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Safe Routes to High Schools Act

Bill: 111-hr-4021
Sponsor: Rep. Blumenauer, Earl [D-OR-3]
Introduced: 2009-11-04 in the House
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Educational facilities and institutions
Elementary and secondary education
Infrastructure development
Pedestrians and bicycling
Transportation programs funding

Summary:
action_date: 2009-11-04
text: 
Safe Routes to High Schools Act - Amends the Safe, Accountable, Flexible, Efficient Transportation Equity Act: A Legacy for Users (SAFETEA-LU) to include high school students as beneficiaries of the safe routes to school program. (Currently, the program provides funding to states for projects that encourage, and enhance the ability of, primary and secondary school students to walk or bike to school safely.)
 
Requires states to give priority to projects for primary and middle schools and to projects that propose to serve a combination of at least one primary, middle, and high school within the same school district.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-11-05
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Highways and Transit.
action_date: 2009-11-04
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2009-11-04
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E2717)
action_date: 2009-11-04
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-11-04
text: Introduced in House
Gulf Oyster Protection Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-4022
Sponsor: Rep. Boyd, Allen [D-FL-2]
Introduced: 2009-11-04 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Department of Health and Human Services
Food supply, safety, and labeling
Marine and coastal resources, fisheries
Seafood

Summary:
action_date: 2009-11-04
text: 
Gulf Oyster Protection Act of 2009 - Prohibits the use of federal funds to establish or implement any requirement for the control of Vibrio vulnificus applicable to the post-harvest processing of oysters that is in addition to federal requirements applicable to such processing as of the date of enactment of this Act.
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-11-05
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2009-11-05
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Commerce, Trade and Consumer Protection.
action_date: 2009-11-04
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2009-11-04
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-11-04
text: Introduced in House
To provide for cost-of-living adjustment of the resources limits under the Supplemental Security Income Program.

Bill: 111-hr-4023
Sponsor: Rep. Duncan, John J., Jr. [R-TN-2]
Introduced: 2009-11-04 in the House
Policy area: Social Welfare
Subjects: Inflation and prices
Poverty and welfare assistance

Summary:
action_date: 2009-11-04
text: 
Amends title XVI (Supplemental Security Income) of the Social Security Act to redefine the resource limits, with cost-of-living adjustments, in the formulae for determining SSI eligibility. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-11-04
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2009-11-04
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-11-04
text: Introduced in House
Native Hawaiian Health Care Improvement Reauthorization Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-4024
Sponsor: Rep. Hirono, Mazie K. [D-HI-2]
Introduced: 2009-11-04 in the House
Policy area: Native Americans
Subjects: Alaska Natives and Hawaiians
Alternative treatments
Congressional oversight
Education programs funding
Hawaii
Health care coverage and access
Health facilities and institutions
Health programs administration and funding
Medical education
Student aid and college costs

Summary:
action_date: 2009-11-04
text: 
Native Hawaiian Health Care Improvement Reauthorization Act of 2009 - Reauthorizes for for FY2009-FY2014 and revises the Native Hawaiian Health Care Improvement Act. Requires any Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) grant to or contract with Papa Ola Lokahi (an organization of public agencies and private organizations focused on improving the health status of Native Hawaiians) to support community-based initiatives that reflect holistic approaches to health. 
 
Requires Papa Ola Lokahi to report to Congress on the impact of federal and state health care financing mechanisms and policies on the health and well-being of Native Hawaiians. 
Makes Papa Ola Lokahi eligible to receive research endowments under the Public Health Service Act. 
Adds to authorized services the support of culturally appropriate activities enhancing health and wellness, including land-, water-, ocean-, and spiritually-based projects and programs. 
Allows a priority for Native Hawaiian health scholarships to be provided to employees of the Native Hawaiian Health Care Systems and the Native Hawaiian Health Centers. Allows the provision of financial assistance to a scholarship recipient during the period of obligated service in any of such health care systems or health centers. 
Authorizes Papa Ola Lokahi to provide fellowships to Native Hawaiian health professionals. 
Authorizes the Secretary of Health and Human Services to allocate funds to carry out Native Hawaiian demonstration projects of national significance, including the establishment of specified Native Hawaiian Centers of Excellence. Deems the Papa Ola Lokahi as a qualified Center of Excellence.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-11-05
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2009-11-04
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2009-11-04
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E2707)
action_date: 2009-11-04
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-11-04
text: Introduced in House
To provide for justice and compensation for United States citizens taken hostage by Iran, and for other purposes.

