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Complete Streets Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-1443
Sponsor: Rep. Matsui, Doris O. [D-CA-5]
Introduced: 2009-03-11 in the House
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Access Board
Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Pedestrians and bicycling
Public transit
Roads and highways
State and local government operations
Transportation safety and security

Summary:
action_date: 2009-03-11
text: 
 Complete Streets Act of 2009 - Requires each state to have in effect within two years a law, or each state department of transportation and metropolitan planning organization (MPO) an explicit policy statement, that requires all federally-funded transportation projects, with certain exceptions, to accommodate the safety and convenience of all users in accordance with certain complete streets principles.
 
Defines &quot;complete streets principles&quot; as federal, state, local, or regional level transportation laws, policies, or principles which ensure that the safety and convenience of all users of a transportation system, including pedestrians, bicyclists, public transit users, children, older individuals, motorists, and individuals with disabilities, are accommodated in all phases of project planning and development. 
 
Allows such law or policy to make project-specific exemptions from such principles only if: (1) affected roadways prohibit specified users by law from using them, the cost of a compliance project would be excessively disproportionate to the need, or the population and employment densities or level of transit service around a roadway is so low that there is no need to implement such principles; and (2) all such exemptions are properly approved.
 
Requires: (1) the Secretary to establish a method for ensuring compliance by state departments of transportation and MPOs with complete streets principles; and (2) states to require every agency responsible for a project within an approved transportation improvement program to review and certify project compliance with complete streets principles.
 
Requires states noncompliant with complete streets principles to use a portion of their surface transportation program funds to carry out a highway safety program.
 
Requires the Architectural and Transportation Barriers Compliance Board to issue final standards for accessibility of new construction and alterations of pedestrian facilities for public rights-of-way.
 
Requires the Secretary to conduct research regarding complete streets to: (1) assist states, MPOs, and local jurisdictions in developing and implementing complete streets-compliant plans, projects, procedures, policies, and training programs; and (2) establish benchmarks for, and provide technical guidance on, implementing complete streets policies and principles.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-03-12
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Highways and Transit.
action_date: 2009-03-11
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2009-03-11
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-03-11
text: Introduced in House
Congressional Commission on Civic Service Act

Bill: 111-hr-1444
Sponsor: Rep. McDermott, Jim [D-WA-7]
Introduced: 2009-03-11 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Advisory bodies
Area studies and international education
Congressional agencies
Congressional operations and organization
Educational facilities and institutions
Elementary and secondary education
Government information and archives
Higher education
National and community service
Policy sciences
Social work, volunteer service, charitable organizations
Student aid and college costs

Summary:
action_date: 2009-03-11
text: 
Congressional Commission on Civic Service Act - Establishes the Congressional Commission on Civic Service to make recommendations to Congress for: (1) improving the ability of individuals to serve others; (2) training leaders in public service organizations to better utilize individuals committed to national service and volunteerism as they manage human and fiscal resources; (3) identifying solutions to the barriers that make it difficult for some individuals to volunteer or perform national service; and (4) building on the foundation of current service and volunteer opportunities. Specifies topics to be addressed by the Commission, including deterrents to service, a mandatory service requirement, and the need for a public service academy.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-04-29
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Healthy Families and Communities.
action_date: 2009-03-11
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and Labor.
action_date: 2009-03-11
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-03-11
text: Introduced in House
Credit Rating Agency Transparency and Disclosure Act

Bill: 111-hr-1445
Sponsor: Rep. McHenry, Patrick T. [R-NC-10]
Introduced: 2009-03-11 in the House
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Banking and financial institutions regulation
Business records
Credit and credit markets
Financial crises and stabilization
Government information and archives
Securities
Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)

Summary:
action_date: 2009-03-11
text: 
Credit Rating Agency Transparency and Disclosure Act - Amends the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 to instruct the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to promulgate rules that: (1) require nationally recognized statistical rating organizations (NRSROs), with respect to their determination of credit ratings for structured securities, to disclose the information they require from originators, issuers, and underwriters regarding the collateral underlying such securities; (2) establish procedures to disseminate information about processes used by such originators, issuers, and underwriters to assess the accuracy and integrity of their data and fraud detection; and (3) require each NRSRO to maintain on a publicly accessible Internet site the historical default rates of all classes of financial products it has rated.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-03-11
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2009-03-11
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-03-11
text: Introduced in House
Mall Designation and Revitalization Act

