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To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to increase the alternative minimum tax exemption amount and index such amount for inflation.

Bill: 111-hr-5077
Sponsor: Rep. Hall, John J. [D-NY-19]
Introduced: 2010-04-20 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Income tax exclusion
Income tax rates
Inflation and prices

Summary:
action_date: 2010-04-20
text: 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to make permanent and increase the alternative minimum tax (AMT) exemption amount to $100,000 for married couples filing a joint tax return and surviving spouses and to $75,000 for unmarried individuals. Adjusts such increased exemption amounts for inflation in taxable years beginning after 2010. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-04-20
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2010-04-20
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR H2805)
action_date: 2010-04-20
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-04-20
text: Introduced in House
Higher Education Affordability and Equity Act of 2010

Bill: 111-hr-5078
Sponsor: Rep. Higgins, Brian [D-NY-27]
Introduced: 2010-04-20 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Higher education
Income tax deductions
Income tax exclusion
Interest, dividends, interest rates
Student aid and college costs

Summary:
action_date: 2010-04-20
text: 
Higher Education Affordability and Equity Act of 2010 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) repeal the dollar limitation on the tax deduction for interest on education loans and expand eligibility for such deduction by increasing the threshold for the phaseout of such deduction; (2) increase to $5,000 the maximum allowable contribution to a Coverdell education savings account; and (3) include qualified higher education expenses (i.e., books, supplies, room, board, and special needs services) as amounts excludable from gross income as a qualified scholarship. 
 
Exempts from the general terminating date of the Economic Growth and Tax Relief Reconciliation Act (i.e., December 31, 2010) provisions of that Act modifying education individual retirement accounts and expanding the tax deduction for student loan interest. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-04-20
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2010-04-20
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-04-20
text: Introduced in House
To amend title II of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to establish a Federal "Grow Your Own Teacher" program, and for other purposes.

Bill: 111-hr-5079
Sponsor: Rep. Israel, Steve [D-NY-2]
Introduced: 2010-04-20 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Education of the disadvantaged
Education programs funding
Elementary and secondary education
Higher education
Language arts
Racial and ethnic relations
Science and engineering education
Special education
Student aid and college costs
Teaching, teachers, curricula

Summary:
action_date: 2010-04-20
text: 
Amends the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to direct the Secretary of Education to establish a Grow Your Own Teacher program making competitive grants to eligible entities to train and employ certain individuals in hard-to-staff schools or teaching positions.
 
Defines an &quot;eligible entity&quot; as a consortium consisting of a local educational agency (LEA) that receives school improvement funds under part A of title I of the Act and an institution of higher education that offers a state-accredited teacher certificate program.
 
Requires the grant to be used to: (1) train certain individuals who received a high school diploma from the LEA participating in the consortium to be teachers, including by having them observe and work with a veteran teacher in a classroom for at least a year; (2) employ such individuals in hard-to-staff schools and teaching positions in such LEA, with priority given to teaching positions in mathematics, science, special education, world languages, and English as a second language; and (3) employ such individuals in a manner that reduces the divergence between the racial diversity of teachers and of students.
 
Authorizes the Secretary to forgive the student loans incurred by training program participants who have been employed as teachers in hard-to-staff schools or teaching positions.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-04-20
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and Labor.
action_date: 2010-04-20
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-04-20
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide unemployment benefits during summer vacation for nonprofessional school employees.

Bill: 111-hr-5080
Sponsor: Rep. Kennedy, Patrick J. [D-RI-1]
Introduced: 2010-04-20 in the House
Policy area: Labor and Employment
Subjects: Teaching, teachers, curricula
Unemployment

Summary:
action_date: 2010-04-20
text: 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code with respect to state plans for payment of unemployment benefits to prohibit the denial of benefits to employees of educational institutions (other than those providing instructional, research, or administrative services) for any period between two successive academic years or terms that lasts longer than four weeks.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-05-03
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Income Security and Family Support.
action_date: 2010-04-20
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2010-04-20
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-04-20
text: Introduced in House
Broadband for First Responders Act of 2010

Bill: 111-hr-5081
Sponsor: Rep. King, Peter T. [R-NY-3]
Introduced: 2010-04-20 in the House
Policy area: Science, Technology, Communications
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Broadcasting, cable, digital technologies
Emergency communications systems
Federal Communications Commission (FCC)
Telephone and wireless communication

Summary:
action_date: 2010-04-20
text: 
Broadband for First Responders Act of 2010 - Amends the Communications Act of 1934 to increase the electromagnetic spectrum allocation for public safety services by 10 megahertz and reduce such allocation for commercial use by the same amount.
 
