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Fostering Independence Through Technology Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-3030
Sponsor: Rep. Walz, Timothy J. [D-MN-1]
Introduced: 2009-06-24 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Health information and medical records
Health technology, devices, supplies
Home and outpatient care
Medicare

Summary:
action_date: 2009-06-24
text: 
Fostering Independence Through Technology Act of 2009 - Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services to conduct pilot projects under title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act for the purpose of providing incentives to home health agencies to utilize home monitoring and communications technology.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-06-25
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2009-06-24
text: Referred to House Energy and Commerce
action_date: 2009-06-24
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, 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: 2009-06-24
text: Referred to House Ways and Means
action_date: 2009-06-24
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-06-24
text: Introduced in House
Families for Orphans Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-3031
Sponsor: Rep. Watson, Diane E. [D-CA-33]
Introduced: 2009-06-24 in the House
Policy area: International Affairs
Subjects: Adoption and foster care
Advisory bodies
Child care and development
Department of State
Executive agency funding and structure
Family relationships
Foreign aid and international relief
Government studies and investigations

Summary:
action_date: 2009-06-24
text: 
Families for Orphans Act of 2009 - Establishes within the Department of State the Office for Orphan Policy Diplomacy and Development which shall support: (1) the preservation and reunification of families; and (2) the provision of permanent parental care for orphans.
 
Directs the President to establish the Policy Coordinating Committee which shall monitor and support international efforts in family preservation, family reunification, and permanent parental care for orphans.
 
Authorizes the President to provide assistance to foreign countries: (1) for family preservation, family reunification, and orphan care efforts; and (2) to meet minimum standards required for such assistance. 
 
Authorizes the Secretary of State to make grants to nongovernmental agencies to promote permanent parental care for orphans.
 
Directs the Secretary to: (1) initiate a study to identify global best practices for preserving and reunifying families and providing permanent parental care for orphans; and (2) carry out a global best practices pilot program.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-06-24
text: Referred to the House Committee on Foreign Affairs.
action_date: 2009-06-24
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-06-24
text: Introduced in House
Carbon Neutral Government Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-3033
Sponsor: Rep. Welch, Peter [D-VT-At Large]
Introduced: 2009-06-24 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Air quality
Alternative and renewable resources
Climate change and greenhouse gases
Department of Energy
Government buildings, facilities, and property
Public contracts and procurement

Summary:
action_date: 2009-06-24
text: 
Carbon Neutral Government Act of 2009 - Authorizes federal agencies and legislative branch offices to purchase qualified tradeable: (1) greenhouse gas (GHG) offsets; and (2) renewable energy credits.
 
Requires the Secretary of Energy to promulgate rules regarding approved open market transactions involving such offsets and credits. Requires such rules to accommodate forward purchasing and crediting of offsets and credits on an estimated basis from small scale offset and renewable energy generators and other open market transactions that help enable short-term purchases of offsets and credits to contribute to the implementation of such generators.
 
Defines &quot;greenhouse gas offsets&quot; to mean a reduction in GHG emissions that results from actions that would not have occurred in the absence of the opportunity to sell an offset for the resulting reduction.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-06-25
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Environment.
action_date: 2009-06-24
text: Referred to House Energy and Commerce
action_date: 2009-06-24
text: Referred to House Administration
action_date: 2009-06-24
text: Referred to the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, and in addition to the Committees on House Administration, and 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: 2009-06-24
text: Referred to House Oversight and Government Reform
action_date: 2009-06-24
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-06-24
text: Introduced in House
Investment in American Steel Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-3034
Sponsor: Rep. Wilson, Charles A. [D-OH-6]
Introduced: 2009-06-24 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Alternative and renewable resources
Business investment and capital
Buy American requirements
Electric power generation and transmission
Income tax credits
Metals

Summary:
action_date: 2009-06-24
text: 
Investment in American Steel Act of 2009 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to adjust the rate of the tax credit for investment in projects to produce energy from wind based upon the percentage of domestic steel content in such projects. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-06-24
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2009-06-24
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR H7254)
action_date: 2009-06-24
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-06-24
text: Introduced in House
Civil Rights Tax Relief Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-3035
Sponsor: Rep. Lewis, John [D-GA-5]
Introduced: 2009-06-25 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Civil actions and liability
Employment discrimination and employee rights
Income tax exclusion
Wages and earnings

