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Social Security Forever Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-1863
Sponsor: Rep. Wexler, Robert [D-FL-19]
Introduced: 2009-04-01 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Employment taxes
Securities
Self-employed
Social security and elderly assistance

Summary:
action_date: 2009-04-01
text: 
Social Security Forever Act of 2009 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to impose on employers, employees, and self-employed individuals an additional employment tax for wages in excess of the social security contribution and benefit base. 
 
Requires all Treasury securities to bear a facsimile of the signatures of the President and the Secretary of the Treasury.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-04-01
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2009-04-01
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-04-01
text: Introduced in House
To provide a pay increase of 3.4 percent for members of the uniformed services for fiscal year 2010.

Bill: 111-hr-1864
Sponsor: Rep. Wilson, Joe [R-SC-2]
Introduced: 2009-04-01 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Inflation and prices
Military personnel and dependents
Wages and earnings

Summary:
action_date: 2009-04-01
text: 
Waives, during FY2010, the basic military pay adjustment tied to increases in the Employment Cost Index.
 
Increases, effective January 1, 2010, such basic pay by 3.4%.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-04-27
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Military Personnel.
action_date: 2009-04-01
text: Referred to the House Committee on Armed Services.
action_date: 2009-04-01
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-04-01
text: Introduced in House
To eliminate the requirement that States collect Social Security numbers from applicants for recreational licenses.

Bill: 111-hr-1865
Sponsor: Rep. Rehberg, Denny [R-MT-At Large]
Introduced: 2009-04-02 in the House
Policy area: Social Welfare
Subjects: Government information and archives
Licensing and registrations
Outdoor recreation
Poverty and welfare assistance
Social security and elderly assistance

Summary:
action_date: 2009-04-02
text: 
Amends part A (Temporary Assistance for Needy Families) (TANF) of title IV of the Social Security Act to eliminate the requirement that states collect Social Security numbers from applicants for recreational licenses.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-04-02
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2009-04-02
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-04-02
text: Introduced in House
Industrial Hemp Farming Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-1866
Sponsor: Rep. Paul, Ron [R-TX-14]
Introduced: 2009-04-02 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Drug trafficking and controlled substances
Horticulture and plants
State and local government operations

Summary:
action_date: 2009-04-02
text: 
Industrial Hemp Farming Act of 2009 - Amends the Controlled Substances Act to exclude industrial hemp from the definition of &quot;marihuana.&quot; Defines &quot;industrial hemp&quot; to mean the plant Cannabis sativa L. and any part of such plant, whether growing or not, with a delta-nine tetrahydrocannabinol concentration that does not exceed 0.3 percent on a dry weight basis. Grants a state regulating the growing and processing of industrial hemp exclusive authority, in any criminal or civil action or administrative proceeding, to determine whether any such plant meets that concentration limit.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-05-26
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.
action_date: 2009-04-21
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2009-04-02
text: Referred to House Judiciary
action_date: 2009-04-02
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, 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: 2009-04-02
text: Referred to House Energy and Commerce
action_date: 2009-04-02
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E860-861)
action_date: 2009-04-02
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-04-02
text: Introduced in House
Border Violence Prevention Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-1867
Sponsor: Rep. Kirkpatrick, Ann [D-AZ-1]
Introduced: 2009-04-02 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Border security and unlawful immigration
Department of Homeland Security
Federal-Indian relations
Firearms and explosives
Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management
Homeland security
Infrastructure development
Intergovernmental relations
Law enforcement administration and funding
Law enforcement officers
Motor vehicles
State and local government operations
Violent crime

Summary:
action_date: 2009-04-02
text: 
Border Violence Prevention Act of 2009 - Directs the Secretary of Homeland Security to: (1) expand border security operations along the border between the United States and Mexico, including the southbound inspection and investigation of vehicles, to reduce the potential for border violence, enhance border security, and prevent the illicit flow of arms and bulk cash; and (2) coordinate with other relevant federal, state, local, and tribal agencies to carry out such operations in a comprehensive manner.
 
Includes among actions required by the Secretary, acting through the Commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP): (1) increasing southbound border security infrastructure and inspection capabilities at ports of entry (2) deploying at least two x-ray mobile inspection units and 10 dual detection canine teams; (3) equipping outbound lanes with license plate readers; and (4) equipping CBP personnel with body armor.
 
Includes among actions required by the Secretary, acting through the Assistant Secretary of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE): (1) hiring and deploying at least 100 additional ICE personnel to be assigned to Border Enforcement Security Taskforce units involved in efforts to reduce southwest border violence; (2) improving existing Taskforce facilities and acquiring new space for Taskforce units; and (3) increasing resources and personnel for Operation Armas Cruzadas.
 



Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-04-17
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Border, Maritime, and Global Counterterrorism.
action_date: 2009-04-02
text: Referred to the House Committee on Homeland Security.
action_date: 2009-04-02
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-04-02
text: Introduced in House
Birthright Citizenship Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-1868
Sponsor: Rep. Deal, Nathan [R-GA-9]
Introduced: 2009-04-02 in the House
Policy area: Immigration
Subjects: Citizenship and naturalization
Military personnel and dependents

Summary:
action_date: 2009-04-02
text: 
Birthright Citizenship Act of 2009 - Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to consider a person born in the United States &quot;subject to the jurisdiction&quot; of the United States for citizenship at birth purposes if the person is born in the United States of parents, one of whom is: (1) a U.S. citizen or national; (2) a lawful permanent resident alien whose residence is in the United States; or (3) an alien performing active service in the U.S. Armed Forces.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-05-26
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration, Citizenship, Refugees, Border Security, and International Law.
action_date: 2009-04-02
text: Referred to the House Committee on Judiciary.
action_date: 2009-04-02
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-04-02
text: Introduced in House
White House Conference on Food and Nutrition

Bill: 111-hr-1869
Sponsor: Rep. McGovern, James P. [D-MA-3]
Introduced: 2009-04-02 in the House
Policy area: Agriculture and Food
Subjects: Food assistance and relief
Government information and archives
Nutrition and diet
Poverty and welfare assistance
Presidential administrations

Summary:
action_date: 2009-04-02
text: 
The White House Conference on Food and Nutrition - Directs: (1) the President to call the White House Conference on Food and Nutrition to be convened in order to make fundamental policy recommendations on ways to end hunger and to improve nutrition in the United States; and (2) the Secretary of Health and Human Services, the Secretary of Agriculture, and the Secretary of the Treasury to plan and conduct the Conference.
 
Sets forth Conference provisions.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-04-28
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Department Operations, Oversight, Nutrition and Forestry.
action_date: 2009-04-02
text: Referred to the House Committee on Agriculture.
action_date: 2009-04-02
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-04-02
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to provide for relief to surviving spouses and children.

Bill: 111-hr-1870
Sponsor: Rep. McGovern, James P. [D-MA-3]
Introduced: 2009-04-02 in the House
Policy area: Immigration
Subjects: Evidence and witnesses
Immigration status and procedures
Marriage and family status

Summary:
action_date: 2009-04-02
text: 
Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to allow a surviving spouse of a U.S. citizen who was married for less than two years at the time of the citizen's death who proves by a preponderance of the evidence that the marriage was entered into in good faith and not for the purpose of obtaining an immigration benefit to self-petition (within the required two years) for continued immediate relative status. (Applies such provision to applications and petitions pending on or after the date of enactment of this Act.)
 
Extends the petition filing deadline for two years after the date of the enactment of this Act if: (1) the alien's U.S. citizen spouse died before the date of the enactment of this Act; (2) the alien and the citizen spouse were married for less than two years at the time of the citizen spouse's death; and (3) the alien has not remarried.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-05-26
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration, Citizenship, Refugees, Border Security, and International Law.
action_date: 2009-04-02
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2009-04-02
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-04-02
text: Introduced in House
Southwest Border Narcotics Reduction Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-1871
Sponsor: Rep. Kirkpatrick, Ann [D-AZ-1]
Introduced: 2009-04-02 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Arizona
Border security and unlawful immigration
Drug trafficking and controlled substances
Law enforcement administration and funding

Summary:
action_date: 2009-04-02
text: 
Southwest Border Narcotics Reduction Act of 2009 - Designates the counties of Apache, Gila, Coconino, Yavapai, Navajo, Graham, and Greenlee in Arizona as high-intensity drug trafficking areas and makes such counties part of the Southwest Border high-intensity drug trafficking area under the program administered by the Office of National Drug Control Policy. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-05-26
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.
action_date: 2009-04-02
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2009-04-02
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-04-02
text: Introduced in House
Secure Electronic Military Separation Act

Bill: 111-hr-1872
Sponsor: Rep. Space, Zachary T. [D-OH-18]
Introduced: 2009-04-02 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Computers and information technology
Government information and archives
Military personnel and dependents
Personnel records

