| HB2093 | Engross
Sine Die | Clean Coastal Environment and Public Health Act of 2009 - (Sec. 2) Amends the Federal Water Pollution Control Act (commonly known as the Clean Water Act) to require the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to specify, in performance criteria for mon...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2009-08-07
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works. |
| HCR171 | Engross
Sine Die | Permits the White House Commission on Remembrance to sponsor a free public event on the Capitol grounds on September 26, 2009, to honor military personnel who have died in service to the United States and to acknowledge the sacrifice of their familie...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2009-08-06
Message on Senate action sent to the House. |
| HB3293 | Engross
Sine Die | Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2010 - Makes appropriations for the Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and related agencies for FY2010. Title I: De...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2009-08-04
Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 149. |
| HB3269 | Engross
Sine Die | Corporate and Financial Institution Compensation Fairness Act of 2009 - (Sec. 2) Amends the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 to require that any proxy or consent or authorization for an annual shareholders meeting provide for a separate shareholder vo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2009-08-03
Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs. |
| HJR12 | Engross
Sine Die | Supports the designation of Gospel Music Heritage Month (September 2009), which would recognize the contributions to U.S. culture derived from the rich heritage of gospel music and gospel music artists.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2009-08-03
Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. |
| HB2728 | Engross
Sine Die | William Orton Law Library Improvement and Modernization Act - Authorizes appropriations to the Library of Congress for the maintenance and administration of the operations of the Law Library of the Library of Congress, including the cataloguing of th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2009-08-03
Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Rules and Administration. |
| HB2749 | Engross
Sine Die | Food Safety Enhancement Act of 2009 - (Sec. 5) Exempts food and facilities regulated by the Secretary of Agriculture under specified acts from the requirements of this Act. (Sec. 6) Exempts specified alcohol-related facilities from the requirements o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2009-08-03
Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. |
| HB2510 | Engross
Sine Die | Absentee Ballot Track, Receive, and Confirm Act - Amends the Help America Vote Act of 2002 to direct the Election Assistance Commission (EAC) to make a payment to reimburse a state for the costs incurred in establishing, if the state so chooses, an a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2009-08-03
Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Rules and Administration. |
| HCR172 | Engross
Sine Die | Declares that when the House adjourns on any legislative day from Friday, July 31, 2009, Saturday, August 1, 2009, or Sunday, August 2, 2009, it stand adjourned until 2 p.m. on Tuesday, September 8, 2009. Declares that when the Senate recesses or adj...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2009-07-31
Message on Senate action sent to the House. |
| HB2623 | Engross
Sine Die | Amends the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 to authorize the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to censure, place limitations on the activities or functions of, or investigate any person who at the time of specified alleged misconduct was: (1) a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2009-07-30
Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs. |
| HB2034 | Engross
Sine Die | Rural Homeowners Protection Act of 2009 - Amends the Doug Bereuter Section 502 Single Family Housing Loan Guarantee Act and the Housing Act of 1949 to: (1) increase from 1% to 2% the guarantee fee on loans for housing and buildings on adequate farms;...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2009-07-30
Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs. |
| HB3139 | Engross
Sine Die | National Flood Insurance Program Extension Act of 2009 - (Sec. 2) Amends the National Flood Insurance Act of 1968 to extend the national flood insurance program from September 30, 2008, through March 31, 2010. (Sec. 3) Extends through FY2010 the pilo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2009-07-30
Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs. |
| HB2529 | Engross
Sine Die | Neighborhood Preservation Act - Amends the Federal Deposit Insurance Act to authorize any depository institution (or affiliate) to lease, including lease with an option to purchase, to any individual for up to five years an interest in residential pr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2009-07-30
Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs. |
| HB556 | Engross
Sine Die | Southern Sea Otter Recovery and Research Act - (Sec. 2) Requires the Secretary of the Interior, acting through the United States Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) and the United States Geological Survey (USGS), to carry out a Recovery and Research Pr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2009-07-29
Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. |
| HB1803 | Engross
Sine Die | Veterans Business Center Act of 2009 - (Sec. 2) Amends the Small Business Act to direct the Administrator of the Small Business Administration (SBA) to establish within the SBA a Veterans Business Center program (program), headed by a Director, to pr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2009-07-29
Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship. |
| HB1293 | Engross
Sine Die | Disabled Veterans Home Improvement and Structural Alteration Grant Increase Act of 2009 - Increases from: (1) $4,100 to $6,800 the amount authorized to be paid by the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) for improvements and structural alterations for...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2009-07-29
Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs. |
| HB1807 | Engross
