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To express the policy of the United States regarding the United States relationship with Native Hawaiians, to provide a process for the reorganization of a Native Hawaiian government and the recognition by the United States of the Native Hawaiian government, and for other purposes.

Bill: 111-hr-1711
Sponsor: Rep. Abercrombie, Neil [D-HI-1]
Introduced: 2009-03-25 in the House
Policy area: Native Americans
Subjects: Alaska Natives and Hawaiians
Department of the Interior
Executive agency funding and structure
Federal-Indian relations
Gambling
Hawaii
Indian lands and resources rights
Indian social and development programs
Land use and conservation

Summary:
action_date: 2009-03-25
text: 
Establishes the U.S. Office for Native Hawaiian Affairs (Office) within the Office of the Secretary of the Interior.
 
Requires the Attorney General to designate a Department of Justice official to assist the Office in the implementation and protection of the rights of Native Hawaiians and their political, legal, and trust relationship with the United States. 
 
Establishes the Native Hawaiian Interagency Task Force to: (1) coordinate federal policies or actions that may significantly or uniquely affect Native Hawaiian resources, rights, or lands; (2) assure that each federal agency develops a policy on consultation with Native Hawaiians; and (3) assure the participation of such agencies in the development of an annual report on the Task Force. 
 
Establishes a process for development of a membership roll for organizing a Native Hawaiian Interim Governing Council and for election of a Native Hawaiian government. Recognizes the right of the Native Hawaiian people to adopt organic governing documents. 
 
Extends federal recognition to the government as the representative governing body of the Native Hawaiian people upon election of officers and certification by the Secretary. 
 
Permits the United States, upon federal recognition of the Native Hawaiian government, to enter into an agreement with the state of Hawaii and such government regarding the transfer of lands, resources, and assets dedicated to Native Hawaiian use.
 
Prohibits the Native Hawaiian governing entity and Native Hawaiians from conducting gaming activities as a matter of claimed inherent authority or under any federal law, regardless of where the gaming is located.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-03-25
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2009-03-25
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-03-25
text: Introduced in House
Savings for Seniors Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-1712
Sponsor: Rep. Blackburn, Marsha [R-TN-7]
Introduced: 2009-03-25 in the House
Policy area: Social Welfare
Subjects: Financial services and investments
Government studies and investigations
Government trust funds
Social security and elderly assistance

Summary:
action_date: 2009-03-25
text: 
Savings for Seniors Act of 2009 - Amends title II (Old Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance) (OASDI) of the Social Security Act to establish in the Federal Old-Age and Survivors Insurance Trust Fund a Social Security Surplus Protection Account to hold the Social Security surplus.
 
Denies the availability of the balance in the Account for investment by the Managing Trustee.
 
Establishes in the executive branch of Government a Social Security Investment Commission to study and report to the President and Congress on the most effective vehicles for investment of the Federal Old-Age and Survivors Insurance Trust Fund, other than investment in the form of U.S. obligations resulting in the transfer of Trust Fund assets to the general fund of the Treasury.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-03-25
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2009-03-25
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-03-25
text: Introduced in House
To require that the Board Compensation Committees required for financial institutions receiving assistance under the Troubled Assets Relief Program include the representation of the financial institution's lowest paid employees.

Bill: 111-hr-1714
Sponsor: Rep. Brady, Robert A. [D-PA-1]
Introduced: 2009-03-25 in the House
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: Corporate finance and management
Financial crises and stabilization
Wages and earnings

Summary:
action_date: 2009-03-25
text: 
Amends the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008 (EESA) to require that at least one member of the Board Compensation Committee of each Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) recipient reviewing the recipient's employee compensation plans be an employee of the recipient whose compensation is within the lowest 20% of compensation of all of the recipient's employees and executives.
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-03-25
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2009-03-25
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-03-25
text: Introduced in House
Protection for Participants in Research Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-1715
Sponsor: Rep. DeGette, Diana [D-CO-1]
Introduced: 2009-03-25 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Department of Health and Human Services
Disability and health-based discrimination
Education programs funding
Executive agency funding and structure
Government studies and investigations
Higher education
Medical ethics
Research administration and funding

Summary:
action_date: 2009-03-25
text: 
Protection for Participants in Research Act of 2009 - Amends the Public Health Service Act to require all human subject research conducted, supported, or otherwise subject to federal regulation, to be conducted in accordance with the Common Rule and the vulnerable-population rules, as set forth in the Code of Federal Regulations. 
 
