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Identification Integrity Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-139
Sponsor: Rep. Gallegly, Elton [R-CA-24]
Introduced: 2009-01-06 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Government information and archives
Visas and passports

Summary:
action_date: 2009-01-06
text: 
Identification Integrity Act of 2009 - Prohibits federal agencies from accepting for any official purpose an identification document for an individual issued by a foreign government. Creates an exception for foreign passports authorized by federal law to be accepted for a specific official purpose.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-02-09
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration, Citizenship, Refugees, Border Security, and International Law.
action_date: 2009-01-06
text: Referred to House Armed Services
action_date: 2009-01-06
text: Referred to House Administration
action_date: 2009-01-06
text: Referred to House Judiciary
action_date: 2009-01-06
text: Referred to the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, and in addition to the Committees on the Judiciary, House Administration, and 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: 2009-01-06
text: Referred to House Oversight and Government Reform
action_date: 2009-01-06
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-01-06
text: Introduced in House
To withhold certain highway funds if a State does not comply with certain requirements in issuing a driver's license or identification card, and for other purposes.

Bill: 111-hr-140
Sponsor: Rep. Gallegly, Elton [R-CA-24]
Introduced: 2009-01-06 in the House
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Government information and archives
Intergovernmental relations
Licensing and registrations
Motor vehicles
Roads and highways
State and local government operations
Transportation programs funding

Summary:
action_date: 2009-01-06
text: 
Requires the Secretary of Transportation to withhold specified graduated percentages of a state's apportionment of certain federal-aid highways funds for FY2010 and thereafter if driver licenses or personal identification cards issued by the state do not meet with certain minimum federal standards to be accepted by a federal agency. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-01-06
text: Referred to House Oversight and Government Reform
action_date: 2009-01-06
text: Referred to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, 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: 2009-01-06
text: Referred to House Transportation and Infrastructure
action_date: 2009-01-06
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Highways and Transit.
action_date: 2009-01-06
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-01-06
text: Introduced in House
To require those applying for, and renewing, SCHIP, TAA, and ATAA benefits to present documentation proving both citizenship and identity in order to receive those benefits.

Bill: 111-hr-141
Sponsor: Rep. Gallegly, Elton [R-CA-24]
Introduced: 2009-01-06 in the House
Policy area: Social Welfare
Subjects: Child health
Citizenship and naturalization
Employment and training programs
Government information and archives
Health care costs and insurance
Health care coverage and access
Health programs administration and funding
Trade adjustment assistance

Summary:
action_date: 2009-01-06
text: 
Requires any applicant for benefits under title XXI (State Children's Health Insurance Program) (SCHIP) of the Social Security Act, the trade adjustment assistance (TAA) program under the Trade Act of 1974 (TA74), or the alternative trade adjustment assistance program (ATAA) under TA74 to present satisfactory documentation providing both citizenship and identity as a condition of receiving benefits under such programs. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-01-14
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2009-01-06
text: Referred to House Energy and Commerce
action_date: 2009-01-06
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2009-01-06
text: Referred to House Ways and Means
action_date: 2009-01-06
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-01-06
text: Introduced in House
Enforce Immigration Law Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-142
Sponsor: Rep. Gallegly, Elton [R-CA-24]
Introduced: 2009-01-06 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Administrative remedies
Border security and unlawful immigration
Department of the Treasury
Employment discrimination and employee rights
Foreign labor
Government information and archives
Tax administration and collection, taxpayers
Visas and passports

Summary:
action_date: 2009-01-06
text: 
Enforce Immigration Law Act of 2009 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to require the Secretary of the Treasury to: (1) notify the Secretary of Homeland Security if an employee's tax identification number indicates that such employee is not authorized to be employed in the United States; (2) inform such an employee's employer and require that such employee be terminated within 30 days; and (3) grant such employee the right to contest the accuracy of the Secretary's notice.

