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Encore Service Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-1151
Sponsor: Rep. DeLauro, Rosa L. [D-CT-3]
Introduced: 2009-02-24 in the House
Policy area: Social Welfare
Subjects: Aging
Corporation for National and Community Service
Education programs funding
Elementary and secondary education
Employment and training programs
Executive agency funding and structure
Government corporations and government-sponsored enterprises
Government studies and investigations
Higher education
Poverty and welfare assistance
Social work, volunteer service, charitable organizations
Student aid and college costs

Summary:
action_date: 2009-02-24
text: 
Encore Service Act of 2009 - Amends the National and Community Service Act of 1990 to make eligible for assistance under the National Service Trust program Encore Service programs that engage individuals age 50 or older in national service addressing specific community needs.
 
Gives Encore Service participants age 50 or older five options for their term of service, ranging from full-time to minimum time.
 
Makes such participants eligible for national service educational awards, which they may transfer to others for use within 20 years.
 
Expresses the sense of Congress that, by 2018, 25% of National Service Trust program participants should be age 50 or older. Requires the Corporation for National and Community Service to identify and address the barriers to program participation by such individuals.
 
Establishes Encore Fellowship programs providing Encore Fellowships to professionals age 50 or older who serve as full-time volunteers for nine months to one year with public or nonprofit organizations that address unmet human, educational, environmental, or public safety needs. Makes such Fellows ineligible for national service educational awards. 
 
Creates Silver Scholarship programs providing Silver Scholarships to individuals who, over a one-year period, complete: (1) at least 500 hours of volunteer service after attaining age 55; or (2) between 250 and 500 hours of such service and present compelling personal experiences. Allows such individuals to transfer their scholarships to others for use within 20 years.
 
Directs the Corporation to specify the services that qualify volunteers for scholarships, including: (1) tutoring or mentoring in educational settings; and (2) assisting persons with special needs. 
 
Amends the Domestic Volunteer Service Act of 1973 to allow anyone age 55 or older (currently, 60 or older) whose income does not exceed 200% (currently, 125%) of the poverty level to volunteer under the Foster Grandparent and Senior Companion programs that provide supportive services to persons with exceptional needs.
 
Reauthorizes appropriations for the National Senior Volunteer Corps, including the Retired and Senior Volunteer, Foster Grandparent, and Senior Companion programs.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-04-22
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Healthy Families and Communities.
action_date: 2009-02-24
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and Labor.
action_date: 2009-02-24
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-02-24
text: Introduced in House
Semester of Service Act

Bill: 111-hr-1152
Sponsor: Rep. DeLauro, Rosa L. [D-CT-3]
Introduced: 2009-02-24 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: American Samoa
Education programs funding
Elementary and secondary education
Guam
Indian social and development programs
Minority education
Northern Mariana Islands
Performance measurement
Social work, volunteer service, charitable organizations
Teaching, teachers, curricula
Virgin Islands
Youth employment and child labor

Summary:
action_date: 2009-02-24
text: 
Semester of Service Act - Amends the National and Community Service Act of 1990 to direct the Chief Executive Officer of the Corporation for National and Community Service to award competitive matching grants to local educational agencies or their nonprofit partners and, through them, competitive subgrants to schools or their nonprofit partners for Semester of Service programs that allow high school juniors and seniors to earn academic credit for service-learning that meets unmet human, educational, environmental, or public safety needs in their communities.
 
Gives grant priority to applicants that propose to direct subgrants toward programs at schools that receive school improvement funds under part A of title I of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965.
 
Requires Semester of Service programs to engage youth in service-learning for a minimum of 70 hours over a minimum of 12 weeks and have: (1) a weekly classroom-based component that is integrated into schools' regular curricula and aligned with applicable state academic content standards; and (2) a field-based component covering at least 24 of the minimum 70 hours.
 
