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American Renewable Energy Act

Bill: 111-hr-890
Sponsor: Rep. Markey, Edward J. [D-MA-7]
Introduced: 2009-02-04 in the House
Policy area: Energy
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Alternative and renewable resources
Civil actions and liability
Department of Energy
Electric power generation and transmission
Government studies and investigations
Government trust funds
Public utilities and utility rates

Summary:
action_date: 2009-02-04
text: 
American Renewable Energy Act &#150; Amends the Public Utility Regulatory Policies Act of 1978 to require the Secretary of Energy to establish a program to implement and enforce a renewable electricity trading program, including requirements governing the issuance, tracking, and retirement of federal renewable electricity credits.
 
Requires each retail electric supplier to submit to the Secretary, annually, a quantity of federal renewable electricity credits equal to the supplier's base amount (electricity sold) for the calendar year multiplied by a specified annual percentage for 2012 though 2039. Authorizes suppliers to satisfy such requirement by submitting, in lieu of each credit, a payment equal to the lesser of: (1) 200% of the average market value of a credit for the previous compliance year; or (2) five cents, adjusted each year after 2009 based on the Gross Domestic Product Implicit Price Deflator. Requires such payments to be deposited in a Renewable Electricity Deployment Fund, from which payments shall be made to suppliers that have submitted credits in compliance with their obligations for the preceding year.
 
Requires the Secretary to issue to each generator of renewable electricity one federal renewable electricity credit for each kilowatt hour of renewable electricity generated. Provides for the issuance of credits: (1) to suppliers for renewable electricity generated with the support of payments from a supplier pursuant to a state renewable electricity program; (2) to distributed generation facilities; (3) for qualifying hydropower; and (4) to generators that produce electricity using both a renewable energy resource and a non renewable resource.
 
Provides for: (1) the trading and banking of credits; (2) Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) oversight of the market for such credits; and (3) civil penalties for noncompliance. 
 
Requires the Secretary to contract with the National Academy of Sciences to submit periodic comprehensive evaluations of the federal renewable electricity trading program.
 
Terminates this Act on December 31, 2040.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-02-09
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Environment.
action_date: 2009-02-04
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2009-02-04
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E197-198)
action_date: 2009-02-04
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-02-04
text: Introduced in House
Commuter Benefits Equity Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-891
Sponsor: Rep. McGovern, James P. [D-MA-3]
Introduced: 2009-02-04 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Commuting
Employee benefits and pensions
Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management
Income tax exclusion
Transportation costs

Summary:
action_date: 2009-02-04
text: 
Commuter Benefits Equity Act of 2009 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to equalize and increase to $230, with a cost-of-living adjustment after 2009, the tax exclusion for both transportation and parking fringe benefits. Extends such benefits to federal employees.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-02-04
text: Referred to House Oversight and Government Reform
action_date: 2009-02-04
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, 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: 2009-02-04
text: Referred to House Ways and Means
action_date: 2009-02-04
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-02-04
text: Introduced in House
Secure Education for Americans Today Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-892
Sponsor: Rep. Myrick, Sue Wilkins [R-NC-9]
Introduced: 2009-02-04 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Border security and unlawful immigration
Education programs funding
Higher education
Student aid and college costs

Summary:
action_date: 2009-02-04
text: 
Secure Education for Americans Today Act of 2009 or SEAT Act of 2009 - Prohibits the provision of federal funds to institutions of higher education that admit illegal aliens.
 
Prohibits such provision from being construed as denying federal student assistance to students attending such schools.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-03-23
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Higher Education, Lifelong Learning, and Competitiveness.
action_date: 2009-02-04
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and Labor.
action_date: 2009-02-04
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-02-04
text: Introduced in House
American Anti-Torture Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-893
Sponsor: Rep. Nadler, Jerrold [D-NY-8]
Introduced: 2009-02-04 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Criminal investigation, prosecution, interrogation
Detention of persons
Human rights
Intelligence activities, surveillance, classified information
Military law

Summary:
action_date: 2009-02-04
text: 
American Anti-Torture Act of 2009 - Amends the Detainee Treatment Act of 2005 to prohibit any person in the custody or control of the United States (under current law, the Department of Defense) from being subject to any treatment or technique of interrogation not authorized by and listed in the U.S. Army Field Manual on Human Intelligence Collector Operations.
 
