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Rio Grande Pueblos Irrigation Infrastructure Improvement Act

Bill: 111-hr-924
Sponsor: Rep. Lujan, Ben Ray [D-NM-3]
Introduced: 2009-02-09 in the House
Policy area: Water Resources Development
Subjects: Federal-Indian relations
Government studies and investigations
Indian lands and resources rights
Infrastructure development
New Mexico
Water resources funding
Water use and supply

Summary:
action_date: 2009-02-09
text: 
Rio Grande Pueblos Irrigation Infrastructure Improvement Act - Directs the Secretary of the Interior, acting through the Commissioner of Reclamation, to: (1) conduct a study of irrigation infrastructure for 18 Rio Grande Pueblos in New Mexico; and (2) develop a list of projects recommended to be implemented over a 10-year period to repair, rehabilitate, or reconstruct such infrastructure. 

Directs the Secretary, in developing that list, to prioritize the projects recommended for implementation based on consideration of specified factors, including the extent of disrepair of the infrastructure, economic and cultural impacts of such disrepair, and overall benefits of the project to efficient water operations. 

Authorizes the Secretary (subject to specified limitations) to provide grants to the Pueblos to plan, design, construct, or otherwise implement recommended projects to repair, rehabilitate, reconstruct, or replace Pueblo irrigation infrastructure to: (1) increase water use efficiency and agricultural productivity for the benefit of a Pueblo; (2) conserve water; or (3) otherwise enhance water management or help avert water supply conflicts in the Rio Grande Basin.

Sets the federal share of the project's cost at 75%, with an exception based on financial hardship. 

Provides that nothing in this Act shall affect existing project-specific authority, U.S. responsibilities to any such Pueblo, Pueblo water rights, state water law, or an interstate compact governing water.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-02-12
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Water and Power.
action_date: 2009-02-09
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2009-02-09
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-02-09
text: Introduced in House
Northwestern New Mexico Rural Water Projects Act

Bill: 111-hr-925
Sponsor: Rep. Lujan, Ben Ray [D-NM-3]
Introduced: 2009-02-09 in the House
Policy area: Water Resources Development
Subjects: Arizona
Endangered and threatened species
Environmental assessment, monitoring, research
Federal-Indian relations
Fishes
Government trust funds
Indian claims
Indian lands and resources rights
Interest, dividends, interest rates
Montana
New Mexico
Public contracts and procurement
Water resources funding
Water storage
Water use and supply
Wildlife conservation and habitat protection

Summary:
action_date: 2009-02-09
text: 
Northwestern New Mexico Rural Water Projects Act - Amends the Colorado River Storage Project Act to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to: (1) create and operate within the available capacity of Navajo Reservoir (the reservoir created by the impoundment of the San Juan River at Navajo Dam) a top water bank; and (2) construct, operate, and maintain the Navajo Indian Irrigation Project.

Establishes in the Treasury a Reclamation Water Settlements Fund. Authorizes the Secretary to expend from the Fund up to a specified amount to implement a settlement agreement approved by Congress that resolves litigation involving the United States if the agreement or implementing legislation requires the Bureau of Reclamation to provide financial assistance for, or plan, design, and construct: (1) water supply infrastructure; or (2) a project to rehabilitate a water delivery system to conserve water or to improve environmental conditions associated with an existing reclamation project. Requires the Secretary to expend specified sums for completion of the Navajo-Gallup water supply project and other New Mexico and Montana settlements. 

Authorizes the Secretary to: (1) design, construct, operate, and maintain the Navajo-Gallup Water Supply Project in substantial accordance with the draft environmental impact statement prepared by the Bureau; and (2) construct, operate, and maintain specified Project facilities to provide for the delivery of San Juan River water to Gallup, New Mexico, the Navajo Nation, and the Jicarilla Apache Nation. Directs the Secretary to: (1) reserve up to 26 megawatts of power for Project use; and (2) identify projects recommended to repair, rehabilitate, or reconstruct Non-Navajo Irrigation District diversion and ditch facilitites to improve water use efficiency. 

Approves, ratifies, and confirms the Agreement among New Mexico, the Navajo Nation, and the United States setting forth a stipulated and binding agreement signed by New Mexico and the Navajo Nation on April 19, 2005. Directs the Secretary to enter into that agreement to the extent that it does not conflict with this Act.

