Federal & State Legislation
- H.R.
2426: Menu Education and Labeling Act
111th
Congress, 1st Session
Official Title: To
amend the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act
to extend the food labeling requirements of the
Nutrition Labeling and Education Act of 1990 to
enable customers to make informed choices about
the nutritional content of standard menu items
in large chain restaurants.
- S.
560: Employee Free Choice Act of 2009
111th
Congress, 1st Session
Official Title: A
bill to amend the National Labor Relations Act
to establish an efficient system to enable
employees to form, join, or assist labor
organizations, to provide for mandatory
injunctions for unfair labor practices during
the organizing efforts, and for other
purposes.
- H.R.
1409: Employee Free Choice Act of 2009
111th
Congress, 1st Session
Official Title: To
amend the National Labor Relations Act to
establish an efficient system to enable
employees to form, join, or assist labor
organizations, to provide for mandatory
injunctions for unfair labor practices during
organizing efforts, and for other purposes.
- H.R.
3962: Affordable Health Care for America
Act
111th Congress, 1st
Session
Official Title: To provide
affordable, quality health care for all
Americans and reduce the growth in health care
spending, and for other purposes. - H.R.
3590: Patient Protection and Affordable Care
Act
111th Congress, 1st
Session
Official
Title: To amend the Internal Revenue Code of
1986 to
modify the
first-time homebuyers credit in the case of
members of the Armed Forces
and certain other Federal employees, and for
other purposes.
- H.R.
11: Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act of
2009
111th Congress, 1st
Session
Official Title: To amend title
VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Age
Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967, and
to modify the operation of the Americans with
Disabilities Act of 1990 and the Rehabilitation
Act of 1973, to clarify that a discriminatory
compensation decision or other practice that is
unlawful under such Acts occurs each time
compensation is paid pursuant to the
discriminatory compensation decision or other
practice, to amend the Fair Labor Standards Act
of 1938 to provide more effective remedies to
victims of discrimination in the payment of
wages on the basis of sex, and for other
purposes.
- S.
181: Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act of
2009
111th Congress, 1st
Session
Official Title: A bill to amend
title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and
the Age Discrimination in Employment Act of
1967, and to modify the operation of the
Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 and the
Rehabilitation Act of 1973, to clarify that a
discriminatory compensation decision or other
practice that is unlawful under such Acts
occurs each time compensation is paid pursuant
to the discriminatory compensation decision or
other practice, and for other purposes.
- H.
R. 1324: Child Nutrition Promotion and School
Lunch Protection Act of 2009
111th Congress,
1st Session
Official Title: To amend the
Child Nutrition Act of 1966 to improve the
nutrition and health of schoolchildren and
protect the Federal investment in the national
school lunch and breakfast programs by updating
the national school nutrition standards for
foods and beverages sold outside of school
meals to conform to current nutrition science.
- S.
934: Child Nutrition Promotion and School Lunch
Protection Act of 2009
111th Congress, 1st
Session
Official Title: A bill to amend
the Child Nutrition Act of 1966 to improve the
nutrition and health of schoolchildren and
protect the Federal investment in the national
school lunch and breakfast programs by updating
the national school nutrition standards for
foods and beverages sold outside of school
meals to conform to current nutrition science.
- H.R.
800: Farming Flexibility Act of 2009
111th
Congress, 1st Session
Official Title: To
amend the Food, Conservation, and Energy Act of
2008 to authorize producers on a farm to
produce fruits and vegetables for processing on
the base acres of the farm.