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Low Income Housing Tax Credit Exchange Expansion and Job Creation Act of 2010

Bill: 111-hr-4687
Sponsor: Rep. Sánchez, Linda T. [D-CA-39]
Introduced: 2010-02-24 in the House
Policy area: Housing and Community Development
Subjects: Housing and community development funding
Housing finance and home ownership
Income tax credits
Low- and moderate-income housing
Residential rehabilitation and home repair

Summary:
action_date: 2010-02-24
text: 
Low Income Housing Tax Credit Exchange Expansion and Job Creation Act of 2010 - Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to make grants to: (1) state housing credit agencies in lieu of low-income credit allocations in 2010; and (2) states for bond-subsidized housing projects. 
 
Requires state housing credit agencies and states to use grants to make subawards to finance the construction or acquisition and rehabilitation of qualified low-income buildings. Requires the return of grant funds not used to make such subawards before January 1, 2012.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-02-24
text: Referred to House Ways and Means
action_date: 2010-02-24
text: Referred to the Committee on Financial Services, 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: 2010-02-24
text: Referred to House Financial Services
action_date: 2010-02-24
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E229)
action_date: 2010-02-24
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-02-24
text: Introduced in House
Community Reintegration and Crime Prevention Act of 2010

Bill: 111-hr-4688
Sponsor: Rep. Sestak, Joe [D-PA-7]
Introduced: 2010-02-24 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Employment and training programs
Government information and archives
Law enforcement administration and funding
Social work, volunteer service, charitable organizations

Summary:
action_date: 2010-02-24
text: 
Community Reintegration and Crime Prevention Act of 2010 - Amends the Second Chance Act of 2007 to reauthorize appropriations for FY2011 and FY2012 to the Secretary of Labor to carry out the reintegration of offenders grants program through the award of grants to nonprofit organizations to provide mentoring, job training and job placement services, and other comprehensive transitional services to assist eligible offenders in obtaining and retaining employment.
 
Directs the Attorney General, in coordination with the Secretary of Labor, to prepare a report identifying the best practices of nonprofit organizations receiving grants under the Act. Directs the Attorney General to make such report available to the public.
 
Requires nonprofit organization grantees, for grants awarded on or after January 1, 2012, to comply with the best practices identified in the report.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-04-26
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.
action_date: 2010-02-24
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2010-02-24
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-02-24
text: Introduced in House
National Alzheimer's Project Act

Bill: 111-hr-4689
Sponsor: Rep. Markey, Edward J. [D-MA-7]
Introduced: 2010-02-25 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Advisory bodies
Aging
Department of Health and Human Services
Executive agency funding and structure
Health care coverage and access
Health programs administration and funding
Health promotion and preventive care
International organizations and cooperation
Medical research
Minority health
Neurological disorders

Summary:
action_date: 2010-02-25
text: 
National Alzheimer's Project Act - Establishes in the Office of the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) the Office of the National Alzheimer's Project to: (1) accelerate the development of treatments that would prevent, halt, or reverse the course of Alzheimer's; (2) create and maintain an integrated national plan to overcome Alzheimer's; (3) help to coordinate the health care and treatment of citizens with Alzheimer's; (4) ensure the inclusion of ethnic and racial populations that are at higher risk for Alzheimer's or that are least likely to receive care in clinical, research, and service efforts with the purpose of decreasing health disparities; (5) coordinate with international bodies to integrate and inform the fight against Alzheimer's globally; and (6) provide information and coordination of Alzheimer's research and services across all federal agencies.
 
Sets forth the duties of the Director of the Office, including to use discretionary authority to evaluate all federal programs concerning Alzheimer's.
 
Establishes in the Office an Advisory Council on Alzheimer's Research and Treatment.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-02-25
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2010-02-25
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E249)
action_date: 2010-02-25
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-02-25
text: Introduced in House
Military Spouse Job Continuity Act of 2010

Bill: 111-hr-4693
Sponsor: Rep. Dahlkemper, Kathleen A. [D-PA-3]
Introduced: 2010-02-25 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Income tax credits
Licensing and registrations
Military personnel and dependents