Bill: 111-hr-4025
Sponsor: Rep. Ros-Lehtinen, Ileana [R-FL-18]
Introduced: 2009-11-04 in the House
Policy area: Law
Subjects: Bank accounts, deposits, capital
Civil actions and liability
Crime victims
Diplomacy, foreign officials, Americans abroad
Government liability
Government trust funds
International law and treaties
Iran
Jurisdiction and venue
Middle East
Military assistance, sales, and agreements
Terrorism

Summary:
action_date: 2009-11-04
text: 
States that: (1) it is U.S. policy to seek justice for U.S. victims of terrorism and to hold terrorists and their state-sponsors accountable for their actions; and (2) U.S. law regarding victims of terrorism supersedes the Algiers Accords and any other agreement with Iran stemming from the holding of U.S. hostages in Iran from November 1979 through January 1981.
 
Abrogates and deems not applicable any provision of the Algiers Accords, entered into with Iran on January 19, 1981, that purports to prohibit a U.S. citizen from prosecuting any claim relating to such hostage taking in any U.S. court or to limit the jurisdiction of any U.S. court with respect to such matter.
 
Requires the President to direct payments as provided for by this Act to a common fund to be established and administered by certified class representatives for U.S. citizens who were hostages in Iran.
 

 
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-01-04
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration, Citizenship, Refugees, Border Security, and International Law.
action_date: 2009-11-04
text: Referred to House Foreign Affairs
action_date: 2009-11-04
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committee on Foreign 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: 2009-11-04
text: Referred to House Judiciary
action_date: 2009-11-04
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-11-04
text: Introduced in House
Preventing All Your Bucks from Aiding non-Citizens is Key Act

Bill: 111-hr-4026
Sponsor: Rep. Space, Zachary T. [D-OH-18]
Introduced: 2009-11-04 in the House
Policy area: International Affairs
Subjects: Border security and unlawful immigration
Foreign aid and international relief
Foreign loans and debt
Health care costs and insurance
Long-term, rehabilitative, and terminal care

Summary:
action_date: 2009-11-04
text: 
Preventing All Your Bucks from Aiding non-Citizens is Key Act or PAYBACK Act - Withholds from assistance to a foreign country 110% of the costs incurred by U.S. hospitals and other medical facilities for the long-term care of aliens unlawfully present in the United States from such country until the President certifies to Congress that such costs are fully paid. 
 
Authorizes: (1) a national security waiver of such requirement; and (2) withheld funds to be used for border protection and prevention of illegal immigration.
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-12-04
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Border, Maritime, and Global Counterterrorism.
action_date: 2009-11-04
text: Referred to House Homeland Security
action_date: 2009-11-04
text: Referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, 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: 2009-11-04
text: Referred to House Foreign Affairs
action_date: 2009-11-04
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-11-04
text: Introduced in House
American Taxpayer and Western Area Power Administration Firm Power Customer Protection Act

Bill: 111-hr-4027
Sponsor: Rep. Hastings, Doc [R-WA-4]
Introduced: 2009-11-05 in the House
Policy area: Energy
Subjects: Dams and canals
Electric power generation and transmission
Government lending and loan guarantees
Public utilities and utility rates
Water resources funding

Summary:
action_date: 2009-11-05
text: 
American Taxpayer and Western Area Power Administration Firm Power Customer Protection Act - Amends the Hoover Power Plant Act of 1984, as amended by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, regarding the borrowing authority of the Western Area Power Administration.
 
Repeals the mandatory forgiveness of: (1) remaining balances owed to the Treasury at the end of a project's useful life; and (2) funds expended to study projects that are not constructed.
 
Requires the Administrator of Western Area Power Administration to certify, prior to committing funds for any power transmission and delivery project in which it participates, that appropriate agreements have been executed to ensure that project beneficiaries will be solely responsible for repaying the entire capital and operational costs of the project.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-11-10
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Water and Power.
action_date: 2009-11-05
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2009-11-05
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E2726)
action_date: 2009-11-05
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-11-05
text: Introduced in House
Rural Veterans Services Outreach and Training Act

Bill: 111-hr-4028
Sponsor: Rep. Wu, David [D-OR-1]
Introduced: 2009-11-05 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Government information and archives
Government studies and investigations
Rural conditions and development
State and local government operations
Veterans' education, employment, rehabilitation
Veterans' loans, housing, homeless programs
Veterans' medical care
Veterans' pensions and compensation

