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To extend certain housing-related deadlines in the Heartland Disaster Tax Relief Act of 2008.

Bill: 111-hr-4205
Sponsor: Rep. Loebsack, David [D-IA-2]
Introduced: 2009-12-03 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Arkansas
Credit and credit markets
Disaster relief and insurance
Employee benefits and pensions
Floods and storm protection
Illinois
Income tax exclusion
Indiana
Iowa
Kansas
Michigan
Minnesota
Missouri
Natural disasters
Nebraska
Wisconsin

Summary:
action_date: 2009-12-03
text: 
Amends the Heartland Disaster Tax Relief Act of 2008 to extend through 2010 provisions of such Act allowing residents of the Midwestern disaster area to: (1) use amounts from tax-exempt retirement accounts without a tax penalty to purchase a new principal residence or repair an existing one; (2) recontribute amounts withdrawn for such purposes to such accounts; and (3) exclude from gross income income resulting from a cancellation of mortgage indebtedness incurred in such disaster area.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-12-03
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2009-12-03
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-12-03
text: Introduced in House
Haiti Reforestation Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-4206
Sponsor: Rep. Meek, Kendrick B. [D-FL-17]
Introduced: 2009-12-03 in the House
Policy area: International Affairs
Subjects: Caribbean area
Foreign aid and international relief
Foreign loans and debt
Forests, forestry, trees
Haiti
Latin America

Summary:
action_date: 2009-12-03
text: 
Haiti Reforestation Act of 2009 - Authorizes the Secretary of Agriculture to offer to enter into agreements with the government of Haiti to provide financial assistance, technology transfers, or capacity building assistance to reduce deforestation and increase reforestation in Haiti. 
 
Directs the Secretary to establish a grant program to carry out such activities. 
 
Amends the the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 to: (1) direct the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) to invite the government of Haiti to submit a list of areas in which tropical forests are seriously degraded or threatened; and (2) authorize USAID to make grants to nongovernmental organizations to purchase discounted commercial debt of the government of Haiti in exchange for government commitments to restore identified forests or to develop plans for their sustainable use. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-12-03
text: Referred to the House Committee on Foreign Affairs.
action_date: 2009-12-03
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-12-03
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to increase the limitation on the reduction in fair market value of real property used for farming, or in another trade or business, for purposes of estate taxes.

Bill: 111-hr-4208
Sponsor: Rep. Perriello, Thomas S.P. [D-VA-5]
Introduced: 2009-12-03 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Farmland
General business and commerce matters
Inflation and prices
Transfer and inheritance taxes

Summary:
action_date: 2009-12-03
text: 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) increase to $3.5 million the limitation on the reduction in the fair market value of real property used for farming or in another trade or business for estate tax purposes; and (2) allow an annual inflation adjustment to the limitation amount after 2010.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-12-03
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2009-12-03
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-12-03
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to suspend for an additional year the taxable income limit on percentage depletion for oil and natural gas from marginal wells.

Bill: 111-hr-4209
Sponsor: Rep. Teague, Harry [D-NM-2]
Introduced: 2009-12-03 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Income tax deductions
Oil and gas

Summary:
action_date: 2009-12-03
text: 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to extend through 2010 the suspension of the taxable income limitation on percentage depletion for oil and natural gas produced from marginal properties.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-12-03
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2009-12-03
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-12-03
text: Introduced in House
Storage Technology of Renewable and Green Energy Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-4210
Sponsor: Rep. Thompson, Mike [D-CA-1]
Introduced: 2009-12-03 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Alternative and renewable resources
Electric power generation and transmission
Energy storage, supplies, demand
Income tax credits
Residential rehabilitation and home repair
Securities

Summary:
action_date: 2009-12-03
text: 
Storage Technology of Renewable and Green Energy Act of 2009 or the STORAGE Act of 2009 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) allow a 20% energy tax credit for investment in energy storage property directly connected to the electrical grid (i.e., state systems of generators, transmission lines, and distribution facilities) and designed to receive, store, and convert energy to electricity and deliver such electricity for sale; (2) make such property eligible for new clean renewable energy bond financing; (3) allow a 30% energy tax credit for investment in energy storage property used at the site of energy storage; and (4) allow a 30% nonbusiness energy property tax credit for the installation of energy storage equipment in a principal residence.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-12-03
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2009-12-03
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-12-03
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to treat nonrecourse small business investment company loans from the Small Business Administration as amounts at risk for purposes of determining the deduction for losses.

