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Fairness in Medigap Options Act of 2010

Bill: 111-hr-5844
Sponsor: Rep. Rothman, Steven R. [D-NJ-9]
Introduced: 2010-07-22 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Digestive and metabolic diseases
Health care costs and insurance
Medicaid
Medicare

Summary:
action_date: 2010-07-22
text: 
Fairness in Medigap Options Act of 2010 - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act (SSA) to make eligible for guaranteed issue of Medicare supplemental (Medigap) policies: (1) all Medicare beneficiaries; (2) Medicare Advantage plan enrollees who disenroll from the plan and elect to receive benefits through the original Medicare fee-for-service program; and (3) Medicaid (SSA title XIX) plan enrollees who have lost eligibility for such medical assistance.
 
Allows individuals with end stage renal disease (ESRD) to receive Medicare benefits through enrollment in a Medicare+Choice plan.
 
Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) to specify an annual period during which individuals enrolled in a Medigap policy with a particular benefit package may change to another such policy if the other policy: (1) is offered by a different issuer and is available for issuance to new enrollees; and (2) has the same benefit package or a benefit package with lesser benefits.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-07-22
text: Referred to House Energy and Commerce
action_date: 2010-07-22
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, 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: 2010-07-22
text: Referred to House Ways and Means
action_date: 2010-07-22
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-07-22
text: Introduced in House
To authorize 700 incremental vouchers for tenant-based rental assistance under section 8 of the United States Housing Act of 1937 to help meet the housing needs of low-income families in the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands.

Bill: 111-hr-5845
Sponsor: Del. Sablan, Gregorio Kilili Camacho [D-MP-At Large]
Introduced: 2010-07-22 in the House
Policy area: Housing and Community Development
Subjects: Housing and community development funding
Northern Mariana Islands
Public housing
U.S. territories and protectorates

Summary:
action_date: 2010-07-22
text: 
Instructs the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) to: (1) provide 700 incremental vouchers to the Northern Marianas Housing Corporation in FY2011 for tenant-based rental housing assistance under section 8 of the United States Housing Act of 1937; and (2) renew such vouchers in each ensuing fiscal year.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-07-22
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2010-07-22
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-07-22
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act to require the chief executive officer of each drilling and production operation under a lease under that Act to annually certify the operator's compliance with all applicable laws and operating regulations.

Bill: 111-hr-5846
Sponsor: Rep. Sarbanes, John P. [D-MD-3]
Introduced: 2010-07-22 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Corporate finance and management
Marine and coastal resources, fisheries
Marine pollution
Oil and gas

Summary:
action_date: 2010-07-22
text: 
Amends the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act to require the operator of a drilling and production operation under a lease to submit annually to the Secretary of the Interior a specified certification by the operator's chief executive officer that the operator is in compliance with all pertinent laws and operating regulations.
 
Subjects the chief executive officer to a civil penalty for non-compliance with this requirement.
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-07-27
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources.
action_date: 2010-07-22
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2010-07-22
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E1413-1414)
action_date: 2010-07-22
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-07-22
text: Introduced in House
National Child Protection Training Act

Bill: 111-hr-5847
Sponsor: Rep. Walz, Timothy J. [D-MN-1]
Introduced: 2010-07-22 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Crime prevention
Crimes against children
Criminal investigation, prosecution, interrogation
Domestic violence and child abuse
Education programs funding
Higher education
Teaching, teachers, curricula
Vocational and technical education

Summary:
action_date: 2010-07-22
text: 
National Child Protection Training Act - Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) to enter into an agreement with the National Child Protection Training Center to establish and sustain Regional Training Centers in the midwestern, northeastern, southern, and western regions of this country.
 
Requires the Regional Training Centers to: (1) provide child protection professionals in the field with low-cost, high-quality training, technical assistance, and publications; (2) provide child protection professionals with ongoing training and assistance in developing evidence-based community prevention programs; (3) develop model undergraduate and graduate curricula on child maltreatment and, upon the Secretary's approval, disseminate them to institutions of higher education (IHEs); and (4) assist states in developing and maintaining forensic interview training programs.
 
Directs the National Child Protection Training Center to award grants to state and local governments and other nonprofit entities to: (1) assist state and local child protection professionals in developing statewide forensic interview training programs; or (2) expand forensic interview training programs to provide for additional, advanced forensic interview training courses.
 