Summary:
action_date: 2009-11-05
text: 
Rural Veterans Services Outreach and Training Act - Directs the Secretary of Veterans Affairs (VA) to carry out a program to make competitive grants to provide financial assistance to state departments of veterans affairs for the training of rural county veteran service officers in order to improve outreach and assistance to veterans, as well as their spouses, children, and parents, who may be eligible to receive veterans' or veterans-related benefits and who are residing in rural counties. Limits each grant to $2 million. Requires grants to be made on an annual basis.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-11-06
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2009-11-05
text: Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2009-11-05
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-11-05
text: Introduced in House
Puget Sound Recovery Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-4029
Sponsor: Rep. Dicks, Norman D. [D-WA-6]
Introduced: 2009-11-05 in the House
Policy area: Environmental Protection
Subjects: Advisory bodies
Aquatic ecology
Canada
Endangered and threatened species
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
Environmental assessment, monitoring, research
Environmental technology
Executive agency funding and structure
International organizations and cooperation
Marine and coastal resources, fisheries
Puget Sound
Washington State
Water quality
Watersheds
Wetlands

Summary:
action_date: 2009-11-05
text: 
Puget Sound Recovery Act of 2009 - Amends the Federal Water Pollution Control Act (commonly known as the Clean Water Act) to direct the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to: (1) establish a Puget Sound Program Office, to be co-located with the Puget Sound Partnership in Washington; and (2) appoint a Director of the Office.
 
Requires the Administrator, acting through the Director, to: (1) assist and support the implementation of the Puget Sound Action Agenda; (2) provide funding and make grants for implementation of the Agenda and related projects; (3) promote methodologies and technologies that are cost-effective and consistent with the goals and objectives of the Agenda and the EPA permitting processes; (4) coordinate the major functions of the federal government relating to the implementation of the Agenda; (5) coordinate the research and planning projects authorized under this Act with federal and state agencies, tribes, universities, and the Puget Sound Partnership's Science Panel; (6) track progress toward meeting the identified goals and objectives of the Agenda; (7) coordinate projects, programs, and studies for the protection of Puget Sound, the Strait of Georgia, and the Strait of Juan de Fuca with Canadian authorities; (8) collect and make available to the public publications and information relating to the environmental quality of Puget Sound; and (9) implement projects, programs, and studies to implement the Agenda. 
 
Requires the Administrator to establish a Puget Sound Program Advisory Council to provide advice on the implementation of the Agenda's goals and objectives.
 
 
Requires the Administrator and the Executive Director of the Puget Sound Partnership to a report, biennially, to Congress on implementation of the Agenda.
 
Allows the Administrator, acting through the Director, to make grants for projects, programs, and studies to implement the Agenda, including a comprehensive grant to the Partnership to manage such implementation.
 
Requires the President, as part of the annual budget, to submit information regarding expenditures and roles of each federal agency involved in Puget Sound protection and restoration.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-11-06
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment.
action_date: 2009-11-05
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2009-11-05
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E2729)
action_date: 2009-11-05
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-11-05
text: Introduced in House
To suspend temporarily the duty on Triethylenediamine.

Bill: 111-hr-4030
Sponsor: Rep. Dent, Charles W. [R-PA-15]
Introduced: 2009-11-05 in the House
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Tariffs

Summary:
action_date: 2009-11-05
text: Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to suspend temporarily the duty on Triethylenediamine.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-11-05
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2009-11-05
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-11-05
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Energy Policy and Conservation Act to establish a motor efficiency rebate program.

Bill: 111-hr-4031
Sponsor: Rep. Baldwin, Tammy [D-WI-2]
Introduced: 2009-11-05 in the House
Policy area: Energy
Subjects: Electric power generation and transmission
Energy efficiency and conservation

Summary:
action_date: 2009-11-05
text: 
Amends the Energy Policy and Conservation Act to require the Secretary of Energy to establish a program to provide rebates for expenditures made by entities: (1) for the purchase and installation of a new electric motor that has a nominal full load efficiency that is not less than the nominal full load efficiency as defined in NEMA (National Electrical Manufacturers Association) Standards Publication MG 1-2006 for random wound motors rated 600 volts or lower or for form wound motors rated 5000 volts or lower; and (2) to replace an installed motor the specifications of which are to be established by the Secretary not later than 90 days after enactment of this Act.
 