Summary:
action_date: 2010-02-25
text: 
Military Spouse Job Continuity Act of 2010 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow the spouse of a member of the Armed Forces (military spouse) who moves with such member to another state under a permanent change of station order a tax credit for up to $500 of qualified relicensing costs incurred by such spouse. Defines &quot;qualified relicensing costs&quot; as costs for a state license or certification to engage in the profession that such military spouse engaged in while residing in the former state. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-02-25
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2010-02-25
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR H837)
action_date: 2010-02-25
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-02-25
text: Introduced in House
Safe Affordable Small Dollar Loan Act of 2010

Bill: 111-hr-4694
Sponsor: Rep. Speier, Jackie [D-CA-12]
Introduced: 2010-02-25 in the House
Policy area: Housing and Community Development
Subjects: Community Development Financial Institutions Fund
Government lending and loan guarantees
Housing and community development funding

Summary:
action_date: 2010-02-25
text: 
Safe Affordable Small Dollar Loan Act of 2010 - Amends the Community Development Banking and Financial Institutions Act of 1994 to require the Community Development Financial Institutions Fund to make grants to community development financial institutions or to any related partnership in order to enable such institutions to establish a loan-loss reserve fund to defray the costs of a small dollar loan program.
 
Requires a community development financial institution to provide non-federal matching funds equal to 50% of the amount of any grant received.
 
Prohibits the use of such grants to make direct loans to consumers.
 
Permits a community development financial institution to use such a grant to: (1) help recapture a portion or all of a defaulted loan made under its small dollar loan program; and (2) designate and utilize a fiscal agent for services the agent normally provides.
 
Requires the Fund to make technical assistance grants to community development financial institutions to support and maintain a small dollar loan program.
 

 

 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-02-25
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2010-02-25
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-02-25
text: Introduced in House
To amend title VIII of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to provide financial assistance to local educational agencies that educate alien children admitted to the United States as citizens of one of the Freely Associated States.

Bill: 111-hr-4695
Sponsor: Del. Bordallo, Madeleine Z. [D-GU-At Large]
Introduced: 2010-02-25 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Education programs funding
Elementary and secondary education
Marshall Islands
Micronesia
Oceania
Palau

Summary:
action_date: 2010-02-25
text: 
Amends the Impact Aid program (which compensates local educational agencies [LEAs] for the financial burden of federal activities affecting their areas) of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to compensate LEAs for educating children who are admitted into this country as citizens of one of the Freely Associated States (the Republic of the Marshall Islands, the Federated States of Micronesia, or the Republic of Palau).


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-03-22
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education.
action_date: 2010-02-25
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and Labor.
action_date: 2010-02-25
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E258-259)
action_date: 2010-02-25
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-02-25
text: Introduced in House
To expand the availability of health savings accounts, to eliminate restrictions on the deduction for medical expenses, and to provide for cooperative governing of individual health insurance coverage offered in interstate commerce.

Bill: 111-hr-4696
Sponsor: Rep. Bachmann, Michele [R-MN-6]
Introduced: 2010-02-25 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Administrative remedies
Consumer affairs
Fraud offenses and financial crimes
Government information and archives
Health care costs and insurance
Health care coverage and access
Health personnel
Income tax deductions
Licensing and registrations
State and local government operations

Summary:
action_date: 2010-02-25
text: 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to revise provisions related to health savings accounts, including to: (1) adjust the amount allowable as a deduction for health savings accounts; and (2) eliminate the restriction on purchasing health insurance from a health savings account.
 
Eliminates the gross income percentage limitation on the tax deduction for medical expenses.
 
Amends the Public Health Service Act to provide that the laws of the state designated by a health insurance issuer (primary state) shall apply to individual health insurance coverage offered by that issuer in the primary state and in any other state (secondary state), but only if the coverage and issuer comply with the conditions of this Act.
 
Exempts issuers from any secondary state's laws that would prohibit or regulate the operation of the issuer in such state, subject to certain restrictions imposed by such state.
 
Requires each issuer issuing individual health insurance coverage in both primary and secondary states to submit to the insurance commissioners of such states: (1) a copy of the plan of operation or feasibility study; (2) written notice of any change in its designation of its primary state and of its compliance with all the laws of the primary state; and (3) a quarterly financial statement.
 
Prohibits an issuer from offering, selling, or issuing individual health insurance coverage in a secondary state if the state insurance commissioner does not use a risk-based capital formula for the determination of capital and surplus requirements for all issuers.
 