Establishes in the Treasury the Navajo Nation Water Resources Development Trust Fund.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-02-12
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Water and Power.
action_date: 2009-02-09
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2009-02-09
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-02-09
text: Introduced in House
Cache La Poudre River National Heritage Area Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-926
Sponsor: Rep. Markey, Betsy [D-CO-4]
Introduced: 2009-02-09 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Colorado
Historic sites and heritage areas
Historical and cultural resources
Lakes and rivers
Parks, recreation areas, trails

Summary:
action_date: 2009-02-09
text: 
Cache La Poudre River National Heritage Area Act of 2009 - Establishes the Cache La Poudre River National Heritage Area in Colorado. Designates the Poudre Heritage Alliance, a nonprofit, as the local coordinating entity for the Heritage Area. Requires the Alliance to prepare and submit a management plan for the Heritage Area. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-02-11
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests and Public Lands.
action_date: 2009-02-09
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2009-02-09
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-02-09
text: Introduced in House
Satellite Consumers' Right to Local Channels Act

Bill: 111-hr-927
Sponsor: Rep. Stupak, Bart [D-MI-1]
Introduced: 2009-02-09 in the House
Policy area: Science, Technology, Communications
Subjects: Broadcasting, cable, digital technologies
Spacecraft and satellites
Television and film

Summary:
action_date: 2009-02-09
text: 
 Satellite Consumers' Right to Local Channels Act - Amends the Communications Act of 1934 to require each satellite carrier providing secondary transmissions in the local market of a television broadcast station to carry, on request, the signals of all television broadcast stations located within any local market (under current law, located within that local market), subject to existing broadcast signal retransmission consent provisions.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-02-10
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Communications, Technology, and the Internet.
action_date: 2009-02-09
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2009-02-09
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-02-09
text: Introduced in House
To establish the Mississippi Delta National Heritage Area and the Mississippi Hills National Heritage Area, and for other purposes.

Bill: 111-hr-928
Sponsor: Rep. Thompson, Bennie G. [D-MS-2]
Introduced: 2009-02-09 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Historic sites and heritage areas
Historical and cultural resources
Lakes and rivers
Land use and conservation
Mississippi
Mississippi River
Parks, recreation areas, trails

Summary:
action_date: 2009-02-09
text: 
Mississippi Delta National Heritage Area Act of 2009 - Establishes the Mississippi Delta National Heritage Area. Designates the Mississippi Delta National Heritage Partnership as the coordinating entity for the Area. Requires the Partnership to develop and submit a management plan for the Area.

Mississippi Hills National Heritage Area Act of 2009 - Establishes the Mississippi Hills National Heritage Area. Designates the Mississippi Hills Heritage Area Alliance as the coordinating entity for the Area. Requires the Alliance to develop and submit a management plan for the Area. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-02-12
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests and Public Lands.
action_date: 2009-02-09
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2009-02-09
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-02-09
text: Introduced in House
To amend title 38, United States Code, to require the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to carry out a program of training to provide eligible veterans with skills relevant to the job market, and for other purposes.

Bill: 111-hr-929
Sponsor: Rep. Welch, Peter [D-VT-At Large]
Introduced: 2009-02-09 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Employment and training programs
Veterans' education, employment, rehabilitation
Wages and earnings

Summary:
action_date: 2009-02-09
text: 
Directs the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to carry out a program of job training in skills relevant to the job market for discharged veterans who are either currently not paid at more than 150% of the federal minimum wage, or: (1) had a military occupational specialty of limited transferability to the civilian job market; (2) are not otherwise eligible for veterans' education or training services; (3) have not acquired a marketable skill since leaving military service; (4) were discharged under conditions not less than honorable; and (5) have been unemployed for at least 90 of the previous 180 days. Designates the program as the MOST (military occupational specialty transition) Program. Directs the Secretary to contract with employers to provide on-the-job training or apprenticeship programs for such veterans. Limits payments under the program to $20,000 per veteran and 24 months in duration.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-07-15
text: Forwarded by Subcommittee to Full Committee (Amended) by Voice Vote .
action_date: 2010-07-15
text: Subcommittee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
action_date: 2009-03-04
text: Subcommittee Hearings Held.
action_date: 2009-02-13
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Economic Opportunity.
action_date: 2009-02-09
text: Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2009-02-09
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-02-09
text: Introduced in House
Psoriasis and Psoriatic Arthritis Research, Cure, and Care Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-930
Sponsor: Rep. Wu, David [D-OR-1]
Introduced: 2009-02-10 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Government information and archives
Government studies and investigations
Health care costs and insurance
Health care coverage and access
Health information and medical records
Health programs administration and funding
Immunology and vaccination
Medical research
Musculoskeletal and skin diseases
Research administration and funding

Summary:
action_date: 2009-02-10
text: 
Psoriasis and Psoriatic Arthritis Research, Cure, and Care Act of 2009 - Requires the Secretary of Health and Human Services, acting through the Director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), to continue to expand and intensify research and related NIH activities with respect to psoriasis and psoriatic arthritis. 
 
