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Credit Risk Retention Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-1731
Sponsor: Rep. Minnick, Walter [D-ID-1]
Introduced: 2009-03-26 in the House
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Credit and credit markets
Department of the Treasury
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC)
Federal Reserve System
Housing finance and home ownership

Summary:
action_date: 2009-03-26
text: 
Credit Risk Retention Act of 2009 - Amends the Truth in Lending Act to require the federal banking agencies to prescribe specified regulations jointly to require any creditor that makes a residential mortgage loan that is not a qualified mortgage (as defined by such agencies) to retain an economic interest in a material portion of the credit risk for any such loan that the creditor transfers, sells, or conveys to a third party.
 
Requires the standards governing such regulations to: (1) apply only to residential mortgage loans that are not qualified mortgages; (2) prohibit creditors from directly or indirectly hedging or otherwise transferring the credit risk they are required to retain under the regulations with respect to any residential mortgage loan; and (3) requiring creditors to retain at least 5% percent of the credit risk on any non-qualified mortgage that is transferred, sold, or conveyed.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-03-26
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2009-03-26
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-03-26
text: Introduced in House
Outdoor Lighting Efficiency Act

Bill: 111-hr-1732
Sponsor: Rep. Harman, Jane [D-CA-36]
Introduced: 2009-03-26 in the House
Policy area: Energy
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Department of Energy
Energy efficiency and conservation
Federal preemption
Lighting and heating
Lighting, heating, cooling

Summary:
action_date: 2009-03-26
text: 
Outdoor Lighting Efficiency Act - Amends the Energy Policy and Conservation Act to include as &quot;covered equipment&quot; outdoor luminares and outdoor high light output lamps, as defined in this Act. 
 
Specifies the lighting efficiency, lumen maintenance, and light level production capability required for each outdoor luminare manufactured on or after January 1 of 2011, 2013, and 2015. Requires the Secretary of Energy (DOE), by January 1, 2017, to issue a final rule amending such efficiency standards to establish standards at the maximum level that is technically feasible and economically justified. 
 
Requires each outdoor high light output lamp manufactured on or after January 1, 2012, to have a lighting efficiency of at least 45 lumens per watt.
 
Sets forth provisions governing energy efficiency test procedures for such luminares and lamps.
 
Provides that state standards that are adopted on or before January 1, 2015, pursuant to a requirement to adopt efficiency standards for reducing outdoor lighting energy use enacted prior to January 31, 2008, shall not be preempted.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-03-30
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Environment.
action_date: 2009-03-26
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2009-03-26
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E791)
action_date: 2009-03-26
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-03-26
text: Introduced in House
Passport Fee Relief Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-1733
Sponsor: Rep. Lee, Christopher J. [R-NY-26]
Introduced: 2009-03-26 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Income tax credits
Terrorism
User charges and fees
Visas and passports

Summary:
action_date: 2009-03-26
text: 
Passport Fee Relief Act of 2009 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow individual taxpayers a tax credit for the cost of obtaining travel documents necessary to comply with the terrorist travel and effective screening plan developed under the Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act of 2004 (Western Hemisphere Travel Initiative).


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-03-26
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2009-03-26
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-03-26
text: Introduced in House
To require the Secretary of State to establish passport issuance agencies within 50 miles of all major international border crossings.

Bill: 111-hr-1734
Sponsor: Rep. Lee, Christopher J. [R-NY-26]
Introduced: 2009-03-26 in the House
Policy area: International Affairs
Subjects: Department of State
Executive agency funding and structure
Visas and passports

Summary:
action_date: 2009-03-26
text: 
Directs the Secretary of State to establish passport issuance agencies within 50 miles of all major international border crossings.
 
Defines &quot;major international border crossing&quot; as an international border crossing that has an annual privately-owned passenger vehicle crossing volume of at least 5 million vehicles.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-03-26
text: Referred to the House Committee on Foreign Affairs.
action_date: 2009-03-26
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-03-26
text: Introduced in House
To amend title 28, United States Code, to provide for the direct payment of attorney fees to the attorney representing a prevailing party in certain Social Security Disability Insurance and Supplemental Security Income claims, and for other purposes.

Bill: 111-hr-1735
Sponsor: Rep. DeFazio, Peter A. [D-OR-4]
Introduced: 2009-03-26 in the House
Policy area: Law
Subjects: Civil actions and liability
Government liability
Legal fees and court costs
Poverty and welfare assistance
Social security and elderly assistance

Summary:
action_date: 2009-03-26
text: 
Amends the federal judicial code to provide for the direct payment of attorney fees to the attorney representing a prevailing party in civil actions involving Social Security Disability Insurance and Supplemental Security Income Claims under titles II (Old Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance) (OASDI) and XVI (Supplemental Security Income) (SSI) of the Social Security Act.
 