Gives sole jurisdiction to the primary state to enforce the primary state's covered laws in the primary state and any secondary state. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-02-25
text: Referred to House Ways and Means
action_date: 2010-02-25
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: 2010-02-25
text: Referred to House Energy and Commerce
action_date: 2010-02-25
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-02-25
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to exclude from gross income remediation payments for hazardous drywall.

Bill: 111-hr-4697
Sponsor: Rep. Cao, Anh "Joseph" [R-LA-2]
Introduced: 2010-02-25 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Hazardous wastes and toxic substances
Income tax exclusion
Residential rehabilitation and home repair

Summary:
action_date: 2010-02-25
text: 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to exclude from gross income government payments to a taxpayer for the replacement of, or remediation relating to, hazardous or defective drywall installed in the taxpayer's principal residence after September 1, 2006, and prior to the enactment of this Act.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-02-25
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2010-02-25
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-02-25
text: Introduced in House
Delaware River Basin Conservation Act of 2010

Bill: 111-hr-4698
Sponsor: Rep. Castle, Michael N. [R-DE-At Large]
Introduced: 2010-02-25 in the House
Policy area: Water Resources Development
Subjects: Delaware
Environmental assessment, monitoring, research
Floods and storm protection
Lakes and rivers
Land use and conservation
New Jersey
New York State
Pennsylvania
Water quality
Water resources funding
Watersheds
Wildlife conservation and habitat protection

Summary:
action_date: 2010-02-25
text: 
Delaware River Basin Conservation Act of 2010 - Requires the Secretary of the Interior, through the Director of the United States Fish and Wildlife Service, to establish a Delaware River Basin Restoration Program, under which the Director shall: (1) work in consultation with existing management structures to identify, prioritize, and implement restoration and protection activities within the Delaware Basin (defined as including all of Delaware Bay and portions of Delaware, New Jersey, New York, and Pennsylvania located in the Delaware River watershed); (2) adopt a single plan that includes a shared set of priorities for implementation of the Program; (3) establish the Delaware River Basin Restoration Grant Program; and (4) provide technical assistance to other federal agencies, state and local governments, nonprofit and community organizations, universities, and others to carry out the Restoration Program.
 
 Requires the Grant Program to provide competitive matching grants to state and local governments, nonprofit organizations, community organizations, universities, and others to carry out Restoration Program purposes. Requires the Director to develop criteria to ensure that funded activities: (1) restore or protect fish and wildlife species and their habitats; (2) improve or protect water quality by reducing nonpoint and point source pollutants; (3) reduce or improve management of water volume and flooding; (4) address priority needs or actions identified in the single plan adopted; and/or (5) include activities with multiple benefits in the Basin, including habitat, water quality, and flood protection. Limits the federal share of the total cost of a funded project to 75%. Authorizes the Director to contract with the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation or another organization with the expertise to manage the Grant Program.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-03-03
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Insular Affairs, Oceans and Wildlife.
action_date: 2010-02-26
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment.
action_date: 2010-02-25
text: Referred to House Transportation and Infrastructure
action_date: 2010-02-25
text: Referred to the Committee on Natural Resources, 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: 2010-02-25
text: Referred to House Natural Resources
action_date: 2010-02-25
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-02-25
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to extend the deduction for qualified motor vehicle taxes for motor homes.

Bill: 111-hr-4699
Sponsor: Rep. Donnelly, Joe [D-IN-2]
Introduced: 2010-02-25 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Housing finance and home ownership
Income tax deductions
Motor vehicles
Sales and excise taxes

Summary:
action_date: 2010-02-25
text: 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) extend through 2011 the tax deduction for state and local sales or excise taxes imposed on the purchase of a motor home; and (2) revise the definition of &quot;motor home&quot; for purposes of this tax deduction to include a recreation vehicle trailer and a slide-in camper.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-02-25
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2010-02-25
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-02-25
text: Introduced in House
Transparency in All Health Care Pricing Act of 2010

Bill: 111-hr-4700
Sponsor: Rep. Kagen, Steve [D-WI-8]
Introduced: 2010-02-25 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Consumer affairs
Health care costs and insurance

