US Legislation | 2009-2010 | 111th Congress | Bills | Engrossed

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Bill	Status	Summary/Title	Last Action
HB3585	Engross Sine Die	Solar Technology Roadmap Act - Title I: Solar Technology Research, Development, and Demonstration - (Sec. 101) Directs the Secretary of Energy to conduct a program of research, development, and demonstration for solar technology, including: (1) photo... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2009-12-08 Committee on Energy and Natural Resources Subcommittee on Energy. Hearings held.
HB957	Engross Sine Die	Green Energy Education Act of 2009 - Authorizes the Secretary of Energy to contribute energy research and development funds to the National Science Foundation (NSF) for the Integrative Graduate Education and Research Traineeship program to support gr... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2009-12-08 Committee on Energy and Natural Resources Subcommittee on Energy. Hearings held.
HB118	Engross Sine Die	Authorizes the addition of certain lands to the Morristown National Historical Park in New Jersey from willing sellers only. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2009-12-08 Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
HB2729	Engross Sine Die	Requires the Department of Energy (DOE) to designate as protected outdoor research reserves for the purpose of conducting long-term environmental research on the impacts of human activities on the natural environment: (1) Savannah River National Envi... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2009-12-08 Committee on Energy and Natural Resources Subcommittee on Energy. Hearings held.
HB3165	Engross Sine Die	Wind Energy Research and Development Act of 2009 - Directs the Secretary of Energy to carry out a research and development program to: (1) improve the energy efficiency, reliability, and capacity of wind turbines; (2) optimize the design and adaptabi... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2009-12-08 Committee on Energy and Natural Resources Subcommittee on Energy. Hearings held.
HB1672	Engross Sine Die	Northwest Straits Marine Conservation Initiative Reauthorization Act of 2009 - Amends the Northwest Straits Marine Conservation Initiative Act to define "Northwest Straits" as the marine waters of the Strait of Juan de Fuca and of Puget Sou... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2009-12-08 Received in the Senate. Read twice. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 221.
HB22	Engross Sine Die	United States Postal Service Financial Relief Act of 2009 - Reduces the amount the United States Postal Service must pay into the Postal Service Retiree Health Benefits Fund by September 30, 2009, from $5.4 billion to $1.4 billion. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2009-12-07 Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs referred to Subcommittee on Federal Financial Management, Government Information, Federal Services, and International Security.
HB2873	Engross Sine Die	Enhanced S.E.C. Enforcement Authority Act - Amends the Securities Act of 1933, the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the Investment Company Act of 1940, and the Investment Company Act of 1940 to declare that, in any action or proceeding instituted und... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2009-12-03 Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.
HB3570	Engross Sine Die	Satellite Home Viewer Reauthorization Act of 2009 - Title I: Statutory Licenses - (Sec. 102) Requires a satellite carrier whose secondary transmissions are subject to statutory licensing to deposit a filing fee semiannually with the Register of Copyr... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2009-12-03 Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
HB320	Engross Sine Die	CJ's Home Protection Act of 2009 - Requires the consensus committee established under the National Manufactured Housing Construction and Safety Standards Act of 1974, within 90 days of enactment of this Act, to develop and submit to the Secretary of ... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2009-12-03 Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.
HB1849	Engross Sine Die	World War I Memorial and Centennial Act of 2009 - Designates the Liberty Memorial at the National World War I Museum in Kansas City, Missouri, as the National World War I Memorial. Establishes the World War I Centennial Commission to: (1) plan, deve... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2009-12-03 Committee on Energy and Natural Resources Subcommittee on National Parks. Hearings held.
HB3963	Engross Sine Die	(This measure has not been amended since it was introduced. The summary has been expanded because action occurred on the measure.) Criminal Investigative Training Restoration Act - Directs the Federal Air Marshal Service to require federal air marsh... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2009-12-03 Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
HB515	Engross Sine Die	Radioactive Import Deterrence Act - Amends the Atomic Energy Act of 1954 to prohibit the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) from issuing a license authorizing the importation into the United States of: (1) low-level radioactive waste; or (2) specifi... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2009-12-03 Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.
HB3598	Engross Sine Die	Energy and Water Research Integration Act - (Sec. 2) Directs the Secretary of Energy to identify each of the Department of Energy's (DOE's) energy research, development, and demonstration programs and projects into which it is appropriate to integrat... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2009-12-02 Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
HB3029	Engross Sine Die	Directs the Secretary of Energy to carry out a research, development, and technology demonstration program to improve the efficiency of gas turbines used in power generation systems and to identify the technologies that will lead to gas turbine combi... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2009-12-02 Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
HB2781	Engross Sine Die	Amends the Wild and Scenic Rivers Act to designate specified segments of the Molalla River in Oregon as a recreational river and as components of the National Wild and Scenic Rivers System. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2009-11-20 Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
HB1834	Engross Sine Die	Native American Business Development Enhancement Act of 2009 - Amends the Small Business Act to establish in the Small Business Administration (SBA) the Office of Native American Affairs, administered by a new SBA Associate Administrator, to increase... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2009-11-20 Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship.
