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Department of Transportation Bonding Assistance Authority Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-2991
Sponsor: Rep. Cummings, Elijah E. [D-MD-7]
Introduced: 2009-06-23 in the House
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Infrastructure development
Intergovernmental relations
Minority and disadvantaged businesses
Public contracts and procurement
Small business
State and local government operations
Transportation programs funding

Summary:
action_date: 2009-06-23
text: 
Department of Transportation Bonding Assistance Authority Act of 2009 - Replaces the mandate for the Minority Resource Center to provide bonding assistance to disadvantaged business enterprises. 
 
Authorizes the Secretary of Transportation, acting through the Minority Resource Center, to prescribe, guarantee, and enter into commitments to guarantee a surety against loss resulting from a small business concern's breach of a bond that is required for it to bid on or perform a transportation project contract, pay on the contract, or serve as a prime contractor or subcontractor on such contract.
 
Authorizes the Secretary to indemnify such a surety up to 90% of any loss sustained by it in avoiding or attempting to avoid a breach of a bond guaranteed under this Act.
 
Requires the Secretary to establish a program under which not more than five selected states may carry out: (1) the activities of the Secretary with respect to issuing surety guarantees; as well as (2) the activities of sureties to assist eligible small business concerns.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-06-24
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Railroads, Pipelines, and Hazardous Materials.
action_date: 2009-06-23
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2009-06-23
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-06-23
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to prohibit the use of public funds for political party conventions.

Bill: 111-hr-2992
Sponsor: Rep. Cole, Tom [R-OK-4]
Introduced: 2009-06-23 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Elections, voting, political campaign regulation
Government trust funds
Tax administration and collection, taxpayers

Summary:
action_date: 2009-06-23
text: Amends the Internal Revenue Code to repeal provisions providing for the use of funds from the Presidential Election Campaign Fund for presidential nominating conventions.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-06-23
text: Referred to the House Committee on House Administration.
action_date: 2009-06-23
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-06-23
text: Introduced in House
To amend chapters 95 and 96 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to terminate taxpayer financing of presidential election campaigns.

Bill: 111-hr-2993
Sponsor: Rep. Cole, Tom [R-OK-4]
Introduced: 2009-06-23 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Elections, voting, political campaign regulation
Government trust funds
Tax administration and collection, taxpayers

Summary:
action_date: 2009-06-23
text: 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to terminate: (1) taxpayer checkoffs to finance presidential election campaigns; (2) the Presidential Election Campaign Fund (Fund) and related provisions; and (3) presidential primary matching payment accounts. Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to transfer any amounts remaining in the Fund after 2009 to the general fund of the Treasury.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-06-23
text: Referred to House Administration
action_date: 2009-06-23
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on 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: 2009-06-23
text: Referred to House Ways and Means
action_date: 2009-06-23
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-06-23
text: Introduced in House
Disaster State Housing Recovery Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-2995
Sponsor: Rep. Davis, Artur [D-AL-7]
Introduced: 2009-06-23 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Alabama
Disaster relief and insurance
Housing and community development funding
Income tax credits
Louisiana
Low- and moderate-income housing
Mississippi
Natural disasters
Texas

Summary:
action_date: 2009-06-23
text: 
Disaster State Housing Recovery Act of 2009 - Amends the American Recovery and Reinvestment Tax Act of 2009 with respect to grants for 2009 to a state housing credit agency for low-income housing projects in lieu of low-income housing credit allocations.
 
Revises the formula for determining a state's low-income housing grant election amount to reflect any increase in the state housing credit ceiling for 2009 attributable to any such ceiling returned to the state in 2009 by reason of the additional low-income housing credit dollar amounts allocated by the state housing credit agency to buildings located in the Gulf Opportunity (GO) Zone (including the Hurricanes Katrina and Ike disaster areas in Alabama, Louisiana, or Mississippi).
 
