bill_id,congress,bill_type,bill_number,title,policy_area,introduced_date,latest_action_date,latest_action_text,origin_chamber,sponsor_name,sponsor_state,sponsor_party,sponsor_bioguide_id,cosponsor_count,summary_text,update_date,url
110-hr-7321,110,hr,7321,Auto Industry Financing and Restructuring Act,Commerce,2008-12-10,2008-12-11,Received in the Senate.,House,"Rep. Frank, Barney [D-MA-4]",MA,D,F000339,1,"Auto Industry Financing and Restructuring Act - (Sec. 3) Directs the President to designate one or more executive branch officers (designee) to carry out the purposes of this Act. Requires such designee to have appropriate expertise to facilitate the restructuring necessary to achieve the long-term financial viability of domestic automobile manufacturers.  (Sec. 4) Requires the designee to authorize and direct the disbursement of bridge loans or to enter into commitments for lines of credit to each automobile manufacturer that submitted to Congress a plan on December 2, 2008, and request for such loan or commitment ("automaker," for purposes of this Act). Establishes as the amount of such assistance the amount intended to facilitate continued operations of the automaker and prevent its failure.(Sec. 5) Directs the designee to: (1) determine measures to assess the progress of each automaker for transforming the plan submitted into a restructuring plan; (2) evaluate progress toward developing a restructuring plan after a 45-day period beginning when the assessment measures were established; and (3) facilitate agreement on a restructuring plan to achieve and sustain the long-term viability, international competitiveness, and energy efficiency of an automaker.(Sec. 6) Requires each automaker to submit a restructuring plan to the designee no later than March 31, 2009. Directs the designee to approve such plan if it meets specified requirements, including that it will result in: (1) the repayment of all government-provided financing, under specified terms; (2) the domestic manufacturing of advanced technology vehicles, as described under the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007; (3) efforts to rationalize costs, capitalization, and capacity; and (4) proposals to restructure existing debt.(Sec. 7) Authorizes the designee, upon plan approval, to provide financial assistance to an automaker to implement the plan. Requires a loan to be called upon restructuring plan disapproval.(Sec. 9) Directs the designee to prioritize the loan assistance to automakers, based on: (1) its necessity for continued operations; (2) potential impacts of the automaker's failure on the U.S. economy; and (3) the ability to use the assistance to satisfy operational and long-term restructuring requirements.(Sec. 10) Makes appropriations to provide loan funds under this Act in an amount up to $14 billion. Authorizes appropriations to the Secretary of Energy to replenish funds made available. Provides loan terms and conditions.(Sec. 11) Requires each recipient, during the loan period, to inform the designee of: (1) any proposed automaker transaction in excess of $100 million; and (2) any other material change in financial condition. Authorizes the designee to review and approve or disapprove such a transaction. Outlines provisions concerning an automaker's failure to comply with loan requirements.(Sec. 12) Requires the designee to receive warrants for up to 20% of the common or preferred stock of each automaker as a loan condition. Subjects each automaker, during the loan period, to specified executive compensation and corporate governance standards. Limits an automaker's owning or leasing of corporate passenger aircraft, and prohibits an automaker's payment of dividends, during such period. Subordinates to the federal loan any other automaker obligations.Prohibits a title 11 bankruptcy discharge from discharging an automaker or its successor in interest from any debt for assistance received under this Act.(Sec. 13) Directs the Comptroller General (CG) to conduct ongoing oversight of the designee's activities and performance and to report at least every 60 days to Congress. Adds to duties of the Special Inspector General established by the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008 the duty to coordinate audits and investigations of the designee.(Sec. 14) Requires: (1) each loan recipient to analyze potential uses of excess production capacity to make vehicles for sale to public transit agencies; and (2) the CG to review such analyses and report thereon to Congress and the designee. (Sec. 15) Requires reports from the designee to Congress on: (1) bridge loans made under this Act; (2) the restructuring progress assessment measures established under section 5; (3) actions taken against an automaker for failure to comply with this Act's requirements; (4) any additional powers and authorities necessary to facilitate completion of a negotiated restructuring plan; (5) progress of automakers to continue operations and proceed with restructuring processes that restore financial viability and promote environmental sustainability; and (6) a plan on achieving the long-term viability, international competitiveness, and energy efficiency of each automaker.(Sec. 18) Directs the designee to serve as a guarantor of leases of qualified transportation property (domestic property subject to a lease approved by the Federal Transit Administration prior to January 1, 2006). Requires designee recoupment of payments of claims in excess of collateral held with respect to such guarantees.(Sec. 19) Authorizes a salary adjustment during FY2009 for justices and judges of the United States.Sets forth guidelines for application of the antitrust laws and antitrust agency participation in proceedings of the automakers.(Sec. 20) Makes inapplicable to ownership changes resulting from this Act certain Internal Revenue Code provisions limiting the carryover of net operating losses and certain built-in losses. (Sec. 21) Designates amounts provided under this Act as an emergency requirement under the FY2008 concurrent budget resolution. (Sec. XX [sic]) Amends the Federal Deposit Insurance Act to require each financial condition report from insured depository institutions that received an investment or other assistance under the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) established by the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008 or under the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007 to contain information on any increase in new lending during the report period that is attributable to such investment or assistance. Allows an alternative report on the total amount of increased new lending if the institution cannot accurately quantify the effect that an investment or other assistance under TARP has had on any new lending.",2022-02-03T05:18:54Z,
110-hr-7322,110,hr,7322,"Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2009",Economics and Public Finance,2008-12-10,2008-12-10,"Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 593.",House,"Rep. Mollohan, Alan B. [D-WV-1]",WV,D,M000844,0,"(This measure has not been amended since it was introduced. The summary has been expanded because action occurred on the measure.)Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2009 - Makes appropriations for FY2009 for the Departments of Commerce and Justice, science-related programs, and related agencies.Title I: Department of Commerce - Department of Commerce Appropriations Act, 2009 - Makes appropriations for the Department of Commerce for FY2009 for: (1) the International Trade Administration; (2) the Bureau of Industry and Security; (3) the Economic Development Administration; (4) the Minority Business Development Agency; (5) economic and statistical analysis programs; (6) the Bureau of the Census; (7) the National Telecommunications and Information Administration, including for grants for public telecommunications facilities, planning, and construction; (8) the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office; (9) the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), including amounts for the Hollings Manufacturing Extension Partnership of NIST and for construction of new research facilities; (10) the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), including amounts for procurement, acquisition, and construction of capital assets, restoration of Pacific salmon populations, the Coastal Zone Management Fund, and the fisheries finance program account; and (11) departmental management, including for the Office of Inspector General and renovation and modernization of the Herbert C. Hoover Building.(Sec. 105) Prohibits the use of any funds under this Act to register, issue, transfer, or enforce any trademark of the phrase "Last Best Place."(Sec. 107) Authorizes the Secretary of Commerce to promulgate safety and health standards or regulations for scientific and occupational diving within NOAA.Title II: Department of Justice - Department of Justice Appropriations Act, 2009 - Makes appropriations for the Department of Justice (DOJ) for 2009 for: (1) general administration, including for information sharing technology, a nationwide Integrated Wireless Network supporting federal law enforcement, administration of pardon and clemency petitions and immigration-related activities, the Federal Detention Trustee, and the Office of Inspector General; (2) the U.S. Parole Commission; (3) legal activities, including reimbursement from the Vaccine Injury Compensation Trust Fund for processing cases under the National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act of 1986, antitrust enforcement, the Offices of the U.S. Attorneys, the U.S. Trustee Program, the Foreign Claims Settlement Commission, fees and expenses of witnesses, the Community Relations Service, and the Assets Forfeiture Fund; (4) the U.S. Marshals Service; (5) the National Security Division; (6) interagency crime and drug enforcement; (7) the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI); (8) the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA); (9) the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF); (10) the federal prison system, including for the construction of new buildings and facilities and for the Federal Prison Industries, Incorporated (subject to certain limitations on administrative expenses); (11) the Office on Violence Against Women for violence against women prevention and prosecution programs; and (12) Office of Justice Programs, including for state and local law enforcement assistance, the Office of Weed and Seed Strategies, community-oriented policing services (including a transfer of funds), juvenile justice programs, and public safety officers benefits.(Sec. 202) Prohibits the use of funds appropriated by this title to: (1) pay for an abortion, except where the life of the mother would be endangered if the fetus were carried to term or in the case of rape; or (2) require any person to perform or facilitate an abortion. (Sec. 204) Reaffirms the obligation of the Director of the Bureau of Prisons to provide escort services necessary for a female inmate to receive an abortion outside a federal facility.(Sec. 206) Authorizes the Attorney General to extend through FY2010 the Personnel Management Demonstration Project without limitation on the number of employees or the positions covered.(Sec. 207) Extends certain authorities for FBI and DEA undercover investigative operations to ATF.(Sec. 208) Prohibits the use of funds under this Act: (1) to transport a maximum or high security prisoner other than to a prison or facility certified by the Bureau of Prisons as appropriately secure; (2) by federal prisons to purchase cable television services or equipment used primarily for recreational purposes: (3) for Sentinel and future phases of Sentinel or any other major new or enhanced information technology program having total estimated development costs in excess of $100 million, unless there is a certification to the House and Senate Committees on Appropriations that the program has appropriate program management and contractor oversight mechanisms in place and that the program is compatible with DOJ enterprise architecture; (4) to plan for, begin, continue, finish, process, or approve a public-private competition under the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Circular A-76 for work performed by employees of the Bureau of Prisons or of Federal Prison Industries, Incorporated; or (5) for the salaries, benefits, or expenses of U.S. attorneys who are assigned dual or additional responsibilities by the Attorney General that exempt such such attorneys from applicable residency requirements.(Sec. 215) Requires the Attorney General and any DOJ department head to conduct a peer review process and adhere strictly to peer review rankings in making discretionary grants.Title III: Science - Science Appropriations Act, 2009 - Makes appropriations for FY2009 for: (1) the Office of Science and Technology Policy; (2) the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) for science, aeronautics, and exploration, space operations, education research and development activities, and the Office of Inspector General; and (3) the National Science Foundation (NSF) for research, equipment and facilities construction, science and engineering education and human resources programs, agency operations and award management, the Office of the National Science Board, and the Office of Inspector General.Title IV: Related Agencies - Makes appropriations for FY2009 for: (1) the Commission on Civil Rights; (2) the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC); (3) the International Trade Commission (ITC); (4) the Legal Services Corporation; (5) the Marine Mammal Commission; (6) the National Veterans Business Development Corporation; (7) the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative; and (8) the State Justice Institute. Prohibits the EEOC from taking any action to implement any workforce repositioning, restructuring, or reorganization until notice of such action is given to the House and Senate Committees on Appropriations.Title V: General Provisions - (Sec. 501) Prohibits the use of funds for publicity or propaganda purposes not authorized by Congress.(Sec. 503) Limits expenditures for consulting services through procurement contracts to those contracts where expenditures are a matter of public record and available for public inspection, except where otherwise provided under existing law or executive order.(Sec. 505) Places restrictions on the reprogramming of funds.(Sec. 506) Prohibits the use of funds to implement, administer, or enforce any EEOC guidelines covering harassment based on religion.(Sec. 507) Renders any person who mislabels a product sold in or shipped to the United States as "Made in America" ineligible to receive any contract or subcontract funded by this Act. (Sec. 510) Prohibits the use of funds under this Act to promote the sale or export of tobacco or tobacco products or to seek the reduction or removal of restrictions on the marketing of such products.(Sec. 511) Prohibits the use of funds under this Act for the implementation of: (1) any user fee for background checks under the Brady Handgun Control Act of 1993; and (2) any background check system that does not require and result in the destruction within 24 hours of information submitted by an individual certified as eligible to possess or receive a firearm.(Sec. 513) Prohibits the use of DOJ funds to discriminate against or denigrate the religious or moral beliefs of students who participate in DOJ programs or of the parents or legal guardians of such students. (Sec. 516) Requires ATF to make a disclaimer in tracing studies that trace data cannot be used to draw broad conclusions about firearms-related crime.(Sec. 518) Prohibits the use of funds under this Act to: (1) issue patents on claims directed to or encompassing a human organism; (2) support or justify the use of torture by any official or contract employee of the U.S. government; (3) restrict exports of certain firearms to Canada; (4) deny certain import applications regarding curios or relics, firearms, parts, or ammunition; (5) include in any new bilateral or multilateral trade agreement certain language of the United States-Singapore Free Trade Agreement, the United States-Australia Free Trade Agreement, or the United States-Morocco Free Trade Agreement; (6) authorize or issue a national security letter in contravention of certain laws authorizing the FBI to issue such letters; or (7) implement a revision to OMB Circular A-76 relating to the cost of projects within the Departments of Commerce or Justice, NSF, or NASA.(Sec. 525) Requires: (1) program grant managers of any projects within the jurisdiction of the Departments of Commerce or Justice, NASA, or NSF totaling more than $75 million whose cost may increase by 10% to inform the agency head of such increase; and (2) notification to the House and Senate Committees on Appropriations of such increase within 30 days.(Sec. 526) Authorizes funds for Department of Justice intelligence activities during FY2009 until the enactment of the Intelligence Authorization Act for FY2009.(Sec. 527) Prohibits the award of a contract or grant in excess of $5 million under this Act unless the prospective contractor or grantee makes certain certifications regarding compliance with federal tax liability.(Sec. 528) Rescinds certain unobligated balances available to: (1) the Department of Commerce for Economic Development Administration, the International Trade Administration, NOAA, NIST, the National Telecommunications and Information Administration, and the Bureau of the Census and (2) the Department of Justice for the Working Capital Fund, the Assets Forfeiture Fund, the Office of Justice Programs, and Community Oriented Policing Services. Requires a report to Congress within 30 days of the enactment of this Act on the amount of recission made by each department.",2022-02-03T05:18:55Z,
110-hr-7323,110,hr,7323,"Making appropriations for financial services and general government for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2009, and for other purposes.",Economics and Public Finance,2008-12-10,2008-12-10,"Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 594.",House,"Rep. Serrano, Jose E. [D-NY-16]",NY,D,S000248,0,"(This measure has not been amended since it was introduced. The summary has been expanded because action occurred on the measure.) Financial Services and General Government Appropriations Act, 2009 - Title I: Department of the Treasury - Department of the Treasury Appropriations Act, 2009- Makes appropriations for FY2009 to the Department of the Treasury for: (1) departmental offices; (2) department-wide systems and capital investments programs; (3) the Office of Inspector General; (4) the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration; (5) the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network; (6) the Financial Management Service; (7) the Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau; (8) the U.S. Mint for the U.S. Mint Public Enterprise Fund; (9) the Bureau of the Public Debt; (10) the Community Development Financial Institutions Fund Program Account; and (11) the Internal Revenue Service (IRS). Sets forth certain transfers of funds, including a certain rescission of funds.(Sec. 102) Requires the IRS to maintain a training program for IRS employees in taxpayers' rights, in dealing courteously with taxpayers, and in cross-cultural relations.(Sec. 104) Makes funds for the IRS under any Act available for improved facilities and increased staffing to provide sufficient and effective 1-800 help line service for taxpayers.(Sec. 105) Makes certain funds available only for tax enforcement and enhanced tax law enforcement.(Sec. 106) Bars the use of funds made available in this Act to enter into, renew, extend, administer, implement, enforce, provide oversight of, any qualified tax collection contract.(Sec. 111) Bars the use of funds to the Department or the Bureau of Engraving and Printing to redesign the $1 Federal Reserve note.(Sec. 113) Extends from 10 to 11 years the authorization for the personnel management demonstration project providing for the compensation and performance management of not more than a combined total of 950 employees who fill critical scientific, technical, engineering, intelligence analyst, language translator, and medical positions in the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms (ATF).(Sec. 115) Prohibits the use of funds appropriated by this Act or any other source to merge the U.S. Mint and the Bureau of Engraving and Printing without the approval of specified congressional committees. (Sec. 116) Deems funds appropriated by this Act, or made available by the transfer of funds in it, for the Department's intelligence or intelligence related activities to be specifically authorized by Congress for the purposes of the National Security Act of 1947 during FY2009 until the enactment of the Intelligence Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2009.   Title II: Executive Office of the President and Funds Appropriated to the President - Executive Office of the President Appropriations Act, 2009 - Makes appropriations for FY2009 for compensation of the President and specified White House agencies, including: (1) the Council of Economic Advisers; (2) the Office of Policy Development; (3) the National Security Council (NSC); (4) the Office of Administration; (5) the Office of Management and Budget (OMB); (6) the Office of National Drug Control Policy; (7) the Counterdrug Technology Assessment Center; (8) various other specified federal drug control programs; (9) presidential transition administrative support; (10) special assistance to the President; and (11) the official residence of the Vice President. Sets forth certain transfers of funds. (Sec. 202) Requires the President to submit to the congressional appropriations committees, before the initial obligation of funds appropriated for the Office of National Drug Control Policy, a financial plan on the proposed uses of all such funds on a project-by-project basis.  