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Mentoring for All Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-1165
Sponsor: Rep. Davis, Susan A. [D-CA-53]
Introduced: 2009-02-25 in the House
Policy area: Social Welfare
Subjects: Education of the disadvantaged
Education programs funding
Elementary and secondary education
Government information and archives
Performance measurement
Public-private cooperation
Social work, volunteer service, charitable organizations

Summary:
action_date: 2009-02-25
text: 
Mentoring for All Act of 2009 - Amends the National and Community Service Act of 1990 to direct the Corporation for National and Community Service to award competitive, matching, three-year grants to nonpartisan, collaborative, public-private partnerships at the state and local level for efforts to grow and strengthen direct-service youth mentoring programs in all forms and settings in their service areas. 
 
Requires partnership grantees to use at least 80% of their grant for competitive subgrants to mentoring programs: (1) operated by or being created by, nonprofit organizations, schools, or local governments; or (2) operated by local collaboratives that each include at least two experienced youth mentoring organizations and at least one entity that provides volunteer mentors. Allows partnership grantees to give subgrant priority to collaboratives.
 
Requires each partnership grantee to participate in a collaborative national network of mentoring partnerships.
 
Directs the Corporation to award competitive, matching, three-year grants to entities or collaboratives of entities enabling the entities or collaboratives to: (1) build the necessary infrastructure to create a state mentoring partnership; or (2) implement national mentoring projects.
 
Requires the Corporation to evaluate this Act's programs and provide training and technical assistance to grant fund recipients that is based on support from the national network of mentoring partnerships.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-04-22
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Healthy Families and Communities.
action_date: 2009-02-25
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and Labor.
action_date: 2009-02-25
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E401)
action_date: 2009-02-25
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-02-25
text: Introduced in House
E-fencing Enforcement Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-1166
Sponsor: Rep. Scott, Robert C. "Bobby" [D-VA-3]
Introduced: 2009-02-25 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Business records
Civil actions and liability
Crimes against property
Criminal investigation, prosecution, interrogation
Criminal justice information and records
Internet and video services
Internet, web applications, social media
Retail and wholesale trades

Summary:
action_date: 2009-02-25
text: 
E-fencing Enforcement Act of 2009 - Amends the federal criminal code to impose a duty on any online market provider to disclose the contact information (i.e., name, telephone number, and address for service of legal process) of any high volume seller who has listed goods or items for sale on such provider's online marketplace that match the description of stolen goods listed in a signed report from a criminal law enforcement agency. Defines &quot;high volume seller&quot; as any person who, through an online marketplace, sells or offers for sale in a single offering goods or items worth more than $5,000, or more than $12,000 in one or more offerings during the preceding 365 days. 

Requires an online market provider to: (1) retain contact information on high volume sellers for three years; and (2) deny high volume sellers access to the marketplace if such provider has good reason to believe that such sellers acquired their goods unlawfully. Allows high volume sellers to bring a civil action to challenge the denial of access to an online marketplace.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-03-16
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.
action_date: 2009-02-25
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2009-02-25
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-02-25
text: Introduced in House
Green Streets Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-1167
Sponsor: Rep. Carnahan, Russ [D-MO-3]
Introduced: 2009-02-25 in the House
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Roads and highways
Solid waste and recycling
Transportation programs funding

Summary:
action_date: 2009-02-25
text: 
Green Streets Act of 2009 - Directs the Secretary of Transportation to conduct a demonstration program in which the Secretary shall award grants to up to four states to acquire and assess the feasibility on the use of asphalt produced with asphalt binder made from biomass in federal highway construction projects.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-02-26
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Highways and Transit.
action_date: 2009-02-25
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2009-02-25
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E410)
action_date: 2009-02-25
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-02-25
text: Introduced in House
To amend title 38, United States Code, to increase the amount of assistance provided by the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to disabled veterans for specially adapted housing and automobiles and adapted equipment.