Directs the National Child Protection Training Center to award grants to state and local governments and other nonprofit entities to assist IHEs in implementing or expanding model undergraduate or graduate curricula on child abuse and neglect.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-10-13
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Healthy Families and Communities.
action_date: 2010-10-13
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Higher Education, Lifelong Learning, and Competitiveness.
action_date: 2010-07-22
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and Labor.
action_date: 2010-07-22
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-07-22
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Public Health Service Act to revise the amount of minimum allotments under the Projects for Assistance in Transition from Homelessness Program.

Bill: 111-hr-5848
Sponsor: Rep. Welch, Peter [D-VT-At Large]
Introduced: 2010-07-22 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Drug, alcohol, tobacco use
Health programs administration and funding
Homelessness and emergency shelter
Mental health

Summary:
action_date: 2010-07-22
text: 
Amends the Public Health Service Act to extend and reauthorize appropriations for Projects for Assistance in Transition from Homelessness, which provide specified services to individuals who: (1) are suffering from serious mental illness, or are suffering from serious mental illness and from substance abuse; and (2) are homeless or at imminent risk of becoming homeless. Revises the minimum state allotment for such program to be the greater of the amount received by the state in FY2009 or $750,000. (Current law sets forth a minimum allotment of $300,000 per state.) Provides that if funds appropriated are insufficient for all states to receive the minimum allotment, then states shall receive no less than the amount they received in FY2009 with additional money spent to give states the minimum of $750,000.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-07-22
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2010-07-22
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-07-22
text: Introduced in House
Mandatory Price Reporting Act of 2010

Bill: 111-hr-5852
Sponsor: Rep. Peterson, Collin C. [D-MN-7]
Introduced: 2010-07-26 in the House
Policy area: Agriculture and Food
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Agricultural marketing and promotion
Agricultural prices, subsidies, credit
Department of Agriculture
Government information and archives
Livestock

Summary:
action_date: 2010-07-26
text: 
Mandatory Price Reporting Act of 2010 - Amends the Agricultural Marketing Act of 1946 to: (1) extend reporting requirements for livestock daily markets through September 30, 2015; (2) establish mandatory reporting for wholesale pork cuts; and (3) direct the Secretary of Agriculture (USDA) to establish, and implement within one year, an electronic price reporting system for dairy products.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-07-28
text: Ordered to be Reported by Voice Vote.
action_date: 2010-07-28
text: Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
action_date: 2010-07-26
text: Referred to the House Committee on Agriculture.
action_date: 2010-07-26
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-07-26
text: Introduced in House
Fiscal Responsibility and Retirement Security Act

Bill: 111-hr-5853
Sponsor: Rep. Boustany, Charles W., Jr. [R-LA-7]
Introduced: 2010-07-26 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Accounting and auditing
Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Congressional oversight
Department of Health and Human Services
Employee benefits and pensions
Government trust funds
Health care costs and insurance
Legislative rules and procedure

Summary:
action_date: 2010-07-26
text: 
Fiscal Responsibility and Retirement Security Act - Amends the Public Health Service Act, as amended by the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, to require congressional approval of the designation by the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) of a benefit plan as the CLASS Independence Benefit Plan under the CLASS program (a national, voluntary insurance program for purchasing community living assistance services and supports). Sets forth procedures for such congressional approval by joint resolution.
 
Prohibits an employer from enrolling an employee in the CLASS program without providing specified notice to the employee, which includes: (1) the significant risk of failure of such a program; (2) information on deficits that the program is expected to run; (3) a statement that there is no separate pool of money set aside to pay the CLASS program benefits; and (4) an explanation of the immediate termination of the program if it is reported to be actuarially unsound.
 
Prohibits premiums from being collected before the Secretary has promulgated the required regulations in final form.
 
Terminates such program if the report by the Board of Trustees of the CLASS Independence Fund indicates that the Fund is projected to be actuarially unsound over the 75-year period beginning with the fiscal year in which such report is submitted. Establishes a refund process.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-07-26
text: Referred to House Rules
action_date: 2010-07-26
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Rules, 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: 2010-07-26
text: Referred to House Energy and Commerce
action_date: 2010-07-26
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-07-26
text: Introduced in House
No Prisoner Access to Social Security Numbers Act of 2010

Bill: 111-hr-5854
Sponsor: Rep. Pomeroy, Earl [D-ND-At Large]
Introduced: 2010-07-26 in the House
Policy area: Social Welfare
Subjects: Computer security and identity theft
Correctional facilities and imprisonment
Fraud offenses and financial crimes
Public contracts and procurement
Social security and elderly assistance

Summary:
action_date: 2010-07-26
text: 
No Prisoner Access to Social Security Numbers Act of 2010 - Amends title II (Old Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance) (OASDI) of the Social Security Act to prohibit governmental entities from employing, or entering into or maintaining a contract for the use or employment of, prisoners in any capacity that would allow such prisoners access to the Social Security account numbers of other individuals (or any derivatives of such numbers).


