US Legislation | 2009-2010 | 111th Congress | House

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Bill	Status	Summary/Title	Last Action
HR51	Intro Sine Die	Elects certain named Majority Members and ranking Members to the House Committees on House Administration and to Rules. Amends H.Res. 24 (electing Majority Members to specified House Committees) to replace Representative Bishop of Utah with Represent... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2009-01-13 Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
HB460	Intro Sine Die	Right Start Child Care and Education Act of 2009 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) increase the rates and maximum allowable amount of the tax credit for employer-provided child care facilities; (2) increase the eligibility threshold amount a... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2009-01-13 To House Ways And Means Committee
HB461	Intro Sine Die	10,000 Trained by 2010 Act - Requires the National Science Foundation (NSF) to award competitive grants for basic research on innovative approaches to improve health care information systems, as well as for scientific and engineering activities to im... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2009-01-13 To House Subcommittee on Research and Science Education
HB467	Intro Sine Die	Equitable Treatment of State and Local Governments Act of 2009 - Amends the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008 (EESA) to direct the Secretary of the Treasury to purchase at face value debt instruments issued by Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc.... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2009-01-13 To House Financial Services Committee
HB470	Intro Sine Die	Economic Recovery and Middle-Class Tax Relief Act of 2009 - Makes permanent the reductions in the dividend and capital gain tax enacted by the Jobs and Growth Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2003.Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) reduce indiv... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2009-01-13 To House Appropriations Committee
HB471	Intro Sine Die	Supporting America's Manufacturers Act - Amends the Trade Act of 1974 to require a recommendation from the International Trade Commission (ITC) before the President can impose increased duties or other import restrictions on an imported Chinese produ... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2009-01-13 To House Rules Committee
HB472	Intro Sine Die	Family Foreclosure Rescue Corporation Act of 2009 - Amends the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008 (EESA) to authorize the Secretary of the Treasury to establish: (1) a Family Foreclosure Rescue Corporation (FFRC) to purchase home mortgage l... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2009-01-13 To House Ways And Means Committee
HB473	Intro Sine Die	Amends the Internal Revenue Code to qualify corporations and partnerships created or organized as community development entities in American Samoa, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, Guam, Puerto Rico, or the Virgin Islands for the new... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2009-01-13 To House Ways And Means Committee
HB474	Intro Sine Die	Amends the Internal Revenue Code to make permanent: (1) the Indian employment tax credit; and (2) accelerated depreciation of business property used on Indian reservations. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2009-01-13 To House Ways And Means Committee
HB475	Intro Sine Die	Amends the Internal Revenue Code to qualify low-income building units that provide housing for a student who previously was a homeless child or youth for the low-income housing tax credit. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2009-01-13 To House Ways And Means Committee
HB487	Intro Sine Die	Waives the 35-mile requirement for designation of a critical access hospital (CAH) under title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act for a hospital located in Osceola, Missouri. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2009-01-13 To House Ways And Means Committee
HB489	Intro Sine Die	Strategic Communication Act of 2009 - Directs the Secretary of State to solicit from tax-exempt national security and foreign policy research organizations offers to establish a Center for Strategic Communication, and select one organization to estab... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2009-01-13 To House Foreign Affairs Committee
HB490	Intro Sine Die	Quadrennial Foreign Affairs Review Act - Directs: (1) the Secretary of State to submit every four years to the House Committee on Foreign Affairs and the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations a quadrennial foreign affairs and Department of State revi... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2009-01-13 To House Foreign Affairs Committee
HB491	Intro Sine Die	Directs the Secretary of Transportation to waive, through FY2009, any requirement that would otherwise require a state or local government to contribute non-federal funds toward the cost of a covered transportation program or activity authorized by t... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2009-01-13 To House Subcommittee on Highways and Transit
HB293	Intro Sine Die	Homeless Women Veterans and Homeless Veterans with Children Reintegration Grant Act of 2009 - Directs the Secretary of Labor, subject to the availability of appropriations, to make grants to programs and facilities that provide dedicated services for... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2009-01-09 To House Subcommittee on Health
HCR16	Intro Sine Die	Recognizes the threat that the spread of radical Islamist terrorism and Iranian adventurism in Africa poses to the United States, our allies, and interests. Acknowledges the commitment and cooperation of some African governments and regional organiza... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2009-01-09 To House Foreign Affairs Committee
