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SORT Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-2612
Sponsor: Rep. King, Peter T. [R-NY-3]
Introduced: 2009-05-21 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Criminal justice information and records
Law enforcement administration and funding
Sex offenses

Summary:
action_date: 2009-05-21
text: 
Sex Offender Registration Tips Program Act of 2009 or the SORT Act of 2009 - Directs the Attorney General to: (1) provide grants and access to information and resources to Parents for Megan's Law, Inc., to implement the Sex Offender Registration Tips Program; and (2) ensure access by Parents for Megan's Law, Inc., to the National Crime Information Center databases operated by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-06-12
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.
action_date: 2009-05-21
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2009-05-21
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-05-21
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Federal Law Enforcement Pay Reform Act of 1990 to adjust the percentage differentials payable to Federal law enforcement officers in certain high-cost areas, and for other purposes.

Bill: 111-hr-2613
Sponsor: Rep. King, Peter T. [R-NY-3]
Introduced: 2009-05-21 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management
Law enforcement officers
Wages and earnings

Summary:
action_date: 2009-05-21
text: 
Amends the Federal Law Enforcement Pay Reform Act of 1990 to revise the special pay adjustments for federal law enforcement officers in specified consolidated metropolitan statistical areas. Includes Capitol Police as law enforcement officers under such Act.
 
Eliminates the limitation on premium pay for federal criminal investigators.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-06-26
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Federal Workforce, Post Office, and the District of Columbia.
action_date: 2009-05-21
text: Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.
action_date: 2009-05-21
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-05-21
text: Introduced in House
Veterans' Advisory Committee on Education Reauthorization Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-2614
Sponsor: Rep. Kirkpatrick, Ann [D-AZ-1]
Introduced: 2009-05-21 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Advisory bodies
Veterans' education, employment, rehabilitation

Summary:
action_date: 2009-05-21
text: 
Veterans' Advisory Committee on Education Reauthorization Act of 2009 - Extends through 2015 the Veterans' Advisory Committee on Education.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-10-28
text: Provisions of measure incorporated into H.R. 3949.
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: 2009-05-22
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Economic Opportunity.
action_date: 2009-05-21
text: Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2009-05-21
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-05-21
text: Introduced in House
Energy-Efficient Commercial Roofs Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-2615
Sponsor: Rep. Larson, John B. [D-CT-1]
Introduced: 2009-05-21 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Energy efficiency and conservation
Housing industry and standards
Income tax credits

Summary:
action_date: 2009-05-21
text: 
Energy-Efficient Commercial Roofs Act of 2009 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow, through 2013, a tax credit for 30% of expenditures for the installation of commercial roofing that meets certain energy efficiency standards established by the American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE). 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-05-21
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2009-05-21
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-05-21
text: Introduced in House
Securing American Families by Educating and Training Youth (SAFETY) Through Nonviolence Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-2616
Sponsor: Rep. Lewis, John [D-GA-5]
Introduced: 2009-05-21 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Crime prevention
Education programs funding
Elementary and secondary education
Juvenile crime and gang violence
Law enforcement administration and funding
Violent crime

Summary:
action_date: 2009-05-21
text: 
Securing American Families by Educating and Training Youth (SAFETY) Through Nonviolence Act of 2009 - Authorizes the Attorney General to award grants to state or local governments, educational institutions, nonprofit organizations, and faith-based entities to prevent or alleviate the effects of community violence by educating, mentoring, and counseling youth regarding the principles and application of nonviolence in conflict resolution. 
 
Gives grant priority to applicants that agree to use the funds in communities experiencing an increase in violence, but lacking the resources to address violence prevention.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-10-22
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Healthy Families and Communities.
action_date: 2009-05-21
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and Labor.
action_date: 2009-05-21
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-05-21
text: Introduced in House
Mercury-Free Vaccines Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-2617
Sponsor: Rep. Maloney, Carolyn B. [D-NY-14]
Introduced: 2009-05-21 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Child health
Consumer affairs
Drug safety, medical device, and laboratory regulation
Emergency medical services and trauma care
Hazardous wastes and toxic substances
Health information and medical records
Infectious and parasitic diseases
Sex and reproductive health
Terrorism

Summary:
action_date: 2009-05-21
text: 
Mercury-Free Vaccines Act of 2009 - Amends the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to deem a banned mercury-containing vaccine to be adulterated. Amends the Public Health Service Act to provide that a vaccine is a banned mercury-containing vaccine if one dose of the vaccine contains one or more micrograms of mercury in any form.
 
