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Bring Assistance to Heroes Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-3389
Sponsor: Rep. Forbes, J. Randy [R-VA-4]
Introduced: 2009-07-29 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Housing finance and home ownership
Income tax credits
Military personnel and dependents
Tax administration and collection, taxpayers

Summary:
action_date: 2009-07-29
text: 
Bring Assistance to Heroes Act of 2009 - Extends the first-time homebuyer credit (credit) through December 1, 2010, for certain military personnel stationed outside the United States. 
 
Excludes credit-recipient military personnel from: (1) the increased tax credit recapture provision; and (2) accelerated credit recapture regarding disposition of a principal residence if such member receives extended duty orders after the residence's purchase and before the date that such recapture would apply.
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-10-28
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Military Personnel.
action_date: 2009-07-29
text: Referred to House Armed Services
action_date: 2009-07-29
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Armed Services, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2009-07-29
text: Referred to House Ways and Means
action_date: 2009-07-29
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-07-29
text: Introduced in House
Retirement Account Freedom Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-3390
Sponsor: Rep. Hoekstra, Peter [R-MI-2]
Introduced: 2009-07-29 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Economic performance and conditions
Employee benefits and pensions
Income tax exclusion
Unemployment

Summary:
action_date: 2009-07-29
text: 
Retirement Account Freedom Act of 2009 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to waive the 10% penalty for premature distributions from certain tax-exempt retirement plans during any period that the national rate of unemployment is at least 7%. Limits such waiver to distributions not exceeding 10% of the aggregate account balances of such plans.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-07-29
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2009-07-29
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-07-29
text: Introduced in House
To allow for the continuation of critical access hospital designation for certain hospitals in geographic areas experiencing population growth.

Bill: 111-hr-3391
Sponsor: Rep. Jenkins, Lynn [R-KS-2]
Introduced: 2009-07-29 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Health facilities and institutions
Hospital care
Medicare
Rural conditions and development

Summary:
action_date: 2009-07-29
text: 
Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to permit the continuation of the critical access hospital (CAH) designation for certain hospitals under the Medicare rural hospital flexibility program that were originally designated as CAHs but whose rural areas were subsequently redesignated urban areas.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-07-29
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2009-07-29
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-07-29
text: Introduced in House
Fair and Cost Effective Federal Travel Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-3392
Sponsor: Rep. Kosmas, Suzanne M. [D-FL-24]
Introduced: 2009-07-29 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Government ethics and transparency, public corruption
Transportation costs
Travel and tourism

Summary:
action_date: 2009-07-29
text: 
Fair and Cost Effective Federal Travel Act of 2009 - Prohibits any federal department or agency from establishing a travel or conference policy that takes into account the perception of a location as a resort or vacation destination in determining the location for an event.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-10-23
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Government Management, Organization, and Procurement.
action_date: 2009-07-29
text: Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.
action_date: 2009-07-29
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-07-29
text: Introduced in House
Freedom of Health Speech Act

Bill: 111-hr-3394
Sponsor: Rep. Paul, Ron [R-TX-14]
Introduced: 2009-07-29 in the House
Policy area: Commerce
Subjects: Administrative remedies
Books and print media
Consumer affairs
Evidence and witnesses
Federal Trade Commission (FTC)
Government studies and investigations
Health technology, devices, supplies
Marketing and advertising
Medical research
Nutrition and diet

Summary:
action_date: 2009-07-29
text: 
Freedom of Health Speech Act - Amends the Federal Trade Commission Act to prohibit considering the content of any publication as advertising regulable under the Act unless the content is intended by a product seller to promote that product's sale and the content includes the name of the product, an express offer to sell, and a purchase price. Prohibits considering any content excerpted in whole or part from a peer-reviewed scientific publication as advertising regulable under the Act.
 
Prohibits the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) from beginning an investigation of possible false advertising regarding a dietary supplement or a dietary ingredient unless the FTC already possesses clear and convincing evidence that the advertisement is false and misleading.
 
