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Devil's Staircase Wilderness Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-2888
Sponsor: Rep. DeFazio, Peter A. [D-OR-4]
Introduced: 2009-06-16 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Lakes and rivers
Land transfers
Oregon
Wilderness and natural areas, wildlife refuges, wild rivers, habitats

Summary:
action_date: 2009-06-16
text: 
Devil's Staircase Wilderness Act of 2009 - Designates certain federal land in Oregon as the Devil's Staircase Wilderness and as a wilderness area for inclusion in the National Wilderness Preservation System. 
 
Amends the Wild and Scenic Rivers Act to designate Franklin and Wasson Creeks in Oregon as wild rivers and as components of the Wild and Scenic Rivers System. 

action_date: 2009-11-16
text: 
Devil's Staircase Wilderness Act of 2009 - Designates certain federal land in Oregon as the Devil's Staircase Wilderness and as a wilderness area for inclusion in the National Wilderness Preservation System. 
 
Requires the Devil's Staircase Wilderness Area to be administered by the Secretaries of Agriculture and the Interior, subject to valid existing rights.
 
Requires the Secretary of Agriculture to decommission any National Forest System road within the wilderness boundaries and to convert Forest Service Road 4100 to a trail for primitive recreational use. 
 
 Deems land acquired by the United States within the boundary of the Wilderness Area as part of the Devil's Staircase Wilderness.
 
Specifies this Act's effect on fish and wildlife, buffer zones, and tribal rights.
 
Withdraws the federal land designated as a wilderness area by this Act from all forms of: (1) entry, appropriation, or disposal under the public land laws; (2) location, entry, and patent under the mining laws; and (3) disposition under all laws pertaining to mineral and geothermal leasing or mineral materials. 
 
Amends the Wild and Scenic Rivers Act to designate Franklin and Wasson Creeks in Oregon as wild rivers and as components of the Wild and Scenic Rivers System. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-11-16
text: Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 195.
action_date: 2009-11-16
text: Reported (Amended) by the Committee on Natural Resources. H. Rept. 111-337.
action_date: 2009-11-16
text: Reported (Amended) by the Committee on Natural Resources. H. Rept. 111-337.
action_date: 2009-10-28
text: Ordered to be Reported (Amended) by the Yeas and Nays: 25 - 17.
action_date: 2009-10-28
text: Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
action_date: 2009-10-28
text: Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests and Public Lands Discharged.
action_date: 2009-10-01
text: Subcommittee Hearings Held.
action_date: 2009-06-19
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests and Public Lands.
action_date: 2009-06-16
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2009-06-16
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-06-16
text: Introduced in House
Lower Rogue Wild and Scenic River Expansion Act

Bill: 111-hr-2890
Sponsor: Rep. DeFazio, Peter A. [D-OR-4]
Introduced: 2009-06-16 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Lakes and rivers
Oregon
Wilderness and natural areas, wildlife refuges, wild rivers, habitats

Summary:
action_date: 2009-06-16
text: 
Lower Rogue Wild and Scenic River Expansion Act - Amends the Wild and Scenic Rivers Act to add specified segments of creeks to the designation of the Rogue River in Oregon as a component of the national wild and scenic rivers system. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-06-22
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests and Public Lands.
action_date: 2009-06-16
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2009-06-16
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-06-16
text: Introduced in House
Access to Frontline Health Care Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-2891
Sponsor: Rep. Braley, Bruce L. [D-IA-1]
Introduced: 2009-06-16 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Education programs funding
Health personnel
Health programs administration and funding
Medical education
Student aid and college costs

Summary:
action_date: 2009-06-16
text: 
Access to Frontline Health Care Act of 2009 - Amends the Public Health Service Act to direct the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) to establish and carry out a Frontline Providers Loan Repayment Program to allow repayment of the student loans of individuals who agree to serve as a health care professionals for two years in a frontline care scarcity area. 
 

 

 



Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-06-17
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2009-06-16
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2009-06-16
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-06-16
text: Introduced in House
Money Service Business Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-2893
Sponsor: Rep. Maloney, Carolyn B. [D-NY-14]
Introduced: 2009-06-16 in the House
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Bank accounts, deposits, capital
Banking and financial institutions regulation
Business records
Civil actions and liability
Department of the Treasury
Fraud offenses and financial crimes
Organized crime

Summary:
action_date: 2009-06-16
text: 
 Money Service Business Act of 2009 - Revises certain requirements for anti-money laundering programs with respect to federally insured depository institutions.
 