Requires application of the additional low-income housing credit amount for the GO Zone in the 2009 grant election formula without regard to certain special rules for small timber producers.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-06-23
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2009-06-23
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-06-23
text: Introduced in House
PATIENTS Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-3002
Sponsor: Rep. Boehner, John A. [R-OH-8]
Introduced: 2009-06-23 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Genetics
Health care coverage and access
Health information and medical records
Health programs administration and funding
Medical research
Minority health

Summary:
action_date: 2009-06-23
text: 
Preserving Access to Targeted, Individualized, and Effective New Treatments and Services (PATIENTS) Act of 2009 or the PATIENTS Act of 2009 - Prohibits the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) from using data obtained from the conduct of comparative effectiveness research, including such research that is conducted or supported using funds appropriated under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, to deny coverage of an item or service under a federal health care program. Requires the Secretary to ensure that comparative effectiveness research conducted or supported by the federal government accounts for factors contributing to differences in the treatment response and preferences of patients, including patient-reported outcomes, genomics and personalized medicine, the unique needs of health disparity populations, and indirect patient benefits.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-06-24
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2009-06-23
text: Referred to House Ways and Means
action_date: 2009-06-23
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: 2009-06-23
text: Referred to House Energy and Commerce
action_date: 2009-06-23
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-06-23
text: Introduced in House
School-Based Health Clinic Establishment Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-3003
Sponsor: Rep. Capps, Lois [D-CA-23]
Introduced: 2009-06-23 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Child health
Comprehensive health care
Elementary and secondary education
Health care coverage and access
Health facilities and institutions
Health programs administration and funding
Mental health

Summary:
action_date: 2009-06-23
text: 
School-Based Health Clinic Establishment Act of 2009 - Amends the Public Health Service Act to require the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) to award grants for the cost of operating school-based health clinics (SBHCs) to provide comprehensive primary health services during school hours to children and adolescents by health professionals. 
 
Requires SBHCs to: (1) provide services to children and adolescents for whom parental or guardian consent has been obtained; (2) provide on-site access during the academic day when school is in session and have an established network of support and access to services with backup health providers when the school or SBHC is closed; and (3) comply with federal, state, and local laws concerning patient privacy and student records. 
 
Allows the Secretary to: (1) give preference to applicants who demonstrate an ability to serve populations of children and adolescents that have historically demonstrated difficulty in accessing health and mental health services; and (2) waive certain requirements under this Act for no more than two years. 
 
Requires the Secretary to establish a program to provide technical and other assistance to SBHCs.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-06-24
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2009-06-23
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2009-06-23
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-06-23
text: Introduced in House
Eminent Domain Tax Relief Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-3004
Sponsor: Rep. Gingrey, Phil [R-GA-11]
Introduced: 2009-06-23 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Capital gains tax
Housing finance and home ownership
Income tax exclusion
Property rights

Summary:
action_date: 2009-06-23
text: 
Eminent Domain Tax Relief Act of 2009 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to exclude from gross income gain from the conversion of property by reason of eminent domain.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-06-23
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2009-06-23
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-06-23
text: Introduced in House
Streamlining America's Various Energy Needs Act

Bill: 111-hr-3005
Sponsor: Rep. Graves, Sam [R-MO-6]
Introduced: 2009-06-23 in the House
Policy area: Energy
Subjects: Electric power generation and transmission
Energy efficiency and conservation
Executive agency funding and structure
Intergovernmental relations
Licensing and registrations
State and local government operations

Summary:
action_date: 2009-06-23
text: 
Streamlining America's Various Energy Needs Act - Directs federal agencies to expedite their review of permits and take other actions as necessary to accelerate completion of projects that will increase energy production, transmission, or conservation, while maintaining safety, public health, and environmental protections.
 
Establishes an interagency task force to monitor and assist federal agencies to: (1) comply with this Act; and (2) set up mechanisms to coordinate federal, state, tribal, and local permitting in geographic areas where increased permitting activity is expected.
 
States that nothing in this Act affects judicial review of an agency action.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-06-24
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Environment.
action_date: 2009-06-23
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2009-06-23
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-06-23
text: Introduced in House
Success in the Middle Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-3006
Sponsor: Rep. Grijalva, Raúl M. [D-AZ-7]
Introduced: 2009-06-23 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Academic performance and assessments
Education of the disadvantaged
Education programs funding
Elementary and secondary education
Government information and archives
Government studies and investigations
Language arts
Research administration and funding
Research and development
School administration
Teaching, teachers, curricula

Summary:
action_date: 2009-06-23
text: 
Success in the Middle Act of 2009 - Directs the Secretary of Education to make grants to states, based on their proportion of poor children aged 5 to 17, to: (1) implement state middle grades needs analyses and, on the basis of such analyses, improvement plans that describe what students must master to complete successfully the middle grades and succeed in academically rigorous high school coursework; and (2) award competitive subgrants to local educational agencies (LEAs) or partnerships of LEAs and institutions of higher education, educational service agencies, or educational nonprofit organizations to implement a comprehensive middle school improvement plan for each eligible school. Favors LEAs, or partnerships that include LEAs, that serve high proportions of poor children and children attending eligible schools.
 