Declares that such fees shall not be subject to offset due to a claim of the United States against the prevailing party.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-05-26
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Commercial and Administrative Law.
action_date: 2009-03-26
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2009-03-26
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-03-26
text: Introduced in House
Agricultural Export Facilitation Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-1737
Sponsor: Rep. Moran, Jerry [R-KS-1]
Introduced: 2009-03-26 in the House
Policy area: International Affairs
Subjects: Agricultural trade
Caribbean area
Cuba
Foreign and international banking
Health technology, devices, supplies
Latin America
Marketing and advertising
Prescription drugs
Retail and wholesale trades
Sanctions
Trade restrictions
Travel and tourism
Visas and passports

Summary:
action_date: 2009-03-26
text: 
Agricultural Export Facilitation Act of 2009 - Amends the Trade Sanctions Reform and Export Enhancement Act of 2000 to require the Secretary of the Treasury to authorize under a specific or general license certain travel-related transactions for travel to, from, or within Cuba in connection with: (1) commercial export sales and transportation of agricultural commodities, medicine, and medical devices; and (2) sales and marketing activities of such articles. 
 
Authorizes a consular official to issue a temporary tourist/business visa to a Cuban national (who is not otherwise inadmissible) whose itinerary documents an intent to conduct activities, including phytosanitary inspections, related to purchasing U.S. agricultural goods under the provisions of the Act.
 
Amends the Act to define &quot;payment in cash in advance&quot; as the payment by the purchaser of an agricultural commodity or product and the receipt of payment by the seller prior to the transfer of title and release of control of the commodity or product to the purchaser. 
 
Prohibits the President from restricting direct transfers from a Cuban financial institution to a U.S. financial institution executed in payment for a product authorized for sale under the Act.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-04-28
text: Executive Comment Requested from USDA.
action_date: 2009-04-27
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration, Citizenship, Refugees, Border Security, and International Law.
action_date: 2009-04-27
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Courts and Competition Policy.
action_date: 2009-03-26
text: Referred to House Agriculture
action_date: 2009-03-26
text: Referred to House Financial Services
action_date: 2009-03-26
text: Referred to House Judiciary
action_date: 2009-03-26
text: Referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, and in addition to the Committees on the Judiciary, Financial Services, and Agriculture, 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: 2009-03-26
text: Referred to House Foreign Affairs
action_date: 2009-03-26
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-03-26
text: Introduced in House
Downey Regional Water Reclamation and Groundwater Augmentation Project of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-1738
Sponsor: Rep. Roybal-Allard, Lucille [D-CA-34]
Introduced: 2009-03-26 in the House
Policy area: Water Resources Development
Subjects: California
Water resources funding
Water use and supply

Summary:
action_date: 2009-03-26
text: 
Downey Regional Water Reclamation and Groundwater Augmentation Project of 2009 - Amends the Reclamation Wastewater and Groundwater Study and Facilities Act to authorize the Secretary of the Interior, in cooperation with the city of Downey, California, to participate in the design, planning, and construction of permanent facilities needed to establish recycled water distribution and wastewater treatment and reclamation facilities that will be used to treat wastewater and provide recycled water in the cities of Downey Cerritos, Norwalk, Pico Rivera, South Gate, and Lakewood.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-07-21
text: Subcommittee Hearings Held.
action_date: 2009-03-31
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Water and Power.
action_date: 2009-03-26
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2009-03-26
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-03-26
text: Introduced in House
EARLY Act

Bill: 111-hr-1740
Sponsor: Rep. Wasserman Schultz, Debbie [D-FL-20]
Introduced: 2009-03-26 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Advisory bodies
Cancer
Government information and archives
Health information and medical records
Health personnel
Health programs administration and funding
Health promotion and preventive care
Medical education
Medical research
Medical tests and diagnostic methods
Research administration and funding
Sex and reproductive health
Women's health

Summary:
action_date: 2009-03-26
text: 
Breast Cancer Education and Awareness Requires Learning Young Act of 2009 or EARLY Act - Amends the Public Health Service Act to direct the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS), acting through the Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), to conduct a national evidence-based education campaign: (1) to increase public awareness regarding the threats posed by breast cancer to young women, including the particular risks faced by certain ethnic and cultural groups; and (2) focusing on awareness of risk factors and achieving early detection through community-centered informational forums, public service advertisements, and media campaigns.
 
Directs the Secretary to award grants to entities to establish national multimedia campaigns that: (1) will encourage young women to be aware of their personal risk factors, strategies for increasing early detection and self awareness, evidence based preventative lifestyle changes, and other appropriate breast cancer early detection and risk reduction strategies; (2) will encourage young women of specific higher-risk populations to talk to their medical practitioners about those risks and methods for appropriate screening and surveillance; and (3) may include advertising through specified media.
 