Requires the Secretary of Homeland Security to request from the Secretary of the Treasury annually information, including tax identification numbers, on individuals who are no longer authorized to be employed in the United States. Directs the Secretary of Homeland Security to: (1) disclose such information to officers and employees of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) for enforcement of the immigration laws; and (2) notify the employer and require that such employee be terminated within 30 days. Grants an affected employee the right to contest the accuracy of the Secretary's notice and the determination that such employee is not authorized to be employed in the United States. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-03-16
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Workforce Protections.
action_date: 2009-03-16
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration, Citizenship, Refugees, Border Security, and International Law.
action_date: 2009-01-06
text: Referred to House Judiciary
action_date: 2009-01-06
text: Referred to House Education and Labor
action_date: 2009-01-06
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committees on Education and Labor, and 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: 2009-01-06
text: Referred to House Ways and Means
action_date: 2009-01-06
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-01-06
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide for a two-month suspension of employment and income taxes, and for other purposes.

Bill: 111-hr-143
Sponsor: Rep. Gohmert, Louie [R-TX-1]
Introduced: 2009-01-06 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Bank accounts, deposits, capital
Department of the Treasury
Employment taxes
Executive agency funding and structure
Financial crises and stabilization
Government trust funds
Income tax exclusion
Medicare
Securities
Self-employed
Social security and elderly assistance
Wages and earnings

Summary:
action_date: 2009-01-06
text: 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) reduce to 0% the employment tax on employers, employees, and self-employed individuals in the first full two-month period after the enactment of this Act; and (2) exclude from gross income any wage and self-employment income earned during the same period .

Amends the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008 to repeal procedures for authorizing the Secretary of the Treasury to obligate additional amounts under the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP).

Requires the Secretary to: (1) estimate the impact of this Act on the income and balances of the social security trust funds; and (2) transfer amounts from the Treasury to such trust funds if there is any reduction in the income and balances of such trust funds resulting from this Act. 

Terminates the authority of the Secretary under the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008 to purchase troubled assets or any preferred or other stock or equity in any financial institution.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-01-06
text: Referred to House Financial Services
action_date: 2009-01-06
text: Referred to House Ways and Means
action_date: 2009-01-06
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, 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: 2009-01-06
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-01-06
text: Introduced in House
Haitian Protection Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-144
Sponsor: Rep. Hastings, Alcee L. [D-FL-23]
Introduced: 2009-01-06 in the House
Policy area: Immigration
Subjects: Caribbean area
Haiti
Immigration status and procedures
Latin America
Refugees, asylum, displaced persons
Travel and tourism

Summary:
action_date: 2009-01-06
text: 
Haitian Protection Act of 2009 - Requires the Secretary of Homeland Security to designate Haiti as a country whose qualifying nationals may be eligible for temporary protected status. 
 
Provides for: (1) an initial 18-month designation period; and (2) authorization for temporary travel abroad.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-02-09
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration, Citizenship, Refugees, Border Security, and International Law.
action_date: 2009-01-06
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2009-01-06
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E16)
action_date: 2009-01-06
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-01-06
text: Introduced in House
Online Job Training Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-145
Sponsor: Rep. Holt, Rush [D-NJ-12]
Introduced: 2009-01-06 in the House
Policy area: Labor and Employment
Subjects: Education programs funding
Educational technology and distance education
Employment and training programs
Higher education
Internet and video services
Internet, web applications, social media
Vocational and technical education

Summary:
action_date: 2009-01-06
text: 
Online Job Training Act of 2009 - Amends the Workforce Investment Act of 1998 to direct the Secretary of Labor to make: (1) grants to states to assist them in implementing workforce investment programs that enable individuals to take courses on the Internet to enhance employment opportunities within the state workforce investment system; and (2) a grant to an eligible postsecondary educational institution to provide technical assistance to such states in implementing such programs.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-03-16
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Higher Education, Lifelong Learning, and Competitiveness.
action_date: 2009-01-06
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and Labor.
action_date: 2009-01-06
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-01-06
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow taxpayers to designate a portion of their income tax payment to provide assistance to homeless veterans, and for other purposes.

