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Veterans Education Improvement Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-1336
Sponsor: Rep. Herseth Sandlin, Stephanie [D-SD-At Large]
Introduced: 2009-03-05 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Academic performance and assessments
Employment and training programs
Higher education
Licensing and registrations
Student aid and college costs
User charges and fees
Veterans' education, employment, rehabilitation

Summary:
action_date: 2009-03-05
text: 
Veterans Education Improvement Act of 2009 - Amends the Montgomery GI Bill educational assistance program for veterans to: (1) authorize the use of such assistance for business courses and seminars, courses taken to prepare for licensing or certification tests, and the repayment of federal student loans; (2) allow for withdrawal of the election not to enroll in the program; (3) extend the increase in benefits for certain individuals pursuing apprenticeships or on-job training; (4) provide educational assistance benefits for veterans discharged under a general discharge; (5) increase the reporting fee payable to educational institutions that enroll veterans receiving assistance; (6) provide additional areas of work-study for veterans; (6) require a five-year pilot program for on-campus work-study positions; (7) modify the advance payment of initial educational assistance or subsistence allowance; and (8) authorize, for certain individuals, the accelerated payment of educational assistance.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-04-27
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Military Personnel.
action_date: 2009-03-06
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Economic Opportunity.
action_date: 2009-03-05
text: Referred to House Armed Services
action_date: 2009-03-05
text: Referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs, and in addition to the Committee on Armed Services, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2009-03-05
text: Referred to House Veterans' Affairs
action_date: 2009-03-05
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-03-05
text: Introduced in House
America's Energy Security Trust Fund Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-1337
Sponsor: Rep. Larson, John B. [D-CT-1]
Introduced: 2009-03-05 in the House
Policy area: Energy
Subjects: Advanced technology and technological innovations
Air quality
Alternative and renewable resources
Climate change and greenhouse gases
Coal
Employment taxes
Energy research
Government trust funds
Income tax credits
International law and treaties
Oil and gas
Research administration and funding
Research and development
Sales and excise taxes

Summary:
action_date: 2009-03-05
text: 
America's Energy Security Trust Fund Act of 2009 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to impose an excise tax on any taxable carbon substance sold by a manufacturer, producer, or importer. Defines &quot;taxable carbon substance&quot; as: (1) coal (including lignite and peat); (2) petroleum and any petroleum products; and (3) natural gas that is extracted, manufactured, or produced in the United States, or entered into the United States for consumption, use, or warehousing. 

Establishes in the Treasury the America's Energy Security Trust Fund to finance research in clean energy technology, assist industries negatively affected by this Act, and provide carbon tax rebates to individual taxpayers.

Allows individual taxpayers a tax credit equal to carbon tax rebate amounts calculated by the Secretary of the Treasury.

Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to study and report to Congress on the best methods to assess and collect taxes on non-carbon greenhouse gases.

Expresses the sense of Congress that the United States should establish binding agreements with major greenhouse gas emitting nations to reduce global greenhouse gas emissions. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-03-05
text: Referred to House Foreign Affairs
action_date: 2009-03-05
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, 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: 2009-03-05
text: Referred to House Ways and Means
action_date: 2009-03-05
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-03-05
text: Introduced in House
Student Support Act

Bill: 111-hr-1338
Sponsor: Rep. Lee, Barbara [D-CA-9]
Introduced: 2009-03-05 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Child health
Education of the disadvantaged
Education programs funding
Elementary and secondary education
Health personnel
Mental health
Social work, volunteer service, charitable organizations
Teaching, teachers, curricula

Summary:
action_date: 2009-03-05
text: 
 Student Support Act - Amends the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to require the Secretary of Education to make matching grants of at least $1 million to states for allocation to local educational agencies (LEAs) so that additional school-based mental health and student service providers may be hired, thereby reducing the student-to-provider ratios in elementary and secondary schools to specified levels recommended by the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences. Includes school counselors, school psychologists or other psychologists, child or adolescent psychiatrists, and school social workers among such providers.
 