Requires the Secretary, acting through the Director, to: (1) establish an advisory committee to assist in creating and conducting the public education campaign; (2) conduct an education campaign to increase awareness among health care professionals; and (3) conduct prevention research. 
 
Directs the Secretary to award grants to organizations and institutions to provide to young women diagnosed with breast cancer substantive assistance and health information from credible sources on: (1) education and counseling regarding fertility preservation; (2) social, emotional, psychosocial, financial, lifestyle, and caregiver support; (3) familial risk factors; and (4) risk reduction strategies to reduce recurrence or metastasis.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-10-08
text: Subcommittee Hearings Held.
action_date: 2009-03-30
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2009-03-26
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2009-03-26
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-03-26
text: Introduced in House
To establish a program to deploy and integrate plug-in electric drive vehicles in multiple regions.

Bill: 111-hr-1742
Sponsor: Rep. Eshoo, Anna G. [D-CA-14]
Introduced: 2009-03-26 in the House
Policy area: Energy
Subjects: Government information and archives
Hybrid, electric, and advanced technology vehicles
Transportation programs funding

Summary:
action_date: 2009-03-26
text: 
Requires the Secretary of Energy to establish a program to deploy and integrate plug-in electric drive vehicles in multiple regions. Lists as program goals: (1) to demonstrate the viability of a vehicle-based transportation system that is not overly dependent on petroleum as a fuel and contributes to lower carbon emissions than a system based on conventional vehicles; (2) to facilitate the integration of advanced vehicle technologies into electricity distribution areas to improve system performance and reliability; (3) to demonstrate the potential benefits of coordinated investments in vehicle electrification on personal mobility and a regional grid; (4) to demonstrate protocols and standards that facilitate vehicle integration into the grid; and (5) to investigate differences in each region and regulatory environment regarding best practices in implementing vehicle electrification.
 
 
Authorizes the Secretary to provide financial assistance for: (1) assisting persons in the purchase of new plug-in electric drive vehicles by offsetting the incremental cost of such vehicles above the cost of comparable conventionally fueled vehicles; (2) supporting electrical charging stations for plug-in electric drive vehicles and smart grid equipment and infrastructure to facilitate the charging and integration of such vehicles; and (3) other projects to support the large-scale deployment of such vehicles in regional deployment areas.
 
 
 Directs the Secretary to collect and make available to the public information regarding the cost, performance, and other technical data regarding the deployment and integration of plug-in electric drive vehicles.
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-03-30
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Environment.
action_date: 2009-03-27
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Highways and Transit.
action_date: 2009-03-26
text: Referred to House Transportation and Infrastructure
action_date: 2009-03-26
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, 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: 2009-03-26
text: Referred to House Energy and Commerce
action_date: 2009-03-26
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-03-26
text: Introduced in House
WIND Energy Act

Bill: 111-hr-1743
Sponsor: Rep. McCarthy, Kevin [R-CA-22]
Introduced: 2009-03-26 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Alternative and renewable resources
Income tax credits

Summary:
action_date: 2009-03-26
text: 
Wind Incentives for a New Decade Energy Act of 2009 or the WIND Energy Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) extend through 2019 the tax credit for producing electricity from renewable wind resources; (2) extend such credit through 2019 for other renewable resources, including biomass, geothermal or solar energy, municipal solid waste, trash, and hydropower; and (3) allow such credit as an offset against the alternative minimum tax. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-03-26
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2009-03-26
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E793-794)
action_date: 2009-03-26
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-03-26
text: Introduced in House
Consumer Rental Purchase Agreement Act

Bill: 111-hr-1744
Sponsor: Rep. Clay, Wm. Lacy [D-MO-1]
Introduced: 2009-03-26 in the House
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Business records
Civil actions and liability
Consumer affairs
Consumer credit
Contracts and agency
Evidence and witnesses
Federal Reserve System
Federal Trade Commission (FTC)
Federal preemption
Fraud offenses and financial crimes
Small business

Summary:
action_date: 2009-03-26
text: 
 Consumer Rental Purchase Agreement Act - Amends the Consumer Credit Protection Act to prescribe consumer protection guidelines for rental-purchase transactions, including: (1) the determination of rental-purchase cost; (2) disclosure requirements; (3) prohibitions against confessions of judgment, wage assignments, and waiver of consumer claims or defenses; (4) furnishing of statements of account; (5) point-of-rental disclosures; and (6) rental-purchase advertising disclosures.
 
