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Environmental Design of Electrical Equipment Act (EDEE) Act

Bill: 111-hr-2420
Sponsor: Rep. Burgess, Michael C. [R-TX-26]
Introduced: 2009-05-14 in the House
Policy area: Commerce
Subjects: Electric power generation and transmission
Hazardous wastes and toxic substances
Health technology, devices, supplies
Lighting and heating
Lighting, heating, cooling
Product safety and quality

Summary:
action_date: 2009-05-14
text: 
Environmental Design of Electrical Equipment Act (EDEE) Act - Amends the Toxic Substances Control Act of 1976 to establish uniform national standards for the use of lead, mercury, hexavalent chromium, cadmium, polybrominated biphenyls, and polybrominated diphenyl ethers in electroindustry products manufactured after July 1, 2010. Defines &quot;electroindustry product&quot; as any product or equipment that is used to facilitate the transmission, distribution, or control of electricity, or that uses electricity for arc welding, lighting, signaling protection and communication, medical imaging, or electrical motors and generators.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-05-15
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Commerce, Trade and Consumer Protection.
action_date: 2009-05-14
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2009-05-14
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-05-14
text: Introduced in House
Federal Reserve Credit Facility Review Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-2424
Sponsor: Rep. Kucinich, Dennis J. [D-OH-10]
Introduced: 2009-05-14 in the House
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: Bank accounts, deposits, capital
Business records
Congressional oversight
Credit and credit markets
Federal Reserve System
Financial crises and stabilization
Financial services and investments
Government studies and investigations

Summary:
action_date: 2009-05-14
text: 
Federal Reserve Credit Facility Review Act of 2009 - Authorizes the Comptroller General to conduct reviews, including onsite examinations, of any credit facility established by the Federal Reserve Board or any federal reserve bank, and of its establishment as the lender of last resort, including when it provides temporary assistance to private institutions as the lender of last restort. 
 
Specifies the credit facilities to which this Act applies.
 
Terminates such authorization five years after the enactment of this Act.
 
Grants the Comptroller General access to all records and property of any such credit facility, as well as to its officers, employees, contractors, and other agents and representatives.
 



Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-05-14
text: Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.
action_date: 2009-05-14
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-05-14
text: Introduced in House
Medicare Diabetes Self-Management Training Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-2425
Sponsor: Rep. DeGette, Diana [D-CO-1]
Introduced: 2009-05-14 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Congressional oversight
Digestive and metabolic diseases
Government studies and investigations
Health information and medical records
Health personnel
Home and outpatient care
Licensing and registrations
Medicare

Summary:
action_date: 2009-05-14
text: 
Medicare Diabetes Self-Management Training Act of 2009 - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to provide for the recognition of state-licensed or -registered health care professionals who are certified diabetes educators as Medicare providers of diabetes outpatient self-management training services.
 
Directs the Comptroller General to study and report to Congress on the barriers that exist for Medicare beneficiaries with diabetes in accessing diabetes self-management training services under the Medicare program. 
 
Directs the Director of the Agency for Health Care Research and Quality to develop a series of recommendations on effective outreach methods to educate primary care physicians and the public about the benefits of diabetes self-management training.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-05-15
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2009-05-14
text: Referred to House Ways and Means
action_date: 2009-05-14
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on 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: 2009-05-14
text: Referred to House Energy and Commerce
action_date: 2009-05-14
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-05-14
text: Introduced in House
Menu Education and Labeling Act

Bill: 111-hr-2426
Sponsor: Rep. DeLauro, Rosa L. [D-CT-3]
Introduced: 2009-05-14 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Consumer affairs
Food industry and services
Food supply, safety, and labeling
Nutrition and diet

Summary:
action_date: 2009-05-14
text: 
Menu Education and Labeling Act or the MEAL Act - Amends the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to require chain restaurants with 20 or more locations doing business under the same trade name to disclose: (1) in a statement adjacent to a standard menu item, the number of calories, grams of saturated plus trans fat, grams of carbohydrate, and milligrams of sodium in each such item; (2) other information designed to enable the public to understand the significance of the nutrition information provided in the context of a total daily diet; (3) that such nutrition information is available in writing at the point of ordering; and (4) the number of calories in food on a drive-through menu board, adjacent to each menu item. Exempts condiments, items placed on a table or counter for general use, daily specials, and temporary menu items.
 
