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Summer Food Service Rural Expansion Act

Bill: 111-hr-540
Sponsor: Rep. Platts, Todd Russell [R-PA-19]
Introduced: 2009-01-14 in the House
Policy area: Agriculture and Food
Subjects: Child health
Education of the disadvantaged
Education programs funding
Elementary and secondary education
Food assistance and relief
Pennsylvania
Poverty and welfare assistance
Rural conditions and development

Summary:
action_date: 2009-01-14
text: 
Summer Food Service Rural Expansion Act - Amends the Richard B. Russell National School Lunch Act with respect to the summer food service programs for children in service institutions (e.g., schools and summer camps).
 
Revises the condition limiting eligibility to institutions conducting a regularly scheduled food service for children from areas in which poor economic conditions exist (i.e., where at least 50% of the children meet eligibility requirements for certain free or reduced price school meals.)
 
Eliminates the special 2005 and 2006 exemption from this requirement for rural areas in Pennsylvania which lowers the threshold eligibility to areas where at least 40% of the children meet eligibility requirements for free or reduced price school meals.
 
Applies such 40% threshold to rural areas of all states and makes it permanent.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-01-14
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and Labor.
action_date: 2009-01-14
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-01-14
text: Introduced in House
Social Security Tax Relief Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-541
Sponsor: Rep. Platts, Todd Russell [R-PA-19]
Introduced: 2009-01-14 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Income tax exclusion
Inflation and prices
Social security and elderly assistance

Summary:
action_date: 2009-01-14
text: 
Social Security Tax Relief Act of 2009 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow a cost-of-living adjustment after 2009 to the base amounts used to determine the amount of social security benefits includible in gross income for income tax purposes.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-01-14
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2009-01-14
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-01-14
text: Introduced in House
Healthy Kids One Stop Act

Bill: 111-hr-542
Sponsor: Rep. Putnam, Adam H. [R-FL-12]
Introduced: 2009-01-14 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Child health
Government information and archives
Government studies and investigations
Health care costs and insurance
Health care coverage and access
Health programs administration and funding
Medicaid
Performance measurement
Poverty and welfare assistance

Summary:
action_date: 2009-01-14
text: 
Healthy Kids One Stop Act - Amends titles XIX (Medicaid) and XXI (State Children's Health Insurance) (SCHIP) of the Social Security Act to give states the option to rely on findings from a public Express Lane agency to conduct simplified eligibility determinations.
 
Amends SSA title XIX to authorize a federal or state agency or private entity in possession of the sources of data directly relevant for Medicaid eligibility determination (including eligibility files maintained by an Express Lane agency) to convey such information to the state Medicaid agency, if such conveyance meets specified requirements. Prescribes civil and criminal penalties for improper disclosure of such information.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-01-15
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2009-01-14
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2009-01-14
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-01-14
text: Introduced in House
AMT Rate Reduction Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-543
Sponsor: Rep. Royce, Edward R. [R-CA-40]
Introduced: 2009-01-14 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Income tax rates

Summary:
action_date: 2009-01-14
text: 
AMT Rate Reduction Act of 2009 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to reduce to 24% the rate of the tentative alternative minimum tax for noncorporate taxpayers.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-01-14
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2009-01-14
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-01-14
text: Introduced in House
Flexible Health Savings Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-544
Sponsor: Rep. Royce, Edward R. [R-CA-40]
Introduced: 2009-01-14 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Employee benefits and pensions
Health care costs and insurance
Income tax deferral
Income tax exclusion

Summary:
action_date: 2009-01-14
text: 
Flexible Health Savings Act of 2009 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow up to $500 of unused health benefits in a plan or other arrangement that provides for a health flexible spending arrangement to be carried forward to the next plan year or be contributed to a health savings account or a qualified retirement plan, without affecting the status of such plan or arrangement as a tax-exempt employee benefit cafeteria plan.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-01-14
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2009-01-14
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-01-14
text: Introduced in House
Morley Nelson Snake River Birds of Prey National Conservation Area Act

Bill: 111-hr-545
Sponsor: Rep. Simpson, Michael K. [R-ID-2]
Introduced: 2009-01-14 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Congressional tributes
Idaho
Wilderness and natural areas, wildlife refuges, wild rivers, habitats