Title III: The Judiciary - The Judiciary Appropriations Act, 2009 - Makes appropriations to the Judiciary for FY2009 for: (1) the U.S. Supreme Court; (2) the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit; (3) the U.S. Court of International Trade; (4) the courts of appeals, district courts, and other judicial services; (5) defender services; (6) fees of jurors and commissioners; (7) court security; (8) the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts; (9) the Federal Judicial Center; (10) judicial retirement funds; and (11) the U.S. Sentencing Commission.Sets forth certain transfers of funds.(Sec. 305) Provides for the mandatory or discretionary delegation, in certain circumstances, of the duties and powers of the Administrator of General Services to a federal (including judicial or legislative branch) agency instead of only to an executive agency.(Sec. 306) Requires the U.S. Marshals Service to provide, for a pilot program, specified security services (except investigations) for courthouses which federal law authorizes the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to provide.(Sec. 307) Authorizes the Director of the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts (Director) to pay premium rate increases in the cost of Federal Employees' Group Life Insurance (FEGLI) imposed after April 24, 1999 (including any expenses generated by such payments, as authorized by the U.S. Judicial Conference) for the following judges, age 65 or over: (1) bankruptcy judges; (2) judges of the District Court of Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands, and the Virgin Islands; (3) retired bankruptcy or magistrate judges; and (4) retired judges in such U.S. territories and possessions. (Sec. 308) Amends the Transportation, Treasury, Housing and Urban Development, the Judiciary, the District of Columbia, and Independent Agencies Appropriations Act, 2006 to repeal the September 30, 2010, termination of (thus extending indefinitely) the Director's authority to enter into certain contracts, including multiyear contracts, to the same extent as the head of an executive agency. (Sec. 309) Authorizes the expenditure by the Director of funds to contract with appropriate public or private agencies or persons to monitor and provide services to certain offenders in the community. (Sec. 310) Amends the Judicial Improvements Act of 1990 to state that the first vacancy in the office of district judge in the district of Kansas and in the northern district of Ohio, occurring 21 years (currently 17 years) or more after the confirmation date of the judge named to fill the temporary judgeship created for such district, shall not be filled.  Title IV: District of Columbia - District of Columbia Appropriations Act, 2009 - Makes appropriations to the District of Columbia for FY2009, including amounts for the federal payments: (1) for District of Columbia Resident Tuition Support; (2) for emergency planning and security costs in the District; (3) to District of Columbia Courts; (4) for Defender Services in District of Columbia Courts; (5) to the Court Services and Offender Supervision Agency for the District of Columbia; (6) to the District of Columbia Public Defender Service; (7) to the District of Columbia Water and Sewer Authority; (8) to the Criminal Justice Coordinating Council; (9) to the Office of the Chief Financial Officer of the District of Columbia (CFO); (10) for school improvement; (11) for construction of a consolidated bioterrorism and forensics laboratory; (12) to jump start public school reform; (13) for the central library and branch locations; and (14) other specified uses. Title V: Independent Agencies - Makes appropriations for FY2009 for independent agencies, including: (1) the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC); (2) the Election Assistance Commission (EAC) for election reform programs; (3) the Federal Communications Commission (FCC); (4) the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC), for its Office of Inspector General; (5) the Federal Election Commission (FEC); (6) the Federal Labor Relations Authority (FLRA); (7) the Federal Trade Commission (FTC); (8) the General Services Administration (GSA); (9) government-wide GSA policy and operating expenses; (10) the GSA Office of Inspector General; (11) allowances and office staff for former presidents; (12) presidential transition expenses; (13) the Federal Citizens Services Fund; (14) the Merit Systems Protection Board; (15) Morris K. Udall Scholarship and Excellence in National Environmental Policy Foundation; (16) the Environmental Dispute Resolution Fund; (17) the National Archives and Records Administration; (18) the National Historic Publications and Records Commission Grants Program; (19) the National Credit Union Administration (NCUA); (20) the Community Development Credit Union Revolving Loan Fund; (21) the Office of Government Ethics; (22) the Office of Personnel Management (OPM), including the Office of Inspector General; (23) the government payment for annuitants, employee health benefits, employee life insurance, and the civil service retirement and disability fund; (24) the Office of Special Counsel; (25) the Postal Regulatory Commission; (26) the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board; (27) the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC); (28) the Selective Service System; (29) the Small Business Administration (SBA), including the Office of Inspector General; (30) the U.S. Postal Service, including the Office of Inspector General; and (31) the U.S. Tax Court. Sets forth certain transfers of funds. (Sec. 507) Renames the GSA Consumer Information Center Fund the GSA Federal Citizen Services Fund to disseminate, as under current law, federal government information (currently, federal consumer information) to the public. (Sec. 508) Transforms the GSA working capital fund for the operation of a central blue-printing, photostating, and duplicating service into a working capital fund for: (1) administrative support services (including accounting, budget, personnel, legal support and other related services), as well as the printing and reproduction facilities in support of GSA, other federal agencies, and other entities; and (2) other administrative and management services that the GSA Administrator deems appropriate and advantageous. Permits transfer and merger of unobligated balances appropriated or otherwise made available for GSA operating expenses and salaries into the major equipment acquisitions and development activity of the GSA working capital fund for agency-wide acquisition of capital equipment, automated data processing systems, and financial management and management information systems. Title VI: General Provisions - This Act - Sets forth permissions for and restrictions upon the use of funds under this Act.  (Sec. 606) Prohibits the expenditure of funds under this Act by an entity unless it agrees that such expenditure will comply with the Buy American Act. (Sec. 607) Prohibits the availability of funds under this Act to any person or entity that has been convicted of violating the Buy American Act.(Sec. 610) Prohibits the use of funds under this Act by the Executive Office of the President to request from the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) any official background investigation report on any individual, except when: (1) such individual has given his or her express written consent for such request within six months before the date of such request and during the same presidential administration; or (2) such request is required due to extraordinary circumstances involving national security.(Sec. 611) Makes certain cost accounting standards promulgated under the Office of Federal Procurement Policy Act inapplicable to a federal employees health benefits program contract.(Sec. 612) Authorizes OPM to accept and utilize (without regard to any restriction on unanticipated travel expenses) funds made available to OPM pursuant to court approval for resolving litigation and implementing any settlement agreements regarding the nonforeign area cost-of-living allowance program. (Sec. 613) Denies the availability of funds appropriated by this Act to pay either abortion expenses, or administrative expenses in connection with any health plan under the federal employees health benefits program which provides benefits or coverage for abortions (unless the life of the mother would be endangered if the fetus were carried to term, or the pregnancy is the result of an act of rape or incest).  (Sec. 615) Makes the restriction on purchasing nondomestic articles, materials, and supplies set forth in the Buy American Act inapplicable to the federal acquisition of commercial information technology. (Sec. 616) Prohibits officers or employees of any regulatory agency or commission funded by this Act from accepting on behalf of that agency, or the agency or commission from accepting payment or reimbursement from a non-federal entity, for travel, subsistence, or related expenses to enable an officer or employee to participate in any meeting or similar function relating to such individual's official duties, when the entity offering payment or reimbursement is a person or entity subject to regulation by such agency or commission, or represents such person or entity, unless the person or entity is a nonprofit tax-exempt organization. (Sec. 617) Vests authority in the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board to obligate funds for the merit scholarship program for undergraduate and graduate students enrolled in accredited accounting degree programs, established by the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, up to the aggregate amount of funds collected by the Board through FY2008, including accrued interest, as a result of the assessment of monetary penalties. Requires funds available for obligation in FY2009 to remain available until expended. (Sec. 618) Amends the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2008 to revise requirements for the investment of amounts in the Harry S Truman Memorial Scholarship Trust Fund. Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to invest such amounts in such obligations as the Board of Trustees of the Harry S Truman Scholarship Foundation may request. (Sec. 619) Authorizes the U.S. Tax Court to pay on behalf of its judges, age 65 or over, any increase in the cost of FEGLI imposed after April 24, 1999, that is incurred after the enactment of the Pension Protection Act of 2006. (Sec. 620) Prohibits the use of funds made available under this Act by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to implement or enforce specified provisions of the daily newspaper cross-ownership rule, as amended by the Commission's Report and Order and Order on Reconsideration. (Sec. 621) Prohibits the use of funds made available in this Act to administer, implement, or enforce the amendment made to specified federal regulations with respect to the Cuban Assets Control Regulations regarding transactions incident to U.S. exportations and reexportations of U.S.-origin items to Cuba, including negotiation of executory contracts. (Sec. 622) Applies a certain rule for licenses to visit a family member who is a national of Cuba so as to reduce the requirement that for the license applicant it has been at least one year (currently, three years) since the most recent of the following three dates: (1) the applicant's date of emigration from Cuba; (2) the date the applicant left Cuba after the applicant's most recent trip to visit family there; or (3) the date of issuance of the applicant's most recent specific license to visit family in Cuba. (Sec. 623) Extends the application of such rule to visits with any aunt, uncle, niece, nephew, or first cousin in Cuba.  (Sec. 624) Prohibits the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System and the Secretary of the Treasury from determining, for purposes of the Bank Holding Company Act of 1956 or the Revised Statutes of the United States, that real estate brokerage activity or real estate management activity is an activity financial in nature, or is incidental or complementary to such activity. Title VII: General Provisions Government-Wide - Sets forth requirements for the use of appropriations by designated departments, agencies, and corporations.(Sec. 727) Prohibits the use of funds by federal agencies to collect, review, create, or contract for any aggregation of data by any means of any personally identifiable information relating to an individual's access to or use of any federal government Internet site. (Sec. 728) Prohibits the use of funds to enter into or renew a contract for a federal employee health plan which includes a provision providing prescription drug coverage, except where the contract also includes a provision for contraceptive coverage. Exempts specified religious plans from such prohibition. Prohibits a federal employee health plan, however, from discriminating against an individual on the basis that the individual refuses to prescribe or otherwise provide for contraceptives because such activities would be contrary to his or her religious beliefs or moral convictions.(Sec. 729) Recognizes the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency (USADA) as the official anti-doping agency for Olympic, Pan American, and Paralympic sport in the United States.(Sec. 730) Allows the use of funds appropriated for official travel by federal departments and agencies, if consistent with OMB Circular A-126 regarding official travel for government personnel, to participate in the fractional aircraft ownership pilot program.(Sec. 731) Bars the use of funds to implement or enforce restrictions or limitations on the Coast Guard Congressional Fellowship Program, or to implement the proposed OPM regulations to add sections 300.311 - 300.316 to part 300 of title 5 of the Code of Federal Regulations, published in the Federal Register, volume 68, number 174, on September 9, 2003 (relating to the detail of executive branch employees to the legislative branch).(Sec. 732) Prohibits an executive branch agency from purchasing, constructing, and/or leasing any additional facilities, except within or contiguous to existing locations, to conduct federal law enforcement training without advance approval of congressional appropriations committees. Authorizes the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center to obtain the temporary use of additional facilities by lease, contract, or other agreement for training which cannot be accommodated in existing Center facilities.(Sec. 733) Bars the availability of funds during FY2009 for transfers or reimbursements to the E-Government Initiatives sponsored by OMB before 15 days following an OMB report to the congressional appropriations committees and receipt of their approval of such transfer. Prohibits the obligation or expenditures of such funds for new E-Government initiatives without such committees' explicit approval.(Sec. 734) Amends the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2008, (Act) to revise the prohibition on the use of funds for conversion to contractor performance of any executive agency activity or function performed by more than 10 federal employees unless certain public-private competition requirements are met. Repeals the limitation to activities or functions performed by more than 10 federal employees (thus extending the prohibition to conversion of any such activity or function performed by even one federal employee).(Sec. 735) Amends the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2008 (the Act) to repeal the prohibition on the use of the OMB Circular A-76 to prevent the head of an executive agency from conducting a public-private competition to evaluate the benefits of converting work from contract performance to performance by federal employees in appropriate instances.Requires the heads of executive agencies, subject to the Federal Activities Inventory Reform Act, to devise and implement guidelines and procedures to ensure that consideration is given to using, on a regular basis, federal employees (insourcing) to perform new functions and functions performed by contractors that could be performed by federal employees.Prohibits the guidelines and procedures from including any specific limitation or restriction on the number of functions or activities that may be converted to performance by such employees. Requires such guidelines and procedures to provide that special consideration be given to using federal employees to perform any function that: (1) is a new requirement; or (2) is performed currently by a contractor that has been performed by federal employees at any time during the previous 10 years, and meets other specified criteria. Excludes from public-private competition under OMB Circular A-76 or any other law or regulation: (1) a new agency function with performance assigned to federal employees; (2) any agency function converting to performance by federal employees; or (3) expansion of an agency function already performed by federal employees. (Sec. 736) Prohibits the use of funds to begin or announce a study or public-private competition regarding the conversion to contractor performance of any function performed by federal employees pursuant to OMB Circular A-76 or any other administrative regulation, directive, or policy.(Sec. 737) Requires a pay increase for FY2009 of 3.9% for civilian federal employees, including those of DHS. Makes related pay adjustments for FY2009 for prevailing rate employees. (Sec. 738) Bars the use of funds by an executive branch agency, unless otherwise authorized by existing law, to produce any prepackaged news story intended for broadcast or distribution in the United States, unless the story includes a clear notification within its text or audio that it was prepared or funded by that agency.(Sec. 739) Bars the use of funds in contravention of the Privacy Act or regulations implementing the privacy of records maintained on individuals. (Sec. 740) Requires each executive department and agency to evaluate the creditworthiness of an individual before issuing him or her a government travel charge card. Prohibits issuance of such a card, except in specified circumstances, to individuals that either lack a credit history or are found to have an unsatisfactory credit history. Requires such evaluation to include an assessment of the individual's consumer report from a consumer reporting agency. (Sec. 741) Requires the Director of OMB, in coordination with the governor of each Great Lakes State and the Great Lakes Interagency Task Force, to submit to the appropriate authorizing and appropriating congressional committees a financial report containing: (1) an interagency crosscut report that displays the budget proposed, including any planned interagency or intra-agency transfer, for each of the federal agencies that carries out Great Lakes restoration activities in the upcoming fiscal year; (2) a detailed accounting of all funds received and obligated by all federal agencies and, to the extent available, state agencies using federal funds, for such activities during the current and previous fiscal years; (3) a budget for the proposed projects; and (4) a listing of all projects to be undertaken in the upcoming fiscal year with the federal portion of funds.(Sec. 742) Prohibits the use of funds for any federal government contract with any foreign incorporated entity which is treated as an inverted domestic corporation under the Homeland Security Act of 2002, or any subsidiary of such an entity.Requires any Secretary to waive such prohibition if so required in the interest of national security. (Sec. 743) Requires each executive department and agency to establish on the homepage of its website an obvious, direct link to the website of its respective Inspector General. Requires each Office of Inspector General to: (1) post on its website any public report or audit (or portion of it) issued within one day of its release; (2) provide a website service to allow an individual to request automatic receipt of related information and receive its electronic transmittal, or notice of its availability without further request; and (3) establish a direct website link for individuals to report waste, fraud, and abuse anonymously. (Sec. 744) Provides that: (1) a public or private institution of higher education may offer or provide an officer or employee of any branch of the United States Government or of the District of Columbia, who is a current or former student of such institution, financial assistance for the purpose of repaying a student loan or forbearance of student loan repayment; and (2) an officer or employee of any branch of the United States Government or of the District of Columbia may seek or receive such assistance or forbearance. (Sec. 745) Bars the use of funds to implement, administer, enforce, or apply the rule entitled "Competitive Area" published by OPM in the Federal Register on April 15, 2008.  (Sec. 746) Bars the use of funds to implement, administer, or enforce the provision of Executive Order 13422 which requires each agency head to designate one of the agency’s Presidential Appointees to be its Regulatory Policy Officer. (Sec. 747) States that Executive Order 13423 ("Strengthening Federal Environmental, Energy, and Transportation Management") remains in effect unless amended after enactment of this Act. Title VIII: General Provisions (District of Columbia) - Sets forth authorized or prohibited uses of funds appropriated by this Act identical or similar to corresponding provisions of the District of Columbia Appropriations Act, 2008.