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To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to expand and improve the dependent care tax credit.

Bill: 111-hr-1369
Sponsor: Rep. Weiner, Anthony D. [D-NY-9]
Introduced: 2009-03-05 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Adult day care
Child care and development
Department of the Treasury
Disability and paralysis
Family relationships
Income tax credits

Summary:
action_date: 2009-03-05
text: 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) increase the dollar limitation on employment-related expenses that qualify for the tax credit for expenses for household and dependent care services necessary for gainful employment (dependent care tax credit); (2) repeal the requirement that a disabled dependent and the taxpayer share the same residence to qualify for such credit; (3) require the Secretary of the Treasury to prescribe regulations to qualify retirees for such credit; and (4) make such credit refundable.

Makes permanent the increases in the dependent care tax credit enacted by the Economic Growth and Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2001. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-03-05
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2009-03-05
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-03-05
text: Introduced in House
Commercial Seafood Consumer Protection Act

Bill: 111-hr-1370
Sponsor: Rep. Weiner, Anthony D. [D-NY-9]
Introduced: 2009-03-05 in the House
Policy area: Agriculture and Food
Subjects: Aquaculture
Department of Commerce
Food supply, safety, and labeling
Foreign aid and international relief
Government buildings, facilities, and property
Government studies and investigations
Seafood
Trade restrictions

Summary:
action_date: 2009-03-05
text: 
Commercial Seafood Consumer Protection Act - Directs the Secretary of Commerce (Secretary) to establish a program to strengthen federal activities for ensuring that commercially distributed seafood meets federal food quality and safety requirements.
 
Directs the Secretary and the Secretary of Health and Human Services to enter into an agreement to strengthen cooperation on seafood safety, including regarding examining and testing seafood imports, inspections of foreign facilities, technical assistance and training of foreign facilities for marine aquaculture, establishing a distribution chain tracking system, and labeling.
 
Directs the Secretary to increase the number of laboratories certified to Food and Drug Administration (FDA) standards.
 
Authorizes the Secretary to increase the number and capacity of laboratories operated by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) involved in testing and other activities under this Act.
 
Authorizes the Secretary to send inspectors to an originating country or exporter to assess seafood practices and processes and to provide technical assistance related to Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (FFDCA) requirements.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-04-23
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Livestock, Dairy, and Poultry.
action_date: 2009-03-06
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Commerce, Trade and Consumer Protection.
action_date: 2009-03-05
text: Referred to House Agriculture
action_date: 2009-03-05
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Agriculture, 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: 2009-03-05
text: Referred to House Energy and Commerce
action_date: 2009-03-05
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-03-05
text: Introduced in House
COLA Fairness Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-1371
Sponsor: Rep. Weiner, Anthony D. [D-NY-9]
Introduced: 2009-03-05 in the House
Policy area: Social Welfare
Subjects: Inflation and prices
Medicare
Social security and elderly assistance

Summary:
action_date: 2009-03-05
text: 
COLA Fairness Act of 2009 - Requires the Bureau of Labor Statistics of the Department of Labor to establish: (1) a mapping of the United States comprising 14 specified regions; and (2) particular monthly consumer price indices for such regions for computation of cost-of-living increases for Social Security and Medicare (title XVIII of the Social Security Act) benefits.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-04-29
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2009-03-06
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2009-03-05
text: Referred to House Education and Labor
action_date: 2009-03-05
text: Referred to House Energy and Commerce
action_date: 2009-03-05
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: 2009-03-05
text: Referred to House Ways and Means
action_date: 2009-03-05
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-03-05
text: Introduced in House
For the relief of Vicente Beltran Luna.

Bill: 111-hr-1372
Sponsor: Rep. Gonzalez, Charles A. [D-TX-20]
Introduced: 2009-03-05 in the House
Policy area: Private Legislation

Summary:
action_date: 2009-03-05
text: Provides for the relief of Vicente Beltran Luna.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-04-20
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration, Citizenship, Refugees, Border Security, and International Law.
action_date: 2009-03-05
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2009-03-05
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-03-05
text: Introduced in House
Butterfield Overland Trail Study Act

Bill: 111-hr-1373
Sponsor: Rep. Boozman, John [R-AR-3]
Introduced: 2009-03-06 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Arizona
Arkansas
California
Government studies and investigations
Missouri
New Mexico
Oklahoma
Parks, recreation areas, trails
Tennessee
Texas

