What The President Has Signed Into Law – February 2010

March 17, 2010 by theo.johnson
Filed under: Blog Entries, Business, Health, Our Rights, Politics, Society & Culture

The purpose for this post is to inform you of the new laws and acts enacted by Congress and President Obama. With the advent of the Internet it’s gotten easier to watch every step our government takes. And President Obama is making some nice moves to make what they do more transparent to the American people. We elect them, so we need to make sure they are doing their job. The laws I list are posted at govtrack.us, which is a nice site for checking laws in any stage their in. As always feel free to leave any additional comments.

On Feb 3, 2010, the President signed the following bill(s) into law:
H.R. 4508: Small Business Act Temporary Extension. To provide for an additional temporary extension of programs under the Small Business Act and the Small Business Investment Act of 1958, and for other purposes.

On Feb 3, 2010, the President signed the following bill(s) into law:
S. 692: A bill to provide that claims of the United States to certain documents relating to Franklin Delano Roosevelt shall be treated as waived and relinquished in certain circumstances.

On Feb 3, 2010, the President signed the following bill(s) into law:
H.R. 1377: Amend title 38. To amend title 38, United States Code, to expand veteran eligibility for reimbursement by the Secretary of Veterans Affairs for emergency treatment furnished in a non-Department facility, and for other purposes.

On Feb 12, 2010, the President signed the following bill(s) into law:
H. J. Res. 45: Statutory Pay-As-You-Go Act of 2010. Increasing the statutory limit on the public debt.

On Feb 16, 2010, the President signed the following bill(s) into law:

H.R. 730: Nuclear Forensics and Attribution Act. To strengthen efforts in the Department of Homeland Security to develop nuclear forensics capabilities to permit attribution of the source of nuclear material, and for other purposes.

On Feb 27, 2010, the President signed the following bill(s) into law:

H.R. 3961: Medicare Physician Payment Reform Act of 2009. An Act to extend expiring provisions of the USA PATRIOT Improvement and Reauthorization Act of 2005 and Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act of 2004 until February 28, 2011.

H.R. 4532: Social Security Disability Applicant’s Access to Professional Representation Act of 2010. To provide for permanent extension of the attorney fee withholding procedures under title II of the Social Security Act to title XVI of such Act, and to provide for permanent extension of such procedures under titles II and XVI of such Act to qualified non-attorney representatives.

Note: There were a lot of post office related name change laws this month. But since that’s not really a big deal, I decided not to post each one.