(Sec. 804) Prohibits the use of federal funds provided in this Act for publicity or propaganda purposes or implementation of any policy including boycott designed to support or defeat legislation pending before Congress or any state legislature.Allows the District of Columbia to use local funds provided in this title to carry out lobbying activities on any matter. (Sec. 807) Bars the use of federal funds to: (1) implement or enforce the Health Care Benefits Expansion Act of 1992 (also known as the District Domestic Partner Act); or (2) otherwise implement or enforce any system of registration of unmarried, cohabiting couples, including but not limited to registration for the purpose of extending employment, health, or governmental benefits to such couples on the same basis that such benefits are extended to legally married couples. (Sec. 808) Amends the District of Columbia Home Rule Act to make permanent the Mayor's authority, as under current law, to accept, obligate, and expend federal, private, and other grants received by the District government that are reflected in its budget approved by an Act of Congress.(Sec. 810) Prohibits the use of federal funds contained in this Act by the District of Columbia Attorney General of the District government to provide assistance for any petition drive or civil action which seeks to require Congress to provide for voting representation in Congress for the District.Declares that nothing in this section bars the Attorney General from reviewing or commenting on briefs in private lawsuits, or from consulting with officials of the District government regarding such lawsuits.(Sec. 811) Prohibits the use of federal funds contained in this Act for any program of distributing sterile needles or syringes for the hypodermic injection of any illegal drug.(Sec. 812) Provides that nothing in this Act may be construed to prevent the Council or the Mayor from addressing the issue of the provision of contraceptive coverage by health insurance plans. Expresses the intent of Congress that any legislation enacted on such issue should include a "conscience clause" which provides exceptions for religious beliefs and moral convictions. (Sec. 813) States that, where the Chief Financial Officer of the District of Columbia certifies that a reallocation is required to address unanticipated changes in program requirements, such Officer shall submit to the appropriate committees of Congress, the Mayor, and the Council of the District of Columbia a revised appropriated funds operating budget in the format of the budget that the District of Columbia government submitted pursuant to the District of Columbia Home Rule Act. (Sec. 814) Prohibits the availability of appropriations for the District government to pay: (1) the fees in excess of $4,000 of an attorney who represents a party or defends an action, including an administrative proceeding, brought against the DC Public Schools under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA); or (2) the fees of an attorney or firm whom the CFO determines to have a pecuniary interest, either through an attorney, officer, or employee of the firm, in any special education diagnostic services, schools, or other special education service providers. (Sec. 815) Allows the amount appropriated to the District of Columbia every fiscal year beginning FY2009 to be increased by up to $100 million from funds identified as the District's FY2008 unexpended general fund surplus. Limits the use of such funds to specified kinds of expenditures. (Sec. 816) Authorizes an increase, up to specified amounts, every fiscal year beginning FY2009 in the amount appropriated to the District of Columbia, subject to certain restrictions. (Sec. 817) Authorizes the CFO, beginning in FY2009, to conduct short-term borrowing from the emergency and contingency reserve funds, subject to specified conditions. (Sec. 818) Prohibits the use of funds contained in this Act to enact or carry out any law, rule, or regulation to legalize or otherwise reduce penalties associated with the possession, use, or distribution of any schedule I substance under the Controlled Substances Act or any tetrahydrocannabinols (THC) derivative.Provides that the Legalization of Marijuana for Medical Treatment Initiative of 1998, also known as Initiative 59, approved by the electors of the District on November 3, 1998, shall not take effect.(Sec. 819) Prohibits the expenditure of funds appropriated under this Act for abortions except where the mother's life would be endangered if the fetus were carried to term, or in cases of rape or incest.(Sec. 820) Allows the transfer of amounts appropriated in this Act as operating funds to the District's enterprise and capital funds. Requires such transferred amounts to retain appropriation authority consistent with this Act. (Sec. 821) Amends the District of Columbia Official Code to increase from $65 to $90 the hourly rate of attorneys representing indigent defendants in the District of Columbia courts. Revises the current cap on total compensation paid to an attorney representing such a defendant to apply the corresponding caps under the federal criminal code. Increases the cap: (1) before the Superior Court of the District from $1,900 to $2,000 for misdemeanors and from $3,600 to $7,000 for felonies; and (2) to the same amounts for post-trial matters for misdemeanors or felonies.  Sets the cap for representation of a defendant before the District of Columbia Court of Appeals at $5,000, the limitation under the federal criminal code for representation of a defendant in an appellate court. Increases the current cap on maximum compensation paid to an attorney in neglect and termination of parental rights proceedings from: (1) $1,600 to $1,980 for all proceedings from initial hearing through disposition and for all subsequent proceedings other than termination of parental rights; (2) $2,200 to $2,700 for proceedings to terminate parental rights; and (3) $1,100 to $1,350 for appeals of trial court orders.",2022-02-03T05:18:54Z,
110-hr-7324,110,hr,7324,"Energy and Water Development and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2009",Economics and Public Finance,2008-12-10,2008-12-10,"Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 595.",House,"Rep. Visclosky, Peter J. [D-IN-1]",IN,D,V000108,0,"(This measure has not been amended since it was introduced. The summary has been expanded because action occurred on the measure.)Energy and Water Development and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2009 - Makes appropriations for energy and water development and related agencies for FY2009.Title I: Corps of Engineers-Civil - Makes FY2009 appropriations for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers for civil functions pertaining to rivers and harbors, flood and storm damage reduction, shore protection, and aquatic ecosystem restoration, including for: (1) investigations; (2) construction; (3) flood damage reduction for the Mississippi River alluvial valley below Cape Girardeau, Missouri; (4) operation and maintenance expenses; (5) the regulation of navigable waters and wetlands; (6) cleanup of sites contamined from the early atomic energy program; (7) flood, hurricane, and natural disasters emergency operations; (8) general administration of the civil works program in the headquarters of the Corps; and (9) the Office of Assistant Secretary of the Army (Civil Works). (Sec. 101) Prohibits the use of funds to: (1) award a continuing contract for any project for which funds are derived from the Inland Waterways Trust Fund; or (2) implement any competitive sourcing actions under OMB Circular A-76 or High Performing Organizations for the Corps of Engineers.Title II: Department of the Interior - Makes FY2009 appropriations to the Department of the Interior for: (1) the Central Utah Project; and (2) the Bureau of Reclamation, including for management, development, and restoration of water and related activities, the Central Valley Project Restoration Fund, California Bay-Delta restoration, and policy and administration in the Office of the Commissioner, the Denver office, and offices in the five regions of the Bureau of Reclamation.(Sec. 201) Prohibits the use of funds to determine the final point of discharge for the interceptor drain for the San Luis Unit until development by the Secretary of the Interior and the state of California of a plan to minimize any detrimental effect of the San Luis drainage waters. Requires the costs of the Kesterson Reservoir Cleanup Program and the San Joaquin Valley Drainage Program to be classified as reimbursable or nonreimbursable and collected until fully repaid. Makes any future US obligations relating to drainage for that Unit fully reimbursable by Unit beneficiaries. Title III: Department of Energy - Makes FY2009 appropriations to the Department of Energy (DOE) for expenses related to: (1) energy efficiency and renewable energy; (2) electricity delivery and energy reliability; (3) nuclear energy; (4) fossil energy research and development; (5) naval petroleum and oil shale reserve activities, (6) the Strategic Petroleum Reserve; (7) the Northeast Home Heating Oil Reserve; (8) the Energy Information Administration; (9) non-defense environmental cleanup; (10) the Uranium Enrichment Decontamination and Decommissioning Fund; (11) expenses of science activities in carrying out the Department of Energy Organization Act; (12) nuclear waste disposal, including specified funds designated for the state of Nevada; (13) the Innovative Technology Loan Guarantee Program; (14) salaries and expenses for departmental administration; (15) the Office of Inspector General; (16) atomic energy defense weapons; (17) defense nuclear nonproliferation; (18) naval reactors; (19) the Office of the Administrator in the National Nuclear Security Administration; (20) atomic energy defense environmental cleanup; (21) plant and capital equipment necessary for atomic energy defense, other defense activities, and classified activities; (22) defense nuclear waste disposal; and (23) the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission.Approves specified expenditures from the Bonneville Power Administration Fund. Makes FY2009 appropriations for operation and maintenance of: (1) the Southeastern, Southwestern, and Western Area Power Administrations; and (2) the Falcon and Amistad Dam hydroelectric facilities. (Sec. 301) Sets forth prohibited and permitted uses of funds, including prohibitions against using funds for: (1) the Reliable Replacement Warheard; or (2) the Global Nuclear Energy Partnership.(Sec. 313) Directs the Secretary of Energy to provide funding to the National Academy of Sciences to conduct an inventory of the energy development potential on all lands currently managed by DOE and to report on present and potential energy resources and environmental impacts associated with future development.Title IV: Independent Agencies - Makes FY2009 appropriations for: (1) the Appalachian Regional Commission; (2) the Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board; (3) the Delta Regional Authority; (4) the Denali Commission; (5) the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC), including its Office of Inspector General; (6) the Nuclear Waste Technical Review Board; and (7) the Office of the Federal Coordinator for Alaska Natural Gas Transportation Projects.Title V: General Provisions - (Sec. 501) Prohibits: (1) the use of funds appropriated by this Act to influence congressional action on legislation or appropriation matters pending before Congress; or (2) the transfer of funds to any federal entity, except pursuant to authority provided in this Act or any other appropriation Act.",2022-02-03T05:18:55Z,
110-hr-7325,110,hr,7325,Economic Recovery Through Responsible Homeownership Act of 2008,Taxation,2008-12-10,2008-12-10,Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.,House,"Rep. Dreier, David [R-CA-26]",CA,R,D000492,3,"Economic Recovery Through Responsible Homeownership Act of 2008 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow an individual taxpayer a refundable tax credit for the purchase in 2009 or 2010 of a residence located in the United States if the construction of such residence began before 2010 and the taxpayer makes a downpayment of at least 10% of the purchase price. Limits the amount of such credit to $5,000 ($10,000 if the downpayment is at least 15% of the purchase price).",2018-11-08T23:38:00Z,
110-hr-7326,110,hr,7326,Systematic Foreclosure Prevention and Mortgage Modification Act,Housing and Community Development,2008-12-10,2008-12-10,Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.,House,"Rep. Waters, Maxine [D-CA-35]",CA,D,W000187,8,"Systematic Foreclosure Prevention and Mortgage Modification Act - Directs the Chairperson of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) to establish a systematic foreclosure prevention and mortgage modification program by: (1) paying mortgage servicers $1,000 to cover expenses for each loan modified according to specified standards; and (2) sharing up to 50% of any losses incurred if a modified loan should subsequently re-default.",2019-11-15T20:56:31Z,
110-hr-7327,110,hr,7327,"Worker, Retiree, and Employer Recovery Act of 2008",Labor and Employment,2008-12-10,2008-12-23,Became Public Law No: 110-458.,House,"Rep. Rangel, Charles B. [D-NY-15]",NY,D,R000053,3,"(This measure has not been amended since it was introduced. The summary has been expanded because action occurred on the measure.)Worker, Retiree, and Employer Recovery Act of 2008 -  Title I: Technical Corrections Related to the Pension Protection Act of 2006 - Subtitle A: Technical Corrections Related to the Pension Protection Act of 2006 - (Sec. 101) Makes technical corrections to the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA) and the Internal Revenue Code to conform to the Pension Protection Act of 2006 regarding various specified items, including: (1) the target normal cost of benefits; (2) specified implementation and effective dates for certain requirements; (3) one-participant retirement plans; (4) special age-related rules in accrued benefit requirements for applicable defined benefit plans; (5) inapplicability in certain cases of the limitation on income deductions (for tax purposes) for employer contributions to one or more defined contribution plans; and (6) adjustments to averaging in the determination of the value of the assets of single-employer defined benefit pension plans for minimum funding purposes.(Sec. 110) Makes technical corrections to the Railroad Retirement Act of 1974 with respect to railroad retirement payments to persons not entitled to an annuity.Subtitle B: Other Provisions - (Sec. 121) Requires that the value of assets for any ERISA plan under the averaging method be adjusted for expected earnings (in addition to contributions and distributions, as under current law).(Sec. 122) Modifies the interest rate assumption required with respect to certain small employer plans.(Sec. 123) Makes technical corrections to the Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967 to require treatment of a rate of return or a method of crediting interest as a market rate of return and a permissible method of crediting interest in special age-related rules for governmental defined benefit plans.(Sec. 124) Prescribes a special rule for exclusion from gross income of certain reimbursements from governmental plans for health care expenses of a deceased accident or health care plan participant's beneficiary.(Sec. 125) Requires treatment as a qualified rollover contribution of any airline payment amount received by a qualified airline employee in an airline carrier bankruptcy which is transferred to a Roth IRA within 180 days of receipt.(Sec. 126) Revises asset valuation rules for certain commercial airline benefit plans.(Sec. 127) Increases by $4 the penalties for failure to file partnership returns and S corporation returns.Title II: Pension Provisions Relating to Economic Crisis - (Sec. 201) Provides a waiver of minimum distribution requirements for certain retirement plans and accounts for 2009.(Sec. 202) Revises requirements for determining the shortfall amortization base for a single-employer defined benefit pension plan the value of whose plan assets exceeds the plan funding target for any plan year beginning after 2007 and before 2011.(Sec. 203) Modifies for FY2009 application of the limitation on benefit accruals for single-employer plans with severe funding shortfalls. Requires substituting the plan's adjusted funding target attainment percentage for the preceding plan year for the adjusted funding target attainment percentage for the new plan year, but only if the percentage for the preceding plan year is greater.(Sec. 204) Provides for delay of the designation of multiemployer benefit plans as endangered or critical during FY2009.(Sec. 205) Extends the funding improvement and rehabilitation periods for multiemployer benefit plans in endangered or critical status for FY2008 or FY2009.",2023-11-13T20:14:11Z,
110-hr-7328,110,hr,7328,Homeowners' Protection Act of 2008,Finance and Financial Sector,2008-12-10,2008-12-10,Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.,House,"Rep. Conyers, John, Jr. [D-MI-14]",MI,D,C000714,2,"Homeowners' Protection Act of 2008 - Amends the federal bankruptcy code to eliminate the pre-petition credit counseling requirement for a debtor under chapter 13 (Adjustment of Debts of an Individual with Regular Income) who is facing foreclosure, if the debtor submits to the court a certification that the debtor has received notice that the holder of a claim secured by the debtor's principal residence may commence foreclosure. Allows modification of the rights of claim holders, in the event of a foreclosure notice for a chapter 13 debtor, among other means by: (1) reducing a claim to equal the value of the debtor's interest in the residence securing such claim, and any adjustments to a related adjustable rate of interest; (2) waiving early repayment or prepayment penalties; and (3) extending the repayment period. Denies debtor liability for certain fees and charges incurred while the bankruptcy case is pending and arising from a debt secured by the debtor's principal residence, unless the claim holder observes specified requirements. Adds to conditions for court confirmation of a plan in bankruptcy that: (1) the holder of a claim secured by the debtor's principal residence retain the lien securing the claim until the later of the payment of such claim as reduced and modified or the discharge of a debtor from all debts; and (2) the plan modifies the claim in good faith.  Excludes from final discharge of a debtor from all debts: (1) any payments to claim holders whose rights are modified under this Act; and (2) any unpaid portion of a claim as reduced.",2018-11-21T20:29:39Z,
110-hr-7329,110,hr,7329,"To amend the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act to authorize funding for emergency management performance grants to provide for domestic preparedness and collective response to major disasters,and for other purposes.",Emergency Management,2008-12-10,2009-01-02,"Referred to the Subcommittee on Emergency Communications, Preparedness, and Response.",House,"Rep. Thompson, Bennie G. [D-MS-2]",MS,D,T000193,0,"Amends the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act to revise the definition of "major disaster" to include a catastrophic incident. Directs the Administrator of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to establish an emergency management performance grants program to address domestic preparedness and collective response to major disasters. Limits the federal share of the cost of a program funded activity to 50%. Sets forth guidelines for the Administrator to apportion funds to carry out the program among the states on the basis of population.Revises the program providing grants to states for emergency operations centers to provide that such centers are to be equipped, upgraded, and constructed for domestic preparedness and collective response to a major disaster.",2021-06-07T20:07:28Z,
110-hr-7330,110,hr,7330,College Football Playoff Act of 2008,Commerce,2008-12-10,2008-12-10,Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.,House,"Rep. Barton, Joe [R-TX-6]",TX,R,B000213,3,"College Football Playoff Act of 2008 - Prohibits promoting, marketing, or advertising a post-season National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS) game as a championship or national championship game (or any merchandise that refers to the game as a championship or national championship game) unless such game is the final game of a single elimination post-season playoff system for which all NCAA Division I FBS conferences and unaffiliated Division I FBS teams are eligible.Treats a violation as an unfair or deceptive act or practice under the Federal Trade Commission Act. Makes this Act applicable to any game that occurs after January 31, 2011.",2018-11-21T21:31:03Z,
110-hr-7331,110,hr,7331,Save America's Cities Act of 2008,Government Operations and Politics,2008-12-10,2008-12-10,Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.,House,"Rep. Brady, Robert A. [D-PA-1]",PA,D,B001227,0,"Save America's Cities Act of 2008 - Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to pay to each local government having jurisdiction under state law over an area having a population of 1 million or more an amount of the appropriations under this Act (proportional to the population of the area) to improve public safety, clean and maintain streets, and preserve services benefitting children and youth, as otherwise authorized by state and local law.",2019-11-15T21:13:19Z,
