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Rural and Small Town Telework Tax Credit Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-3627
Sponsor: Rep. Perriello, Thomas S.P. [D-VA-5]
Introduced: 2009-09-22 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Business investment and capital
Commuting
Computers and information technology
Income tax credits

Summary:
action_date: 2009-09-22
text: 
Rural and Small Town Telework Tax Credit Act of 2009 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow employers a tax credit for the cost of installing and maintaining qualified teleworking equipment (i.e., electronic and communications equipment used to eliminate the commute to and from traditional worksites). Limits the amount of such credit to the lesser of $1,000 for each teleworking employee or $50,000. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-09-22
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2009-09-22
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-09-22
text: Introduced in House
Healthy Borderlands Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-3629
Sponsor: Rep. Rodriguez, Ciro D. [D-TX-23]
Introduced: 2009-09-22 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Border security and unlawful immigration
Environmental assessment, monitoring, research
Federal preemption
Historical and cultural resources
Hydrology and hydrography
Land transfers
Land use and conservation
Water quality
Water use and supply
Wildlife conservation and habitat protection

Summary:
action_date: 2009-09-22
text: 
Healthy Borderlands Act of 2009 - Directs the Secretary of Homeland Security to develop and implement a comprehensive mitigation plan to address the ecological and environmental impacts of border security infrastructure, measures, and activities along the international land borders of the United States.
 
Requires the plan to include measures to address and mitigate the full range of such impacts, including: (1) preserving, maintaining, and restoring wildlife migration corridors, key habitats, and the ecologically functional connectivity among key habitats sufficient to ensure that species remain viable and are able to adapt to the impacts of climate change; (2) addressing control of invasive species; (3) maintaining hydrological functionality; and (5) protection of cultural and historical resources.
 
Authorizes the Secretary to carry out the plan on any federal, state, private, or tribal lands, provided that activities are carried out in full consultation with, and with the concurrence of, the owner or entity with principal responsibility for the management of such lands.
 
Authorizes the Secretary to transfer funds of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to other federal agencies for: (1) expenditure under programs of such agencies that are designed to fund conservation-related activities on nonfederal lands; and (2) mitigation activities on federal lands managed by such agencies.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-10-06
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Border, Maritime, and Global Counterterrorism.
action_date: 2009-09-22
text: Referred to House Homeland Security
action_date: 2009-09-22
text: Referred to the Committee on Natural Resources, 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: 2009-09-22
text: Referred to House Natural Resources
action_date: 2009-09-22
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-09-22
text: Introduced in House
Adolescent Web Awareness Requires Education Act

Bill: 111-hr-3630
Sponsor: Rep. Wasserman Schultz, Debbie [D-FL-20]
Introduced: 2009-09-23 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Child safety and welfare
Computer security and identity theft
Crime prevention
Criminal justice information and records
Education programs funding
Elementary and secondary education
Government studies and investigations
Internet and video services
Internet, web applications, social media
Law enforcement administration and funding
Teaching, teachers, curricula

Summary:
action_date: 2009-09-23
text: 
Adolescent Web Awareness Requires Education Act or the AWARE Act - Directs the Attorney General to: (1) make two-year grants to certain educational agencies, nonprofit organizations, and schools to carry out Internet crime awareness and cybercrime prevention programs; (2) grant priority in making such grants to entities that meet specified criteria, including the identification and targeting of children-at-risk of engaging in cybercrimes or becoming crime victims; (3) contract for research studies on Internet crime awareness and prevention; and (4) provide technical assistance and guidance to grant recipients. 
 
Authorizes grant recipients to use funds for specified purposes, including identifying, developing, and implementing Internet crime awareness and cybercrime prevention and public awareness programs, providing professional training to teachers and school personnel on cybercrime awareness and prevention, and coordinating and funding research to investigate online risks to children.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-09-30
text: Subcommittee Hearings Held.
action_date: 2009-09-25
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.
action_date: 2009-09-23
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2009-09-23
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-09-23
text: Introduced in House
To allow the funding for the interoperable emergency communications grant program established under the Digital Television Transition and Public Safety Act of 2005 to remain available until expended through fiscal year 2012, and for other purposes.

