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To authorize the Secretary of the Interior to enter into a long-term ground lease for the operation and maintenance of Rock Creek, Langston, and East Potomac as golf courses, and for other purposes.

Bill: 111-hr-2838
Sponsor: Del. Norton, Eleanor Holmes [D-DC-At Large]
Introduced: 2009-06-11 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: District of Columbia
Historic sites and heritage areas
Minority and disadvantaged businesses
Parks, recreation areas, trails
Public contracts and procurement
Racial and ethnic relations
Sports and recreation facilities
User charges and fees

Summary:
action_date: 2009-06-11
text: 
Directs the Secretary of the Interior, acting through the Director of the National Park Service, to solicit proposals to procure a new lease for the continued operation and maintenance of Rock Creek, Langston, and East Potomac golf courses. 
 
Requires the lease to include the three golf courses in one lease agreement and mandate that the courses be operated and maintained in a manner that: (1) retains the historic nature of the courses, including an appropriate commemoration of the Langston Golf Course's historic place in African American golf history; (2) ensures that at least two of the courses maintain fees related to use that are affordable; (3) allows fees collected at one course to subsidize the maintenance and operation of one or more of the others; and (4) allows for a long-term ground lease on the three courses.
 
 Directs the Secretary to solicit the request for proposals in a manner that ensures the participation of disadvantaged business enterprises among the equity partners of the sponsors of the proposals.
 
Makes the National Park Service Concessions Management Improvement Act of 1998 inapplicable to requests for proposals submitted and leases and agreements entered into under this Act.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-06-15
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests and Public Lands.
action_date: 2009-06-11
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2009-06-11
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E1380-1381)
action_date: 2009-06-11
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-06-11
text: Introduced in House
Puerto Rico Work and Empowerment Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-2839
Sponsor: Rep. Pascrell, Bill, Jr. [D-NJ-8]
Introduced: 2009-06-11 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Income tax credits
Poverty and welfare assistance
Puerto Rico
U.S. territories and protectorates

Summary:
action_date: 2009-06-11
text: 
Puerto Rico Work and Empowerment Act of 2009 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to make residents of Puerto Rico eligible for the earned income tax credit. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-06-11
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2009-06-11
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-06-11
text: Introduced in House
Healthy Schools Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-2840
Sponsor: Rep. Sarbanes, John P. [D-MD-3]
Introduced: 2009-06-11 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Child health
Elementary and secondary education
Health care costs and insurance
Medicaid

Summary:
action_date: 2009-06-11
text: 
Healthy Schools Act of 2009 - Amends titles XIX (Medicaid) and XXI (Children's Health Insurance) (CHIP, formerly known as SCHIP) of the Social Security Act to require the state to certify that it has implemented procedures to pay for covered items and services furnished by school-based health clinics under Medicaid and CHIP. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-06-12
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2009-06-11
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2009-06-11
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-06-11
text: Introduced in House
Promoting Charitable Actions Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-2841
Sponsor: Rep. Space, Zachary T. [D-OH-18]
Introduced: 2009-06-11 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Food assistance and relief
Income tax deductions
Social work, volunteer service, charitable organizations

Summary:
action_date: 2009-06-11
text: 
Promoting Charitable Actions Act of 2009 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to make permanent the special rule allowing a tax deduction for charitable contributions of food inventory by certain noncorporate taxpayers.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-06-11
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2009-06-11
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-06-11
text: Introduced in House
To rescind all stimulus funds that remain unobligated.

Bill: 111-hr-2842
Sponsor: Rep. Tiahrt, Todd [R-KS-4]
Introduced: 2009-06-11 in the House
Policy area: Economics and Public Finance
Subjects: Appropriations
Financial crises and stabilization

Summary:
action_date: 2009-06-11
text: 
Rescinds all unobligated balances of the discretionary appropriations made available by division A of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (P.L. 111-5).