Bill: 111-hr-147
Sponsor: Rep. Israel, Steve [D-NY-2]
Introduced: 2009-01-06 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Government trust funds
Homelessness and emergency shelter
Tax administration and collection, taxpayers
Veterans' loans, housing, homeless programs

Summary:
action_date: 2009-01-06
text: 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to establish in the Treasury the Homeless Veterans Assistance Fund and to allow individual taxpayers to designate on their tax returns $3.00 of income taxes ($6.00 in the case of joint returns) to be paid over to such Fund to provide assistance to homeless veterans.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-03-04
text: Subcommittee Hearings Held.
action_date: 2009-01-09
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Economic Opportunity.
action_date: 2009-01-06
text: Referred to House Veterans' Affairs
action_date: 2009-01-06
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs, 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: 2009-01-06
text: Referred to House Ways and Means
action_date: 2009-01-06
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-01-06
text: Introduced in House
To prohibit the use of funds to transfer enemy combatants detained by the United States at Naval Station, Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, to the United States Disciplinary Barracks, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas.

Bill: 111-hr-148
Sponsor: Rep. Jenkins, Lynn [R-KS-2]
Introduced: 2009-01-06 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Appropriations
Caribbean area
Correctional facilities and imprisonment
Cuba
Defense spending
Kansas
Latin America
Law enforcement administration and funding
Military facilities and property
Terrorism

Summary:
action_date: 2009-01-06
text: 
Prohibits federal funds from being used to transfer any enemy combatant detained by the United States at Naval Station Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, to the United States Disciplinary Barracks, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-01-06
text: Referred to the House Committee on Armed Services.
action_date: 2009-01-06
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-01-06
text: Introduced in House
Presidential Signing Statements Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-149
Sponsor: Rep. Jones, Walter B., Jr. [R-NC-3]
Introduced: 2009-01-06 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Congressional oversight
Constitution and constitutional amendments
Government information and archives
Presidents and presidential powers, Vice Presidents

Summary:
action_date: 2009-01-06
text: 
Presidential Signing Statements Act of 2009 - Requires the President to transmit to the Speaker of the House of Representatives, the chairmen of the House and Senate Committees on the Judiciary, and to the Senate Majority Leader each signing statement that declares or insinuates the President's intention to disregard provisions of any bill he has signed into law because he believes it is unconstitutional.
 
Requires the President, on the same day that he signs such statement, to transmit it to the Librarian of Congress who shall place it on the Thomas Web site administered by the Library with all other such statements during that Congress.
 
Requires the Attorney General, Deputy Attorney General, or White House Counsel to testify before such congressional committees at the behest of any single Member of either committee to explain the meaning and justification of every presidential signing statement covered by this Act.
 
 Prohibits executive privilege from being recognized as a valid basis for refusing to appear or refusing to answer a question pertinent to the legal reasoning behind a signing statement or its legal ramifications.
 
Bars authorization or expenditure of federal funds to implement any law accompanied by a presidential signing statement noncompliant with this Act.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-02-09
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights, and Civil Liberties.
action_date: 2009-01-06
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2009-01-06
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-01-06
text: Introduced in House
Illegal Alien Crime Reporting Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-150
Sponsor: Rep. Jones, Walter B., Jr. [R-NC-3]
Introduced: 2009-01-06 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Border security and unlawful immigration
Census and government statistics
Criminal justice information and records
Government information and archives
Law enforcement administration and funding
State and local government operations

Summary:
action_date: 2009-01-06
text: 
Illegal Alien Crime Reporting Act of 2009 - Prohibits a state or political subdivision thereof from receiving funds under any program or activity administered by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) unless the state: (1) compiles statistics on each person who is arrested, charged with a crime, convicted, or incarcerated after being convicted of a crime by the state or political subdivision, including each person's crime, immigration status, and country of origin; (2) reports such statistics monthly to the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI); and (3) certifies compliance with these requirements monthly to the Secretary of Homeland Security. 
 
Requires each federal agency to: (1) compile such statistics for any person it arrests, charges, prosecutes to conviction, or incarcerates after conviction of a crime; and (2) report such statistics monthly to the FBI.
 
