2nd Quarter - Report

UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON SYSTEM for UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON SYSTEM

Firm
Client
Income
—
Expenses
$30,000
Expense method
A: Lobbying Disclosure Act definitions

What was lobbied

2 issue areas, each in the filer's own words, with who lobbied on it and where.

Budget/Appropriations BUD

FY 2009 Commerce, Justice, Science Appropriations bill, issues pertaining to SHIELD, Lunar Energy Generation Program, and National Science Foundation funding. FY 2009 Military Construction Appropriations bill, issues relating to Houston Corps of Cadets Building. FY 2009 Energy and Water Development Appropriations bill, issues pertaining to National Wind Energy Center, Center for Clean Fuels and Power Generation, High-Efficiency Cascade Solar Cells, Solid State Energy and Lighting Institute, Wind Energy program funding, and DOE Office of Science funding. FY 2009 Financial Services and General Government, issues pertaining to Bay Area Houston Technology and Education Center. FY 2009 Homeland Security Appropriations bill, issues pertaining to Regional Control-Command Network. FY 2009 Labor, Health and Human Services, Education and Related Agencies Appropriations bill, issues pertaining to Center on Student Success, Sugar Land Connected Learning Laboratory, Center for the Retention of STEM Educators, Cell Differentiation Synthetic Biology at the Institute for Molecular Design, UH Victoria Forensic DNA Testing Laboratory and Genetic Diagnostics, Pell Grant funding, and National Institutes of Health Funding.

Contacted: SENATE; HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

Education EDU

Higher Education Authorization bill (HEA), HR 4137/S1642, College Opportunity and Affordability Act, especially pertaining to tuition and college costs, institutional reporting requirements, urban-serving university research program, and accredition.

Contacted: SENATE; HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

Bills named: H.R. 4137 (110th)

Shown as published by the Senate Office of Public Records and the House Clerk under the Lobbying Disclosure Act. The official filing is the record; open it for the full form.