Summary:
action_date: 2009-06-25
text: 
Civil Rights Tax Relief Act of 2009 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow: (1) an exclusion from gross income for amounts received (either backpay or frontpay or punitive damages) on account of an unlawful discrimination claim; (2) income averaging for backpay and frontpay amounts received from such claims, and (3) an exemption from the alternative minimum tax for any tax benefit resulting from the income averaging of amounts received from an unlawful discrimination claim.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-06-25
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2009-06-25
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-06-25
text: Introduced in House
To direct the Secretary of Defense to determine and disclose the costs incurred in taking a Member, officer, or employee of Congress on a trip outside the United States so that such costs may be included in any report the Member, officer, or employee is required to file with respect to the trip under applicable law or rules of the House of Representatives or Senate.

Bill: 111-hr-3036
Sponsor: Rep. Jones, Walter B., Jr. [R-NC-3]
Introduced: 2009-06-25 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Congressional oversight
Diplomacy, foreign officials, Americans abroad
Government information and archives
Legislative rules and procedure
Members of Congress
Military facilities and property
Transportation costs

Summary:
action_date: 2009-06-25
text: 
Requires the Secretary of Defense (DOD) to give a Member, officer, or employee of either chamber of Congress carrying out official duties outside the United States a written statement of the cost of any DOD-provided transportation within 10 days after completion of the trip.
 
Requires the Member, officer, or employee to include such cost in any report which must be filed pursuant to the Rules of the House of Representatives or the Standing Rules of the Senate.
 
Excludes from such requirements any trip whose sole purpose is to visit one or more U.S. military installations and/or to visit U.S. military personnel in a war zone. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-06-25
text: Referred to House Administration
action_date: 2009-06-25
text: Referred to the Committee on Armed Services, 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: 2009-06-25
text: Referred to House Armed Services
action_date: 2009-06-25
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-06-25
text: Introduced in House
Financial Literacy for Youth Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-3037
Sponsor: Rep. Cleaver, Emanuel [D-MO-5]
Introduced: 2009-06-25 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Education programs funding
Elementary and secondary education
Financial literacy
Teaching, teachers, curricula

Summary:
action_date: 2009-06-25
text: 
Financial Literacy for Youth Act of 2009 or the FLY Act of 2009 - Directs the Secretary of Education to establish a pilot program awarding grants to 10 state or local educational agencies (LEAs) to develop financial literacy programs in elementary and secondary schools.
 
Requires grant funds to be used to: (1) integrate financial literacy programs into elementary and secondary school curricula; (2) provide financial literacy teacher training; and (3) collect, analyze, and develop the information necessary to accomplish the pilot program.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-06-25
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and Labor.
action_date: 2009-06-25
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-06-25
text: Introduced in House
Justice for Wards Cove Workers Act

Bill: 111-hr-3038
Sponsor: Rep. McDermott, Jim [D-WA-7]
Introduced: 2009-06-25 in the House
Policy area: Labor and Employment
Subjects: Employment discrimination and employee rights
Evidence and witnesses
Judicial procedure and administration

Summary:
action_date: 2009-06-25
text: 
Justice for Wards Cove Workers Act - Amends the Civil Rights Act of 1991 to remove a provision excluding from application of the Act any disparate impact case filed before March 1, 1975, and decided after October 30, 1983. (
Wards Cove Packing Co. v. Atonio
, 1989, held that, in cases brought under title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the burden is on the plaintiff to prove an employer had no business necessity for a practice with discriminatory effects.) Applies the amendments made by the Civil Rights Act of 1991 to a case that is subject to the removed provision in the same way such amendments apply to any other case brought under the employment discrimination provisions of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-07-23
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights, and Civil Liberties.
action_date: 2009-06-25
text: Referred to House Judiciary
action_date: 2009-06-25
text: Referred to the Committee on Education and Labor, and in addition to the Committee on 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: 2009-06-25
text: Referred to House Education and Labor
action_date: 2009-06-25
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-06-25
text: Introduced in House
Save Our Industries Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-3039
Sponsor: Rep. McDermott, Jim [D-WA-7]
Introduced: 2009-06-25 in the House
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Asia
Congressional oversight
Free trade and trade barriers
Government studies and investigations
Normal trade relations, most-favored-nation treatment
Philippines
Tariffs

Summary:
action_date: 2009-06-25
text: 
Save Our Industries Act of 2009 or the SAVE Act - Grants duty-free treatment, subject to specified conditions, to certain apparel wholly assembled in the United States or the Philippines, or both, and components of such apparel consisting entirely of: (1) fabric components cut in the United States or the Philippines, or both, from fabric wholly formed in the United States from yarns wholly formed in the United States; (2) components knit-to-shape in the United States from yarns wholly formed in the United States; or (3) any combination of such components. 
 
