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Comprehensive Water Resource Development Act

Bill: 111-hr-4245
Sponsor: Rep. Sestak, Joe [D-PA-7]
Introduced: 2009-12-08 in the House
Policy area: Water Resources Development
Subjects: Ecology
Floods and storm protection
Land use and conservation
Pennsylvania
Water quality
Water resources funding
Water use and supply
Watersheds

Summary:
action_date: 2009-12-08
text: 
Comprehensive Water Resource Development Act - Authorizes the Secretary of the Army to establish a program to provide design and construction assistance to non-federal interests for water-related environmental infrastructure, resource protection and development, flood damage reduction, and ecosystem restoration projects in Pennsylvania. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-12-09
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment.
action_date: 2009-12-08
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2009-12-08
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-12-08
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to extend the alternative fuels credit for liquified petroleum gas through 2010.

Bill: 111-hr-4246
Sponsor: Rep. Walz, Timothy J. [D-MN-1]
Introduced: 2009-12-08 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Alternative and renewable resources
Motor fuels
Oil and gas
Sales and excise taxes

Summary:
action_date: 2009-12-08
text: 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to extend through 2010 the excise tax credit for alternative fuels and fuel mixtures for any sale or use involving liquified petroleum gas.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-12-08
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2009-12-08
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-12-08
text: Introduced in House
Free Competition in Currency Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-4248
Sponsor: Rep. Paul, Ron [R-TX-14]
Introduced: 2009-12-09 in the House
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: Criminal investigation, prosecution, interrogation
Currency
Fraud offenses and financial crimes
Metals
Sales and excise taxes
State and local taxation

Summary:
action_date: 2009-12-09
text: 
Free Competition in Currency Act of 2009 - Repeals the federal law establishing U.S. coins, currency, and reserve notes as legal tender for all debts, public charges, taxes, and dues.
 
Prohibits any tax on any coin, medal, token, or gold, silver, platinum, palladium, or rhodium bullion issued by a state, the United States, a foreign government, or any other person. Prohibits states from assessing any tax or fee on any currency or other monetary instrument that is used in interstate or foreign commerce and that has legal tender status under the Constitution. 
 
Repeals provisions of the federal criminal code relating to uttering coins of gold, silver, or other metal for use as current money and making or possessing likenesses of such coins. Abates any current prosecution under such provisions and nullifies any previous convictions.
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-03-01
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Commercial and Administrative Law.
action_date: 2009-12-09
text: Referred to House Judiciary
action_date: 2009-12-09
text: Referred to House Ways and Means
action_date: 2009-12-09
text: Referred to the Committee on Financial Services, and in addition to the Committees on Ways and Means, and the Judiciary, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2009-12-09
text: Referred to House Financial Services
action_date: 2009-12-09
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E2931-2932)
action_date: 2009-12-09
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-12-09
text: Introduced in House
CORE Spending Act

Bill: 111-hr-4249
Sponsor: Rep. McHenry, Patrick T. [R-NC-10]
Introduced: 2009-12-09 in the House
Policy area: Economics and Public Finance
Subjects: Accounting and auditing
Advisory bodies
Budget deficits and national debt
Budget process
Economic performance and conditions
Financial services and investments
Government information and archives
House of Representatives
Legislative rules and procedure
Medicare
Poverty and welfare assistance
Public participation and lobbying
Securities
Social security and elderly assistance
Tax administration and collection, taxpayers
U.S. and foreign investments

Summary:
action_date: 2009-12-09
text: 
Commission On Reforming Entitlement Spending Act, or CORE Spending Act - Establishes the Commission On Reforming Entitlement Spending to examine the long-term fiscal challenges facing the United States and develop legislation designed to address them.
 
Authorizes the President and the House or Senate Budget Committee to submit alternatives to the legislative proposal submitted by the Commission.
 
Requires the Director of the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) to prepare a long-term cost estimate of legislation proposed under this Act or a related amendment, and have it published in the Congressional Record as expeditiously as possible.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-12-09
text: Referred to House Rules
action_date: 2009-12-09
text: Referred to House Budget
action_date: 2009-12-09
text: Referred to the Committee on the Budget, and in addition to the Committee on Rules, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2009-12-09
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-12-09
text: Introduced in House
Medicaid DSH Integrity Act

Bill: 111-hr-4250
Sponsor: Rep. Melancon, Charlie [D-LA-3]
Introduced: 2009-12-09 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Accounting and auditing
Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Department of Health and Human Services
Health care costs and insurance
Hospital care
Medicaid

Summary:
action_date: 2009-12-09
text: 
Medicaid DSH Integrity Act - Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) to indicate, in appropriate guidance, that the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) do not intend to enforce any changes in policy related to calculating the limits on the adjustment in payment under title XIX (Medicaid) of the Social Security Act for inpatient hospital services furnished by disproportionate share hospitals (DSH) that were contained in the Medicaid DSH auditing and reporting regulations the CMS issued pursuant to the Medicare Prescription Drug Improvement and Modernization Act of 2003.
 
