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Helping Active Duty Deployed Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-2874
Sponsor: Rep. Connolly, Gerald E. [D-VA-11]
Introduced: 2009-06-15 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Contracts and agency
Higher education
Housing finance and home ownership
Military personnel and dependents
Motor vehicles
Student aid and college costs
Telephone and wireless communication
User charges and fees

Summary:
action_date: 2009-06-15
text: 
 Helping Active Duty Deployed Act of 2009 - Amends the Servicemembers Civil Relief Act to prohibit a cell phone company from charging an early termination penalty for a cellular telephone contract entered into on behalf of a service member who has received orders for foreign deployment or for permanent change of station within the United States. (Current law provides such protection for a contract entered into by the service member.) 
 
Revises provisions concerning arrearages and other obligations to prohibit a lessor from charging an early termination charge with respect to a residential, professional, business, or agricultural rental lease or a motor vehicle lease entered into by a person who subsequently enters military service, or for a service member who has received orders for permanent change of station or for deployment in support of a military operation. States that: (1) lease amounts for a period preceding the lease termination shall be paid on a prorated basis; and (2) other unpaid lease charges shall be paid by the lessee.
 
Amends the Higher Education Act of 1965 to require an institution of higher education to refund the tuition and fees paid by a student whose absence is due to military service for the payment period or period of enrollment for which such student did not receive academic credit as a result of such absence. 
 

 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-10-28
text: Provisions of measure incorporated into H.R. 3949.
action_date: 2009-10-08
text: Forwarded by Subcommittee to Full Committee (Amended) by Voice Vote .
action_date: 2009-10-08
text: Subcommittee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
action_date: 2009-09-24
text: Subcommittee Hearings Held.
action_date: 2009-06-19
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Economic Opportunity.
action_date: 2009-06-15
text: Referred to House Education and Labor
action_date: 2009-06-15
text: Referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs, and in addition to the Committee on Education and Labor, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2009-06-15
text: Referred to House Veterans' Affairs
action_date: 2009-06-15
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR  E1428)
action_date: 2009-06-15
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-06-15
text: Introduced in House
Detainee Photographic Records Protection Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-2875
Sponsor: Rep. Conaway, K. Michael [R-TX-11]
Introduced: 2009-06-15 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Criminal investigation, prosecution, interrogation
Detention of persons
Diplomacy, foreign officials, Americans abroad
Freedom of information
Government information and archives
Human rights
Military operations and strategy
Photography and imaging

Summary:
action_date: 2009-06-15
text: 
Detainee Photographic Records Protection Act of 2009 - Requires the Secretary of Defense to: (1) submit a certification to the President for any photograph taken between September 11, 2001, and January 22, 2009, that relates to the treatment of individuals engaged, captured, or detained after September 11, 2001, by the U.S. Armed Forces in operations outside of the United States if the Secretary determines that disclosure of such photograph would endanger U.S. citizens or members of the Armed Forces or U.S. government employees deployed outside the United States; and (2) submit timely notice of such certification to Congress.
 
Authorizes the Secretary to submit a renewal of a certification at any time. Provides that a certification or a renewal shall expire after three years.
 
Exempts such a certified photograph from disclosure under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), but does not preclude voluntary disclosure.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-06-15
text: Referred to House Armed Services
action_date: 2009-06-15
text: Referred to the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, and in addition to the Committee on Armed Services, 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: 2009-06-15
text: Referred to House Oversight and Government Reform
action_date: 2009-06-15
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-06-15
text: Introduced in House
Rural Housing Preservation Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-2876
Sponsor: Rep. Davis, Lincoln [D-TN-4]
Introduced: 2009-06-15 in the House
Policy area: Housing and Community Development
Subjects: Government lending and loan guarantees
Housing and community development funding
Housing for the elderly and disabled
Housing supply and affordability
Indian social and development programs
Low- and moderate-income housing
Poverty and welfare assistance
Public contracts and procurement
Rural conditions and development

Summary:
action_date: 2009-06-15
text: 
Rural Housing Preservation Act of 2009 - Amends the Housing Act of 1949 to require the Secretary of Agriculture to carry out a preservation program to provide financial incentives and other assistance to owners of Section 515 rural multifamily housing projects through long-term use agreements entered into between the project owners and the Secretary. (A Section 515 project is one involving housing and related facilities for elderly persons and families or other persons and families of low income.)
 