Summary:
action_date: 2009-01-14
text: 
Morley Nelson Snake River Birds of Prey National Conservation Area Act - Renames the Snake River Birds of Prey National Conservation Area in Idaho as the Morley Nelson Snake River Birds of Prey National Conservation Area in honor of the late Morley Nelson, an international authority on birds of prey, who was instrumental in the establishment of this National Conservation Area. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-02-04
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests and Public Lands.
action_date: 2009-01-14
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2009-01-14
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-01-14
text: Introduced in House
Solar Stimulus for Job Creation and Energy Independence Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-546
Sponsor: Rep. Thompson, Mike [D-CA-1]
Introduced: 2009-01-14 in the House
Policy area: Energy
Subjects: Alternative and renewable resources
Business investment and capital
Income tax credits
Income tax deductions
Manufacturing
Public contracts and procurement
Securities

Summary:
action_date: 2009-01-14
text: 
Solar Stimulus for Job Creation and Energy Independence Act of 2009 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) provide for the refundability of the residential energy efficiency tax credit for solar electric and water heating property, and for business-related solar energy tax credits, through 2010; (2) allow an election to take an increased depreciation allowance for solar energy property until 2011; (3) exempt solar energy property from private activity bond usage and loan financing rules; and (4) allow a refundable energy tax credit for investment in property used to manufacture solar energy property. 

Amends the Energy Policy Act of 2005 to limit to 25 years the contract period for federal purchases of renewable energy.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-01-14
text: Referred to House Oversight and Government Reform
action_date: 2009-01-14
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2009-01-14
text: Referred to House Ways and Means
action_date: 2009-01-14
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-01-14
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Atomic Energy Act of 1954 to require congressional approval of agreements for peaceful nuclear cooperation with foreign countries, and for other purposes.

Bill: 111-hr-547
Sponsor: Rep. Ros-Lehtinen, Ileana [R-FL-18]
Introduced: 2009-01-15 in the House
Policy area: International Affairs
Subjects: Arms control and nonproliferation
Congressional oversight
Diplomacy, foreign officials, Americans abroad
International organizations and cooperation
Nuclear power
Nuclear weapons

Summary:
action_date: 2009-01-15
text: 
Amends the Atomic Energy Act of 1954 to require a joint congressional resolution of approval for a subsequent arrangement to an agreement for peaceful nuclear cooperation (section 123 agreement). (Under current law such an agreement becomes effective unless Congress disapproves it within a specified time period.)
 
 
Directs the President to keep the House Committee on Foreign Affairs and the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations fully informed of any initiative or negotiations relating to a new or amended section 123 agreement.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-01-15
text: Referred to House Rules
action_date: 2009-01-15
text: Referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, and in addition to the Committee on Rules, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2009-01-15
text: Referred to House Foreign Affairs
action_date: 2009-01-15
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-01-15
text: Introduced in House
Get America Moving Again Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-550
Sponsor: Rep. Manzullo, Donald A. [R-IL-16]
Introduced: 2009-01-15 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Income tax credits
Motor vehicles

Summary:
action_date: 2009-01-15
text: 
Get America Moving Again Act of 2009 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow a tax credit for the purchase of a new or used passenger vehicle before or during 2010. Requires that such vehicle have a purchase price not exceeding $50,000 and have a gross vehicle weight rating of not more than 8,500 pounds.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-01-15
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2009-01-15
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E98-99)
action_date: 2009-01-15
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-01-15
text: Introduced in House
Sierra Vista Subwatershed Feasibility Study Act

Bill: 111-hr-551
Sponsor: Rep. Giffords, Gabrielle [D-AZ-8]
Introduced: 2009-01-15 in the House
Policy area: Water Resources Development
Subjects: Arizona
Government studies and investigations
Water resources funding
Water use and supply
Watersheds

Summary:
action_date: 2009-01-15
text: 
Sierra Vista Subwatershed Feasibility Study Act - Authorizes the Secretary of the Interior, through the Commissioner of Reclamation, to complete a feasibility study of alternatives to augment water supplies in the Sierra Vista Subwatershed, Arizona, that are identified as appropriate for further study in an appraisal report dated June 2007.