Requires the Secretary to publish an interim final rule to revise such regulations as necessary to: (1) correct such policy changes; (2) provide appropriate guidance for otherwise implementing those auditing and reporting regulations; and (3) provide for specified regulatory changes to be included in the new interim rule.
 
Requires the CMS, in defining the costs of furnishing services to individuals with no health insurance (or other source of third-party coverage), to permit inclusion of all costs related to services provided to patients with no insurance for the service rendered, even if the patient has insurance that covers other services. Declares that the receipt by a hospital of nominal payments related to a service shall not constitute health insurance or a source of third-party coverage.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-12-10
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2009-12-09
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2009-12-09
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-12-09
text: Introduced in House
To amend title 31, United States Code, to provide for payments in lieu of taxes for certain Department of Homeland Security land.

Bill: 111-hr-4251
Sponsor: Rep. Filner, Bob [D-CA-51]
Introduced: 2009-12-09 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Department of Homeland Security
Intergovernmental relations
State and local finance

Summary:
action_date: 2009-12-09
text: 
Includes land that is owned by the U.S. government and administered by the Secretary of Homeland Security (DHS) and at which individuals or goods are examined for entry into the United States within the definition of &quot;entitlement land&quot; for purposes of provisions requiring the Secretary of the Interior to make payments in lieu of taxes to units of general local government in which entitlement land is located.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-12-11
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests and Public Lands.
action_date: 2009-12-09
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2009-12-09
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E2942)
action_date: 2009-12-09
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-12-09
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Small Business Act to change the net worth amount under the small business program for socially and economically disadvantaged individuals from $750,000 to $978,722, and for other purposes.

Bill: 111-hr-4253
Sponsor: Rep. Butterfield, G. K. [D-NC-1]
Introduced: 2009-12-09 in the House
Policy area: Commerce
Subjects: Minority and disadvantaged businesses
Public contracts and procurement
Small business

Summary:
action_date: 2009-12-09
text: 
Amends the Small Business Act to consider an individual with a net worth of less than $978,722 as eligible for participation in a Small Business Administration (SBA) program providing grants to small businesses owned and controlled by socially and economically disadvantaged individuals.
 
Requires such amount to be adjusted annually for inflation.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-12-09
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Contracting and Technology .
action_date: 2009-12-09
text: Referred to the House Committee on Small Business.
action_date: 2009-12-09
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-12-09
text: Introduced in House
Community Bank Preservation Act

Bill: 111-hr-4254
Sponsor: Rep. Kaptur, Marcy [D-OH-9]
Introduced: 2009-12-09 in the House
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: Bank accounts, deposits, capital
Budget deficits and national debt
Financial crises and stabilization
Government trust funds

Summary:
action_date: 2009-12-09
text: 
Community Bank Preservation Act - Amends the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008 (EESA) with respect to the repayment of Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) assistance. Repeals the current requirement that revenues of, and proceeds from the sale of, troubled assets purchased under TARP, or from the sale, exercise, or surrender of warrants or senior debt instruments acquired under TARP, be paid into the general fund of the Treasury for reduction of the public debt.
 
Requires instead that such revenues and proceeds be transfered to the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) for deposit in the Deposit Insurance Fund to be used to reduce any premium increases that would otherwise be required of smaller insured depository institutions and community banks whose prudent activities did not contribute to the financial crisis.
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-12-09
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2009-12-09
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-12-09
text: Introduced in House
Stop the Automatic Pay Raise for Members of Congress in Fiscal Year 2011 Act

Bill: 111-hr-4255
Sponsor: Rep. Mitchell, Harry E. [D-AZ-5]
Introduced: 2009-12-09 in the House
Policy area: Congress
Subjects: Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management
Members of Congress

Summary:
action_date: 2009-12-09
text: 
Stop the Automatic Pay Raise for Members of Congress in Fiscal Year 2011 Act - Declares that no automatic pay adjustment shall be considered to have taken effect in FY2011 in the rates of basic pay for Members of Congress under the General Schedule (thus eliminating the pay adjustment for Members for such fiscal year).