Requires the Secretary of Health and Human Services to review and harmonize such regulations. 
 
Requires informed consent before an individual may be a subject of human research.
 
Requires an Institutional Review Board to approve all human subject research proposals.
 
 Directs the Secretary to establish criteria for determining whether a human subject research project must be conducted in accordance with a data safety and monitoring plan. 
 
Prohibits grants or awards to a public entity or private academic institution that does not have a program to educate investigators and Board members on the protection of human research subjects.
 
Prohibits the use of federal funds for classified human subject research if: (1) the Board has waived the informed consent requirement; or (2) the research is exempt from Board review. 
 
Establishes the Office of Human Research Protections within the Office of the Secretary. Requires the Director of the Office to: (1) provide for the protection of human research subjects; (2) establish criteria regarding assurance of compliance with Common Rule requirements; and (3) coordinate federal activities with respect to the protection of human research subjects. Authorizes the Director to make grants for a model education program.
 
Requires the Secretary to: (1) promulgate regulations enhancing the protection of people with diminished decision-making capacity participating in human subject research; and (2) study whether the number of certain members of Institutional Review Boards should be increased.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-03-26
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2009-03-25
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2009-03-25
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-03-25
text: Introduced in House
Property Tax Relief Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-1716
Sponsor: Rep. Hill, Baron P. [D-IN-9]
Introduced: 2009-03-25 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Income tax deductions
State and local taxation

Summary:
action_date: 2009-03-25
text: 
Property Tax Relief Act of 2009 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow state and local real property taxes paid on a principal residence as a deduction from gross income (thus allowing taxpayers who do not itemize their tax deductions to claim such deduction).


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-03-25
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2009-03-25
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-03-25
text: Introduced in House
A PLUS Act

Bill: 111-hr-1717
Sponsor: Rep. Hoekstra, Peter [R-MI-2]
Introduced: 2009-03-25 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Academic performance and assessments
Education of the disadvantaged
Education programs funding
Elementary and secondary education
Government information and archives
Intergovernmental relations
State and local finance

Summary:
action_date: 2009-03-25
text: 
Academic Partnerships Lead Us to Success Act or the A PLUS Act - Allows each state to submit to the Secretary of Education a declaration of intent, applicable for up to five years, permitting it to receive federal funds on a consolidated basis that would otherwise be directed toward specific programs furthering the stated purpose of title I (Improving the Academic Achievement of the Disadvantaged) of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965. 
 
Requires each declaration to be formulated by a combination of specified State Authorizing Officials or by referendum, and list the programs for which consolidated funding is requested. Allows states to use such funds for any educational purpose permitted by state law, but requires them to make certain assurances that they will use fiscal control and fund accounting procedures, abide by federal civil rights laws, and advance educational opportunities for the disadvantaged. Allows states to amend their declarations. 
 
Requires each declaration state to: (1) inform the public of its student achievement assessment system and report annually on student progress toward the state's proficiency standards, disaggregating performance data by specified student groups; and (2) keep aggregate spending on elementary and secondary education at no less than 90% of such spending for the school year coinciding with this Act's enactment.
 
 Limits administrative expenses.
 
Requires consolidated funds to be distributed in a manner that allows for the equitable participation of private schools.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-05-14
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education.
action_date: 2009-03-25
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and Labor.
action_date: 2009-03-25
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-03-25
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to treat amounts paid for umbilical cord blood banking services as medical care expenses.

Bill: 111-hr-1718
Sponsor: Rep. Kind, Ron [D-WI-3]
Introduced: 2009-03-25 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Blood and blood diseases
Cell biology and embryology
Health care costs and insurance
Income tax deductions
Organ and tissue donation and transplantation

Summary:
action_date: 2009-03-25
text: 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to treat the cost of private umbilical cord blood banking services as a medical care expense for purposes of the tax deduction for medical expenses. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-03-25
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2009-03-25
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-03-25
text: Introduced in House
Voter Registration Modernization Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-1719
Sponsor: Rep. Lofgren, Zoe [D-CA-16]
Introduced: 2009-03-25 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Elections, voting, political campaign regulation
Internet and video services
Internet, web applications, social media

Summary:
action_date: 2009-03-25
text: 
Voter Registration Modernization Act of 2009 - Amends the National Voter Registration Act of 1993 (NVRA) to direct states to ensure the availability of the Internet for online voter registration.
 
