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To amend the Americans with Disabilities Act to require that the same access to transportation and public accommodations be afforded to certified trainers of service animals as is afforded under such Act to individuals with disabilities who use such service animals.

Bill: 111-hr-4378
Sponsor: Rep. Kissell, Larry [D-NC-8]
Introduced: 2009-12-16 in the House
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Animal protection and human-animal relationships
Disability and health-based discrimination
Public transit

Summary:
action_date: 2009-12-16
text: 
Amends the Americans with Disabilities Act to require that the same access to transportation and public accommodations be afforded to certified trainers of service animals as is afforded to individuals with disabilities who use such animals. 
 
Defines &quot;service animal&quot; as a guide dog, signal dog, or other animal trained or being trained to assist an individual with a disability regardless of whether such animal has been licensed or certified by a state or local government.
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-03-01
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights, and Civil Liberties.
action_date: 2009-12-17
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Highways and Transit.
action_date: 2009-12-16
text: Referred to House Judiciary
action_date: 2009-12-16
text: Referred to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, 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: 2009-12-16
text: Referred to House Transportation and Infrastructure
action_date: 2009-12-16
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-12-16
text: Introduced in House
To amend title 10, United States Code, to require contractors and subcontractors working on military construction projects to comply with licensing requirements for employees working at the project location.

Bill: 111-hr-4379
Sponsor: Rep. Langevin, James R. [D-RI-2]
Introduced: 2009-12-16 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Building construction
Labor standards
Licensing and registrations
Military facilities and property
Military procurement, research, weapons development
State and local government operations

Summary:
action_date: 2009-12-16
text: 
Directs the Secretary of the military department concerned, as a condition of each contract awarded in connection with a military construction or family housing project, to require the contractor (and any appropriate subcontractor) to comply with workforce licensing requirements imposed by the state and other jurisdictions in which the project is conducted for all employees of the contractor (and any appropriate subcontractor) who work at the project location.
 
Authorizes the Secretary of Defense (DOD) to waive such requirement on a case-by-case basis for national security purposes.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-01-21
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Readiness.
action_date: 2009-12-16
text: Referred to the House Committee on Armed Services.
action_date: 2009-12-16
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-12-16
text: Introduced in House
H-2B Program Reform Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-4381
Sponsor: Rep. Lofgren, Zoe [D-CA-16]
Introduced: 2009-12-16 in the House
Policy area: Immigration
Subjects: Administrative remedies
Department of Homeland Security
Department of Labor
Foreign labor
Government information and archives
Immigration status and procedures
Licensing and registrations
Migrant, seasonal, agricultural labor
Temporary and part-time employment
User charges and fees
Visas and passports
Wages and earnings

Summary:
action_date: 2009-12-16
text: 
H-2B Program Reform Act of 2009 - Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to make any alien seeking to enter the United States as an H-2B visa (nonagricultural temporary/seasonal worker) inadmissible unless the Secretary of Labor (Secretary) certifies to the Secretary of State and the Secretary of Homeland Security (DHS) that: (1) there are not sufficient U.S. workers to perform such temporary labor or services; and (2) such alien's employment will not adversely affect similarly-employed U.S. workers' wages and working conditions.
 
Requires H-2B employers to file an application with the Secretary which shall include information regarding: (1) the numbers, occupational classifications, and employment locations of such nonimmigrants; (2) the recurring and temporary need for such labor and the inability to secure U.S. workers to meet such labor needs; and (3) instances of employment-related violations within the previous three years.
 
 
Limits labor contracting and construction entities registration eligibility.
 
 Directs the Secretary to set the number of H-2B visas each employer would be approved to use. Requires an employer to pay a $100 application fee and a $100 per-worker fee.
 
Sets forth: (1) labor certification application provisions; (2) H-2B and U.S. worker protections; and (3) penalties, including temporary program removal, for compliance failures. 
 
 
Establishes in the Treasury the Employment Certification Fee Account.
 
