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Alert Laid off Employees in Reasonable Time Act

Bill: 111-hr-2077
Sponsor: Rep. Gutierrez, Luis V. [D-IL-4]
Introduced: 2009-04-23 in the House
Policy area: Labor and Employment
Subjects: Civil actions and liability
Employment discrimination and employee rights
Government information and archives
Unemployment
Wages and earnings

Summary:
action_date: 2009-04-23
text: 
Alert Laid Off Employees in Reasonable Time Act - Amends the Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act to require an employer to give 60-day written notice to employees and to appropriate state and local government officials before ordering a mass layoff that results in an employment loss for a single employer at more than one site of employment during a 30-day period for: (1) at least 33% of the employees (excluding part-time employees); and (2) at least 50 or 500 employees (excluding part-time employees).
 
Makes an employer who violates such notice requirements liable to each aggrieved employee for double the back pay (under current law, only the back pay) for each day of the violation for up to 60 days.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-06-04
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Workforce Protections.
action_date: 2009-04-27
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E975)
action_date: 2009-04-23
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and Labor.
action_date: 2009-04-23
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-04-23
text: Introduced in House
National Commission on Employment and Economic Security Act

Bill: 111-hr-2078
Sponsor: Rep. Hastings, Alcee L. [D-FL-23]
Introduced: 2009-04-23 in the House
Policy area: Labor and Employment
Subjects: Advisory bodies
Economic performance and conditions
Government studies and investigations
Mental health
Unemployment

Summary:
action_date: 2009-04-23
text: 
National Commission on Employment and Economic Security Act - Establishes the National Commission on Employment and Economic Security to: (1) examine the effects of economic and psychological insecurity caused by employment displacement and the decreasing number of well-paid jobs on U.S. workers and their families; and (2) recommend to the President and Congress potential solutions, including legislative and administrative action, to alleviate such problems.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-06-04
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Workforce Protections.
action_date: 2009-04-23
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and Labor.
action_date: 2009-04-23
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E957)
action_date: 2009-04-23
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-04-23
text: Introduced in House
Honouliuli Internment Camp Special Resources Study Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-2079
Sponsor: Rep. Hirono, Mazie K. [D-HI-2]
Introduced: 2009-04-23 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Conflicts and wars
Detention of persons
Government studies and investigations
Hawaii
Historic sites and heritage areas
Parks, recreation areas, trails

Summary:
action_date: 2009-04-23
text: 
Honouliuli Internment Camp Special Resources Study Act of 2009 - Directs the Secretary of the Interior to conduct a special resource study of the national significance, suitability, and feasibility of including the Honouliuli Gulch and associated sites within Hawaii in the National Park System.
 
Requires such study to evaluate the Honouliuli Gulch, associated sites on Oahu, and other islands in Hawaii respecting: (1) their significance as a component of World War II; (2) their significance as related to the forcible internment of Japanese Americans, European Americans, and other individuals; and (3) historic resources at those sites. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-04-29
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests and Public Lands.
action_date: 2009-04-23
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2009-04-23
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E954-955)
action_date: 2009-04-23
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-04-23
text: Introduced in House
American Renewable Biomass Heating Act

Bill: 111-hr-2080
Sponsor: Rep. Hodes, Paul W. [D-NH-2]
Introduced: 2009-04-23 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Energy efficiency and conservation
Income tax credits
Lighting and heating
Lighting, heating, cooling

Summary:
action_date: 2009-04-23
text: 
American Renewable Biomass Heating Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) extend through 2013 the tax credit for nonbusiness energy property; (2) expand the definition of energy-efficient building property for purposes of such credit to include boilers and furnaces; and (3) increase the limit on such credit in 2009 and 2010 from $1,500 to $6,000.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-04-23
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2009-04-23
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-04-23
text: Introduced in House
National Park Educational Partnership Act

Bill: 111-hr-2081
Sponsor: Rep. Holt, Rush [D-NJ-12]
Introduced: 2009-04-23 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Ecology
Education of the disadvantaged
Education programs funding
Elementary and secondary education
Higher education
Parks, recreation areas, trails
Science and engineering education
Teaching, teachers, curricula
U.S. history

Summary:
action_date: 2009-04-23
text: 
National Park Educational Partnership Act - Amends the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (ESEA) to establish the National Park Ranger School Partnerships program authorizing the Secretary of Education to award competitive, three-year grants to schools and local educational agencies (LEAs) to enter into partnerships with the National Park Service (NPS) to provide kindergarten through grade 12 (K-12) students with educational programs and K-12 teachers with professional development emphasizing science, the environment, natural resources, mathematics, civics, and history. Makes education service agencies eligible for grants to carry out such educational programs and professional development activities. 
 