Directs the Secretary, in evaluating the feasibility of alternatives, to: (1) include any required environmental reviews, the construction, operations, maintenance, and replacement costs for each alternative, and the economic feasibility of each alternative; (2) take into consideration the ability of government and private sources to fund such costs; (3) establish the basis for any cost-sharing allocations and any anticipated repayment of federal contributions; and (4) perform a cost-benefit analysis.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-02-04
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Water and Power.
action_date: 2009-01-15
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2009-01-15
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-01-15
text: Introduced in House
Arizona National Scenic Trail Act

Bill: 111-hr-552
Sponsor: Rep. Giffords, Gabrielle [D-AZ-8]
Introduced: 2009-01-15 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Arizona
Parks, recreation areas, trails
Utah

Summary:
action_date: 2009-01-15
text: 
Arizona National Scenic Trail Act - Amends the National Trails System Act to designate the Arizona Trail, extending approximately 807 miles across Arizona from the border between Arizona and Utah to the international border with Mexico, as the &quot;Arizona National Scenic Trail.&quot; 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-02-04
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests and Public Lands.
action_date: 2009-01-15
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2009-01-15
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-01-15
text: Introduced in House
Universal Prekindergarten Act

Bill: 111-hr-555
Sponsor: Rep. Kucinich, Dennis J. [D-OH-10]
Introduced: 2009-01-15 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Education of the disadvantaged
Education programs funding
Higher education
Preschool education
Student aid and college costs
Teaching, teachers, curricula
Wages and earnings

Summary:
action_date: 2009-01-15
text: 
Universal Prekindergarten Act - Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services to provide grants to a designated state agency for development of universal prekindergaten programs for all children three, four, and five years old in the state. 
 
Requires the state to: (1) match federal funds by at least 20%; and (2) submit with its grant application a plan to establish, coordinate, and implement a statewide universal prekindergarten program. 
Authorizes state agencies to set aside up to 5% of a grant for ongoing professional development activities for teachers and staff of prekindergarten programs that wish to participate.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-01-15
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and Labor.
action_date: 2009-01-15
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-01-15
text: Introduced in House
Achievement Through Technology and Innovation Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-558
Sponsor: Rep. Roybal-Allard, Lucille [D-CA-34]
Introduced: 2009-01-15 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Academic performance and assessments
Computers and information technology
Education programs funding
Educational technology and distance education
Elementary and secondary education
Teaching, teachers, curricula

Summary:
action_date: 2009-01-15
text: 
Achievement Through Technology and Innovation Act of 2009 - Amends title II of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to reauthorize part D (Enhancing Education through Technology) through FY2015.
 
Alters the current program to require states to use a portion of their allotted funds to develop challenging academic content and achievement standards to ensure that students are technologically literate before the end of grade eight. Provides that such standards are only for tracking technological literacy and not for assessing adequate yearly progress (AYP) under title I. Permits technological literacy testing to be embedded in other state tests or performance-based assessments portfolios, or made through other valid and reliable means.
 
Requires states to use the bulk of their part D allotment for two new subgrant programs for local educational agencies (LEAs), devoting: (1) 60% for formula subgrants to improve teaching and learning through technology; and (2) 40% for competitive subgrants for systemic school reform through technology integration. 
 
Requires LEAs to: (1) include a new or updated local long-range strategic educational technology plan in their applications; (2) use a specified percentage of each subgrant for teacher training; and (3) use each subgrant to acquire and apply technology to identify individual student learning needs and support individualized learning. Allows LEAs that receive funds for both programs to use all the funds for systemic school reform through technology integration program activities.
 
Directs the Secretary of Education to: (1) conduct an annual national study on student technology literacy to determine the extent to which such literacy is attained by grade eight; and (2) update the National Education Technology Plan at least once every five years.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-09-13
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education.
action_date: 2009-01-15
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and Labor.
action_date: 2009-01-15
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR H371)
action_date: 2009-01-15
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-01-15
text: Introduced in House
Safe Prisons Communications Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-560
Sponsor: Rep. Brady, Kevin [R-TX-8]
Introduced: 2009-01-15 in the House
Policy area: Science, Technology, Communications
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Correctional facilities and imprisonment
Federal Communications Commission (FCC)
Government information and archives
Telephone and wireless communication

Summary:
action_date: 2009-01-15
text: 
 Safe Prisons Communications Act of 2009 - Amends the Communications Act of 1934 to authorize the director of the Federal Bureau of Prisons or the chief executive officer of a state to petition the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to permit the installation of devices to prevent, jam, or interfere with wireless communications within the geographic boundaries of a specific prison, penitentiary, or correctional facility under his or her jurisdiction. 
 
