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Cleanup of Inactive and Abandoned Mines Act

Bill: 111-hr-3203
Sponsor: Rep. Lamborn, Doug [R-CO-5]
Introduced: 2009-07-14 in the House
Policy area: Environmental Protection
Subjects: Civil actions and liability
Environmental assessment, monitoring, research
Hazardous wastes and toxic substances
Licensing and registrations
Mining
Public participation and lobbying
Solid waste and recycling
Water quality

Summary:
action_date: 2009-07-14
text: 
Cleanup of Inactive and Abandoned Mines Act - Sets forth provisions to encourage the partial or complete remediation of inactive and abandoned mine sites for the public good by good samaritans (defined as persons who had no role in the creation of the historic mine residue or the resulting environmental pollution and who are not legally responsible for such remediation). 
 
Authorizes a permitting authority (i.e., the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency [EPA] or a state or Indian tribe with an approved Good Samaritan program) to issue a permit to a good samaritan for a mine remediation project if it is determined that: (1) the project will improve the environment on or in the area of the mine site to a significant degree; (2) the project will meet applicable water quality standards; (3) the permittee has the financial and other resources to complete, and will complete, the permitted work; and (4) the relevant governmental entities concur with the issuance of the permit. Terminates the authority to issue permits under this Act on September 30, 2019.
 
Exempts permits from requirements of the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 relating to environmental assessments and impact statements. 
 
Requires a permitting authority to: (1) consult with permit applicants; (2) maintain all records relating to the permit and the permit process; (3) allow cooperating agencies and the public to participate in the permit process; and (4) monitor remediation projects. 
 
Establishes civil penalties for violations of permit requirements and authorizes injunctions to require compliance with a permit.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-07-20
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources.
action_date: 2009-07-15
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment.
action_date: 2009-07-15
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Environment.
action_date: 2009-07-14
text: Referred to House Natural Resources
action_date: 2009-07-14
text: Referred to House Transportation and Infrastructure
action_date: 2009-07-14
text: Referred to House Energy and Commerce
action_date: 2009-07-14
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Transportation and Infrastructure, and 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: 2009-07-14
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-07-14
text: Introduced in House
To authorize States and localities receiving assistance under the Neighborhood Stabilization Program of the Department of Housing and Urban Development to use such amounts for renovating owner-occupied housing of low-income families.

Bill: 111-hr-3204
Sponsor: Rep. Turner, Michael R. [R-OH-3]
Introduced: 2009-07-14 in the House
Policy area: Housing and Community Development
Subjects: Housing and community development funding
Housing finance and home ownership
Low- and moderate-income housing
Residential rehabilitation and home repair

Summary:
action_date: 2009-07-14
text: 
Amends the Housing and Economic Recovery Act of 2008 to authorize states and localities receiving emergency assistance for the redevelopment of abandoned and foreclosed homes under the Neighborhood Stabilization Program of the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) to use such amounts to renovate single-family housing that is owned and occupied as a principal residence by a family whose income does not exceed 80% of the median income of the area in which the housing is located, as determined by the HUD Secretary with adjustments for smaller and larger families.
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-07-14
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2009-07-14
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-07-14
text: Introduced in House
Health Insurance Company Advertising Deduction Denial Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-3205
Sponsor: Rep. Lipinski, Daniel [D-IL-3]
Introduced: 2009-07-14 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Health care costs and insurance
Income tax deductions
Insurance industry and regulation
Marketing and advertising

Summary:
action_date: 2009-07-14
text: 
Health Insurance Company Advertising Deduction Denial Act of 2009 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to deny a tax deduction for advertising and other expenses to promote the sale of any insurance which constitutes medical care (health insurance).


