Economic Recovery Act, 2008
Latest action · Sep 26, 2008 Referred to the Committee on Appropriations.
Progress
Where this bill reached, and when. A stage with no date was not reached; one that failed a vote and later carried shows the date it carried.
- IntroducedSep 26, 2008
- Passed SenateNot reached
- Passed HouseNot reached
- To the PresidentNot reached
- Became lawNot reached
Summary
Economic Recovery Act, 2008 - Makes emergency supplemental appropriations for FY2008 for infrastructure, energy, and economic recovery to: (1) the Department of Agriculture; (2) the Department of Commerce; (3) the Department of Justice (DOJ); (4) the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA); (5) the Legal Services Corporation; (6) the Department of Defense (DOD) - Civil Corps of Engineers; (7) the Department of the Interior; (8) the Department of Energy (DOE); (9) the Department of the Treasury, including the Office of Inspector General; (10) the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC); (11) the General Services Administration (GSA); (12) the Small Business Administration (SBA); (13) the Department of Homeland Security (DHS); (14) the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA); (15) the Department of Labor (DOL); (16) the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS); (17) the Department of Education; (18) the legislative branch; (19) the Department of Transportation (DOT); and (20) the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD).
Makes supplemental appropriations for FY2008 to provide a temporary increase in benefits under the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program.
Makes supplemental appropriations for FY2008 to provide a temporary: (1) increase in the Medicaid federal medical assistance percentage (FMAP) under the Social Security Act; and (2) reinstatement of authority to provide federal matching payments for state spending of child support incentive payments.
Makes supplemental appropriations for FY2008 to extend the period of emergency unemployment compensation (EUC).
Exempts weeks of unemployment between enactment of this Act and December 8, 2009, from the prohibition in the Federal-State Extended Unemployment Compensation Act of 1970 against federal matching payments to a state for the first week in an individual's eligibility period for which extended compensation or sharable regular compensation is paid if the state law of such state provides for payment (at any time or under any circumstances) of regular compensation to an individual for his or her first week of otherwise compensable unemployment. (Thus allows temporary federal matching for the first week of extended benefits for states with no waiting period.)
National Park Centennial Fund Act - Establishes in the Treasury the National Park Centennial Fund.
Designates each amount in the Economic Recovery Act, 2008 as: (1) an emergency requirement and necessary to meet emergency needs; and (2) a supplemental appropriation for FY2008, or, if enacted after FY2008, for FY2009.
Recorded votes 1
Newest first. Open one to see how every member voted.
| Roll call | Question | Result | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Senate 206 | On the Motion to Proceed S. 3604 | Motion to Proceed Rejected52–42 | Sep 26, 2008 |
Cosponsors 1
Members who signed on, in the order they did. All signed on Sep 26, 2008.
| Seat | Cosponsor | Signed on | |
|---|---|---|---|
| D-WV | Robert C. Byrd | Original | Sep 26, 2008 |
Actions 5
Everything that happened, newest first.
- Sep 26, 2008Introduced in Senate
- Sep 26, 2008Introduced in the Senate, read twice. (text of measure as introduced in Senate: CR S9660-9668)
- Sep 26, 2008Motion to proceed to consideration of measure made in Senate by Unanimous Consent. (consideration: CR S9574-9577)
- Sep 26, 2008Motion to proceed to consideration of measure, having failed to achieve the required 60 votes in the affirmative, was not agreed to in Senate by Yea-Nay Vote. 52 - 42. Record Vote Number: 206.
- Sep 26, 2008Referred to the Committee on Appropriations.
Related bills 3
Companion bills and other measures the record links to this one.
| Bill | Title | Relationship | Latest action |
|---|---|---|---|
| S 3688 | A bill to provide for additional emergency unemployment compensation, to amend the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008 to authorize loans to automobile manufacturers and component suppliers, and for other purposes. | Related bill | Nov 18, 2008 |
| S 3689 | Economic Recovery Act of 2008 | Related bill | Nov 19, 2008 |
| HR 7110 | Job Creation and Unemployment Relief Act of 2008 | Related bill | Nov 18, 2008 |
Subjects
Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Economics and Public Finance.
- Agriculture and Food
- Airports
- Alternative energy sources
- American Samoa
- Animals
- Architecture and the disabled
- Armed Forces and National Security
- Army Corps of Engineers
- Asbestos
- Border patrols
- Boundaries
- Broadband
- Capitol (Washington, D.C.)
- Cattle
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
- Charter schools
- Child support
- Coast guard
- Commerce
- Commodity Futures Trading Commission
- Community policing
- Congress
- Congressional agencies
- Congressional investigations
- Construction costs
- Corporate reorganizations
- Crime and Law Enforcement
- Defense budgets
- Department of Agriculture
- Department of Commerce
- Department of Defense
- Department of Education
- Department of Health and Human Services
- Department of Homeland Security
- Department of Housing and Urban Development
- Department of Justice
- Department of Labor
- Department of the Interior
- Department of the Treasury
- Department of Transportation
- Disabled
- Dislocated workers
- Distance education
- District of Columbia
- Drug abuse
- Drug law enforcement
- Economic impact statements
- Economic stabilization
- Economics and Public Finance
- Education
- Education of the disadvantaged
- Elementary and secondary education
- Energy
- Energy efficiency
- Environmental Protection
- Environmental Protection Agency
- Families
- Farms
- Federal aid to education
- Federal aid to housing
- Federal aid to law enforcement
- Federal aid to transportation
- Federal aid to water pollution control
- Federal aid to water resources development
- Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)
- Federal installations
- Federal office buildings
- Federally-guaranteed loans
- Fees
- Finance and Financial Sector
- Fines (Penalties)
- Food relief
- Food safety
- Foreclosure
- General Services Administration
- Government lending
- Government Operations and Politics
- Government trust funds
- Hazardous wastes
- Health
- Highway finance
- Housing and Community Development
- Housing authorities
- Hydroelectric power
- Ice breaking operations
- Independent regulatory commissions
- Infrastructure
- Inspectors general
- Intergovernmental fiscal relations
- Judicial officers
- Labor and Employment
- Latin America
- Law
- Legal Services Corporation
- Loan defaults
- Maintenance and repair
- Mass rapid transit
- Medicaid
- Medical research
- Mexico
- Minimum wages
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration
- National Institutes of Health (NIH)
- National parks
- National Railroad Passenger Corporation (Amtrak)
- Northern Mariana Islands
- Nuclear facilities
- Nuclear security measures
- Nuclear weapons
- Nutrition
- Old age assistance
- Patrol ships
- Police
- Police training
- Protection of animals
- Psychiatric hospitals
- Public housing
- Public Lands and Natural Resources
- Railroad passenger traffic
- Reprogramming of appropriated funds
- Research centers
- Revolving funds
- Road construction
- Rural economic development
- Rural housing
- School buildings
- Science, Technology, Communications
- Sewage disposal
- Shipbuilding
- Small business
- Small Business Administration
- Social Welfare
- Space activities
- Space exploration
- Space flight
- Space shuttles
- State laws
- Supplemental appropriations
- Telemedicine
- Unemployment
- Unemployment insurance
- Uranium
- Veterans' employment
- Waste water treatment
- Water Resources Development
- WIC program
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