Directs the FBI to publish all statistics reported under this Act annually as a separate data collection of the FBI's Uniform Crime Reports.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-02-09
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.
action_date: 2009-02-05
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Management, Investigations, and Oversight.
action_date: 2009-01-06
text: Referred to House Homeland Security
action_date: 2009-01-06
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committee on Homeland Security, 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: 2009-01-06
text: Referred to House Judiciary
action_date: 2009-01-06
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-01-06
text: Introduced in House
Home Heating Fuels Cost Relief Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-152
Sponsor: Rep. McCarthy, Carolyn [D-NY-4]
Introduced: 2009-01-06 in the House
Policy area: Housing and Community Development
Subjects: Energy efficiency and conservation
Government lending and loan guarantees
Housing and community development funding
Income tax credits
Lighting and heating
Lighting, heating, cooling
Oil and gas
Residential rehabilitation and home repair
State and local finance

Summary:
action_date: 2009-01-06
text: 
Home Heating Fuels Cost Relief Act of 2009 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow an income-based refundable tax credit for up to $1,000 ($2,000 in the case of a joint return) of the cost of heating oil, natural gas, and propane to heat a principal residence. Terminates such credit after 2009.

Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to make grants to states to create revolving loan funds for home weatherization loans. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-01-14
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Environment.
action_date: 2009-01-06
text: Referred to House Energy and Commerce
action_date: 2009-01-06
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2009-01-06
text: Referred to House Ways and Means
action_date: 2009-01-06
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-01-06
text: Introduced in House
Worker Savings Account Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-153
Sponsor: Rep. McHugh, John M. [R-NY-23]
Introduced: 2009-01-06 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Bank accounts, deposits, capital
Employee benefits and pensions
Income tax credits
Income tax deferral
Tax administration and collection, taxpayers
Unemployment

Summary:
action_date: 2009-01-06
text: 
Worker Savings Account Act of 2009 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) establish worker savings accounts to make payments to workers during periods of unemployment; (2) treat such accounts in the same manner as individual retirement accounts (IRAs) for tax purposes; (3) allow employer matching contributions to such accounts; (4) make a portion of the tax credit for contributions to retirement accounts (saver's credit) refundable; and (5) require increases in the saver's credit to be paid into a worker savings account.

Provides that no provision of this Act shall be construed to diminish an employer's obligation to pay federal and state unemployment taxes or to reduce the amount of unemployment compensation to which a worker may be entitled. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-01-13
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E69)
action_date: 2009-01-06
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2009-01-06
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-01-06
text: Introduced in House
Workers Severance Tax Reduction Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-154
Sponsor: Rep. McHugh, John M. [R-NY-23]
Introduced: 2009-01-06 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Employee benefits and pensions
Income tax exclusion
Unemployment

Summary:
action_date: 2009-01-06
text: 
Workers Severance Tax Reduction Act of 2009 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to exclude from the gross income of individual taxpayers severance payments up to $150,000 for separation from employment due to a workforce reduction. Terminates such exclusion after 2010. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-01-13
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E69)
action_date: 2009-01-06
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2009-01-06
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-01-06
text: Introduced in House
Suspension of Federal Income Tax on Unemployment Benefits Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-155
Sponsor: Rep. McHugh, John M. [R-NY-23]
Introduced: 2009-01-06 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Income tax exclusion
Unemployment

Summary:
action_date: 2009-01-06
text: 
Suspension of Federal Income Tax on Unemployment Benefits Act of 2009 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to suspend, for taxable years beginning after December 31, 2008, and before January 1, 2011, the taxation of unemployment compensation.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-01-13
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E69)
action_date: 2009-01-06
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2009-01-06
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-01-06
text: Introduced in House
Stop the Congressional Pay Raise Act

Bill: 111-hr-156
Sponsor: Rep. Mitchell, Harry E. [D-AZ-5]
Introduced: 2009-01-06 in the House
Policy area: Congress
Subjects: Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management
Members of Congress

Summary:
action_date: 2009-01-06
text: 
Stop the Congressional Pay Raise Act - Declares that no automatic pay adjustment shall be considered to have taken effect in FY2010 in the rates of basic pay for Members of Congress under the General Schedule (thus eliminating the pay adjustment for Members for such fiscal year).


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-01-06
text: Referred to House Oversight and Government Reform
action_date: 2009-01-06
text: Referred to the Committee on House Administration, 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: 2009-01-06
text: Referred to House Administration
action_date: 2009-01-06
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E9)
action_date: 2009-01-06
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-01-06
text: Introduced in House