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To amend title 10, United States Code, to provide for the payment of monthly annuities under the Survivor Benefit Plan to a supplemental or special needs trust established for the sole benefit of a disabled dependent child of a participant in the Survivor Benefit Plan.

Bill: 111-hr-2059
Sponsor: Rep. Foster, Bill [D-IL-14]
Introduced: 2009-04-23 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Disability assistance
Military personnel and dependents
Veterans' pensions and compensation

Summary:
action_date: 2009-04-23
text: 
Authorizes monthly annuity payments under the Survivor Benefit Plan (SBP) to a supplemental or special needs trust established for the sole benefit of a disabled dependent child who is incapable of self-support because of mental or physical incapacity.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-05-15
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Military Personnel.
action_date: 2009-04-23
text: Referred to the House Committee on Armed Services.
action_date: 2009-04-23
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-04-23
text: Introduced in House
Community College Technology Access Act

Bill: 111-hr-2060
Sponsor: Rep. Larson, John B. [D-CT-1]
Introduced: 2009-04-23 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Computers and information technology
Education programs funding
Educational facilities and institutions
Educational technology and distance education
Higher education

Summary:
action_date: 2009-04-23
text: 
Community College Technology Access Act - Directs the Secretary of Education to award grants to community colleges for the maintenance, administration, and improvement of computer labs to enhance student and public access to information technology training.
 
Allows grantees to use grant funds to expand or build a computer lab facility if they ask and receive the Secretary's authorization to do so.
 
Requires grantees to keep their computer labs open to the public for specified minimum periods and to offer the public free computer-related training while open.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-05-21
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Higher Education, Lifelong Learning, and Competitiveness.
action_date: 2009-04-23
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and Labor.
action_date: 2009-04-23
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-04-23
text: Introduced in House
Parental Notification and Intervention Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-2061
Sponsor: Rep. Boozman, John [R-AR-3]
Introduced: 2009-04-23 in the House
Policy area: Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Subjects: Abortion
Civil actions and liability
Domestic violence and child abuse
Emergency medical services and trauma care
Family relationships
Health personnel

Summary:
action_date: 2009-04-23
text: 
Parental Notification and Intervention Act of 2009 - Prohibits any person or organization from performing, permitting facilities to be used to perform, or assisting in the performance of an abortion on an unemancipated minor unless: (1) written notification is provided to the parents of the minor informing the parents that an abortion has been requested, unless there is clear and convincing evidence of physical abuse of the minor by the parent; (2) there is compliance with a 96-hour waiting period after notice has been received by the parents; and (3) there is compliance with the judicial intervention process. Prescribes penalties of not more than a $1 million fine and/or imprisonment for not more than 10 years for violating such prohibition.
 
Exempts a physician without principal responsibility for making the decision to perform the abortion if the physician determines that: (1) a medical emergency exists due to a grave, physical disorder or disease that would cause the minor's death if an abortion is not performed; (2) parental notification is not possible as a result of the emergency; and (3) certifications regarding compliance with such rules and the reasons upon which such determinations are based have been entered in the minor's medical records. 
Requires parental notification through certified mail or personal delivery. 
Authorizes a notified parent to bring an action in federal court which shall enjoin the abortion: (1) until the court's judgment is final; or (2) permanently unless the court determines that granting such relief would be unlawful.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-05-26
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights, and Civil Liberties.
action_date: 2009-04-23
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2009-04-23
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-04-23
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008 to use repaid Troubled Asset Relief Program funds to pay down the public debt, and for other purposes.

Bill: 111-hr-2063
Sponsor: Rep. Wilson, Joe [R-SC-2]
Introduced: 2009-04-23 in the House
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: Bank accounts, deposits, capital
Budget deficits and national debt
Financial crises and stabilization

Summary:
action_date: 2009-04-23
text: 
Amends the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008 (EESA) to require that assistance repayments from Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) funds be used to pay down the public debt.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-04-23
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2009-04-23
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-04-23
text: Introduced in House
See Something, Say Something Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-2064
Sponsor: Rep. King, Peter T. [R-NY-3]
Introduced: 2009-04-23 in the House
Policy area: Law
Subjects: Civil actions and liability
Law enforcement officers
Legal fees and court costs
Terrorism

Summary:
action_date: 2009-04-23
text: 
See Something, Say Something Act of 2009 - Amends the Homeland Security Act of 2002 to grant immunity from civil liability to persons who, in good faith and based on an objectively reasonable suspicion, report suspicious activity indicating that an individual may be engaging, or preparing to engage, in a violation of law relating to an act of terrorism.
 