Deems schools and LEAs to be eligible for such a grant only if they: (1) have, are capable of, or will develop certain connections to the NPS; (2) have been identified as needing improvement under title I of the ESEA; and (3) serve a significant percentage of low-income students.
 
Permits: (1) the NPS to participate in the Mathematics and Science Partnerships program that provides training to teachers of such subjects under title II of the ESEA; and (2) educational service agencies, including federal agencies that serve as educational service providers, to partner with LEAs under such title's Teaching American History Grant Program.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-06-04
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education.
action_date: 2009-04-23
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and Labor.
action_date: 2009-04-23
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-04-23
text: Introduced in House
Military and Overseas Voting Enhancement Act

Bill: 111-hr-2082
Sponsor: Rep. Holt, Rush [D-NJ-12]
Introduced: 2009-04-23 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Congressional elections
Diplomacy, foreign officials, Americans abroad
Elections, voting, political campaign regulation
Military personnel and dependents
Postal service

Summary:
action_date: 2009-04-23
text: 
Military and Overseas Voting Enhancement Act - Amends the Uniformed and Overseas Citizens Absentee Voting Act to require states to accept and process absentee ballots of overseas uniformed services and civilian voters submitted by the voter to a provider of express mail no later than the day before election day for transmission to the appropriate state election official, as long as the ballot is received within 10 days after the election.
 
Requires the Presidential designee to reimburse overseas uniformed services voters for the costs of using a provider of express mail services to transmit the ballot to the official. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-04-23
text: Referred to the House Committee on House Administration.
action_date: 2009-04-23
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-04-23
text: Introduced in House
Prevention, Awareness, and Research of Autoimmune Diseases Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-2084
Sponsor: Rep. Kennedy, Patrick J. [D-RI-1]
Introduced: 2009-04-23 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Environmental health
Government information and archives
Health information and medical records
Health personnel
Health programs administration and funding
Health promotion and preventive care
Immunology and vaccination
Medical education
Medical research
Mental health
Minority health
Research administration and funding
Student aid and college costs
Women's health

Summary:
action_date: 2009-04-23
text: 
Prevention, Awareness, and Research of Autoimmune Diseases Act of 2009 - Amends the Public Health Service Act to require the Secretary of Health and Human Services, acting through the Director of the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, to award grants for research on environmental triggers that can cause the initiation of autoimmune diseases in genetically predisposed individuals.
 
Requires the Secretary, acting through the Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), to award grants to eligible entities to conduct public and professional awareness activities regarding autoimmune diseases. Allows grantees to use grant funds to: (1) promote increased awareness of early intervention and treatment to significantly improve the quality of life for people with autoimmune diseases; (2) target minority communities that may be underserved or disproportionately affected by such diseases; and (3) target women to help reduce the amount of time taken for correct diagnosis of such diseases.
 
Requires the Secretary, acting through the Administrator of the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), to: (1) award grants to eligible entities for the education of health care providers on potential links between autoimmune diseases and cognitive and mood disorders, such as depression; and (2) establish an educational loan repayment program for physicians agreeing to conduct research on autoimmune diseases.
 
Requires the Director of the National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases to: (1) conduct or support research on biomarkers of autoimmune diseases to prevent such diseases and to improve the diagnosis, treatment, and monitoring of such diseases; and (2) establish a database on such biomarkers.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-04-27
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2009-04-23
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2009-04-23
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E949)
action_date: 2009-04-23
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-04-23
text: Introduced in House
Religious Freedom Peace Tax Fund Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-2085
Sponsor: Rep. Lewis, John [D-GA-5]
Introduced: 2009-04-23 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Appropriations
Conflicts and wars
Congressional oversight
Defense spending
Government trust funds
Religion
Right of privacy
Tax administration and collection, taxpayers

Summary:
action_date: 2009-04-23
text: 
Religious Freedom Peace Tax Fund Act of 2009 - Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to establish in the Treasury the Religious Freedom Peace Tax Fund for the deposit of income, gift, and estate taxes paid by or on behalf of taxpayers: (1) who are designated conscientious objectors opposed to participation in war in any form based upon their deeply held moral, ethical, or religious beliefs or training (within the meaning of the Military Selective Service Act); and (2) who have certified their beliefs in writing to the Secretary.
 