Bill: 111-hr-1169
Sponsor: Rep. Boozman, John [R-AR-3]
Introduced: 2009-02-25 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Disability and paralysis
Housing for the elderly and disabled
Motor vehicles
Veterans' loans, housing, homeless programs
Veterans' pensions and compensation

Summary:
action_date: 2009-02-25
text: 
Increases from: (1) $12,000 to $36,000 the maximum amount authorized to be provided by the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to certain disabled veterans for specially adapted features in a home; (2) $60,000 to $180,000 the total amount authorized to be provided per veteran for the construction of specially adapted housing; and (3) $11,000 to $33,000 the maximum amount authorized to be provided for the purchase of an automobile and adaptive automobile equipment.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-03-04
text: Forwarded by Subcommittee to Full Committee by Voice Vote .
action_date: 2010-03-04
text: Subcommittee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
action_date: 2010-03-04
text: Ordered to be Reported by Voice Vote.
action_date: 2010-03-04
text: Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
action_date: 2009-09-24
text: Subcommittee Hearings Held.
action_date: 2009-02-27
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Economic Opportunity.
action_date: 2009-02-25
text: Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2009-02-25
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-02-25
text: Introduced in House
Organized Retail Crime Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-1173
Sponsor: Rep. Ellsworth, Brad [D-IN-8]
Introduced: 2009-02-25 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Business records
Civil actions and liability
Crimes against property
Criminal justice information and records
Criminal procedure and sentencing
Fraud offenses and financial crimes
Internet and video services
Internet, web applications, social media
Organized crime
Retail and wholesale trades

Summary:
action_date: 2009-02-25
text: 
Organized Retail Crime Act of 2009 - Amends the federal criminal code to define &quot;organized retail crime&quot; as: (1) the stealing, embezzlement, obtaining by fraud, false pretenses, or other illegal means of retail merchandise in quantities that would not normally be purchased for personal use or consumption for the purpose of reselling or otherwise reentering such retail merchandise in commerce; or (2) the recruitment of persons to participate in such criminal activities.

Modifies the crime of transporting and selling or receiving stolen goods to include activities involving organized retail crime and the facilitation of such crime through the operation of an online marketplace. 

Expands the crime of fraud involving access devices to include the use of gift cards, a Universal Product Code label, or a radio frequency identification transponder to obtain goods or services illegally.

Imposes reporting and other requirements on operators of online marketplaces and high volume (at least $12,000 annually) sellers relating to the sale of goods and services suspected of being acquired through organized retail crime.

Requires the U.S. Sentencing Commission to review and, if appropriate, amend its guidelines for persons convicted of offenses involving organized retail crime. 

Provides for civil forfeiture of any property used to commit or facilitate organized retail crime.

Allows a business whose goods or services were sold or used in the facilitation of organized retail crime through the operation of an online marketplace to obtain injunctive relief and compensatory damages. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-03-16
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.
action_date: 2009-02-25
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2009-02-25
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-02-25
text: Introduced in House
To amend title 10, United States Code, to authorize taxpayers to designate a portion of their income tax payments to a National Military Family Relief Fund to be used by the Secretary of Defense to assist the families of members of the Armed Forces who are serving in, or have served in, Iraq or Afghanistan.

Bill: 111-hr-1175
Sponsor: Rep. Foster, Bill [D-IL-14]
Introduced: 2009-02-25 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Afghanistan
Asia
Government trust funds
Iraq
Middle East
Military personnel and dependents
Tax administration and collection, taxpayers

Summary:
action_date: 2009-02-25
text: 
 Establishes in the Treasury the National Military Family Relief Fund to make grants to Armed Forces members who are serving, or have served, in Iraq or Afghanistan to assist the families of such members.
 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) allow every individual taxpayer to designate $1 or more of any overpayment to be paid to the Fund; and (2) in addition to any payment of income tax liability, make a contribution of an additional amount which shall be paid over to the Fund.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-02-25
text: Referred to House Armed Services
action_date: 2009-02-25
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Armed Services, 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: 2009-02-25
text: Referred to House Ways and Means
action_date: 2009-02-25
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-02-25
text: Introduced in House
Secret Ballot Protection Act

Bill: 111-hr-1176
Sponsor: Rep. Kline, John [R-MN-2]
Introduced: 2009-02-25 in the House
Policy area: Labor and Employment
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Labor-management relations
National Labor Relations Board (NLRB)