Declares that, if such institutions have on file specified mandatory self-certifications submitted by a money transmitting business for which the institutions maintain an account, the institutions have no obligation to review the compliance of the money transmitting business with federal anti-money laundering requirements.
 
Sets forth civil and criminal penalties for violations of this Act without regard to whether such violations were willful.
 
Shields an institution from liability for the noncompliance of a money transmitting business with federal anti-money laundering requirements.
 
Prescribes requirements for a self-certification by a money transmitting business that it is in compliance with federal anti-money laundering requirements.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-06-17
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E1449)
action_date: 2009-06-16
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2009-06-16
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-06-16
text: Introduced in House
Equal Treatment of Covered Bonds Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-2896
Sponsor: Rep. Garrett, Scott [R-NJ-5]
Introduced: 2009-06-16 in the House
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Bank accounts, deposits, capital
Banking and financial institutions regulation
Bankruptcy
Contracts and agency
Department of the Treasury
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC)
Federal Reserve System
Financial services and investments
Securities

Summary:
action_date: 2009-06-16
text: 
Equal Treatment of Covered Bonds Act of 2009 - Amends the Federal Deposit Insurance Act to include a covered bond as a qualified financial contract with an insured depository institution, if it was entered into before appointment of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) as receiver for the institution, where a person has the right to cause the contract's termination, liquidation, or acceleration upon such an appointment. 
 
Defines such a bond as a nondeposit recourse debt obligation of an insured depository institution, with a term to maturity of at least one year, which is secured by specifically identified assets which are performing in accordance with the terms of the contracts which created the assets.
 
Declares federal banking agency regulations inapplicable to any covered bond unless they are prescribed jointly by the Secretary of the Treasury, the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, the Comptroller of the Currency, the Director of the Office of Thrift Supervision, and the Board of Directors of the FDIC.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-06-16
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2009-06-16
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-06-16
text: Introduced in House
Bank Accountability and Risk Assessment Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-2897
Sponsor: Rep. Gutierrez, Luis V. [D-IL-4]
Introduced: 2009-06-16 in the House
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: Bank accounts, deposits, capital
Financial crises and stabilization
Government trust funds
User charges and fees

Summary:
action_date: 2009-06-16
text: 
Bank Accountability and Risk Assessment Act of 2009 - Amends the Federal Deposit Insurance Act to require the risk-based assessment system (used to determine the premiums owed by insured depository institutions) to consider, in addition to existing factors, the risks posed to the Deposit Insurance Fund by: (1) the affiliates of a depository institution; and (2) the off-balance sheet assets and liabilities of depository institutions and their affiliates.
 
Directs the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) to impose a systemic risk assessment, at least annually, and in addition to the regular annual assessment and emergency special assessments, on all systemically important depository institutions.
 
Repeals the declaration that no insured depository institution shall be barred from the lowest-risk category solely because of size. (Thus allows an insured depository institution to be barred from the lowest-risk category solely because of size.)
 
Bases the regular annual assessment on an assessment rate established by the FDIC and an insured depository institution's average total assets minus its average tangible equity during the assessment period.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-06-16
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2009-06-16
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E1456)
action_date: 2009-06-16
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-06-16
text: Introduced in House
Wounded Warrior Caregiver Assistance Act

Bill: 111-hr-2898
Sponsor: Rep. Halvorson, Deborah L. [D-IL-11]
Introduced: 2009-06-16 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Disability and paralysis
Family relationships
Government information and archives
Home and outpatient care
Medical education
Mental health
Public contracts and procurement
Veterans' medical care

Summary:
action_date: 2009-06-16
text: 
Wounded Warrior Caregiver Assistance Act - Directs the Secretary of Veterans Affairs (VA) to make interactive training sessions available for family caregivers and individuals who provide such caregivers support (including respite care providers, nursing care providers, and counselors).
 
Directs the Secretary to provide family caregivers with information concerning public, private, and nonprofit agencies that offer support to such caregivers, including by contracting with a private entity to provide family caregivers with an Internet-based service with: (1) a directory of county level services; (2) message boards and other tools that allow interaction to foster peer support and the creation of support networks; and (3) comprehensive information explaining relevant health-related topics and issues.
 
