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Children First Act of 2010

Bill: 111-hr-5938
Sponsor: Rep. Crowley, Joseph [D-NY-7]
Introduced: 2010-07-29 in the House
Policy area: Social Welfare
Subjects: Appropriations
Business records
Child care and development
Child health
Child safety and welfare
Employment and training programs
Poverty and welfare assistance
State and local government operations

Summary:
action_date: 2010-07-29
text: 
Children First Act of 2010 - Amends part A (Temporary Assistance for Needy Families) (TANF) of title IV of the Social Security Act (SSA) to: (1) exclude child care assistance from the determination of the five-year limit on TANF assistance; and (2) increase funding for child care.
 
Requires an eligible state's TANF plan to include a certification by the state's chief executive officer that procedures are in effect to ensure that any child care provider in the state that provides services funded through TANF expenditures or with qualified state expenditures complies with all applicable state or local health and safety requirements under the Child Care and Development Block Grant Act of 1990.
 
Increases from 5 to 12 the maximum age of a child for which a single custodial parent who is unable to find child care for such child will not penalized with a reduction or termination of TANF assistance based on that individual's refusal to engage in required work in order to take care of the child.
 
Subjects to the individual and case data reporting requirements of the Child Care and Development Block Grant Act of 1990 any TANF funds expended for child care, whether or not transferred to that Act, and exempts such funds from SSA reporting requirements.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-07-29
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2010-07-29
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-07-29
text: Introduced in House
No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion Act

Bill: 111-hr-5939
Sponsor: Rep. Smith, Christopher H. [R-NJ-4]
Introduced: 2010-07-29 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Abortion
Appropriations
District of Columbia
Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management
Government trust funds
Health care costs and insurance
Health care coverage and access
Health facilities and institutions
Health personnel
Health programs administration and funding
Income tax credits
Income tax deductions
Income tax exclusion
State and local finance

Summary:
action_date: 2010-07-29
text: 
No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion Act - Prohibits: (1) the expenditure of funds authorized or appropriated by federal law or funds in any trust fund to which funds are authorized or appropriated by federal law for any abortion or for health benefits coverage that includes coverage of abortion; (2) any tax benefits for amounts paid or incurred for an abortion or for a health benefits plan (including premium assistance) that includes coverage of abortion; and (3) the inclusion of abortion in any health care service furnished by a federal health care facility or by any physician or other individual employed by the federal government. Exempts from such prohibitions an abortion if the pregnancy is the result of rape or incest with a minor, or if the woman suffers from a physical disorder, injury, or illness that would, as certified by a physician, place the women in danger of death unless an abortion is performed, including a life-endangering physical condition caused by or arising from the pregnancy itself. Makes such prohibitions applicable to federal funding within the budget of the District of Columbia.
 
Prohibits federal agencies or programs and states and local governments that receive federal financial assistance from discriminating against any individual or institutional health care entity on the basis that such entity does not provide, pay for, provide coverage of, or refer for abortions. Designates the Office for Civil Rights of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to receive, and coordinate the investigation of, discrimination complaints.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-07-29
text: Referred to House Ways and Means
action_date: 2010-07-29
text: Referred to House Energy and Commerce
action_date: 2010-07-29
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committees on Energy and Commerce, and 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: 2010-07-29
text: Referred to House Judiciary
action_date: 2010-07-29
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-07-29
text: Introduced in House
Save U.S. Manufacturing and Jobs Act

Bill: 111-hr-5940
Sponsor: Rep. Aderholt, Robert B. [R-AL-4]
Introduced: 2010-07-29 in the House
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Tariffs

Summary:
action_date: 2010-07-29
text: 
Save U.S. Manufacturing and Jobs Act - Removes duty-free or other preferential treatment eligibility under the Generalized System of Preferences (GSP) for certain imported sleeping bags.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-07-29
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2010-07-29
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-07-29
text: Introduced in House
Anti-Redlining and Anti-Mortgage Fraud Act of 2010

Bill: 111-hr-5941
Sponsor: Rep. Towns, Edolphus [D-NY-10]
Introduced: 2010-07-29 in the House
Policy area: Housing and Community Development
Subjects: Government information and archives
Government lending and loan guarantees
Housing finance and home ownership
User charges and fees

Summary:
action_date: 2010-07-29
text: 
Anti-Redlining and Anti-Mortgage Fraud Act of 2010 - Makes it unlawful for any person or entity to extend credit, provide funds, or collect any payments in connection with an extension of credit secured by a single-family residence unless the originator has recorded the credit application with the clearinghouse established under this Act.
 