HB1839	Engross Sine Die	Amends the Small Business Act relating to the Service Corps of Retired Executives (SCORE) to require the Administrator of the Small Business Administration (SBA) to ensure that SCORE: (1) carries out a plan to increase the proportion of small busines... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2009-11-19 Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship.
HB3014	Engross Sine Die	Small Business Health Information Technology Financing Act - Amends the Small Business Act to authorize the Administrator of the Small Business Administration (SBA) to guarantee up to 90% of the amount of a loan, up to specified loan amounts, to a sm... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2009-11-19 Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship.
HB1842	Engross Sine Die	Expanding Entrepreneurship Act of 2009 - Amends the Small Business Act relating to small business entrepreneurial development programs (programs) to direct the Administrator of the Small Business Administration (SBA) to: (1) develop and submit to Con... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2009-11-19 Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship.
HB3738	Engross Sine Die	Small Business Early-Stage Investment Act of 2009 - Amends the Small Business Investment Act of 1958 to direct the Administrator of the Small Business Administration (SBA) to establish and carry out a program to provide equity investment financing to... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2009-11-19 Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship.
HB3791	Engross Sine Die	Fire Grants Reauthorization Act of 2009 - (Sec. 2) Amends the Federal Fire Prevention and Control Act of 1974 to reauthorize through FY2014 the Federal Emergency Management Agency's (FEMA's) Assistance to Firefighters Grants (AFG) program and the Sta... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2009-11-19 Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.
HB3305	Engross Sine Die	Designates the federal building and U.S. courthouse located at 224 South Boulder Avenue in Tulsa, Oklahoma, as the "H. Dale Cook Federal Building and United States Courthouse." [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2009-11-18 Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.
HB3618	Engross Sine Die	Clean Hull Act of 2009 - Title I: General Provisions - (Sec. 101) Defines "antifouling system" as a coating, paint, surface treatment, surface, or device used on a vessel to control or prevent attachment of unwanted organisms. (Sec. 102) De... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2009-11-18 Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
HB1838	Engross Sine Die	Amends the Small Business Act relating to the women's business centers program to require the Administrator of the Small Business Administration (SBA) to: (1) disburse funds to a women's business center (center) no later than one month after its appl... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2009-11-09 Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship.
HB1845	Engross Sine Die	Small Business Development Centers Modernization Act of 2009 - Amends the Small Business Act relating to small business development centers (SBDCs) (centers established through the Small Business Administration [SBA] to provide advisory, operational,... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2009-11-09 Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship.
HB3737	Engross Sine Die	Small Business Microlending Expansion Act of 2009 - (Sec. 2) Amends the Small Business Act with respect to the Small Business Administration (SBA) Microloan program (small-scale loans to start-up, newly established, or growing small businesses for wo... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2009-11-09 Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship.
HB3743	Engross Sine Die	Small Business Disaster Readiness and Reform Act of 2009 - (Sec. 2) Amends the Small Business Act to prohibit the Administrator of the Small Business Administration (SBA), in making a small business disaster loan of $250,000 or less, from requiring a... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2009-11-09 Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship.
HB3949	Engross Sine Die	Veterans' Small Business Assistance and Servicemembers Protection Act of 2009 - Title I: Small Business and Education Matters - Veterans Small Business Verification Act - (Sec. 101) Prohibits the Secretary of Veterans Affairs from including a small b... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2009-11-04 Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
HB3157	Engross Sine Die	Designates the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) outpatient clinic in Alexandria, Minnesota, that is expected to open in September 2009 as the "Max J. Beilke Department of Veterans Affairs Outpatient Clinic." [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2009-11-04 Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
HB174	Engross Sine Die	Directs the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to establish a national cemetery in El Paso County, Colorado. Requires a report from the Secretary to Congress on such establishment. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2009-11-03 Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
HB1168	Engross Sine Die	Veterans Retraining Act of 2009 - Authorizes the Secretary of Labor to pay to each covered veteran an assistance allowance for each month such veteran is enrolled in an employment and training program that teaches a skill in demand, as determined the... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2009-11-03 Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
HB3854	Engross Sine Die	Small Business Financing and Investment Act of 2009 - Title I: Small Business Lending Enhancements - (Sec. 101) Amends the Small Business Act to direct the Administrator of the Small Business Administration (SBA) to establish and carry out a program ... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2009-11-02 Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship.