Directs the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to: (1) allocate the paired electromagnetic spectrum bands of 758-763 megahertz and 788-793 megahertz (referred to as D Block) for public safety broadband communications and assign such paired bands to public safety; (2) establish rules to permit a public safety broadband licensee to authorize public safety service providers to construct and operate a wireless public safety broadband network in the licensee's spectrum if such authorization would expedite public safety broadband communications; (3) require that any wireless public safety broadband network be fully interoperable, provide for user roaming, be disaster survivable, and have the appropriate level of cyber security; (4) establish regulations to authorize the shared use of the public safety broadband spectrum and network infrastructure by entities that are not defined as public safety services; (5) establish regulations to allow use of the public safety broadband spectrum by emergency response providers; and (6) develop a public safety agency statement of requirements that enables nationwide interoperability and roaming across any communications system using public safety broadband spectrum.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-04-20
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2010-04-20
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-04-20
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Public Utility Regulatory Policies Act of 1978 to establish uniform national standards for the interconnection of certain small power production facilities.

Bill: 111-hr-5082
Sponsor: Rep. Lujan, Ben Ray [D-NM-3]
Introduced: 2010-04-20 in the House
Policy area: Energy
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Alternative and renewable resources
Consumer affairs
Department of Energy
Electric power generation and transmission
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC)
Public utilities and utility rates

Summary:
action_date: 2010-04-20
text: 
Amends the Public Utility Regulatory Policies Act of 1978 to direct the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) to establish a standard by which each electric utility shall make interconnection service available, upon request, to any electric consumer served by the utility with respect to any facility on the consumer's premises that has a power production capacity of at least 2 megawatts. 
 
Grants FERC powers to enforce such standard.
 
Directs FERC to establish, for the consideration of state regulatory authorities, a model standard for the interconnection of small power production facilities that have a power production capacity of between 2 and 20 megawatts.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-04-20
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2010-04-20
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-04-20
text: Introduced in House
Promoting Fair Work Opportunities for Persons with Disabilities Act

Bill: 111-hr-5083
Sponsor: Rep. Moore, Gwen [D-WI-4]
Introduced: 2010-04-20 in the House
Policy area: Social Welfare
Subjects: Disability and paralysis
Employment and training programs
Poverty and welfare assistance
Social security and elderly assistance
State and local government operations

Summary:
action_date: 2010-04-20
text: 
Promoting Fair Work Opportunities for Persons with Disabilities Act - Amends part A (Temporary Assistance for Needy Families) (TANF) of title IV of the Social Security Act to deem individuals with disabilities complying with a modified employability plan to be meeting work participation requirements.
 
Gives states the option to disregard in determining work participation rates any SSI (Supplemental Security Income) (SSA title XVI) and Social Security disability insurance applicants or recipients.
 

 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-05-03
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Income Security and Family Support.
action_date: 2010-04-20
text: Referred to House Education and Labor
action_date: 2010-04-20
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Education and Labor, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2010-04-20
text: Referred to House Ways and Means
action_date: 2010-04-20
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-04-20
text: Introduced in House
America Recruits Act of 2010

Bill: 111-hr-5084
Sponsor: Rep. Murphy, Scott [D-NY-20]
Introduced: 2010-04-20 in the House
Policy area: Labor and Employment
Subjects: Advanced technology and technological innovations
Economic development
Employment and training programs
Government lending and loan guarantees
Manufacturing
Unemployment

Summary:
action_date: 2010-04-20
text: 
America Recruits Act of 2010 - Directs the Secretary of Commerce, acting through the Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Economic Development, to establish a program to award grants to eligible intermediaries to make loans to eligible entities to assist them, when deciding whether to locate eligible jobs in foreign countries or in the United States, in locating information technology and manufacturing jobs in economic development districts or targeted labor surplus areas (whose unemployment rate is at least 140% of the U.S. unemployment rate).