Defines &quot;eligible schools&quot; as those where: (1) a high proportion of middle grade students matriculate to high schools with graduation rates below 65%; (2) more than 25% of the students who finish grade six, or the school's earliest middle grade level, exhibit key risk factors for failure; and (3) a majority of middle grade students are not rated proficient on required state assessments in mathematics, reading, or language arts.
 
Permits states to make subgrants to LEAs and partnerships that did not receive a competitive subgrant to assist them in applying for competitive subgrants and developing comprehensive middle school improvement plans. 
 
Provides the Secretary with funding to: (1) contract for studies that identify promising practices for, and review existing research to identify factors that might lead to, the improvement of middle grades education; (2) create a national clearinghouse in best middle grade educational practices and a national database identifying factors that facilitate or impede middle grade student achievement; (3) require certain educational field research designed to enhance the performance of middle grade schools and students; (4) create a research and development center that addresses topics pertinent to the middle grades; and (5) provide grants to entities that partner with states and LEAs to develop, adapt, or replicate effective models for turning around low-performing middle grades.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-06-23
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and Labor.
action_date: 2009-06-23
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-06-23
text: Introduced in House
Local Fiscal Assistance Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-3007
Sponsor: Rep. Kanjorski, Paul E. [D-PA-11]
Introduced: 2009-06-23 in the House
Policy area: Economics and Public Finance
Subjects: Appropriations
Government trust funds
Intergovernmental relations
State and local finance

Summary:
action_date: 2009-06-23
text: 
Local Fiscal Assistance Act of 2009 - Requires the Secretary of the Treasury (or delegate) to make entitlement payments out of the Local Government Fiscal Assistance Trust Fund (established by this Act), in periodic installments through FY2011, to local governments.
 

 
Requires the use of such funds only for specified priority ordinary and necessary maintenance and operations and capital expenditures.
 

 
Establishes in the Treasury the Local Government Fiscal Assistance Trust Fund.
 
Makes appropriations to the Trust Fund through FY2011.
 

 
Prescribes allocation formulas for distributing entitlement payments among states and their local governments.
 

 

 

 

 

 



Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-10-23
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Government Management, Organization, and Procurement.
action_date: 2009-06-23
text: Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.
action_date: 2009-06-23
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-06-23
text: Introduced in House
National Strategic Gasoline Reserve for Purposes of National Security Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-3008
Sponsor: Rep. Kissell, Larry [D-NC-8]
Introduced: 2009-06-23 in the House
Policy area: Energy
Subjects: Emergency planning and evacuation
Energy storage, supplies, demand
Motor fuels
Oil and gas
Strategic materials and reserves
War and emergency powers

Summary:
action_date: 2009-06-23
text: 
National Strategic Gasoline Reserve for Purposes of National Security Act of 2009 - Directs the Secretary of Energy to establish a Strategic Gasoline Reserve system with a total capacity of 10 million barrels of regular unleaded gasoline. 
 
Directs the Secretary to: (1) transmit to Congress, the Secretary of Homeland Security, and the governor of each state in which a Gasoline Reserve will be sited a plan for the transportation of its contents to wholesale or retail markets in the event of an emergency sale; (2) complete the process of filling the Gasoline Reserve to a minimum of 90% within two years of submitting a transportation plan to Congress; (3) review the gasoline supply annually to ensure the reserves in the Gasoline Reserve do not exceed their shelf life; and (4) have in place a plan for assuring that the inventory is sold and replaced in a manner that assures the integrity of the product at all times.
 
Directs the Secretary of Energy to sell gasoline from the Gasoline Reserve if the governor of an affected state submits a written request and the President issues an Executive order requiring immediate release from any or all Gasoline Reserves at any time that the President determines certain emergency conditions are satisfied.
 

 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-06-24
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Environment.
action_date: 2009-06-23
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2009-06-23
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-06-23
text: Introduced in House
American-Made Energy Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-3009
Sponsor: Rep. Ross, Mike [D-AR-4]
Introduced: 2009-06-23 in the House
Policy area: Energy
Subjects: Alaska
Alternative and renewable resources
Appropriations
Coal
Energy revenues and royalties
Environmental assessment, monitoring, research
Environmental technology
Government trust funds
Intergovernmental relations
Judicial review and appeals
Land transfers
Nuclear power
Oil and gas
Pipelines
Public contracts and procurement
State and local finance
Wilderness and natural areas, wildlife refuges, wild rivers, habitats

Summary:
action_date: 2009-06-23
text: 
American-Made Energy Act of 2009 - Establishes in the Treasury the American-Made Energy Trust Fund for alternative and renewable energy incentives and projects (e.g., wind, solar, biomass, and geothermal resources, waste to energy, hydropower, nuclear power, and coal to liquid technology). 
 