States that forest, conservation, and logging workers shall be considered: (1) H-2A nonimmigrant agricultural workers for employment purposes; and (2) seasonal agricultural workers under the Migrant Seasonal Worker Protection Act.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-03-01
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration, Citizenship, Refugees, Border Security, and International Law.
action_date: 2010-02-23
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Workforce Protections.
action_date: 2009-12-16
text: Referred to House Education and Labor
action_date: 2009-12-16
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committee on Education and Labor, 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: 2009-12-16
text: Referred to House Judiciary
action_date: 2009-12-16
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-12-16
text: Introduced in House
Revitalizing Cities Through Parks Enhancement Act

Bill: 111-hr-4382
Sponsor: Rep. Maloney, Carolyn B. [D-NY-14]
Introduced: 2009-12-16 in the House
Policy area: Housing and Community Development
Subjects: Housing and community development funding
Parks, recreation areas, trails
Urban and suburban affairs and development

Summary:
action_date: 2009-12-16
text: 
Revitalizing Cities Through Parks Enhancement Act - Directs the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) to make grants to qualified community organizations to develop as open space municipally owned vacant lots in urban areas. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-12-17
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E3056)
action_date: 2009-12-16
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2009-12-16
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-12-16
text: Introduced in House
Thomas J. Manton Prostate Cancer Early Detection and Treatment Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-4383
Sponsor: Rep. Marshall, Jim [D-GA-8]
Introduced: 2009-12-16 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Cancer
Health programs administration and funding
Health promotion and preventive care
Medical tests and diagnostic methods
Sex and reproductive health

Summary:
action_date: 2009-12-16
text: 
Thomas J. Manton Prostate Cancer Early Detection and Treatment Act of 2009 - Amends the Public Health Service Act to allow the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS), acting through the Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), to make grants to states to carry out: (1) prostate cancer prevention programs (including screening and referrals for treatment); and (2) demonstration projects to provide preventive health services with respect to prostate cancer (including blood pressure and cholesterol screenings). 
 
Amends title XIX (Medicaid) of the Social Security Act to allow states to provide medical assistance to individuals who have been screened for prostate cancer under this Act and who need treatment for prostate cancer. 
 
Applies provisions related to breast and cervical cancer programs to programs under this Act. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-12-19
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2009-12-16
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2009-12-16
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-12-16
text: Introduced in House
To establish the Utah Navajo Trust Fund Commission, and for other purposes.

Bill: 111-hr-4384
Sponsor: Rep. Matheson, Jim [D-UT-2]
Introduced: 2009-12-16 in the House
Policy area: Native Americans
Subjects: Accounting and auditing
Elections, voting, political campaign regulation
Federal-Indian relations
Financial services and investments
Government trust funds
Indian social and development programs
Utah

Summary:
action_date: 2009-12-16
text: 
Utah Navajo Trust Fund Act of 2009 - Directs each Utah Navajo Chapter to conduct a binding election on the same day in accordance with this Act to select a representative to the Utah Navajo Trust Fund Commission.
 
Sets forth election provisions.
 
Establishes a Utah Navajo Trust Fund Commission within 90 days after enactment of this Act. Sets forth Commission responsibilities, including: (1) selecting an independent Trust Administrator for the Utah Navajo Trust Fund; (2) ensuring that Trust amounts are invested, managed, and administered for the health, education, and general welfare of the beneficiaries; (3) ensuring that Navajos living outside of the Navajo Nation in San Juan County, Utah, remain eligible for Fund educational assistance; (4) conducting an annual assessment to determine the eligible uses of Trust assets; and (5) establishing and maintaining a census of eligible beneficiaries.
 
Directs Utah: (1) within 90 days after selection of a Trust Administrator, to prepare an audit and accounting of the Trust assets in the Utah Navajo Trust Fund, as established and administered by Utah prior to passage of this Act; and (2) within 120 days after selection of a Trust Administrator, to transfer Trust assets to the Trust Administrator who shall establish the Utah Navajo Trust Fund with such assets.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-07-28
text: Committee Hearings Held.
action_date: 2009-12-16
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2009-12-16
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-12-16
text: Introduced in House
United States War Bonds Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-4385
Sponsor: Rep. Meek, Kendrick B. [D-FL-17]
Introduced: 2009-12-16 in the House
Policy area: Economics and Public Finance
Subjects: Afghanistan
Asia
Defense spending
Iraq
Middle East
Military operations and strategy
Securities

Summary:
action_date: 2009-12-16
text: 
United States War Bonds Act of 2009 - Authorizes the Secretary of the Treasury to issue United States War Bonds to aid in the funding of the operations in Iraq and Afghanistan.
 
Authorizes appropriations to implement a marketing program to encourage sales of such bonds.
 