Bill: 111-hr-1446
Sponsor: Del. Norton, Eleanor Holmes [D-DC-At Large]
Introduced: 2009-03-11 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Congressional oversight
District of Columbia
Monuments and memorials
National Capital Planning Commission
Parks, recreation areas, trails
Travel and tourism

Summary:
action_date: 2009-03-11
text: 
Mall Designation and Revitalization Act - Authorizes the National Capital Planning Commission (the Commission) to modify the boundaries of Areas I and II of the National Mall in the District of Columbia reserved for the location of commemorative works of preeminent historical and lasting significance to the United States. Prohibits such a decision from being subject to review. Requires the Commission to notify the Secretary of the Interior and the Administrator of General Services, the National Capital Memorial Advisory Commission, and certain congressional committees of any boundary modification made under such authority. 

Allows the Secretary or the Administrator to submit a recommendation to Congress that the legislative authority for a commemorative work be terminated before the expiration date of the legislative authority applicable to the work, if the person authorized to establish the work does not possess the capacity or resources to successfully complete the project for the establishment of the work before that expiration date. 
 
Directs: (1) the Commission to prepare recommendations for improving upon the process required for the selection, design, and subject matter of commemorative works in the District of Columbia and its environs; and (2) the Secretary to submit a plan to enhance visitor enjoyment, amenities, cultural experiences in, and the vitality of the National Mall. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-03-16
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests and Public Lands.
action_date: 2009-03-11
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2009-03-11
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E644)
action_date: 2009-03-11
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-03-11
text: Introduced in House
Family Farm Preservation Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-1447
Sponsor: Rep. Pitts, Joseph R. [R-PA-16]
Introduced: 2009-03-11 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Agricultural conservation and pollution
Capital gains tax
Farmland
Income tax exclusion
Land transfers
Land use and conservation
Social work, volunteer service, charitable organizations

Summary:
action_date: 2009-03-11
text: 
Family Farm Preservation Act of 2009 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to exclude from gross income gain from the sale or exchange of qualified farmland development rights to a tax-exempt conservation organization. Defines &quot;qualified farmland development rights&quot; as a restriction limiting farmland to use as a farm for farming purposes or for exclusively conservation purposes.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-03-11
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2009-03-11
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-03-11
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to repeal the qualification standard for exterior windows, doors, and skylights.

Bill: 111-hr-1449
Sponsor: Rep. Roe, David P. [R-TN-1]
Introduced: 2009-03-11 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Energy efficiency and conservation
Income tax credits

Summary:
action_date: 2009-03-11
text: 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to repeal the qualification standard for exterior windows (including skylights) and exterior doors for purposes of the tax credit for nonbusiness energy property.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-03-11
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2009-03-11
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-03-11
text: Introduced in House
Counterfeit Drug Prevention Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-1450
Sponsor: Rep. Rogers, Mike J. [R-MI-8]
Introduced: 2009-03-11 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Criminal procedure and sentencing
Drug safety, medical device, and laboratory regulation
Fraud offenses and financial crimes

Summary:
action_date: 2009-03-11
text: 
Counterfeit Drug Prevention Act of 2009 - Amends the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to establish criminal penalties of a fine and imprisonment for not more than 20 years, or both, for any person who commits a prohibited act relating to counterfeiting knowing that: (1) the conduct concerns the rendering of a drug as a counterfeit drug; (2) the conduct will cause a drug to be a counterfeit drug; or (3) a drug, held, sold, or dispensed is a counterfeit drug. Increases the term of imprisonment to any term of years or for life if the use of a counterfeit drug is the proximate cause of a consumer's death.
 
Modifies provisions pertaining to criminal fines for committing certain prohibited acts involving food, drugs, devices, or cosmetics.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-04-27
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.
action_date: 2009-03-12
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2009-03-11
text: Referred to House Judiciary
action_date: 2009-03-11
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: 2009-03-11
text: Referred to House Energy and Commerce
action_date: 2009-03-11
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-03-11
text: Introduced in House
To amend title 23, United States Code, to allow an exception for the weight limits for certain towing trucks.