Directs the Chief Executive Officer to reserve funds for: (1) competitive grants to Indian tribes, Native Hawaiian organizations, the U.S. Virgin Islands, American Samoa, Guam, and the Northern Mariana Islands for such programs; (2) technical assistance and training to grantees and subgrantees, and program outreach activities; and (3) independent evaluations of the programs.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-04-22
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education.
action_date: 2009-04-22
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Workforce Protections.
action_date: 2009-04-22
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Healthy Families and Communities.
action_date: 2009-02-24
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and Labor.
action_date: 2009-02-24
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-02-24
text: Introduced in House
Summer of Service Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-1153
Sponsor: Rep. DeLauro, Rosa L. [D-CT-3]
Introduced: 2009-02-24 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: American Samoa
Education of the disadvantaged
Education programs funding
Elementary and secondary education
Guam
Higher education
Indian social and development programs
Minority education
Northern Mariana Islands
Performance measurement
Social work, volunteer service, charitable organizations
Student aid and college costs
Virgin Islands
Youth employment and child labor

Summary:
action_date: 2009-02-24
text: 
Summer of Service Act of 2009 - Amends the National and Community Service Act of 1990 to create Summer of Service programs providing at least 100 hours of summer community service learning opportunities to youth who will subsequently enroll in grades six through nine. 
 
Requires the Chief Executive Officer of the Corporation for National and Community Service to provide competitive three-year grants to: (1) states under a State Grant program; and (2) public or private organizations under a National Direct Grant program, when a state does not apply for funding or the community service program includes multiple states. 
 
Requires states and organizations, in making project subgrants, to favor entities with established track records that: (1) have leadership positions in the communities from which participating youth will be drawn; (2) focus on youth service during the transition year before high school; (3) encourage or enable youth to continue providing community service throughout the school year; (4) involve youth in the design and operation of the community service project; and (5) include youth of diverse backgrounds, at least 50% of which are from low-income families. Permits such entities to charge the parents of participants an income-based fee to contribute to the nonfederal share of project costs.
 
Makes each youth serving at least 100 hours in a service-learning project eligible for an educational award of up to $500.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-04-22
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Healthy Families and Communities.
action_date: 2009-02-24
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and Labor.
action_date: 2009-02-24
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-02-24
text: Introduced in House
ACTION Act

Bill: 111-hr-1154
Sponsor: Rep. DeLauro, Rosa L. [D-CT-3]
Introduced: 2009-02-24 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Corporation for National and Community Service
Education programs funding
Executive agency funding and structure
Federal officials
Government corporations and government-sponsored enterprises
Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management
Higher education
Income tax exclusion
Social work, volunteer service, charitable organizations
Student aid and college costs

Summary:
action_date: 2009-02-24
text: 
AmeriCorps: Together Improving Our Nation Act or the ACTION Act - Amends the National and Community Service Act of 1990 to base the calculation of the amount of the national service educational award on the average cost of attending a four-year institution of higher education, rather than a portion of a veteran's basic educational assistance allowance.
 
Excludes the national service educational award from an individual's gross income for tax purposes.
 
Permits the Corporation for National and Community Service to support a national service program that is carried out by another federal agency and implements the priorities of such agency.
 
Makes Chief Executive Officer of the Corporation a Cabinet position. Raises the Officer's compensation to Level I of the Executive Schedule.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-04-22
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Healthy Families and Communities.
action_date: 2009-04-22
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Higher Education, Lifelong Learning, and Competitiveness.
action_date: 2009-02-24
text: Referred to House Ways and Means
action_date: 2009-02-24
text: Referred to House Oversight and Government Reform
action_date: 2009-02-24
text: Referred to the Committee on Education and Labor, and in addition to the Committees on Oversight and Government Reform, and Ways and Means, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2009-02-24
text: Referred to House Education and Labor
action_date: 2009-02-24
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-02-24
text: Introduced in House
Satellite Consumers' Access to Public Television Digital Programming Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-1155
Sponsor: Rep. Eshoo, Anna G. [D-CA-14]
Introduced: 2009-02-24 in the House
Policy area: Science, Technology, Communications
Subjects: Broadcasting, cable, digital technologies
Educational technology and distance education
Spacecraft and satellites
Television and film

Summary:
action_date: 2009-02-24
text: 
Satellite Consumers' Access to Public Television Digital Programming Act of 2009 - Amends the Communications Act of 1934 to require a satellite carrier that offers multichannel video programming distribution service to over five million subscribers to retransmit the digital signals of each noncommercial educational television station that is located in any local U.S. market.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-02-25
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Communications, Technology, and the Internet.
action_date: 2009-02-24
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2009-02-24
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-02-24
text: Introduced in House
Parents' Right to Know Improvement Act