Requires restaurants that sell self-serve food and beverages, such as through a salad bar, buffet line, or cafeteria lines, to place a sign that lists the number of calories per serving adjacent to each food item or beverage offered. 
 
Requires vending machine operators who operate 20 or more vending machines to provide a conspicuous sign disclosing the number of calories contained in each article of food dispensed from such machines.
 
Permits restaurants and vending machine operators to voluntarily provide, and states to require, additional nutritional information. 
 

 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-05-15
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2009-05-14
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2009-05-14
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-05-14
text: Introduced in House
Informed Consumer Choices in Health Care Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-2427
Sponsor: Rep. DeLauro, Rosa L. [D-CT-3]
Introduced: 2009-05-14 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Consumer affairs
Department of Health and Human Services
Department of Labor
Department of the Treasury
Executive agency funding and structure
Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management
Health care costs and insurance
Health care coverage and access
Health care quality
Insurance industry and regulation
Marketing and advertising
Prescription drugs

Summary:
action_date: 2009-05-14
text: 
Informed Consumer Choices in Health Care Act of 2009 - Amends the Public Health Service Act to direct the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) to: (1) develop standards for health insurance issuers in providing information to group health plans, for forms used in connection with group health insurance coverage, for quality assurance, for marketing of group health insurance coverage, and for the accuracy and clarity of coverage for out-of-network providers; (2) undertake activities to promote accountability of health insurance issuers in meeting federal health insurance requirements; (3) provide grants to Departments of Insurance in states to assist in enforcement of federal health insurance requirements governing health insurance issuers operating in such states; (4) undertake activities to promote transparency in costs, market practices, and other factors for health insurance coverage; and (5) establish within HHS an Office of Health Insurance Oversight to promote accountability and transparency in health insurance and provide for assistance to consumers in selecting health care coverage.
 
Directs the Secretaries of Labor and the Treasury to establish standards and accountability and transparency initiatives for group health plans comparable to the standards established by the HHS Secretary under this Act. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-05-15
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2009-05-14
text: Referred to House Oversight and Government Reform
action_date: 2009-05-14
text: Referred to House Education and Labor
action_date: 2009-05-14
text: Referred to House Ways and Means
action_date: 2009-05-14
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Ways and Means, Education and Labor, and Oversight and Government Reform, 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: 2009-05-14
text: Referred to House Energy and Commerce
action_date: 2009-05-14
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-05-14
text: Introduced in House
Broadband Conduit Deployment Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-2428
Sponsor: Rep. Eshoo, Anna G. [D-CA-14]
Introduced: 2009-05-14 in the House
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Broadcasting, cable, digital technologies
Roads and highways
Telephone and wireless communication
Transportation programs funding

Summary:
action_date: 2009-05-14
text: 
Broadband Conduit Deployment Act of 2009 - Directs the Secretary of Transportation to require states to install broadband conduits (conduits for fiber optic cables or wireless facilities that support broadband service) in certain highway construction projects.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-05-15
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Highways and Transit.
action_date: 2009-05-14
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2009-05-14
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-05-14
text: Introduced in House
Consumer Price Index for Elderly Consumers Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-2429
Sponsor: Rep. Gonzalez, Charles A. [D-TX-20]
Introduced: 2009-05-14 in the House
Policy area: Economics and Public Finance
Subjects: Aging
Consumer affairs
Inflation and prices
Social security and elderly assistance

Summary:
action_date: 2009-05-14
text: 
Consumer Price Index for Elderly Consumers Act of 2009 - Directs the Bureau of Labor Statistics of the Department of Labor to prepare and publish a monthly Consumer Price Index for Elderly Consumers (CPI) that indicates changes over time in expenditures for consumption which are typical for individuals aged 62 years of age or older. 
 
Amends title II (Old Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance) (OASDI) to use such new CPI in the computation of cost-of-living increases for Social Security benefits.
 