Summary:
action_date: 2009-03-06
text: 
Butterfield Overland Trail Study Act - Directs the Secretary of the Interior to conduct a resource study along the &quot;Ox-Bow Route&quot; of the Butterfield Overland Trail in the states of Missouri, Tennessee, Arkansas, Oklahoma, Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, and California. Requires that the study evaluate a range of alternatives for protecting and interpreting the resources of the trail area, including alternatives for potential addition of such area to the National Trails System. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-03-11
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests and Public Lands.
action_date: 2009-03-06
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2009-03-06
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-03-06
text: Introduced in House
Elder Abuse Prevention Act

Bill: 111-hr-1374
Sponsor: Rep. Chandler, Ben [D-KY-6]
Introduced: 2009-03-06 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Aging
Correctional facilities and imprisonment
Criminal procedure and sentencing
Law enforcement administration and funding
Sex offenses
State and local government operations
U.S. Sentencing Commission
Violent crime

Summary:
action_date: 2009-03-06
text: 
Elder Abuse Prevention Act - Requires a state that is receiving funds for certain law enforcement assistance programs under the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 to adopt laws and policies that prohibit parole for: (1) any individual who is convicted of a criminal sexual offense against a victim who is elderly; or (2) a sexually violent predator. Grants states three years to implement such laws and policies (with one additional two-year extension for states making good faith efforts at implementation). Renders any state that does not implement such laws and policies within the required period ineligible for 10% of funding for its law enforcement assistance programs. 

Requests the U.S. Sentencing Commission to promptly review its guidelines for sexual offenses committed against the elderly and to consider new guidelines for enhanced sentencing for such crimes.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-03-16
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.
action_date: 2009-03-06
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2009-03-06
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-03-06
text: Introduced in House
No Parole for Sex Offenders Act

Bill: 111-hr-1375
Sponsor: Rep. Chandler, Ben [D-KY-6]
Introduced: 2009-03-06 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Correctional facilities and imprisonment
Crimes against children
Criminal procedure and sentencing
Law enforcement administration and funding
Sex offenses
State and local government operations
Violent crime

Summary:
action_date: 2009-03-06
text: 
No Parole for Sex Offenders Act - Requires a state that is receiving funds for certain law enforcement assistance programs under the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 to put into effect laws and policies that prohibit parole for any individual convicted of a crime against a minor and any sexually violent predator. Grants states three years to implement such laws and policies (with one additional two-year extension for states making good faith efforts at implementation). Renders any state that does not implement such laws and policies within the required period ineligible for 10% of funding for its law enforcement assistance programs.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-04-27
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.
action_date: 2009-03-06
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2009-03-06
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-03-06
text: Introduced in House
Food Allergy and Anaphylaxis Management Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-1378
Sponsor: Rep. Lowey, Nita M. [D-NY-18]
Introduced: 2009-03-06 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Allergies
Child care and development
Child health
Civil actions and liability
Department of Education
Education programs funding
Elementary and secondary education
Food supply, safety, and labeling
Health promotion and preventive care
Health technology, devices, supplies

Summary:
action_date: 2009-03-06
text: 
Food Allergy and Anaphylaxis Management Act of 2009 - Requires the Secretary of Health and Human Services to develop and make available to local educational agencies, schools, early childhood education programs, and other interested entities voluntary guidelines to develop plans for individuals to manage the risk of food allergy and anaphylaxis in schools and early childhood education programs. Directs that such guidelines address: (1) parental obligation to provide the documentation of their child's allergies; (2) the creation of an individual food allergy management plan for each such child; (3) communication between schools or programs and emergency medical services; (4) reduction of exposure to anaphylactic causative agents; (5) food allergy management training; and (6) administration of epinephrine.
 
Allows the Secretary to award matching grants to assist local educational agencies in implementing such food allergy and anaphylaxis management guidelines.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-03-09
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2009-03-06
text: Referred to House Education and Labor
action_date: 2009-03-06
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on 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: 2009-03-06
text: Referred to House Energy and Commerce
action_date: 2009-03-06
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-03-06
text: Introduced in House
To prohibit the commercial harvesting of Atlantic striped bass in the coastal waters and the exclusive economic zone.