110-hr-7332,110,hr,7332,"To amend title 18, United States Code, to provide penalties for counterfeiting or selling Presidential inauguration tickets, and for other purposes.",Crime and Law Enforcement,2008-12-10,2008-12-10,Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.,House,"Rep. Capuano, Michael E. [D-MA-8]",MA,D,C001037,3,"Amends the federal criminal code to impose a fine and/or prison term for up to six months for knowingly: (1) transferring for money or property a ticket to a presidential inaugural ceremony; (2) falsely making, forging, counterfeiting, or altering such a ticket, with intent to defraud; or (3) entering or attempting to enter a presidential inaugural ceremony with a forget ticket, with intent to defraud.",2021-04-20T15:28:16Z,
110-hr-7333,110,hr,7333,Special Inspector General for the Troubled Asset Relief Program Act of 2008,Finance and Financial Sector,2008-12-10,2008-12-10,Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.,House,"Rep. Flake, Jeff [R-AZ-6]",AZ,R,F000444,0,"Special Inspector General for the Troubled Asset Relief Program Act of 2008 - Amends the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008 to authorize the Special Inspector General to exercise specified employment authorities for additional personnel, but not after six months following enactment of this Act. Authorizes the Special Inspector General to conduct, supervise, and coordinate an audit or investigation of any action taken under such Act, except any action related to: (1) graduated authorization to purchase troubled assets; (2) oversight and audits by the Comptroller General; (3) the Comptroller General's study and report on margin authority; and (4) the Congressional Oversight Panel.",2019-11-15T20:56:31Z,
110-hr-7334,110,hr,7334,TARP Accountability Act of 2008,Finance and Financial Sector,2008-12-10,2008-12-10,Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.,House,"Rep. LaTourette, Steven C. [R-OH-14]",OH,R,L000553,1,"TARP Accountability Act of 2008 - 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 Assets Relief Program (TARP) the amount of any increase in new lending during the period covered by the report (or the amount of any reduction in any decrease in new lending) that is attributable to TARP assistance.  Requires, in the alternative, that if the institution cannot accurately quantify the effect such assistance has had on new lending, then it report the total amount of the increase in new lending, if any, during the covered period.",2019-11-15T20:56:30Z,
110-hr-7335,110,hr,7335,"To amend title 31, United States Code, to allow certain local tax debt to be collected through the reduction of Federal tax refunds.",Taxation,2008-12-10,2008-12-10,"Referred to the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, 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.",House,"Rep. Moran, James P. [D-VA-8]",VA,D,M000933,0,"Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to reduce the federal tax refund of any taxpayer who owes a past-due, legally enforceable tax obligation to a local government by the amount of such obligation. Requires notice to the taxpayer of the refund reduction.  Amends the Internal Revenue Code to permit disclosure of taxpayer information to agencies of states requesting refund offsets for tax debts owed to local governments.",2021-06-07T20:07:29Z,
110-hr-7336,110,hr,7336,To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to prevent the alternative minimum tax from effectively repealing the Federal tax exemption for interest on State and local private activity bonds.,Taxation,2008-12-10,2008-12-10,Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.,House,"Rep. Neal, Richard E. [D-MA-2]",MA,D,N000015,0,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.,2018-11-08T23:38:01Z,
110-hr-7337,110,hr,7337,To require certain air carriers of foreign air transportation to disclose the nature and source of delays and cancellations experienced by air travelers.,Transportation and Public Works,2008-12-10,2008-12-11,Referred to the Subcommittee on Aviation.,House,"Rep. Schmidt, Jean [R-OH-2]",OH,R,S001164,0,"Requires the Secretary of Transportation to revise certain airline service quality performance reporting regulations to require air carriers that provide foreign air transportation, including foreign air carriers with permits, to disclose the nature and source of flight delays and cancellations experienced by air travelers.",2020-02-14T19:16:02Z,
110-hr-7338,110,hr,7338,Taxpayer Relief Act of 2008,Taxation,2008-12-10,2008-12-10,Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.,House,"Rep. Shadegg, John B. [R-AZ-3]",AZ,R,S000275,6,"Taxpayer Relief Act of 2008 - Reduces for 2008 income tax purposes: (1) the taxable income of a taxpayer by $125,000 ($250,000 in the case of a joint return); and (2) the rate of tax on taxable income in excess of $125,000 by 5%.",2018-11-08T23:38:01Z,
110-hr-7339,110,hr,7339,Taxpayer Holiday Act for 2009,Taxation,2008-12-10,2008-12-10,Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.,House,"Rep. Shadegg, John B. [R-AZ-3]",AZ,R,S000275,7,"Taxpayer Holiday Act for 2009 - Excludes up to $125,000 ($250,000 in the case of a joint return) of wages or self-employment income earned in the first six months of the first taxable year beginning in 2009 from federal income and employment taxation. Reduces income tax rates on taxable income exceeding $125,000 ($250,000 in the case of a joint return).",2018-11-08T23:38:01Z,
110-hr-7340,110,hr,7340,"To direct the Secretary of Transportation to waive non-Federal share requirements for certain transportation programs and activities through September 30, 2009.",Transportation and Public Works,2008-12-10,2008-12-11,Referred to the Subcommittee on Highways and Transit.,House,"Rep. Welch, Peter [D-VT-At Large]",VT,D,W000800,0,"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 the Safe, Accountable, Flexible, Efficient Transportation Equity Act: A Legacy for Users (SAFETEA-LU) or an amendment made by that Act.Declares, however, that nothing in this Act shall be construed to prohibit a state or local government from contributing non-federal funds toward the cost of a covered transportation program or activity.",2020-02-14T19:16:02Z,
110-hr-7308,110,hr,7308,State and Local Sales Tax Deduction Expansion Act of 2008,Taxation,2008-12-09,2008-12-09,Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.,House,"Rep. Blackburn, Marsha [R-TN-7]",TN,R,B001243,15,State and Local Sales Tax Deduction Expansion Act of 2008 - 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 and local income taxes or sales taxes).,2018-11-08T23:38:00Z,
110-hr-7309,110,hr,7309,"To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to suspend employment and income taxes for the first two months of 2009, and for other purposes.",Taxation,2008-12-09,2008-12-09,"Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Financial 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.",House,"Rep. Gohmert, Louie [R-TX-1]",TX,R,G000552,37,"Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) reduce to 0% the employment tax on employers, employees, and self-employed individuals during the first two months of 2009; and (2) exclude from gross income any wage and self-employment income earned during the first two months of 2009.Amends the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008 to repeal procedures for authorizing the Secretary of the Treasury to obligate additional amounts under the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP).Requires the Secretary to: (1) estimate the impact of this Act on the income and balances of the social security trust funds; and (2) transfer amounts from the Treasury to such trust funds if there is any reduction in the income and balances of such trust funds resulting from this Act. Terminates the authority of the Secretary under the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008 to purchase troubled assets or any preferred or other stock or equity in any financial institution.",2021-06-07T20:07:24Z,
110-hr-7310,110,hr,7310,Protecting Patients and Health Care Act of 2008,Health,2008-12-09,2008-12-09,Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.,House,"Rep. DeGette, Diana [D-CO-1]",CO,D,D000197,6,"Protecting Patients and Health Care Act of 2008 - Prohibits the Secretary of Health and Human Services from finalizing, enforcing, implementing, or taking other action in furtherance of specified proposed regulations regarding conscience clause protections for health care workers and facilities (under the authority of provisions commonly referred to as the Church Amendments and the Weldon Amendment).",2019-11-15T21:20:21Z,
110-hr-7311,110,hr,7311,William Wilberforce Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act of 2008,International Affairs,2008-12-09,2008-12-23,Became Public Law No: 110-457.,House,"Rep. Berman, Howard L. [D-CA-28]",CA,D,B000410,6,"William Wilberforce Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act of 2008 - Title I: Combating International Trafficking in Persons - (Sec. 101) Amends the Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000 (TVPA) to include the Secretary of Education on the Interagency Task Force to Monitor and Combat Trafficking. (Sec. 102) Directs the Secretary of State (Secretary) to establish within the Department of State an Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking. (Current law authorizes such Office's establishment.) Revises responsibilities of the Director of the Office. (Sec. 103) Amends the Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000 (TVPA) to direct the President to establish assistance programs for foreign governments to prevent and deter trafficking in persons. Amends the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 to provide anti-trafficking assistance to foreign countries for investigations of individuals and entities involved in sexual exploitation.  (Sec. 104) Makes assistance for victims of trafficking in other countries available, through organizations that contract with, or receive grants from, the U.S. government, for the support of refugees and internally displaced persons. (Sec. 105) Requires, both in the United States and abroad, that solicitations of grants, cooperative agreements, and contracts for anti-trafficking programs be made publicly available and on a competitive basis. Directs the President to: (1) establish a system to evaluate anti-trafficking programs on a program-by-program basis; and (2) provide U.S. assistance consistent with annual reporting priorities and country assessments. Obligates specified FY2008-FY2011 funds for activities under this section. (Sec. 106) Revises provisions regarding minimum standards for the elimination of trafficking, including adding a requirement that a foreign government has made serious and sustained efforts to reduce the demand for commercial sex acts and participation in international sex tourism by nationals of the country. (Sec. 107) Requires a country on the special watch list for two consecutive years to be on the list of countries not fully in complinance with standards to eliminate trafficking and not making significant compliance efforts Authorizes a waiver by the President for up to two years if a country: (1) has a written plan that would constitute making such efforts; and (2) is devoting sufficient resources to the plan's implementation. Requires translation of the Department's annual trafficking report into the principal languages of as many countries as possible and publication on appropriate websites.  (Sec. 108) Requires the establishment of an integrated database relating to trafficking trends. Authorizes FY2008-FY2011 appropriations. (Sec. 109) Authorizes: (1) the President to establish the Presidential Award for Extraordinary Efforts to Combat Trafficking in Persons; and (2) FY2008-FY2011 appropriations. (Sec. 110) Directs the Secretary of Labor to report to the appropriate congressional committees regarding Department of Labor activities to monitor and combat forced labor and child labor. Requires making available to the public a list of goods from countries that the Bureau of International Labor Affairs has reason to believe are produced by forced labor or child labor in violation of international standards. (Sec. 111) Expresses the sense of Congress that the Secretary should seek to establish a multilateral framework between labor exporting and labor importing countries to ensure that workers migrating between such countries are protected from trafficking in persons.  Title II: Combating Trafficking of Persons in the United States - Subtitle A: Ensuring Availability of Possible Witnesses and Informants - (Sec. 201) Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA) with respect to nonimmigrant T-visas (victims of severe form of trafficking in persons) to authorize aliens to apply for such visas who are: (1) brought into the country for investigations or as witnesses; (2) unable to participate in a law enforcement interview because of physical or psychological trauma; or (3) parents or unmarried siblings under the age of 18 who face retaliation as a result of their family member's escape from trafficking or cooperation with law enforcement.  Requires T-visa status extension during the pendency of an application for adjustment to permanent resident status. Authorizes the Secretary of Homeland Security to: (1) extend the period of T-visa and U-visa (victims of certain crimes) status; and (2) waive the disqualification for lack of good moral character for T-visa holders applying for adjustment to permanent resident status if the disqualification is caused by or incident to the trafficking.  (Sec. 202) Directs the Secretary to develop and make available an information pamphlet on legal rights and resources for aliens applying for employment- or education-based nonimmigrant visas.  Sets forth provisions regarding: (1) pamphlet contents; and (2) consular responsibilities. (Sec. 203) Prohibits the Secretary from issuing: (1) an A-3 visa (nonimmigrant employees of A-visa foreign government officials) unless the applicant is employed or has signed a specified employment contract to be employed by an officer of a diplomatic mission or consular post; or (2) a G-5 visa (nonimmigrant employees of G-visa international organization officials) unless the applicant is employed or has signed a specified contract to be employed by an employee in an international organization. Suspends visa issuance to applicants of a diplomatic mission or international organization if its employees are found to have a record of exploiting such visa holders. Prohibits the Secretary from issuing or renewing an A-3 visa or a G-5 visa unless: (1) the applicant has executed a specified contract with the employer; and (2) a consular officer has conducted a personal interview with the applicant outside the presence of the employer or any recruitment agent.  Authorizes, with exceptions, an A-3 or G-5 nonimmigrant who has filed a a civil action regarding the terms of his or her employment contract to remain and work in the United States during the pendency of such action. (Sec. 204) Authorizes the Secretary of Homeland Security to grant a stay of removal or deportation to a T-visa or U-visa applicant whose application sets forth a prima facie case of approval until the application is adjudicated. (Sec. 205) Amends TVPA to authorize: (1) the Secretary of Homeland Security, upon application from a federal law enforcement official, to permit an alien trafficking victim's continued presence in the United States in order to effectuate investigation and prosecution of the traffickers; and (2) law enforcement officials to request the parole entry of specified relatives of such an alien. Directs the Secretary to permit such alien's continued presence if the alien has filed a civil action against the traffickers. Amends INA to provide for the parole entry of specified relatives of trafficking victims. Sets forth parole entry duration. Subtitle B: Assistance for Trafficking Victims - (Sec. 211) Amends the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 to make an alien who has had approved, or has pending, a petition that sets forth a prima facie case for T-visa status eligible for public benefits. (Sec. 212) Amends TVPA to direct: (1) the Secretary of Health and Human Services, upon credible information that a child has been a trafficking victim, to provide 90-day interim assistance to the child and determine eligibility for long-term assistance; (2) federal and state and local officials to notify the Secretary within 24 hours of learning of such a child; and (3) the Secretary and the Attorney General to provide appropriate training for state and local officials. (Sec. 213) Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services and the Attorney General to establish an assistance program for U.S. citizens and lawful permanent residents who are victims of severe forms of trafficking.  Authorizes the Secretary of Health and Human Services and the Attorney General to make grants to states, Indian tribes, local government, and nonprofit victims' service organizations to develop and expand victim service programs. Authorizes FY2008-FY2011 appropriations. Subtitle C: Penalties Against Traffickers and Other Related Offenses - (Sec. 221) Amends the federal criminal code with respect to restitution of forfeited assets in instances of severe trafficking of persons. (Sec. 222) Revises provisions regarding offenses of trafficking, forced labor, enticement into slavery, sex trafficking of children, and sex tourism. Expands: (1) detention authority to include trafficking offenses with a maximum 20-year imprisonment; (2) the scope of obstruction offenses with respect to enticement into slavery or involuntary servitude. Authorizes the same penalty for conspiracy as for the underlying offense with respect to peonage, enticement into slavery or involunatry servitude, trafficking in persons, or related document use. Authorizes the same penalty for benefiting financially from peonage, slavery, or trafficking in persons as for the underlying offense. Establishes criminal penalties for foreign labor contracting fraud. Amends INA to make trafficking in persons a grounds for inadmissibility to, and deportation from, the United States. Requires the United States Sentencing Commission to review and, if appropriate, amend the sentencing guidelines and policy statements applicable to persons convicted of alien harboring to ensure conformity with the sentencing guidelines applicable to persons convicted of promoting a commercial sex act if: (1) the harboring was committed in furtherance of prostitution; and (2) the defendant is an organizer or leader of the criminal activity. (Sec. 223) Provides U.S. courts with additional extraterritorial jurisdiction in certain trafficking, slavery, and peonage offenses if: (1) the alleged offender or victim is a U.S. national or lawful permanent resident; or (2) the alleged offender, irrespective of nationality, is present in the United States. Prohibits such an action if the offense has been prosecuted or is being prosecuted in another country unless the Attorney General approves. (Sec. 224) Authorizes the Attorney General to issue administrative subpoenas in investigations of sex trafficking involving children. Applies repeat offender and release and detention provisions to sex trafficking of children violations. (Sec. 225) Prohibits anything in this Act, TVPA, the Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act of 2003, the Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act of 2005, specified federal criminal law, or any model law issued by the Department of Justice: (1) from being construed to treat prostitution as a valid form of employment under federal law; or (2) from preempting state or federal criminal law. Directs the Attorney General to facilitate the promulgation of a model state statute that: (1) furthers a comprehensive approach to investigation and prosecution through modernization of state and local prostitution and pandering statutes; and (2) is based in part on the provisions of the Act of August 15, 1935 (relating to prostitution and pandering). Subtitle D: Activities of the United States Government - (Sec. 231) Amends TVPA to require the Attorney General's annual report to include information on: (1) Department of Defense (DOD) activities to combat trafficking in persons; and (2) federal actions taken to enforce policies against government contractors engaging in trafficking or related activities or procurement of slave labor- or convict-labor-produced goods.  (Sec. 232) Directs, for FY2010-FY2012, the Inspectors General of DOD, the Department, and the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) to investigate a sample of contracts under which there is a heightened risk that a contractor may engage in acts related to trafficking in persons.  (Sec. 234) Amends INA to add the Secretary and the Secretary of Homeland Security to the list of those may prohibit the entry of traffickers into the United States. (Sec. 235) Directs the Secretary of Homeland Security to develop policies and procedures to ensure that unaccompanied alien children in the United States are safely repatriated to their country of nationality or of last habitual residence. Sets forth special rules for unaccompanied alien children from contiguous countries. Directs the Secretary to: (1) develop a safe repatriation pilot program for alien children; and (2) negotiate child repatriation agreements between the United States and countries contiguous to the United States designed to protect children from severe forms of trafficking in persons. States, with specified exceptions, that the care and custody of unaccompanied alien children in the United States shall be the responsibility of the Secretary of Health and Human Services. Sets forth related provisions respecting: (1) notification of, and transfer to, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS); (2) age determinations; (3) safe placement; (4) legal and child advocate access; (5) immigration status adjustment and asylum protections; and (6) assistance eligibility. Authorizes the Secretary of Heath and Human Services to award grants to, and enter into contracts with, voluntary agencies to carry out such responsibilities. (Sec. 236) Prohibits the Secretary from issuing a passport to an individual who is convicted of a federal sex offense during a certain post-conviction period if the individual used a passport or otherwise crossed an international border in committing such offense. Requires the revocation of a passport previously issued to such an individual.  