 
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-12-17
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E3022)
action_date: 2009-12-16
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2009-12-16
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-12-16
text: Introduced in House
Compassionate Care for Servicewomen Act

Bill: 111-hr-4386
Sponsor: Rep. Michaud, Michael H. [D-ME-2]
Introduced: 2009-12-16 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Family planning and birth control
Military facilities and property
Military medicine
Military personnel and dependents
Prescription drugs
Women's health

Summary:
action_date: 2009-12-16
text: 
Compassionate Care for Servicewomen Act - Requires emergency contraception in drug form to be included on the basic core formulary of the uniform formulary of pharmaceutical agents for the pharmacy benefits program of the Department of Defense. Allows emergency contraception in other-than-drug form to also be so included.
 
States that prior authorization shall not be required for such contraception.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-01-21
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Military Personnel.
action_date: 2009-12-16
text: Referred to the House Committee on Armed Services.
action_date: 2009-12-16
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-12-16
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide tax incentives for the donation of wild game meat.

Bill: 111-hr-4388
Sponsor: Rep. Murphy, Scott [D-NY-20]
Introduced: 2009-12-16 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Food assistance and relief
Food industry and services
Income tax deductions
Income tax exclusion
Meat
Social work, volunteer service, charitable organizations

Summary:
action_date: 2009-12-16
text: 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) increase the tax deduction for charitable contributions of qualified wild game meat by the processing fees paid with respect to such contributions; and (2) exclude from the gross income of meat processors processing fees paid by a charitable organization for the processing of donated wild game meat. Defines &quot;qualified wild game meat&quot; as the meat of any animal typically used for human consumption if: (1) such animal is killed in the wild by the individual making the charitable contribution; and (2) the meat is apparently wholesome and processed in accordance with applicable laws.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-12-16
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2009-12-16
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-12-16
text: Introduced in House
Green Energy Paper Manufacturing Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-4389
Sponsor: Rep. Murphy, Scott [D-NY-20]
Introduced: 2009-12-16 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Alternative and renewable resources
Electric power generation and transmission
Income tax credits
Manufacturing

Summary:
action_date: 2009-12-16
text: 
Green Energy Paper Manufacturing Act of 2009 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow: (1) a general business tax credit, up to $25 million in a taxable year, for the production of energy from biomass fuels for a pulp, paper, or paperboard manufacturing facility located in the United States; and (2) advance payments of credit amounts for liquid biomass used as a fuel to produce steam or energy at any such facility.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-12-16
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2009-12-16
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-12-16
text: Introduced in House
Medicare and Medicaid Fraud Prevention and Control Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-4390
Sponsor: Rep. Murphy, Scott [D-NY-20]
Introduced: 2009-12-16 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Child health
Fraud offenses and financial crimes
Health care costs and insurance
Medicaid
Medicare
Poverty and welfare assistance

Summary:
action_date: 2009-12-16
text: 
Medicare and Medicaid Fraud Prevention and Control Act of 2009 - Amends title XI of the Social Security Act (SSA) to establish specified enhanced program and provider protections against fraud under the Medicare, Medicaid, and Children's Health Insurance programs under SSA titles XVIII, XIX, and XXI.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-12-19
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2009-12-18
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2009-12-16
text: Referred to House Ways and Means
action_date: 2009-12-16
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: 2009-12-16
text: Referred to House Energy and Commerce
action_date: 2009-12-16
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-12-16
text: Introduced in House
Affordable Tutoring of Our Children Act

Bill: 111-hr-4391
Sponsor: Rep. Pascrell, Bill, Jr. [D-NJ-8]
Introduced: 2009-12-16 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Academic performance and assessments
Child care and development
Elementary and secondary education
Employee benefits and pensions
Income tax exclusion
Teaching, teachers, curricula