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-07-14
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2009-07-14
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-07-14
text: Introduced in House
Safe Drinking Water for Healthy Communities Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-3206
Sponsor: Rep. Speier, Jackie [D-CA-12]
Introduced: 2009-07-14 in the House
Policy area: Water Resources Development
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
Hazardous wastes and toxic substances
Water quality

Summary:
action_date: 2009-07-14
text: 
Safe Drinking Water for Healthy Communities Act of 2009 - Amends the Safe Drinking Water Act to require the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to promulgate a national primary drinking water regulation for perchlorate.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-07-15
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Environment.
action_date: 2009-07-14
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2009-07-14
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-07-14
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to exclude from gross income gain on the sale of certain residential leased-fee interests to holders of the leasehold rights.

Bill: 111-hr-3207
Sponsor: Rep. Abercrombie, Neil [D-HI-1]
Introduced: 2009-07-14 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Cooperative and condominium housing
Housing finance and home ownership
Income tax rates

Summary:
action_date: 2009-07-14
text: 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to exclude from gross income gain from the sale of certain residential leased-fee interests to a holder of the leasehold right if such holder is: (1) an association of apartment owners of a multi-family residential leasehold property; or (2) a cooperative housing corporation for a residential leasehold property. Terminates such exclusion after 2014. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-07-14
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2009-07-14
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-07-14
text: Introduced in House
Land-In-Trust Schools and Local Governments Equitable Compensation Act

Bill: 111-hr-3208
Sponsor: Rep. Arcuri, Michael A. [D-NY-24]
Introduced: 2009-07-14 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Education programs funding
Elementary and secondary education
Indian lands and resources rights
Intergovernmental relations
State and local finance
State and local taxation

Summary:
action_date: 2009-07-14
text: 
Land-In-Trust Schools and Local Governments Equitable Compensation Act - Directs the Secretary of the Interior to pay each local educational agency and local government annually such amounts as are necessary to ensure that the agency and local government receive full payment for the amount of property tax revenues lost as a result of lands in their jurisdiction being held in trust by the United States for the benefit of a federally recognized Indian tribe or an individual Indian.
 
Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to transfer the necessary amounts directly to the Secretary of Interior from the Treasury's general fund without further appropriation.
 
Allows such an agency or local government, notwithstanding those requirements, to enter into a written agreement with the Secretary of the Interior, the appropriate state, and, if appropriate, any federally recognized Indian tribe or individual Indian under which all parties agree that the amounts shall be: (1) waived in whole or in part; (2) limited for an agreed upon number of years; or (3) otherwise adjusted, including the timing of any payment or payments.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-07-14
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2009-07-14
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-07-14
text: Introduced in House
To amend title 18, United States Code, to make the killing of a law enforcement officer, firefighter, or other first responder an aggravating factor for the imposition of the death penalty.

Bill: 111-hr-3209
Sponsor: Rep. Gerlach, Jim [R-PA-6]
Introduced: 2009-07-14 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Criminal procedure and sentencing
Emergency medical services and trauma care
Fires
Health personnel
Law enforcement officers
Violent crime

Summary:
action_date: 2009-07-14
text: 
Amends the federal criminal code to make the killing, or attempted killing, of a law enforcement officer, firefighter, or other first responder an aggravating factor in death penalty determinations.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-08-19
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.
action_date: 2009-07-14
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2009-07-14
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-07-14
text: Introduced in House
Rural Housing and Economic Development Improvement Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-3210
Sponsor: Rep. Hinojosa, Ruben [D-TX-15]
Introduced: 2009-07-14 in the House
Policy area: Housing and Community Development
Subjects: Housing and community development funding
Indian social and development programs
Rural conditions and development

Summary:
action_date: 2009-07-14
text: 
Rural Housing and Economic Development Improvement Act of 2009 - Authorizes the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), through the Office of Rural Housing and Economic Development, to implement an assistance program to support innovative housing and economic development activities in rural areas by: (1) Indian tribes; (2) state housing finance agencies; (3) state community or economic development agencies; (4) local nonprofit organizations; and (5) community development corporations.
 