Directs the Attorney General to notify the Secretary and the Secretary of Homeland Security regarding an individual's conviction of such a sex offense. (Sec. 237) Directs the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) to: (1) classify the offense of human trafficking as a Part I crime in the Uniform Crime Reports; (2) establish subcategories for state sex crimes that involve a person who is younger than 18 years old, the use of force or coercion, or neither of such elements; and (3) classify the offense of human trafficking as a Group A offense for purpose of the National Incident-Based Reporting System. Sets forth additional reporting and study provisions. (Sec. 238) Directs the Secretary of Homeland Security to report to the appropriate congressional committees regarding the operations of the Violence Against Women Act Unit at the Citizenship and Immigration Service's Vermont Service Center. (Sec. 239) Directs the Secretary to temporarily increase the fee by $1 for processing machine-readable: (1) nonimmigrant visas; and (2) combined border crossing and identification cards and nonimmigrant visas. Title III: Authorization of Appropriations - (Sec. 301) Amends TVPA to authorize appropriations through FY2011 for: (1) the Interagency Task Force to Monitor and Combat Trafficking; (2) the Senior Policy Operating Group; (3) actions against governments that do not meet minimum standards against trafficking; (4) the Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking, including amounts for additional personnel; (5) the Secretary of Health and Human Services and the Attorney General for assistance to trafficking victims in the United States; (6) the Secretary for bilateral assistance to combat trafficking; (7) training for law enforcement, prosecutors, and the judiciary; (8) the President for foreign victim assistance, assistance to foreign countries, and research; (9) the Secretary of Labor; (10) FBI; and (11) the Secretary of Homeland Security.  (Sec. 302) Amends the Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act of 2005 to authorize appropriations through FY2011 for: (1) the pilot program for residential rehabilitative facilities for trafficking victims; (2) research, reports and an annual conference on trafficking; (3) a grant program to strengthen assistance for certain trafficking victims; (4) the pilot program for U.S. residential treatment facilities for juvenile trafficking victims; and (5) grants for state and local anti-trafficking programs. Title IV: Child Soldiers Prevention  - Child Soldiers Prevention Act of 2008 - (Sec. 402) Defines "child soldier" as a person: (1) under 18 years old who takes a direct part in hostilities as a member of governmental armed govforces, has been compulsorily recruited into governmental armed forces, or has been recruited or used in hostilities by armed forces distinct from the armed forces of a state; or (2) under 15 years old who has been voluntarily recruited into governmental armed forces. (Sec. 403) Expresses the sense of Congress that the U.S. government should: (1) condemn the use of child soldiers; (2) support the establishment of standards to end human rights abuses; (3) expand services to rehabilitate recovered child soldiers; and (4) work with the international community to achieve specified goals relating to ending the use of child soldiers and ending human rights abuses. (Sec. 404) Prohibits, with a national interest waiver, funds for specified military and related areas from being made available to the government of a country identified by the Secretary as having governmental armed forces or government supported armed groups that recruit or use child soldiers. Authorizes the President to reinstate such assistance upon certifying to Congress that a government is implementing: (1) compliance measures; and (2) mechanisms to prohibit future use of child soldiers. Authorizes the President to provide assistance to a country for international military education and training otherwise prohibited under this Act upon certifying to Congress that such assistance is for measures to demobilize child soldiers and for programs to professionalize the military. (Sec. 405) Requires U.S. missions abroad to investigate reports on child soldiers.  Directs the Secretary to include in the annual country reports on human rights practices a description of the use of child soldiers. (Sec. 406) Amends the Foreign Service Act of 1980 to require Foreign Service instruction relating to child soldiers and the substance of the Child Soldiers Prevention Act of 2008.",2023-11-13T20:14:10Z,
110-hr-7312,110,hr,7312,To prohibit the selling and counterfeiting of tickets for a Presidential inaugural ceremony.,Crime and Law Enforcement,2008-12-09,2008-12-09,Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.,House,"Rep. Cleaver, Emanuel [D-MO-5]",MO,D,C001061,0,"Makes it unlawful to knowingly and intentionally sell or forge a ticket to a presidential inaugural ceremony or to use, unlawfully possess, or exhibit a forged ticket with the intent to defraud. Exempts the sale of tickets to a presidential inaugural ceremony that has already occurred. Imposes a fine and/or prison term of up to one year for violations.",2018-11-21T20:29:38Z,
110-hr-7313,110,hr,7313,"To amend chapter 89 of title 5, United States Code, to allow the United States Postal Service to pay its share of contributions for annuitants' health benefits out of the Postal Service Retiree Health Benefits Fund.",Government Operations and Politics,2008-12-09,2008-12-09,Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.,House,"Rep. McHugh, John M. [R-NY-23]",NY,R,M000472,1,"Requires government contributions for health benefits for an individual who first becomes an annuitant by reason of retirement from employment with the United States Postal Service on or after July 1, 1971, or for a survivor of such an individual or of an individual who died on or after that date while employed by the Postal Service, to be paid first from the Postal Service Retiree Health Benefits Fund up to the amount contained in the Fund, with any remaining amount paid by the Postal Service (current law requires such contributions to be paid by the Postal Service through September 30, 2016).",2022-02-03T05:17:12Z,
110-hr-7314,110,hr,7314,Workforce Fairness and Tax Relief Act of 2008,Taxation,2008-12-09,2008-12-09,Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.,House,"Rep. Michaud, Michael H. [D-ME-2]",ME,D,M001149,0,Workforce Fairness and Tax Relief Act of 2008 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) repeal the inclusion of unemployment compensation in gross income; (2) allow tax-free distributions from retirement plans for unemployed individuals; (3) allow an exclusion from gross income for employee severance payments; and (4) increase the tax credit for the health insurance costs of individuals receiving trade adjustment assistance and certain pension payments.,2018-11-08T23:38:00Z,
110-hr-7315,110,hr,7315,Retiree Relief Act of 2008,Taxation,2008-12-09,2008-12-09,Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.,House,"Rep. Rehberg, Dennis R. [R-MT-At Large]",MT,R,R000571,0,"Retiree Relief Act of 2008 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to suspend in 2008 and 2009 requirements for minimum distributions from tax-deferred retirement plans. Permits taxpayers who have already received a distribution between January 1, 2008, and the enactment of this Act to recontribute such distribution to their retirement plans by December 31, 2009.",2018-11-08T23:38:00Z,
110-hr-7316,110,hr,7316,Limitation on Nuclear Cooperation with the United Arab Emirates Act of 2008,International Affairs,2008-12-09,2008-12-09,"Referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, 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.",House,"Rep. Ros-Lehtinen, Ileana [R-FL-18]",FL,R,R000435,3,"Limitation on Nuclear Cooperation with the United Arab Emirates Act of 2008 - 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 States and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) pursuant to the Atomic Energy Act of 1954 unless the President certifies to the appropriate congressional committees that the government of the UAE has: (1) taken actions to prohibit the transfer of goods, services, or technology to the government of Iran, including fully implementing U.N. Security Council sanctions against Iran; (2) implemented an export control regime in accordance with international standards and has implemented legislative and functional actions to target the logistical and financial networks that support terrorist organizations; (3) terminated all related cooperation between any UAE national and the government of Iran, any Iranian national, or any Iranian-controlled entity, and has prosecuted any such UAE national, and (4) not engaged in or condoned activities that violate the Iran Sanctions Act of 1996, the Iran, North Korea, and Syria Nonproliferation Act, and other applicable U.S. law. Amends the the Atomic Energy Act of 1954 to require congressional approval of an agreement for peaceful nuclear cooperation (section 123 agreement). (Under current law such an agreement become effective unless Congress disapproves it within a specified time period.) Directs the President to keep the House Committee on Foreign Affairs and the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations fully informed of any initiative or negotiations relating to a new or amended section 123 agreement.",2021-06-07T20:07:26Z,
110-hr-7317,110,hr,7317,"To direct the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to conduct a study on the acquisition of a parcel of land adjacent to Beaufort National Cemetery, Beaufort, South Carolina.",Armed Forces and National Security,2008-12-09,2008-12-09,Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.,House,"Rep. Wilson, Joe [R-SC-2]",SC,R,W000795,0,"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.",2017-12-14T21:40:56Z,
110-hr-7318,110,hr,7318,"To direct the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to acquire a parcel of land adjacent to Beaufort National Cemetery, Beaufort, South Carolina.",Armed Forces and National Security,2008-12-09,2008-12-09,"Referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs, 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.",House,"Rep. Wilson, Joe [R-SC-2]",SC,R,W000795,0,"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.",2021-06-07T20:07:26Z,
110-hr-7319,110,hr,7319,"For the relief of Simeon Simeonov, Stela Simeonova, Stoyan Simeonov, and Vania Simeonova.",Private Legislation,2008-12-09,2008-12-09,Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.,House,"Rep. Gutierrez, Luis V. [D-IL-4]",IL,D,G000535,0,"Provides for the relief of Simeon Simeonov, Stela Simeonova, Stoyan Simeonov, and Vania Simeonova.",2018-11-21T20:29:38Z,
110-hr-7320,110,hr,7320,For the relief of Rebeca Rojas de Guzman.,Private Legislation,2008-12-09,2008-12-09,Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.,House,"Rep. Gutierrez, Luis V. [D-IL-4]",IL,D,G000535,0,Provides for the relief of Rebeca Rojas de Guzman.,2018-11-21T20:29:38Z,
110-hr-7296,110,hr,7296,Midnight Rule Act,Government Operations and Politics,2008-11-20,2008-11-20,Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.,House,"Rep. Nadler, Jerrold [D-NY-8]",NY,D,N000002,7,"Midnight Rule Act - Amends federal civil service law to provide that a midnight rule (i.e., a rule adopted by an agency within the final 90 days a President serves in office) shall not take effect until 90 days after the agency head is appointed by the new President. Makes exceptions if the President serving his final term makes a determination by executive order, and submits written notice to Congress, that the rule should take effect because it is: (1) necessary because of an imminent threat to health or safety or other emergency; (2) necessary for the enforcement of criminal laws; (3) necessary for national security; or (4) issued pursuant to any statute implementing an international trade agreement.Provides that an exercise by the President of such authority shall have no effect on existing provisions governing congressional disapproval of agency rules.Authorizes the agency head appointed by the new President to disapprove of a midnight rule (by publishing a statement of disapproval in the Federal Register and sending a notice of disapproval to the congressional committees of jurisdiction) no later than 90 days after being appointed.Makes this Act applicable to any rule adopted on or after October 22, 2008.",2018-11-21T20:29:37Z,
110-hr-7297,110,hr,7297,Emergency Automobile Industry American Jobs Protection Act of 2008,Commerce,2008-11-20,2008-11-20,Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.,House,"Rep. Jackson-Lee, Sheila [D-TX-18]",TX,D,J000032,0,"Emergency Automobile Industry American Jobs Protection Act of 2008 - States that any distribution of loan funds to General Motors, Ford, and Chrysler (Big Three) should be conditioned upon their certifying to Congress, before the disbursement, that: (1) U.S. automobile jobs will not be decreased by relocation to foreign countries; (2) automobile dealerships will benefit from the receipt of these loan funds; (3) the Big Three shall provide for the stability of such dealerships; and (4) U.S. automobile suppliers will also be supported by and stabilized such loan funding.  States that no loan funds should be used by the Big Three to allow them to relocate overseas if the relocation causes the loss of U.S. automobile industry jobs, dealerships, or suppliers. Declares that such loan funds should be used to: (1) ensure the stability of the Big Three; and (2) establish a long-term plan of growth for automobile dealerships and automotive industry suppliers.",2019-11-15T20:56:30Z,
110-hr-7298,110,hr,7298,To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to make permanent the deduction for expensing certain depreciable business assets and to allow a deduction for the original purchase of domestically manufactured automobiles.,Taxation,2008-11-20,2008-11-20,Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.,House,"Rep. Lamborn, Doug [R-CO-5]",CO,R,L000564,15,"Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) increase and make permanent the expensing allowance for depreciable business assets; and (2) allow a tax deduction, up to $10,000, for the purchase of a motor vehicle manufactured in the United States. Terminates such tax deduction after 2010.",2018-11-08T23:38:00Z,
110-hr-7299,110,hr,7299,To direct the Secretary of Defense and the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to make payments for certain treatments of traumatic brain injury and post-traumatic stress disorder.,Armed Forces and National Security,2008-11-20,2008-11-20,"Referred to the Committee on Armed Services, and in addition to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs, 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.",House,"Rep. Cannon, Chris [R-UT-3]",UT,R,C000116,1,Directs the Secretaries of Defense and Veterans Affairs to: (1) each establish a process to provide payments for treatments of traumatic brain injury (TBI) and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) received by members of the Armed Forces or veterans in health care facilities other than Department of Defense (DOD) or Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) facilities; (2) jointly develop and maintain a patient database involving the use of a treatment under this Act; and (3) ensure that the database ensures patient confidentiality.,2021-06-07T20:07:23Z,
110-hr-7300,110,hr,7300,To provide for the proper application under the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 of the limitations on built-in losses following an ownership change of a bank.,Taxation,2008-11-20,2008-11-20,Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.,House,"Rep. Doggett, Lloyd [D-TX-25]",TX,D,D000399,8,"Limits the applicability of Treasury Notice 2008-83 (suspending restrictions on the offset of net operating losses and unrealized built-in losses against the taxable income of certain corporate entities that acquire or merge with other entities) to a period beginning on September 30, 2008, and ending on the earlier of the date of the first committee action on this Act or the date on which the Chairman of the House Committee on Ways and Means and the Chairman of the Senate Committee on Finance issue a joint statement indicating their intent to to terminate the application of such notice. Directs the Inspector General of the Department of the Treasury to conduct an investigation into the issuance of Treasury Notice 2008-83 and report to Congress on such investigation.",2021-09-29T17:25:48Z,
110-hr-7301,110,hr,7301,Miami Dade College Land Conveyance Act,Public Lands and Natural Resources,2008-11-20,2008-11-20,Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.,House,"Rep. Ros-Lehtinen, Ileana [R-FL-18]",FL,R,R000435,4,"Miami Dade College Land Conveyance Act - Directs the Attorney General to convey to Miami Dade College in Miami Dade County, Florida, a parcel of land held by the Bureau of Prisons for a new educational building that includes a parking area with designated parking spaces for the Bureau of Prisons.",2018-11-21T20:29:37Z,
110-hr-7302,110,hr,7302,Health Professions and Primary Care Reinvestment Act,Health,2008-11-20,2008-11-20,Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.,House,"Rep. DeGette, Diana [D-CO-1]",CO,D,D000197,0,"Health Professions and Primary Care Reinvestment Act - Amends the Public Health Service Act to revise provisions related to: (1) addressing workforce shortages for primary care health professions; and (2) assisting underrepresented minorities or disadvantaged students to enter health professions.Authorizes the Secretary of Health and Human Services to: (1) make grants for the training of primary care physicians teaching in community-based settings; (2) provide for programs that improve clinical teaching and research in primary care; (3) provide for community health needs assessments; (4) provide for the establishment of Primary Care Training Institutes within academic health centers; and (5) provide for approved professional training programs in the field of general or pediatric dentistry.Revises provisions governing area health education centers, including to require the Secretary to make awards to improve the effectiveness and capabilities of existing programs.Authorizes the Secretary to provide for the development and implementation of interdisciplinary training of psychology graduate students to provide behavioral and mental health services.Requires the Secretary to: (1) establish the National Center for Health Workforce Analysis; (2) designate regional workforce analysis centers; (3) award grants or contracts to regional centers for research on high-priority workforce questions; (4) provide for monitoring of the supply, need for, and diversity and distribution of health professionals; and (5) establish the Advisory Committee on Health Workforce Information, Evaluation, and Assessment.Requires the Secretary, acting in conjunction with the Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), to award competitive grants to establish Academic Health Departments to provide for collaboration between the academic and practice aspects of public health.",2018-11-21T21:31:03Z,
110-hr-7303,110,hr,7303,Consumer and Automotive Recovery Act of 2008,Taxation,2008-11-20,2008-11-20,Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.,House,"Rep. Gohmert, Louie [R-TX-1]",TX,R,G000552,1,"Consumer and Automotive Recovery Act of 2008 or the CAR Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow individual taxpayers a one-time tax credit for the purchase of a U.S. manufactured motor vehicle with a gross weight rating of not more than 14,000 pounds. Limits the amount of such credit to $1,500.",2018-11-08T23:38:00Z,
110-hr-7304,110,hr,7304,To amend the Controlled Substances Act to address the use of intrathecal pumps.,Crime and Law Enforcement,2008-11-20,2008-11-20,Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.,House,"Rep. Gohmert, Louie [R-TX-1]",TX,R,G000552,0,Amends the Controlled Substances Act to revise the definition of "dispense" to include the delivery of a controlled substance through the use of an intrathecal pump by a practitioner acting in the usual course of professional practice.,2021-06-07T20:07:23Z,