Requires the Directors of the National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases and the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases to continue to conduct and support research to expand understanding of the causes of, and to find a cure for, psoriasis and psoriatic arthritis.
 
Requires the Secretary, acting through the Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), to undertake psoriasis and psoriatic arthritis data collection and develop a psoriasis and psoriatic arthritis patient registry. 
 
Encourages the Secretary to convene a summit on federal efforts regarding psoriasis and psoriatic arthritis research, treatment, education, quality-of-life, and data collection. 
 
Directs the Secretary to enter into an agreement with the Institutes of Medicine to study insurance coverage of psoriasis and psoriatic arthritis.
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-02-11
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2009-02-10
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2009-02-10
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-02-10
text: Introduced in House
Veterans Employment Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-931
Sponsor: Rep. Nye, Glenn C. [D-VA-2]
Introduced: 2009-02-10 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Income tax credits
Unemployment
Veterans' education, employment, rehabilitation

Summary:
action_date: 2009-02-10
text: 
Veterans Employment Act of 2009 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow a work opportunity tax credit for the hiring in 2009 or 2010 of unemployed veterans discharged from active duty between September 11, 2001, and December 31, 2010.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-02-10
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2009-02-10
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-02-10
text: Introduced in House
Community Regeneration, Sustainability, and Innovation Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-932
Sponsor: Rep. Ryan, Tim [D-OH-17]
Introduced: 2009-02-10 in the House
Policy area: Housing and Community Development
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Department of Housing and Urban Development
Housing and community development funding
Housing supply and affordability
Land transfers
Land use and conservation
Public participation and lobbying
Residential rehabilitation and home repair
State and local government operations
State and local taxation
Urban and suburban affairs and development

Summary:
action_date: 2009-02-10
text: 
Community Regeneration, Sustainability, and Innovation Act of 2009 - Directs the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) to carry out a demonstration program, under multiyear cooperative agreements with local governments experiencing at least 20% population loss since 1970 (or consortia of them), to encourage and test innovative vacant property reclamation and urban infrastructure renewal strategies in older industrial cities, their suburbs, and metropolitan areas with a history of severe population and employment loss, blight, and decay caused by vacant properties.
 
Specifies as vacant property and program capacity activities establishment of: (1) local or regional land banks; (2) recovered building materials reuse and recycling infrastructure, facilities, and technical support; (3) local government purchasing requirements for deconstruction to make use of existing building materials stock in new and rehabilitation construction; and (4) the ability of state and local courts and administrative agencies to address problems caused by vacant and abandoned properties, and to facilitate their transfer to public control under a local or regional land bank.
 
Enumerates other related activities, including: (1) expansion and improvement of code enforcement capabilities; (2) development of data and information systems such as comprehensive real property systems, early warning systems, and vacant property inventory and tracking systems; and (3) amendment or reform of state and local property tax foreclosure procedures.
 
Specifies stabilization, design, development, reuse, and planning and policy innovation activities.
 
Requires an applicant local government or consortium to establish a regeneration plan for the community or region. Directs the Secretary by regulation to provide for citizen participation requirements relating to the development and implementation of such plans.
 
Authorizes the Secretary to make grants to local governments (and consortia of them) for sustainability demonstration projects.
 
Directs the Secretary to convene a Federal Interagency Regeneration Communities Coordinating Council to develop federal agency support plans for communities receiving such grants.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-02-10
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2009-02-10
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-02-10
text: Introduced in House
Family-Friendly Workplace Act

Bill: 111-hr-933
Sponsor: Rep. McMorris Rodgers, Cathy [R-WA-5]
Introduced: 2009-02-10 in the House
Policy area: Labor and Employment
Subjects: Civil actions and liability
Employee leave
Employment discrimination and employee rights
Labor-management relations
Wages and earnings

Summary:
action_date: 2009-02-10
text: 
Family-Friendly Workplace Act - Amends the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 to authorize private employers to provide compensatory time off to private employees at a rate of 1 1/2 hours per hour of employment for which overtime compensation is required. Authorizes an employer to provide compensatory time only if it is in accordance with an applicable collective bargaining agreement or, in the absence of such an agreement, an agreement between the employer and employee.
 
