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Disabled Military Retiree Relief Act of 2009 [HB-2990]
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Disabled Military Retiree Relief Act of 2009 - Title I: Compensation and Benefits for Members of the Armed Forces and Military Retirees - Subtitle A: Bonuses and Special and Incentive Pays - (Sec. 101) Extends through 2010 specified authorities currently scheduled to expire at the end of 2009 with respect to certain special pay and bonus programs within the regular and reserve Armed Forces. Subtitle B: Retired Pay Benefits - (Sec. 111) Provides for the recomputation of retired pay and adjustment of the retired grade of reserve retirees recalled
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Sponsored by: Rep. Henry C. Johnson
Referred To The Subcommittee On Military Personnel. on 08/03/2009
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To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide the nonbusiness energy property and residential energy efficient property tax incentives to residents of certain possessions of the Unites States and other areas. [HB-2886]
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Amends the Internal Revenue Code to specify that the tax credits for nonbusiness energy property and for residential energy efficient property are available to taxpayers in certain U.S. possessions and other areas, including: (1) Guam, American Samoa, the Northern Marianas Islands; the U.S. Virgin Islands, and Puerto Rico; (2) the Republic of the Marshall Islands, the Federated States of Micronesia, and the Republic of Palau; and (3) military bases, embassies, and other facilities owned or leased by the U.S. government.
Sponsored by: Rep. Gregorio Sablan
Referred To The House Committee On Ways And Means. on 06/16/2009
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Ocean Thermal Energy Tax and Energy Credits Act of 2009 [HB-2885]
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Ocean Thermal Energy Tax and Energy Credits Act of 2009 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) allow a tax credit for producing electricity from ocean thermal energy; (2) specify that such tax credit is available to taxpayers in certain possessions and other areas under U.S. control; and (3) allow an energy tax credit for investment in equipment which uses ocean thermal energy to generate electricity, to cool (or provide cold water for use in) a structure, or to produce fresh water.
Sponsored by: Rep. Gregorio Sablan
Referred To The House Committee On Ways And Means. on 06/16/2009
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To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to clarify that electricity produced in certain possessions of the United States and other areas is eligible for the credit for electricity produced from certain renewable resources. [HB-2884]
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Amends the Internal Revenue Code to specify that the tax credit for producing electricity from renewable resources is available to taxpayers in various possessions and other areas of the United States, including: (1) Guam, American Samoa, the Northern Marianas Islands, the U.S. Virgin Islands, and Puerto Rico; (2) the Republic of the Marshall Islands, the Federated States of Micronesia, and the Republic of Palau; or (3) any U.S. installation worldwide, including miltary bases.
Sponsored by: Rep. Gregorio Sablan
Referred To The House Committee On Ways And Means. on 06/16/2009
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To permit each of the territories of the United States to provide and furnish a statue honoring a citizen of the territory to be placed in Statuary Hall in the same manner as statues honoring citizens of the States are placed in Statuary Hall. [HB-2791]
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Permits statues honoring deceased citizens of U.S. territories (American Samoa, Guam, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands) to be placed in Statuary Hall of the U.S. Capitol. Limits such statues to one per jurisdiction.
Sponsored by: Rep. Gregorio Sablan
Referred To The House Committee On House Administration. on 06/10/2009
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Territorial Health Parity Act of 2009 [HB-2680]
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Territorial Health Parity Act of 2009 - Amends title XI of the Social Security Act (SSA) to sunset at the end of FY2009 the limitation on Medicaid payments to Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands, and American Samoa. Amends SSA title XIX (Medicaid) to: (1) repeal, as of the end of FY2011, the federal medical assistance percentage (FMAP) of 50% that applies to such territories; and (2) set the new FMAP for such territories at one determined by the Secretary of Health and Human Services (Secretary) in consultation with
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Sponsored by: Rep. Gregorio Sablan
Referred To The Subcommittee On Health. on 06/04/2009
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To convey certain submerged lands to the Government of the Virgin Islands, and for other purposes. [HB-2659]
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Conveys to the U.S. Virgin Islands specified submerged lands in the area between the island of Saint Croix and the islands of Saint Thomas and Saint John. States that for purposes of U.S. laws, and except as otherwise provided by international law or any international agreement in force for the United States, the territorial waters of the U.S. Virgin Islands shall consist of all waters in the belt of the seas measured from the line of ordinary low water along that portion of the coast which is in direct contact with the open sea and the line marking
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Sponsored by: Rep. Gregorio Sablan
Referred To The Subcommittee On Insular Affairs, Oceans And Wildlife. on 06/05/2009
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To extend the supplemental security income program to Puerto Rico, the United States Virgin Islands, Guam, and American Samoa, and for other purposes. [HB-2582]
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Amends the Social Security Amendments of 1972 to extend the Supplemental Security Income program under title XVI of the Social Security Act to Puerto Rico, the United States Virgin Islands, Guam, and America Samoa.