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-06-11
text: Referred to the House Committee on Appropriations.
action_date: 2009-06-11
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR H6594)
action_date: 2009-06-11
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-06-11
text: Introduced in House
Medicare Payment Improvement Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-2844
Sponsor: Rep. Kind, Ron [D-WI-3]
Introduced: 2009-06-12 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Health care quality
Health personnel
Medicare

Summary:
action_date: 2009-06-12
text: 
Medicare Payment Improvement Act of 2009 - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to require the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) to determine a value index for the physician work component for each Medicare physician fee schedule area. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-06-15
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2009-06-12
text: Referred to House Ways and Means
action_date: 2009-06-12
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: 2009-06-12
text: Referred to House Energy and Commerce
action_date: 2009-06-12
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-06-12
text: Introduced in House
Protect the Homeland from North Korean and Iranian Ballistic Missiles Act

Bill: 111-hr-2845
Sponsor: Rep. Franks, Trent [R-AZ-2]
Introduced: 2009-06-12 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Alaska
Alliances
Arms control and nonproliferation
Asia
California
Defense spending
Iran
Middle East
Military facilities and property
North Korea
Nuclear weapons

Summary:
action_date: 2009-06-12
text: 
Protect the Homeland from North Korean and Iranian Ballistic Missiles Act - States the concern of Congress over North Korean and Iranian long-range ballistic missile technology and the spread of such technology. Expresses support for ballistic missile protection of U.S. allies and forward deployed forces but also the belief that this should not come at the expense of U.S. homeland protection.
 
Directs the Secretary of Defense to deploy specified numbers of ground-based interceptors in Alaska and California and such number in other locations as determined to be appropriate by the President.
 
Authorizes funding for the ground-based midcourse defense system of the Missile Defense Agency.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-06-24
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Strategic Forces.
action_date: 2009-06-12
text: Referred to House Foreign Affairs
action_date: 2009-06-12
text: Referred to the Committee on Armed Services, and in addition to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, 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: 2009-06-12
text: Referred to House Armed Services
action_date: 2009-06-12
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-06-12
text: Introduced in House
High Potency Marihuana Sentencing Enhancement Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-2848
Sponsor: Rep. Kirk, Mark Steven [R-IL-10]
Introduced: 2009-06-12 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Criminal procedure and sentencing
Drug trafficking and controlled substances

Summary:
action_date: 2009-06-12
text: 
High Potency Marihuana Sentencing Enhancement Act of 2009 - Amends the Controlled Substances Act to provide enhanced fines and prison terms for trafficking in marihuana with a tetrahydrocannabinol content of 15% or more.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-07-23
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.
action_date: 2009-06-15
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2009-06-12
text: Referred to House Energy and Commerce
action_date: 2009-06-12
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, 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: 2009-06-12
text: Referred to House Judiciary
action_date: 2009-06-12
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E1390)
action_date: 2009-06-12
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-06-12
text: Introduced in House
Special Disability Workload Liability Resolution Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-2849
Sponsor: Rep. Schwartz, Allyson Y. [D-PA-13]
Introduced: 2009-06-12 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Civil actions and liability
Disability assistance
Medicare
Social security and elderly assistance

Summary:
action_date: 2009-06-12
text: 
Special Disability Workload Liability Resolution Act of 2009 - Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services to work with each state to reach an agreement on the amount of a payment for the state related to the Medicare program liability under title XVIII of the Social Security Act as a result of the Special Disability Workload project. (The special workload was the result of discovering a substantial number of recipients of Supplemental Security Income [SSI] benefits whose disability insured status under the title II [OASDI] Disability Insurance program was not previously recognized.)
 