Summary:
action_date: 2009-04-02
text: 
Secure Electronic Military Separation Act - Amends the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2008 to direct the Secretary of Defense to develop and implement a secure electronic method of forwarding DD Form 214 (Certificate of Release or Discharge from Active Duty) to the appropriate office of the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) in which the former member of the Armed Forces will first reside.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-04-27
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Military Personnel.
action_date: 2009-04-02
text: Referred to the House Committee on Armed Services.
action_date: 2009-04-02
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-04-02
text: Introduced in House
Juvenile Justice Improvement Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-1873
Sponsor: Rep. Murphy, Christopher [D-CT-5]
Introduced: 2009-04-02 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Child health
Child safety and welfare
Correctional facilities and imprisonment
Detention of persons
Health programs administration and funding
Juvenile crime and gang violence
Law enforcement administration and funding
Mental health

Summary:
action_date: 2009-04-02
text: 
Juvenile Justice Improvement Act of 2009 - Amends the Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act of 1974 to: (1) revise and add definitions under such Act relating to the treatment of juveniles held in custody while awaiting trial for criminal offenses; (2) require state plans under such Act to separate juveniles from the adult prison population, monitor for and eliminate the use of dangerous practices, unnecessary isolation, unnecessary room time, and unreasonable restraint for holding juveniles in custody, and provide training of prison staff on techniques for effective behavior management of juvenile offenders; (3) provide incentive grants to states to adopt programs for the mental health treatment needs of juveniles in custody and for the placement of such juveniles in the least restrictive detention or correctional settings; and (4) prohibit the placement of juveniles who have not been charged with adult criminal offenses in secure detention or correctional facilities.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-05-14
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Healthy Families and Communities.
action_date: 2009-04-02
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and Labor.
action_date: 2009-04-02
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-04-02
text: Introduced in House
Patriot Corporations of America Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-1874
Sponsor: Rep. Schakowsky, Janice D. [D-IL-9]
Introduced: 2009-04-02 in the House
Policy area: Commerce
Subjects: Business ethics
Consumer affairs
Corporate finance and management
Employee benefits and pensions
Foreign and international corporations
Health care costs and insurance
Income tax rates
Industrial policy and productivity
Labor-management relations
Manufacturing
National Guard and reserves
Pollution liability
Public contracts and procurement
Research and development
Taxation of foreign income
Wages and earnings
Worker safety and health

Summary:
action_date: 2009-04-02
text: 
Patriot Corporations of America Act of 2009 - Grants after 2009 a preference to Patriot corporations in the evaluation of bids or proposals for federal contracts. Defines &quot; Patriot corporation&quot; as a corporation which: (1) produces at least 90% of its goods and services in the United States; (2) does not pay its its management-level employees at a rate more than 10,000% of the compensation of its lowest paid employee; (3) conducts at least 50% of its research and development in the United States; (4) contributes at least 5% of its payroll to a portable pension fund for its employees; (5) pays at least 70% of its employees' health insurance costs; (6) maintains a policy of neutrality in employee organizing drives; (7) provides full differential salary and insurance benefits for all National Guard and Reserve employees who are called to active duty; and (8) has not violated federal regulations, including regulations relating to the environment, workplace safety, labor relations, and consumer protections.
 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) reduce the income tax rate for Patriot corporations; (2) reclassify foreign corporations created or organized to avoid federal taxation as domestic corporations for income tax purposes; and (3) increase, for the period between January 1, 2009, and December 31, 2010, the income tax rate for individual taxpayers with adjusted gross incomes of $500,000 or more ($1 million or more for joint returns). 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-04-02
text: Referred to House Oversight and Government Reform
action_date: 2009-04-02
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: 2009-04-02
text: Referred to House Ways and Means
action_date: 2009-04-02
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E863)
action_date: 2009-04-02
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-04-02
text: Introduced in House
To establish the Emergency Trade Deficit Commission.

Bill: 111-hr-1875
Sponsor: Rep. DeFazio, Peter A. [D-OR-4]
Introduced: 2009-04-02 in the House
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Advanced technology and technological innovations
Advisory bodies
Competitiveness, trade promotion, trade deficits
Congressional oversight
Environmental regulatory procedures
Free trade and trade barriers
International monetary system and foreign exchange
Manufacturing
Military procurement, research, weapons development
Oil and gas
Technology transfer and commercialization
Trade agreements and negotiations
U.S. and foreign investments

Summary:
action_date: 2009-04-02
text: 
End the Trade Deficit Act - Establishes the Emergency Commission To End the Trade Deficit to develop a trade policy plan to eliminate the U.S. merchandise trade deficit and to develop a competitive trade policy for the 21st century.