Bill: 111-hr-1379
Sponsor: Rep. Pallone, Frank, Jr. [D-NJ-6]
Introduced: 2009-03-06 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Atlantic Coast (U.S.)
Atlantic Ocean
Civil actions and liability
Fishes
Marine and coastal resources, fisheries

Summary:
action_date: 2009-03-06
text: 
Prohibits the commercial harvesting of Atlantic striped bass in the coastal waters or the exclusive economic zone (EEZ). Imposes penalties and allows civil forfeiture of vessels for violations.
 
Requires the Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Director to take actions reflecting the prohibition.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-03-11
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Insular Affairs, Oceans and Wildlife.
action_date: 2009-03-06
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2009-03-06
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-03-06
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to permanently extend existing elective tax treatment for Alaska Native Settlement Trusts.

Bill: 111-hr-1381
Sponsor: Rep. Young, Don [R-AK-At Large]
Introduced: 2009-03-06 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Alaska
Alaska Natives and Hawaiians
Capital gains tax
Federal-Indian relations
Income tax exclusion
Income tax rates
Indian claims
Tax administration and collection, taxpayers

Summary:
action_date: 2009-03-06
text: 
Makes provisions of the Economic Growth and Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2001 relating to the tax treatment and information requirements of Alaska Native Settlement Trusts permanent.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-03-10
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E621)
action_date: 2009-03-06
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2009-03-06
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-03-06
text: Introduced in House
Innovative Vehicle Act

Bill: 111-hr-1382
Sponsor: Rep. Bilbray, Brian P. [R-CA-50]
Introduced: 2009-03-09 in the House
Policy area: Energy
Subjects: Advanced technology and technological innovations
Energy efficiency and conservation
Manufacturing
Motor vehicles
Product development and innovation

Summary:
action_date: 2009-03-09
text: 
Innovative Vehicle Act - Amends the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007 to include: (1) ultra efficient vehicles within the meaning of &quot;advanced technology vehicle&quot;; (2) ultra efficient vehicle manufacturers as eligible recipients of advanced vehicles manufacturing facility funding awards; (3) facilities for the manufacture of ultra efficient vehicles among facilities that are given priority for such awards; and (4) a firm that manufactures ultra efficient vehicles or components of such vehicles within the meaning of &quot;covered firm.&quot;
 
Defines &quot;ultra efficient vehicle&quot; to mean a fully closed compartment vehicle designed to carry at least two adult passengers that achieves: (1) at least 75 miles per gallon while operating on gasoline or diesel fuel; or (2) the equivalent while operating as a hybrid electric-gasoline or electric-diesel vehicle or as a fully electric vehicle.
 
Requires the Secretary of Energy to reconsider applications for assistance under the advanced technology vehicles manufacturing incentive program that were timely filed but rejected because the vehicles to which the proposal related were ultra efficient vehicles and not advanced technology vehicles.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-03-10
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Environment.
action_date: 2009-03-09
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2009-03-09
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-03-09
text: Introduced in House
Air Force Depot Workers Fairness Act

Bill: 111-hr-1383
Sponsor: Rep. Cole, Tom [R-OK-4]
Introduced: 2009-03-09 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Georgia
Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management
Military facilities and property
Oklahoma
Utah

Summary:
action_date: 2009-03-09
text: 
Air Force Depot Workers Fairness Act - Authorizes federal civilian employees of the U.S. Air Force Depots at Tinker ALC in Oklahoma, Ogden ALC in Utah, and Warner Robbins ALC in Georgia to earn compensatory time for irregular or occasional overtime work at a rate that is one and one-half times the amount of time spent in such work instead of overtime pay, wage-board overtime pay, or Sunday rates.
 



Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-06-26
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Federal Workforce, Post Office, and the District of Columbia.
action_date: 2009-03-09
text: Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.
action_date: 2009-03-09
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-03-09
text: Introduced in House
To amend part B of title XVIII of the Social Security Act to remove limiting charges under the Medicare Program for non-participating physicians with beneficiary notice and to preempt State laws that prohibit balance billing.