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-12-16
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR H14985-14986)
action_date: 2009-12-09
text: Referred to House Oversight and Government Reform
action_date: 2009-12-09
text: Referred to the Committee on House Administration, and in addition to the Committee on 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: 2009-12-09
text: Referred to House Administration
action_date: 2009-12-09
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-12-09
text: Introduced in House
Sustainable Property Grants Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-4256
Sponsor: Rep. Sánchez, Linda T. [D-CA-39]
Introduced: 2009-12-09 in the House
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: Alternative and renewable resources
Electric power generation and transmission
Interest, dividends, interest rates
Real estate business
Securities

Summary:
action_date: 2009-12-09
text: 
Sustainable Property Grants Act of 2009 - Amends the American Recovery and Reinvestment Tax Act of 2009 to allow real estate investment trusts to qualify for energy property grants under such Act without affecting limitations on dividend payments applicable to such trusts.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-12-10
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Environment.
action_date: 2009-12-10
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (E2936)
action_date: 2009-12-09
text: Referred to House Energy and Commerce
action_date: 2009-12-09
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: 2009-12-09
text: Referred to House Ways and Means
action_date: 2009-12-09
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-12-09
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Energy Policy Act of 2005 relating to contracts for Federal purchases of renewable energy.

Bill: 111-hr-4257
Sponsor: Rep. Titus, Dina [D-NV-3]
Introduced: 2009-12-09 in the House
Policy area: Energy
Subjects: Alternative and renewable resources
Public contracts and procurement

Summary:
action_date: 2009-12-09
text: 
Amends the Energy Policy Act of 2005 to allow a contract for the acquisition of renewable energy for the federal government to be made for a period of up to 30 years.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-12-09
text: Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.
action_date: 2009-12-09
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-12-09
text: Introduced in House
Public Private Vocational Partnership Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-4258
Sponsor: Rep. Young, Don [R-AK-At Large]
Introduced: 2009-12-09 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Employment and training programs
Income tax credits
Public-private cooperation
Social work, volunteer service, charitable organizations
Vocational and technical education

Summary:
action_date: 2009-12-09
text: 
Public Private Vocational Partnership Act of 2009 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow corporations (other than S corporations, personal holding companies, and service organizations) a general business tax credit for: (1) charitable contributions to secondary schools, community colleges, or technical schools that provide vocational education; and (2) employing interns as part of a vocational education course approved by a secondary school or community college.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-12-09
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2009-12-09
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-12-09
text: Introduced in House
Employment Benefit Act

Bill: 111-hr-4259
Sponsor: Rep. Polis, Jared [D-CO-2]
Introduced: 2009-12-10 in the House
Policy area: Immigration
Subjects: Business investment and capital
Employment and training programs
Government studies and investigations
Immigration status and procedures
U.S. and foreign investments
User charges and fees
Visas and passports

Summary:
action_date: 2009-12-10
text: 
Employment Benefit Act - Amends the Departments of Commerce, Justice, and State, the Judiciary, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 1993 to: (1) make the alien investor visa (EB-5) regional center program permanent; (2) establish a $2,500 regional center designation fee; and (3) increase visa set-asides for such program.
 
Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act regarding EB-5 provisions to: (1) establish a $2,500 premium processing fee; (2) establish in the Treasury the Immigrant Entrepreneur Regional Account Center; (3) permit concurrent filing for EB-5 petitions and status adjustment applications; (4) expand the definition of &quot;targeted employment area&quot; for purposes of visa set-asides; and (5) expand EB-5 eligibility to include investors who have completed investment agreements with a qualified venture capital operating company or with an &quot;angel investor&quot; (U.S. citizen- or permanent resident-owned entity or an entity that has made specified commercial enterprise investments).


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-03-01
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration, Citizenship, Refugees, Border Security, and International Law.
action_date: 2009-12-10
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2009-12-10
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-12-10
text: Introduced in House
Transitional Federal Medical Assistance Percentage Act

Bill: 111-hr-4260
Sponsor: Rep. Green, Gene [D-TX-29]
Introduced: 2009-12-10 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Medicaid
State and local finance
Unemployment

Summary:
action_date: 2009-12-10
text: 
Transitional Federal Medical Assistance Percentage Act - Amends the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 to extend the increase in the federal medical assistance percentage (FMAP) under title XIX (Medicaid) of the Social Security Act. Extends the entire recession adjustment period from December 31, 2010, through June 30, 2011.
 