 Authorizes the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) to declare that an actual or potential bioterrorist incident or other public health emergency makes the administration of such vaccines advisable for a specified period.
 
Requires the Secretary to prohibit the distribution of banned mercury-containing influenza vaccines that are approved as biological products to: (1) any child under the age of three years old (effective July 1, 2009); (2) pregnant women if the vaccine contains thimerosal (effective July 1, 2009); and (3) any child under the age of six (effective July 1, 2010).
 
Requires the Secretary to revise the vaccine information included with mercury-containing vaccines to include: (1) a statement that indicates the presence of mercury in the vaccine; (2) information on the availability of any mercury-free or mercury-reduced alternative vaccine and instructions on how to obtain such an alternative vaccine; and (3) a recommendation against administration of any mercury-containing vaccine to a pregnant woman.
 
Expresses the sense of Congress that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) should disseminate, with any vaccine-related information, a recommendation against administration of any thimerosal-containing vaccine to a pregnant woman.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-06-02
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2009-05-21
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2009-05-21
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E1243)
action_date: 2009-05-21
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-05-21
text: Introduced in House
Vaccine Safety and Public Confidence Assurance Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-2618
Sponsor: Rep. Maloney, Carolyn B. [D-NY-14]
Introduced: 2009-05-21 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Business records
Department of Health and Human Services
Drug safety, medical device, and laboratory regulation
Executive agency funding and structure
Government information and archives
Health information and medical records
Infectious and parasitic diseases
Medical ethics
Medical research
Research administration and funding
World health

Summary:
action_date: 2009-05-21
text: 
Vaccine Safety and Public Confidence Assurance Act of 2009 - Amends the Public Health Service Act to establish the Agency for Vaccine Safety Evaluation in the Office of the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS). Requires the Director for Vaccine Safety Evaluation to: (1) conduct or support safety research and monitor licensed vaccines; (2) develop a vaccine safety research agenda; (3) evaluate means to promote compliance with federal adverse reaction reporting requirements; (4) provide a clearinghouse for vaccine studies; (5) ensure that functions relating to vaccine monitoring or research on adverse reactions are not carried out by anyone with a conflict of interest; (6) oversee the Vaccine Safety Datalink Project; and (7) resolve U.S. conflicts of interest related to international agreements, partnerships, and activities.
 
Allows the Director to establish a program of awarding fellowships for research on vaccine safety.
 
Requires the Commissioner of Food and Drugs to provide the Director, upon request, with complete access to all vaccine-related information submitted to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) by vaccine manufacturers.
 
Requires the Director to require vaccine manufacturers to: (1) provide for postmarketing surveillance and clinical testing for any acute or chronic adverse reactions associated with the vaccine; and (2) register in a qualified public registry each clinical trial conducted or supported by the manufacturer with respect to the vaccine.
 
Transfers to the Agency Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) responsibilities for the Vaccine Safety Datalink Project, the Clinical Immunization Safety Assessment Centers, or any other post-licensure vaccine safety monitoring activities.
 
Requires the Secretary to establish an advisory council in the Agency.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-06-02
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2009-05-21
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2009-05-21
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E1240)
action_date: 2009-05-21
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-05-21
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to temporarily expand the credit for first-time homebuyers to all homebuyers and to allow individuals a temporary refundable credit against income tax for the costs of refinancing acquisition indebtedness secured by their principal residence.

Bill: 111-hr-2619
Sponsor: Rep. Marchant, Kenny [R-TX-24]
Introduced: 2009-05-21 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Housing finance and home ownership
Income tax credits

Summary:
action_date: 2009-05-21
text: 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow until June 30, 2010: (1) a first-time homebuyer tax credit for all purchasers of a principal residence (not just first-time homebuyers); and (2) a refundable tax credit, up to $3,000, for the costs of refinancing a principal residence. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-05-21
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2009-05-21
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-05-21
text: Introduced in House
Public Health Workforce Development Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-2620
Sponsor: Rep. Matsui, Doris O. [D-CA-5]
Introduced: 2009-05-21 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Education programs funding
Health care coverage and access
Health personnel
Health programs administration and funding
Medical education
Student aid and college costs
Teaching, teachers, curricula

Summary:
action_date: 2009-05-21
text: 
Public Health Workforce Development Act of 2009 - Amends the Public Health Service Act to require the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) to establish the Public Health Workforce Scholarship Program to assure an adequate supply of public health professionals to eliminate critical public health workforce shortages in federal, state, local, and tribal public health agencies and centers by offering four-year scholarships in return for employment at such agencies and centers. 
 