Summary:
action_date: 2009-12-16
text: 
Affordable Tutoring of Our Children Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to expand the tax exclusion for employer-provided dependent care assistance to allow employees an additional exclusion for payments of supplemental instructional services assistance to their dependents between the ages of 5 and 19 who have not obtained a high school diploma or who have been awarded a general education degree. Defines &quot;supplemental instructional services assistance&quot; to include instructional or other academic enrichment services that are: (1) in addition to instruction provided during the school day; (2) specifically designed to increase academic achievement; (3) in the core academic studies of English, reading or language arts, mathematics, science, foreign languages, civics and government, economics, arts, social studies, and geography; and (4) provided by a state certified instructor or accredited organization.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-12-16
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2009-12-16
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-12-16
text: Introduced in House
African Higher Education Expansion and Improvement Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-4392
Sponsor: Rep. Payne, Donald M. [D-NJ-10]
Introduced: 2009-12-16 in the House
Policy area: International Affairs
Subjects: Advisory bodies
Africa
Educational facilities and institutions
Elementary and secondary education
Executive agency funding and structure
Foreign aid and international relief
Higher education
Minority education
Public-private cooperation
School administration
Teaching, teachers, curricula
U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID)
Women's education

Summary:
action_date: 2009-12-16
text: 
African Higher Education Expansion and Improvement Act of 2009 - Expresses the sense of Congress regarding the importance to the development of sub-Saharan Africa of support for the improvement of primary, secondary, and higher education in that region.
 
States that it is this country's policy to provide Africa with long-term assistance to improve the capacity of its institutions of higher education (IHEs) through partnerships with our IHEs.
 
Amends the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 to authorize the President to provide long-term assistance to sub-Saharan Africa that improves higher education by: (1) building the capacity of IHEs in sub-Saharan Africa; (2) building linkages and partnerships between sub-Saharan IHEs and our IHEs; (3) assisting efforts to recruit and retain women as students, faculty, and administrators; and (4) establishing an American University in West Africa.
 
Requires the Administrator of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) to designate a Director of Assistance to Support and Promote Higher Education in Sub-Saharan Africa, who is to carry out such activities.
 
Establishes a Sub-Saharan African Higher Education Advisory Board within USAID, which is appointed by the Administrator and composed of individuals from the private sector who have the requisite experience with Africa and higher education to assist the Director. 
 
Urges the Director and the Board to make every effort to leverage resources from the private sector in carrying out their responsibilities.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-12-16
text: Referred to the House Committee on Foreign Affairs.
action_date: 2009-12-16
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-12-16
text: Introduced in House
To authorize the Secretary of Commerce to reduce the matching requirement for participants in the Hollings Manufacturing Extension Partnership Program.

Bill: 111-hr-4393
Sponsor: Rep. Peters, Gary C. [D-MI-9]
Introduced: 2009-12-16 in the House
Policy area: Commerce
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Advanced technology and technological innovations
Department of Commerce
Manufacturing
Public-private cooperation
Technology transfer and commercialization

Summary:
action_date: 2009-12-16
text: 
Amends the National Institute of Standards and Technology Act to reduce the matching funds requirement for participants in the Hollings Manufacturing Extension Partnership Program (providing services to small and mid-sized manufacturers) from not less than 50% of the costs incurred for the first three years and an increasing share for each of the last three years to no more than 50% of the costs incurred by a participating Regional Center for the Transfer of Manufacturing Technology. Directs the Secretary of Commerce to establish criteria to determine a Center's cost share.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-12-24
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Technology and Innovation.
action_date: 2009-12-16
text: Referred to the House Committee on Science and Technology.
action_date: 2009-12-16
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-12-16
text: Introduced in House
Save Our Energy Jobs Act

Bill: 111-hr-4396
Sponsor: Rep. Pomeroy, Earl [D-ND-At Large]
Introduced: 2009-12-16 in the House
Policy area: Environmental Protection
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Air quality
Climate change and greenhouse gases
Congressional oversight
Congressional-executive branch relations
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)

Summary:
action_date: 2009-12-16
text: 
Save Our Energy Jobs Act - Expresses the sense of Congress that: (1) Congress did not intend the Clean Air Act to regulate greenhouse gases (GHGs); (2) the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) should not have the authority to promulgate rules to regulate GHG emissions without explicit authority from Congress; (3) rules that regulate GHG emissions will have a significant impact on the U.S. economy and should not be left to administrative rulemaking in the absence of congressional action; and (4) comprehensive regulations to address global climate change must only be enacted at the direction of Congress.
 
Amends the Clean Air Act to amend the definition of &quot;air pollutant&quot; to exclude carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, hydrofluorocarbons, perfluorocarbons, or sulfur hexafluoride.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-12-19
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Environment.
action_date: 2009-12-16
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2009-12-16
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-12-16
text: Introduced in House