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Reengaging Americans in Serious Education by Uniting Programs Act

Bill: 111-s-1608
Sponsor: Sen. Stabenow, Debbie [D-MI]
Introduced: 2009-08-06 in the Senate
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Education of the disadvantaged
Education programs funding
Elementary and secondary education
Employment and training programs
Higher education
Performance measurement
Public-private cooperation
Vocational and technical education

Summary:
action_date: 2009-08-06
text: 
Reengaging Americans in Serious Education by Uniting Programs Act - Directs the Secretary of Labor to award competitive, renewable, five-year grants to eligible partnerships to assist them in providing disadvantaged youth with the support needed to: (1) graduate from secondary school; (2) attain a postsecondary credential, including those offered by institutions of higher education, industry groups, or registered apprenticeship programs; and (3) secure and succeed in a family-supporting career. 
 
Requires each eligible partnership to include: (1) the head of the local government assisted by the grant; (2) disadvantaged youth and their caregivers; (3) representatives from certain state and local service agencies; (4) representatives from certain educational entities; and (5) a representative from a community-based organization, a youth-serving nonprofit agency, a labor-management committee, and a business.
 
Requires grantees to award subgrants and contracts to community-based organizations and other entities for the provision of a comprehensive array of coordinated services to disadvantaged youth that include workforce preparation, education support, and youth support services.
 
Establishes an accountability system for measuring the performance of each grantee against specified interim, transitional, and long-term indicators of success.
 
Directs the Secretary to: (1) award a grant or contract to an entity outside the Department of Labor for an evaluation of grant-assisted activities; (2) disseminate best practices that emerge from the partnership grant program; and (3) provide training, technical assistance, and professional development for organizations serving disadvantaged youth, including organizations that do not receive funding under this Act.
 

 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-08-06
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2009-08-06
text: Introduced in Senate
American Shipping Reinvestment Act of 2009

Bill: 111-s-1610
Sponsor: Sen. Cantwell, Maria [D-WA]
Introduced: 2009-08-06 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Aviation and airports
Financial services and investments
Foreign and international corporations
Income tax deductions
Income tax exclusion
Marine and inland water transportation
Taxation of foreign income

Summary:
action_date: 2009-08-06
text: 
American Shipping Reinvestment Act of 2009 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) repeal shipping investment withdrawal tax rules; and (2) allow U.S. corporate shareholders an election to deduct dividends attributable to foreign base company shipping income received from a controlled foreign corporation. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-08-06
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. (text of measure as introduced: CR S9011-9012)
action_date: 2009-08-06
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S9010-9011)
action_date: 2009-08-06
text: Introduced in Senate
Public Safety Employer-Employee Cooperation Act of 2009

Bill: 111-s-1611
Sponsor: Sen. Gregg, Judd [R-NH]
Introduced: 2009-08-06 in the Senate
Policy area: Labor and Employment
Subjects: Administrative remedies
Alternative dispute resolution, mediation, arbitration
Emergency medical services and trauma care
Employment discrimination and employee rights
Federal preemption
Fires
Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management
Health personnel
Labor-management relations
Law enforcement officers

Summary:
action_date: 2009-08-06
text: 
Public Safety Employer-Employee Cooperation Act of 2009 - Declares that it is the purpose of this Act to provide collective bargaining rights for public safety officers employed by states or local governments.
 
Directs the Federal Labor Relations Authority (FLRA) to determine whether a state substantially provides for specified rights and responsibilities for public safety officers, including: (1) granting public safety employees the right to form and join a labor organization which excludes management, supervisory, and confidential employees, and which is, or seeks to be, recognized as the exclusive bargaining agent for such employees; and (2) requiring public safety employers to recognize and agree to bargain with the employees' labor organization. 
Requires the FLRA to issue, in accordance with the public safety employee rights and responsibilities, regulations establishing collective bargaining procedures for public safety employers and employees in states that do not substantially provide for such rights and responsibilities. 
Directs the FLRA, in such cases, to: (1) determine the appropriateness of units for labor organization representation; (2) supervise or conduct elections to determine whether a labor organization has been selected as an exclusive representative by a voting majority of the employees in an appropriate unit; (3) resolve issues relating to the duty to bargain in good faith; (4) conduct hearings and resolve complaints of unfair labor practices; and (5) resolve exceptions to arbitrators' awards. Grants a public safety employer, employee, or labor organization the right to seek enforcement of FLRA regulations and orders through appropriate state courts. 
Prohibits public safety employers, employees, and labor organizations from engaging in lockouts, sickouts, work slowdowns, or strikes. Waives federal preemption of state law governing strikes by public safety officers. 
Provides that existing collective bargaining units and agreements shall not be invalidated by this Act.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-08-06
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2009-08-06
text: Introduced in Senate
Employee Stock Ownership Plan Promotion and Improvement Act of 2009