Provides for adjusted FMAP percentage rates during a transitional assistance period from July 1, 2011, through December 31, 2013.
 
Prescribes formulae for determining the adjusted FMAP through FY2012 and subsequent fiscal year quarters.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-12-11
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2009-12-10
text: Referred to House Ways and Means
action_date: 2009-12-10
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Ways and Means, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2009-12-10
text: Referred to House Energy and Commerce
action_date: 2009-12-10
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-12-10
text: Introduced in House
To amend the National Security Act of 1947 to provide additional procedures for congressional oversight.

Bill: 111-hr-4261
Sponsor: Rep. Thornberry, Mac [R-TX-13]
Introduced: 2009-12-10 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Congressional committees
Congressional oversight
House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence
Intelligence activities, surveillance, classified information
Senate Select Committee on Intelligence

Summary:
action_date: 2009-12-10
text: 
Amends the National Security Act of 1947 to direct the President to provide to the congressional intelligence committees all information necessary to assess the lawfulness, effectiveness, cost, benefit, intelligence gain, budgetary authority, and risk of an intelligence activity.
 
Requires information or material concerning covert actions and actions other than covert actions to be made available to each member of such committees, unless the President requests in writing that access be limited to meet extraordinary circumstances affecting vital U.S. interests. Allows the chair and ranking member of each committee to jointly determine whether and how to limit such access. Requires information or material so limited to be made fully available to each committee member at the earliest possible time, and to include the reasons for not providing prior access.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-12-10
text: Referred to the Committee on Intelligence (Permanent Select), and in addition to the Committee on Rules, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2009-12-10
text: Referred to House Rules
action_date: 2009-12-10
text: Referred to House Intelligence (Permanent)
action_date: 2009-12-10
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-12-10
text: Introduced in House
CAP the DEBT Act

Bill: 111-hr-4262
Sponsor: Rep. Scalise, Steve [R-LA-1]
Introduced: 2009-12-10 in the House
Policy area: Economics and Public Finance
Subjects: Budget deficits and national debt
Legislative rules and procedure

Summary:
action_date: 2009-12-10
text: 
Control America's Purse-strings to Deliver a Better Tomorrow Act or the CAP the DEBT Act - Amends the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 to make it out of order in the House of Representatives and in the Senate to consider any bill, joint resolution, amendment, or conference report increasing the statutory limit on the public debt if there is any other matter in such measure.
 
Requires a two-thirds recorded vote of Members in the House and a roll call vote of at least two-thirds of the Members of the Senate before legislation increasing the statutory limit on the public debt may be considered as passed or agreed to in either chamber.
 
Permits a successful appeal from the ruling of the Chair in the Senate on such prohibition, but only by an affirmative roll call vote of two-thirds of its Members.
 
Repeals Rule XXVIII (Statutory Limit on Public Debt) of the Rules of the House, and known as the &quot;Gephardt Rule,&quot; providing for mandatory adjustment of the statutory limit on the public debt to conform to a budget resolution.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-12-10
text: Referred to House Budget
action_date: 2009-12-10
text: Referred to the Committee on Rules, and in addition to the Committee on the Budget, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2009-12-10
text: Referred to House Rules
action_date: 2009-12-10
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-12-10
text: Introduced in House
State Medicaid Assistance Extension Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-4263
Sponsor: Rep. Baldwin, Tammy [D-WI-2]
Introduced: 2009-12-10 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Economic performance and conditions
Intergovernmental relations
Medicaid
State and local finance
Unemployment

Summary:
action_date: 2009-12-10
text: 
State Medicaid Assistance Extension Act of 2009 - Amends the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 to extend for one year the period of temporary increase in the Medicaid federal medical assistance percentage (FMAP) under title XIX (Medicaid) of the Social Security Act. Extends the entire recession adjustment period from December 31, 2010, through December 31, 2011.
 
Requires the substitution for the FMAP for the first calendar quarter in FY2012 of the FMAP for either FY2008, FY2009, FY2010, or FY2011, as adjusted under ARRA, whichever is greatest, if the FY2012 FMAP is less than any of them.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-12-11
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2009-12-10
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2009-12-10
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-12-10
text: Introduced in House