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-04-21
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Economic Development, Public Buildings and Emergency Management.
action_date: 2010-04-20
text: Referred to House Financial Services
action_date: 2010-04-20
text: Referred to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, and in addition to the Committee on Financial Services, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2010-04-20
text: Referred to House Transportation and Infrastructure
action_date: 2010-04-20
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-04-20
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to eliminate for 5 years the limitation on expensing certain depreciable business assets.

Bill: 111-hr-5085
Sponsor: Rep. Owens, William L. [D-NY-23]
Introduced: 2010-04-20 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Business investment and capital
Income tax deductions

Summary:
action_date: 2010-04-20
text: 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to suspend until 2015 the dollar limitation, and the reduction in such limitation, on certain depreciable business and investment asssets. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-04-20
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2010-04-20
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-04-20
text: Introduced in House
Online Disclosure for Access to Campaign Funds Act of 2010

Bill: 111-hr-5086
Sponsor: Rep. Sensenbrenner, F. James, Jr. [R-WI-5]
Introduced: 2010-04-20 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Congressional elections
Elections, voting, political campaign regulation
Internet and video services
Internet, web applications, social media

Summary:
action_date: 2010-04-20
text: 
Online Disclosure for Access to Campaign Funds Act of 2010 - Amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to require the treasurer of each authorized political committee to establish a separate account for the committee consisting exclusively of contributions received by or on behalf of it, and to deposit each contribution into the account immediately upon receipt.
 
Prohibits the use of amounts in such account to make disbursements by or on behalf of the committee, allowing their use only for transfers to other committee accounts of the committee.
 
Requires the treasurer of an authorized committee to ensure that the balance of the account is equal to the total amounts deposited into it reduced by the total amount of all contributions deposited into it with respect to which the treasurer has identified the contributor on a publicly accessible Internet site of the committee. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-04-20
text: Referred to the House Committee on House Administration.
action_date: 2010-04-20
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-04-20
text: Introduced in House
Faster FOIA Act of 2010

Bill: 111-hr-5087
Sponsor: Rep. Sherman, Brad [D-CA-27]
Introduced: 2010-04-20 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Advisory bodies
Freedom of information
Government studies and investigations

Summary:
action_date: 2010-04-20
text: 
Faster FOIA Act of 2010 - Establishes a 16-member Commission on Freedom of Information Act Processing Delays to conduct a study concerning methods to reduce delays in processing Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests submitted to federal agencies.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-05-26
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Information Policy, Census, and National Archives.
action_date: 2010-04-20
text: Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.
action_date: 2010-04-20
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-04-20
text: Introduced in House
America's Commitment to Clean Water Act

Bill: 111-hr-5088
Sponsor: Rep. Oberstar, James L. [D-MN-8]
Introduced: 2010-04-21 in the House
Policy area: Environmental Protection
Subjects: Farmland
Lakes and rivers
Land use and conservation
Marine and coastal resources, fisheries
Solid waste and recycling
Water quality
Wetlands

Summary:
action_date: 2010-04-21
text: 
America's Commitment to Clean Water Act - Amends the Federal Water Pollution Control Act (commonly known as the Clean Water Act) to replace the term "navigable waters," for waters subject to the Act, with the term "waters of the United States," defined to mean: (1) all waters that are currently used, were used in the past, or may be susceptible to use in interstate or foreign commerce including all waters that are subject to the ebb and flow of the tide; (2) all interstate and international waters, including interstate and international wetlands; (3) all other waters, including intrastate lakes, rivers, streams (including intermittent streams), mudflats, sandflats, wetlands, sloughs, prairie potholes, wet meadows, playa lakes, or natural ponds, the use, degradation, or destruction of which does or would affect interstate or foreign commerce, U.S. obligations under a treaty, or U.S. territory or property; (4) all impoundments of waters otherwise defined as waters of the United States; (5) tributaries of such waters; (6) the territorial seas; and (7) waters, including wetlands, adjacent to such waters.
 
Excludes from such definition: (1) waters that are all or part of a waste treatment system, including treatment ponds or lagoons designed to meet the requirements of the Act; or (2) prior converted cropland. Declares that the final authority regarding jurisdiction under this Act remains with the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) notwithstanding the Secretary of Agriculture's determination that an area is prior converted cropland.
 
Sets forth provisions defining waste treatment systems and prior converted farmland.
 