Requires that: (1) amounts deposited in the Fund be allocated annually to any appropriation not for a military purpose; (2) the Secretary report to the House and Senate Appropriations Committees on the total amount transferred into the Fund during the preceding fiscal year and the purposes for which such amount was allocated; and (3) the privacy of individuals using the Fund be protected. 
Expresses the sense of Congress that any revenue increase resulting from the creation of the Fund be allocated in a manner consistent with its purposes.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-04-23
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2009-04-23
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-04-23
text: Introduced in House
Food Ingredient Right to Know Act

Bill: 111-hr-2086
Sponsor: Rep. Lowey, Nita M. [D-NY-18]
Introduced: 2009-04-23 in the House
Policy area: Agriculture and Food
Subjects: Consumer affairs
Food supply, safety, and labeling
Meat

Summary:
action_date: 2009-04-23
text: 
Food Ingredient Right to Know Act - Amends the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to deem a food misbranded if it contains any spice, flavoring, or coloring derived from meat, poultry, any other animal product (including insects) unless its labeling bears a statement with appropriate prominence on the information panel providing that fact and the name of the meat, poultry, or other animal product. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-04-27
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2009-04-23
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2009-04-23
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-04-23
text: Introduced in House
Food Freshness Disclosure Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-2087
Sponsor: Rep. Lowey, Nita M. [D-NY-18]
Introduced: 2009-04-23 in the House
Policy area: Agriculture and Food
Subjects: Consumer affairs
Food supply, safety, and labeling
Nutrition and diet

Summary:
action_date: 2009-04-23
text: 
Food Freshness Disclosure Act of 2009 - Amends the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to deem food to be misbranded unless its label bears information on freshness. Requires the label to state a date upon which the food will no longer be fresh (i.e., contain the quantity of nutrients specified on the label and otherwise be not adulterated and of acceptable quality). Requires such date to be preceded by "best if used by," and requires such label to be conspicuously located, easy to read, and in a type size no smaller than eight point. Directs that the freshness date be on the containers of any food sent to the seller of such food to consumers. Makes this Act inapplicable to any food that is exempt from nutrition labeling requirements. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-04-27
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2009-04-23
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2009-04-23
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-04-23
text: Introduced in House
Skin Cancer Prevention, Education, and Consumer Right-To-Know Act

Bill: 111-hr-2088
Sponsor: Rep. Lowey, Nita M. [D-NY-18]
Introduced: 2009-04-23 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Cancer
Consumer affairs
Department of Health and Human Services
Drug safety, medical device, and laboratory regulation
Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
Government information and archives
Health information and medical records
Medical research
Musculoskeletal and skin diseases

Summary:
action_date: 2009-04-23
text: 
Skin Cancer Prevention, Education, and Consumer Right-To-Know Act - Requires the proposed rule issued by the Commissioner of Food and Drugs pertaining to over-the-counter sunscreen drug products to take effect 180 days after enactment of this Act, unless the Commissioner issues a final rule that includes formulation, labeling, and testing requirements for both ultraviolet B (UVB) and ultraviolet A (UVA) radiation protection before such time.
 
Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services to implement a general, nationwide education campaign identifying the risks posed by sun exposure without the use of a sunscreen providing broad-spectrum protection.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-04-27
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2009-04-23
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2009-04-23
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-04-23
text: Introduced in House
To authorize the Secretary of Education to award grants to educational organizations to carry out educational programs about the Holocaust.

Bill: 111-hr-2089
Sponsor: Rep. Maloney, Carolyn B. [D-NY-14]
Introduced: 2009-04-23 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Education programs funding
Elementary and secondary education
Religion
War crimes, genocide, crimes against humanity
World history

Summary:
action_date: 2009-04-23
text: 
Amends the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to authorize the Secretary of Education to award competitive grants to educational organizations to carry out proposed or existing Holocaust education programs.
 