Bill: 111-hr-1451
Sponsor: Rep. Shuster, Bill [R-PA-9]
Introduced: 2009-03-11 in the House
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Motor vehicles
Roads and highways
Transportation safety and security

Summary:
action_date: 2009-03-11
text: 
Allows as an exception to federal weight limits the operation of a tow truck, weighing no more than 150,000 pounds, which removes a disabled vehicle from the Interstate System to a storage or repair facility 100 miles or less from the point where such vehicle becomes disabled.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-03-12
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Highways and Transit.
action_date: 2009-03-11
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2009-03-11
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-03-11
text: Introduced in House
Medicare Clinical Diagnostic Laboratory Fee Schedule Modernization Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-1452
Sponsor: Rep. Stupak, Bart [D-MI-1]
Introduced: 2009-03-11 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Advisory bodies
Department of Health and Human Services
Health facilities and institutions
Medical tests and diagnostic methods
Medicare
User charges and fees

Summary:
action_date: 2009-03-11
text: 
Medicare Clinical Diagnostic Laboratory Fee Schedule Modernization Act of 2009 - Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services to: (1) establish a negotiated rulemaking committee to negotiate and develop a proposed rule for a Medicare modernized clinical diagnostic laboratory fee schedule; (2) report to Congress on the fee schedule; and (3) promulgate final regulations to establish it if the committee reaches consensus.
 
Directs the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MEDPAC) to report to Congress its own recommendations according to whether or not the committee does reach consensus.
 
Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to establish as $6.04 for 2010 (and the preceding year's amount adjusted for inflation for subsequent years) the fee for collecting specimens for clinical diagnostic laboratory tests under the Medicare program.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-03-12
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2009-03-11
text: Referred to House Ways and Means
action_date: 2009-03-11
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: 2009-03-11
text: Referred to House Energy and Commerce
action_date: 2009-03-11
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-03-11
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to extend and expand the homebuyer tax credit.

Bill: 111-hr-1453
Sponsor: Rep. Terry, Lee [R-NE-2]
Introduced: 2009-03-11 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Housing finance and home ownership
Income tax credits

Summary:
action_date: 2009-03-11
text: 
Amends Internal Revenue Code provisions relating to the first-time homebuyer tax credit to: (1) extend such credit through December 31, 2009; (2) increase the amount of such credit to $15,000; and (3) extend such credit to all individuals who purchase a principal residence (currently, only first-time homebuyers as so defined).


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-03-11
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2009-03-11
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-03-11
text: Introduced in House
Financial Consumer Hotline Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-1455
Sponsor: Rep. Maloney, Carolyn B. [D-NY-14]
Introduced: 2009-03-12 in the House
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: Administrative remedies
Banking and financial institutions regulation
Consumer affairs
Department of the Treasury
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC)
Federal Reserve System
Financial services and investments
Government information and archives
National Credit Union Administration
Telephone and wireless communication

Summary:
action_date: 2009-03-12
text: 
Financial Consumer Hotline Act of 2009 - Amends the Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council Act of 1978 to require federal financial institution regulatory agencies, coordinating through the Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council, to establish: (1) a single, toll-free telephone number for consumer complaints and inquiries concerning institutions under their jurisdiction; and (2) a system for routing such calls to the federal financial institution regulatory agency that primarily supervises the financial institution, or that is otherwise the appropriate agency to address the subject of the complaint or inquiry.

Cites circumstances under which state agencies may receive appropriate call transfers from such federal systems.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-03-12
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2009-03-12
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E651)
action_date: 2009-03-12
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-03-12
text: Introduced in House
Consumer Overdraft Protection Fair Practices Act

Bill: 111-hr-1456
Sponsor: Rep. Maloney, Carolyn B. [D-NY-14]
Introduced: 2009-03-12 in the House
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Bank accounts, deposits, capital
Banking and financial institutions regulation
Consumer affairs
Federal Reserve System
Financial services and investments
Marketing and advertising
User charges and fees

Summary:
action_date: 2009-03-12
text: 
Consumer Overdraft Protection Fair Practices Act - Amends the Truth in Lending Act to set forth restrictions upon overdraft protection fees or services placed upon a consumer account in order to cover any debit due to insufficient funds in such account.
 