 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-06-11
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Healthy Families and Communities.
action_date: 2009-05-14
text: Referred to House Education and Labor
action_date: 2009-05-14
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Education and Labor, 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: 2009-05-14
text: Referred to House Ways and Means
action_date: 2009-05-14
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-05-14
text: Introduced in House
America's Teachers Tax Relief Act

Bill: 111-hr-2431
Sponsor: Rep. Kosmas, Suzanne M. [D-FL-24]
Introduced: 2009-05-14 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Elementary and secondary education
Income tax deductions
Teaching, teachers, curricula

Summary:
action_date: 2009-05-14
text: 
America's Teachers Tax Relief Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to increase the tax deduction for certain expenses of elementary and secondary school teachers and extend such deduction through 2010.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-05-14
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2009-05-14
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-05-14
text: Introduced in House
State Sales Tax Relief Act

Bill: 111-hr-2432
Sponsor: Rep. Kosmas, Suzanne M. [D-FL-24]
Introduced: 2009-05-14 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Income tax deductions
Sales and excise taxes
State and local taxation

Summary:
action_date: 2009-05-14
text: 
State Sales Tax Relief Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to extend through 2010 the taxpayer election to deduct state and local general sales taxes in lieu of state and local income taxes.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-05-14
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2009-05-14
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-05-14
text: Introduced in House
State Sales Equity Relief Act

Bill: 111-hr-2433
Sponsor: Rep. Kosmas, Suzanne M. [D-FL-24]
Introduced: 2009-05-14 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Income tax deductions
Sales and excise taxes
State and local taxation

Summary:
action_date: 2009-05-14
text: 
State Sales Equity Relief Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to extend through 2010 the taxpayer election to deduct state and local general sales taxes in lieu of state and local income taxes.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-05-14
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2009-05-14
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-05-14
text: Introduced in House
College Tuition Tax Relief Act

Bill: 111-hr-2434
Sponsor: Rep. Kosmas, Suzanne M. [D-FL-24]
Introduced: 2009-05-14 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Higher education
Income tax deductions
Student aid and college costs

Summary:
action_date: 2009-05-14
text: 
College Tuition Tax Relief Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to extend through 2010 the tax deduction for qualified tuition and related expenses. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-05-14
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2009-05-14
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-05-14
text: Introduced in House
IRA Charitable Giving Act

Bill: 111-hr-2435
Sponsor: Rep. Kosmas, Suzanne M. [D-FL-24]
Introduced: 2009-05-14 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Employee benefits and pensions
Income tax exclusion
Social work, volunteer service, charitable organizations

Summary:
action_date: 2009-05-14
text: 
IRA Charitable Giving Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to extend through 2010 the exclusion from gross income for income tax purposes of distributions from individual retirement accounts for charitable purposes.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-05-14
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2009-05-14
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-05-14
text: Introduced in House
Charitable Goods Donation Act

Bill: 111-hr-2436
Sponsor: Rep. Kosmas, Suzanne M. [D-FL-24]
Introduced: 2009-05-14 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Books and print media
Computers and information technology
Educational facilities and institutions
Educational technology and distance education
Elementary and secondary education
Food assistance and relief
Income tax deductions
Libraries and archives

Summary:
action_date: 2009-05-14
text: 
Charitable Goods Donation Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to extend through 2010 the tax deductions for contributions of food and book inventory and for contributions of computer technology or equipment to schools and public libraries.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-05-14
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2009-05-14
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-05-14
text: Introduced in House
Employing America's Heroes Tax Relief Act

Bill: 111-hr-2437
Sponsor: Rep. Kosmas, Suzanne M. [D-FL-24]
Introduced: 2009-05-14 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Income tax credits
Military personnel and dependents
Small business
Wages and earnings

Summary:
action_date: 2009-05-14
text: 
Employing America's Heroes Tax Relief Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to extend through 2010 the tax credit for differential wage payments made by a small business employer on behalf of employees who are active duty members of the uniformed services. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-05-14
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2009-05-14
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-05-14
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide a temporary bonus research credit for energy-related research.

Bill: 111-hr-2438
Sponsor: Rep. Larson, John B. [D-CT-1]
Introduced: 2009-05-14 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Air quality
Alternative and renewable resources
Coal
Electric power generation and transmission
Energy efficiency and conservation
Energy research
Income tax credits
Research and development

Summary:
action_date: 2009-05-14
text: 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow a taxpayer election to increase the tax credit for research expenditures by 20% for qualified energy research expenses incurred in 2009 or 2010. Defines &quot;qualified energy research expenses&quot; to include research expenses related to fuel cell and battery technology, renewable energy, energy conservation technology, electric transmission and distribution, and carbon capture and sequestration.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-05-14
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2009-05-14
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-05-14
text: Introduced in House
To prohibit the Secretary of the Interior from issuing oil and gas leases on portions of the Outer Continental Shelf located off the coast of New Jersey.

