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Electronic Duck Stamp Extension Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-3805
Sponsor: Rep. Wittman, Robert J. [R-VA-1]
Introduced: 2009-10-13 in the House
Policy area: Animals
Subjects: Art, artists, authorship
Birds
Hunting and fishing
Licensing and registrations
Postal service
Wildlife conservation and habitat protection

Summary:
action_date: 2009-10-13
text: 
Electronic Duck Stamp Extension Act of 2009 - Amends the Electronic Duck Stamp Act of 2005 to extend the electronic duck stamp pilot program for two years. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-05-06
text: Subcommittee Hearings Held.
action_date: 2009-10-16
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Insular Affairs, Oceans and Wildlife.
action_date: 2009-10-13
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2009-10-13
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-10-13
text: Introduced in House
Enhanced Rural Health Care Extension Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-3806
Sponsor: Rep. Moran, Jerry [R-KS-1]
Introduced: 2009-10-14 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Health facilities and institutions
Hospital care
Medicare
Rural conditions and development

Summary:
action_date: 2009-10-14
text: 
Enhanced Rural Health Care Extension Act of 2009 - Amends the Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act of 2003 to extend from five to 10 years the Medicare rural community hospital demonstration program.
 
Requires the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) to conduct the program in rural areas in the 15 states with the lowest population densities. Expands the number of hospitals selected from 15 to 30.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-10-14
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2009-10-14
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-10-14
text: Introduced in House
Economic Stimulus for Rural Communities Act

Bill: 111-hr-3807
Sponsor: Rep. Roe, David P. [R-TN-1]
Introduced: 2009-10-14 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Employment and training programs
Income tax credits
Rural conditions and development

Summary:
action_date: 2009-10-14
text: Economic Stimulus for Rural Communities Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow an employer to claim a work opportunity tax credit during the next five years for the hiring of employees who live in a rural area and perform services for such employer in a rural area.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-10-14
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2009-10-14
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-10-14
text: Introduced in House
Indigent Funeral Expense Reimbursement Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-3809
Sponsor: Rep. Broun, Paul C. [R-GA-10]
Introduced: 2009-10-14 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Income tax deductions
Poverty and welfare assistance

Summary:
action_date: 2009-10-14
text: 
Indigent Funeral Expense Reimbursement Act of 2009 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow a funeral home proprietor a tax deduction for the unreimbursed expense of providing funeral or burial goods and services for a deceased indigent individual. Limits the annual amount of such deduction to $3,000. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-10-14
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2009-10-14
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-10-14
text: Introduced in House
Emergency Senior Citizens Relief Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-3810
Sponsor: Rep. DeFazio, Peter A. [D-OR-4]
Introduced: 2009-10-14 in the House
Policy area: Social Welfare
Subjects: Disability assistance
Employee benefits and pensions
Employment taxes
Poverty and welfare assistance
Railroads
Social security and elderly assistance
Transportation employees
Veterans' pensions and compensation
Wages and earnings

Summary:
action_date: 2009-10-14
text: 
Emergency Senior Citizens Relief Act of 2009 - Amends the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 to extend the $250 economic recovery payment payable to certain individuals through calendar year 2010.
 
Applies the Old Age, Survivors, and Disability Insurance tax in 2010 to certain earnings in excess of $1.29 million. 
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-10-15
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Railroads, Pipelines, and Hazardous Materials.
action_date: 2009-10-14
text: Referred to House Veterans' Affairs
action_date: 2009-10-14
text: Referred to House Transportation and Infrastructure
action_date: 2009-10-14
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committees on Transportation and Infrastructure, and Veterans' 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: 2009-10-14
text: Referred to House Ways and Means
action_date: 2009-10-14
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-10-14
text: Introduced in House
New Markets Tax Credit Expansion Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-3811
Sponsor: Rep. Kosmas, Suzanne M. [D-FL-24]
Introduced: 2009-10-14 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Business investment and capital
Housing and community development funding
Income tax credits
Rural conditions and development
Urban and suburban affairs and development