Grants qualified immunity from civil liability to any authorized official who observes, or receives a report of, such activity and takes reasonable action in good faith to respond, consistent with applicable law in the relevant jurisdiction. Provides that an authorized official not entitled to assert the defense of qualified immunity shall nonetheless be immune from civil immunity if that official takes reasonable action, in good faith, to respond to the reported activity.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-05-26
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.
action_date: 2009-04-23
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2009-04-23
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-04-23
text: Introduced in House
Mercury Pollution Reduction Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-2065
Sponsor: Rep. Schakowsky, Janice D. [D-IL-9]
Introduced: 2009-04-23 in the House
Policy area: Environmental Protection
Subjects: Business records
Child health
Environmental assessment, monitoring, research
Environmental health
Government information and archives
Hazardous wastes and toxic substances
Industrial facilities
Manufacturing
Solid waste and recycling
Trade restrictions
Women's health

Summary:
action_date: 2009-04-23
text: 
Mercury Pollution Reduction Act of 2009 - Declares that the United States should develop policies and programs that will reduce: (1) mercury use and emissions; (2) mercury releases from the reservoir of mercury currently in use or circulation; and (3) exposures to mercury, particularly of women of childbearing age and young children.
 
Amends the Toxic Substances Control Act to prohibit: (1) the manufacture of chlorine or caustic soda using mercury cells; and (2) the export of any mercury, mercury cells, mercury compounds, and mixtures containing mercury. 
 
Requires the Secretary of Energy to develop a system for the storage of all mercury, mercury cells, mercury compounds, and mixtures containing mercury from a chlor-alkali facility.
 
Requires the owner or operator of each chlor-alkali facility to report to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator and the state in which the facility is located on mercury waste, emissions, and content in products.
 
Requires the Administrator to: (1) conduct a comprehensive mercury inventory covering the life and closure of chlor-alkali facilities that cease operations on or after January 1, 2009; and (2) obtain mercury purchase records and such other information from each such facility as are necessary to determine the magnitude and nature of mercury releases from the facility into air and other environmental media.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-04-27
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Commerce, Trade and Consumer Protection.
action_date: 2009-04-23
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2009-04-23
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-04-23
text: Introduced in House
Graduate Psychology Education Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-2066
Sponsor: Rep. Green, Gene [D-TX-29]
Introduced: 2009-04-23 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Education programs funding
Health care coverage and access
Health personnel
Health programs administration and funding
Higher education
Medical education
Mental health

Summary:
action_date: 2009-04-23
text: 
Graduate Psychology Education Act of 2009 - Amends the Public Health Service Act to authorize the Secretary of Health and Human Services to award grants, cooperative agreements, and contracts to accredited doctoral, internship, and residency programs in psychology for the development and implementation of programs to provide interdisciplinary training in integrated health care settings to students in doctoral psychology programs. Requires such training to focus on the needs of underserved populations.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-04-27
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2009-04-23
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2009-04-23
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-04-23
text: Introduced in House
Protecting America's Workers Act

Bill: 111-hr-2067
Sponsor: Rep. Woolsey, Lynn C. [D-CA-6]
Introduced: 2009-04-23 in the House
Policy area: Labor and Employment
Subjects: Accidents
Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Administrative remedies
Civil actions and liability
Criminal procedure and sentencing
Department of Labor
Employment discrimination and employee rights
Evidence and witnesses
Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management
Government studies and investigations
Judicial review and appeals
Wages and earnings
Worker safety and health

Summary:
action_date: 2009-04-23
text: 
Protecting America's Workers Act - Amends the Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970 (OSHA) to expand its coverage to federal, state, and local government employees. 
 
Authorizes the Secretary of Labor, under specified conditions, to cede OSHA jurisdiction to another federal agency with respect to certain occupational standards or regulations for such agency's employees. Declares OSHA inapplicable to working conditions covered by the Federal Mine Safety and Heath Act of 1977.
 
Sets forth increased protections for whistle blowers under OSHA. 
 