Bill: 111-hr-4211
Sponsor: Rep. Thompson, Mike [D-CA-1]
Introduced: 2009-12-03 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Business investment and capital
Government lending and loan guarantees
Income tax deductions
Small business

Summary:
action_date: 2009-12-03
text: 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to revise the definition of &quot;qualified nonrecourse financing&quot; to include qualified nonrecourse real property or Small Business Investment Company financing as amounts at risk for purposes of determining the deductibility of losses from certain investment activities, including farming, leasing, and energy exploration.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-12-03
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2009-12-03
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-12-03
text: Introduced in House
For the relief of Rigoberto Padilla.

Bill: 111-hr-4212
Sponsor: Rep. Schakowsky, Janice D. [D-IL-9]
Introduced: 2009-12-03 in the House
Policy area: Private Legislation

Summary:
action_date: 2009-12-03
text: Provides for the relief of Rigoberto Padilla.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-12-03
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2009-12-03
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-12-03
text: Introduced in House
Brucella Abortus Removal Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-4215
Sponsor: Rep. Rehberg, Denny [R-MT-At Large]
Introduced: 2009-12-07 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Animal and plant health
Hazardous wastes and toxic substances
Infectious and parasitic diseases
Terrorism

Summary:
action_date: 2009-12-07
text: 
Brucella Abortus Removal Act of 2009 - Prohibits either the list of biological agents and toxins that have the potential to pose a severe threat to public health and safety established under the Public Health Service Act or the list of biological agents and toxins that have the potential to pose a severe threat to animal or plant health or to animal or plant products established under the Agricultural Bioterrorism Protection Act of 2002 from including brucella abortus.
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-03-29
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Horticulture and Organic Agriculture.
action_date: 2009-12-08
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2009-12-07
text: Referred to House Agriculture
action_date: 2009-12-07
text: Referred to House Energy and Commerce
action_date: 2009-12-07
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on 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: 2009-12-07
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-12-07
text: Introduced in House
Personal Health Record Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-4216
Sponsor: Rep. Kennedy, Patrick J. [D-RI-1]
Introduced: 2009-12-07 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Computers and information technology
Department of Health and Human Services
Health information and medical records
Medicaid
Medicare
Right of privacy

Summary:
action_date: 2009-12-07
text: 
Personal Health Record Act of 2009 - Amends the Public Health Service Act to require the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology, in developing a nationwide health information technology infrastructure, to allow individuals to access their individually identifiable health information.
 
Requires the inclusion in the Federal Health IT Strategic Plan objectives, milestones, and metrics related to the interoperability of a personal health record with an electronic health record (EHR).
 
Directs the National Coordinator to develop guidelines for making EHRs interoperable with personal health records for the purpose of improving health care quality, reducing medical errors, and advancing the delivery of patient-centered medical care and health management. 
 
Requires the National Coordinator to report to the appropriate congressional committees on: (1) personal health records, including the extent to which the use of personal health records improve communication between individuals and covered entities and improve patient health management; and (2) issues related to an individual's control of the personal health record.
 
Requires the HIT Policy Committee to make recommendations for standards and implementation specifications for the interoperability of personal health records and EHRs. 
 
Amends titles XVIII (Medicare) and XIX (Medicaid) of the Social Security Act to establish as an eligibility requirement for an incentive payment for the meaningful use of EHR technology that a health professional, hospital, or Medicaid provider must demonstrate the availability of certified EHR technology to and use of such technology by individuals furnished items and services by such professional, hospital, or provider in the form of electronic and personal health records.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-12-08
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2009-12-08
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2009-12-07
text: Referred to House Ways and Means
action_date: 2009-12-07
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: 2009-12-07
text: Referred to House Energy and Commerce
action_date: 2009-12-07
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E2897)
action_date: 2009-12-07
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-12-07
text: Introduced in House
National Commission on American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-4219
Sponsor: Rep. Wilson, Joe [R-SC-2]
Introduced: 2009-12-08 in the House
Policy area: Economics and Public Finance
Subjects: Advisory bodies
Congressional operations and organization
Congressional oversight
Economic performance and conditions
Employment and training programs
Financial crises and stabilization
Government studies and investigations

Summary:
action_date: 2009-12-08
text: 
National Commission on American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 - Establishes in the legislative branch the National Commission on American Recovery and Reinvestment.
 