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-07-26
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2010-07-26
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E1423)
action_date: 2010-07-26
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-07-26
text: Introduced in House
Johnson Space Center Workforce Stability Act of 2010

Bill: 111-hr-5855
Sponsor: Rep. Green, Al [D-TX-9]
Introduced: 2010-07-26 in the House
Policy area: Labor and Employment
Subjects: Economic development
Employment and training programs
Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Space flight and exploration
Texas

Summary:
action_date: 2010-07-26
text: 
Johnson Space Center Workforce Stability Act of 2010 - Directs the Secretary of Labor to create a two-year job training program (including a one-stop career center) to assist the transition to new jobs of workers and employees of contractors in the Johnson Space Center region whose job stability is impacted by programmatic changes to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) space exploration program.
 
Directs the Secretary of Commerce, acting through the Economic Development Administration (EDA) of the Department of Commerce, to enter into cooperative agreements with eligible recipients in the Johnson Space Center region for activities to help stabilize the workforce and to promote economic growth.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-10-13
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Higher Education, Lifelong Learning, and Competitiveness.
action_date: 2010-07-27
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Economic Development, Public Buildings and Emergency Management.
action_date: 2010-07-26
text: Referred to House Financial Services
action_date: 2010-07-26
text: Referred to House Transportation and Infrastructure
action_date: 2010-07-26
text: Referred to the Committee on Education and Labor, and in addition to the Committees on Transportation and Infrastructure, and 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: 2010-07-26
text: Referred to House Education and Labor
action_date: 2010-07-26
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-07-26
text: Introduced in House
Waste-to-Energy Technology Act of 2010

Bill: 111-hr-5856
Sponsor: Rep. Doggett, Lloyd [D-TX-25]
Introduced: 2010-07-26 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Air quality
Alternative and renewable resources
Business investment and capital
Climate change and greenhouse gases
Income tax credits
Solid waste and recycling

Summary:
action_date: 2010-07-26
text: 
Waste-to-Energy Technology Act of 2010 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow a 30% energy tax credit for investment in qualified waste-to-energy property. Defines &quot;qualified waste-to-energy property&quot; as property comprising a system that uses municipal solid waste or sewage sludge as the feedstock for producing solid, liquid, or gas fuel, and that is certified by the Secretary of the Treasury as eligible for a credit under this Act. Excludes certain landfill facilities from such definition. 
 
Requires the Secretary to establish criteria for awarding certifications for waste-to-energy projects, which shall include: (1) the commercial viability of such projects; (2) whether such projects will provide the greatest net impact in avoiding or reducing air pollutants or anthropogenic emissions of greenhouse gases; and (3) whether such projects pose the fewest risks (other than climate risks) to environmental and human health.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-07-26
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2010-07-26
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-07-26
text: Introduced in House
FACT Act

Bill: 111-hr-5857
Sponsor: Rep. Djou, Charles K. [R-HI-1]
Introduced: 2010-07-26 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Corporate finance and management
Department of the Treasury
Employment taxes
Foreign and international corporations
Income tax deductions
Income tax rates
International law and treaties
Taxation of foreign income

Summary:
action_date: 2010-07-26
text: 
Fair American Corporate Tax Act or FACT Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) decrease from 35% to 28% the top marginal income tax rate for corporations (including personal service corporations); and (2) provide that the amount of any tax withholding for deductible payments made by a U.S. subsidiary of a foreign parent corporation to a related subsidiary in any country that has a tax treaty with the United States shall not be less than the amount which would be imposed if the payment were made directly to the foreign parent corporation. 
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-07-26
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2010-07-26
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-07-26
text: Introduced in House
FIRE Act

Bill: 111-hr-5858
Sponsor: Rep. Filner, Bob [D-CA-51]
Introduced: 2010-07-26 in the House
Policy area: Emergency Management
Subjects: Building construction
Fires
State and local finance

Summary:
action_date: 2010-07-26
text: 
Firefighting Investment, Renewal, and Employment Act or the FIRE Act - Amends the Federal Fire Prevention and Control Act of 1974 to authorize appropriations for competitive grants for modifying, upgrading, or constructing non-federal fire stations for FY2011-FY2015.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-07-27
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Technology and Innovation.
action_date: 2010-07-26
text: Referred to the House Committee on Science and Technology.
action_date: 2010-07-26
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-07-26
text: Introduced in House
To award a Congressional Gold Medal to the World War II members of the Civil Air Patrol.