Requires grants to states and state allocations to LEAs to be made pursuant to specified formulas that take into account a state's and school district's share of disadvantaged children.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-04-29
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Workforce Protections.
action_date: 2009-04-29
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education.
action_date: 2009-03-05
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and Labor.
action_date: 2009-03-05
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-03-05
text: Introduced in House
Children's Access to Reconstructive Evaluation & Surgery (CARES) Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-1339
Sponsor: Rep. McCarthy, Carolyn [D-NY-4]
Introduced: 2009-03-05 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Accidents
Child health
Emergency medical services and trauma care
Employee benefits and pensions
Health care costs and insurance
Health care coverage and access
Hereditary and development disorders
Surgery and anesthesia

Summary:
action_date: 2009-03-05
text: 
Children's Access to Reconstructive Evaluation & Surgery (CARES) Act of 2009 - Amends the Public Health Service Act, the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA), and the Internal Revenue Code to require a group health plan that covers surgical benefits to also cover outpatient and inpatient diagnosis and treatment of a congenital or developmental deformity, disease, or injury of a minor child (defined as child under the age of 22).
 
Requires that such coverage: (1) be subject to pre-authorization or pre-certification requirements of the plan or issuer; and (2) include any surgical treatment deemed by the treating physician to be medically necessary to approximate a normal appearance. Defines &quot;treatment&quot; to include reconstructive surgical procedures that are performed on abnormal structures of the body caused by congenital defects, abnormalities, trauma, infection, tumors, or disease, including: (1) procedures that do not materially affect the function of the body part being treated; and (2) procedures for secondary conditions and follow-up treatment. Excludes cosmetic surgery performed to reshape normal structures of the body to improve appearance or self-esteem. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-04-29
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2009-03-06
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2009-03-05
text: Referred to House Ways and Means
action_date: 2009-03-05
text: Referred to House Education and Labor
action_date: 2009-03-05
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Education and Labor, and Ways and Means, 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: 2009-03-05
text: Referred to House Energy and Commerce
action_date: 2009-03-05
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-03-05
text: Introduced in House
Tibetan Refugee Assistance Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-1340
Sponsor: Rep. Miller, George [D-CA-7]
Introduced: 2009-03-05 in the House
Policy area: Immigration
Subjects: Asia
Family relationships
Immigration status and procedures
India
Nepal
Refugees, asylum, displaced persons
Tibet
Visas and passports

Summary:
action_date: 2009-03-05
text: 
Tibetan Refugee Assistance Act of 2009 - Makes 3,000 immigrant visas in FY2010-FY2012 available to individuals who: (1) were born in Tibet; and (2) have been continuously residing in India or Nepal prior to the date of the enactment of this Act.
 
Makes such visas available to the sons, daughters, grandsons, or granddaughters of such individuals.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-04-27
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration, Citizenship, Refugees, Border Security, and International Law.
action_date: 2009-03-05
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2009-03-05
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-03-05
text: Introduced in House
Landfill Greenhouse Gas Reduction Act

Bill: 111-hr-1342
Sponsor: Rep. Moran, James P. [D-VA-8]
Introduced: 2009-03-05 in the House
Policy area: Environmental Protection
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Air quality
Climate change and greenhouse gases
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
Government lending and loan guarantees
Pollution liability
Solid waste and recycling
State and local finance
User charges and fees

Summary:
action_date: 2009-03-05
text: 
Landfill Greenhouse Gas Reduction Act - Amends the Solid Waste Disposal Act to require state or regional solid waste plans, to be approved, to: (1) provide for the collection of a fee of not less than $5 per ton to be imposed on all solid waste collected by, or generated by, a municipality (other than fly ash and bottom ash) received by each solid waste landfill; (2) require such fees to be remitted to the local government having jurisdiction over the area where the facility is located; (3) require facilities subject to such fees to report to the state and the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) on the amount and type of waste received, the amount of fees collected, and measures in place to reduce greenhouse gases (GHGs) and to protect human health and the environment; (4) require a local government to use the revenues generated by such fees to undertake, or to provide financial assistance for entities to undertake, approved GHG reduction projects within its jurisdiction; and (5) require the Administrator to select projects that are identified as the most cost-effective means to reduce GHGs. Requires the Administrator to collect such fees in states that do not have approved plans.
 