110-hr-7305,110,hr,7305,Responsibly Ending Authority to Purchase Act of 2008,Finance and Financial Sector,2008-11-20,2008-11-20,"Referred to the Committee on Financial Services, 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.",House,"Rep. Gohmert, Louie [R-TX-1]",TX,R,G000552,0,"Responsibly Ending Authority to Purchase Act of 2008 or the REAP Act of 2008 - Terminates the authority of the Secretary of the Treasury to establish the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) under the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008 (EESA). Amends the EESA to convert the program to guarantee troubled assets into a program to guarantee troubled mortgage-backed securities. Terminates such program on December 31, 2009.  Renames the Troubled Assets Insurance Financing Fund the Troubled Mortgage-Backed Securities Insurance Financing Fund. Defines troubled mortgage-backed securities as a residential or commercial mortgage or any instrument originated or issued on or before March 14, 2008, that is based upon or related to such mortgage. Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow a deduction for between 85% and 100% of dividends received from controlled foreign corporations by certain corporations which are U.S. shareholders. Requires such deduction to be invested in the United States pursuant to a specified domestic reinvestment plan, including as a source for the funding of worker hiring and training, infrastructure, research and development, capital investments, or the financial stabilization of the corporation for the purposes of job retention or creation. States that such reinvestment requirements shall be met if amounts repatriated are invested in distressed debt for at least one year.",2021-06-07T20:07:24Z,
110-hr-7306,110,hr,7306,Stop the Treasury Office Nationalization of the Economy Act of 2008,Finance and Financial Sector,2008-11-20,2008-11-21,Referred to the Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment.,House,"Rep. Gohmert, Louie [R-TX-1]",TX,R,G000552,0,"Stop the Treasury Office Nationalization of the Economy Act of 2008 or STONE - Ends the authority of the Secretary of the Treasury under the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008 to purchase troubled assets. Makes $100 billion of the unused funding for such program available to meet specified critical infrastructure needs of the United States, clean water grants, and certain flood control and water resource activities.",2021-06-07T20:07:24Z,
110-hr-7307,110,hr,7307,Homeowner Assistance and Taxpayer Protection Act,Housing and Community Development,2008-11-20,2008-11-20,"Referred to the Committee on Financial Services, and in addition to the Committee on 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.",House,"Rep. Hodes, Paul W. [D-NH-2]",NH,D,H001043,9,"Homeowner Assistance and Taxpayer Protection Act - Amends the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008 (EESA), with respect to mortgages acquired by the Secretary of the Treasury, to direct the Secretary to use authority to require (currently, encourage) the servicers of the underlying mortgages to take advantage of the HOPE for Homeowners Program under the National Housing Act or other available programs to minimize foreclosures. Requires federal property managers holding, owning, or controlling mortgages, mortgage backed securities, and other assets secured by residential real estate to do likewise. Directs a federal property manager to require (currently, encourage) loan servicers to implement specified loan modifications in any case in which the property manager does not own a residential mortgage loan, but holds an interest in obligations or pools of obligations secured by residential mortgage loans. Requires lenders to participate in HOPE for Homeowners Program when homeowners elect to participate. Amends Chapter 13 (Adjustment of Debts of an Individual with Regular Income) of the federal bankruptcy code to allow a debtor's plan to modify an allowed secured claim secured by the debtor's principal residence (mortgage), if, after deduction of permitted expenses, the debtor has insufficient remaining current monthly income to retain possession of the residence by curing a default and maintaining payments while the case is pending. Waives the credit counseling requirement for a debtor whose home is in foreclosure. Waives the liaibility of the debtor and the debtor's estate for certain fees arising in connection with a claim secured by the debtor's principal residence.  Amends EESA to prohibit financial institutions from which troubled assets are purchased by the Secretary from paying increased dividends until such time as the troubled assets are no longer owned by the Secretary. Requires that dividends be reduced to pay for excessive executive compensation in the case of any such financial institution.",2021-06-07T20:07:24Z,
110-hr-7272,110,hr,7272,"To prohibit the use of funds to transfer individuals detained by the United States at Naval Station, Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, to Naval Consolidated Brig, Charleston, South Carolina.",Armed Forces and National Security,2008-11-19,2008-11-19,Referred to the House Committee on Armed Services.,House,"Rep. Brown, Henry E., Jr. [R-SC-1]",SC,R,B001235,0,"Prohibits federal funds from being used to transfer any individual detained by the United States at Naval Station Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, to the Naval Consolidated Brig, Charleston, South Carolina.",2018-11-21T20:23:34Z,
110-hr-7273,110,hr,7273,To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow an above-the-line deduction against individual income tax for interest on indebtedness and for State and local sales and excise taxes with respect to the purchase of certain motor vehicles.,Taxation,2008-11-19,2008-11-19,Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.,House,"Rep. Pascrell, Bill, Jr. [D-NJ-8]",NJ,D,P000096,33,"Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow individual taxpayers a deduction from gross income for: (1) interest paid on indebtedness (up to $49,500) incurred after November 12, 2008, and before January 1, 2010, for the purchase of a motor vehicle (i.e., passenger automobile or light truck) with a gross vehicle weight rating of not more than 8,500 pounds; and (2) state and local sales and excise taxes imposed on the purchase of such a motor vehicle.",2018-11-08T23:37:58Z,
110-hr-7274,110,hr,7274,ConTACT Act of 2008,Health,2008-11-19,2008-11-20,Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E2294),House,"Rep. Pascrell, Bill, Jr. [D-NJ-8]",NJ,D,P000096,2,"Concussion Treatment and Care Tools Act of 2008 or the ConTACT Act of 2008 - Amends the Public Health Service Act to authorize the Secretary of Health and Human Services, acting through the Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), to make grants to states for: (1) establishing, disseminating, and ensuring the implementation by schools of concussion management guidelines with respect to the prevention, identification, treatment, and management of sports-related concussions in student athletes, including standards for student athletes to return to play after a concussion; and (2) funding implementation by schools of computerized preseason baseline and post-injury neuropsychological testing for student athletes. Directs states to utilize, to the extent practicable, applicable expertise and services offered by local chapters of national brain injury organizations.Requires the Secretary, acting through the Director, to convene a conference of medical, athletic, and educational stakeholders to establish model concussion management guidelines with respect to student athletes.",2019-11-15T21:20:20Z,
110-hr-7275,110,hr,7275,Financial Oversight Commission Act of 2008,Finance and Financial Sector,2008-11-19,2008-11-19,Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.,House,"Rep. Issa, Darrell E. [R-CA-49]",CA,R,I000056,9,"Financial Oversight Commission Act of 2008 - Establishes the Financial Oversight Commission to investigate facts and circumstances relating to the financial crisis of 2008, including any relevant legislation, Executive Order, regulation, plan, policy, practice, or procedure that pertains to: (1) government sponsored enterprises (GSEs), including the Federal National Mortgage Association (Fannie Mae) and the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation (Freddie Mac); (2) the stock market; (3) the housing market; (4) credit rating agencies; (5) the financial services sector, including hedge funds, private equity, and the insurance industry; and (6) the role of congressional oversight and resource allocation. Directs the Commission to identify, evaluate, and report to Congress and the President on the lessons learned from the financial crisis regarding the structure, coordination, management policies, and procedures of governmental and nongovernmental entities related to crisis detection, prevention, and response.",2019-11-15T20:56:29Z,
110-hr-7276,110,hr,7276,"To amend the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008 to require prior approval by the Congress for expenditures from the third tranche, and for other purposes.",Finance and Financial Sector,2008-11-19,2008-11-19,Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.,House,"Rep. Neugebauer, Randy [R-TX-19]",TX,R,N000182,24,"Amends the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act to revise the process for exercising the authority of the Secretary of the Treasury to make purchases of troubled assets in any amount in excess of the $350 billion previously obligated. Changes the Joint Resolution of Disapproval, regarding the exercise of such authority, to a Joint Resolution of Approval. Prohibits the Secretary, that is, from exercising any authority to make any such purchases unless a joint resolution approving the plan is enacted into law.",2019-11-15T20:56:30Z,
110-hr-7277,110,hr,7277,Temporary IRA Distribution Suspension Act of 2008,Labor and Employment,2008-11-19,2008-11-19,Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.,House,"Rep. Frelinghuysen, Rodney P. [R-NJ-11]",NJ,R,F000372,34,Temporary IRA Distribution Suspension Act of 2008 - Suspends for calendar 2008 and 2009 the beginning date for required distributions from certain individual retirement (IRA) plans.,2018-11-08T23:37:58Z,
110-hr-7278,110,hr,7278,Retirement Fairness and Emergency Relief Act of 2008,Labor and Employment,2008-11-19,2008-11-19,Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.,House,"Rep. Ruppersberger, C. A. Dutch [D-MD-2]",MD,D,R000576,0,"Retirement Fairness and Emergency Relief Act of 2008 - Suspends for calendar 2008 and 2009 the beginning date for required distributions from certain individual retirement (IRA) plans.    Waives the 10% additional tax (penalty) under the Internal Revenue Code for early distributions from qualified retirement plans in the case of a qualified financial hardship distribution to an individual during calendar 2008-2009 of up to $15,000 per taxable year, as determined by the Secretary of the Treasury (including a qualified foreclosure distribution).",2018-11-08T23:37:58Z,
110-hr-7279,110,hr,7279,Seniors' Investment Security Act of 2008,Labor and Employment,2008-11-19,2008-11-19,Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.,House,"Rep. Biggert, Judy [R-IL-13]",IL,R,B001232,1,Seniors' Investment Security Act of 2008 - Suspends for calendar 2008-2010 the minimum required distributions from certain individual retirement (IRA) plans.,2018-11-08T23:37:58Z,
110-hr-7280,110,hr,7280,Elimination of Single Parent Tax Act of 2008,Social Welfare,2008-11-19,2008-11-19,Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.,House,"Rep. Gillibrand, Kirsten E. [D-NY-20]",NY,D,G000555,0,Elimination of Single Parent Tax Act of 2008 - Amends part D (Child Support and Establishment of Paternity) of title IV of the Social Security Act to prohibit states from charging child support recipients for the collection of child support.,2018-11-08T23:37:58Z,
110-hr-7281,110,hr,7281,Critical Election Infrastructure Act of 2008,Government Operations and Politics,2008-11-19,2008-11-19,Referred to the House Committee on House Administration.,House,"Rep. Hastings, Alcee L. [D-FL-23]",FL,D,H000324,1,"Critical Election Infrastructure Act of 2008 - Directs the Election Assistance Commission to make grants to eligible states to carry out election administration improvement plans to promote efficiency and fairness in the operation of polling places in federal elections (including early voting sites), which may include: (1) acquisition of additional voting systems and equipment; (2) improved training of election administration officials; and (3) allocation of additional election administration officials to polling places serving greater numbers of voters.",2017-12-14T21:40:24Z,
110-hr-7282,110,hr,7282,Carson City Vital Community Act of 2008,Public Lands and Natural Resources,2008-11-19,2008-11-20,"Referred to the Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests and Public Lands.",House,"Rep. Heller, Dean [R-NV-2]",NV,R,H001041,1,"Carson City Vital Community Act of 2008 - Provides for the conveyance of specified Forest Service and Bureau of Land Management (BLM) land or interest in such land (the federal land) in Nevada by the Secretary of Agriculture and the Secretary of the Interior in exchange for specified non-federal land by Carson City Consolidated Municipality, Nevada. Requires the Secretary of the Interior to reserve a perpetual conservation easement to the Silver Saddle Ranch and Carson River Area.Releases the reversionary interest of BLM in certain of the conveyed federal land. Provides for the conveyance of such land by the City. Makes the non-federal land part of the Humboldt-Toiyabe National Forest. Provides for the conveyance of specified non-federal land administered by the City to the BLM. Transfers administrative jurisdiction over certain Forest Service land from the Secretary of Agriculture to the Secretary of the Interior. Requires the City to be granted a right-of-way for maintenance of flood management facilities on such land. Directs the Secretary of the Interior to conduct sales of specified BLM land to qualified bidders. Amends the Southern Nevada Public Land Management Act of 1998 to make amounts in the special account available to the City for the development of parks, trails, and natural areas and up to 10% of amounts in the account available for conservation initiatives on federal land in the City administered by the Department of the Interior or the Department of Agriculture. Makes the City eligible to nominate for expenditure amounts to acquire lands or interests for parks and natural areas and for conservation initiatives adjacent to and within the floodplain of Carson River. Provides for specified land to be held in trust for the Washoe Tribe of Nevada and California. Prohibits the use of such land for class II and class III gaming. Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to implement a cooperative agreement ensuring access by the Tribe's members and others in its community across National Forest System land from the City to Lake Tahoe for cultural and religious purposes. Requires the City to notify the Tribe of proposed ground disturbing activities to provide the Tribe with time for inventorying and collecting tribal artifacts. Directs the Secretary of the Interior to convey specified land to Clark County, Nevada, for use for: (1) a centralized off road vehicle recreation park; and (2) a designated area and facilities to discourage unauthorized use of off-highway vehicles in environmentally sensitive areas. Provides for the reservation of specified airspace easements above the surface of the land conveyed to the county. Designates the Nellis Dunes as the Nellis Dunes National Off-Highway Vehicle Recreation Area. Transfers administrative jurisdiction over certain land from BLM to the Department of the Air Force for the enlargement and protection of Nellis Air Force Base.Affirms and validates a specified patent and its associated land reconfiguration issued by the BLM for the benefit and recovery of the desert tortoise and other species. Ratifies the process used by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the BLM for the reconfiguration of those lands.",2021-06-07T20:07:22Z,
110-hr-7283,110,hr,7283,"To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to increase the age at which distributions from qualified retirement plans are required to begin from 70 1/2 to 75, and for other purposes.",Taxation,2008-11-19,2008-11-19,Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.,House,"Rep. King, Peter T. [R-NY-3]",NY,R,K000210,0,"Amends the Internal Revenue Code to increase from 70 1/2 to 75 the age at which beneficiaries of tax-exempt pension, profit-sharing, and stock bonus plans must begin taking distributions from such plans and including such distributions in gross income for income tax purposes.",2018-11-08T23:37:58Z,
110-hr-7284,110,hr,7284,National Low-Carbon Fuel Standard Act of 2007,Environmental Protection,2008-11-19,2008-11-19,Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Air Quality.,House,"Rep. Lewis, John [D-GA-5]",GA,D,L000287,0,"National Low-Carbon Fuel Standard Act of 2007 [sic] - Amends the Clean Air Act to direct the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to: (1) establish a fuel emission baseline; (2) identify qualifying low-carbon transportation fuels; (3) establish a low-carbon fuel certification and marketing process; and (4) require each obligated party to reduce the average lifecycle greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions per unit of energy of the aggregate quantity of fuels introduced into commerce to specified levels by not later than January 1, 2010, through the use of low-carbon fuels and improvements in the production of conventional fuels. Requires the average lifecycle GHG emissions of the aggregate quantity for 2012 to be at least 3% below the 2007 average should emission limitation regulations not be promulgated.Authorizes an obligated party to apply to the Administrator to receive a temporary suspension of the requirement to comply with such regulations if events outside of the control of the party could lead or have led to disruptions in the transportation fuel supply.Permits obligated parties to receive credits for achieving greater reductions in lifecycle GHG emission of the fuel produced, distributed, or imported than are required.Requires the Administrator to ensure that fuel sold or introduced into commerce in the United States (except in noncontiguous states or territories) contains, on an annual average basis, at least the specified volume of ultra-low carbon fuel for 2012-2025. Prohibits such regulations from restricting geographic areas in which low-carbon transportation fuel and ultra-low carbon fuel may be used or from imposing any per-gallon obligation for the use of those fuels. Sets forth a minimum applicable volume for 2026 and thereafter.Requires the Administrator of the Energy Information Administration to provide to the EPA Administrator an estimate of the volumes of conventional fuels projected to be sold or introduced into commerce. Requires the EPA Administrator to determine the fuel obligations based on such an estimate.Requires regulations concerning ultra-low carbon fuel to provide for the generation of specified credits by obligated parties.Authorizes the EPA Administrator, on the receipt of a petition of one or more states, to waive ultra-low carbon regulations by reducing the national quantity of Category I or Category II ultra-low carbon fuel in the conventional transportation fuel pool if it is determined that: (1) implementation of the regulations would severely harm the economy or environment; or (2) there is an inadequate domestic supply of such fuel.Considers 1 gallon of cellulosic biomass ethanol or waste derived ethanol to be the equivalent of 2.5 gallons of renewable fuel through 2017 (currently there is no time limit).Requires the Administrator to establish: (1) a carbon intensity number and a green index number as part of the renewable identification number program; and (2) a set of standards to minimize the negative environmental impacts of an increase in the volume of fuels required by such Act and to ensure long term resource sustainability from the sourcing and production of low-carbon fuels.",2019-11-15T21:18:15Z,
110-hr-7285,110,hr,7285,To amend title II of the Social Security Act to provide for an increase in the maximum level of fees authorized to be charged by representatives with respect to claims of entitlement to past-due benefits and to require cost-of-living adjustments to such level of authorized fees.,Social Welfare,2008-11-19,2008-11-19,Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.,House,"Rep. Lewis, John [D-GA-5]",GA,D,L000287,0,"Amends title II (Old Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance) (OASDI) of the Social Security Act with respect to fees of persons representating claimants prevailing before the Commissioner of Social Security in a claim of entitlement to past-due benefits. Increases the maximum level of fees authorized to be charged by such representatives with respect to such claims. Requires the Commissioner to make annual cost-of-living adjustments to such fee level.",2018-11-08T23:37:58Z,
110-hr-7286,110,hr,7286,"To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 46-02 21st Street in Long Island City, New York, as the ""Geraldine Ferraro Post Office Building"".",Commemorations,2008-11-19,2008-11-19,Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.,House,"Rep. Maloney, Carolyn B. [D-NY-14]",NY,D,M000087,21,"Designates the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 46-02 21st Street in Long Island City, New York, as the ""Geraldine Ferraro Post Office Building.""",2022-02-03T05:17:09Z,