Summary:
action_date: 2009-02-25
text: 
Secret Ballot Protection Act - Amends the National Labor Relations Act to make it an unfair labor practice for: (1) an employer to recognize or bargain collectively with a labor organization that has not been selected by a majority of the employees in a secret ballot election conducted by the National Labor Relations Board; and (2) a labor organization to cause or attempt to cause an employer to recognize or bargain collectively with a representative that has not been selected in such manner.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-04-22
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2009-02-25
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and Labor.
action_date: 2009-02-25
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-02-25
text: Introduced in House
Lyme and Tick-Borne Diseases Prevention, Education, and Research Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-1179
Sponsor: Rep. Smith, Christopher H. [R-NJ-4]
Introduced: 2009-02-25 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Advisory bodies
Health information and medical records
Health programs administration and funding
Health promotion and preventive care
Infectious and parasitic diseases
Medical research
Medical tests and diagnostic methods
Research administration and funding

Summary:
action_date: 2009-02-25
text: 
Lyme and Tick-Borne Diseases Prevention, Education, and Research Act of 2009 - Requires the Secretary of Health and Human Services to establish the Tick-Borne Diseases Advisory Committee. Requires the Committee to advise the Secretary and the Assistant Secretary for Health regarding how officials can: (1) ensure interagency coordination and communication and minimize overlap regarding efforts to address tick-borne diseases; (2) identify opportunities to coordinate efforts with other federal agencies and private organizations addressing such diseases; (3) ensure interagency coordination and communication with constituency groups; (4) ensure that a broad spectrum of scientific viewpoints is represented in public heath policy decisions and that information disseminated to the public and physicians is balanced; and (5) advise relevant federal agencies on priorities related to Lyme and tick-borne diseases.
 
Requires the Secretary, acting through the appropriate federal officials, to provide for the coordination of all federal programs and activities related to Lyme and other tick-borne diseases and the conduct or support of specified activities, including: (1) developing sensitive and accurate diagnostic tools and tests, (2) improving the efficient utilization of diagnostic testing currently available; (3) accurately determining the prevalence of such diseases; (4) evaluating the feasibility of creating a national uniform reporting system; (5) providing and promoting access to a clearinghouse of information on such diseases; (6) increasing public education related to such diseases; (7) creating a physician education program; (8) establishing epidemiological research objectives to determine the long term course of illness for Lyme disease; and (9) determining the effectiveness of different treatment modalities by establishing treatment outcome objectives


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-02-26
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2009-02-25
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2009-02-25
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-02-25
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008 to prohibit the Secretary of the Treasury from receiving common stock or certain other voting stock under the Troubled Asset Relief Program, and for other purposes.

Bill: 111-hr-1180
Sponsor: Rep. Neugebauer, Randy [R-TX-19]
Introduced: 2009-02-25 in the House
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: Bank accounts, deposits, capital
Corporate finance and management
Financial crises and stabilization
Securities

Summary:
action_date: 2009-02-25
text: 
Amends the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008 (EESA) to prohibit the Secretary of the Treasury from: (1) making any purchase for which the Secretary receives control-diluting stock; or (2) converting into control-diluting stock any security received by the Secretary (other than a warrant).
 
Defines control-diluting stock as: (1) common stock of a financial institution; (2) any other voting stock of a financial institution other than voting stock whose voting power the Secretary agrees not to exercise; or (3) a warrant giving the Secretary the right to receive either of such stock.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-02-25
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2009-02-25
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-02-25
text: Introduced in House
To direct the Securities and Exchange Commission to establish both a process by which asset-backed instruments can be deemed eligible for NRSRO ratings and an initial list of such eligible asset-backed instruments.

Bill: 111-hr-1181
Sponsor: Rep. Ackerman, Gary L. [D-NY-5]
Introduced: 2009-02-25 in the House
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Banking and financial institutions regulation
Business records
Financial services and investments
Government information and archives
Government studies and investigations
Securities
Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)

Summary:
action_date: 2009-02-25
text: 
Amends the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 to direct the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to revise regulations relating to &quot;asset-backed securities&quot; to define an &quot;NRSRO asset-backed securities&quot; subset, which shall: (1) be the only asset-backed securities for which a credit rating agency may register and issue ratings as a nationally recognized statistical rating organization (NRSRO); and (2) be restricted to securities representing interests in pools of assets whose performance can be evaluated based on a documented history of predictable performance of similar assets, and which are contained in structures which also have a documented history of predictable performance.
 
 Requires the revision of such regulations to include a list of the classes of securities approved as NRSRO asset-backed securities.
 