Sponsored by: Rep. Gregorio Sablan
Sponsor Introductory Remarks On Measure. (cr E1248) on 05/21/2009
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To amend the Energy Policy Act of 2005 to include American Samoa, Guam, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, Puerto Rico, and the Virgin Islands in certain efforts to reduce diesel emissions. [HB-2386]
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Amends the Energy Policy Act of 2005 to: (1) make states (including American Samoa, Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands, Puerto Rico, and the Virgin Islands) that represent or provide pollution reduction or educational services to persons or organizations that own or operate diesel fleets, or that have the promotion of transportation or air quality as their principal purpose, eligible for grants and loans for diesel emission reductions; and (2) require the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to allocate to American Samoa, Guam,
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Sponsored by: Rep. Gregorio Sablan
Referred To The Subcommittee On Energy And Environment. on 05/14/2009
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To require the Secretary of Energy to assemble a team of technical, policy, and financial experts to address the energy needs of the insular areas of the United States and the Freely Associated States through the development of action plans aimed at reducing reliance on imported fossil fuels and increasing use of indigenous clean-energy resources, and for other purposes. [HB-2385]
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Requires the Secretary of Energy, acting through the Assistant Secretary of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, to assemble a team of technical, policy, and financial experts to address the energy needs of Puerto Rico, Guam, American Samoa, the Northern Mariana Islands, the Federated States of Micronesia, the Republic of the Marshall Islands, the Republic of Palau, and the U.S. Virgin Islands to: (1) reduce reliance and expenditures on imported fossil fuels; (2) increase the use of indigenous, nonfossil fuel energy sources; (3) improve the performance
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Sponsored by: Rep. Gregorio Sablan
Referred To The Subcommittee On Energy And Environment. on 05/14/2009
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To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide a special rule for allocating the cover over of distilled spirits taxes between Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands. [HB-2122]
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Amends the Internal Revenue Code to require the forfeiture of any amount covered into the treasury of either the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico or the U.S. Virgin Islands with respect to an article containing distilled spirits if the Secretary of the Treasury determines that either jurisdiction provided an unreasonable subsidy with respect to the production of such distilled spirits.
Sponsored by: Rep. Luis V. Gutierrez
Referred To The House Committee On Ways And Means. on 04/27/2009
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Children's Health Insurance Program Reauthorization Act of 2009 [HB-2]
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Children's Health Insurance Program Reauthorization Act of 2009 - (Sec. 3) Makes the amendments made by this Act effective on April 1, 2009, regardless of whether final regulations have been promulgated to carry them out.Allows certain state plans under titles XIX (Medicaid) or XXI (State Children's Health Insurance Program) (SCHIP, referred to in this Act as CHIP) of the Social Security Act (SSA) that require state legislation to meet additional requirements imposed by this Act additional time to make required plan changes.Provides for coordination
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Sponsored by: Rep. Gerald E. Connolly
Became Public Law No: 111-3. on 02/04/2009
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Judicial District of the Virgin Islands Act of 2009 [HB-1991]
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Judicial District of the Virgin Islands Act of 2009 - Amends the federal judicial code to establish a two-judge Article III court in the Virgin Islands (with court held in Christiansted for the Saint Croix Division, and in Charlotte-Amalie for the Saint Thomas and Saint John Division). Requires pleadings and procedures to be conducted in the English language. Amends the Revised Organic Act of the Virgin Islands to state that: (1) the judicial power of the Virgin Islands shall be vested in an appellate court and lower local courts as may have been
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Sponsored by: Rep. Donna M. Christensen
Referred To The Subcommittee On Courts And Competition Policy. on 05/26/2009
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To amend the Safe Drinking Water Act to increase the percentage of State revolving loan funds reserved for American Samoa, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, Guam, and the Virgin Islands. [HB-1890]
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Amends the Safe Drinking Water Act to increase (from .33 to .5) the percentage of the aggregate amount made available for state drinking water treatment revolving loan funds in a fiscal year that shall be allotted to American Samoa, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, Guam, and the Virgin Islands.