Bill: 111-hr-1156
Sponsor: Rep. Heller, Dean [R-NV-2]
Introduced: 2009-02-24 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Elementary and secondary education
Special education
Teaching, teachers, curricula

Summary:
action_date: 2009-02-24
text: 
Parents&#146; Right to Know Improvement Act - Amends the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to require local educational agencies (LEAs) to notify the parents of each student at the beginning of each school year that they will provide the parents, upon request, with timely information regarding the professional qualifications of their child's specialized pupil services instructors. (This is in addition to the current requirement that LEAs provide parents, upon request, with information regarding the professional qualifications of their child's classroom teachers.)
 
Defines &quot;pupil services instructors&quot; as qualified professionals who provide ongoing, direct instruction to disabled children with individualized education programs.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-04-22
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education.
action_date: 2009-02-24
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and Labor.
action_date: 2009-02-24
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-02-24
text: Introduced in House
Veterans Reassignment Protection Act

Bill: 111-hr-1157
Sponsor: Rep. Herseth Sandlin, Stephanie [D-SD-At Large]
Introduced: 2009-02-24 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Administrative remedies
Employment discrimination and employee rights
Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management
Merit Systems Protection Board
Veterans' education, employment, rehabilitation

Summary:
action_date: 2009-02-24
text: 
Veterans Reassignment Protection Act - Prohibits a preference eligible federal employee (including a preference eligible serving in or under the U.S. Postal Service) from being involuntarily separated for failing to accept a directed reassignment to a position outside his or her commuting area or to accompany a position outside of such area pursuant to a transfer of function unless such preference eligible: (1) receives written notice of the reassignment at least 30 days before the effective date of the reassignment; and (2) is allowed to elect to have the selection of employees for release conducted in the same manner as would be required in the case of a reduction in force. 
 
Entitles a preference eligible involuntarily separated in the circumstances described above to appeal to the Merit Systems Protection Board any failure to comply with the requirements of this Act.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-05-04
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Federal Workforce, Post Office, and the District of Columbia.
action_date: 2009-02-24
text: Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.
action_date: 2009-02-24
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-02-24
text: Introduced in House
Biogas Production Incentive Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-1158
Sponsor: Rep. Higgins, Brian [D-NY-27]
Introduced: 2009-02-24 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Alternative and renewable resources
Income tax credits
Oil and gas

Summary:
action_date: 2009-02-24
text: 
Biogas Production Incentive Act of 2009 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow a business-related tax credit for the production, sale, or use of biogas. Defines &quot;biogas&quot; as a gas that is derived by processing qualified energy feedstock (i.e., manure of agricultural livestock and other organic agricultural or food industry byproduct waste material) in an anaerobic digester and that contains at least 52% methane and carbon dioxide and trace gases. Provides an increased credit for biogas produced from qualified cellulosic energy feedstock.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-02-24
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2009-02-24
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-02-24
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide special rules for investments lost in a fraudulent Ponzi-type scheme.

Bill: 111-hr-1159
Sponsor: Rep. Meek, Kendrick B. [D-FL-17]
Introduced: 2009-02-24 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Financial services and investments
Fraud offenses and financial crimes
Income tax deductions
Social work, volunteer service, charitable organizations
Transfer and inheritance taxes

Summary:
action_date: 2009-02-24
text: 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) allow an enhanced tax deduction for losses sustained from a fraudulent Ponzi-type scheme; (2) extend the carryback period for net operating losses attributable to such schemes; (3) waive certain limitations on the charitable tax deduction for contributions to charities with losses from fraudulent Ponzi-type schemes; and (4) restore the gift tax unified credit for gifts of an interest in a fraudulent Ponzi-type scheme. Defines &quot;fraudulent Ponzi-type scheme&quot; as any fraudulent investment operation that provides investors with returns that are derived substantially from investments made by other investors rather than from profits. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-02-24
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2009-02-24
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-02-24
text: Introduced in House
Money Market Fund Parity Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-1160
Sponsor: Rep. Meeks, Gregory W. [D-NY-6]
Introduced: 2009-02-24 in the House
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Banking and financial institutions regulation
Financial services and investments
Securities
Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)