Authorizes the Secretary to give priority to applications for eligible projects located on tribal trust lands or other Indian areas, in colonias, or in other small, poor, low-income communities.

Requires the Secretary to prepare and approve a long-term viability plan for each eligible project for which the owner requests to participate. Allows the Secretary, subject to certain conditions, to offer a project owner a financial restructuring plan, based on the long-term viability plan, and specified project preservation incentives.

Specifies compliance requirements for rents for any eligible households residing in a dwelling unit in any preserved Section 515 project, including: (1) a disregard for certain earned income for residents; and (2) phase-in of rent increases.

Establishes conditions that makes certain project owners ineligible to participate in the preservation program.

Requires the Secretary to make rural preservation and rural tenant protection vouchers available to certain eligible households.

Requires the Secretary to give priority, in entering into contracts involving financing for new construction of a Section 515 project, for projects located in eligible rural areas needing affordable low-income rental housing because of prepayment of Section 515 loans.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-06-15
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2009-06-15
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-06-15
text: Introduced in House
Solar Villages Initiative Act

Bill: 111-hr-2878
Sponsor: Rep. Israel, Steve [D-NY-2]
Introduced: 2009-06-15 in the House
Policy area: International Affairs
Subjects: Alternative and renewable resources
Business investment and capital
Foreign aid and international relief
Small business

Summary:
action_date: 2009-06-15
text: 
Solar Villages Initiative Act - Authorizes the President, through the Administrator of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), to provide assistance for renewable energy projects in developing countries to increase the availability of credit, savings, and other services to microfinance and microenterprise clients lacking full access to capital, training, technical assistance, and business development services.
 
Includes in such projects assistance for small and micro businesses that loan or sell solar lanterns or lamps and other solar energy technologies.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-06-15
text: Referred to the House Committee on Foreign Affairs.
action_date: 2009-06-15
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-06-15
text: Introduced in House
Rural Veterans Health Care Improvement Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-2879
Sponsor: Rep. Kirkpatrick, Ann [D-AZ-1]
Introduced: 2009-06-15 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Afghanistan
Asia
Congressional oversight
Health care coverage and access
Health facilities and institutions
Indian social and development programs
Iraq
Mental health
Middle East
Military operations and strategy
Minority health
Rural conditions and development
Transportation costs
Veterans' education, employment, rehabilitation
Veterans' medical care

Summary:
action_date: 2009-06-15
text: 
Rural Veterans Health Care Improvement Act of 2009 - Authorizes the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to pay travel expenses for veterans receiving treatment at Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) facilities at the rate of 41.5 cents per mile. (Under current law the rate is that provided to federal employees in connection with the performance of official duties.)
 
Directs the Secretary to: (1) establish and operate at least one and up to five centers of excellence for rural health research, education, and clinical activities; (2) establish a grant program to provide innovative transportation options to veterans in highly rural areas; (3) carry out demonstration projects to examine alternatives for expanding care for veterans in rural areas; (4) establish a program to provide peer support, readjustment, and mental health services to veterans who served in Operations Iraqi Freedom and Enduring Freedom (and related services to their family members); (5) assign an Indian Veterans Health Care Coordinator for each of the ten VA facilities that serve communities with the greatest per capita number of Indian veterans; (6) report to Congress jointly with the Secretary of Health and Human Services on the advisability of the joint establishment and operation by the VA's Veterans Health Administration and the Indian Health Service of health clinics to serve populations of Indian reservations, including Indian veterans; and (7) report annually to Congress on matters related to VA care for veterans residing in rural areas.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-03-25
text: Subcommittee Hearings Held.
action_date: 2009-06-19
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2009-06-15
text: Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2009-06-15
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-06-15
text: Introduced in House
Buy American Carbon Incentives Program Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-2880
Sponsor: Rep. Pingree, Chellie [D-ME-1]
Introduced: 2009-06-15 in the House
Policy area: Environmental Protection
Subjects: Agricultural conservation and pollution
Air quality
Climate change and greenhouse gases
Environmental assessment, monitoring, research
Forests, forestry, trees
Land use and conservation
Public contracts and procurement

Summary:
action_date: 2009-06-15
text: 
Buy American Carbon Incentives Program Act of 2009 - Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to: (1) establish a carbon incentives program to achieve supplemental greenhouse gas emissions reductions on private agricultural and forestland; (2) provide financial incentive payments for activities that increase carbon sequestration and storage over a designated contract period, and maintain carbon sequestration and storage and avoid future emissions through permanent avoided conversion agreements; and (3) establish monitoring and compliance protocols.
 
