| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| HB427 | Intro
Sine Die | Notify Americans Before Outsourcing Personal Information Act - Prohibits a business from transferring personally identifiable information of a U.S. citizen to any foreign affiliate or subcontractor in another country without providing notice to such ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2009-01-09
To House Financial Services Committee |
| HB429 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the Supreme Court to permit television coverage of all open sessions of the Court unless it decides by majority vote that allowing such coverage in a particular case would violate the due process rights of any of the parties involved.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2009-01-09
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB431 | Intro
Sine Die | Emergency Fueling Station Designation Act of 2009 - Amends the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act to direct the Administrator of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to establish a program to address the shortag...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2009-01-09
To House Subcommittee on Economic Development, Public Buildings and Emergency Management |
| HB432 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow parents of a murdered child to continue to claim a personal tax exemption for such child for five years after the death of such child or the date on which such child would have attained the age of 18, whichev...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2009-01-09
To House Ways And Means Committee |
| HB433 | Intro
Sine Die | Ready Employers Willing to Assist Reservists' Deployment Act of 2009 or the REWARD Act of 2009 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow employers a tax credit for 50% of the wages paid to their employees on active military duty for more than 90 da...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2009-01-09
To House Ways And Means Committee |
| HB435 | Intro
Sine Die | Renewable Energy Production Tax Credit Extension Act of 2009 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to extend for five years the tax credit for producing electricity from certain facilities using renewable resources.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2009-01-09
To House Ways And Means Committee |
| HB436 | Intro
Sine Die | Certain Estate Tax Relief Act of 2009 - Repeals provisions of the Economic Growth and Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2001 (EGTRRA) eliminating the tax on estates and generation-skipping transfers and the step-up in basis provisions for property acq...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2009-01-09
To House Ways And Means Committee |
| HB438 | Intro
Sine Die | Tuolumne Me-Wuk Land Transfer Act of 2009 - Declares that specified federal lands are to be held in trust by the United States for the benefit of the Tuolumne Band of Me-Wuk Indians of the Tuolumne Rancheria of California (the Tribe) for nongaming pu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2009-01-09
To House Natural Resources Committee |
| HB440 | Intro
Sine Die | Small Business Liability Reform Act of 2009 - Allows punitive damages against a small business only if the claimant establishes by clear and convincing evidence that conduct carried out by the defendant with a conscious, flagrant indifference to the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2009-01-09
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB441 | Intro
Sine Die | Grants immunity from civil liability to persons who: (1) in good faith report threats to or acts of terrorism against transportation systems or passengers; and (2) take reasonable action to mitigate such actions.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2009-01-09
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB190 | Intro
Sine Die | Veterans Health Equity Act of 2009 - Requires the Secretary of Veterans Affairs, with respect to each of the 48 contiguous states, to ensure that veterans eligible for hospital care and medical services through the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA)...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2009-01-09
To House Subcommittee on Health |
| HB446 | Intro
Sine Die | Expensing Property Expands our Nation's Strong Economy Act of 2009 or the EXPENSE Act of 2009 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) repeal the limitations on the expensing of depreciable business assets; and (2) allow taxpers to elect a two-year...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2009-01-09
To House Ways And Means Committee |
| HB451 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends the Internal Revenue Code to extend for two years the tax credit for producing electricity from certain renewable resources (e.g., wind, biomass, solar, trash, and hydropower generating facilities).