Bill: 111-s-1612
Sponsor: Sen. Lincoln, Blanche L. [D-AR]
Introduced: 2009-08-06 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Employee benefits and pensions
Financial services and investments
Government lending and loan guarantees
Income tax deductions
Income tax exclusion
Income tax rates
Interest, dividends, interest rates
Securities
Small business

Summary:
action_date: 2009-08-06
text: 
Employee Stock Ownership Plan Promotion and Improvement Act of 2009 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) exempt certain distributions, including dividends, by S corporations to an employee stock ownership plan (ESOP) from the penalty tax for premature employee benefit plan withdrawals; (2) exempt deductions for ESOP dividends from corporate alternative minimum tax adjustments based on adjusted earnings and profits; (3) allow deferral of the recognition of gain for certain sales to ESOPs sponsored by any domestic corporation, including S corporations; (4) allow reinvestment of ESOP stock proceeds eligible for nonrecognition of gain in certain mutual funds; and (5) modify certain ESOP stock ownership rules. 
 
Amends the Small Business Act to allow a majority-owned ESOP business concern to continue to qualify for loans, preferences, and other programs under such Act. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-08-06
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2009-08-06
text: Introduced in Senate
Deficit Reduction Act of 2009

Bill: 111-s-1613
Sponsor: Sen. Bennet, Michael F. [D-CO]
Introduced: 2009-08-06 in the Senate
Policy area: Economics and Public Finance
Subjects: Adoption and foster care
Afghanistan
Asia
Budget deficits and national debt
Budget process
Congressional oversight
Defense spending
Disability assistance
Foreign loans and debt
Income tax credits
International monetary system and foreign exchange
Iraq
Legislative rules and procedure
Middle East
Military operations and strategy
Poverty and welfare assistance
Roads and highways

Summary:
action_date: 2009-08-06
text: 
Deficit Reduction Act of 2009 - Amends the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 (Gramm-Rudman-Hollings Act) to redefine, for FY2011-FY2019, discretionary spending limits (spending caps) for new budget authority and outlays to mean the baseline, minus any emergency spending, for the preceding fiscal year as adjusted for inflation and (as under current law) as adjusted in strict conformance with such Act.
 
Revises sequestration requirements for enforcement of discretionary spending limits. Requires the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) to conduct such a sequestration to eliminate a budget year breach.
 
Eliminates specific formula requirements for adjustments to discretionary spending limits for: (1) highways; (2) continuing disability reviews for the Social Security Administration (SSA); (3) allowances for the International Monetary Fund (IMF); (4) specified allowances for international arrearages; (5) the earned income tax credit (EITC) compliance initiative; (6) Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) adoption incentive payments; and (7) conservation.
 
Prescribes an adjustment to discretionary spending limits for overseas contingency operations related to the global war on terrorism, including Iraq and Afghanistan.
 
Redefines low-growth, for purposes of OMB's required low-growth notification to Congress, from less than zero to less than 1%.
 
Extends Pay-As-You-Go requirements and enforcement mechanisms through FY2019.
 
Establishes sequestration enforcement mechanisms to eliminate deficit limits for FY2012-FY2019.
 
Specifies additional Social Security, veterans, Tier I Railroad Retirement benefits and other programs and activities exempt from a sequestration order as well as certain economic recovery programs.
 
Amends the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 (CBA) to make it out of order in both chambers to consider any legislation causing the discretionary limits in the Gramm-Rudman-Hollings Act to be exceeded.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-08-06
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Budget.
action_date: 2009-08-06
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S9012-9015)
action_date: 2009-08-06
text: Introduced in Senate
Community College Technology Access Act

Bill: 111-s-1614
Sponsor: Sen. Schumer, Charles E. [D-NY]
Introduced: 2009-08-06 in the Senate
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Computers and information technology
Education programs funding
Educational facilities and institutions
Educational technology and distance education
Higher education

Summary:
action_date: 2009-08-06
text: 
Community College Technology Access Act - Directs the Secretary of Education to award grants to community colleges for the maintenance, administration, and improvement of computer labs to enhance student and public access to information technology training.
 
Allows grantees to use grant funds to expand or build a computer lab facility if they ask and receive the Secretary's authorization to do so.
 