 Prohibits a system or structure that is created in waters of the United States or results from the impoundment of such waters from being documented as a waste treatment system. Authorizes a waste treatment system in existence and documented before this Act's enactment to include a waste treatment system that was either originally created in or resultant from the impoundment of such waters if the system's discharge meets applicable standards and limitations at the point of discharge.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-04-22
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment.
action_date: 2010-04-21
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2010-04-21
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E608-609)
action_date: 2010-04-21
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-04-21
text: Introduced in House
Business Incubator Promotion Act

Bill: 111-hr-5089
Sponsor: Rep. Ryan, Tim [D-OH-17]
Introduced: 2010-04-21 in the House
Policy area: Economics and Public Finance
Subjects: Business investment and capital
Economic development
Economic performance and conditions
Employment and training programs
Small business
Unemployment

Summary:
action_date: 2010-04-21
text: 
Business Incubator Promotion Act - Amends the Public Works and Economic Development Act of 1965 to include among the Act's goals encouraging distressed communities to support the formation of business incubators to promote innovation and entrepreneurship in economically distressed areas. 

Defines &quot;business incubator&quot; as an entity established to foster the startup of businesses or accelerate the growth of fledgling companies by providing entrepreneurs with resources and services to produce viable businesses that can help create jobs and restore vitality to distressed areas, excluding an entity organized primarily as for-profit venture.

Modifies criteria for the eligibility of an area for grants under such Act for public works and economic development or economic adjustment projects to require an area to have had an unemployment rate of at least 1% greater than the national average for the most recent 12-month (currently, 24-month) period for which data are available. 

Authorizes the Secretary of Commerce to: (1) increase the federal share for public works and economic development project grants based upon an area's unemployment rate or per capita income compared to the national average; and (2) reduce or waive the non-federal or local share required for participation in such grant assistance for a special need area in cases of severe economic distress.

Authorizes the Secretary to provide competitive grants for: (1) the development and implementation of feasibility studies and plans for the creation or expansion of business incubators; and (2) the temporary support of operations of business incubators that is essential to self-sustainability. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-04-22
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Economic Development, Public Buildings and Emergency Management.
action_date: 2010-04-21
text: Referred to House Financial Services
action_date: 2010-04-21
text: Referred to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, and in addition to the Committee on Financial Services, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2010-04-21
text: Referred to House Transportation and Infrastructure
action_date: 2010-04-21
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-04-21
text: Introduced in House
Positive Reduction of Incarceration by Maximizing Education (PRIME) Act of 2010

Bill: 111-hr-5091
Sponsor: Rep. Cohen, Steve [D-TN-9]
Introduced: 2010-04-21 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Crime prevention
Education of the disadvantaged
Elementary and secondary education
Government information and archives
Juvenile crime and gang violence

Summary:
action_date: 2010-04-21
text: 
Positive Reduction of Incarceration by Maximizing Education (PRIME) Act of 2010 - Directs the Attorney General, through the Director of the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, to establish national, regional, and local public awareness campaigns focused on promoting the advantages of continued education among youth.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-05-27
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Healthy Families and Communities.
action_date: 2010-04-21
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and Labor.
action_date: 2010-04-21
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-04-21
text: Introduced in House
To amend section 48 (relating to depiction of animal cruelty) of title 18, United States Code, and for other purposes.

Bill: 111-hr-5092
Sponsor: Rep. Gallegly, Elton [R-CA-24]
Introduced: 2010-04-21 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Animal protection and human-animal relationships
Crimes against animals and natural resources
Internet and video services
Internet, web applications, social media

Summary:
action_date: 2010-04-21
text: 
Amends the federal criminal code to impose a fine and/or maximum prison term of five years for anyone who knowingly sells or offers to sell an animal crush video in interstate or foreign commerce for commercial gain. States that this prohibition shall not be construed to prohibit the selling or offering to sell videos that depict hunting. 
 
Defines &quot;animal crush video&quot; as any visual depiction of animals being intentionally crushed, burned, drowned, or impaled that: (1) depicts actual conduct in which a living animal is tortured, maimed, or mutilated that violates any criminal prohibition on intentional cruelty under federal law or the law of the state in which the depiction is sold; and (2) taken as a whole, does not have religious, political, scientific, educational, journalistic, historical, or artistic value. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-06-15
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.
action_date: 2010-04-21
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2010-04-21
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-04-21
text: Introduced in House