Requires participating owners to enter into a climate mitigation contract with the Secretary.
 
Obligates specified funds for further incentives for activities and agreements that protect carbon reductions and otherwise enhance environmental benefits achieved under a climate mitigation contract.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-06-22
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Department Operations, Oversight, Nutrition and Forestry.
action_date: 2010-06-22
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Conservation, Credit, Energy, and Research.
action_date: 2009-06-16
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Environment.
action_date: 2009-06-15
text: Referred to House Energy and Commerce
action_date: 2009-06-15
text: Referred to the Committee on Agriculture, 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: 2009-06-15
text: Referred to House Agriculture
action_date: 2009-06-15
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-06-15
text: Introduced in House
Kenny Callahan Act

Bill: 111-hr-2881
Sponsor: Rep. Rogers, Mike D. [R-AL-3]
Introduced: 2009-06-15 in the House
Policy area: Social Welfare
Subjects: Long-term, rehabilitative, and terminal care
Medicare
Social security and elderly assistance

Summary:
action_date: 2009-06-15
text: 
Kenny Callahan Act - Amends title II (Old Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance) (OASDI) of the Social Security Act (SSA) to waive the waiting periods for Social Security disability and Medicare (SSA title XVIII) coverage of certain terminally ill individuals.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-06-16
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2009-06-15
text: Referred to House Energy and Commerce
action_date: 2009-06-15
text: Referred to House Ways and Means
action_date: 2009-06-15
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: 2009-06-15
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-06-15
text: Introduced in House
High School Athletics Accountability Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-2882
Sponsor: Rep. Slaughter, Louise McIntosh [D-NY-28]
Introduced: 2009-06-16 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Elementary and secondary education
Government information and archives
Minority education
School athletics
Sex, gender, sexual orientation discrimination
Women's education

Summary:
action_date: 2009-06-16
text: 
High School Athletics Accountability Act of 2009 - Amends the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (ESEA) to direct coeducational elementary and secondary schools that participate in any ESEA program to annually: (1) report certain information on equality in their school athletic programs to the Commissioner for Educational Statistics; and (2) make such information available, upon request, to their students, potential students, and the public.
 
Directs the Commissioner to ensure that such data are posted on the Department of Education's Web site within a reasonable period of time. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-06-16
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and Labor.
action_date: 2009-06-16
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (E1439-1440)
action_date: 2009-06-16
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-06-16
text: Introduced in House
Wastewater Treatment Works Security Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-2883
Sponsor: Rep. Johnson, Eddie Bernice [D-TX-30]
Introduced: 2009-06-16 in the House
Policy area: Emergency Management
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
Environmental assessment, monitoring, research
Environmental health
Environmental regulatory procedures
Hazardous wastes and toxic substances
Homeland security
Solid waste and recycling
Terrorism
Water quality

Summary:
action_date: 2009-06-16
text: 
Wastewater Treatment Works Security Act of 2009 - Amends the Federal Water Pollution Control Act (commonly known as the Clean Water Act) to require each owner or operator of a treatment works that stores or uses a substance of concern in quantities deemed by the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to pose a security risk to conduct a vulnerability assessment of its treatment works, which shall include a site security plan to identify specific security enhancements.
 
Directs the Administrator to develop and publish guidelines for carrying out a vulnerability assessment and, in developing such guidelines, to: (1) develop standards for assigning individual treatment works to four risk-based classifications taking into consideration a works' size and proximity to large population centers and the potential impacts of intentional acts on public health or safety or the environment; (2) designate any chemical substance as a substance of concern; and (3) include a process for the revision, resubmission, and review of vulnerability assessments. Directs the Administrator to establish a threshold quantity for the release or theft of each such substance. Sets forth requirements and deadlines for assessment certification, submission, review, approval, and disclosure.
 
Authorizes the Administrator to make grants to a state, municipality, or intermunicipal or interstate agency to conduct a vulnerability assessment of a publicly owned treatment works, to implement specified security enhancements to reduce identified vulnerabilities, and to provide for security-related training of treatment works employees and training for emergency response providers.
 
