Bills: House of Representatives

H.R.32 - Veterans Outreach Improvement Act of 2009

To amend title 38, United States Code, to improve the outreach activities of the Department of Veterans Affairs, and for other purposes.

H.R.33 - Disability Benefit Fairness Act of 2009

To amend title II of the Social Security Act to eliminate the 5-month waiting period for entitlement to disability benefits and to eliminate reconsideration as an intervening step between initial benefit entitlement decisions and subsequent hearings on the record on such decisions.

H.R.34 - Midnight Rule Act

To delay the implementation of agency rules adopted within the final 90 days of the final term a President serves.

H.R.38 - Riverside-Corona Feeder Water Supply Act

To authorize the Secretary of the Interior to plan, design and construct facilities to provide water for irrigation, municipal, domestic, and other uses from the Bunker Hill Groundwater Basin, Santa Ana River, California, and for other purposes.

H.R.39 - Udall-Eisenhower Arctic Wilderness Act

To preserve the Arctic coastal plain of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, Alaska, as wilderness in recognition of its extraordinary natural ecosystems and for the permanent good of present and future generations of Americans.

H.R.40 - Commission to Study Reparation Proposals for African-Americans Act

To acknowledge the fundamental injustice, cruelty, brutality, and inhumanity of slavery in the United States and the 13 American colonies between 1619 and 1865 and to establish a commission to examine the institution of slavery, subsequently de jure and de facto racial and economic discrimination against African-Americans, and the impact of these forces on living African-Americans, to make recommendations to the Congress on appropriate remedies, and for other purposes.

H.R.41

To provide for Federal research, development, demonstration, and commercial application activities to enable the development of farms that are net producers of both food and energy, and for other purposes.

H.R.42 - Commission on Wartime Relocation and Internment of Latin Americans of Japanese Descent Act

To establish a fact-finding Commission to extend the study of a prior Commission to investigate and determine facts and circumstances surrounding the relocation, internment, and deportation to Axis countries of Latin Americans of Japanese descent from December 1941 through February 1948, and the impact of those actions by the United States, and to recommend appropriate remedies, and for other purposes.

H.R.43 - Medicare Access to Rehabilitation Services Act of 2009

To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to repeal the Medicare outpatient rehabilitation therapy caps.

H.R.45 - Blair Holt's Firearm Licensing and Record of Sale Act of 2009

To provide for the implementation of a system of licensing for purchasers of certain firearms and for a record of sale system for those firearms, and for other purposes.

H.R.47 - Expand and Preserve Home Ownership Through Counseling Act

To establish an Office of Housing Counseling to carry out and coordinate the responsibilities of the Department of Housing and Urban Development regarding counseling on homeownership and rental housing issues, to make grants to entities for providing such counseling, to launch a national housing counseling advertising campaign, and for other purposes.

H.R.48 - Asian Carp Prevention and Control Act

To amend section 42 of title 18, United States Code, popularly known as the Lacey Act, to add certain species of carp to the list of injurious species that are prohibited from being imported or shipped.

H.R.49 - American Energy Independence and Price Reduction Act

To direct the Secretary of the Interior to establish and implement a competitive oil and gas leasing program that will result in an environmentally sound program for the exploration, development, and production of the oil and gas resources of the Coastal Plain of Alaska, and for other purposes.

H.R.50 - Social Security Identity Theft Prevention Act

To protect seniors from identity theft and strengthen our national security by providing for the issuance of a secure Social Security card.

H.R.51 - Eradicating Asian Carp in the Great Lakes Study Act of 2009

To direct the Director of the United States Fish and Wildlife Service to conduct a study of the feasibility of a variety of approaches to eradicating Asian carp from the Great Lakes and their tributary and connecting waters.

H.R.52 - Tropical Forest and Coral Conservation Act

To amend the Tropical Forest Conservation Act of 1998 to provide debt relief to developing countries that take action to protect tropical forests and coral reefs and associated coastal marine ecosystems, to reauthorize such Act through fiscal year 2011, and for other purposes.

H.R.53 - Bad Polluters Act of 2009

To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to deny refinery expensing to owners of refineries that are permitted to increase the discharge of pollutants into the Great Lakes.

H.R.54 - Great Lakes Water Protection Act

To amend the Federal Water Pollution Control Act to establish a deadline for restricting sewage dumping into the Great Lakes and to fund programs and activities for improving wastewater discharges into the Great Lakes.

H.R.55 - Commuter Act of 2009

To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow employers a refundable credit against income tax for 50 percent of the employer's cost of providing tax-free transit passes to employees.

H.R.56

To permit certain school districts in Illinois to be reconstituted for purposes of determining assistance under the Impact Aid program.

H.R.57 - Terrorist Rewards Enhancement Act of 2009

To amend the State Department Basic Authorities Act of 1956 to permit eligibility in certain circumstances for an officer or employee of a foreign government to receive a reward under the Department of State Rewards Program.

H.R.58 - Green Schools Act

To promote green schools.

H.R.59 - Ex-Offenders Voting Rights Act of 2009

To secure the Federal voting rights of certain qualified ex-offenders who have served their sentences.

H.R.60 - Early Detection of Dyslexia in Children Act of 2009

To require the Secretary of Education to conduct a study and submit to Congress a report on methods for identifying and treating children with dyslexia in kindergarten through third grade.