Prohibits any such payment to a state unless it: (1) waives the right to file a civil action (or to be a party to any action) in federal or state court in which the relief sought includes a payment to the state from the United States related to such Medicare liability; and (2) releases the United States from any further claims for reimbursement of state expenditures as a result of the Special Disability Workload project.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-06-15
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2009-06-12
text: Referred to House Energy and Commerce
action_date: 2009-06-12
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: 2009-06-12
text: Referred to House Ways and Means
action_date: 2009-06-12
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-06-12
text: Introduced in House
Administrative Law Judges Retirement Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-2850
Sponsor: Rep. Kucinich, Dennis J. [D-OH-10]
Introduced: 2009-06-12 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management
Judges

Summary:
action_date: 2009-06-12
text: 
Administrative Law Judges Retirement Act of 2009 - Sets forth separate provisions for government and employee contributions, annuity eligibility requirements (ten years of service and age 60), early retirement, and annuity computation (2.5% and 1.7%, respectively, of average pay for each year of service) for administrative law judges under the Civil Service Retirement System (CSRS) and the Federal Employees' Retirement System (FERS).


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-06-26
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Federal Workforce, Post Office, and the District of Columbia.
action_date: 2009-06-12
text: Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.
action_date: 2009-06-12
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-06-12
text: Introduced in House
Neighborhood Investment Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-2851
Sponsor: Rep. Brady, Kevin [R-TX-8]
Introduced: 2009-06-12 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Capital gains tax
Housing finance and home ownership
Income tax exclusion

Summary:
action_date: 2009-06-12
text: 
Neighborhood Investment Act of 2009 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to exclude from gross income gain from the sale of single-family residential rental property held by a taxpayer for two years or more and rented as a single dwelling unit on a regular basis during the five-year period prior to its sale. Limits the amount of such exclusion to $250,000.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-06-12
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2009-06-12
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-06-12
text: Introduced in House
Project 2020: Building on the Promise of Home and Community-Based Services Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-2852
Sponsor: Rep. Braley, Bruce L. [D-IA-1]
Introduced: 2009-06-12 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Health programs administration and funding
Health promotion and preventive care
Home and outpatient care
Long-term, rehabilitative, and terminal care
Nursing

Summary:
action_date: 2009-06-12
text: 
Project 2020: Building on the Promise of Home and Community-Based Services Act of 2009 - Amends the Social Security Act (SSA) to direct the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) to establish a single-entry point system of grants to states for their own single-entry point systems providing information and counseling about public and private long-term services and supports.
 
Directs the Secretary to establish a healthy living program, with grants to state agencies for the federal share of the cost of carrying out evidence-based disease prevention and health promotion programs.
 
Directs the Secretary to establish a diversion program of grants to states for the federal share of the cost of carrying out enhanced nursing home diversion programs enabling individuals ineligible for medical assistance under SSA title XIX (Medicaid) to avoid admission into nursing homes by helping them to obtain alternative home and community-based long-term services and supports.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-06-15
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2009-06-12
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2009-06-12
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-06-12
text: Introduced in House
Liberty Bill Act

Bill: 111-hr-2854
Sponsor: Rep. Cantor, Eric [R-VA-7]
Introduced: 2009-06-12 in the House
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: Constitution and constitutional amendments
Currency

Summary:
action_date: 2009-06-12
text: Liberty Bill Act - Amends federal law to require that the design of the reverse side of all federal reserve notes incorporate: (1) the preamble to the Constitution; (2) a list describing the Articles of the Constitution; and (3) a list describing the Articles of Amendment. Sets forth the design format. 
States that such requirements do not limit the authority of the Secretary of the Treasury to: (1) include other inscriptions or material on the reverse side of such notes; or (2) adopt other design features to deter counterfeiting of currency.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-06-12
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2009-06-12
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-06-12
text: Introduced in House
Drug Overdose Reduction Act

Bill: 111-hr-2855
Sponsor: Rep. Edwards, Donna F. [D-MD-4]
Introduced: 2009-06-12 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Drug trafficking and controlled substances
Drug, alcohol, tobacco use
Emergency medical services and trauma care
Health information and medical records
Health personnel
Health programs administration and funding
Health promotion and preventive care
Medical education
Medical research
Medical tests and diagnostic methods
Research administration and funding

Summary:
action_date: 2009-06-12
text: 
Drug Overdose Reduction Act - Requires the Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to: (1) award grants or enter into cooperative agreements to enable eligible entities to reduce deaths occurring from drug overdoses; and (2) give priority to public health agencies or community-based organizations that have expertise in preventing deaths occurring from overdoses in high risk populations.
 