Requires the Secretary to provide to the distributor of each such new electric motor purchased by an entity that received a rebate a payment to offset expenses relating to processing and motor core disposal costs.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-11-06
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Environment.
action_date: 2009-11-06
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Commerce, Trade and Consumer Protection.
action_date: 2009-11-05
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2009-11-05
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-11-05
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to extend the first-time homebuyer tax credit and to eliminate the first-time homebuyer requirement and increase the adjusted gross income limitations with respect to such credit, and for other purposes.

Bill: 111-hr-4032
Sponsor: Rep. Brady, Kevin [R-TX-8]
Introduced: 2009-11-05 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Housing finance and home ownership
Income tax credits
Military personnel and dependents
Tax administration and collection, taxpayers

Summary:
action_date: 2009-11-05
text: 
Amends Internal Revenue Code provisions relating to the first-time homebuyer tax credit to: (1) extend such credit to all purchasers of a principal residence (currently, limited to first-time homebuyers); (2) extend such credit and its waiver of recapture provisions (for sales of principal residences before the required holding period) through November 30, 2010; (3) extend through December 31, 2009, the election to treat, for tax purposes, a residence purchased in 2009 as having been purchased on December 31, 2008; (4) allow taxpayers to treat, for tax purposes, a residence purchased after December 31, 2009, and before December 1, 2010, as having been purchased on December 31, 2009; (5) increase adjusted gross income thresholds for determining eligibility for such credit; and (6) allow a waiver of recapture for members of the uniformed services, the Foreign Service, or employees of the intelligence community who sell their principal residences after receiving an order for official extended duty service.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-11-05
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2009-11-05
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-11-05
text: Introduced in House
American Democracy Index Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-4033
Sponsor: Rep. Israel, Steve [D-NY-2]
Introduced: 2009-11-05 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Advisory bodies
Congressional elections
Elections, voting, political campaign regulation
Government information and archives
Voting rights

Summary:
action_date: 2009-11-05
text: 
American Democracy Index Act of 2009 - Amends the Help America Vote Act of 2002 to require the Election Assistance Commission (EAC) to: (1) develop an American Democracy Index (ADI) to evaluate elections for federal office; (2) establish and operate a system to collect and measure election data for use in preparing the ADI; and (3) make the ADI with respect to each federal election available to the public, including through the Internet.
 
Describes the ADI as an index designed to assist states in the administration of federal elections by presenting collected information on a state-by-state basis in a manner designed to demonstrate administration practices that: (1) ensure the right of individuals to vote; (2) improve the quality of voter access to polls and the quality of voter services; and (3) secure the accuracy and integrity of elections.
 
Establishes an independent Board of Advisors the EAC shall consult in developing and refining the ADI and the data to be collected.
 
Directs the EAC to: (1) conduct a pilot program for the 2010 federal elections under which it shall make one or more grants for election data collection in up to five states; and (2) based on such pilot program make one or more grants to collect 2012 federal election data in all states and prepare and publish the first ADI.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-11-05
text: Referred to the House Committee on House Administration.
action_date: 2009-11-05
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-11-05
text: Introduced in House
To amend title 10, United States Code, to authorize the Secretary of the Army to lease portions of the Airborne and Special Operations Museum facility to the Airborne and Special Operations Museum Foundation to support operation of the Museum.

Bill: 111-hr-4034
Sponsor: Rep. Kissell, Larry [D-NC-8]
Introduced: 2009-11-05 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Military facilities and property
Military history
Museums, exhibitions, cultural centers
Social work, volunteer service, charitable organizations
User charges and fees

Summary:
action_date: 2009-11-05
text: 
Authorizes the Secretary of the Army to lease portions of the Airborne and Special Operations Museum facility to the Airborne and Special Operations Museum Foundation for generating revenue for Museum activities and to support Museum operations. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-11-18
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Readiness.
action_date: 2009-11-05
text: Referred to the House Committee on Armed Services.
action_date: 2009-11-05
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-11-05
text: Introduced in House
Community-Based Mental Health Infrastructure Improvements Act

Bill: 111-hr-4035
Sponsor: Rep. Marchant, Kenny [R-TX-24]
Introduced: 2009-11-05 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Tax administration and collection, taxpayers
Transfer and inheritance taxes

Summary:
action_date: 2009-11-05
text: 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow a deduction from the gross estate of a decedent for capital losses which the decedent was eligibile to carry over to subsequent taxable years at the time of the decedent's death.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-11-05
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2009-11-05
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-11-05
text: Introduced in House