Bill: 111-hr-1384
Sponsor: Rep. Price, Tom [R-GA-6]
Introduced: 2009-03-09 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Federal preemption
Health personnel
Medicare

Summary:
action_date: 2009-03-09
text: 
Amends part B (Supplementary Medical Insurance) of title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to remove the limiting charges under the Medicare program for non-participating physicians who provide the beneficiary with a specified notice of non-participation and non-acceptance of Medicare payment on an assignment-related basis.
 
Preempts state laws limiting charges for physicians' services.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-03-10
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2009-03-09
text: Referred to House Ways and Means
action_date: 2009-03-09
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: 2009-03-09
text: Referred to House Energy and Commerce
action_date: 2009-03-09
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-03-09
text: Introduced in House
Pay for all your Undocumented Procedures (PAY UP!) Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-1386
Sponsor: Rep. Filner, Bob [D-CA-51]
Introduced: 2009-03-09 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Border security and unlawful immigration
Emergency medical services and trauma care
Health programs administration and funding
Immigrant health and welfare
State and local finance

Summary:
action_date: 2009-03-09
text: 
Pay for all your Undocumented Procedures (PAY UP!) Act of 2009 - Amends the Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act of 2003 to make permanent the program of federal reimbursement of emergency health services furnished to undocumented aliens.
 
Requires a reallotment of unspent program funds in a fiscal year among eligible providers in full expenditure states according to a specified ratio. Requires addition of such funds to the aggregate amount available for allotment for the succeeding fiscal year in the event there is no full expenditure state.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-03-10
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2009-03-10
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E606)
action_date: 2009-03-09
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2009-03-09
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-03-09
text: Introduced in House
Fraudulent Tax Relief Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-1389
Sponsor: Rep. Ackerman, Gary L. [D-NY-5]
Introduced: 2009-03-09 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Financial services and investments
Fraud offenses and financial crimes
Income tax credits

Summary:
action_date: 2009-03-09
text: 
Fraudulent Tax Relief Act of 2009 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow a refundable tax credit for taxes paid on earnings: (1) from an investment which the taxpayer did not know, and reasonably should not have known, was fraudulent; (2) which were reinvested in such investment; and (3) which remained so reinvested until the fraud was discovered. Makes such tax credit applicable to frauds discovered during 2008.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-03-09
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2009-03-09
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-03-09
text: Introduced in House
Earmark Accountability and Reform Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-1390
Sponsor: Rep. Buchanan, Vern [R-FL-13]
Introduced: 2009-03-09 in the House
Policy area: Economics and Public Finance
Subjects: Appropriations
Budget deficits and national debt
Budget process
Income tax credits
Income tax deductions
Income tax exclusion
Legislative rules and procedure
Presidents and presidential powers, Vice Presidents

Summary:
action_date: 2009-03-09
text: 
Earmark Accountability and Reform Act of 2009 - Amends the Congressional Budget and Impoundment Control Act of 1974 to authorize the President to propose the cancellation (line item veto) of any dollar amount of discretionary budget authority, item of direct spending, or targeted tax benefit.
 
 
Sets forth requirements for the President's transmittal to Congress of a special message regarding a proposed cancellation.
 
Dedicates any cancellation only to deficit reduction or increase of a surplus.
 
Provides for adjustment of: (1) committee allocations resulting from such rescission; and (2) applicable limits, as appropriate, under the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 (Gramm-Rudman-Hollings Act).
 
Sets forth procedures for expedited congressional consideration of a proposed rescission.
 
 Expresses the sense of Congress that no President or any executive branch official should condition the inclusion or exclusion, or threaten to condition the inclusion or exclusion, of any proposed cancellation in any special message under this Act upon any vote cast or to be cast by any Member of either chamber.
 
 
Amends Rule XXII (House and Senate Relations) of the Rules of the House of Representatives to declare that any earmark that was not committed to conference by either chamber in their disagreeing votes on a measure shall be considered out of scope under such Rule.
 
Amends Rule XIII (Calendars and Committee Reports) to prohibit floor consideration of a report by the Committee on Rules on a rule or order to waive the three-day layover requirement of Rule XIII or Rule XXII, except when agreed to by two-thirds of the Members voting, a quorum being present.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-03-09
text: Referred to House Rules
action_date: 2009-03-09
text: Referred to the Committee on the Budget, 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: 2009-03-09
text: Referred to House Budget
action_date: 2009-03-09
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-03-09
text: Introduced in House