HCR17	Intro Sine Die	Commends the governments of the Caribbean countries and the Caribbean-American community for their efforts to assist the people of the region after the devastation caused by Hurricanes Gustav and Ike and Tropical Storms Fay and Hanna. Supports the Ad... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2009-01-09 To House Foreign Affairs Committee
HCR18	Intro Sine Die	Expresses the sense of Congress that: (1) the President should abandon the "One China Policy" in favor of a "One China, One Taiwan Policy" that recognizes Taiwan as a sovereign government; (2) the President should begin the proces... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2009-01-09 To House Foreign Affairs Committee
HB361	Intro Sine Die	Amends the Internal Revenue Code to extend through 2009: (1) the increased ($250,000) expensing allowance for depreciable business assets; and (2) the additional 50% depreciation allowance for certain types of investment property (bonus depreciation)... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2009-01-09 To House Ways And Means Committee
HB363	Intro Sine Die	United States Broadcasting Reorganization Act of 2009 - Amends the U.S. International Broadcasting Act of 1994 to establish the United States International Broadcasting Agency, which shall be headed by the Board of Governors of the United States Inte... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2009-01-09 To House Foreign Affairs Committee
HB364	Intro Sine Die	Limitation on Nuclear Cooperation with the United Arab Emirates Act of 2009 - Prohibits any agreement for cooperation to enter into force or any license to be issued for the export of nuclear material, equipment, or technology between the United Stat... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2009-01-09 To House Foreign Affairs Committee
HB370	Intro Sine Die	Foreign Service Overseas Pay Equity Act of 2009 - Amends the Foreign Service Act of 1980 to: (1) extend comparability pay adjustments to Foreign Service members assigned abroad; and (2) amend the death gratuity computation payable to surviving depend... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2009-01-09 To House Oversight And Government Reform Committee
HB374	Intro Sine Die	Lawful Interrogation and Detention Act - Directs the President, within one year after the enactment of this Act, to close the detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and remove all detainees held there. Requires each such detainee to be either: (... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2009-01-09 To House Intelligence Committee
HB375	Intro Sine Die	Western Hemisphere Counterterrorism and Nonproliferation Act of 2009 - States that, in order to enhance the security of the Western Hemisphere and bolster regional capacity to counter terrorism, it shall be U.S. policy to promote the signing, ratific... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2009-01-09 To House Foreign Affairs Committee
HB377	Intro Sine Die	Makes 2% across-the-board rescissions in non-defense, non-homeland-security discretionary spending for FY2009. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2009-01-09 To House Appropriations Committee
HB378	Intro Sine Die	Makes 1% across-the-board rescissions in non-defense, non-homeland-security discretionary spending for FY2009. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2009-01-09 To House Appropriations Committee
HB379	Intro Sine Die	State and Local Sales Tax Deduction Expansion Act of 2009 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow all individual taxpayers a tax deduction for state and local general sales taxes (current law allows taxpayers an election to deduct either state an... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2009-01-09 To House Ways And Means Committee
HB381	Intro Sine Die	Makes 5% across-the-board rescissions in non-defense, non-homeland-security discretionary spending for FY2009. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2009-01-09 To House Appropriations Committee
HB385	Intro Sine Die	Consumer Auto Relief Act of 2009 or the CAR Act of 2009 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow individual taxpayers a tax deduction for: (1) up to $7,500 of the purchase price of a new passenger automobile or light truck that is purchased in 200... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2009-01-09 To House Ways And Means Committee
HB387	Intro Sine Die	TARP Accountability Act of 2009 - Amends the Federal Deposit Insurance Act (FDIA) to require inclusion within each report of condition filed by an insured depository institution which received assistance under the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP)... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2009-01-09 To House Financial Services Committee
HB389	Intro Sine Die	Family Fairness Act of 2009 - Amends the Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993 to make an employee eligible for coverage under such Act if that employee has been employed for at least 12 months by a covered employer with respect to whom such leave is ... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2009-01-09 To House Administration Committee
HB395	Intro Sine Die	Stop the Congressional COLA Act - Declares that no automatic pay adjustment shall be considered to have taken effect in FY2010 in the rates of basic pay for Members of Congress under the General Schedule (thus eliminating the pay adjustment for Membe... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2009-01-09 To House Oversight And Government Reform Committee
HB396	Intro Sine Die	Senior Assets Verification Exemption (SAVE) from Capital Gains Tax Act of 2009 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow a tax deduction for the qualified net capital gain of taxpayers age 65 and older. Defines "qualified net capital gain"... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2009-01-09 To House Ways And Means Committee
HB399	Intro Sine Die	Directs the Secretary of Labor to make a grant, to a public university with specified characteristics, to establish the Center for the Study of Women and Workplace Policy. Requires the Center to: (1) compile and analyze available data and data sets ... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2009-01-09 Referred to the House Committee on Education and Labor.