Conditions receipt of a grant or agreement on an entity agreeing to use the grant or agreement for: (1) purchasing and distributing drug overdose reversal agents; (2) training first responders, law enforcement and corrections officials, and other individuals in a position to respond to an overdose on the effective response; (3) implementing programs to provide overdose prevention, recognition, treatment, or response to individuals in need; and (4) evaluating, expanding, or replicating such programs.
 
Requires the Director to: (1) compile and publish data, annually, on fatal and nonfatal drug overdoses for the preceding year; (2) award grants to state, local, or tribal governments to improve drug overdose surveillance capabilities; and (3) develop and submit to Congress a plan to reduce the number of deaths occurring from overdoses.
 
Requires the Director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) to: (1) prioritize and conduct or support research on drug overdose and overdose prevention; and (2) support research on dosage forms of naloxone for the prehospital treatment of unintentional drug overdose.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-06-15
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2009-06-12
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2009-06-12
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-06-12
text: Introduced in House
U.S. Military Medals and Insignia Pride and Patriotism Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-2856
Sponsor: Rep. Fallin, Mary [R-OK-5]
Introduced: 2009-06-12 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Buy American requirements
Military facilities and property
Military procurement, research, weapons development
National symbols
Retail and wholesale trades

Summary:
action_date: 2009-06-12
text: 
 U.S. Military Medals and Insignia Pride and Patriotism Act of 2009 - Prohibits a military exchange store or other nonappropriated fund instrumentality of DOD from purchasing for resale any military decorations, ribbons, badges, medals, insignia, or other military accoutrements not produced in the United States (Buy American requirement). Provides an exception when the Secretary determines that a satisfactory quality and sufficient quantity of an item produced in the United States cannot be procured. Includes U.S. territories and possessions within the definition of &quot;United States&quot; for purposes of this Act.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-06-12
text: Referred to the House Committee on Armed Services.
action_date: 2009-06-12
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-06-12
text: Introduced in House
Gang Deterrence and Community Protection Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-2857
Sponsor: Rep. Forbes, J. Randy [R-VA-4]
Introduced: 2009-06-12 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Correctional facilities and imprisonment
Crimes against property
Criminal investigation, prosecution, interrogation
Criminal procedure and sentencing
Drug trafficking and controlled substances
Evidence and witnesses
Firearms and explosives
Jurisdiction and venue
Juvenile crime and gang violence
Law enforcement administration and funding
Law enforcement officers
Organized crime
Violent crime

Summary:
action_date: 2009-06-12
text: 
Gang Deterrence and Community Protection Act of 2009 - Amends the federal criminal code to modify and expand prohibitions against criminal street gang activity, including forfeiture provisions.
 
Revises penalties for: (1) interstate or foreign travel or transportation in aid of racketeering enterprises; (2) carjacking; (3) using interstate commerce facilities in the commission of murder-for-hire and other felony crimes of violence; (4) violent crimes in aid of racketeering activity; (5) murder and other violent crimes committed during and in relation to a drug trafficking crime; (6) using interstate commerce facilities to commit multiple murder; and (7) the use of firearms in crimes of violence and drug trafficking.
 
Amends: (1) the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO) to expand the definition of &quot;racketeering activity&quot; to cover interstate murder; and (2) the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994 to authorize the use of community-based justice grants to hire additional prosecutors to reduce backlogs and to fund technology, equipment, and training for specified purposes, including to increase the accurate identification and successful prosecution of young violent offenders
 
Expands: (1) the rebuttable presumption against release of persons charged with firearms offenses; (2) venue in capital cases; and (3) the authority to prosecute juveniles as adults. 
 
Sets a 15-year statute of limitations for non-capital felony crimes of violence.
 
Authorizes the Attorney General to designate specific areas that are located within one or more states as high intensity interstate gang activity areas.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-07-23
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.
action_date: 2009-06-12
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2009-06-12
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-06-12
text: Introduced in House