Prohibits an employee from accruing more than 160 hours of compensatory time. Requires an employee's employer to provide monetary compensation, after the end of a calendar year, for any unused compensatory time off accrued during the preceding year.
 
Requires an employer to give employees 30-day notice before discontinuing compensatory time off.
 
Prohibits an employer from intimidating, threatening, or coercing an employee in order to: (1) interfere with the employee's right to request or not to request compensatory time off in lieu of payment of monetary overtime compensation; or (2) require an employee to use such compensatory time.
 
Makes an employer who violates such requirements liable to the affected employee in the amount of the compensation rate for each hour of compensatory time accrued, plus an additional equal amount as liquidated damages, reduced for each hour of compensatory time used.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-03-23
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Workforce Protections.
action_date: 2009-02-10
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and Labor.
action_date: 2009-02-10
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E228)
action_date: 2009-02-10
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-02-10
text: Introduced in House
To amend title 10, United States Code, to increase the number of persons appointed to the military service academies from the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands and American Samoa from nominations made by the Delegates in Congress from the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands and American Samoa.

Bill: 111-hr-935
Sponsor: Del. Sablan, Gregorio Kilili Camacho [D-MP-At Large]
Introduced: 2009-02-10 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: American Samoa
Higher education
Military education and training
Military personnel and dependents
Northern Mariana Islands

Summary:
action_date: 2009-02-10
text: 
Increases the authorized number of annual appointments to the military service academies from: (1) the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands from one to three; and (2) American Samoa from two to three.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-02-10
text: Referred to the House Committee on Armed Services.
action_date: 2009-02-10
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-02-10
text: Introduced in House
National Trauma Center Stabilization Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-936
Sponsor: Rep. Towns, Edolphus [D-NY-10]
Introduced: 2009-02-10 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Computers and information technology
Emergency medical services and trauma care
Health care costs and insurance
Health care coverage and access
Health facilities and institutions
Health information and medical records
Health programs administration and funding

Summary:
action_date: 2009-02-10
text: 
National Trauma Center Stabilization Act of 2009 - Amends the Public Health Service Act to revise provisions governing grants to trauma centers. Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services to establish four programs to award grants to public or nonprofit trauma centers to: (1) assist in defraying substantial uncompensated care costs; (2) further a center's core mission; (3) provide emergency relief to ensure continued and future availability of trauma service; and (4) support the development and maintenance of innovative information technology systems. 

Sets forth: (1) minimum qualifications of eligible centers, including requirements for levels of uncompensated care provided; and (2) preferences for awarding grants among level I, II, III, and IV trauma centers and among centers based on the changing availability of or demand for trauma care in the area served and financial need. Requires grantees to submit a long-term plan for providing trauma care.

Requires the Secretary to: (1) annually determine and notify centers of their eligibility to receive a grant; and (2) periodically report on the status of such grants, the financial stability of the centers, the populations using the centers, and the effectiveness and efficiency of center activities.

Authorizes appropriations for such grants for FY2010-FY2015 and specifies percentages to be reserved for the different types of grants.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-02-11
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2009-02-10
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2009-02-10
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-02-10
text: Introduced in House
Visitors Interested in Strengthening America (VISA) Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-937
Sponsor: Rep. Filner, Bob [D-CA-51]
Introduced: 2009-02-10 in the House
Policy area: Immigration
Subjects: Area studies and international education
Community life and organization
Cultural exchanges and relations
Family relationships
Health care coverage and access
Immigration status and procedures
Latin America
Mexico
Visas and passports

Summary:
action_date: 2009-02-10
text: Visitors Interested in Strengthening America (VISA) Act of 2009 - Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to authorize a Department of Homeland Security (DHS) official to waive certain entry documentary requirements for a nonimmigrant child (unmarried and under the age of 16) who is a citizen or national of Mexico and accompanying parent or adult chaperone in instances of medical visits, student groups, or special community events. 
Sets forth additional requirements for such entries.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-03-16
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration, Citizenship, Refugees, Border Security, and International Law.
action_date: 2009-02-12
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E254)
action_date: 2009-02-10
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2009-02-10
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-02-10
text: Introduced in House