Sets forth provisions relating to: (1) the posting of employee rights; (2) a prohibition against the adoption or implementation of policies or practices by employers that discourage the reporting of work-related injuries or illnesses or that discriminate or provide for adverse action against any employee for reporting such injury or illness; (3) a prohibition against the loss of wages or employee benefits as a result of an employee participating in or aiding workplace inspections; (4) investigations of incidents in a place of employment resulting in a death or the hospitalization of two or more employees; (5) a prohibition against designating a citation for an occupational health and safety standard violation as an unclassified citation; (6) the rights of an employee who has sustained a work-related injury or illness that is the subject of an investigation; (7) an employer's right to contest citations and penalties; (8) the Secretary's assertion of an employer's failure to correct a serious hazard during an employer's contest to a citation; and (9) employee objections to modifications of citations. 
 
Increases civil and criminal penalties for certain OSHA violators. 
 
Requires a state that has an approved plan for the development and enforcement of occupational safety and health standards to amend its plan to conform to the requirements of this Act within 12 months after enactment of this Act.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-04-28
text: Subcommittee Hearings Held.
action_date: 2010-03-16
text: Subcommittee Hearings Held.
action_date: 2009-05-21
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2009-04-23
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and Labor.
action_date: 2009-04-23
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-04-23
text: Introduced in House
Credit for New Cars Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-2069
Sponsor: Rep. Hoekstra, Peter [R-MI-2]
Introduced: 2009-04-23 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Income tax credits
Motor vehicles

Summary:
action_date: 2009-04-23
text: 
Credit for New Cars Act of 2009 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow a $3,000 tax credit for the purchase of a qualified motor vehicle through December 31, 2009. Defines &quot;qualified motor vehicle&quot; as a manufactured motor vehicle that complies with emission standards established by the Clean Air Act, that has a gross vehicle weight rating of not more than 8,500 pounds, and that is assembled in the United States. Disqualifies any vehicle that has a fair market value of $40,000 or more.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-04-23
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2009-04-23
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-04-23
text: Introduced in House
To require that, in the questionnaires used in the taking of any decennial census of population, a checkbox or other similar option be included so that respondents may indicate Caribbean extraction or descent.

Bill: 111-hr-2071
Sponsor: Rep. Clarke, Yvette D. [D-NY-11]
Introduced: 2009-04-23 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Caribbean area
Census and government statistics
Latin America

Summary:
action_date: 2009-04-23
text: 
Requires the Secretary of Commerce to include in any questionnaire used in a decennial census to determine state populations an option for respondents to indicate Caribbean extraction or descent.
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-06-26
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Information Policy, Census, and National Archives.
action_date: 2009-04-23
text: Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.
action_date: 2009-04-23
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-04-23
text: Introduced in House
School Choice for Foster Kids Act

Bill: 111-hr-2072
Sponsor: Rep. Bachmann, Michele [R-MN-6]
Introduced: 2009-04-23 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Adoption and foster care
Education programs funding
Elementary and secondary education
Student aid and college costs
Transportation costs

Summary:
action_date: 2009-04-23
text: 
School Choice for Foster Kids Act - Amends part E (Foster Care and Adoption Assistance) of title IV of the Social Security Act to authorize states to use funds provided under the John H. Chafee Foster Care Independence program to provide vouchers to foster children of all ages to cover their elementary and secondary private school tuition and public school transportation costs. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-04-23
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2009-04-23
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-04-23
text: Introduced in House
To amend title 23, United States Code, to permit the State of West Virginia to allow the operation of certain vehicles for the hauling of coal and coal by-products on Interstate Route 77 in Kanawha County, West Virginia.

Bill: 111-hr-2073
Sponsor: Rep. Capito, Shelley Moore [R-WV-2]
Introduced: 2009-04-23 in the House
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Coal
Licensing and registrations
Motor carriers
Motor vehicles
Roads and highways
West Virginia

Summary:
action_date: 2009-04-23
text: 
Authorizes the state of West Virginia to allow, by special permit, the operation of vehicles with a gross vehicle weight of up to 126,000 pounds for the hauling of coal and coal by-products on Interstate Route 77 in Kanawha County, West Virginia, between Exits 85 and 97.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-04-24
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Highways and Transit.
action_date: 2009-04-23
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2009-04-23
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-04-23
text: Introduced in House
Pathways Advancing Career Training Act