Requires the Commission to: (1) investigate and make findings on the number of jobs saved or created as a result of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009; and (2) make recommendations on changes that could be made to such Act to save or create more jobs as well as steps that could be taken to prevent the improper payment of funds allocated under it.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-01-04
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Workforce Protections.
action_date: 2009-12-08
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and Labor.
action_date: 2009-12-08
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR H14376)
action_date: 2009-12-08
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-12-08
text: Introduced in House
Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-4223
Sponsor: Rep. Kildee, Dale E. [D-MI-5]
Introduced: 2009-12-08 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Academic performance and assessments
Crime prevention
Drug, alcohol, tobacco use
Education of the disadvantaged
Education programs funding
Elementary and secondary education
Juvenile crime and gang violence
Mental health
Teaching, teachers, curricula

Summary:
action_date: 2009-12-08
text: 
Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning Act of 2009 - Authorizes the Secretary of Education to award a five-year grant to an experienced nonprofit organization to establish a National Technical Assistance and Training Center for Social and Emotional Learning that provides training and technical assistance to states, local educational agencies (LEAs), and community-based organizations to identify, promote, and support evidence-based social and emotional learning standards and programming in elementary and secondary schools.
 
 Authorizes the Secretary to award competitive five-year grants to states and LEAs to work with the Center in developing and implementing such standards and programming in elementary and secondary schools. 
 
Gives grant priority to applicants that have a plan for sustaining the program beyond the grant period and serve schools that have high numbers or percentages of: (1) low-income students; and (2) students in schools identified as needing improvement, corrective action, or restructuring under the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (ESEA).
 
Directs the Secretary to conduct an independent evaluation of the activities funded by such grants to states and LEAs.
 
Amends the ESEA to include: (1) programming that meets the social and emotional needs of students as part of the School Dropout Prevention program and the Safe and Drug-Free Schools and Communities program; and (2) teacher and principal training in practices that address those needs as part of the Teacher and Principal Training and Recruiting Fund program.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-01-04
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education.
action_date: 2009-12-08
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and Labor.
action_date: 2009-12-08
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-12-08
text: Introduced in House
Together We Care Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-4224
Sponsor: Rep. Velazquez, Nydia M. [D-NY-12]
Introduced: 2009-12-08 in the House
Policy area: Housing and Community Development
Subjects: Aging
Allied health services
Disability and paralysis
Employment and training programs
Health personnel
Health programs administration and funding
Home and outpatient care
Housing and community development funding
Housing for the elderly and disabled
Medical education
Poverty and welfare assistance
Public housing

Summary:
action_date: 2009-12-08
text: 
Together We Care Act of 2009 - Amends the United States Housing Act of 1937 to direct the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) to establish a pilot program to make grants on a competitive basis to eligible entities for the training of public housing residents as home health aides and providers of home-based health services to enable them to provide covered home-based health services (i.e., services for which medical assistance is available under a state Medicaid plan or for which financial assistance is available under this Act) to residents of: (1) public housing who are elderly or disabled, or both; and (2) federally-assisted rental housing who are elderly or disabled, or both, subject to criteria that the Secretary may establish.

Authorizes the use of grant funds: (1) to establish or maintain and carry out a program to train public housing residents to provide covered home-based health care services to elderly and disabled public housing residents and to elderly and disabled residents of federally-assisted rental housing; (2) for the transportation and child care expenses of public housing residents in training; and (3) for the administrative expenses of carrying out such a program.

Provides that for any resident of public housing who is trained as a home health aide or as a provider of home-based health services under the program, any income received for providing covered home-based health services shall apply towards eligibility for benefits under federal housing programs as specified, based on length of time following completion of the training.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-12-08
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2009-12-08
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-12-08
text: Introduced in House
To authorize drought assistance adjustments to provide immediate funding for projects and activities that will help alleviate record unemployment and diminished agricultural production related to the drought in California.