HB3617	Engross Sine Die	Surface Transportation Extension Act of 2009 - (Sec. 2) Reauthorizes programs funded out of the Highway Trust Fund (HTF) (other than the Mass Transit Account) for the period beginning October 1, 2009, and ending on the earlier of: (1) the enactment o... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2009-10-29 Read the second time. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 191.
SB942	Engross Sine Die	Government Charge Card Abuse Prevention Act of 2009 - Requires each executive agency, except for the Department of Defense (DOD), to establish and maintain specified safeguards and internal controls for official purchase cards and convenience checks,... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2009-10-28 To House Subcommittee on Military Personnel
HB3632	Engross Sine Die	Federal Judiciary Administrative Improvements Act of 2009 - Amends the federal judicial code to: (1) remove the power of certain active or retired federal judges to appoint U.S. magistrate judges; (2) revise the statutory description of the District ... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2009-10-28 Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
HB1641	Engross Sine Die	Cascadia Marine Trail Study Act - Amends the National Trails System Act to require the study of the Cascadia Marine Trail in the state of Washington for designation as a national scenic trail. Permits the evaluation of sites of recreational, scenic, ... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2009-10-27 Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
HB2806	Engross Sine Die	Amends the Washington Park Wilderness Act of 1988 to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to adjust the boundaries of the North Cascades National Park and the Stephen Mather Wilderness in Washington state in order to provide a corridor of up to 10... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2009-10-27 Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
HB1747	Engross Sine Die	Great Lakes Icebreaker Replacement Act - Authorizes appropriations for the design, acquisition, and construction of a combined buoy tender-icebreaker to replace icebreaking capacity on the Great Lakes. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2009-10-23 Provisions of measure incorporated in to Title IV of H.R. 3619.
HB2651	Engross Sine Die	Maritime Workforce Development Act - Directs the Secretary of Transportation to establish a maritime career training loan program. Requires the Secretary, acting through the Administrator of the Maritime Administration, to make maritime career train... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2009-10-23 Provisions of measure incorporated in to Title VI of H.R. 3619.
HB3763	Engross Sine Die	Amends the Fair Credit Reporting Act with respect to the duties of users of consumer reports who take adverse actions on the basis of information contained in such reports. Excludes any health care practice, accounting practice, or legal practice wit... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2009-10-21 Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.
HB2971	Engross Sine Die	Designates the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 630 Northeast Killingsworth Avenue in Portland, Oregon, as the "Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Post Office." [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2009-10-19 Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs referred to Subcommittee on Federal Financial Management, Government Information, Federal Services, and International Security.
HB626	Engross Sine Die	Federal Employees Paid Parental Leave Act of 2009 - Allows federal employees to substitute any available paid leave for any leave without pay available for either the: (1) birth of a child; or (2) placement of a child with the employee for either ado... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2009-10-19 Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs referred to Subcommittee on Oversight of Government Management, the Federal Workforce, and the District of Columbia.
SB251	Engross Sine Die	Safe Prisons Communications Act of 2009 - (Sec. 2) Amends the Communications Act of 1934 to authorize the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to permit the supervisory authority of a correctional facility to operate a jamming system within the fa... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2009-10-19 To House Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security
SB273	Engross Sine Die	Directs the Administrator of General Services to ensure that the federally occupied building located at McKinley Avenue and Third Street, S.W., Canton, Ohio, is known and designated as the "Ralph Regula Federal Office Building and Courthouse.&qu... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2009-10-19 For further action see P.L. 111-74 (H.R. 1687).
HB3137	Engross Sine Die	Allows the United States Postal Service (USPS) to accept monetary donations for the funding of plaques in connection with the commemorative designation of postal facilities. Requires the USPS to provide for a plaque after a law has been enacted for s... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2009-10-19 Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs referred to Subcommittee on Federal Financial Management, Government Information, Federal Services, and International Security.
HB2174	Engross Sine Die	Designates the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 18 Main Street in Howland, Maine, as the "Clyde Hichborn Post Office." [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2009-10-19 Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs referred to Subcommittee on Federal Financial Management, Government Information, Federal Services, and International Security.
HB3371	Engross Sine Die	Airline Safety and Pilot Training Improvement Act of 2009 - (Sec. 3) Requires the Administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to establish the FAA Task Force on Air Carrier Safety and Pilot Training to evaluate and report to specified ... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2009-10-15 Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
HB2423	Engross Sine Die	Designates the federal building and U.S. courthouse located at 1300 Victoria Street in Laredo, Texas, as the "George P. Kazen Federal Building and United States Courthouse." [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2009-10-15 Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.
HB1327	Engross Sine Die	Iran Sanctions Enabling Act of 2009 - (Sec. 3) States that it is the policy of the United States to support the decision of state and local governments and educational institutions to divest from, and to prohibit the investment of assets they control... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2009-10-15 Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.