Declares that an action for civil liability may be brought against a merchant's assignee only if the violation is apparent on the face of a rental-purchase agreement to which it relates, including, but not limited to, a disclosure that can be determined to be incomplete or inaccurate from the face of the agreement. 
 
Authorizes the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System to promulgate implementing regulations. 
 
Grants enforcement powers to the Federal Trade Commission and to state attorneys general. 
 
Subjects to criminal penalties any willful and knowing violation of the information disclosure requirements of this Act.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-03-26
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2009-03-26
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-03-26
text: Introduced in House
Great Lakes Icebreaker Replacement Act

Bill: 111-hr-1747
Sponsor: Rep. Oberstar, James L. [D-MN-8]
Introduced: 2009-03-26 in the House
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Coast guard
Department of Defense
Department of Homeland Security
Executive agency funding and structure
Great Lakes
Marine and inland water transportation
Transportation programs funding

Summary:
action_date: 2009-03-26
text: 
Great Lakes Icebreaker Replacement Act - Authorizes appropriations for the design, acquisition, and construction of a combined buoy tender-icebreaker to replace icebreaking capacity on the Great Lakes. 

action_date: 2009-04-21
text: 

(This measure has not been amended since it was introduced. The summary of that version is repeated here.)

 
Great Lakes Icebreaker Replacement Act - Authorizes appropriations for the design, acquisition, and construction of a combined buoy tender-icebreaker to replace icebreaking capacity on the Great Lakes. 

action_date: 2009-04-27
text: 

(This measure has not been amended since it was introduced. The summary of that version is repeated here.)

 
Great Lakes Icebreaker Replacement Act - Authorizes appropriations for the design, acquisition, and construction of a combined buoy tender-icebreaker to replace icebreaking capacity on the Great Lakes. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-10-23
text: Provisions of measure incorporated in to Title IV of H.R. 3619.
action_date: 2009-04-28
text: Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
action_date: 2009-04-27
text: Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
action_date: 2009-04-27
text: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill Agreed to by voice vote. (text: CR H4749)
action_date: 2009-04-27
text: Passed/agreed to in House: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill Agreed to by voice vote.(text: CR H4749)
action_date: 2009-04-27
text: DEBATE - The House proceeded with forty minutes of debate on H.R. 1747.
action_date: 2009-04-27
text: Considered under suspension of the rules. (consideration: CR H4749-4750)
action_date: 2009-04-27
text: Mr. Oberstar moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill.
action_date: 2009-04-21
text: Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 36.
action_date: 2009-04-21
text: Reported by the Committee on Transportation. H. Rept. 111-81.
action_date: 2009-04-21
text: Reported by the Committee on Transportation. H. Rept. 111-81.
action_date: 2009-04-02
text: Subcommittee on Economic Development, Public Buildings and Emergency Management Discharged.
action_date: 2009-04-02
text: Ordered to be Reported by Voice Vote.
action_date: 2009-04-02
text: Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
action_date: 2009-03-27
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Economic Development, Public Buildings and Emergency Management.
action_date: 2009-03-26
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2009-03-26
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E784)
action_date: 2009-03-26
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-03-26
text: Introduced in House
Energy Efficient Manufactured Housing Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-1749
Sponsor: Rep. Hill, Baron P. [D-IN-9]
Introduced: 2009-03-26 in the House
Policy area: Housing and Community Development
Subjects: Energy assistance for the poor and aged
Energy efficiency and conservation
Housing and community development funding
Housing finance and home ownership
Housing industry and standards
Low- and moderate-income housing

Summary:
action_date: 2009-03-26
text: 
Energy Efficient Manufactured Housing Act of 2009 - Authorizes the Secretary of Energy to make grants to state agencies responsible for developing state energy conservation plans under the Energy Policy and Conservation Act to provide owners of manufactured homes constructed prior to 1976 rebates to use toward purchases of new Energy Star qualified manufactured homes. 
 
 
 Restricts rebates to owners of manufactured homes that are used on a year-round basis as a primary residence and that will be destroyed (including appropriate recycling) and replaced, in the same general location, with an Energy Star qualified manufactured home. Limits rebates to: (1) one owner per household; (2) households with total incomes not exceeding 200% of the federal poverty level in the applicable area; and (3) $7,500 per manufactured home.
 
Directs the Secretary to seek to achieve the purpose of this Act through similar federal programs, including: (1) the Weatherization Assistance Program; and (2) the Department of Energy&#146;s (DOE&#146;s) State Energy Program.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-03-30
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Environment.
action_date: 2009-03-26
text: Referred to House Financial Services
action_date: 2009-03-26
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, 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: 2009-03-26
text: Referred to House Energy and Commerce
action_date: 2009-03-26
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-03-26
text: Introduced in House