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2009-01-09
To House Ways And Means Committee |
| HB452 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends the Internal Revenue Code to provide for the refundability of the child tax credit in taxable years beginning in 2009 through 2013 and to render certain limits on such credit inapplicable during that period.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2009-01-09
To House Ways And Means Committee |
| HB456 | Intro
Sine Die | Disabled Veteran Small Business Eligibility Expansion Act of 2009 - Amends the Small Business Act to make small businesses owned and controlled by service-disabled veterans eligible for the award by the Small Business Administration (SBA) of small bu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2009-01-09
Referred to the Subcommittee on Contracting and Technology . |
| HB457 | Intro
Sine Die | Responsible Highway Investment Act of 2009 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to terminate the requirement that obligations held by the Highway Trust Fund be U.S. obligations that are not interest-bearing.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2009-01-09
To House Ways And Means Committee |
| HB210 | Intro
Sine Die | Directs the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to conduct, and report to Congress on, a study on the acquisition of a specified parcel of land in Beaufort, South Carolina, to be used for expansion of the Beaufort National Cemetery.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2009-01-09
To House Subcommittee on Disability Assistance and Memorial Affairs |
| HB217 | Intro
Sine Die | Directs the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to: (1) acquire a specified parcel of land in Beaufort, South Carolina, to be used for expansion of the Beaufort National Cemetery; and (2) report to Congress on the acquisition.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2009-01-09
To House Subcommittee on Disability Assistance and Memorial Affairs |
| HB288 | Intro
Sine Die | Save Our Children: Stop the Violent Predators Against Children DNA Act of 2009 - Directs the Attorney General to establish and maintain a database solely for collecting DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid) information with respect to violent predators against...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2009-01-08
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB289 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes the President to award a gold medal to each of the seven crew members who perished aboard the space shuttle Columbia: Rick D. Husband; Michael P. Anderson; Laurel Clark; David M. Brown; William C. McCool; Kapana Chawla; and Ilan Ramon.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2009-01-08
To House Financial Services Committee |
| HB290 | Intro
Sine Die | Unemployment Insurance Modernization Act - Amends the Social Security Act to require the Secretary of Labor to make unemployment compensation modernization incentive payments in FY2008-FY2011 by certain transfers from the federal unemployment account...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2009-01-08
To House Ways And Means Committee |
| HB291 | Intro
Sine Die | Unemployment Supplemental Assistance Act - Provides for federal-state agreements for increased regular unemployment compensation payments to individuals. Requires federal payments to states to cover 100% of such additional payments.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2009-01-08
To House Ways And Means Committee |
| HB36 | Engross
Sine Die | Presidential Library Donation Reform Act of 2009 - Amends federal law regarding presidential archival depositories to require any presidential library fundraising organization to submit quarterly reports to the National Archives and Records Administr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2009-01-08
Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. |
| HB292 | Intro
Sine Die | Department of Veterans Affairs Energy Sustainability Act of 2009 - Directs the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to: (1) implement in the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) an energy sustainability program to minimize energy consumption and encourage th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2009-01-08
To House Subcommittee on Energy and Environment |
| HB302 | Intro
Sine Die | Directs the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to: (1) reinstate rule 10a-1 (the uptick rule) governing short sales of securities; (2) rescind the prohibition against applying certain price tests to short sales; and (3) reinstate price test res...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2009-01-08
To House Financial Services Committee |
| HB304 | Intro
Sine Die | Directs the Speaker of the House of Representatives and the President Pro Tempore of the Senate to arrange for the presentation of a congressional gold medal to Joseph Barnett Kirsner, M.D., Ph.D. (a leader in the field of gastroenterology) in recogn...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2009-01-08
To House Financial Services Committee |
| HB308 | Intro
Sine Die | Hurricane and Tornado Mitigation Investment Act of 2009 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow individual and business taxpayers in certain states a tax credit for 25% of their qualified hurricane and tornado mitigation property expenditures up ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2009-01-08
To House Ways And Means Committee |
| HB309 | Intro
Sine Die | American Heroes' Homeownership Assistance Act of 2009 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow current or former members of the Uniformed Services who perform duty in a combat zone between 2001 and 2010, or their surviving spouses, a one-time tax ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2009-01-08
To House Ways And Means Committee |
| SB167 | Intro
Sine Die | COPS Improvements Act of 2009 - Amends the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 to expand the authority of the Attorney General to make grants for public safety and community policing programs (COPS ON THE BEAT grant program). Authorize...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2009-01-08
Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. (text of measure as introduced: CR S213-214) |
| SB168 | Intro
Sine Die | SCAAP Reimbursement Protection Act of 2009 - Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to compensate states for incarcerating undocumented aliens charged with a felony or two or more misdemeanors.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2009-01-08
Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. (text of measure as introduced: CR S215) |
| HB311 | Intro
Sine Die | Spending Reform Act of 2009 - Amends the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 to require the concurrent budget resolution to include discretionary spending limit for five successive fiscal years. Sets forth points of order against consideration of legisl...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2009-01-08
To House Oversight And Government Reform Committee |