Sine Die | Educating Entrepreneurs through Today's Technology Act - Amends the Small Business Act to direct the Administrator of the Small Business Administration (SBA) to contract with qualified vendors for entrepreneurial training content, the development of ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2009-07-29
Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship. |
| SCR29 | Engross
Sine Die | Expresses the sense of Congress that Jack Johnson (the first African-American professional boxer to hold the title of Heavyweight Champion of the World) should receive a posthumous pardon to expunge from the annals of American criminal justice a raci...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2009-07-29
Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection. |
| SCR35 | Engross
Sine Die | Authorizes the printing as a Senate document of the 24th edition of the pocket version of the U.S. Constitution.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2009-07-29
Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection. |
| SB1390 | Engross
Sine Die | National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2010 - Division A: Department of Defense Authorizations - Title I: Procurement - Subtitle A: Authorization of Appropriations - (Sec. 101) Authorizes appropriations for FY2010 for the Army, Navy and M...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2009-07-28
Held at the desk. |
| HB2770 | Engross
Sine Die | Veterans Nonprofit Research and Education Corporations Enhancement Act of 2009 - (Sec. 2) Amends federal provisions concerning the establishment at Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) medical facilities of nonprofit research and education corporation...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2009-07-28
Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs. |
| HB3155 | Engross
Sine Die | Caregiver Assistance and Resource Enhancement Act - (Sec. 2) Directs the Secretary of Veterans Affairs (VA) to develop and carry out a program of support services for family and non-family caregivers providing noninstitutional extended care to disabl...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2009-07-28
Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs. |
| HB2182 | Engross
Sine Die | Enhanced Oversight of State and Local Economic Recovery Act - Amends the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 to require federal agencies receiving funds under such Act, subject to guidance from the Director of the Office of Management and ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2009-07-27
Read twice. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 130. |
| HB1511 | Engross
Sine Die | Torture Victims Relief Reauthorization Act of 2009 - Amends the Torture Victims Relief Act of 1998 to authorize FY2010-FY2011 appropriations for: (1) the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) for grants to domestic treatment centers for the c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2009-07-23
Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations. |
| HB2920 | Engross
Sine Die | Statutory Pay-As-You-Go Act of 2009 - (Sec. 4) Requires a Pay-As-You-Go (PAYGO) Act to include by reference an estimate of its budgetary effects as determined by the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 (CBA), if timely submitted for printing in the Cong...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2009-07-23
Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Budget. |
| HB1106 | Engross
Sine Die | Helping Families Save Their Homes Act of 2009 - Title I: Prevention of Mortgage Foreclosures - Subtitle A: Modification of Residential Mortgages - (Sec. 101) Amends federal bankruptcy law governing a Chapter 13 debtor (adjustment of debts of an indiv...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2009-07-23
Referred to the Subcommittee on Commercial and Administrative Law. |
| HB1675 | Engross
Sine Die | Frank Melville Supportive Housing Investment Act of 2009 - (Sec. 2) Amends the Cranston-Gonzalez National Affordable Housing Act (the Act) to revise requirements for supportive housing for persons with disabilities. (Retains authority to provide such...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2009-07-23
Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs. |
| HB1622 | Engross
Sine Die | Directs the Secretary of Energy (DOE) to: (1) conduct a five-year program of natural gas vehicle research, development, and demonstration; (2) coordinate with the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) regarding such program; (3) ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2009-07-22
Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. |
| HCR164 | Engross
Sine Die | Recognizes the historic and continued contribution of the Food and Nutrition Service and its employees. Commends the efforts of states, territories, local governments, and nonprofit charitable and faith-based organizations to end hunger and provide ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2009-07-22
Message on Senate action sent to the House. |
| SCR11 | Engross
Sine Die | Condemns all forms of anti-Semitism and rejects attempts to rationalize anti-Jewish hatred or attacks as a justifiable expression of disaffection over political events in the Middle East or elsewhere. Decries the comparison of Jews to Nazis perpetrat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2009-07-21
To House Foreign Affairs Committee |
| HB1404 | Engross
Sine Die | Federal Land Assistance, Management and Enhancement Act or FLAME Act - (Sec. 2) Establishes in the Treasury the Federal Land Assistance, Management, and Enhancement Fund (Flame Fund). Requires amounts in the Flame Fund to be made available to the Sec...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2009-07-21
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Hearings held. |
| SCR30 | Engross
Sine Die | Commends the Bureau of Labor Statistics on the occasion of its 125th anniversary for the exemplary service its administrators and employees provide in collecting and disseminating vital information for the United States.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2009-07-21
Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection. |
| HB80 | Engross
Sine Die | Captive Primate Safety Act - Amends the Lacey Act Amendments of 1981 to add nonhuman primates to the definition of "prohibited wildlife species" for purposes of the prohibition against the sale or purchase of such species in interstate or f...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2009-07-20
Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 118. |