Summary:
action_date: 2010-02-25
text: 
Transparency in All Health Care Pricing Act of 2010 - Requires any and all individuals or business entities, including physicians, pharmacies, pharmaceutical manufactures, and insurance entities, that offer or furnish health care related items, products, services, or procedures for sale to the public to publicly disclose, on a continuous basis, all prices for such items, products, services, or procedures. Authorizes the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) to: (1) investigate any individuals or business entities that fail to comply with the requirements of this Act; and (2) impose civil fines, or other civil penalties, as appropriate.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-05-06
text: Subcommittee Hearings Held.
action_date: 2010-03-08
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2010-02-26
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2010-02-25
text: Referred to House Oversight and Government Reform
action_date: 2010-02-25
text: Referred to House Ways and Means
action_date: 2010-02-25
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Ways and Means, 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: 2010-02-25
text: Referred to House Energy and Commerce
action_date: 2010-02-25
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-02-25
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide relief to certain married couples who would otherwise be ineligible for the first-time homebuyer credit.

Bill: 111-hr-4701
Sponsor: Rep. Engel, Eliot L. [D-NY-17]
Introduced: 2010-02-25 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Housing finance and home ownership
Income tax credits
Marriage and family status

Summary:
action_date: 2010-02-25
text: 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow married couples filing a joint tax return who would otherwise be ineligible for the first-time homebuyer tax credit due to the ineligibility of one spouse for such credit a partial tax credit for the purchase of a principal residence. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-02-25
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2010-02-25
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-02-25
text: Introduced in House
Citizens' Choice Act of 2010

Bill: 111-hr-4702
Sponsor: Rep. Forbes, J. Randy [R-VA-4]
Introduced: 2010-02-25 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Income tax credits
Social work, volunteer service, charitable organizations

Summary:
action_date: 2010-02-25
text: 
Citizens' Choice Act of 2010 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow a tax credit up to $1,000 for cash contributions to charitable organizations.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-02-25
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2010-02-25
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-02-25
text: Introduced in House
To prohibit the further extension or establishment of national monuments in California except by express authorization of Congress.

Bill: 111-hr-4703
Sponsor: Rep. Herger, Wally [R-CA-2]
Introduced: 2010-02-25 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: California
Monuments and memorials
Wilderness and natural areas, wildlife refuges, wild rivers, habitats

Summary:
action_date: 2010-02-25
text: 
Prohibits any further extension or establishment of national parks and monuments in California from being undertaken, except by express authorization of Congress.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-03-02
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests and Public Lands.
action_date: 2010-02-25
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2010-02-25
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-02-25
text: Introduced in House
Disabled Public Safety Officers Fairness Act of 2010

Bill: 111-hr-4704
Sponsor: Rep. Massa, Eric J. J. [D-NY-29]
Introduced: 2010-02-25 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Disability assistance
Emergency medical services and trauma care
Fires
Health personnel
Law enforcement officers

Summary:
action_date: 2010-02-25
text: 
Disabled Public Safety Officers Fairness Act of 2010 - Amends the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 to provide for payment of disability benefits to public safety officers who became permanently and totally disabled prior to the enactment of such Act. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-04-26
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.
action_date: 2010-02-25
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2010-02-25
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-02-25
text: Introduced in House
President Ronald Reagan $50 Bill Act

Bill: 111-hr-4705
Sponsor: Rep. McHenry, Patrick T. [R-NC-10]
Introduced: 2010-02-25 in the House
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: Currency
Presidential administrations

Summary:
action_date: 2010-02-25
text: 
President Ronald Reagan $50 Bill Act - Amends the Federal Reserve Act to direct the Secretary of the Treasury to print $50 federal reserve notes bearing the likeness of President Ronald Wilson Reagan.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-02-25
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2010-02-25
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-02-25
text: Introduced in House
HEATR Act of 2010

Bill: 111-hr-4706
Sponsor: Rep. Owens, William L. [D-NY-23]
Introduced: 2010-02-25 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Energy prices
Income tax credits
Lighting and heating
Lighting, heating, cooling

Summary:
action_date: 2010-02-25
text: 
Home Energy Affordability Tax Relief Act of 2010 or the HEATR Act of 2010 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow individual taxpayers an income-based refundable tax credit for residential energy costs. Limits such credit to the lesser of 33% of such costs or $500.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-02-25
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2010-02-25
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-02-25
text: Introduced in House