Requires the Commission to report to the President and to Congress on: (1) its findings and conclusions; (2) a detailed plan for reducing both the overall trade deficit and specific bilateral trade deficits; and (3) any recommendations for administrative and legislative actions necessary for such reductions.

Prohibits the President from submitting to Congress any free trade agreement or legislation implementing one until: (1) the report has been delivered to Congress and to the President; and (2) specified congressional committees have completed a hearing on it.

action_date: 2010-07-28
text: 
Establishes the Emergency Trade Deficit Commission to examine, and report to the President and Congress on, the causes of the U.S. trade deficit, together with recommendations on how to address and reduce trade imbalances, such as the U.S. merchandise trade deficit, in order to promote sustainable economic growth that provides broad-based income and employment gains.
 
Authorizes appropriations.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-08-05
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2010-07-29
text: Received in the Senate.
action_date: 2010-07-28
text: The title of the measure was amended. Agreed to without objection.
action_date: 2010-07-28
text: Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
action_date: 2010-07-28
text: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended Agreed to by voice vote. (text: CR H6183-6185)
action_date: 2010-07-28
text: Passed/agreed to in House: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended Agreed to by voice vote.(text: CR H6183-6185)
action_date: 2010-07-28
text: DEBATE - The House proceeded with forty minutes of debate on H.R. 1875.
action_date: 2010-07-28
text: Considered under suspension of the rules. (consideration: CR H6183-6189)
action_date: 2010-07-28
text: Mr. Levin moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended.
action_date: 2009-04-02
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2009-04-02
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-04-02
text: Introduced in House
Military LEEDs Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-1876
Sponsor: Del. Bordallo, Madeleine Z. [D-GU-At Large]
Introduced: 2009-04-02 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Alternative and renewable resources
Building construction
Energy efficiency and conservation
Environmental technology
Military facilities and property

Summary:
action_date: 2009-04-02
text: 
Military LEEDs Act of 2009 - Requires the Secretary of Defense, for each military construction or housing project authorized after FY2009, to incorporate the design criteria promulgated in the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design Green Building Rating System, as developed by the United States Green Building Council, to achieve not less than the silver standard.
 
Directs the Secretary of the military department concerned, in designing any new facilities, to consider the use of sustainable construction materials.
 
Requires military construction renewable energy goals to include specific goals to increase the use of renewable energy sources on all military installations in the United States and overseas.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-04-27
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Readiness.
action_date: 2009-04-02
text: Referred to the House Committee on Armed Services.
action_date: 2009-04-02
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-04-02
text: Introduced in House
Homeless Emergency Assistance and Rapid Transition to Housing Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-1877
Sponsor: Rep. Moore, Gwen [D-WI-4]
Introduced: 2009-04-02 in the House
Policy area: Housing and Community Development
Subjects: Congressional oversight
Crime victims
Government information and archives
Homelessness and emergency shelter
Housing and community development funding
Interagency Council on Homelessness
Public-private cooperation
Rural conditions and development

Summary:
action_date: 2009-04-02
text: 
Homeless Emergency Assistance and Rapid Transition to Housing Act of 2009 - Amends the McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act to consolidate housing assistance programs for homeless persons.
 
Declares that the mission of the U.S. Interagency Council on Homelessness is to coordinate the federal response to homelessness and to create a national partnership at every level of government and with the private sector to reduce and end homelessness in the nation while maximizing the effectiveness of federal contributions to end homelessness.
 
Prescribes requirements for the selection of community homeless assistance planning boards, particularly for collaborative applicants.
 
Requires the relevant parties in a geographic area to establish a collaborative applicant to apply for a homeless assistance grant. Requires a collaborative applicant to: (1) design a collaborative process to develop such grant applications and evaluate project outcomes; (2) establish priorities for funding projects; (3) participate in the Consolidated Plan for the geographic area served by the applicant; (4) ensure operations of, and consistent participation by, project sponsors in a community-wide homeless management information system (HMIS); and (5) act as a unified funding agency to distribute HUD funds to other project sponsors in the applicable geographic area funds for their projects.
 
Prescribes requirements for: (1) an emergency solutions grants program; (2) a continuum of care grants program; (3) designation of high-performing communities; and (4) a rural housing stability assistance program.
 
Increases from 5% to 7.5% the amount of any emergency solutions grant a recipient may use for administrative purposes.
 
Requires the Comptroller General to study and report to Congress on: (1) appropriate administrative costs for implementing the emergency solutions grants program; and (2) homelessness and homeless assistance in rural areas. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-04-02
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2009-04-02
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-04-02
text: Introduced in House