Prohibits certain misrepresentations made by an institution that it will extend credit to cover all overdrafts.
 
Prohibits specified advertising claims regarding overdraft protection programs or services, including any representation or statement encouraging use of the account as a service to: (1) meet short-term credit needs; or (2) obtain advances on a consumer's next payment of salary, wages, benefits, or other income.
 
Authorizes the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System to restrict additional acts or practices the Board deems unfair or deceptive in connection with the offering, operation, and advertising of overdraft protection programs and services.
 
Amends the Electronic Fund Transfer Act to set forth restrictions governing overdraft protection services and fees concerning payment of an electronic fund transfer initiated by the consumer at an automated teller machine (ATM) despite of a lack of sufficient funds in the consumer's account.
 
Amends the Expedited Funds Availability Act to prohibit a depository institution from: (1) imposing overdraft protection fees for paying any check drawn on the account in spite of a lack of sufficient funds unless the account holder has affirmatively requested such service; or (2) engaging in a pattern or practice of delaying the posting of any deposit in an account, or manipulating the process of posting any check or other debit against an account, if such pattern or practice results in an overdraft that triggers payment of an overdraft protection fee. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-03-19
text: Subcommittee Hearings Held.
action_date: 2009-03-19
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Financial Institutions and Consumer Credit.
action_date: 2009-03-12
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2009-03-12
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E663)
action_date: 2009-03-12
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-03-12
text: Introduced in House
Geriatrics Loan Forgiveness Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-1457
Sponsor: Rep. DeLauro, Rosa L. [D-CT-3]
Introduced: 2009-03-12 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Aging
Education programs funding
Health personnel
Medical education
Student aid and college costs

Summary:
action_date: 2009-03-12
text: 
Geriatrics Loan Forgiveness Act of 2009 - Amends the Public Health Service Act to deem each year an individual is enrolled in a geriatric training program as a year of obligated service under the National Health Service Corps Loan Repayment Program. Requires an individual affected by this Act to provide geriatric health service for the remainder of the individual's period of obligated service. Applies this Act to no more than 500 individuals in any year.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-03-16
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2009-03-12
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2009-03-12
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E662-663)
action_date: 2009-03-12
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-03-12
text: Introduced in House
Comprehensive Immunosuppressive Drug Coverage for Kidney Transplant Patients Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-1458
Sponsor: Rep. Camp, Dave [R-MI-4]
Introduced: 2009-03-12 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Digestive and metabolic diseases
Drug therapy
Health care costs and insurance
Immunology and vaccination
Medicare
Organ and tissue donation and transplantation

Summary:
action_date: 2009-03-12
text: 
Comprehensive Immunosuppressive Drug Coverage for Kidney Transplant Patients Act of 2009 - Amends SSA title II (Old Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance) (OASDI) to: (1) continue entitlement to prescription drugs used in immunosuppressive therapy furnished to an individual who receives a kidney transplant for which payment is made under Medicare; and (2) extend Medicare secondary payer requirements for end stage renal disease (ESRD) beneficiaries.
 
Amends title XVIII (Medicare ) of SSA to apply special rules to kidney transplant recipients receiving additional coverage for immunosuppressive drugs. Deems such individual to be enrolled under Medicare part B and makes the individual responsible for the full amount of the applicable premiums. Applies deductible and coinsurance requirements to the provision of such drugs.
 
Amends the Public Health Service Act, the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA), and the Internal Revenue Code to set forth requirements for group health plans to provide coverage of immunosuppressive drugs for kidney transplant patients.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-04-29
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2009-03-16
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2009-03-12
text: Referred to House Education and Labor
action_date: 2009-03-12
text: Referred to House Energy and Commerce
action_date: 2009-03-12
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committees on Energy and Commerce, and Education and Labor, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2009-03-12
text: Referred to House Ways and Means
action_date: 2009-03-12
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-03-12
text: Introduced in House