Sponsored by: Rep. Gregorio Sablan
Referred To The Subcommittee On Energy And Environment. on 04/21/2009
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To amend the Federal Water Pollution Control Act to reserve funding for American Samoa, the Northern Marianas Islands, Guam, and the Virgin Islands. [HB-1889]
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Amends the Federal Water Pollution Control Act to reserve 0.5% of state pollution control revolving fund assistance for projects in American Samoa, the Northern Marianas Islands, Guam, and the Virgin Islands.
Sponsored by: Rep. Gregorio Sablan
Referred To The Subcommittee On Water Resources And Environment. on 04/03/2009
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Omnibus Public Land Management Act of 2009 [HB-146]
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Omnibus Public Land Management Act of 2009 - Title I: Additions to the National Wilderness Preservation System - Subtitle A: Wild Monongahela Wilderness - (Sec. 1001) Designates specified federal lands in the Monongahela National Forest, West Virginia, as wilderness and as either a new component, or an addition to an existing component, of the National Wilderness Preservation System. Authorizes the Secretary of Agriculture to continue the competitive running event permitted from 2003 through 2007 in the vicinity of the boundaries of the Dolly Sods
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Sponsored by: Rep. James R. Langevin
Became Public Law No: 111-11. on 03/30/2009
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Summer of Service Act of 2009 [HB-1153]
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Summer of Service Act of 2009 - Amends the National and Community Service Act of 1990 to create Summer of Service programs providing at least 100 hours of summer community service learning opportunities to youth who will subsequently enroll in grades six through nine. Requires the Chief Executive Officer of the Corporation for National and Community Service to provide competitive three-year grants to: (1) states under a State Grant program; and (2) public or private organizations under a National Direct Grant program, when a state does not apply
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Sponsored by: Rep. Raul M. Grijalva
Referred To The Subcommittee On Healthy Families And Communities. on 04/22/2009
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Semester of Service Act [HB-1152]
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Semester of Service Act - Amends the National and Community Service Act of 1990 to direct the Chief Executive Officer of the Corporation for National and Community Service to award competitive matching grants to local educational agencies or their nonprofit partners and, through them, competitive subgrants to schools or their nonprofit partners for Semester of Service programs that allow high school juniors and seniors to earn academic credit for service-learning that meets unmet human, educational, environmental, or public safety needs in their
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Sponsored by: Rep. Raul M. Grijalva
Referred To The Subcommittee On Healthy Families And Communities. on 04/22/2009
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American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 [HB-1]
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- (Sec. 7001) Amends the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008 (the Act) to direct the Secretary of the Treasury to require each entity receiving financial assistance under the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) to meet specified standards for executive compensation and corporate governance of such entity during the period in which any obligation arising from TARP financial assistance remains outstanding, including: (1) limits on compensation that exclude incentives for senior executive officers of the TARP recipient to take unnecessary
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Sponsored by: Rep. Nydia M. Velazquez
Signed By President. on 02/17/2009
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Territory Economic Development Tax Credit Act [S.4783]
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Establishes a new tax credit for wages and tangible investments made by U.S. domestic corporations with branches operating in U.S. territories. It requires that 80% of credible income must be derived from a territory during a 3-year period, and 75% must come from an active trade or business in a territory. The credit is equal to 40% of eligible wages and benefits paid or provided to employees in the territory, subject to certain limitations.
Sponsored by: Sen. Robert Menendez
Read Twice And Referred To The Committee On Finance. on 10/01/2020