Bill: 111-hr-2074
Sponsor: Rep. DeLauro, Rosa L. [D-CT-3]
Introduced: 2009-04-23 in the House
Policy area: Labor and Employment
Subjects: Education programs funding
Employment and training programs
Higher education
Performance measurement
State and local government operations
Student aid and college costs
Vocational and technical education

Summary:
action_date: 2009-04-23
text: 
Pathways Advancing Career Training Act - Authorizes the Secretary of Labor to make formula matching grants to states with approved plans for programs that provide preparatory and supportive services, information on career and technical education, training, pre-apprenticeship assistance, and related services, including tuition assistance, to: (1) single parents and displaced homemakers; and (2) individuals pursuing nontraditional training and employment in fields where individuals from one gender compose less than 25% of workers. 
 
Requires the Secretary, through the award of competitive grants, contracts, or cooperative agreements with an independent institution of higher education, public or private nonprofit organization, or state agency, to conduct at least one multi-site evaluation of such programs.
 
Requires eligible state agencies to administer such programs, make competitive subgrants to eligible entities, and identify certain core indicators of performance.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-06-04
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Higher Education, Lifelong Learning, and Competitiveness.
action_date: 2009-04-23
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and Labor.
action_date: 2009-04-23
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-04-23
text: Introduced in House
To amend title 13, United States Code, to require that, for purposes of any decennial census, any individual who is incarcerated as of the date on which such census is taken shall be attributed to the place that was such individual's last usual place of residence before such individual's incarceration began.

Bill: 111-hr-2075
Sponsor: Rep. Green, Gene [D-TX-29]
Introduced: 2009-04-23 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Census and government statistics
Correctional facilities and imprisonment

Summary:
action_date: 2009-04-23
text: 
Requires the Secretary of Commerce, in conducting any decennial census, to provide that any individual who is incarcerated as of the date on which such census is taken shall be attributed to the place that was such individual's last usual place of residence before that person's incarceration began. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-06-26
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Information Policy, Census, and National Archives.
action_date: 2009-04-23
text: Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.
action_date: 2009-04-23
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-04-23
text: Introduced in House
Border Security and Responsibility Act 2009

Bill: 111-hr-2076
Sponsor: Rep. Grijalva, Raúl M. [D-AZ-7]
Introduced: 2009-04-23 in the House
Policy area: Immigration
Subjects: Border security and unlawful immigration
Canada
Congressional oversight
Environmental assessment, monitoring, research
Homeland security
Latin America
Mexico

Summary:
action_date: 2009-04-23
text: 
Border Security and Responsibility Act 2009 - Directs the Secretary of Homeland Security (Secretary), the Secretary of the Interior, the Secretary of Agriculture, the Secretary of Defense, and the Secretary of Commerce, in consultation with tribal, state, and local officials, to submit to Congress a border protection strategy for the international land borders of the United States. Specifies strategy elements.
 
Amends the the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996 to revise international land border security provisions, including: (1) eliminating existing southwest border fencing requirements; (2) requiring that border control actions be in accordance with the border strategy required under this Act; and (3) giving priority to the use of remote cameras, sensors, removal of nonnative vegetation, incorporation of natural barriers, additional manpower, unmanned aerial vehicles, or other low impact border enforcement techniques. 
 
Prohibits construction of border fencing, physical barriers, roads, lighting, cameras, sensors, or other tactical infrastructure prior to 90 days after such border strategy's submission to Congress. 
 
Directs the Secretary, in consultation with the Secretary of the Interior, the Secretary of Agriculture, the Secretary of Defense, the Secretary of Commerce, and the heads of appropriate state and tribal wildlife agencies, to implement a comprehensive monitoring and mitigation plan to address the ecological and environmental impacts of security infrastructure and activities along the international land borders of the United States. Specifies plan requirements.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-05-15
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Terrorism, Unconventional Threats and Capabilities.
action_date: 2009-05-04
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Border, Maritime, and Global Counterterrorism.
action_date: 2009-04-23
text: Referred to House Agriculture
action_date: 2009-04-23
text: Referred to House Armed Services
action_date: 2009-04-23
text: Referred to the Committee on Homeland Security, and in addition to the Committees on Armed Services, and 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: 2009-04-23
text: Referred to House Homeland Security
action_date: 2009-04-23
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-04-23
text: Introduced in House