110-hr-7287,110,hr,7287,21st Century Wellness Trust Act,Health,2008-11-19,2008-11-19,Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.,House,"Rep. Matsui, Doris O. [D-CA-5]",CA,D,M001163,2,"21st Century Wellness Trust Act - Amends the Public Health Service Act to establish the Wellness Trust within the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to be headed by the Trust Fund Board. Requires the Trustees to submit to Congress and make publicly available reports on: (1) a system for certification and recertification of prevention health workers to complement the health system; (2) payment methodologies and options for paying certified prevention health workers for clinical preventive care; and (3) the amount of money spent on prevention by public health, public and private health insurers, and applicable self-insured health plans during the most recent year for which such data is available.Requires the Trustees to: (1) establish a plan for delivering and financing prevention priorities and implement pilot programs; and (2) issue a ranked list of designated prevention priorities based on the potential of an activity to improve health and the activity's cost effectiveness.Directs the Trustees to establish, support, and sustain the infrastructure for an effective wellness system that includes: (1) an information clearinghouse on prevention priorities; (2) an electronic prevention record or registry; and (3) training for prevention health workers.Establishes in the Treasury a Wellness Trust Fund. Sets forth funding sources.Requires the Trust to enter into contracts to reimburse certified prevention health workers for the prevention services designated by the Trustees as prevention priorities. Directs the Trustees to: (1) develop targets for and determine payment methodologies for prevention priorities.",2019-11-15T21:20:20Z,
110-hr-7288,110,hr,7288,Public Safety Enhancement Act of 2008,Emergency Management,2008-11-19,2008-11-19,Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.,House,"Rep. Matsui, Doris O. [D-CA-5]",CA,D,M001163,0,"Public Safety Enhancement Act of 2008 - Amends the National Flood Insurance Act of 1968 to allow flood insurance coverage for structures used in protecting public safety and new structures constructed in flood hazard zones that replace flood-damaged or destroyed structures, even though the property involved has been declared in violation of state or local laws, regulations, or ordinances intended to discourage or otherwise restrict land development or occupancy in flood-prone areas.",2019-11-15T20:56:30Z,
110-hr-7289,110,hr,7289,Financial Literacy Improvement Act of 2008,Education,2008-11-19,2008-11-19,Referred to the House Committee on Education and Labor.,House,"Rep. McCarthy, Carolyn [D-NY-4]",NY,D,M000309,0,"Financial Literacy Improvement Act of 2008 - Amends the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to direct the Secretary of Education to award formula matching grants to states or partnerships between states and experienced nonprofit providers of financial literacy or personal finance education programs. Requires grantees to use 25% of the grant funds to: (1) develop financial literacy standards and assessments for at least three grade levels; (2) create teacher training programs to embed financial literacy or personal finance education into core academic subjects; and (3) evaluate the impact such education has on students' financial literacy. Requires the remaining grant funds to be used for subgrants to local educational agencies (LEAs) or partnerships between LEAs and community organizations, local businesses, or other educational entities to implement such financial literacy activities, including student assessments and teacher training.  Amends the Higher Education Act of 1965 to direct the Secretary to award competitive grants to institutions of higher education (IHEs) or partnerships between IHEs and experienced nonprofit providers of financial literacy or personal finance education programs for activities that increase student knowledge in consumer, economic, and personal financial concepts.",2020-02-10T16:54:29Z,
110-hr-7290,110,hr,7290,To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to expand the credit for renewable electricity production to include electricity produced from biomass for on-site use.,Taxation,2008-11-19,2008-11-19,Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.,House,"Rep. Michaud, Michael H. [D-ME-2]",ME,D,M001149,0,Amends the Internal Revenue Code to modify the tax credit for producing electricity from closed or open-loop biomass facilities equipped with a metering device to determine electricity consumption or sale to allow a tax credit after 2008 for electricity produced and consumed at such facilities and to extend the credit period for such production.,2018-11-08T23:37:58Z,
110-hr-7291,110,hr,7291,To direct the Secretary of Homeland Security to develop and construct a facility on the campus of Saint Elizabeths Hospital in the District of Columbia to serve as the headquarters for the United States Coast Guard.,Government Operations and Politics,2008-11-19,2008-11-20,"Referred to the Subcommittee on Economic Development, Public Buildings and Emergency Management.",House,"Del. Norton, Eleanor Holmes [D-DC-At Large]",DC,D,N000147,0,Directs the Secretary of Homeland Security to develop and construct a facility on the campus of Saint Elizabeths Hospital in the District of Columbia to serve as the headquarters for the United States Coast Guard.,2021-04-20T12:15:33Z,
110-hr-7292,110,hr,7292,To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to exclude from gross income compensation received by employees consisting of qualified distributions of employer stock.,Taxation,2008-11-19,2008-11-19,Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.,House,"Rep. Rohrabacher, Dana [R-CA-46]",CA,R,R000409,0,"Amends the Internal Revenue Code to exclude from the gross income of an employee: (1) shares of stock received from an employer in a qualified employee stock distribution not exceeding the lowest number of shares received by any employee in such distribution; (2) any gain on such stock if held by such employee for not less than 10 years, and (3) in the case of any qualified disposition of stock that meets such holding requirement, any gain on so much stock acquired during the 60-day period beginning on the date of such disposition as does not exceed the fair market value of the stock so disposed..",2018-11-08T23:37:58Z,
110-hr-7293,110,hr,7293,Financial Security in Retirement Act of 2008,Taxation,2008-11-19,2008-11-19,Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.,House,"Rep. Sestak, Joe [D-PA-7]",PA,D,S001169,0,"Financial Security in Retirement Act of 2008 - Suspends, for calendar 2008 and 2009, minimum distribution requirements for up to $300,000 of an individual's interest in all eligible defined contribution plans as of December 31, 2008.",2018-11-08T23:37:58Z,
110-hr-7294,110,hr,7294,"To amend title 10, United States Code, to expand the authorized concurrent receipt of disability severance pay from the Department of Defense and compensation for the same disability under any law administered by the Department of Veterans Affairs to cover all veterans who have a combat-related disability, as defined under section 1413a of such title.",Armed Forces and National Security,2008-11-19,2008-11-19,Referred to the House Committee on Armed Services.,House,"Rep. Smith, Adam [D-WA-9]",WA,D,S000510,0,"Extends the authorized concurrent receipt of disability severance pay from the Department of Defense (DOD) and compensation for the same disability under any law administered by the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to include all veterans with a combat-related disability. (Under current law, such concurrent receipt is limited to those veterans who incur a disability in the line of duty in a combat zone or during the performance of duty in combat-related operations.) Makes such amendment effective as of January 28, 2008 (the date of enactment of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2008).",2018-11-21T20:23:35Z,
110-hr-7295,110,hr,7295,For the relief of Francisca Lino.,Private Legislation,2008-11-19,2008-11-19,Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.,House,"Rep. Gutierrez, Luis V. [D-IL-4]",IL,D,G000535,0,Provides for the relief of Francisca Lino.,2018-11-21T20:29:36Z,
110-hr-7252,110,hr,7252,"To designate the structure of the Gateway Arch and the Old St. Louis Courthouse as National Historic Landmarks, to designate the grounds of the Jefferson National Expansion Memorial surrounding the Arch for inclusion on the National Register of Historic Places, and for other purposes.",Public Lands and Natural Resources,2008-10-03,2008-10-08,"Referred to the Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests and Public Lands.",House,"Rep. Clay, Wm. Lacy [D-MO-1]",MO,D,C001049,1,Designates the structure of the Gateway Arch and Old St. Louis Courthouse as National Historic Landmarks. Designates the grounds of the Jefferson National Expansion Memorial surrounding the Arch for inclusion on the National Register of Historic Places.,2019-11-15T21:29:55Z,
110-hr-7253,110,hr,7253,Economic Growth and Financial Stabilization Act of 2008,Finance and Financial Sector,2008-10-03,2008-10-03,"Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Financial 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.",House,"Rep. Aderholt, Robert B. [R-AL-4]",AL,R,A000055,0,"Economic Growth and Financial Stabilization Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to prescribe a 0% capital gains rate for individuals. Revises the formula for: (1) the alternative tax for corporations to prescribe a 0% capital gains rate; and (2) the ordinary income tax for corporations by eliminating the two tax rate brackets above 25% and reducing the maximum amount of tax imposed.   Establishes in the Department of the Treasury a Distressed Assets Loan Fund under the control of the Secretary of the Treasury to make loans available at low rates of interest to depository institutions with distressed assets. Amends the Federal Deposit Insurance Act and the Federal Credit Union Act to increase from $100,000 to $250,000 the maximum amount of deposit insurance and share insurance, respectively. Treats gain or loss from the sale or exchange of any applicable preferred stock by any applicable financial institution as ordinary income or loss.",2021-06-07T20:07:19Z,
110-hr-7254,110,hr,7254,"To prohibit government-sponsored enterprises from making lobbying expenditures, political contributions, or other certain contributions.",Government Operations and Politics,2008-10-03,2008-10-03,Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.,House,"Rep. Bono, Mary [R-CA-45]",CA,R,B001228,0,"Prohibits the Federal National Mortgage Association (Fannie Mae) and the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation (Freddie Mac) and their affiliates from making: (1) lobbying expenditures; (2) political contributions; or (3) contributions to any nonprofit tax-exempt organization.Declares that violating this Act shall constitute violation of federal law limiting the use of appropriated funds to influence certain federal contracting and financial transactions (thus, imposing the same penalties).",2019-11-15T20:56:29Z,
110-hr-7255,110,hr,7255,Immigration Oversight and Fairness Act,Immigration,2008-10-03,2008-10-03,"Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committee on Homeland Security, 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.",House,"Rep. Roybal-Allard, Lucille [D-CA-34]",CA,D,R000486,0,"Immigration Oversight and Fairness Act - Directs the Secretary of Homeland Security to mandate live training of all Department of Homeland Security (DHS) personnel who come into contact with unaccompanied alien children.  Sets forth detention standards for immigration detention facilities. Directs the Secretary to: (1) convene a detention advisory committee; (2) promulgate regulations regarding detainee care and custody; (3) implement secure alternatives to detention programs under which eligible aliens are released under supervision, assistance, and monitoring that ensure their appearance at all immigration interviews, appointments, and hearings; and (4) provide protective detention alternatives for specified categories of vulnerable aliens.",2021-06-07T20:07:19Z,
110-hr-7256,110,hr,7256,Federal Agency Environmental Procurement Act,Government Operations and Politics,2008-10-03,2008-10-03,Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.,House,"Rep. Bilbray, Brian P. [R-CA-50]",CA,R,B000461,0,"Federal Agency Environmental Procurement Act - Directs the head of each agency to ensure that: (1) when procuring a consumer electronic or information technology product, the agency meets at least 95% of the agency's requirements with an Electronic Product Environmental Assessment Tool (EPEAT)-registered product, unless there is no EPEAT standard for such product; (2) the Energy Star feature is enabled on agency computers and monitors; and (3) the agency establishes and implements policies to extend the useful life of agency electronic equipment; and (4) the agency uses environmentally sound practices with respect to disposition of electronic equipment that has reached the end of its useful life.Excludes the Government Accountability Office (GAO) from the definition of "agency" for purposes of this Act.",2019-11-15T21:13:18Z,
110-hr-7257,110,hr,7257,5-Star Generals Commemorative Coin Act,Commemorations,2008-10-03,2008-10-03,Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.,House,"Rep. Boyda, Nancy E. [D-KS-2]",KS,D,B001258,0,"5-Star Generals Commemorative Coin Act - Requires the Secretary of the Treasury to mint and issue $5 gold coins, $1 silver coins, and half-dollar clad coins in recognition of five United States Army Five-Star Generals: George Marshall, Douglas MacArthur, Dwight Eisenhower, Henry "Hap" Arnold, and Omar Bradley, alumni of the United States Army Command and General Staff College, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. Requires the design of the coins to include portraits of the generals.Restricts the issuance of such coins to calendar 2013. Requires specified surcharges in the sale of such coins, which shall be paid promptly to the Command and General Staff College Foundation to help finance its support of the College.",2019-11-15T20:56:29Z,
110-hr-7258,110,hr,7258,Consumer Credit Safety Commission Act of 2008,Finance and Financial Sector,2008-10-03,2008-10-03,Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.,House,"Rep. Delahunt, William D. [D-MA-10]",MA,D,D000210,0,"Consumer Credit Safety Commission Act of 2008 - Establishes the Consumer Credit Safety Commission to promulgate consumer credit safety rules that: (1) ban abusive, fraudulent, unfair, deceptive, predatory, anticompetitive, or otherwise anti-consumer practices or product features for creditors; (2) place restrictions on consumer credit practices or product features to reduce the likelihood that they may be provided in a manner inconsistent with this Act; and (3) establish requirements for clear and adequate information appropriate to advance the objectives of this Act.  Directs the Commission to: (1) establish and maintain a best practices guide for providers of consumer credit; (2) conduct, or award grants or contracts for, continuing studies and investigations of consumer credit industry practices; (3) help consumer credit providers to develop consumer credit safety standards or guidelines; and (4) establish and operate a consumer credit customer hotline to register complaints and receive information on how to combat anti-consumer credit. Directs the Commission to establish a program to promote federal-state cooperation to implement this Act. Sets forth civil and criminal penalties for acts prohibited by this Act.",2019-11-15T20:56:29Z,
110-hr-7259,110,hr,7259,Security Clearance Oversight and Accountability Act,Armed Forces and National Security,2008-10-03,2008-10-03,"Referred to the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, and in addition to the Committee on Intelligence (Permanent Select), 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.",House,"Rep. Eshoo, Anna G. [D-CA-14]",CA,D,E000215,1,"Security Clearance Oversight and Accountability Act - Amends the National Security Act of 1947 to direct the President: (1) every four years, to conduct an audit of how the executive branch determines whether a security clearance is required for a particular position in the federal government, and report audit results to Congress; (2) every year, to report to Congress on the security clearance process with respect to government employees, government contractors, and intelligence community personnel; and (3) to submit a one-time report to Congress on security clearance investigations and adjudications. Requires the Director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) to report annually to Congress on security clearance determinations completed or ongoing during the preceding fiscal year that have taken longer than one year to complete.",2021-06-07T20:07:20Z,
110-hr-7260,110,hr,7260,Transparency in the Creation of Wealth Act of 2008,Finance and Financial Sector,2008-10-03,2008-10-03,Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.,House,"Rep. Kucinich, Dennis J. [D-OH-10]",OH,D,K000336,0,"Transparency in the Creation of Wealth Act of 2008 - Directs the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System to: (1) devise, calculate, and publish a replacement for the discontinued M3 monetary statistic; (2) tabulate and publish a statistical description of the current distribution of wealth in the United States by quintile; (3) calculate and report to the Congress the total annual seigniorage interest income received by financial institutions as a result of their being allowed to create money in the form of the credit they extend above their own cash deposits or reserves before extending the loans; (4) calculate and publish semi-annually the loss or gain in economic output due to the deviation of the previous year's actual unemployment rate from the 4% level required by specified statute; (5) tabulate and publish data showing the amount of credit and the percentage of credit now being created and directed into specified transactions; (6) develop a market-based estimate of the value of residential, corporate and publicly owned land and report figures; and (7) make projections, in ten-year increments, of the net foreign debt, and estimate and report on the location of federal reserve notes, by country and type of holder. Directs the Comptroller General to conduct a full audit of the Federal Reserve System in every year before a presidential election year. Directs the Board to: (1) publish a quarterly and annual summary of total credit market debt; (2) release the statistics required to be compiled by this Act at a quarterly news conference; and (3) the survey of consumer finances and the total credit market debt report at an annual news conference.",2019-11-15T20:56:29Z,
110-hr-7261,110,hr,7261,Blue Ridge Parkway and Town of Blowing Rock Land Exchange Act of 2008,Public Lands and Natural Resources,2008-10-03,2008-10-07,"Referred to the Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests and Public Lands.",House,"Rep. Foxx, Virginia [R-NC-5]",NC,R,F000450,0,"Blue Ridge Parkway and Town of Blowing Rock Land Exchange Act of 2008 - Authorizes the Secretary of the Interior to exchange approximately 20 acres of land within the boundary of the Blue Ridge Parkway, identified as Blowing Rock Reservoir, for approximately 192 acres of land owned by the town of Blowing Rock in North Carolina.",2019-11-15T21:29:55Z,
110-hr-7262,110,hr,7262,"To reform the Federal Deposit Insurance System, and for other purposes.",Finance and Financial Sector,2008-10-03,2008-10-03,Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.,House,"Rep. Gohmert, Louie [R-TX-1]",TX,R,G000552,7,"Amends the Federal Deposit Insurance Act to increase the standard maximum amount of deposit insurance from $100,000 to: (1) $250,000, $500,000, $750,000, or $1 million, at the option of the insured depository institution; and (2) $250,000, $500,000, $750,000, or $1 million for eligible retirement accounts, at the institution's option. Requires an annual inflation adjustment. Directs the Board of Directors of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) and the National Credit Union Administration (NCUA) Board to report to Congress and publish in the Federal Register any such inflation adjustments to the standard maximum deposit insurance amount and to the standard maximum share insurance amount.",2019-11-15T20:56:29Z,
110-hr-7263,110,hr,7263,"To amend chapters 81, 83, and 84 of title 5, United States Code, to provide for enhanced benefits for survivors of Federal public safety officers killed in the line of duty.",Government Operations and Politics,2008-10-03,2008-10-03,Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.,House,"Rep. Hall, John J. [D-NY-19]",NY,D,H001039,0,"Provides that the pay used to compute monthly compensation based on the death of a federal employee who died from personal injury sustained in the line of duty as a public safety officer, or any survivor annuity under such circumstances, shall be determined based on the pay grade or level which is one grade higher than would otherwise apply.Entitles anyone who is eligible for such monthly compensation or annuity as the survivor of a public safety officer who died on or after January 1, 1974, to: (1) have such compensation or annuity recomputed upon application submitted within 12 months after enactment of this Act; and (2) a lump-sum payment for the period between January 1, 1974, and the date as of which regular monthly compensation or survivor annuity payments are adjusted to reflect the recomputation.",2019-11-15T21:13:18Z,