Requires grantees to keep their computer labs open to the public for specified minimum periods and to offer the public free computer-related training while open.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-08-06
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2009-08-06
text: Introduced in Senate
Next Step for Main Street Credit Availability Act of 2009

Bill: 111-s-1615
Sponsor: Sen. Snowe, Olympia J. [R-ME]
Introduced: 2009-08-06 in the Senate
Policy area: Commerce
Subjects: Credit and credit markets
Government information and archives
Government lending and loan guarantees
Minority and disadvantaged businesses
Small Business Administration
Small business
Veterans' loans, housing, homeless programs
Women in business

Summary:
action_date: 2009-08-06
text: 
Next Step for Main Street Credit Availability Act of 2009 - Amends the Small Business Act to increase maximum amounts of loans under the section 7(a) guaranteed loan program and the Microloan Program. Amends the Small Business Investment Act of 1958 to increase maximum amounts of loans to state and local development companies for plant acquisition, construction, conversion, and expansion.
 
Expresses the sense of Congress that the Administrator of the Small Business Administration (SBA) should establish a website that: (1) lists SBA lenders; and (2) allows prospective borrowers to compare loan rates and apply online.
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-08-06
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship. (text of measure as introduced: CR S9015-9016)
action_date: 2009-08-06
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S9015)
action_date: 2009-08-06
text: Introduced in Senate
United States-China Market Engagement and Export Promotion Act

Bill: 111-s-1616
Sponsor: Sen. Cantwell, Maria [D-WA]
Introduced: 2009-08-06 in the Senate
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: China
Competitiveness, trade promotion, trade deficits
Congressional oversight
Education programs funding
Executive agency funding and structure
Higher education
Small Business Administration
Small business
State and local government operations
User charges and fees

Summary:
action_date: 2009-08-06
text: 
United States-China Market Engagement and Export Promotion Act - Directs the Secretary of Commerce to: (1) provide grants to states to establish and operate state offices in the People's Republic of China (PRC) to promote U.S. exports to the PRC; (2) establish a program to create China market advocate positions in United States Export Assistance Centers in order to provide assistance to small- and medium-sized U.S. businesses in the export of U.S. goods to the PRC, including assistance for business-related expenses for trade missions to the PRC; and (3) submit to Congress a plan to consolidate fees for Gold Key matching services provided to such U.S. businesses that export U.S. goods or services to more than one market in the PRC.
 
Amends the Small Business Act to require the Office of International Trade of the Small Business Administration (SBA) to provide guidance to U.S. small businesses with respect to the export of U.S. goods and services to the PRC. Establishes in the Office a Director of China Program Grants.
 
Directs the Administrator of SBA, acting through the Director of China Program Grants, to make grants to institutions of higher education to establish and operate Chinese business education programs.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-08-06
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs. (text of measure as introduced: CR S9016-9017)
action_date: 2009-08-06
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S9016)
action_date: 2009-08-06
text: Introduced in Senate
Investments for Manufacturing Progress and Clean Technology Act of 2009

Bill: 111-s-1617
Sponsor: Sen. Brown, Sherrod [D-OH]
Introduced: 2009-08-06 in the Senate
Policy area: Science, Technology, Communications
Subjects: Advanced technology and technological innovations
Air quality
Alternative and renewable resources
Climate change and greenhouse gases
Energy efficiency and conservation
Environmental technology
Government lending and loan guarantees
Industrial facilities
Manufacturing
Product development and innovation
Small business
Technology transfer and commercialization

Summary:
action_date: 2009-08-06
text: 
Investments for Manufacturing Progress and Clean Technology Act of 2009 or the IMPACT Act of 2009 - Amends the National Institute of Standards and Technology Act to: (1) direct the Secretary of Commerce to award grants to states to establish revolving loan funds to provide loans to small and medium-sized manufacturers for producing clean energy technology and energy efficient products and for reducing greenhouse gas emissions from manufacturing facilities; and (2) include within the activities of Regional Centers for the Transfer of Manufacturing Technology the establishment of a clean energy manufacturing supply chain initiative.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-12-08
text: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources Subcommittee on Energy. Hearings held. With printed Hearing: S.Hrg. 111-330.
action_date: 2009-08-06
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
action_date: 2009-08-06
text: Introduced in Senate
Safeguarding Social Security Numbers Act of 2009

Bill: 111-s-1618
Sponsor: Sen. Schumer, Charles E. [D-NY]
Introduced: 2009-08-06 in the Senate
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Computer security and identity theft
Congressional oversight
Government information and archives
Social Security Administration
Social security and elderly assistance
State and local government operations

Summary:
action_date: 2009-08-06
text: 
Safeguarding Social Security Numbers Act of 2009 - Directs the Commissioner of Social Security to issue uniform standards for the method for truncation of Social Security account numbers in order to facilitate their protection from use in fraud or identity theft. 
 
Amends the federal criminal code to prohibit the display of Social Security account numbers to the general public on the Internet by state and local governments, except in compliance with such truncation standards.
 