Places the burden of proof on the FTC to show, by clear and convincing evidence, that an advertisement for a dietary supplement or dietary ingredient is false, that the advertisement actually caused consumers to be misled into believing to be true that which is false, and that, but for the false advertising content, the consumer would not have made the purchase at the price paid. Requires the FTC, if a claimed health benefit is alleged to be false advertising, to additionally establish, based on expert scientific opinion and published peer-reviewed scientific evidence, that the claim is false.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-07-30
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2009-07-30
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Commerce, Trade and Consumer Protection.
action_date: 2009-07-29
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2009-07-29
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E2086-2087)
action_date: 2009-07-29
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-07-29
text: Introduced in House
Health Freedom Act

Bill: 111-hr-3395
Sponsor: Rep. Paul, Ron [R-TX-14]
Introduced: 2009-07-29 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Civil actions and liability
Consumer affairs
Department of Health and Human Services
Drug safety, medical device, and laboratory regulation
Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
Food supply, safety, and labeling
Health promotion and preventive care
Marketing and advertising

Summary:
action_date: 2009-07-29
text: 
Health Freedom Act - Prohibits the federal government from preventing the use of a claim describing any nutrient in a food or dietary supplement as mitigating, treating, or preventing any disease, disease symptom, or health-related condition, unless in a final order following a trial on the merits a federal court finds clear and convincing evidence based on qualified expert opinion and published peer-reviewed scientific research that: (1) the claim is false and misleading in any material respect; and (2) there is no less speech restrictive alternative to claim suppression that can render the claim non-misleading.
 
Amends the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to deem a food or dietary supplement for which a claim characterizing the relationship of a nutrient to a disease or health-related condition not to be included in the definition of &quot;drug&quot; solely because of such claim. Revokes all Food and Drug Administration (FDA) rules prohibiting nutrient-disease relationship claims.
 
Revises the criteria for deeming a food misbranded when a claim for a nutrient is made.
 
Revises dietary supplement labeling exemptions to prohibit the government from preventing distribution of a publication concerning the sale of a food or dietary supplement unless: (1) it establishes that a claim contained in the publication names the specific food or supplement sold and represents that the food or supplement mitigates, treats, or prevents a disease; and (2) the claim is proven to be false and misleading in any material respect by final order of a federal court in accordance with this Act.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-07-30
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2009-07-29
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2009-07-29
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E2086-2087)
action_date: 2009-07-29
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-07-29
text: Introduced in House
Congressional Responsibility and Accountability Act

Bill: 111-hr-3396
Sponsor: Rep. Paul, Ron [R-TX-14]
Introduced: 2009-07-29 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Accounting and auditing
Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Congressional oversight
Economic performance and conditions

Summary:
action_date: 2009-07-29
text: 
Congressional Responsibility and Accountability Act - Amends the Administrative Procedure Act to: (1) require each agency, before adopting a rule, to determine whether compliance with the rule will result in a specified economic impact; and (2) prohibit an agency from enforcing a rule it determines will result in such impact until its requirements are enacted into law.

Requires each agency: (1) annually, to determine whether its rules have resulted in a specified economic impact in the preceding year; and (2) not later than 365 days after making such determination, to no longer enforce such a rule until its requirements are enacted into law.

Defines &quot;specified economic impact&quot; as: (1) costs to any individual of $5,000 or more in a year; (2) costs to any partnership, corporation, association, or public or private organization of $10,000 or more in a year; (3) costs to all persons (not including the federal government or a state government) in the aggregate of $25,000 or more in a year; or (4) the loss by one or more U.S. citizens of existing employment in a year.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-09-14
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Commercial and Administrative Law.
action_date: 2009-07-29
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2009-07-29
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E2080)
action_date: 2009-07-29
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-07-29
text: Introduced in House
Northern Mariana Islands College Access Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-3397
Sponsor: Del. Sablan, Gregorio Kilili Camacho [D-MP-At Large]
Introduced: 2009-07-29 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Congressional oversight
Education programs funding
Higher education
Northern Mariana Islands
Student aid and college costs
U.S. territories and protectorates
Vocational and technical education

Summary:
action_date: 2009-07-29
text: 
Northern Mariana Islands College Access Act of 2009 - Directs the Governor of the Northern Mariana Islands to use federal funds authorized by this Act to award grants to public four-year institutions of higher education (IHEs) located in the states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, or Guam to cover the difference between the in-state and out-of-state tuition and fees for students who have: (1) been domiciled in the Northern Mariana Islands for at least the 12 months preceding their enrollment in the IHE; and (2) received on or after January 1, 2008, a secondary school diploma or its equivalent while domiciled there.
 