Bill: 111-hr-3633
Sponsor: Rep. Harman, Jane [D-CA-36]
Introduced: 2009-09-23 in the House
Policy area: Science, Technology, Communications
Subjects: Broadcasting, cable, digital technologies
Emergency communications systems
Government trust funds

Summary:
action_date: 2009-09-23
text: 
Requires, notwithstanding specified provisions of the Digital Television Transition and Public Safety Act of 2005, that sums made available to administer the Public Safety Interoperable Communications Grant Program remain available until expended, but not beyond September 30, 2012.
 
Extends the period for performance of any investment approved under the Program as of enactment of this Act by one year, but not later than September 30, 2011. Allows the Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Communications and Information to extend, on a case-by-case basis, the period of performance for any such investment for a period of not more than 2 years, but not later than September 30, 2012.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-10-15
text: Ordered to be Reported by Voice Vote.
action_date: 2009-10-15
text: Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
action_date: 2009-10-15
text: Ordered to be Reported (Amended).
action_date: 2009-10-15
text: Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
action_date: 2009-10-08
text: Forwarded by Subcommittee to Full Committee by Voice Vote .
action_date: 2009-10-08
text: Subcommittee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
action_date: 2009-09-24
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Communications, Technology, and the Internet.
action_date: 2009-09-23
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2009-09-23
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E2344)
action_date: 2009-09-23
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-09-23
text: Introduced in House
Services for Ending Long-Term Homelessness Act

Bill: 111-hr-3636
Sponsor: Rep. Hastings, Alcee L. [D-FL-23]
Introduced: 2009-09-23 in the House
Policy area: Housing and Community Development
Subjects: Homelessness and emergency shelter
Housing and community development funding
Performance measurement

Summary:
action_date: 2009-09-23
text: 
Services for Ending Long-Term Homelessness Act - Amends the Public Health Service Act to require the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS), acting through the Administrator of Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, to design national strategies for providing services in supportive housing that will assist in ending chronic homelessness and to implement programs that address chronic homelessness.
 
Requires the Secretary to make matching grants to eligible entities to provide services that promote recovery and self-sufficiency and that address barriers to housing stability to chronically homeless individuals and families in, or who are scheduled to become residents of, permanent supportive housing and to other individuals and families who have voluntarily chosen to seek other housing opportunities after a period of tenancy in supportive housing.
 
Directs the Secretary to require grantees to report data regarding the performance outcomes of projects carried out under this Act, which shall include measuring and reporting specific performance outcomes related to the long-term goals of: (1) increasing stability within the community for individuals and families who have been chronically homeless; and (2) decreasing recurrence of periods of homelessness.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-09-24
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2009-09-24
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E2364)
action_date: 2009-09-23
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2009-09-23
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E2338-2339)
action_date: 2009-09-23
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-09-23
text: Introduced in House
To waive the 35-mile rule to permit recognition of Tyler Memorial Hospital as a critical access hospital under the Medicare Program.

Bill: 111-hr-3637
Sponsor: Rep. Carney, Christopher P. [D-PA-10]
Introduced: 2009-09-23 in the House
Policy area: Private Legislation

Summary:
action_date: 2009-09-23
text: 
Waives the 35-mile requirement for designation of a critical access hospital (CAH) under title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to permit recognition as a CAH of Tyler Memorial Hospital in Tunkhannock, Pennsylvania.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-09-23
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2009-09-23
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-09-23
text: Introduced in House
For the relief of Jorge-Alonso Chehade-Zegarra.

Bill: 111-hr-3638
Sponsor: Rep. McDermott, Jim [D-WA-7]
Introduced: 2009-09-23 in the House
Policy area: Private Legislation

Summary:
action_date: 2009-09-23
text: Provides for the relief of Jorge-Alonso Chehade-Zegarra.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-09-23
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2009-09-23
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-09-23
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to extend and expand the first-time homebuyers credit and to provide a loss deduction on the sale of a principal residence.