Directs the Secretary to require, as a condition of initial or continuing assistance under this Act for any housing or economic development activity, that each member of a family so assisted (or of a family applying for such assistance) who is 18 years of age or older, or is the spouse of the head of household, has a valid Social Security number.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-07-14
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2009-07-14
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-07-14
text: Introduced in House
Cost of Living Equity Act

Bill: 111-hr-3211
Sponsor: Rep. Kagen, Steve [D-WI-8]
Introduced: 2009-07-14 in the House
Policy area: Social Welfare
Subjects: Inflation and prices
Members of Congress
Social security and elderly assistance
Wages and earnings

Summary:
action_date: 2009-07-14
text: 
Cost of Living Act - Amends title II (Old Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance) (OASDI) of the Social Security Act to authorize the Commissioner of Social Security to make an adjustment of the percentage increase in OASDI benefits to ensure that such increases are in no case less than the percentage increases in compensation of Members of Congress.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-07-14
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2009-07-14
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-07-14
text: Introduced in House
Stillbirth and SUID Prevention, Education, and Awareness Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-3212
Sponsor: Rep. Pallone, Frank, Jr. [D-NJ-6]
Introduced: 2009-07-14 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Advisory bodies
Child health
Criminal investigation, prosecution, interrogation
Emergency medical services and trauma care
Genetics
Health information and medical records
Health programs administration and funding
Health promotion and preventive care
Law enforcement administration and funding
Licensing and registrations
Medical education
Medical tests and diagnostic methods
Sex and reproductive health
Social work, volunteer service, charitable organizations

Summary:
action_date: 2009-07-14
text: 
Stillbirth and SUID Prevention, Education, and Awareness Act of 2009 - Amends the Public Health Service Act to require the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS), acting through the Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), to award grants for: (1) improving state comprehensive death scene investigations for sudden unexplained infant death (SUID) and sudden unexplained death in childhood (SUDC); and (2) increasing the rate of comprehensive and standardized autopsies for such deaths.
 
Requires the Director to: (1) develop national guidelines for a standard autopsy protocol for such deaths; and (2) commission a study on the benefits and appropriateness of genetic testing for infant and early childhood deaths that remain unexplained after investigation and autopsy.
 
Requires the Secretary, acting through the Director, to: (1) award grants for death scene investigation training; (2) establish a population-based case registry for SUID and SUDC deaths; (3) conduct a needs assessment for investigations and determinations of such deaths; and (4) develop public education and prevention programs to reduce stillbirths and address the racial and ethnic disparities in occurrence.
 
Directs the Secretary, acting through the Administrator of the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), to: (1) award grants for death review programs and prevention strategies; (2) establish a public health awareness and education campaign on SUID and SUDC; and (3) award grants for support services to families who have experienced SUID, SUDC, or stillbirth.
 
Provides for surveillance and data collection on stillbirths. 
 
Requires the Secretary to establish a task force to develop a national research plan to determine the causes of, and how to prevent, stillbirths.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-07-15
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2009-07-14
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2009-07-14
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-07-14
text: Introduced in House
Complete and Permanent Property Tax Deduction Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-3213
Sponsor: Rep. Paul, Ron [R-TX-14]
Introduced: 2009-07-14 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Housing finance and home ownership
Income tax deductions
State and local taxation

Summary:
action_date: 2009-07-14
text: 
Complete and Permanent Property Tax Deduction Act of 2009 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) make permanent the standard tax deduction for real property taxes; and (2) repeal the dollar limitation on such deduction and the exclusion of foreign real property taxes. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-07-14
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2009-07-14
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E1764)
action_date: 2009-07-14
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-07-14
text: Introduced in House
To authorize the Secretary of the Interior, acting through the National Park Service Superintendent of the Everglades National Park, to allow individuals to hunt and kill Burmese pythons within the boundaries of that Park.