 Authorizes the Administrator: (1) in coordination with the states, to provide technical guidance and assistance to small publicly owned treatment works on conducting a vulnerability assessment and implementation of security enhancements; and (2) to make grants to nonprofit organizations to assist in accomplishing purposes of this Act.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-11-06
text: See Title III of H.R. 2868 for further action.
action_date: 2009-06-17
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment.
action_date: 2009-06-16
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2009-06-16
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-06-16
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to clarify that electricity produced in certain possessions of the United States and other areas is eligible for the credit for electricity produced from certain renewable resources.

Bill: 111-hr-2884
Sponsor: Del. Faleomavaega, Eni F. H. [D-AS-At Large]
Introduced: 2009-06-16 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Alternative and renewable resources
American Samoa
Caribbean area
Electric power generation and transmission
Government buildings, facilities, and property
Guam
Income tax credits
Marshall Islands
Micronesia
Military facilities and property
Northern Mariana Islands
Oceania
Palau
Puerto Rico
U.S. territories and protectorates
Virgin Islands

Summary:
action_date: 2009-06-16
text: 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to specify that the tax credit for producing electricity from renewable resources is available to taxpayers in various possessions and other areas of the United States, including: (1) Guam, American Samoa, the Northern Marianas Islands, the U.S. Virgin Islands, and Puerto Rico; (2) the Republic of the Marshall Islands, the Federated States of Micronesia, and the Republic of Palau; or (3) any U.S. installation worldwide, including miltary bases. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-06-16
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2009-06-16
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-06-16
text: Introduced in House
Ocean Thermal Energy Tax and Energy Credits Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-2885
Sponsor: Del. Faleomavaega, Eni F. H. [D-AS-At Large]
Introduced: 2009-06-16 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Alternative and renewable resources
American Samoa
Caribbean area
Electric power generation and transmission
Government buildings, facilities, and property
Guam
Income tax credits
Marshall Islands
Micronesia
Military facilities and property
Northern Mariana Islands
Oceania
Palau
Puerto Rico
U.S. territories and protectorates
Virgin Islands
Water use and supply

Summary:
action_date: 2009-06-16
text: 
Ocean Thermal Energy Tax and Energy Credits Act of 2009 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) allow a tax credit for producing electricity from ocean thermal energy; (2) specify that such tax credit is available to taxpayers in certain possessions and other areas under U.S. control; and (3) allow an energy tax credit for investment in equipment which uses ocean thermal energy to generate electricity, to cool (or provide cold water for use in) a structure, or to produce fresh water.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-06-16
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2009-06-16
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-06-16
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide the nonbusiness energy property and residential energy efficient property tax incentives to residents of certain possessions of the Unites States and other areas.

Bill: 111-hr-2886
Sponsor: Del. Faleomavaega, Eni F. H. [D-AS-At Large]
Introduced: 2009-06-16 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: American Samoa
Caribbean area
Energy efficiency and conservation
Government buildings, facilities, and property
Guam
Income tax credits
Marshall Islands
Micronesia
Military facilities and property
Northern Mariana Islands
Oceania
Palau
Puerto Rico
U.S. territories and protectorates
Virgin Islands

Summary:
action_date: 2009-06-16
text: 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to specify that the tax credits for nonbusiness energy property and for residential energy efficient property are available to taxpayers in certain U.S. possessions and other areas, including: (1) Guam, American Samoa, the Northern Marianas Islands; the U.S. Virgin Islands, and Puerto Rico; (2) the Republic of the Marshall Islands, the Federated States of Micronesia, and the Republic of Palau; and (3) military bases, embassies, and other facilities owned or leased by the U.S. government.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-06-16
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2009-06-16
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-06-16
text: Introduced in House
Affordable Housing Preservation Tax Relief Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-2887
Sponsor: Rep. Davis, Artur [D-AL-7]
Introduced: 2009-06-16 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Capital gains tax
Housing finance and home ownership
Housing supply and affordability
Income tax exclusion

Summary:
action_date: 2009-06-16
text: 
Affordable Housing Preservation Tax Relief Act of 2009 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to exclude from gross income gain from the sale or exchange of certain multifamily housing property to a housing credit agency or related organization (preservation entity) that agrees to maintain certain affordability and use restrictions for such property. Limits the excludable amount of such gain to the depreciation adjustments for such property.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-06-16
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2009-06-16
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-06-16
text: Introduced in House