Prohibits such grants from being used to supplant nonfederal funds the grantees would otherwise have used for Holocaust education programs.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-06-04
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education.
action_date: 2009-04-23
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and Labor.
action_date: 2009-04-23
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E962)
action_date: 2009-04-23
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-04-23
text: Introduced in House
Plastic Bag Reduction Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-2091
Sponsor: Rep. Moran, James P. [D-VA-8]
Introduced: 2009-04-23 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Congressional oversight
Government studies and investigations
Government trust funds
Retail and wholesale trades
Sales and excise taxes
Solid waste and recycling

Summary:
action_date: 2009-04-23
text: 
Plastic Bag Reduction Act of 2009 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to require retailers to pay an excise tax on single-use carryout bags. Allows refunds of such tax for retailers who have a program for recycling such bags. 
 
Establishes in the Treasury the Single-Use Carryout Bag Trust Fund to hold tax revenues generated by this Act. Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to make payments from such Trust Fund into the land and water conservation fund provided for in the Land and Water Conservation Fund Act of 1965.
 
Directs the Comptroller General to study and report to Congress on the effectiveness of this Act in reducing the use of single-use carryout bags.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-04-29
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests and Public Lands.
action_date: 2009-04-23
text: Referred to House Natural Resources
action_date: 2009-04-23
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Natural Resources, 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: 2009-04-23
text: Referred to House Ways and Means
action_date: 2009-04-23
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E947-948)
action_date: 2009-04-23
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-04-23
text: Introduced in House
Physician Training Promotion Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-2094
Sponsor: Rep. Pascrell, Bill, Jr. [D-NJ-8]
Introduced: 2009-04-23 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Medical education
Medicare

Summary:
action_date: 2009-04-23
text: 
Physician Training Promotion Act of 2009 - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to increase, between FY2009 and FY2011, from 90% to 100% of the locality adjusted national average per resident amount the payment floor for direct graduate medical education (GME) payments under the Medicare program.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-04-27
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2009-04-23
text: Referred to House Energy and Commerce
action_date: 2009-04-23
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, 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: 2009-04-23
text: Referred to House Ways and Means
action_date: 2009-04-23
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-04-23
text: Introduced in House
Restitution for the Exonerated Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-2095
Sponsor: Rep. Payne, Donald M. [D-NJ-10]
Introduced: 2009-04-23 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Correctional facilities and imprisonment
Drug, alcohol, tobacco use
Elementary and secondary education
Employment and training programs
Family relationships
Health care coverage and access
Higher education
Housing finance and home ownership
Lawyers and legal services
Mental health
Social work, volunteer service, charitable organizations
Vocational and technical education

Summary:
action_date: 2009-04-23
text: 
Restitution for the Exonerated Act of 2009 - Authorizes the Attorney General to award grants and supplemental funds to nonprofit organizations to be used only to provide support services (e.g., employment training, health care services, and legal assistance) to exonerees. Prohibits services for exonerees who have not demonstrated financial need or for a period of more than 24 months. Defines &quot;exoneree&quot; as an individual who has been convicted of a crime carrying a prison sentence of one year or more, has served at least six months of such prison sentence, and has been determined to be factually innocent of the crime. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-05-26
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.
action_date: 2009-04-23
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2009-04-23
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-04-23
text: Introduced in House
Long-Term Care Affordability and Security Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-2096
Sponsor: Rep. Pomeroy, Earl [D-ND-At Large]
Introduced: 2009-04-23 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Employee benefits and pensions
Health care costs and insurance
Long-term, rehabilitative, and terminal care

Summary:
action_date: 2009-04-23
text: 
Long-Term Care Affordability and Security Act of 2009 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) include long-term care insurance as a benefit under tax-exempt employee benefit cafeteria plans and flexible spending arrangements; and (2) extend certain consumer protections under the long-term care insurance model regulation promulgated by the National Association of Insurance Commissioners to all contracts for long-term care insurance.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-04-23
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2009-04-23
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-04-23
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to extend the look-through treatment of payments between related controlled foreign corporations.

Bill: 111-hr-2098
Sponsor: Rep. Tanner, John S. [D-TN-8]
Introduced: 2009-04-23 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Foreign and international corporations
Income tax deferral
Taxation of foreign income
U.S. and foreign investments

Summary:
action_date: 2009-04-23
text: 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to extend through 2014 the tax rule exempting dividends, interest, rents, and royalties received or accrued from certain controlled foreign corporations by a related entity from treatment as foreign holding company income (thus permitting tax deferral of such income).


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-04-23
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2009-04-23
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-04-23
text: Introduced in House