Sets forth civil penalties for persons who fail or refuse to pay the full amount of any such fee.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-03-06
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Environment.
action_date: 2009-03-05
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2009-03-05
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-03-05
text: Introduced in House
First Responders Fighting Terrorism Protection Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-1343
Sponsor: Rep. Myrick, Sue Wilkins [R-NC-9]
Introduced: 2009-03-05 in the House
Policy area: Law
Subjects: Civil actions and liability
Criminal investigation, prosecution, interrogation
Emergency medical services and trauma care
Fires
Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management
Health personnel
Law enforcement officers
Legal fees and court costs
Military personnel and dependents
National Guard and reserves
Terrorism

Summary:
action_date: 2009-03-05
text: 
First Responders Fighting Terrorism Protection Act of 2009 - Grants qualified immunity from civil liability for a first responder who: (1) takes reasonable action to prevent an act of terrorism; or (2) observes or receives a report of, and takes reasonable action to respond to, any suspicious transaction, activity, or occurrence that indicates that an individual may be engaging, or preparing to engage, in a violation of law relating to a terrorist act. Makes a first responder not entitled to assert the defense of qualified immunity nevertheless immune from civil liability under federal, state, and local law if such responder acted in good faith and on objectively reasonable suspicion.
 
Entitles a first responder found to be immune from liability under this Act to recover from the plaintiff all reasonable costs and attorney fees.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-03-05
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2009-03-05
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-03-05
text: Introduced in House
Real Help for Homebuyers Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-1344
Sponsor: Rep. Myrick, Sue Wilkins [R-NC-9]
Introduced: 2009-03-05 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Housing finance and home ownership
Income tax credits

Summary:
action_date: 2009-03-05
text: 
Real Help for Homebuyers Act of 2009 - Amends Internal Revenue Code provisions relating to the first-time homebuyer tax credit to: (1) extend such credit to principal residences purchased within one year after the enactment of this Act; (2) increase the amount of such credit to $15,000; (3) extend such credit to all individuals who purchase a principal residence (currently, only first-time homebuyers as so defined); and (4) require as a condition of eligibility for such credit a downpayment of not less than 5% of the purchase price of a principal residence.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-03-05
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2009-03-05
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-03-05
text: Introduced in House
Medical Device Safety Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-1346
Sponsor: Rep. Pallone, Frank, Jr. [D-NJ-6]
Introduced: 2009-03-05 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Civil actions and liability
Federal preemption
Health technology, devices, supplies
Product safety and quality

Summary:
action_date: 2009-03-05
text: 
Medical Device Safety Act of 2009 - Amends the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to prohibit specified provisions preempting state and local requirements for medical devices intended for human use from being construed to modify or otherwise affect any action for damages or the liability of any person under state law. Makes this Act effective as if it were included in the Medical Device Amendments of 1976 and applicable to any civil action pending or filed on or after the date of enactment of this Act.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-05-12
text: Subcommittee Hearings Held.
action_date: 2009-03-06
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2009-03-05
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2009-03-05
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-03-05
text: Introduced in House
Federal Reserve Sunshine Act

Bill: 111-hr-1348
Sponsor: Rep. Paul, Ron [R-TX-14]
Introduced: 2009-03-05 in the House
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: Federal Reserve System
Financial crises and stabilization
Government information and archives
Government lending and loan guarantees

Summary:
action_date: 2009-03-05
text: 
Federal Reserve Sunshine Act - Directs the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System to publish on its website, with respect to all loans and other financial assistance it has provided since March 24, 2008: (1) the identity of each business, individual, or entity to which the Board has provided such assistance; (2) the type of financial assistance provided; (3) its value or amount; (4) the date on which it was provided; (5) the specific terms of any repayment expected, including the repayment time period, interest charges, collateral, limitations on executive compensation or dividends, and other material terms; and (6) the specific rationale for providing assistance in each instance.
 