Summary:
action_date: 2009-10-14
text: 
New Markets Tax Credit Expansion Act of 2009 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to require the Secretary of the Treasury to allocate in 2010 and 2011 new markets tax credit amounts to community development entities that provide investment capital or technical assistance for a distressed community. Defines &quot;distressed community&quot; as a county designated by the Secretary of the Treasury as: (1) having, during a specified period, a residential or commercial mortgage foreclosure rate of 110% or more of the national average, a decline in the average fair market value of housing of at least 20%, or an unemployment rate of 110% or more of the national average; (2) having more than 50% of its housing loans with a loan-to-value ratio of greater than 80%; or (3) being in a disaster area. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-10-14
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2009-10-14
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-10-14
text: Introduced in House
Distressed Communities Reinvestment Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-3812
Sponsor: Rep. Kosmas, Suzanne M. [D-FL-24]
Introduced: 2009-10-14 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Capital gains tax
Income tax exclusion
Rural conditions and development
Urban and suburban affairs and development

Summary:
action_date: 2009-10-14
text: 
Distressed Communities Reinvestment Act of 2009 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to exclude from gross income gain from the sale of real property consisting predominantly of commercial and residential property located in a distressed community. Defines &quot;distressed community&quot; as a county designated by the Secretary of the Treasury as: (1) having, during a specified period, a residential or commercial mortgage foreclosure rate of 110% or more of the national average, a decline in the average fair market value of housing of at least 20%, or an unemployment rate of 110% or more of the national average; (2) having more than 50% of its housing loans with a loan-to-value ratio of greater than 80%; or (3) being in a disaster area. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-10-14
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2009-10-14
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-10-14
text: Introduced in House
Veterans Training Act

Bill: 111-hr-3813
Sponsor: Rep. Sestak, Joe [D-PA-7]
Introduced: 2009-10-14 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Veterans' education, employment, rehabilitation

Summary:
action_date: 2009-10-14
text: 
Veterans Training Act - Deems a program of education as an approved program for purposes of the post-9/11 veterans' educational assistance program if the program is offered by an institution offering: (1) postsecondary instruction that leads to an associate or higher degree and the institution is an approved institution of higher learning; or (2) instruction that does not lead to an associate or higher degree and the institution is an approved educational institution.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-02-25
text: Subcommittee Hearings Held.
action_date: 2009-10-16
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Economic Opportunity.
action_date: 2009-10-14
text: Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2009-10-14
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-10-14
text: Introduced in House
For the relief of Martha Quintana Bonilla.

Bill: 111-hr-3814
Sponsor: Rep. Pastor, Ed [D-AZ-4]
Introduced: 2009-10-14 in the House
Policy area: Private Legislation

Summary:
action_date: 2009-10-14
text: Provides for the relief of Martha Quintana Bonilla.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-10-14
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2009-10-14
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-10-14
text: Introduced in House
To extend temporarily the reduction of duty on polyethylene HE1878.

Bill: 111-hr-3815
Sponsor: Rep. Aderholt, Robert B. [R-AL-4]
Introduced: 2009-10-15 in the House
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Tariffs

Summary:
action_date: 2009-10-15
text: 
Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to extend the duty treatment of polyethylene HE1878.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-10-15
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2009-10-15
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-10-15
text: Introduced in House
To suspend temporarily the duty on man-made shells used in the manufacture of sleeping bags.

Bill: 111-hr-3816
Sponsor: Rep. Aderholt, Robert B. [R-AL-4]
Introduced: 2009-10-15 in the House
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Tariffs

Summary:
action_date: 2009-10-15
text: Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to suspend temporarily the duty on man-made shells used in the manufacture of sleeping bags.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-10-15
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2009-10-15
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-10-15
text: Introduced in House
Improved Employee Access to Health Insurance Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-3821
Sponsor: Rep. Deal, Nathan [R-GA-9]
Introduced: 2009-10-15 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Employee benefits and pensions
Federal preemption
Health care costs and insurance
Health care coverage and access
State and local government operations

Summary:
action_date: 2009-10-15
text: 
Improved Employee Access to Health Insurance Act of 2009 - Prohibits any state from establishing a law that prevents an employer from instituting an auto-enrollment process for coverage of a participant or beneficiary under a group health plan, or health insurance coverage offered in connection with such a plan, as long as the participant or beneficiary has the option of declining such coverage.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-10-15
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and Labor.
action_date: 2009-10-15
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-10-15
text: Introduced in House
To permit employers to provide contributions and assistance to certain employees who purchase individual health insurance.