Directs the Secretary to conduct outreach to inform disabled veterans and their families of these services.
 
Makes family caregivers eligible for counseling, training, and mental health services under existing provisions.
 
Authorizes the Secretary to furnish respite care to a veteran who receives care from a family caregiver under existing provisions.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-06-19
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2009-06-18
text: Hearings Held by the Subcommittee on Health Prior to Referral.
action_date: 2009-06-16
text: Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2009-06-16
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-06-16
text: Introduced in House
California Catastrophic Wildfire Prevention and Community Protection Act

Bill: 111-hr-2899
Sponsor: Rep. Herger, Wally [R-CA-2]
Introduced: 2009-06-16 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Administrative remedies
California
Department of Agriculture
Department of the Interior
Environmental assessment, monitoring, research
Fires
Forests, forestry, trees
Judicial review and appeals
Natural disasters
Water quality
Watersheds

Summary:
action_date: 2009-06-16
text: 
California Catastrophic Wildfire Prevention and Community Protection Act - Directs the Secretaries of Agriculture and the Interior to carry out eligible projects on National Forest System lands and public lands, respectively, in California which are within or adjacent to at-risk communities or watersheds if the project is consistent with the applicable community wildfire protection plan or county fire plan. 
 
Requires eligible projects on such lands to be carried out in a cost-effective manner that focuses on surface, ladder, and canopy fuels reduction activities or implements forest restoration activities in response to extreme weather events or natural disasters. 
 
Requires the Secretaries to: (1) prepare an environmental assessment or an environmental impact statement pursuant to the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 for each proposed eligible project; and (2) evaluate and consider an alternative recommendation if a project is or may be inconsistent with its community wildfire protection plan. 
 
Requires administrative and judicial review of eligible projects in accordance with the Healthy Forests Restoration Act of 2003. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-06-22
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Department Operations, Oversight, Nutrition and Forestry.
action_date: 2009-06-19
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests and Public Lands.
action_date: 2009-06-16
text: Referred to House Natural Resources
action_date: 2009-06-16
text: Referred to the Committee on Agriculture, and in addition to the Committee on Natural Resources, 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: 2009-06-16
text: Referred to House Agriculture
action_date: 2009-06-16
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR H6829)
action_date: 2009-06-16
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-06-16
text: Introduced in House
Davis-Bacon Repeal Act

Bill: 111-hr-2900
Sponsor: Rep. King, Steve [R-IA-5]
Introduced: 2009-06-16 in the House
Policy area: Labor and Employment
Subjects: Government buildings, facilities, and property
Public contracts and procurement
Wages and earnings

Summary:
action_date: 2009-06-16
text: 
Davis-Bacon Repeal Act - Repeals the Davis-Bacon Act (which requires that the locally prevailing wage rate be paid to various classes of laborers and mechanics working under federally-financed or federally-assisted contracts for construction, alteration, and repair of public buildings or public works). 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-06-16
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and Labor.
action_date: 2009-06-16
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-06-16
text: Introduced in House
Broadband Internet Fairness Act

Bill: 111-hr-2902
Sponsor: Rep. Massa, Eric J. J. [D-NY-29]
Introduced: 2009-06-16 in the House
Policy area: Science, Technology, Communications
Subjects: Broadcasting, cable, digital technologies
Consumer affairs
Educational facilities and institutions
Higher education
Internet and video services
Internet, web applications, social media
Social work, volunteer service, charitable organizations
Telecommunication rates and fees

Summary:
action_date: 2009-06-16
text: 
Broadband Internet Fairness Act - Makes it unlawful for major broadband Internet service providers to offer volume usage service plans imposing rates, terms, and conditions that are unjust, unreasonable, or unreasonably discriminatory. Treats a violation as an unfair or deceptive act or practice under the Federal Trade Commission Act. 
 
Requires major broadband Internet service providers offering or proposing to offer volume usage plans to file a service plan analysis with the Federal Trade Commission (FTC). 
 
Requires the FTC to enforce this Act. 
 
Defines &quot;major broadband Internet service provider&quot; as a broadband Internet service provider that, directly or through an affiliate, provides broadband Internet service to 2 million or more subscribers.
 