110-hr-7264,110,hr,7264,"Reliable Economic Stabilization, Capital Utilization, and Enterprise Reform Act of 2008",Finance and Financial Sector,2008-10-03,2008-10-03,"Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Financial 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.",House,"Rep. King, Steve [R-IA-5]",IA,R,K000362,9,"Reliable Economic Stabilization, Capital Utilization, and Enterprise Reform Act of 2008 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) exclude from gross income gain from the sale of certain residential or commercial mortgages and related securities issued on or before March 14, 2008, and acquired before January 1, 2010; (2) extend the carryback period for net operating losses to five years; (3) provide an increased dividends received tax deduction for corporations with overseas operations that make investments in the United States; and (4) treat gain or loss from the sale of certain preferred stock in the Federal National Mortgage Association (Fannie Mae) or the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation (Freddie Mac) as ordinary income or loss.Repeals the Community Reinvestment Act.Requires the Board of Directors of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) to establish a net worth certificate program to provide capital to assist insured banks in resolving solvency problems. Government-Sponsored Enterprises Free Market Reform Act of 2008- Requires the Director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) to: (1) terminate the conservatorship of Fannie Mae and the Freddie Mac, jointly defined as the enterprise, if the Director determines that the enterprise is financially viable; or (2) immediately appoint FHFA as receiver of the enterprise if it is found not financially viable. Limits the amount of mortgage assets the enterprise may own after the termination of its conservatorship. Requires the Director to establish mandatory minimum capital levels for the enterprise.Amends the Federal National Mortgage Association Charter Act and the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation Act to repeal provisions governing enterprise authority to purchase and sell certain insured and conventional mortgages and to engage in certain lending activities.Amends the Federal Housing Enterprises Financial Safety and Soundness Act of 1992 to repeal the new housing price index.Amends the Housing and Economic Recovery Act of 2008 to repeal certain conforming loan limits.Imposes requirements for the renewal of the enterprise's charter if it becomes financially sound and for winding down its operations and dissolving the enterprise otherwise.",2021-06-07T20:07:20Z,
110-hr-7265,110,hr,7265,Fixing the Federal Voting Assistance Program Act of 2008,Government Operations and Politics,2008-10-03,2008-10-03,"Referred to the Committee on House Administration, 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.",House,"Rep. Maloney, Carolyn B. [D-NY-14]",NY,D,M000087,1,"Fixing the Federal Voting Assistance Program Act of 2008 - Amends the Uniformed and Overseas Citizens Absentee Voting Act to require the presidential designee responsible for carrying out federal functions under the Act to have experience in election administration and be approved by the Senate. Establishes the Overseas Voting Advisory Board to conduct studies and issue reports with respect to various issues, including the ability of U.S. citizens who reside outside of the United States to register to vote and vote in elections for public office.",2022-02-03T05:16:22Z,
110-hr-7266,110,hr,7266,Derivatives Market Reform Act of 1999,Finance and Financial Sector,2008-10-03,2008-10-03,Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.,House,"Rep. Markey, Edward J. [D-MA-7]",MA,D,M000133,0,"Derivatives Market Reform Act of 1999 - Amends the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 to set forth registration requirements for derivatives dealers and for securities association membership. Grants the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC): (1) administrative enforcement powers; and (2) exclusive jurisdiction regarding accounts, agreements, transactions, and markets in derivatives.Redefines securities to include derivatives.Authorizes both a registered securities exchange and a national securities exchange to adopt rules governing transactions in derivatives.Directs the SEC to promulgate capital level requirements that take into account the financial activities of a derivatives dealer who is a material associated person of a broker or dealer (including aggregate leverage, customary sources of capital and funding, and credit risk).Sets forth risk assessment and recordkeeping requirements governing holding companies and other material associated persons associated with: (1) a government securities broker or dealer; and (2) a municipal securities dealer. Amends the Investment Company Act of 1940 to require unregistered hedge funds to report to the SEC certain information prepared in accordance with U.S. generally accepted accounting principles (including information for each pooled investment vehicle that is part of an unregistered hedge fund).",2019-11-15T20:56:29Z,
110-hr-7267,110,hr,7267,Mortgage Credit Repair Act of 2008,Finance and Financial Sector,2008-10-03,2008-10-03,Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.,House,"Rep. Meek, Kendrick B. [D-FL-17]",FL,D,M001148,0,"Mortgage Credit Repair Act of 2008 - Amends the Fair Credit Reporting Act to define "front end ratio" as a ratio that indicates what portion of an individual's income is used to make mortgage payments, calculated by dividing an individual's gross monthly income by their housing expenses, particularly the mortgage principal, interest, taxes, and insurance (PITI). Prohibits a consumer reporting agency from making a consumer report containing cases under title 11 or under the Bankruptcy Act that antedate the report by more than three years when certain criteria are met. Includes among such criteria that a consumer's front-end debt ratio on a mortgage instrument originated or refinanced on or after January 1, 2003, was 37% or higher for at least six months before and continuing through the time that the bankruptcy is filed. Prohibits a consumer reporting agency from making a consumer report containing any adverse information excluding bankruptcy, but including closed accounts, amounts in collections, accounts charged to profit or loss, repossessions, and foreclosures, if certain circumstances have occurred.",2019-11-15T20:56:29Z,
110-hr-7268,110,hr,7268,"To amend the Clean Air Act to clarify that certain conversions of engines and motor vehicles from conventional fuels to clean alternative fuels will not require additional certifications, and for other purposes.",Environmental Protection,2008-10-03,2008-10-03,Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Air Quality.,House,"Rep. Roskam, Peter J. [R-IL-6]",IL,R,R000580,0,"Amends the Clean Air Act to authorize the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to approve a combination of conversions to a clean alternative fuel into a single test group, which would normally not be eligible to be in a single test group, if the manufacturer of motor vehicle or engine conversions provides: (1) substantial evidence that all the conversions in the larger grouping will have similar levels of emissions; (2) evidence of equivalent component durability over the vehicle's or engine's useful life; (3) evidence that the groups will result in sufficient in-use verification program data, appropriate tracking in use, and clear liability for the EPA's recall program; and (4) a statement that all vehicles within a test group are certified to the most stringent standards applicable to any vehicle within the test group.Establishes the Advancing Alternative Fuels Revolving Loan Fund. Directs the Administrator to use amounts in the Fund to provide loans to eligible local governments to finance purchases of authorized equipment to enable public vehicle fleets to operate on alternative fuels.",2019-11-15T21:18:15Z,
110-hr-7269,110,hr,7269,To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to exclude from gross income gain from the sale of troubled assets.,Taxation,2008-10-03,2008-10-03,Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.,House,"Rep. Sali, Bill [R-ID-1]",ID,R,S001167,0,"Amends the Internal Revenue Code to exclude from gross income gain from the sale or exchange of a qualified mortgage or mortgage-related security held for more than one year. Defines "qualified mortgage or mortgage-related security" as any residential or commercial mortgage (or any security, obligation, or other instrument that is based on or related to such a mortgage) that was originated or issued on or before March 14, 2008, and was acquired by the taxpayer after the enactment of this Act and before January 1, 2009.",2018-11-08T23:37:57Z,
110-hr-7270,110,hr,7270,Temporary Increase in FDIC and Credit Union Insurance Act of 2008,Finance and Financial Sector,2008-10-03,2008-10-03,Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.,House,"Rep. Smith, Christopher H. [R-NJ-4]",NJ,R,S000522,1,"Temporary Increase in FDIC and Credit Union Insurance Act of 2008 - Amends the Federal Deposit Insurance Act and the Federal Credit Union Act to establish a temporary increase from $100,000 to $250,000, through December 31, 2009, in the maximum insured amount limitation for deposit insurance and credit union share insurance.",2019-11-15T20:56:29Z,
110-hr-7271,110,hr,7271,For the relief of Alyssa Chaconis.,Private Legislation,2008-10-03,2008-10-03,Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.,House,"Rep. Smith, Christopher H. [R-NJ-4]",NJ,R,S000522,0,Provides for the relief of Alyssa Chaconis.,2018-11-21T20:29:34Z,
110-hr-7240,110,hr,7240,No BAILOUTS Act of 2008,Finance and Financial Sector,2008-10-02,2008-10-02,Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.,House,"Rep. DeFazio, Peter A. [D-OR-4]",OR,D,D000191,12,"Bringing Accounting, Increased Liquidity, Oversight and Upholding Taxpayer Security Act of 2008 or the No BAILOUTS Act of 2008 - Directs the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to report to Congress on the effect of its clarification on fair value accounting issued September 30, 2008. States that the order of the SEC issued September 17, 2008, continues in effect until: (1) canceled or withdrawn by the SEC; or (2) repealed by an Act of Congress. Directs the SEC to: (1) reinstate rule 10a-1 (uptick rule on short sales of securities); (2) rescind rule 201 of regulation SHO; and (3) reinstate the price test restrictions that applied to short sales of securities before its action in the proceeding entitled "Regulation SHO and Rule 10a-1," adopted June 28, 2007. Requires the Board of Directors of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) to establish a net worth certificate program to provide capital to assist insured depository institutions to resolve solvency problems.  Amends the Federal Deposit Insurance Act and the Federal Credit Union Act to increase from $100,000 to $250,000 the standard maximum deposit and share insurance amount.",2019-11-15T20:56:28Z,
110-hr-7241,110,hr,7241,Preserving Access to Healthcare (PATH) Act of 2008,Health,2008-10-02,2008-10-02,Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.,House,"Rep. Engel, Eliot L. [D-NY-17]",NY,D,E000179,30,"Preserving Access to Healthcare (PATH) Act of 2008 - Declares that between October 1, 2008, and March 31, 2009, specified regulations regarding the formula for determining the federal rate for inpatient hospital capital-related costs under the Medicare prospective payment system (PPS) shall apply without the mandatory phase out of the indirect medical education adjustment factor. Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services to delay for six months following enactment of this Act any implementation of the Medicaid outpatient hospital services regulation proposed on September 28, 2007. Prohibits the Secretary from phasing out or eliminating the Medicare hospice wage index budget neutrality adjustment factor before April 1, 2009.  Directs the Secretary, acting through the Administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services and upon the request of the state of California, to extend approval, and full federal financial participation, of the state's Medicaid family planning demonstration project until June 30, 2009, under the eligibility requirements and processes that were in place before the project's first extension period. Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to increase funding for the Medicare Improvement Fund.",2021-06-07T20:07:18Z,
110-hr-7242,110,hr,7242,Pension Protection Act IRC Amendments of 2008,Taxation,2008-10-02,2008-10-02,"Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, 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.",House,"Rep. Andrews, Robert E. [D-NJ-1]",NJ,D,A000210,0,"Pension Protection Act IRC Amendments of 2008 - Makes technical corrections to various pension-related provisions of the Internal Revenue Code, including provisions relating to: (1) the interest rate assumption for applying pension plan benefit limitations; (2) minimum individual retirement account (IRA) distribution requirements; (3) employer-owned life insurance contracts; (4) the deductibility of contributions to defined benefit and contribution plans; (5) the treatment of distributions from governmental retirement plans for health and long-term care insurance for public safety officers; (6) safe harbor rules for combined pension plans; and (7) the inclusion of employee stock ownership plans (ESOPs) in combined pension plans.Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to issue guidance for allowing a nonspouse pension beneficiary to use a specified life expectancy rule.",2021-06-07T20:07:18Z,
110-hr-7243,110,hr,7243,"To designate the Liberty Memorial at the National World War I Museum in Kansas City, Missouri, as the National World War I Memorial.",Commemorations,2008-10-02,2008-10-07,"Referred to the Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests and Public Lands.",House,"Rep. Cleaver, Emanuel [D-MO-5]",MO,D,C001061,2,"Designates the Liberty Memorial at the National World War I Museum in Kansas City, Missouri, as the National World War I Memorial.",2019-11-15T21:29:55Z,
110-hr-7244,110,hr,7244,Protection Against Wrongful Voter Purges Act,Government Operations and Politics,2008-10-02,2008-10-02,Referred to the House Committee on House Administration.,House,"Rep. Holt, Rush [D-NJ-12]",NJ,D,H001032,0,"Protection Against Wrongful Voter Purges Act - Amends the National Voter Registration Act to establish notice and review requirements for removal of individuals from a list of eligible voters by reason other than death or a change of residence. Requires the Federal Election Commission (FEC) to adopt voluntary guidance with respect to audits of the statewide computerized voter registration list so that each state will be able to ensure that the list: (1) reflects an accurate and complete count of all individuals validly registered to vote in federal elections; and (2) is secure against unauthorized uses. Amends the Help America Vote Act of 2002 to prohibit a state from refusing to register any applicant who has completed the national voter registration application form. Requires the appropriate state or local election official to ensure that, at each polling place for a federal election and on a public website of the election official of each registrar's jurisdiction, a list is available which shows: (1) all individuals registered to vote in that election at all polling places located in the registrar's jurisdiction; and (2) for each such individual, the polling place at which the individual is registered. Permits an individual to request exclusion from the list. Prohibits such list from containing an individual's address.  Provides that this Act shall not apply to a state in which there is no voter registration requirement for individuals in the state with respect to federal elections.",2017-12-14T21:39:55Z,
110-hr-7245,110,hr,7245,Election Software Disclosure Act of 2008,Government Operations and Politics,2008-10-02,2008-10-02,Referred to the House Committee on House Administration.,House,"Rep. Holt, Rush [D-NJ-12]",NJ,D,H001032,0,"Election Software Disclosure Act of 2008 - Amends the Help America Vote Act of 2002 to prohibit a voting system used in a state in a federal election from containing or using any election-dedicated voting system technology: (1) which has not been certified by the state for such use; and (2) which has not been deposited with the appropriate state and local election officials to be held in escrow and disclosed in accordance with this Act.  Requires a state or local election official with whom an election-dedicated voting system technology has been deposited to: (1) hold it in escrow; and (2) disclose information regarding it to a qualified person who has entered into a nondisclosure agreement meeting certain requirements with respect to the technology, or if state law requires such disclosure.",2017-12-14T21:39:55Z,
110-hr-7246,110,hr,7246,Poll Tape Transparency Act of 2008,Government Operations and Politics,2008-10-02,2008-10-02,Referred to the House Committee on House Administration.,House,"Rep. Holt, Rush [D-NJ-12]",NJ,D,H001032,0,"Poll Tape Transparency Act of 2008 - Amends the Help America Vote Act with respect to the requirements for each voting system used in a federal election. Requires the appropriate election official, upon the closing of the polls at each polling place, and under the observation of the certified tabulation observers admitted to the polling place, to: (1) announce the vote orally; (2) post a copy of the poll tape reflecting the totals from each voting machine in the polling place upon which votes were cast; (3) prepare and post a statement of the total number of individuals who appeared at the polling place to cast ballots; and (4) display by noon the following day, at a prominent public location, a copy of each poll tape and statement. Requires display of such information also on the official public websites of the applicable local election official and chief state election official. Specifies similar treatment of ballots cast at early voting sites, absentee ballots, and the daily count of provisional ballots.",2017-12-14T21:39:56Z,
110-hr-7247,110,hr,7247,Vote Tabulation Audit Act of 2008,Government Operations and Politics,2008-10-02,2008-10-02,Referred to the House Committee on House Administration.,House,"Rep. Holt, Rush [D-NJ-12]",NJ,D,H001032,0,"Vote Tabulation Audit Act of 2008 - Amends the Help America Vote Act of 2002 to require states to meet specified standards for transparent and accurate tabulation of votes and aggregation of vote counts in federal elections, including standards for: (1) the treatment of ballots cast at early voting sites as well as absentee ballots and provisional ballots; and (2) mandatory hand recount in case of unresolved discrepancy. Requires the Election Assistance Commission to: (1) reimburse states to cover the costs of carrying out tabulations at certain polling places of votes cast on paper optical scan ballots; and (2) adopt a model format for the posting of the tabulation of votes and aggregate vote counts.",2017-12-14T21:39:56Z,
110-hr-7248,110,hr,7248,Military and Overseas Voting Enhancement Act,Government Operations and Politics,2008-10-02,2008-10-02,Referred to the House Committee on House Administration.,House,"Rep. Holt, Rush [D-NJ-12]",NJ,D,H001032,0,"Military and Overseas Voting Enhancement Act - Amends the Uniformed and Overseas Citizens Absentee Voting Act to require states to accept and process absentee ballots of overseas uniformed services and civilian voters submitted by the voter to a provider of express mail no later than the day before election day for transmission to the appropriate state election official, as long as the ballot is received within 10 days after the election. Requires the Presidential designee to reimburse overseas uniformed services voters for the costs of using a provider of express mail services to transmit the ballot to the official.",2017-12-14T21:39:57Z,
110-hr-7249,110,hr,7249,Renewable Power for Agriculture Incentive Program Act of 2008,Taxation,2008-10-02,2008-10-02,Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.,House,"Rep. Holt, Rush [D-NJ-12]",NJ,D,H001032,0,"Renewable Power for Agriculture Incentive Program Act of 2008 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow a business-related tax credit for excessive fuel costs for creditable fuel (i.e., fossil fuel or electricity) used by a taxpayer in the trade or business of farming. Defines "excessive fuel cost" as the excess amount paid for creditable fuel over the adjusted base price for such fuel (the average price for such fuel on September 6, 2004, for the region in which the taxpayer purchased such fuel). Terminates such credit after 2013.",2018-11-08T23:37:56Z,
110-hr-7250,110,hr,7250,Arctic Climate Preservation Act,Environmental Protection,2008-10-02,2008-10-02,Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Air Quality.,House,"Rep. Inslee, Jay [D-WA-1]",WA,D,I000026,3,"Arctic Climate Preservation Act - Directs the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to: (1) conduct a study of black carbon and organic carbon emissions; and (2) propose regulations under the Clean Air Act to reduce emissions of black carbon. Defines "black carbon" as the strongly light absorbing component of carbonaceous aerosols. Directs the Secretary of State to report to Congress on the amount, type, and direction of all U.S. foreign aid for reducing black carbon pollution. States the policy of the United States with respect to international agreements and treaties relating to the reduction of black carbon emissions, protection of the Arctic environment, the the threat to polar bears from global warming, human rights under the American Declaration of the Rights and Duties of Man, and the reduction of shipping pollution through domestic means and through the International Convention for the Prevention of Pollution From Ships (MARPOL).",2021-06-07T20:07:19Z,