Makes such prohibition inapplicable with respect to any person in the custody or control of the United States (under current law, the Department of Defense) pursuant to a U.S. criminal or immigration law.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-07-23
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights, and Civil Liberties.
action_date: 2009-02-04
text: Referred to House Judiciary
action_date: 2009-02-04
text: Referred to the Committee on Armed Services, and in addition to the Committee on the Judiciary, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2009-02-04
text: Referred to House Armed Services
action_date: 2009-02-04
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-02-04
text: Introduced in House
Ensuring Safe Facilities and Equipment for American Troops Overseas Act

Bill: 111-hr-894
Sponsor: Rep. Ortiz, Solomon P. [D-TX-27]
Introduced: 2009-02-04 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Congressional oversight
Military facilities and property
Military operations and strategy
Military procurement, research, weapons development
Public contracts and procurement

Summary:
action_date: 2009-02-04
text: 
Ensuring Safe Facilities and Equipment for American Troops Overseas Act - Directs the Secretary of Defense, in order to ensure the safe utilization by the Armed Forces of expeditionary facilities, infrastructure, and equipment supporting U.S. military operations overseas, to certify to the congressional defense committees that: (1) generally accepted industry safety standards are incorporated into military regulations establishing requirements for such facilities, infrastructure, and equipment; (2) each contract or task or delivery order for the construction, installation, repair, maintenance, or operation of overseas expeditionary facilities incorporates such industry standards; and (3) such standards apply in all current and future U.S. military operations overseas.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-02-04
text: Referred to the House Committee on Armed Services.
action_date: 2009-02-04
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-02-04
text: Introduced in House
Water Quality Investment Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-895
Sponsor: Rep. Pascrell, Bill, Jr. [D-NJ-8]
Introduced: 2009-02-04 in the House
Policy area: Environmental Protection
Subjects: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
Executive agency funding and structure
Solid waste and recycling
Water quality

Summary:
action_date: 2009-02-04
text: 
Water Quality Investment Act of 2009 - Amends the Federal Water Pollution Control Act (commonly known as the Clean Water Act) to require projects receiving sewer overflow control grant assistance to be carried out subject to the requirements applicable to projects receiving assistance from state water pollution control revolving funds, except to the extent that the governor of the state in which the project is located determines that a revolving fund requirement is inconsistent with the purposes of the sewer overflow control grant program. 
 
Authorizes appropriations for sewer overflow control grants through FY2014.
 
Modifies grant funding allocation provisions to reflect new dates of authorization and reauthorized amounts. Eliminates the set-aside for the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to make direct grants to municipalities and municipal entities during the second year of authorization.
 
Establishes a December 31, 2012, deadline for the Administrator's report to Congress on recommended funding levels for sewer overflow control grants.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-02-05
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment.
action_date: 2009-02-04
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2009-02-04
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-02-04
text: Introduced in House
To expedite the construction of new refining capacity on closed military installations in the United States, and for other purposes.

Bill: 111-hr-896
Sponsor: Rep. Pitts, Joseph R. [R-PA-16]
Introduced: 2009-02-04 in the House
Policy area: Energy
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Department of Energy
Energy storage, supplies, demand
Environmental assessment, monitoring, research
Industrial facilities
Intergovernmental relations
Judicial review and appeals
Military facilities and property
Oil and gas
State and local government operations

Summary:
action_date: 2009-02-04
text: 
Requires the President to designate not less than three closed military installations (or portions of them) that are appropriate for siting a refinery for gasoline or other fuel.
 