Defines &quot;volume usage service plan&quot; as any choice of service offerings to a residential consumer that includes two or more different sets of rates, terms, or conditions directly or indirectly based on the amount of data transmitted to or from the consumer within a fixed period of time.
 
Includes nonprofit organizations or higher education institutions in the term &quot;residential consumer.&quot;


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-06-17
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Commerce, Trade and Consumer Protection.
action_date: 2009-06-16
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2009-06-16
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-06-16
text: Introduced in House
DTV Cliff Effect Assistance Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-2903
Sponsor: Rep. Michaud, Michael H. [D-ME-2]
Introduced: 2009-06-16 in the House
Policy area: Science, Technology, Communications
Subjects: Broadcasting, cable, digital technologies
Internet and video services
Internet, web applications, social media
State and local finance
Telephone and wireless communication

Summary:
action_date: 2009-06-16
text: 
 DTV Cliff Effect Assistance Act of 2009 - Directs the Assistant Secretary for Communications and Information of the Department of Commerce to make payments (not to exceed $125 million in the aggregate) during FY2009-FY2012 from the Digital Television Transition and Public Safety Fund for a program through which a local civil government body may receive funding for the construction and equipment of digital TV translators to fill gaps in the digital coverage for full-power stations where the gaps were created from the conversion of the signal from analog to digital.
 
 Requires any translator tower built under this Act to reasonably facilitate the collocation of any wireless communications or broadband equipment (unless there is clear evidence of unresolvable signal interference issues).


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-06-17
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Communications, Technology, and the Internet.
action_date: 2009-06-16
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2009-06-16
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-06-16
text: Introduced in House
Government Ownership Exit Plan Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-2904
Sponsor: Rep. Moran, Jerry [R-KS-1]
Introduced: 2009-06-16 in the House
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: Budget deficits and national debt
Civil actions and liability
Congressional oversight
Corporate finance and management
Financial crises and stabilization
Fraud offenses and financial crimes
Government corporations and government-sponsored enterprises
Government ethics and transparency, public corruption
Housing finance and home ownership

Summary:
action_date: 2009-06-16
text: 
Government Ownership Exit Plan Act of 2009 - Prohibits the federal government from acquiring, directly or indirectly, any ownership interest in a troubled asset described in the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008 (EESA) that was purchased from a financial institution by the Secretary of the Treasury.
 
 Requires the Secretary to divest the government of any such interest not later than July 1, 2010, with exceptions allowing ownership interests of not more than six months if: (1) divestiture would have a significant adverse impact on taxpayers; and (2) there is a reasonable expectation that a waiver would allow recovery of the cost of acquiring such interest.
 
Amends EESA to state that the limit of authority to purchase troubled assets is $700 billion (under current law, such limitation, reduced by $1.259 billion, is described as &quot;outstanding at any one time&quot;).
 
Requires all repayments of obligations arising under EESA, and all proceeds from the sale of assets acquired by the government under that Act, to be paid into the general fund of the Treasury for reduction of the public debt.
 
Makes it unlawful for an officer or employee of the executive branch to knowingly make, with the intent to influence, a communication regarding a significant management decision of a recipient of EESA assistance to any officer or employee of the recipient.
 
Makes the Financial Stability Oversight Board responsible for reviewing the ownership interest termination provisions of this Act.
 
Establishes requirements for reports by the Secretary on: (1) ownership interests; (2) plans for compliance with this Act, including for winding down and divestiture; and (3) ending conservatorship and direct ownership by the government of the Federal National Mortgage Association and the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation (Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, respectively).


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-06-16
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2009-06-16
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-06-16
text: Introduced in House
Homebuyer Tax Credit Expansion Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-2905
Sponsor: Rep. Moran, Jerry [R-KS-1]
Introduced: 2009-06-16 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Housing finance and home ownership
Income tax credits
Tax administration and collection, taxpayers

Summary:
action_date: 2009-06-16
text: 
Homebuyer Tax Credit Expansion Act of 2009 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) extend the first-time homebuyer tax credit to all individuals who purchase a principal residence (currently, only first-time homebuyers as so defined); (2) repeal recapture requirements for such credit; and (3) extend such credit through 2011. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-06-16
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2009-06-16
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-06-16
text: Introduced in House