Requires the Comptroller General to monitor the progam's effectiveness in expanding educational opportunities for such students.
 
Directs the Secretary of Education to provide financial assistance to Northern Marianas College so it can award a subgrant to an IHE to plan and implement a vocational training program at the College that awards certificates of completion in areas that include: (1) food preparation, services, and the culinary arts; (2) hospitality management; (3) carpentry; (4) electrical skills; (5) plumbing; and (6) other construction skills.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-10-22
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Higher Education, Lifelong Learning, and Competitiveness.
action_date: 2009-07-29
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and Labor.
action_date: 2009-07-29
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-07-29
text: Introduced in House
Promoting Innovations to 21st Century Careers Act

Bill: 111-hr-3398
Sponsor: Rep. Tierney, John F. [D-MA-6]
Introduced: 2009-07-29 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Academic performance and assessments
Advisory bodies
Education of the disadvantaged
Education programs funding
Educational facilities and institutions
Educational technology and distance education
Elementary and secondary education
Employment and training programs
Executive agency funding and structure
Government information and archives
Higher education
Licensing and registrations
Performance measurement
Public-private cooperation
Teaching, teachers, curricula
Vocational and technical education

Summary:
action_date: 2009-07-29
text: 
Promoting Innovations to 21st Century Careers Act - Authorizes the Director of the National Academic and Career Innovation Center to award certain planning, implementation, transitional, and supplemental grants to state pathways partnerships to carry out activities that will create and enhance educational and career pathways for high school students to postsecondary schools (including registered apprenticeship programs) and to 21st century careers, particularly in high skill, high demand industries.
 
Requires the state partnerships to be appointed by state governors and include representatives from educational, business, labor, workforce, and economic development entities in their respective states.
 
Establishes the National Academic and Career Innovation Center to: (1) support the efforts of the state partnerships and regional partnerships (which are to receive competitive implementation subgrants from state partnerships) to offer career pathways of proven effectiveness; (2) design and conduct performance evaluations of career pathways activities; and (3) administer, oversee, and evaluate all career pathways grants.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-10-22
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Higher Education, Lifelong Learning, and Competitiveness.
action_date: 2009-10-22
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education.
action_date: 2009-07-29
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and Labor.
action_date: 2009-07-29
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-07-29
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to permit the consolidation of life insurance companies with other companies.

Bill: 111-hr-3399
Sponsor: Rep. Larson, John B. [D-CT-1]
Introduced: 2009-07-30 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Income tax deductions
Insurance industry and regulation
Life, casualty, property insurance
Tax administration and collection, taxpayers

Summary:
action_date: 2009-07-30
text: 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow affiliated life and non-life insurance companies to file consolidated tax returns. 
 
Allows: (1) the full application of losses of affiliated non-life insurance companies against the taxable income of an affiliated life insurance company to be phased in over five years; and (2) an automatic waiver of the the five-year waiting period applicable to affiliated non-life insurance companies for offset of their losses against life insurance company income.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-07-30
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2009-07-30
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-07-30
text: Introduced in House
Improving Assistance to Domestic and Sexual Violence Victims Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-3401
Sponsor: Rep. Wasserman Schultz, Debbie [D-FL-20]
Introduced: 2009-07-30 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Crime prevention
Crime victims
Crimes against women
Domestic violence and child abuse
Evidence and witnesses
Government information and archives
HIV/AIDS
Immigration status and procedures
Indian social and development programs
Internet and video services
Internet, web applications, social media
Law enforcement administration and funding
Low- and moderate-income housing
Public housing
Sexually transmitted diseases
Visas and passports

Summary:
action_date: 2009-07-30
text: 
Improving Assistance to Domestic and Sexual Violence Victims Act of 2009 - Amends the Violence Against Women Act of 1994 to: (1) amend certain definitions, grant conditions relating to confidential information, and matching fund requirements under such Act; (2) expand the role of the national resource center on workplace responses to domestic violence to require information and assistance to victim service providers and other community-based organizations and coalitions; and (3) expand requirements for providing culturally and linguistically specific services to domestic and sexual violence victims.
 