Requires that the device be operated on a directional basis, using all other interference-limiting capabilities available to the device, or otherwise so that the device does not interfere with wireless communications that originate and terminate outside the area of the prison, penitentiary, or correctional facility.
 
Requires the FCC to adopt a final rule establishing criteria for certification for the manufacture, sale, importation, and interstate shipment of such devices.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-03-16
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.
action_date: 2009-01-16
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Communications, Technology, and the Internet.
action_date: 2009-01-15
text: Referred to House Judiciary
action_date: 2009-01-15
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, 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: 2009-01-15
text: Referred to House Energy and Commerce
action_date: 2009-01-15
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-01-15
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow a 5 year carryback of certain net operating losses, and for other purposes.

Bill: 111-hr-561
Sponsor: Rep. Markey, Betsy [D-CO-4]
Introduced: 2009-01-15 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Income tax deductions
Income tax rates

Summary:
action_date: 2009-01-15
text: 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) allow a five-year carryback of net operating losses for taxable years ending in 2008 or 2009; and (2) suspend the 90% alternative minimum tax limitation on carrybacks and carryovers of net operating losses in such years. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-01-15
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2009-01-15
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-01-15
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to restore the deduction for the travel expenses of a taxpayer's spouse who accompanies the taxpayer on business travel.

Bill: 111-hr-562
Sponsor: Rep. Abercrombie, Neil [D-HI-1]
Introduced: 2009-01-15 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Income tax deductions
Transportation costs
Travel and tourism

Summary:
action_date: 2009-01-15
text: 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to repeal the restrictions on the tax deduction for the travel expenses of a taxpayer's spouse, dependent, or other individual accompanying the taxpayer on business travel.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-01-15
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2009-01-15
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-01-15
text: Introduced in House
SCHIP Expansion for Kids in Need Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-563
Sponsor: Rep. Biggert, Judy [R-IL-13]
Introduced: 2009-01-15 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Child health
Department of Health and Human Services
Health care costs and insurance
Health care coverage and access
Health programs administration and funding
Poverty and welfare assistance

Summary:
action_date: 2009-01-15
text: 
SCHIP Expansion for Kids in Need Act of 2009 - Amends title XXI (State Children's Health Insurance Program) (SCHIP) to require states to provide SCHIP priority to children in families with gross income below 200% of the federal poverty level.
 
Declares that no state child health plan shall be considered approved for a fiscal year unless the state has developed and submitted to the Secretary of Health and Human Services a plan to assure that all qualified low-income children are covered by creditable health coverage, such a plan has been approved, and the state implements it beginning with FY2010. 
 
Declares that no payment to a state that increases its state child health plan income eligibility level above the one in effect as of the enactment of this Act shall be made for any amount expended for an individual whose family income exceeds the unincreased income eligibility level unless no more than 10% percent of qualified low-income children residing in the state are still not covered under creditable health coverage.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-01-16
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2009-01-15
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2009-01-15
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-01-15
text: Introduced in House
Superfund Reinvestment Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-564
Sponsor: Rep. Blumenauer, Earl [D-OR-3]
Introduced: 2009-01-15 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Government trust funds
Hazardous wastes and toxic substances
Pollution liability
Sales and excise taxes

Summary:
action_date: 2009-01-15
text: Superfund Reinvestment Act of 2009 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code by reinstating until January 1, 2018, the Hazardous Substance Superfund financing rate and the corporate environmental income tax.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-01-15
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2009-01-15
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E101)
action_date: 2009-01-15
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-01-15
text: Introduced in House
To prohibit the use of funds to transfer individuals detained by the United States at Naval Station, Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, to Naval Consolidated Brig, Charleston, South Carolina.

Bill: 111-hr-565
Sponsor: Rep. Brown, Henry E., Jr. [R-SC-1]
Introduced: 2009-01-15 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Appropriations
Caribbean area
Correctional facilities and imprisonment
Cuba
Detention of persons
Latin America
Military facilities and property
South Carolina

Summary:
action_date: 2009-01-15
text: 
Prohibits federal funds from being used to transfer any individual detained by the United States at Naval Station Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, to the Naval Consolidated Brig, Charleston, South Carolina.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-01-15
text: Referred to the House Committee on Armed Services.
action_date: 2009-01-15
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-01-15
text: Introduced in House