Bill: 111-hr-2439
Sponsor: Rep. LoBiondo, Frank A. [R-NJ-2]
Introduced: 2009-05-14 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Land transfers
Licensing and registrations
Marine and coastal resources, fisheries
New Jersey
Oil and gas

Summary:
action_date: 2009-05-14
text: 
Prohibits the Secretary of the Interior from issuing a lease, permit, or license for oil exploration or extraction from specified submerged Outer Continental Shelf lands located within 125 miles of the coast of New Jersey, including areas with respect to which a moratorium on oil and gas leasing activities existed before enactment of this Act.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-05-20
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources.
action_date: 2009-05-14
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2009-05-14
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-05-14
text: Introduced in House
More Transparent and Honest Communications with American Workers Reform Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-2440
Sponsor: Rep. McCarthy, Kevin [R-CA-22]
Introduced: 2009-05-14 in the House
Policy area: Social Welfare
Subjects: Government information and archives
Government trust funds
Social security and elderly assistance

Summary:
action_date: 2009-05-14
text: 
More Transparent and Honest Communications with American Workers Reform Act of 2009 - Amends title XI of the Social Security Act to revise requirements for estimates of potential old-age insurance benefits in Social Security account statements eligible individuals may request.
 
Directs the Commissioner of Social Security, in any case in which the projections of future levels of receipts and disbursements of the Social Security Trust Funds indicate that the balance in the Funds may become insufficient to pay benefits in full when due, to indicate in benefits estimates the percentage reduction in payment level that could result without intervening enactment of remedies by Congress. 
 
Requires Social Security account statements also to: (1) estimate projected benefits for each eligible individual, assuming the current earnings rate and assuming, in the alternative, retirement at age 62, at the applicable normal retirement age, and at age 70; and (2) set forth a separate schedule of such estimated projected benefits reflecting any percentage reduction in the case of each retirement alternative which would occur after the future date of Trust Fund insufficiency.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-05-14
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2009-05-14
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-05-14
text: Introduced in House
First Responders Support Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-2441
Sponsor: Rep. Melancon, Charlie [D-LA-3]
Introduced: 2009-05-14 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Disability and paralysis
Employee benefits and pensions
Health care costs and insurance
Income tax credits
Law enforcement officers
Mental health
Student aid and college costs

Summary:
action_date: 2009-05-14
text: 
First Responders Support Act of 2009 - Amends the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 to: (1) increase death and disability benefits for public safety officers; and (2) expand educational benefits for dependents of public safety officers killed or disabled in the line of duty.
 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow a tax credit for up to $7,500 of the medical expenses paid or incurred by a public safety officer or a family member for injuries sustained while such officer was performing an official duty.
 
Authorizes the Director of the Bureau of Justice Assistance to award grants for mental health services or counseling to public safety officers seriously injured in the line of duty and the family members of such officers who are killed or seriously injured in the line of duty.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-06-12
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.
action_date: 2009-05-14
text: Referred to House Ways and Means
action_date: 2009-05-14
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committee on 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: 2009-05-14
text: Referred to House Judiciary
action_date: 2009-05-14
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-05-14
text: Introduced in House
Medicare Ambulance Access Preservation Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-2443
Sponsor: Rep. Neal, Richard E. [D-MA-2]
Introduced: 2009-05-14 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Emergency medical services and trauma care
Medicare
Rural conditions and development

Summary:
action_date: 2009-05-14
text: 
Medicare Ambulance Access Preservation Act of 2009 - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to increase to 6% permanently the rate of increase in the fee schedule for ground ambulance services furnished on or after January 1, 2010, in rural and urban areas. 
 
Makes permanent the increase in the base rate of the fee schedule the Secretary of Health and Human Services is required to make for a trip in the case of ground ambulance services furnished on or after July 1, 2004, (and beyond January 1, 2010) for which the transportation originates in a qualified low population density rural area.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-05-15
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2009-05-14
text: Referred to House Ways and Means
action_date: 2009-05-14
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on 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: 2009-05-14
text: Referred to House Energy and Commerce
action_date: 2009-05-14
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E1158)
action_date: 2009-05-14
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-05-14
text: Introduced in House