Prescribes an approval process for NRSRO asset-backed securities classes, including approval standards.
 
Requires an NRSRO to: (1) review annually all ratings issued and outstanding in obligor categories for which it has registered; (2) formally affirm, upgrade, downgrade, or remove ratings based on such review; and (3) provide the SEC with full access to models, documentation, assumptions and performance data upon request, answer all questions posed by the SEC, and cooperate with any SEC investigation.
 
Directs the SEC to determine whether ratings are issued with the expectation of meeting aggregate historical loss and default standards for given ratings levels across all categories for which a credit rating agency has registered. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-02-25
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2009-02-25
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-02-25
text: Introduced in House
Military Spouses Residency Relief Act

Bill: 111-hr-1182
Sponsor: Rep. Carter, John R. [R-TX-31]
Introduced: 2009-02-25 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Congressional elections
Elections, voting, political campaign regulation
Military personnel and dependents
Property rights
Tax administration and collection, taxpayers
Voting rights

Summary:
action_date: 2009-02-25
text: 
Military Spouses Residency Relief Act - Amends the Servicemembers Civil Relief Act to prohibit, for purposes of voting for a federal, state, or local office, deeming a person to have lost a residence or domicile in a state, acquired a residence or domicile in any other state, or become a resident in or of any other state solely because the person is absent from a state because the person is accompanying the person's spouse who is absent from the state in compliance with military or naval orders.
 
Prohibits a servicemember's spouse from either losing or acquiring a residence or domicile for purposes of taxation because of being absent or present in any U.S. tax jurisdiction solely to be with the servicemember in compliance with the servicemember's military orders if the residence or domicile is the same for the servicemember and the spouse. Prohibits a spouse's income from being considered income earned in a tax jurisdiction if the spouse is not a resident or domiciliary of such jurisdiction when the spouse is in that jurisdiction solely to be with a servicemember serving under military orders.
 
Suspends land rights residency requirements for spouses accompanying servicemembers serving under military orders.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-10-08
text: Forwarded by Subcommittee to Full Committee by Voice Vote .
action_date: 2009-10-08
text: Subcommittee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
action_date: 2009-09-24
text: Subcommittee Hearings Held.
action_date: 2009-02-27
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Economic Opportunity.
action_date: 2009-02-25
text: Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2009-02-25
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-02-25
text: Introduced in House
To suspend temporarily the duty on glyoxylic acid.

Bill: 111-hr-1183
Sponsor: Rep. Cassidy, Bill [R-LA-6]
Introduced: 2009-02-25 in the House
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Tariffs

Summary:
action_date: 2009-02-25
text: Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to suspend temporarily the duty on glyoxylic acid.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-02-25
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2009-02-25
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-02-25
text: Introduced in House
To suspend temporarily the duty on cyclopentanone.

Bill: 111-hr-1184
Sponsor: Rep. Cassidy, Bill [R-LA-6]
Introduced: 2009-02-25 in the House
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Tariffs

Summary:
action_date: 2009-02-25
text: Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to suspend temporarily the duty on cyclopentanone.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-02-25
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2009-02-25
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-02-25
text: Introduced in House
Primary Care Volunteer Incentive Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-1185
Sponsor: Rep. Castor, Kathy [D-FL-11]
Introduced: 2009-02-25 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Education programs funding
Health care coverage and access
Health personnel
Health programs administration and funding
Medical education
Social work, volunteer service, charitable organizations
Student aid and college costs

Summary:
action_date: 2009-02-25
text: 
Primary Care Volunteer Incentive Act of 2009 - Amends the Public Health Service Act to require the Secretary of Health and Human Services to establish a loan repayment program to repay up to $5,000 each year of an individual's graduate educational loans in exchange for such individual serving without pay as a primary care physician for at least four hours per week for five consecutive years at a community health center with a shortage of primary care physicians. Directs the Secretary to give priority to individuals who agree to serve in community health centers in designated health professional shortage areas.
 
Sets forth factors for the Secretary to consider in determining the amount to pay for each year of service.
 
Directs the Secretary to provide additional reimbursements for the individual's tax liability resulting from such payments.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-02-26
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2009-02-25
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2009-02-25
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E413)
action_date: 2009-02-25
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-02-25
text: Introduced in House