Designates the Department of Energy as the lead agency for coordinating applicable federal refinery authorizations and related environmental reviews with respect to a designated refinery.
 
Gives the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia exclusive jurisdiction over civil actions relating to federal refinery authorizations.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-02-09
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Environment.
action_date: 2009-02-04
text: Referred to House Armed Services
action_date: 2009-02-04
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, 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: 2009-02-04
text: Referred to House Energy and Commerce
action_date: 2009-02-04
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-02-04
text: Introduced in House
Long-Term Care and Retirement Security Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-897
Sponsor: Rep. Putnam, Adam H. [R-FL-12]
Introduced: 2009-02-04 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Consumer affairs
Employee benefits and pensions
Health care costs and insurance
Health care coverage and access
Income tax credits
Income tax deductions
Long-term, rehabilitative, and terminal care

Summary:
action_date: 2009-02-04
text: 
Long-Term Care and Retirement Security Act of 2009 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) allow a tax deduction from gross income for long-term care insurance premiums; (2) include long-term care insurance in employee benefit cafeteria plans and flexible spending arrangements; (3) allow a tax credit for certain long-term care costs; and (4) set forth certain consumer protections for long-term care insurance contracts. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-02-04
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2009-02-04
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-02-04
text: Introduced in House
State and Local Criminal Forensic Laboratory Enhancement Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-898
Sponsor: Rep. Roskam, Peter J. [R-IL-6]
Introduced: 2009-02-04 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Criminal investigation, prosecution, interrogation
Evidence and witnesses
Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management
Law enforcement administration and funding
Medical tests and diagnostic methods
State and local government operations

Summary:
action_date: 2009-02-04
text: 
State and Local Criminal Forensic Laboratory Enhancement Act of 2009 - Directs the Attorney General to: (1) award grants to states, local governments, and Indian tribes to establish new criminal forensic laboratories or expand or improve existing laboratories and to hire and train new forensic laboratory professionals; and (2) give priority in awarding such grants to agencies in jurisdictions with the largest backlogs of criminal forensic examinations. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-03-16
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.
action_date: 2009-02-04
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2009-02-04
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-02-04
text: Introduced in House
Ethical and Legal Elections for Congressional Transitions Act

Bill: 111-hr-899
Sponsor: Rep. Schock, Aaron [R-IL-18]
Introduced: 2009-02-04 in the House
Policy area: Congress
Subjects: Congressional elections
Intergovernmental relations
Members of Congress
Senate
State and local finance

Summary:
action_date: 2009-02-04
text: 
Ethical and Legal Elections for Congressional Transitions Act - Requires states to hold special elections when a vacancy occurs in the office of U.S. Senator for the state.
 
Amends the Help America Vote Act of 2002 to reimburse the states for a portion of special election costs.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-02-04
text: Referred to the House Committee on House Administration.
action_date: 2009-02-04
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-02-04
text: Introduced in House
To establish procedures for causes and claims relating to the leasing of Federal lands (including submerged lands) for the exploration, development, production, processing, or transmission of oil, natural gas, or any other source or form of energy, and for other purposes.

Bill: 111-hr-900
Sponsor: Rep. Shadegg, John B. [R-AZ-3]
Introduced: 2009-02-04 in the House
Policy area: Law
Subjects: Civil actions and liability
District of Columbia
Federal district courts
General public lands matters
Judicial procedure and administration
Judicial review and appeals
Jurisdiction and venue
Oil and gas
Supreme Court

Summary:
action_date: 2009-02-04
text: 
Confers exclusive jurisdiction upon the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia to hear causes and claims arising from a covered energy project, any action or decision by a federal official regarding: (1) leasing federal lands for the exploration, development, production, processing, or transmission of any source or form of energy; (2) actions and decisions regarding the selection or offering of federal lands for such leasing; or (3) any action under such a lease.
 
Bars any cause or claim not filed within a 60-day period for filing a complaint.
 