Bill: 111-hr-3822
Sponsor: Rep. Deal, Nathan [R-GA-9]
Introduced: 2009-10-15 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Employee benefits and pensions
Federal preemption
Health care costs and insurance
State and local government operations

Summary:
action_date: 2009-10-15
text: 
Permits an employer that does not offer health benefits coverage to its employees as of this Act's enactment to provide tax-free defined contributions and administrative assistance to such employees who choose to purchase health insurance coverage in the individual market. 
 
Bars any state from prohibiting: (1) an employer from taking any such actions; or (2) the sale of health insurance coverage to employees where an employer's involvement is limited to withholding premiums from employee paychecks and sending the premium payments to the health insurance issuer on the employees' behalf.
 
Makes federal rules relating to list billing (the sale of individual health plans to an employer's employees) inapplicable to actions described in this Act.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-11-16
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2009-10-16
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2009-10-15
text: Referred to House Ways and Means
action_date: 2009-10-15
text: Referred to House Energy and Commerce
action_date: 2009-10-15
text: Referred to the Committee on Education and Labor, and in addition to the Committees on Energy and Commerce, and 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: 2009-10-15
text: Referred to House Education and Labor
action_date: 2009-10-15
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-10-15
text: Introduced in House
Medicaid and SCHIP Beneficiary Choice Improvement Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-3823
Sponsor: Rep. Deal, Nathan [R-GA-9]
Introduced: 2009-10-15 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Child health
Employee benefits and pensions
Health care costs and insurance
Health care coverage and access
Medicaid
Poverty and welfare assistance

Summary:
action_date: 2009-10-15
text: 
Medicaid and SCHIP Beneficiary Choice Improvement Act of 2009 - Amends title XXI (State Children's Health Insurance Program) (SCHIP, also known as CHIP) of the Social Security Act to require an SCHIP plan to describe how it will provide for child health assistance with respect to targeted low-income children who have access to coverage under a group health plan.
 
Requires the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) to pay to each state with an approved SCHIP plan a certain amount for the payment of premiums for coverage under an employer-sponsored group health plan that includes coverage of targeted low-income children and benefits supplemental to such coverage. 
 
Revises requirements regarding the purchase of employer-sponsored insurance. Prohibits any minimum benefits requirement or any limitation on beneficiary cost-sharing.
 
Declares that, if the basic coverage of such insurance does not extend to each of certain categories of basic services, the plan shall cover such services as supplemental benefits.
 
Prohibits a plan from requiring a targeted low-income child to enroll in family coverage in order to obtain child health assistance. Requires an annual voluntary enrollment period for switching from one plan to another.
 
Requires the offering of alternative coverage options under SCHIP. Prescribes requirements for federal financial participation for qualified alternative coverage. 
 
Declares that the requirements imposed under a state child health plan under this Act shall apply in the same manner to a state plan under title XIX (Medicaid), except that: (1) such requirements shall not apply to individuals whose Medicaid eligibility is based on being aged, blind, or disabled or to individuals in certain categories; and (2) the national per capita expenditures shall be determined based on a specified benchmark coverage but without regard to expenditures for such excluded individuals or for nursing facility services and other long-term care (LTC) services.
 
Amends the Children's Health Insurance Program Reauthorization Act of 2009 to repeal the prohibition against the Secretary's approval of any new health opportunity account demonstration programs. 
 
 
Converts the Health Opportunity Account demonstration program into a permanent program.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-10-16
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2009-10-15
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2009-10-15
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-10-15
text: Introduced in House
Expanded Health Insurance Options Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-3824
Sponsor: Rep. Deal, Nathan [R-GA-9]
Introduced: 2009-10-15 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Health care costs and insurance
Health care coverage and access
Intergovernmental relations
State and local government operations

Summary:
action_date: 2009-10-15
text: 
Expanded Health Insurance Options Act of 2009 - Authorizes states to enter into arrangements to form interstate compacts under which health insurance issuers would offer coverage meeting the requirements of this Act under a unified regulatory structure governing the issuance, renewal, rating, mandated benefits, and similar items of coverage.
 