Bill: 111-hr-5859
Sponsor: Rep. Filner, Bob [D-CA-51]
Introduced: 2010-07-26 in the House
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Aviation and airports
Congressional tributes
Homeland security
Military civil functions

Summary:
action_date: 2010-07-26
text: 
Directs the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives to arrange for the award of a single Congressional Gold Medal to honor collectively the World War II members of the Civil Air Patrol (CAP) in recognition of their military service and exemplary record during World War II. 
 
Requires the Medal's display at the Smithsonian Institution. Expresses the sense of Congress that the Medal should be made available for display elsewhere, particularly at locations associated with the CAP.
 
Permits the Secretary of the Treasury to strike and sell duplicates in bronze of the gold medal, at a price sufficient to cover the costs of the medals.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-07-26
text: Referred to House Administration
action_date: 2010-07-26
text: Referred to the Committee on Financial Services, and in addition to the Committee on House Administration, 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: 2010-07-26
text: Referred to House Financial Services
action_date: 2010-07-26
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-07-26
text: Introduced in House
Union Member Protection Act

Bill: 111-hr-5860
Sponsor: Rep. Hensarling, Jeb [R-TX-5]
Introduced: 2010-07-26 in the House
Policy area: Labor and Employment
Subjects: Business records
Civil actions and liability
Elections, voting, political campaign regulation
Labor-management relations

Summary:
action_date: 2010-07-26
text: 
Union Member Protection Act - Amends the Labor-Management Reporting and Disclosure Act (Landrum-Griffin Act) to require a labor organization's mandatory report to the Secretary of Labor on its constitution, officers, and basic organization to include, in a clear and simple format, both: (1) a description of the specific nature and total amount of political expenditures the labor organization proposes to make for the upcoming fiscal year; and (2) a disclosure of how each labor organization officer voted on each political expenditure made by the organization during the preceding fiscal year.
 
Prohibits a labor organization from making political expenditures unless: (1) they are of the nature of those proposed in such report; and (2) they have received a full, free, and written authorization by secret ballot by a majority of the labor organization members.
 
Makes officers jointly and severally liable for authorizing a political expenditure without first obtaining the authorization of labor organization members. 
 
Requires labor organization bylaws to provide expressly for a vote of the organization's principal officers on individual political expenditures in excess of $50,000. Requires a labor organization to make public the individual votes of such officers within 48 hours, including in a clear and conspicuous location on its website.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-10-13
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2010-07-26
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and Labor.
action_date: 2010-07-26
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-07-26
text: Introduced in House
Cancer Centers Assistance for Renovations and Expansion Act of 2010

Bill: 111-hr-5861
Sponsor: Rep. Kilroy, Mary Jo [D-OH-15]
Introduced: 2010-07-26 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Building construction
Cancer
Government lending and loan guarantees
Health facilities and institutions
Health programs administration and funding
Interest, dividends, interest rates

Summary:
action_date: 2010-07-26
text: 
Cancer Centers Assistance for Renovations and Expansion Act of 2010 - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to direct the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) to establish a program that provides loans to qualifying cancer centers for payment of the capital costs of projects for the improvement of research, prevention, or patient care infrastructure.
 
Sets the maximum amount of such loans at: (1) $50 million for any cancer center or comprehensive cancer center designated by the National Cancer Institute; and (2) $100 million for any entity that is a National Cancer Institute-designated comprehensive cancer center and a cancer hospital meeting certain requirements for a subsection (d) hospital.
 
(Generally, a subsection [d] hospital is an acute care hospital, particularly one that receives payments under Medicare's inpatient prospective payment system [IPPS] when providing covered inpatient services to eligible beneficiaries.)


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-07-26
text: Referred to House Ways and Means
action_date: 2010-07-26
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Ways and Means, 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: 2010-07-26
text: Referred to House Energy and Commerce
action_date: 2010-07-26
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-07-26
text: Introduced in House