| HB3170 | Engross
Sine Die | - 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) Pro...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2009-07-20
Received in the Senate. Read twice. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 115. |
| HB1018 | Engross
Sine Die | Restore Our American Mustangs Act - Amends the Wild Free-Roaming Horses and Burros Act to revise provisions concerning the management of such animals. (Sec. 5) Requires the Secretary of the Interior (for Bureau of Land Management [BLM] administered l...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2009-07-20
Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. |
| HB388 | Engross
Sine Die | Crane Conservation Act of 2009 - Requires the Secretary of the Interior to provide financial assistance for approved projects relating to the conservation of cranes, using amounts in the Crane Conservation Fund established by this Act. Allows a proj...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2009-07-20
Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 119. |
| HB409 | Engross
Sine Die | Provides for the conveyance of certain Bureau of Land Management (BLM) land in Nevada to the Nevada Speedway, LLC. Requires the Secretary of the Interior to complete an appraisal of the land and all costs associated with such appraisal to be paid by...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2009-07-20
Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. |
| HCR156 | Engross
Sine Die | Reiterates condemnation of the 1994 attack on the Argentine Jewish Mutual Association (AMIA) Jewish Community Center in Buenos Aires, Argentina, honors the victims of the attack, and expresses sympathy to the victims' relatives. Applauds the governme...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2009-07-20
Received in the Senate and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations. |
| HB1044 | Engross
Sine Die | Port Chicago Naval Magazine National Memorial Enhancement Act of 2009 - Amends the Port Chicago National Memorial Act of 1992 to require the Secretary of the Interior to administer the Port Chicago Naval Magazine National Memorial as a unit of the Na...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2009-07-16
Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Armed Services. |
| HB402 | Engross
Sine Die | Designates the Department of Veterans Affairs Outpatient Clinic in Knoxville, Tennessee, as the "William C. Tallent Department of Veterans Affairs Outpatient Clinic."
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2009-07-15
Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs. |
| HCR127 | Engross
Sine Die | Supports the goals and ideals of Caribbean-American Heritage Month (in the month of June). Affirms that: (1) the contributions of Caribbean-Americans are a significant part of the history, progress, and heritage of the United States; and (2) the ethn...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2009-07-10
Received in the Senate and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. |
| HCR131 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires the Architect of the Capitol (AOC) to engrave the Pledge of Allegiance to the Flag and the National Motto of "In God we trust" in the Capitol Visitor Center, in accordance with an engraving plan setting forth the design and locatio...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2009-07-10
Message on Senate action sent to the House. |
| HCR135 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires the Architect of the Capitol, subject to the approval of the House Committee on House Administration and the Senate Committee on Rules and Administration, to design, procure, and place in a prominent location in Emancipation Hall in the Capi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2009-07-10
Message on Senate action sent to the House. |
| HCR142 | Engross
Sine Die | Expresses support for the annual National Men's Health Week.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2009-07-09
Received in the Senate and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. |
| HB2454 | Engross
Sine Die | American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009 - Sets forth provisions concerning clean energy, energy efficiency, reducing global warming pollution, transitioning to a clean energy economy, and providing for agriculture and forestry related offsets....
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2009-07-07
Read the second time. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 97. |
| HCR89 | Engross
Sine Die | Supports the goals of the 2009 Prague Conference on Holocaust Era Assets. Applauds the government of the Czech Republic for its decision to host the Conference. Urges the countries in Central and Eastern Europe which have not already done so to retur...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2009-07-06
Received in the Senate and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations. |
| SCR31 | Engross
Sine Die | Declares that when the Senate recesses or adjourns on any day from Thursday, June 25, 2009 through Sunday, June 28, 2009, it stand recessed or adjourned until noon on Monday, July 6, 2009. Declares that when the House adjourns on any legislative day...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2009-06-26
Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection. |
| SB962 | Engross
Sine Die | Enhanced Partnership with Pakistan Act of 2009 - (Sec. 4) States that it is U.S. policy to: (1) support the consolidation of democracy in Pakistan; (2) build a long-term relationship with Pakistan; (3) further the economic development of Pakistan by ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2009-06-25
Held at the desk. |
| SB1358 | Engross
Sine Die | Authorizes the Director of the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) to use funds made available under provisions of the Act commonly known as the Trademark Act of 1946 (relating to fees) to support the processing of patents and other act...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2009-06-25
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB1172 | Engross
Sine Die | Directs the Secretary of Veterans Affairs (VA) to include on the VA Internet website: (1) a list of organizations that provide scholarships to veterans and their survivors and, for each such organization, a link to their Internet website; (2) a state...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2009-06-24
Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs. |