Grants: (1) a reduction of duty for such apparel, provided the same criteria are met; and (2) duty-free treatment to apparel that meet both the requirements for duty-free treatment and reduction of duty.
 
Requires the Comptroller General to evaluate the effectiveness of the preferential duty treatment afforded under this Act to apparel imported from the Philippines.
 
Prohibits preferential duty treatment of apparel imported from the Philippines unless the President certifies to Congress that it is meeting certain trade enforcement conditions with respect to such apparel.
 
Terminates preferential duty treatment under this Act: (1) 10 years after the effective date of this Act; and (2) when the Philippines becomes ineligible for designation as a beneficiary country under the Generalized System of Preferences.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-06-25
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2009-06-25
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-06-25
text: Introduced in House
Living American Wage (LAW) Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-3041
Sponsor: Rep. Green, Al [D-TX-9]
Introduced: 2009-06-25 in the House
Policy area: Labor and Employment
Subjects: Housing finance and home ownership
Wages and earnings

Summary:
action_date: 2009-06-25
text: 
Living American Wage (LAW) Act of 2009 - Expresses the sense of Congress that: (1) the federal minimum wage should, as a minimum, be adjusted every four years so that a person working for it may earn an annual income at least 15% higher than the federal poverty threshold for a family of two; (2) it should be set at a level high enough to allow two full-time minimum wage workers to earn an income above the national housing wage; and (3) Congress, any of the several states, the District of Columbia, any U.S. territories or possessions, any Indian tribe, or local or state government may establish a higher minimum wage requirement than that established in this Act.
 
Amends the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 to increase the federal minimum wage to at least the amount determined by the Secretary of Labor according to the formula prescribed by this Act beginning September 1, 2011.
 
Requires the Secretary to determine such minimum wage rate by June 1, 2010, and once every four years thereafter. Prohibits any adjustment if the determination results in a minimum wage lower than the current one.
 
Requires the minimum wage so determined to be the minimum hourly wage sufficient for a person working for it 40 hours per week, 52 weeks per year, to earn an annual income 15% higher than the federal poverty threshold for a two-person household, with one child under age 18, and living in the 48 contiguous states, as published for each such year by the Census Bureau.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-06-25
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and Labor.
action_date: 2009-06-25
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-06-25
text: Introduced in House
Forewarn Act

Bill: 111-hr-3042
Sponsor: Rep. Miller, George [D-CA-7]
Introduced: 2009-06-25 in the House
Policy area: Labor and Employment
Subjects: Civil actions and liability
Employee benefits and pensions
Employment and training programs
Employment discrimination and employee rights
Government information and archives
Government studies and investigations
Health care costs and insurance
Trade adjustment assistance
Unemployment
Wages and earnings

Summary:
action_date: 2009-06-25
text: 
Forewarn Act - Amends the Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act (the Act) to: (1) redefine the terms &quot;employer,&quot; &quot;plant closing,&quot; and &quot;mass layoff&quot; for purposes of the Act; and (2) among other things, apply it to employers of 75 or more employees (currently, 100 employees), including any parent company of which the business enterprise is a subsidiary. 
 
Requires an employer to: (1) give 90-day written notice (currently, 60-day) to employees and appropriate state and local governments before ordering a plant closing or mass layoff; (2) notify the Secretary of Labor and the governor of the state in which the closing or layoff will occur; and (3) provide affected employees with information regarding benefits and services available to them, including unemployment compensation, trade adjustment assistance, COBRA benefits, onsite access to rapid response teams, and certain other services. 
 
Exempts from such notice requirements plant closings or mass layoffs which are due directly to a terrorist attack.
 
Requires the Secretary to notify the appropriate U.S. Senators and Members of the House of Representatives who represent the area where such closing or mass layoff is to occur.
 
Makes an employer who violates such notice requirements liable to the employee for, among other things, two days pay (currently, back pay for each day of violation) multiplied by the number of calendar days for which the employer was required but failed to provide notice, including interest on such pay. 
 