Bill: 111-hr-4225
Sponsor: Rep. Costa, Jim [D-CA-20]
Introduced: 2009-12-08 in the House
Policy area: Water Resources Development
Subjects: California
Disaster relief and insurance
Intergovernmental relations
Migrant, seasonal, agricultural labor
Natural disasters
Unemployment
Water resources funding
Water use and supply
Watersheds
Wildlife conservation and habitat protection

Summary:
action_date: 2009-12-08
text: 
Authorizes the Secretary of the Interior to use funds provided by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 or appropriation measures through FY2012 for any required non-federal share of the cost of projects that: (1) are funded by the federal government; (2) are located in an area that either has been identified by the U.S. Drought Monitor as experiencing severe, extreme, or exceptional drought within the 24 months prior to this Act's enactment or has been designated as a disaster area by California during 2009; (3) will make progress towards providing a more reliable water supply for California and protecting, restoring, and enhancing the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta ecosystem, will increase water management flexibility, or will reduce impacts on environmental resources from projects operated by the California State Department of Water Resources, the California State Department of Fish and Game, the Bureau of Reclamation, the United States Fish and Wildlife Service, or other relevant state and federal agencies; (4) show potential to restore agriculture production or agricultural employment for such areas; and (5) have made significant progress in the completion of any necessary environmental or public review.
 
Directs that the use of funds for the nonfederal share of projects as authorized in this Act be considered a drought assistance adjustment. Requires the Secretary to establish criteria for calculating such adjustments utilizing existing practices for adjustments in water service and repayment rates.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-02-04
text: Subcommittee Hearings Held.
action_date: 2009-12-09
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Water and Power.
action_date: 2009-12-08
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2009-12-08
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-12-08
text: Introduced in House
Expanding Building Efficiency Incentives Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-4226
Sponsor: Rep. Reichert, David G. [R-WA-8]
Introduced: 2009-12-08 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Energy efficiency and conservation
Housing industry and standards
Income tax credits
Income tax deductions

Summary:
action_date: 2009-12-08
text: 
Expanding Building Efficiency Incentives Act of 2009 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) increase and extend through 2015 the new energy efficient home tax credit; (2) increase the rate of the tax deduction for energy efficient commercial buildings; (3) increase to $5,000 the limit on the tax credit for nonbusiness energy property expenditures and extend such credit through 2015; (4) allow a $200 tax credit through 2011 for the cost of a home energy rating; and (5) allow a $500 tax credit for the cost of training and certifying home performance auditors to conduct home energy ratings. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-12-08
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2009-12-08
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-12-08
text: Introduced in House
Incentives to Increase Use of Renewable Biomass Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-4227
Sponsor: Rep. Schrader, Kurt [D-OR-5]
Introduced: 2009-12-08 in the House
Policy area: Energy
Subjects: Alternative and renewable resources
Educational facilities and institutions
Electric power generation and transmission
Elementary and secondary education
Government buildings, facilities, and property
Government lending and loan guarantees
Government trust funds
Health facilities and institutions
Higher education
Lighting and heating
Lighting, heating, cooling

Summary:
action_date: 2009-12-08
text: 
Incentives to Increase Use of Renewable Biomass Act of 2009 - Amends the Farm Security and Rural Investment Act of 2002 to require the Secretary of Agriculture to: (1) establish a program to provide interest-free loans to eligible institutions (i.e., an institution of higher education, an elementary or secondary school, a hospital, a local government building, or a governmental, community, health, or educational building owned or leased and occupied by an Indian tribe, except any building used for gaming) for capital costs for converting existing equipment, or installing new equipment, to use renewable biomass for energy generation, heating, or cooling systems; and (2) ensure that an institution receiving such a loan will use renewable biomass for no less than 75% of the energy generation, heating, or cooling needs of the facility for which the loan is received. 
 
 
Establishes in the Treasury a revolving fund for such program. Requires the Secretary to: (1) deposit amounts received as payment on loans provided under such program into such revolving fund; and (2) make available $100 million of the funds of the Commodity Credit Corporation to such revolving fund.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-03-29
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Conservation, Credit, Energy, and Research.
action_date: 2009-12-08
text: Referred to the House Committee on Agriculture.
action_date: 2009-12-08
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-12-08
text: Introduced in House