Requires the Board to update such information at least once every 30 days.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-03-05
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2009-03-05
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-03-05
text: Introduced in House
Federal Accounting Oversight Board Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-1349
Sponsor: Rep. Perlmutter, Ed [D-CO-7]
Introduced: 2009-03-05 in the House
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: Accounting and auditing
Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Administrative remedies
Bank accounts, deposits, capital
Banking and financial institutions regulation
Department of the Treasury
Executive agency funding and structure
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC)
Federal Reserve System
Government Operations and Politics
Government information and archives
Licensing and registrations
National Credit Union Administration
Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)
User charges and fees

Summary:
action_date: 2009-03-05
text: 
Federal Accounting Oversight Board Act of 2009 - Establishes the Federal Accounting Oversight Board (FAOB) to approve and oversee accounting principles and standards for purposes of the federal financial regulatory agencies and the reporting requirements they require.
 
Directs the FAOB to report annually to Congress, the Financial Accounting Standards Board, and the International Accounting Standards Board on the principles and standards it has reviewed and approved
 

 
Amends the Securities Act of 1933 and the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 to transfer standard body oversight authority from the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to the FAOB. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-03-05
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2009-03-05
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-03-05
text: Introduced in House
Post-Abortion Depression Research and Care Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-1350
Sponsor: Rep. Pitts, Joseph R. [R-PA-16]
Introduced: 2009-03-05 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Abortion
Health programs administration and funding
Medical research
Medical tests and diagnostic methods
Mental health
Research administration and funding
Women's health

Summary:
action_date: 2009-03-05
text: 
Post-Abortion Depression Research and Care Act of 2009 - Requires the Secretary of Health and Human Services, acting through the Director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the Director of the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), to expand and intensify NIMH research and related activities with respect to post-abortion depression and psychosis.
 
Requires the Director of NIMH to: (1) conduct or support research to expand the understanding of the causes of, and to find a cure for, such post-abortion conditions; and (2) conduct a study to determine the incidence and prevalence of cases of post-abortion conditions and the symptoms, severity, and duration of such cases, toward the goal of more fully identifying the characteristics of such cases and developing diagnostic techniques. 
Requires the Secretary to make grants to establish, operate, and coordinate effective and cost-efficient systems for the delivery of essential services to individuals with such post-abortion conditions.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-03-06
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2009-03-05
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2009-03-05
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-03-05
text: Introduced in House
Savings Enhancement for Education in College Act

Bill: 111-hr-1351
Sponsor: Rep. Pomeroy, Earl [D-ND-At Large]
Introduced: 2009-03-05 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Computers and information technology
Educational technology and distance education
Financial services and investments
Higher education
Income tax credits
Income tax deferral
Student aid and college costs

Summary:
action_date: 2009-03-05
text: 
Savings Enhancement for Education in College Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) make permanent the allowance for payment of expenses for computer technology and equipment from qualified tuition programs; (2) allow a tax credit for contributions to such programs; and (3) allow limited direction of investment of contributions or earnings in a qualified tuition program.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-03-05
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2009-03-05
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-03-05
text: Introduced in House
To amend title XVI of the Social Security Act to clarify that the value of certain funeral and burial arrangements are not to be considered available resources under the supplemental security income program.

Bill: 111-hr-1352
Sponsor: Rep. Pomeroy, Earl [D-ND-At Large]
Introduced: 2009-03-05 in the House
Policy area: Social Welfare
Subjects: Poverty and welfare assistance

Summary:
action_date: 2009-03-05
text: 
Amends title XVI (Supplemental Security Income) (SSI) of the Social Security Act to provide that the value of certain funeral and burial arrangements involving an irrevocable trust whose named beneficiary is the funeral provider are not to be considered, under the SSI program, as resources available to the individual. 
 

 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-03-05
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2009-03-05
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-03-05
text: Introduced in House