness Act of 2009 - Prohibits any state from imposing a discriminatory tax on any means of providing multichannel video programming distribution services, including Internet protocol technology (or any successor protocol), direct broadcast satellite delivery, and cable television services. 
 
Defines a tax as discriminatory if the net tax imposed on one means of providing multichannel video service is higher than the net tax rate imposed on another. 
 
Applies this prohibition only to any tax imposed on or after January 1, 2008. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-07-23
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Commercial and Administrative Law.
action_date: 2009-02-12
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2009-02-12
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E256)
action_date: 2009-02-12
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-02-12
text: Introduced in House
Arbitration Fairness Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-1020
Sponsor: Rep. Johnson, Henry C. "Hank," Jr. [D-GA-4]
Introduced: 2009-02-12 in the House
Policy area: Law
Subjects: Alternative dispute resolution, mediation, arbitration
Consumer affairs
Contracts and agency
Labor-management relations
Retail and wholesale trades

Summary:
action_date: 2009-02-12
text: 
Arbitration Fairness Act of 2009 - Declares that no predispute arbitration agreement shall be valid or enforceable if it requires arbitration of: (1) an employment, consumer, or franchise dispute, or (2) a dispute arising under any statute intended to protect civil rights.
 
Declares, further, that the validity or enforceability of an agreement to arbitrate shall be determined by a court, under federal law, rather than an arbitrator, irrespective of whether the party resisting arbitration challenges the arbitration agreement specifically or in conjunction with other terms of the contract containing such agreement.
 
Exempts from this Act arbitration provisions in collective bargaining agreements.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-06-21
text: Subcommittee on Commercial and Administrative Law Discharged.
action_date: 2009-03-16
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Commercial and Administrative 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
Federal Agency Program Realignment and Closure Act

Bill: 111-hr-1023
Sponsor: Rep. Sullivan, John [R-OK-1]
Introduced: 2009-02-12 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Advisory bodies
Congressional oversight
Executive agency funding and structure
Legislative rules and procedure

Summary:
action_date: 2009-02-12
text: 
 
Federal Agency Program Realignment and Closure Act - Establishes the Federal Agency Program Realignment and Closure Commission to: (1) evaluate each executive agency and its programs; and (2) submit to the President and Congress a list of the agencies and programs it recommends eliminating or realigning. 
 
Requires the Commission to recommend that an agency or program be: (1) realigned where a function performed by two or more agencies or programs can be consolidated; (2) eliminated if it performs a function that is also provided by a state or that would be more efficient if performed at the state level; or (3) eliminated if it performs a function that can be more efficiently performed by a private entity.
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-05-04
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Government Management, Organization, and Procurement.
action_date: 2009-02-12
text: Referred to House Rules
action_date: 2009-02-12
text: Referred to the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, and in addition to the Committee on Rules, 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 Oversight and Government Reform
action_date: 2009-02-12
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-02-12
text: Introduced in House
Uniting American Families Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-1024
Sponsor: Rep. Nadler, Jerrold [D-NY-8]
Introduced: 2009-02-12 in the House
Policy area: Immigration
Subjects: Immigration status and procedures
Marriage and family status

Summary:
action_date: 2009-02-12
text: Uniting American Families Act of 2009 - Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to include a &quot;permanent partner&quot; within the scope of such Act. Defines a &quot;permanent partner&quot; as an individual 18 or older who: (1) is in a committed, intimate relationship with another individual 18 or older in which both individuals intend a lifelong commitment; (2) is financially interdependent with the other individual; (3) is not married to, or in a permanent partnership with, any other individual other than the individual; (4) is unable to contract with the other individual a marriage cognizable under this Act; and (5) is not a first, second, or third degree blood relation of the other individual. Defines a &quot;permanent partnership&quot; as the relationship existing between two permanent partners.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-03-16
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 amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide for residents of Puerto Rico who participate in cafeteria plans under the Puerto Rican tax laws an exclusion from employment taxes which is comparable to the exclusion that applies to cafeteria plans under such Code.

Bill: 111-hr-1025
Sponsor: Rep. Becerra, Xavier [D-CA-31]
Introduced: 2009-02-12 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Employee benefits and pensions
Employment taxes
Income tax exclusion
Puerto Rico
U.S. territories and protectorates

Summary:
action_date: 2009-02-12
text: 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to exempt from employment and unemployment taxes payments made on behalf of Puerto Rican residents participating in tax-exempt employee benefit cafeteria plans established under Puerto Rican law.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-02-12
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2009-02-12
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-02-12
text: Introduced in House