Authorizes an affected employee to file a complaint with the Secretary alleging a violation of the notice requirements. Requires the Secretary to investigate and attempt to resolve such complaints. Authorizes the Secretary to bring an action in court to recover on behalf of an affected employee any backpay (including interest), benefits, and liquidated damages due.
 
Requires an employer to post conspicuously upon its premises pertinent provisions of this Act and information on the filing of a complaint. Requires the Secretary to maintain a guide on the benefits and services available to affected employees.
 
Prohibits the waiver of rights and remedies provided under this Act (including the right to maintain a civil action) by any agreement or settlement negotiated on behalf of affected employees. 
 

 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-06-25
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and Labor.
action_date: 2009-06-25
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-06-25
text: Introduced in House
Medicare Adult Day Care Services Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-3043
Sponsor: Rep. Sánchez, Linda T. [D-CA-39]
Introduced: 2009-06-25 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Adult day care
Medicare

Summary:
action_date: 2009-06-25
text: 
 Medicare Adult Day Care Services Act of 2009 - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to provide for Medicare coverage of substitute adult day care services.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-06-26
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2009-06-25
text: Referred to House Energy and Commerce
action_date: 2009-06-25
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, 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: 2009-06-25
text: Referred to House Ways and Means
action_date: 2009-06-25
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-06-25
text: Introduced in House
To impose an 18-month moratorium on the Home Valuation Code of Conduct.

Bill: 111-hr-3044
Sponsor: Rep. Childers, Travis [D-MS-1]
Introduced: 2009-06-25 in the House
Policy area: Housing and Community Development
Subjects: Accounting and auditing
Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Federal Housing Finance Agency
Housing finance and home ownership

Summary:
action_date: 2009-06-25
text: 
Declares that, during the 18 months following enactment of this Act, the Home Valuation Code of Conduct announced by the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) on December 23, 2008, shall have no force or effect.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-06-25
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2009-06-25
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-06-25
text: Introduced in House
Hunting Heritage Protection Act

Bill: 111-hr-3046
Sponsor: Rep. Rehberg, Denny [R-MT-At Large]
Introduced: 2009-06-25 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Civil actions and liability
Intergovernmental relations
Land transfers
Land use and conservation
Outdoor recreation
State and local government operations

Summary:
action_date: 2009-06-25
text: 
Hunting Heritage Protection Act - Requires that federal public land be open to access and use for hunting except as limited by: (1) the federal agency with jurisdiction over the land for national security or public safety reasons or for other reasons authorized by applicable federal law for limiting access; and (2) any law of the state in which the land is located that is applicable to hunting. 
 
Directs the head of each federal agency with authority to manage a natural resource or federal public land to exercise that authority in a manner so as to support, promote, and enhance access to hunting. 
 Instructs the head of each federal agency to ensure that federal land management decisions and actions result in no net loss of land area accessible for hunting on federal public land. 
Requires the heads of federal agencies with authority to manage federal public land on which hunting occurs to report annually on areas administered in which access for hunting was limited and the reasons for the limitations and on areas that were opened to hunting to compensate for areas in which there were such limitations. 
Prohibits a withdrawal, change of classification, or change of management status that effectively closes or limits access to 5,000 or more acres of federal public land for hunting from occurring unless the head of the federal agency that has jurisdiction over the land has submitted written notice of the action to specified congressional committees. 
Grants states the right to file civil actions in district courts in cases where federal agencies fail to comply with state authority to manage or regulate fish and wildlife.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-06-30
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests and Public Lands.
action_date: 2009-06-25
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2009-06-25
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-06-25
text: Introduced in House
Worker Eligibility Fairness Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-3048
Sponsor: Rep. Baca, Joe [D-CA-43]
Introduced: 2009-06-25 in the House
Policy area: Agriculture and Food
Subjects: Food assistance and relief
Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management
Labor-management relations
Poverty and welfare assistance

Summary:
action_date: 2009-06-25
text: 
Worker Eligibility Fairness Act of 2009 - Amends the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008 to eliminate the provision making a federal, state, or local government employee who is dismissed for participating in a strike against the federal government, the state, or a political subdivision of the state ineligible for the supplemental nutrition assistance program (formerly the food stamp program). 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-06-18
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Department Operations, Oversight, Nutrition and Forestry.
action_date: 2009-06-25
text: Referred to the House Committee on Agriculture.
action_date: 2009-06-25
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-06-25
text: Introduced in House