Requires each compact to ensure that individuals who are insured in a participating state are able to access an independent external appeals process to review decisions made by health insurance issuers relating to coverage.
 
Makes a participating state in which an insurance issuer is licensed responsible for the enforcement of applicable laws, regulations, agreements, and orders governing health insurance issuers and coverage. Authorizes a participating state in which a covered individual resides to require a health insurance issuer to pay premiums and taxes, submit to an examination of financial condition, and comply with state laws regarding fraud and abuse and unfair claims practices.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-10-16
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2009-10-15
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2009-10-15
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-10-15
text: Introduced in House
Helping Homebuyers Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-3825
Sponsor: Rep. Bright, Bobby [D-AL-2]
Introduced: 2009-10-15 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Housing finance and home ownership
Income tax credits

Summary:
action_date: 2009-10-15
text: 
Helping Homebuyers Act of 2009 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow individual taxpayers a one-time tax credit for 15% of the purchase price of a principal residence, up to $18,000. Requires repayment of such credit if the taxpayer sells the residence, or fails to occupy the residence as a principal residence, at any time within 60 months after the date of purchase.
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-10-15
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2009-10-15
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-10-15
text: Introduced in House
Tele-Care Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-3826
Sponsor: Rep. Biggert, Judy [R-IL-13]
Introduced: 2009-10-15 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Health care coverage and access
Health personnel
Medicare
Telephone and wireless communication

Summary:
action_date: 2009-10-15
text: 
Tele-Care Act of 2009 - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) to provide for coverage under Medicare part B (Supplemental Security Income) (SSI) of unscheduled physician telephone services by a licensed health care practitioner, subject to certain requirements.
 
Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) to establish a demonstration program to test the effectiveness of such coverage.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-10-16
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2009-10-15
text: Referred to House Ways and Means
action_date: 2009-10-15
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: 2009-10-15
text: Referred to House Energy and Commerce
action_date: 2009-10-15
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-10-15
text: Introduced in House
Every Child Deserves a Family Act

Bill: 111-hr-3827
Sponsor: Rep. Stark, Fortney Pete [D-CA-13]
Introduced: 2009-10-15 in the House
Policy area: Families
Subjects: Adoption and foster care
Government studies and investigations
Marriage and family status
Sex, gender, sexual orientation discrimination
State and local government operations

Summary:
action_date: 2009-10-15
text: 
Every Child Deserves a Family Act - Prohibits an entity that receives federal assistance and is involved in adoption or foster care placements from discriminating against prospective adoptive or foster parents solely on the basis of their sexual orientation, gender identification, or martial status.
 
Requires a General Accounting Office study and report to Congress on whether states have substantially complied with this Act in eliminating policies, practices, or statutes that deny adoption rights on the basis of these criteria. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-10-15
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2009-10-15
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E2561)
action_date: 2009-10-15
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-10-15
text: Introduced in House
Suspend ACORN Certification Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-3828
Sponsor: Rep. Biggert, Judy [R-IL-13]
Introduced: 2009-10-15 in the House
Policy area: Housing and Community Development
Subjects: Accounting and auditing
Fraud offenses and financial crimes
Government studies and investigations
Housing and community development funding
Housing finance and home ownership
Low- and moderate-income housing

Summary:
action_date: 2009-10-15
text: 
Suspend ACORN Certification Act of 2009 - Requires the Inspector General of the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), with respect to the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN) or any of its specified related affiliates (covered organizations), to: (1) audit all assistance within HUD jurisdiction provided to ACORN at any time; (2) determine whether each such covered organization has used the assistance in accordance with all laws, regulations, and other terms and conditions; and (3) publish such determination in the Federal Register.
 
Bars covered organizations from being approved, certified, or authorized under the Housing and Urban Development Act of 1968 or otherwise to provide housing counseling in connection with any HUD program or to receive HUD assistance for housing counseling activities unless and until the Inspector General has made a determination, pursuant to such audit, that all such recipients of the assistance have used all of it in accordance with its terms and conditions.
 
Prohibits the HUD Secretary from providing any assistance within HUD jurisdiction for housing counseling activities to a covered organization unless and until the Inspector General has made such determination.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-10-15
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2009-10-15
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-10-15
text: Introduced in House