Directs the Secretary of the Interior to establish, implement, and administer a competitive oil and gas leasing program on the Coastal Plain of Alaska.
 
Repeals the prohibition against production or leasing of oil and gas resources from the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR).
 
Declares that the oil and gas leasing programs and activities in the Coastal Plain authorized by this Act are deemed in compliance with the purposes for which ANWR was established.
 
Authorizes the Secretary to designate up to a total of 45,000 acres of the Coastal Plain as a special area, after consultation with the state of Alaska, the city of Kaktovik, and the North Slope Borough. Permits directional drilling in such special areas.
 
Prescribes guidelines for implementation of lease sales.
 
Sets forth: (1) a &quot;no significant adverse effect&quot; standard to govern Coastal Plain activities; (2) guidelines for expedited judicial review; and (3) a plan for federal and state distribution of revenues.
 
Directs the Secretary to issue rights-of-way and easements across the Coastal Plain for the transportation of oil and gas.
 
Provides for financial assistance for local government impact aid and community service assistance. 
 
Establishes in the Treasury the Coastal Plain Local Government Impact Aid Assistance Fund.
 
Terminates all existing federal laws prohibiting expenditures to conduct oil and natural gas leasing and preleasing activities in the Outer Continental Shelf. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-06-26
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources.
action_date: 2009-06-24
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Environment.
action_date: 2009-06-23
text: Referred to House Energy and Commerce
action_date: 2009-06-23
text: Referred to the Committee on Natural Resources, and in addition to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, 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: 2009-06-23
text: Referred to House Natural Resources
action_date: 2009-06-23
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-06-23
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to reduce class size through the use of fully qualified teachers, and for other purposes.

Bill: 111-hr-3010
Sponsor: Rep. Wu, David [D-OR-1]
Introduced: 2009-06-23 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Academic performance and assessments
Education of the disadvantaged
Education programs funding
Elementary and secondary education
Language arts
School administration
Special education
Teaching, teachers, curricula
Wages and earnings

Summary:
action_date: 2009-06-23
text: 
Amends the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to establish a grants program to reduce class size through the use of fully-qualified teachers.
 
Allots funds to states and local educational agencies to recruit, hire, and train additional teachers in order to: (1) reduce class sizes nationally, in grades one through three, to an average of 18 students per classroom; and (2) improve teaching in those grades so that all students can learn to read independently and well by the end of the third grade.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-06-23
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and Labor.
action_date: 2009-06-23
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-06-23
text: Introduced in House
Telephone Excise Tax Repeal Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-3011
Sponsor: Rep. Lewis, John [D-GA-5]
Introduced: 2009-06-24 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Sales and excise taxes
Telephone and wireless communication

Summary:
action_date: 2009-06-24
text: 
Telephone Excise Tax Repeal Act of 2009 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to repeal the excise tax on communication services (i.e., local telephone service, toll telephone service, and teletypewriter exchange service). 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-06-24
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2009-06-24
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-06-24
text: Introduced in House
To amend title 13, United States Code, to provide for the more accurate and complete enumeration of certain overseas Americans in the decennial census.

Bill: 111-hr-3013
Sponsor: Rep. Bishop, Rob [R-UT-1]
Introduced: 2009-06-24 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Census and government statistics
Diplomacy, foreign officials, Americans abroad
House of Representatives
Members of Congress
Personnel records
Political representation

Summary:
action_date: 2009-06-24
text: 
Requires the Secretary of Commerce, beginning with the 2010 decennial census of population, to take measures in tabulating total population by state for purposes of apportionment of Representatives in Congress to ensure that all Americans residing abroad on the census date are accurately counted and properly attributed to their respective states.
 
Requires such measures to include methods: (1) by which administrative records of a nongovernmental organization may be used to enumerate organization members residing overseas as of the census date if such records satisfy the Secretary's criteria; and (2) under which an international &quot;Be Counted&quot; form may be completed at a U.S. embassy by Americans residing overseas.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-10-23
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Information Policy, Census, and National Archives.
action_date: 2009-06-24
text: Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.
action_date: 2009-06-24
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-06-24
text: Introduced in House