Bill: 111-hr-3640
Sponsor: Rep. Childers, Travis [D-MS-1]
Introduced: 2009-09-24 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Housing finance and home ownership
Income tax credits
Income tax deductions

Summary:
action_date: 2009-09-24
text: 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code relating to the first-time homebuyer tax credit to: (1) extend such credit to all purchasers of a principal residence; (2) limit the credit to one sale or exchange of a principal residence; and (3) extend such credit through November 30, 2010.
 
Allows individual taxpayers a tax deduction through 2010 for losses from the sale or exchange of a principal residence. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-09-24
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2009-09-24
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-09-24
text: Introduced in House
Military Families Affordable Homes Act

Bill: 111-hr-3641
Sponsor: Rep. Nye, Glenn C. [D-VA-2]
Introduced: 2009-09-24 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Housing finance and home ownership
Income tax exclusion
Low- and moderate-income housing
Military personnel and dependents
Securities

Summary:
action_date: 2009-09-24
text: 
Military Families Affordable Homes Act - Amends Internal Revenue Code provisions relating to tax-exempt facility bonds to expand the eligibility of military personnel for low-income residential rental housing financed by such bonds.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-09-24
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2009-09-24
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-09-24
text: Introduced in House
To make technical corrections to section 3013(b) of the Water Resources Development Act of 2007.

Bill: 111-hr-3643
Sponsor: Rep. Alexander, Rodney [R-LA-5]
Introduced: 2009-09-24 in the House
Policy area: Water Resources Development
Subjects: Arkansas
Floods and storm protection
Lakes and rivers
Louisiana

Summary:
action_date: 2009-09-24
text: 
Makes a technical amendment to the Flood Control Act of 1941 regarding the Red-Ouachita River Basin Levees, Arkansas and Louisiana.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-09-25
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment.
action_date: 2009-09-24
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2009-09-24
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-09-24
text: Introduced in House
Indian School Bus Route Safety Reauthorization Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-3645
Sponsor: Rep. Kirkpatrick, Ann [D-AZ-1]
Introduced: 2009-09-24 in the House
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Government trust funds
Indian lands and resources rights
Roads and highways
Transportation programs funding

Summary:
action_date: 2009-09-24
text: 
Indian School Bus Route Safety Reauthorization Act of 2009 - Amends the Transportation Equity Act for the 21st Century to authorize appropriations for FY2010-FY2015 for allocations to states for Indian reservation roads.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-09-25
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Highways and Transit.
action_date: 2009-09-24
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2009-09-24
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-09-24
text: Introduced in House
Broadband Affordability Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-3646
Sponsor: Rep. Matsui, Doris O. [D-CA-5]
Introduced: 2009-09-24 in the House
Policy area: Science, Technology, Communications
Subjects: Broadcasting, cable, digital technologies
Competition and antitrust
Consumer affairs
Licensing and registrations
Telecommunication rates and fees

Summary:
action_date: 2009-09-24
text: 
Broadband Affordability Act of 2009 - Requires the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to establish a broadband lifeline program enabling qualifying low-income customers residing in urban and rural areas to purchase broadband service at reduced charges by reimbursing providers for each such customer served. 
 
Requires that the program: (1) be similar in structure to the Lifeline program for basic telephone service; and (2) promote competition from broadband service providers by using neutral technology.
 
Requires a broadband service provider that is not an eligible telecommunications carrier to obtain FCC authorization to participate in the program.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-09-25
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Communications, Technology, and the Internet.
action_date: 2009-09-24
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2009-09-24
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-09-24
text: Introduced in House
To delay the implementation of the provisions of the Consolidated Natural Resources Act of 2008 applying Federal immigration laws to the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, and for other purposes.

Bill: 111-hr-3647
Sponsor: Del. Sablan, Gregorio Kilili Camacho [D-MP-At Large]
Introduced: 2009-09-24 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Congressional oversight
Immigration status and procedures
Northern Mariana Islands
U.S. territories and protectorates
Visas and passports

Summary:
action_date: 2009-09-24
text: 
Makes December 1, 2010, the effective date for applying U.S. immigration laws to the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands (CNMI).
 