Requires the Secretary to establish the Public Health Workforce Loan Repayment Program to provide for the repayment of loans incurred by individuals in the pursuit of the relevant public health workforce educational degree or certificate in exchange for working at public health agencies or centers for at least three years.
 
Requires the Secretary to award grants to public health agencies that receive public health preparedness cooperative agreements from HHS to operate state, local, and tribal public health workforce loan repayment programs.
 
Authorizes the Secretary to make grants to, or enter into contracts with, any eligible entity to award scholarships to eligible individuals to enroll in degree or professional training programs for the purpose of enabling mid-career professionals in the public health workforce to receive additional training in the field of public health.
 
Requires the Director of the Office of Personnel Management (OPM), in cooperation with the Secretary, to ensure that included in the OPM website there is an online catalogue, or a link to an online catalogue, of public health workforce employment opportunities in the federal government.
 
Requires the Secretary to award competitive grants to establish Academic Health Departments to provide for collaboration between the academic and practice aspects of public health.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-06-02
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2009-05-21
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2009-05-21
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-05-21
text: Introduced in House
To amend title 10, United States Code, to use a time requirement for determining eligibility for the reimbursement of certain travel expenses.

Bill: 111-hr-2621
Sponsor: Rep. McCarthy, Kevin [R-CA-22]
Introduced: 2009-05-21 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Military medicine
Military personnel and dependents
Transportation costs

Summary:
action_date: 2009-05-21
text: 
Directs the Secretary of Defense (DOD) to reimburse the travel expenses of a beneficiary eligible for medical services through DOD when the beneficiary must travel more than 90 minutes driving time (current law requires travel of more than 100 miles) to receive such services.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-06-08
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Military Personnel.
action_date: 2009-05-21
text: Referred to the House Committee on Armed Services.
action_date: 2009-05-21
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-05-21
text: Introduced in House
Compliance, Examinations, and Inspections Restructuring Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-2622
Sponsor: Rep. McCarthy, Kevin [R-CA-22]
Introduced: 2009-05-21 in the House
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Administrative remedies
Banking and financial institutions regulation
Civil actions and liability
Executive agency funding and structure
Financial services and investments
Government studies and investigations
Securities
Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)

Summary:
action_date: 2009-05-21
text: 
Compliance, Examinations, and Inspections Restructuring Act of 2009 - Amends the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 to vest the inspections and examinations authority of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) in those administrative divisions or offices to which the SEC has delegated its administrative responsibilities.
 
Requires the subject of an SEC inquiry or inspection to be notified in writing at least every 120 days regarding the status of an ongoing proceeding.
 
Requires an SEC administrative division or office to obtain permission to conduct a sweep examination in the same manner and subject to the same procedures as SEC enforcement divisions or offices must follow in conducting a formal investigation or inquiry of registered entities.
 
Instructs the Chairman of the SEC to appoint an Ombudsman with respect to any problems resulting from SEC regulatory activities.
 
Expresses the sense of Congress that the SEC should develop and publish guidelines setting forth explicitly the benefit to either an issuer of securities or a registered entity if it self-reports an apparent violation of law, and subsequently becomes the respondent in an SEC civil injunctive action or administrative proceeding regarding the matter that was self-reported.
 

 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-05-21
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2009-05-21
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-05-21
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Federal securities laws to clarify and expand the definition of certain persons under those laws.

Bill: 111-hr-2623
Sponsor: Rep. McCarthy, Kevin [R-CA-22]
Introduced: 2009-05-21 in the House
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Banking and financial institutions regulation
Corporate finance and management
Financial services and investments
Government studies and investigations
Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)

Summary:
action_date: 2009-05-21
text: 
 Amends the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 to authorize the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to censure, place limitations on the activities or functions of, or investigate any person who at the time of specified alleged misconduct was: (1) a member or employee of the Municipal Securities Rulemaking Board; (2) a person associated or seeking to become associated with a government securities broker or dealer; (3) a person associated with a member of a national securities exchange or registered securities association; (4) a participant of a registered clearing agency; (5) an officer or director of a self-regulatory organization; and (6) an officer or director of an investment company.

action_date: 2009-07-29
text: 

(This measure has not been amended since it was introduced. The summary of that version is repeated here.)