Directs the Attorney General to award grants to state and local governments to come into compliance with such prohibition or the exception to it.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-08-06
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2009-08-06
text: Introduced in Senate
Efficient Vehicle Leadership Act of 2009

Bill: 111-s-1620
Sponsor: Sen. Bingaman, Jeff [D-NM]
Introduced: 2009-08-06 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Energy efficiency and conservation
Income tax credits
Income tax rates
Motor vehicles
Sales and excise taxes

Summary:
action_date: 2009-08-06
text: 
Efficient Vehicle Leadership Act of 2009 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) allow a new income tax credit for certain fuel-efficient motor vehicles with a purchase price not exceeding $50,000, beginning with model year 2011; (2) allow such credit as an offset against the alternative minimum tax (AMT); and (3) revise the gas guzzler excise tax to impose an increased tax on fuel guzzler motor vehicles, beginning with model year 2013, based on specified fuel efficiency ratings.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-08-06
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. (text of measure as introduced: CR S9019-9020)
action_date: 2009-08-06
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S9018-9019)
action_date: 2009-08-06
text: Introduced in Senate
Thermal Energy Efficiency Act of 2009

Bill: 111-s-1621
Sponsor: Sen. Sanders, Bernard [I-VT]
Introduced: 2009-08-06 in the Senate
Policy area: Energy
Subjects: Climate change and greenhouse gases
Electric power generation and transmission
Energy efficiency and conservation
Government trust funds
Solid waste and recycling

Summary:
action_date: 2009-08-06
text: 
Thermal Energy Efficiency Act of 2009 - Establishes in the Treasury a Thermal Energy Efficiency Fund. Requires the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to: (1) allocate to the Fund 2% of the quantity of emission allowances established for any of calendar years 2012-2050 under any program for the regulation of greenhouse gas emissions that is established by federal law; (2) auction all of the emission allowances allocated to the Fund for a calendar year; and (3) deposit all proceeds of such auctions into the Fund.
 
Directs the Secretary of Energy (DOE), for each calendar year during which such a program is in effect, to use amounts in the Fund to make competitive grants to eligible entities (including state and local governments, commercial or industrial entities, and federal agencies) to carry out qualifying district energy, combined heat and power, or recoverable waste energy projects.
 
Establishes as a goal of the United States to meet 20% or more of total U.S. electrical power capacity through combined heat and power by calendar year 2030.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-08-06
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
action_date: 2009-08-06
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S9020-9021)
action_date: 2009-08-06
text: Introduced in Senate
Clean Air Protection Act

Bill: 111-s-1622
Sponsor: Sen. Barrasso, John [R-WY]
Introduced: 2009-08-06 in the Senate
Policy area: Environmental Protection
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Air quality
Civil actions and liability
Climate change and greenhouse gases
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
Supreme Court

Summary:
action_date: 2009-08-06
text: 
Clean Air Protection Act - Makes the United States Supreme Court's decision in 
Massachusetts v. Environmental Protection Agency 
and any establishment of standards resulting from the proposed rule published by the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) entitled &quot;Proposed Endangerment and Cause or Contribute Findings for Greenhouse Gases Under Section 202(a) of the Clean Air Act,&quot; or any similar or subsequent rule or other action relying on that decision, applicable only to sources regulated as of the date of enactment of this Act under such section (which concerns emission standards for new motor vehicles or new motor vehicle engines).


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-08-06
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.
action_date: 2009-08-06
text: Introduced in Senate
Responsible Federal Oil and Gas Lease Act

Bill: 111-s-1623
Sponsor: Sen. Feingold, Russell D. [D-WI]
Introduced: 2009-08-06 in the Senate
Policy area: Energy
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Department of the Interior
Marine and coastal resources, fisheries
Oil and gas

Summary:
action_date: 2009-08-06
text: 
Responsible Federal Oil and Gas Lease Act - Prohibits the Secretary of the Interior from authorizing any new lease for exploration or production of oil or natural gas unless the lessee: (1) certifies for each existing lease that the lessee has diligently developed the lands in order to produce oil or natural gas, or is producing oil or natural gas from such lands; or (2) has relinquished all federal oil and gas leases that are not being diligently developed.
 
Instructs the Secretary to promulgate diligent development regulations that: (1) include benchmarks for oil and gas development to ensure that leaseholders produce oil and gas from each lease within the five-year original term of the lease; and (2) require each leaseholder to submit a diligent development plan showing how the lessee will meet the benchmarks.
 
Establishes a civil penalty for noncompliance with this Act.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-08-06
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
action_date: 2009-08-06
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S9021-9022)
action_date: 2009-08-06
text: Introduced in Senate