Directs the Secretary of Homeland Security (DHS) to report to Congress regarding such laws' application to the CNMI.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-10-19
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration, Citizenship, Refugees, Border Security, and International Law.
action_date: 2009-09-25
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Insular Affairs, Oceans and Wildlife.
action_date: 2009-09-24
text: Referred to House Judiciary
action_date: 2009-09-24
text: Referred to the Committee on Natural Resources, and in addition to the Committee on 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: 2009-09-24
text: Referred to House Natural Resources
action_date: 2009-09-24
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-09-24
text: Introduced in House
Rural Physician Pipeline Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-3648
Sponsor: Rep. Salazar, John T. [D-CO-3]
Introduced: 2009-09-24 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Education programs funding
Health care coverage and access
Health personnel
Health programs administration and funding
Medical education
Rural conditions and development

Summary:
action_date: 2009-09-24
text: 
Rural Physician Pipeline Act of 2009 - Amends the Public Health Service Act to require the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS), acting through the Administrator of the Health Resources and Services Administration, to establish a program to make grants to accredited schools of allopathic or osteopathic medicine to: (1) assist such schools in recruiting students most likely to practice medicine in underserved rural communities; (2) provide rural-focused training and experience; and (3) increase the number of recent allopathic and osteopathic medical school graduates who practice in underserved rural communities.
 
Requires the Secretary to convene a Rural Training Program Symposium to: (1) develop best practices for such schools; and (2) establish a network of medical schools that have developed or will develop rural training programs.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-09-25
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2009-09-24
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2009-09-24
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-09-24
text: Introduced in House
For the relief of Maria Carmen Castro Ramirez and J. Refugio Carreno Rojas.

Bill: 111-hr-3649
Sponsor: Rep. Pelosi, Nancy [D-CA-8]
Introduced: 2009-09-24 in the House
Policy area: Private Legislation

Summary:
action_date: 2009-09-24
text: Provides for the relief of Maria Carmen Castro Ramirez and J. Refugio Carreno Rojas.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-09-24
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2009-09-24
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-09-24
text: Introduced in House
Impact Aid Fairness and Equity Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-3651
Sponsor: Rep. Boren, Dan [D-OK-2]
Introduced: 2009-09-25 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Education programs funding
Educational facilities and institutions
Elementary and secondary education
Government buildings, facilities, and property
Indian lands and resources rights
Military facilities and property
Military personnel and dependents
State and local finance
State and local taxation

Summary:
action_date: 2009-09-25
text: 
Impact Aid Fairness and Equity Act of 2009 - Amends the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965, with respect to the Impact Aid program (which compensates local educational agencies (LEAs) for the financial burden of federal activities affecting their areas), to alter the formula for determining the payments due LEAs for federal ownership of property in their areas. 
 
Prohibits LEAs from being paid amounts that: (1) exceed their total current expenditures in the second prior fiscal year; or (2) are less than 85% of their payment for the prior fiscal year, in FYs 2010, 2011, and 2012.
 
Requires the ratable reduction of payments due LEAs for federal ownership of property when appropriations for a fiscal year are insufficient to provide them with full compensation. 
 
Alters the formula for determining the payments due LEAs for eligible federally-connected children.
 
Includes not only children in average daily attendance, but also those enrolled pursuant to a state open enrollment policy. Caps such payments for heavily impacted LEAs at the amount needed to raise their per-pupil expenditures to the higher of 110% of the average per-pupil expenditure of their state or the average per-pupil expenditure of three comparable LEAs. Continues a heavily impacted LEA's eligibility for such payments while activities associated with military base closures and realignments or force structure changes or relocations are ongoing.
 
Alters the formula for determining the construction payments due LEAs that are eligible for other Impact Aid payments.
 
Requires the Secretary of Education to use all Impact Aid construction appropriations to award: (1) emergency construction grants to LEAs that have no practical capacity, or minimal capacity, to issue bonds or are otherwise eligible for Impact Aid and have a school facility emergency; and (2) modernization grants to LEAs that are eligible for other Impact Aid payments.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-11-16
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education.
action_date: 2009-09-25
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and Labor.
action_date: 2009-09-25
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-09-25
text: Introduced in House