 
Amends the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 to authorize the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to censure, place limitations on the activities or functions of, or investigate any person who at the time of specified alleged misconduct was: (1) a member or employee of the Municipal Securities Rulemaking Board; (2) a person associated with or seeking to become associated with a government securities broker or dealer; (3) a person associated with a member of a national securities exchange or registered securities association; (4) a participant of a registered clearing agency; (5) an officer or director of a self-regulatory organization; and (6) an officer or director of an investment company.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-07-30
text: Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.
action_date: 2009-07-29
text: Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
action_date: 2009-07-29
text: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill Agreed to by voice vote. (text: CR H8975-8976)
action_date: 2009-07-29
text: Passed/agreed to in House: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill Agreed to by voice vote.(text: CR H8975-8976)
action_date: 2009-07-29
text: DEBATE - The House proceeded with forty minutes of debate on H.R. 2623.
action_date: 2009-07-29
text: Considered under suspension of the rules. (consideration: CR H8975-8976)
action_date: 2009-07-29
text: Mr. Frank (MA) moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill.
action_date: 2009-05-21
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2009-05-21
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-05-21
text: Introduced in House
Teachers at the Table Act

Bill: 111-hr-2624
Sponsor: Rep. McCarthy, Carolyn [D-NY-4]
Introduced: 2009-05-21 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Academic performance and assessments
Advisory bodies
Education of the disadvantaged
Education programs funding
Elementary and secondary education
Performance measurement
Teaching, teachers, curricula

Summary:
action_date: 2009-05-21
text: 
Teachers at the Table Act - Amends title I (Improving the Academic Achievement of the Disadvantaged) of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to direct the Secretary of Education to establish the Volunteer Teacher Advisory Committee to monitor the effects of such title (amended by the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001) in classrooms, with its focus solely on children and families.
 
Requires that committee membership consist of a diverse group of public school classroom teachers who are past or present Teachers of the Year and have experience or training in data collection, analysis, and reporting.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-10-22
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education.
action_date: 2009-05-21
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and Labor.
action_date: 2009-05-21
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-05-21
text: Introduced in House
Tax Equity for Health Plan Beneficiaries Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-2625
Sponsor: Rep. McDermott, Jim [D-WA-7]
Introduced: 2009-05-21 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Department of the Treasury
Employment taxes
Health care costs and insurance
Income tax deductions
Income tax exclusion
Self-employed

Summary:
action_date: 2009-05-21
text: 
Tax Equity for Health Plan Beneficiaries Act of 2009 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) exclude from an employee's gross income employer-provided accident and health plan benefits extended to a domestic partner or non-dependent, non-spouse beneficiary eligible to receive such benefits under an employer plan (i.e., &quot;eligible beneficiary&quot;); (2) exempt such benefits paid to eligible beneficiaries from applicable employment and unemployment taxes; (3) allow self-employed individuals a tax deduction for the health insurance costs of their eligible beneficiaries; (4) allow tax-exempt volutary employees' beneficiary associations to provide sick and accident benefits to the domestic partners and non-dependent, non-spouse beneficiaries of their members; and (5) allow reimbursement of the medical expenses of an eligible beneficiary from a health savings account (HSA). 
 
Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to provide guidance relating to reimbursements from a flexible spending arrangement and a health reimbursement arrangement attributable to an eligible beneficiary as defined by this Act. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-05-21
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2009-05-21
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-05-21
text: Introduced in House
Renewable Energy Parity Act

Bill: 111-hr-2626
Sponsor: Rep. Meek, Kendrick B. [D-FL-17]
Introduced: 2009-05-21 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Alternative and renewable resources
Electric power generation and transmission
Income tax credits

Summary:
action_date: 2009-05-21
text: 
Renewable Energy Parity Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to eliminate after 2010 the reduction in the rate of the tax credit for electricity produced from open-loop biomass, small irrigation power, landfill gas, trash combustion, and hydropower facilities (thus allowing the same credit rate for all renewable resource facilities).


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-05-21
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2009-05-21
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-05-21
text: Introduced in House