Bill: 111-hr-3215
Sponsor: Rep. Rooney, Thomas J. [R-FL-16]
Introduced: 2009-07-14 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Aquatic ecology
Florida
Marine and coastal resources, fisheries
Outdoor recreation
Parks, recreation areas, trails
Reptiles
Wildlife conservation and habitat protection

Summary:
action_date: 2009-07-14
text: 
Authorizes the hunting and killing of Burmese pythons (Python molurus bivittatus) within the boundaries of Everglades National Park in Florida.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-07-16
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests and Public Lands.
action_date: 2009-07-14
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2009-07-14
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-07-14
text: Introduced in House
Local Television Freedom Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-3216
Sponsor: Rep. Ross, Mike [D-AR-4]
Introduced: 2009-07-14 in the House
Policy area: Science, Technology, Communications
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Broadcasting, cable, digital technologies
Federal Communications Commission (FCC)
Intellectual property
Licensing and registrations
Spacecraft and satellites
Television and film

Summary:
action_date: 2009-07-14
text: 
Local Television Freedom Act of 2009 - Amends the Communications Act of 1934 to allow retransmission of a television broadcast station's signals by a multichannel video programming distributor to a subscriber located in the station's adjacent underserved county, unless the station certifies to the distributor that it is under no legal obligation restricting its ability to grant retransmission consent to the distributor. 
 
Prohibits a television broadcast station that elects retransmission consent from requesting as a condition to receiving retransmission consent that a multichannel video programming distributor not exercise its right to carry any other broadcast station in the station's adjacent underserved county.
 
Allows a satellite carrier to provide service under a statutory license to the adjacent underserved county within which a household is located.
 
Requires the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to revise regulations concerning network nonduplication, syndicated exclusivity, and sports blackout protection against the retransmission by a multichannel video programming distributor to permit such retransmission if the receiving subscriber is in the station's adjacent underserved county.
 
Imposes statutory copyright licensing in certain situations on the secondary transmission of a television broadcast station into an adjacent underserved county, except when dealing with a performance or display of a work made by that station. Defines &quot;adjacent underserved county&quot; as a county within the station's adjacent market that is both: (1) located in the same state as the station's community of license; and (2) not within the local market of any other station that is both affiliated with the same network and located in the same state as such other station's community of license.
 
Declares that the secondary transmission of a performance or display of a work embodied in a primary transmission is not an infringement of copyright if the secondary transmission is to a subscriber in a broadcast station's adjacent underserved county.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-07-15
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Communications, Technology, and the Internet.
action_date: 2009-07-14
text: Referred to House Energy and Commerce
action_date: 2009-07-14
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2009-07-14
text: Referred to House Judiciary
action_date: 2009-07-14
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-07-14
text: Introduced in House
Health Care Choice Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-3217
Sponsor: Rep. Shadegg, John B. [R-AZ-3]
Introduced: 2009-07-14 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Accounting and auditing
Government information and archives
Health care costs and insurance
Insurance industry and regulation
Intergovernmental relations
State and local government operations

Summary:
action_date: 2009-07-14
text: 
Health Care Choice Act of 2009 - Amends the Public Health Service Act to provide that the laws of the state designated by a health insurance issuer (primary state) shall apply to individual health insurance coverage offered by that issuer in the primary state and in any other state (secondary state), but only if the coverage and issuer comply with the conditions of this Act.
 
Exempts issuers from any secondary state's laws that would prohibit or regulate the operation of the issuer in such state, subject to certain restrictions imposed by such state.

Specifies the notice that an issuer must provide in any insurance coverage offered in a secondary state and at renewal of the policy.
 
Requires each issuer issuing individual health insurance coverage in both primary and secondary states to submit to the insurance commissioners of such states: (1) a copy of the plan of operation or feasibility study; (2) written notice of any change in its designation of its primary state and of its compliance with all the laws of the primary state; and (3) a quarterly financial statement.
 
Prohibits an issuer from offering, selling, or issuing individual health insurance coverage in a secondary state if the state insurance commissioner does not use a risk-based capital formula for the determination of capital and surplus requirements for all issuers.

Gives sole jurisdiction to the primary state to enforce the primary state's covered laws in the primary state and any secondary state. 

Requires the Comptroller General to study and report to Congress on the effect of this Act on specified health insurance issues.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-07-15
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Commerce, Trade and Consumer Protection.
action_date: 2009-07-15
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2009-07-14
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2009-07-14
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-07-14
text: Introduced in House