Amends grant provisions under the violence against women program of the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 to: (1) impose limits on Internet publication of protection order information in domestic violence cases; (2) exempt victims of dating violence from certain costs for criminal proceedings and protection orders; (3) provide for sexual assault forensic medical personnel examiners to collect and preserve evidence in sexual assault cases; and (4) expand grant purposes to include HIV, hepatitis, and sexually transmitted infection testing and treatment for victims of sexual assault.
 
Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act and the William Wilberforce Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act of 2008 to expand visa eligibility for aliens who are victims of domestic violence and sex trafficking. 
 
Amends the Housing and Community Development Act of 1980 to permit certain aliens lawfully present in the United States to qualify for low-income housing assistance.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-08-19
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.
action_date: 2009-07-30
text: Referred to House Financial Services
action_date: 2009-07-30
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committee on Financial 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: 2009-07-30
text: Referred to House Judiciary
action_date: 2009-07-30
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-07-30
text: Introduced in House
Crime Victims Fund Preservation Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-3402
Sponsor: Rep. Poe, Ted [R-TX-2]
Introduced: 2009-07-30 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Crime victims
Government trust funds
Law enforcement administration and funding

Summary:
action_date: 2009-07-30
text: 
Crime Victims Fund Preservation Act of 2009 - Amends the Victims of Crime Act of 1984 to establish minimum funding levels for the Crime Victims Fund for each of FY2010-FY2014.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-08-19
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.
action_date: 2009-07-30
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2009-07-30
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-07-30
text: Introduced in House
Supporting Military Families Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-3403
Sponsor: Rep. Woolsey, Lynn C. [D-CA-6]
Introduced: 2009-07-30 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Employee leave
Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management
Military operations and strategy
Military personnel and dependents
National Guard and reserves
Veterans' medical care

Summary:
action_date: 2009-07-30
text: 
Supporting Military Families Act of 2009 - Amends the Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993 to revise its requirements for exigency leave with respect to employees belonging to the family of members of the Armed Forces, particularly the requirement that an employee's spouse, son, daughter, or parent be on active duty in the Armed Forces in support of a contingency operation. Repeals the condition &quot;in support of a contingency operation,&quot; and requires only that the Armed Forces member be on duty during deployment to a foreign country.
 
Entitles to coverage by the Act an eligible employee who is a family member caring for a veteran undergoing medical treatment, recuperation, or therapy for a serious injury or illness who was a member of the Armed Forces (or of the National Guard or Reserves) at any time during the five-year period preceding the date on which the veteran undergoes that treatment, recuperation, or therapy.
 
Defines a veteran's serious injury or illness of a veteran to be one: (1) incurred by the veteran as an Armed Forces member in the line of duty while on active duty in the Armed Forces, or which existed before the beginning of the member's active duty but was aggravated by service in line of duty on active duty in the Armed Forces; and (2) that manifested itself before or after the Armed Forces member became a veteran.
 
Amends federal civil service law to entitle civilian federal employees to the same leave allowance with respect to family members who are: (1) members of the Armed Forces in deployment to a foreign country; or (2) ill or injured veterans for whom they are caring.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-10-22
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Workforce Protections.
action_date: 2009-07-30
text: Referred to House Administration
action_date: 2009-07-30
text: Referred to House Oversight and Government Reform
action_date: 2009-07-30
text: Referred to the Committee on Education and Labor, and in addition to the Committees on Oversight and Government Reform, and House Administration, 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: 2009-07-30
text: Referred to House Education and Labor
action_date: 2009-07-30
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-07-30
text: Introduced in House