Amends the Help America Vote Act of 2002 (HAVA) to direct the appropriate state or local election official to ensure the availability of the Internet for updating voter registration information.
 
Amends NVRA to allow a voter registration applicant to provide his or her email address on the appropriate form to receive voting information. 
 
Requires states to consider an applicant to have provided a valid voter registration form if he or she has provided all necessary information to demonstrate eligibility to vote.
 
Allows a state to use a HAVA requirements payment to carry out the new NVRA requirements imposed by this Act.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-03-25
text: Referred to the House Committee on House Administration.
action_date: 2009-03-25
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-03-25
text: Introduced in House
To permit statues honoring citizens of the District of Columbia to be placed in Statuary Hall in the same manner as statues honoring citizens of the States are placed in Statuary Hall, and for other purposes.

Bill: 111-hr-1720
Sponsor: Del. Norton, Eleanor Holmes [D-DC-At Large]
Introduced: 2009-03-25 in the House
Policy area: Congress
Subjects: Art, artists, authorship
District of Columbia
Monuments and memorials
U.S. Capitol

Summary:
action_date: 2009-03-25
text: 
Permits statues honoring deceased citizens of the District of Columbia to be placed in Statuary Hall. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-03-25
text: Referred to the House Committee on House Administration.
action_date: 2009-03-25
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E766)
action_date: 2009-03-25
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-03-25
text: Introduced in House
Family Leave Insurance Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-1723
Sponsor: Rep. Stark, Fortney Pete [D-CA-13]
Introduced: 2009-03-25 in the House
Policy area: Labor and Employment
Subjects: Employee benefits and pensions
Employee leave
Employment taxes
Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management
Government trust funds
Self-employed
Small business
Wages and earnings

Summary:
action_date: 2009-03-25
text: 
 Family Leave Insurance Act of 2009 - Directs the Secretary of Labor to establish a Family and Medical Insurance Program, mandatory for certain covered employers.
 
Authorizes the Secretary to: (1) contract with a state to establish a state Family and Medical Insurance Program to provide specified leave benefits, or expand a pre-existing state program; or (2) at a governor's request enter an interagency agreement with the Commissioner of the Social Security Administration to establish a state Family and Medical Insurance Program.
 
 
Entitles eligible employees to Program benefits that include specified percentages of their daily earnings for 12 workweeks of leave under the Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993 during any 12-month period.
 
Authorizes any employer, with the Secretary's approval, to establish a voluntary plan meeting specified criteria.
 
Specifies prohibited acts by an employer, and penalties for violations.
 
Requires the Director of the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) to establish a Civil Service Family and Medical Leave Insurance Program with the same Program benefits for certain federal agency employees.
 
Establishes the Family and Medical Leave Insurance Fund in the Treasury.
 
 Amends the Internal Revenue Code to impose a family and medical leave premium on every individual and every employer to finance a Family and Medical Leave Trust Fund in the Treasury for Program benefits. Exempts from such premium: (1) employers or self-employers with voluntary plans approved by the Secretary as equivalent or better than the Program; and (2) small employers who have elected not to participate in it. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-05-14
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Workforce Protections.
action_date: 2009-03-25
text: Referred to House Ways and Means
action_date: 2009-03-25
text: Referred to House Oversight and Government Reform
action_date: 2009-03-25
text: Referred to the Committee on Education and Labor, and in addition to the Committees on Oversight and Government Reform, and 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: 2009-03-25
text: Referred to House Education and Labor
action_date: 2009-03-25
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E767-768)
action_date: 2009-03-25
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-03-25
text: Introduced in House
America's Brownfield Cleanup Act 2009

Bill: 111-hr-1724
Sponsor: Rep. Turner, Michael R. [R-OH-3]
Introduced: 2009-03-25 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Hazardous wastes and toxic substances
Income tax credits
Income tax exclusion
Industrial facilities

Summary:
action_date: 2009-03-25
text: 
America's Brownfield Cleanup Act 2009 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow a business tax credit for 50% of expenditures for the abatement or control of any hazardous substance, the demolition of any structure, the removal and disposal of property, and the reconstruction of utilities at certain contaminated sites.
 