Summary:
action_date: 2009-02-24
text: 
Money Market Fund Parity Act of 2009 - Directs the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to revise, according to specified requirements, rules relating to net capital, custody and use of customers' securities, and certain underwritings to provide for: (1) treatment of securities issued by qualified money market funds comparable with the treatment under those rules of other low-risk securities and deposits; and (2) the expanded use of securities issued by qualified money market funds for financing by brokers and dealers.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-02-24
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2009-02-24
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-02-24
text: Introduced in House
Keep Teachers Teaching Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-1161
Sponsor: Rep. Price, David E. [D-NC-4]
Introduced: 2009-02-24 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Education programs funding
Elementary and secondary education
Higher education
Licensing and registrations
Student aid and college costs
Teaching, teachers, curricula
Travel and tourism

Summary:
action_date: 2009-02-24
text: 
Keep Teachers Teaching Act of 2009 - Amends the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to direct the Secretary of Education to make competitive grants to local educational agencies (LEAs), states, and partnerships of LEAs, nonprofit organizations, and institutions of higher education for the development and implementation of innovative teacher retention programs that include: (1) professional development; (2) teacher mentoring; (3) advanced certification or credentialing; (4) research, travel, or fellowship opportunities; and (5) pairing of teachers with research or industry professionals.
 
Requires the Secretary to identify, and inform states and LEAs of, the most promising teacher retention strategies.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-04-22
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education.
action_date: 2009-02-24
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and Labor.
action_date: 2009-02-24
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-02-24
text: Introduced in House
E-2 Nonimmigrant Investor Adjustment Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-1162
Sponsor: Rep. Putnam, Adam H. [R-FL-12]
Introduced: 2009-02-24 in the House
Policy area: Immigration
Subjects: Financial services and investments
Immigration status and procedures
Visas and passports

Summary:
action_date: 2009-02-24
text: 
E-2 Nonimmigrant Investor Adjustment Act of 2009 - Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to make certain nonimmigrant investors (E-2 visa) who have resided in the United States for at least five years immediately eligible to adjust to permanent resident status.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-03-16
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration, Citizenship, Refugees, Border Security, and International Law.
action_date: 2009-02-24
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2009-02-24
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-02-24
text: Introduced in House
To direct the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to establish a national cemetery in the Sarpy County region to serve veterans in eastern Nebraska, western Iowa, and northwest Missouri.

Bill: 111-hr-1163
Sponsor: Rep. Terry, Lee [R-NE-2]
Introduced: 2009-02-24 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Cemeteries and funerals
Iowa
Missouri
Nebraska

Summary:
action_date: 2009-02-24
text: 
Directs the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to establish a national cemetery in the Sarpy County, Nebraska, region to serve the needs of veterans and their families in Nebraska, Iowa, and Missouri.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-02-27
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Disability Assistance and Memorial Affairs.
action_date: 2009-02-24
text: Referred to House Ways and Means
action_date: 2009-02-24
text: Referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs, and in addition to the Committee on Ways and Means, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2009-02-24
text: Referred to House Veterans' Affairs
action_date: 2009-02-24
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-02-24
text: Introduced in House
CSRS Retirement Repayment Technical Correction Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-1164
Sponsor: Rep. Van Hollen, Chris [D-MD-8]
Introduced: 2009-02-24 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Employee benefits and pensions
Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management
Interest, dividends, interest rates

Summary:
action_date: 2009-02-24
text: 
CSRS Retirement Repayment Technical Correction Act of 2009 - Exempts repayments of Civil Service Retirement System (CSRS) refunds made between October 1, 1990, and February 28, 1991, from the requirement that they include interest in order to receive retirement credit for the service covered.
 
Makes such exemption effective as if included in the enactment of the Omnibus Budget and Reconciliation Act of 1990.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-02-24
text: Referred to House Administration
action_date: 2009-02-24
text: Referred to the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, and in addition to the Committee on 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: 2009-02-24
text: Referred to House Oversight and Government Reform
action_date: 2009-02-24
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-02-24
text: Introduced in House