HB406	Intro Sine Die	Alice Paul Women's Suffrage Congressional Gold Medal Act - Requires the Speaker of the House of Representatives and the President pro tempore of the Senate to make arrangements for the presentation of a congressional gold medal in commemoration of Al... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2009-01-09 To House Financial Services Committee
HR34	Intro Sine Die	Expresses commitment to the welfare and survival of Israel as a Jewish and democratic state with secure borders and recognizes its right to act in self-defense. Reiterates that Hamas must end the rocket and mortar attacks against Israel, recognize I... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2009-01-09 Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
HR37	Intro Sine Die	Places responsibility on Hamas: (1) for the conflict between Israel and Hamas; and (2) to stop using Gaza's territory as a launching pad for terrorist attack.Recognizes that there are innocent Palestinian civilians who reject the terrorism of Hamas a... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2009-01-09 To House Foreign Affairs Committee
HR38	Intro Sine Die	Elects certain named Minority Members to specified Committees of the House, including ranking Members. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2009-01-09 Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
HB412	Intro Sine Die	Homeowners Property Tax Relief Act of 2009- Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow the deduction of state and local real and personal property taxes in calculating the alternative minimum taxable income of individual taxpayers. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2009-01-09 To House Ways And Means Committee
HR42	Intro Sine Die	Urges the President and the Secretary of State to: (1) build upon U.S. policy by publicly declaring that the United States will not fund or participate in any portion of the Durban Review Conference or its preparatory activities; (2) withhold from U.... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2009-01-09 To House Foreign Affairs Committee
HB416	Intro Sine Die	Shirley A. Chisholm United States-Caribbean Educational Exchange Act of 2009 - Authorizes the Secretary of State to establish the Shirley Chisholm United States-Caribbean Educational Exchange Program under which scholars and secondary, undergraduate,... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2009-01-09 To House Foreign Affairs Committee
HB417	Intro Sine Die	Next Steps for Haiti Act of 2009 - Authorizes the Director of Foreign Assistance, in consultation with the government of Haiti and Haitian civil society organizations, to establish the Haiti Professional Exchange Program whose purpose shall be to ass... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2009-01-09 To House Foreign Affairs Committee
HR44	Intro Sine Die	Condemns the People's Republic of China (PRC) for producing unsafe products, disregarding the environment, and exploiting workers. Encourages: (1) U.S. merchants to suspend the importation and sales of goods from the PRC until reforms are made; and (... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2009-01-09 To House Foreign Affairs Committee
HB420	Intro Sine Die	Prohibits the use of federal funds for a project or program named for an individual currently serving as a Member, Delegate, Resident Commissioner, or Senator of the U.S. Congress. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2009-01-09 To House Oversight And Government Reform Committee
HB421	Intro Sine Die	Troubled Assets Relief Program Targeted Assets Act of 2009 - Amends the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008 (EESA) to authorize the Secretary of the Treasury to establish the Troubled Asset Restoration and Assistance Program (TARAP) to allow... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2009-01-09 To House Financial Services Committee
HR48	Intro Sine Die	Amends Rule X (Organization of Committees) of the Rules of the House of Representatives to establish the Committee on Indian Affairs. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2009-01-09 To House Rules Committee
HB422	Intro Sine Die	Amends the Internal Revenue Code to extend through 2010 the tax credit for increasing research activities and increase and make permanent the alternative simplified research tax credit. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2009-01-09 To House Ways And Means Committee
HB424	Intro Sine Die	Protecting Senior's Nest Egg Act of 2009 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to extend through 2010 the suspension of minimum distribution rules for tax-deferred retirement plans. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2009-01-09 To House Ways And Means Committee
HB425	Intro Sine Die	Amends the Internal Revenue Code to eliminate tax-exempt interest earned on private activity bonds as an item of tax preference for purposes of calculating the alternative minimum tax. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2009-01-09 To House Ways And Means Committee
HB426	Intro Sine Die	Green Roofing Energy Efficiency Tax Act of 2009 or GREETA of 2009 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) classify as 20-year property for depreciation purposes any roof system which meets the requirements of Standard 90.1-2004 of the American Soc... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2009-01-09 To House Ways And Means Committee