Allows a tax exclusion for certain contributions made for the remediation of contaminated sites. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-03-25
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2009-03-25
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-03-25
text: Introduced in House
Voluntary State Discount Prescription Drug Plan Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-1725
Sponsor: Rep. Van Hollen, Chris [D-MD-8]
Introduced: 2009-03-25 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Consumer affairs
Health care costs and insurance
Medicaid
Prescription drugs
Retail and wholesale trades
State and local government operations

Summary:
action_date: 2009-03-25
text: 
Voluntary State Discount Prescription Drug Plan Act of 2009 - Amends title XIX (Medicaid) of the Social Security Act to require drug manufacturers to pay rebates to state prescription drug discount programs as a condition of participating in a Medicaid rebate agreement for outpatient prescription drugs, but only if the state has elected to establish an optional state prescription drug discount program.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-03-27
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2009-03-25
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2009-03-25
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-03-25
text: Introduced in House
Border Security Search Accountability Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-1726
Sponsor: Rep. Sanchez, Loretta [D-CA-47]
Introduced: 2009-03-26 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Border security and unlawful immigration
Computers and information technology
Criminal investigation, prosecution, interrogation
Criminal justice information and records
Department of Homeland Security
Right of privacy
Telephone and wireless communication
Trade secrets and economic espionage

Summary:
action_date: 2009-03-26
text: 
Border Security Search Accountability Act of 2009 - Directs the Secretary of Homeland Security to: (1) issue a rule regarding the scope of, and procedural and recordkeeping requirements associated with, border security searches of electronic devices; and (2) provide related officer training.
 
Sets forth rule contents.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-07-22
text: Forwarded by Subcommittee to Full Committee (Amended) by Voice Vote .
action_date: 2009-07-22
text: Subcommittee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
action_date: 2009-03-30
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Border, Maritime, and Global Counterterrorism.
action_date: 2009-03-26
text: Referred to the House Committee on Homeland Security.
action_date: 2009-03-26
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E786)
action_date: 2009-03-26
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-03-26
text: Introduced in House
Student VOTER Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-1729
Sponsor: Rep. Schakowsky, Janice D. [D-IL-9]
Introduced: 2009-03-26 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Education programs funding
Elections, voting, political campaign regulation
Higher education

Summary:
action_date: 2009-03-26
text: 
Student Voter Opportunity To Encourage Registration Act of 2009 or the Student VOTER Act of 2009 - Amends the National Voter Registration Act of 1993 to require states to designate federally-funded institutions of higher education as agencies for the registration of voters in federal elections.
 
 Requires such schools to provide mail voter registration application forms to students registering to enroll in their courses.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-05-14
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Higher Education, Lifelong Learning, and Competitiveness.
action_date: 2009-03-26
text: Referred to House Education and Labor
action_date: 2009-03-26
text: Referred to the Committee on House Administration, 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: 2009-03-26
text: Referred to House Administration
action_date: 2009-03-26
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-03-26
text: Introduced in House
Vehicles for the Future Act

Bill: 111-hr-1730
Sponsor: Rep. McNerney, Jerry [D-CA-11]
Introduced: 2009-03-26 in the House
Policy area: Energy
Subjects: Electric power generation and transmission
Hybrid, electric, and advanced technology vehicles
Public utilities and utility rates
State and local government operations

Summary:
action_date: 2009-03-26
text: 
Vehicles for the Future Act - Amends the Public Utility Regulatory Policies Act of 1978 to establish standards for electric utilities regarding electric vehicle infrastructure. Requires electric utilities to develop a plan to support the use of plug-in hybrid electric vehicles and electric vehicles that provides for the deployment of electrical charging stations and charging infrastructure.
 
Directs each state regulatory authority (in the case of each electric utility for which it has ratemaking authority) and each utility (in the case of a nonregulated utility) to: (1) require that infrastructure deployed is interoperable with products of all manufactures; (2) establish protocols and standards for integrating plug-in hybrid electric vehicles and electric vehicles into an electrical distribution system, including smart grid systems and devices; (3) include the ability of each vehicle to be identified individually and to be associated with its owner's electric utility account; and (4) review their determinations on time-based metering and communications.
 
Sets forth provisions concerning compliance with such standards.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-03-30
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Environment.
action_date: 2009-03-26
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2009-03-26
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-03-26
text: Introduced in House