Prescribes a 180-day deadline for court resolution of a complaint or cause of action.
 
Declares that such a complaint or cause of action shall take precedence over all other pending matters before the District Court.
 
Restricts to the Supreme Court any judicial review of an interlocutory or final judgment, decree, or order of the district court. Prescribes a 180-day deadline for Supreme Court resolution of such a matter.
 
Declares that all such proceedings shall take precedence over all other matters then before the Supreme Court.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-07-23
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Courts and Competition Policy.
action_date: 2009-07-23
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration, Citizenship, Refugees, Border Security, and International Law.
action_date: 2009-02-04
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2009-02-04
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-02-04
text: Introduced in House
Medical Bankruptcy Fairness Act

Bill: 111-hr-901
Sponsor: Rep. Shea-Porter, Carol [D-NH-1]
Introduced: 2009-02-04 in the House
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: Bankruptcy
Health care costs and insurance
Housing finance and home ownership

Summary:
action_date: 2009-02-04
text: 
Medical Bankruptcy Fairness Act - Amends federal bankruptcy law to cite circumstances under which a medically distressed debtor may elect to exempt from the property of the estate in bankruptcy up to $250,000 of the debtor's aggregate interest in specified real or personal property that the debtor (or debtor's dependent) uses as a residence, in a cooperative, or in a burial plot for the debtor or a dependent.

Revises requirements for dismissal or conversion of a Chapter 7 case to prohibit the court or specified parties in interest from filing a motion to dismiss or convert to Chapter 11 or 13 if the debtor is a medically distressed debtor or an economically distressed caregiver.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-07-15
text: Subcommittee Hearings Held.
action_date: 2009-03-16
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Commercial and Administrative Law.
action_date: 2009-02-04
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2009-02-04
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-02-04
text: Introduced in House
MediFair Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-902
Sponsor: Rep. Smith, Adam [D-WA-9]
Introduced: 2009-02-04 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Health care costs and insurance
Health care quality
Medicare
Medicare Payment Advisory Commission

Summary:
action_date: 2009-02-04
text: 
MediFair Act of 2009 - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act (SSA) to direct the Secretary of Health and Human Services to establish a system for making adjustments to the amount of payment made to entities and individuals for items and services provided under the original Medicare fee-for-service program under parts A (Hospital Insurance) and B (Supplementary Medical Insurance). Requires such adjustments in order to make the state average per beneficiary amount equal to the national average per beneficiary amount.
 
Directs the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MEDPAC) to develop recommendations on policies and practices that would encourage: (1) healthy outcomes and quality care under the Medicare program in states with respect to which payments are reduced under such system; and (2) the efficient use of payments made under the Medicare program in such states.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-02-09
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2009-02-04
text: Referred to House Energy and Commerce
action_date: 2009-02-04
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, 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: 2009-02-04
text: Referred to House Ways and Means
action_date: 2009-02-04
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-02-04
text: Introduced in House
Medicaid Prescription Drug Rebate Equalization Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-904
Sponsor: Rep. Stupak, Bart [D-MI-1]
Introduced: 2009-02-04 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Health care costs and insurance
Medicaid
Prescription drugs

Summary:
action_date: 2009-02-04
text: 
Medicaid Prescription Drug Rebate Equalization Act of 2009 - Amends title XIX (Medicaid) of the Social Security Act to reduce the costs of prescription drugs for enrollees of Medicaid managed care organizations by extending to such organizations the discounts offered under fee-for-service Medicaid plans.
 
Requires the state contract with a Medicaid managed care organization to require that payment for covered outpatient drugs dispensed to Medicaid-eligible individuals enrolled with the organization be subject to the same rebate as the state is subject to. 
 
Requires also that capitation rates paid to the organization be: (1) based on actual cost experience related to rebates; and (2) subject to the federal regulations requiring actuarially sound rates.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-02-09
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2009-02-04
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2009-02-04
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-02-04
text: Introduced in House