Directs the Secretary of the Treasury, acting through the Director of the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) of the Department of the Treasury, to: (1) establish a mortgage application recordation system which includes a clearinghouse, managed by a private sector entity, to record single-family residence mortgage applications; and (2) require mortgage originators to record such credit applications with the clearinghouse.
 
Prescribes criteria for the clearinghouse operator, which shall bear all clearinghouse costs.
 
Authorizes the Secretary to guarantee repayment of principal and interest on a loan to the clearinghouse operator sufficient to cover clearinghouse costs. 
 
Requires the clearinghouse to collect information using an Internet-based electronic system. Makes all information collected by the clearinghouse is property of the Secretary.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-07-29
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2010-07-29
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-07-29
text: Introduced in House
FFSCC Act of 2010

Bill: 111-hr-5942
Sponsor: Rep. Baca, Joe [D-CA-43]
Introduced: 2010-07-29 in the House
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: Consumer affairs
Consumer credit
Financial literacy
Financial services and investments
Government corporations and government-sponsored enterprises
Government studies and investigations
Small business
User charges and fees

Summary:
action_date: 2010-07-29
text: 
FFSCC Act of 2010 - Authorizes the Comptroller of the Currency to provide for the organization, incorporation, examination, operation, regulation, and chartering of Federal Financial Services and Credit Companies (FFSCCs) to: (1) extend short-term and long-term credit; and (2) implement financial literacy programs.
 
Imposes an annual fee upon FFSCCs payable to the Comptroller to offset the cost of implementing this Act.
 
Directs the Comptroller to: (1) study rates and terms used in the extension of credit; and (2) develop a suite of FSCC financial products that will be fair to underbanked persons and economically viable for FFSCCs to offer.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-07-29
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2010-07-29
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-07-29
text: Introduced in House
CRE Act of 2010

Bill: 111-hr-5943
Sponsor: Rep. Berkley, Shelley [D-NV-1]
Introduced: 2010-07-29 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Business investment and capital
Income tax deductions
Industrial facilities

Summary:
action_date: 2010-07-29
text: 
Community Recovery and Enhancement Act of 2010 or the CRE Act of 2010 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow a new tax deduction for 50% of equity investment in a partnership (qualified debt reduction equity investment) and 50% of any payment on commercial real property (qualified debt reduction payment) made to reduce the principal amount of the qualified indebtedness of such partnership or commercial property. Defines &quot;qualified indebtedness&quot; to mean any indebtedness incurred or assumed by a partnership or other taxpayer before January 1, 2009, which is secured by commercial real property. Requires a recapture in income of any deduction taken by a partnership if such partnership incurs additional indebtedness within three years after receiving a qualified debt reduction equity investment under this Act. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-07-29
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2010-07-29
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-07-29
text: Introduced in House
Railroad Hours of Service Employees Technical Corrections Act

Bill: 111-hr-5944
Sponsor: Rep. Bishop, Timothy H. [D-NY-1]
Introduced: 2010-07-29 in the House
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Employee leave
Railroads
Transportation employees

Summary:
action_date: 2010-07-29
text: 
Railroad Hours of Service Employees Technical Corrections Act - Amends the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) of 1993 to consider that a railroad employee, subject to hours of service under federal law, meets the hours of service eligibility requirement under FMLA if: (1) the employee has worked for or been paid for at least 60% of the applicable total guarantee, or the equivalent, for the previous 12-month period, by the employer with respect to whom FMLA leave is requested; and (2) the employee has worked for or been paid by that employer for at least 504 hours (not counting personal commute time or time spent on vacation leave or medical or sick leave) during such period.
 
Defines &quot;applicable guarantee&quot; for an employee, as established in the applicable collective bargaining agreement or, if none exists, in the employer's policies as: (1) the minimum number of hours for which an employer has agreed to schedule a nonreserve status employee for any given period; and (2) the number of hours for which an employer has agreed to pay a reserve status employee for any given period.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-10-13
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Workforce Protections.
action_date: 2010-07-29
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and Labor.
action_date: 2010-07-29
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-07-29
text: Introduced in House
Strengthening Our Share (S.O.S.) Act

Bill: 111-hr-5945
Sponsor: Rep. Bonner, Jo [R-AL-1]
Introduced: 2010-07-29 in the House
Policy area: Energy
Subjects: Energy revenues and royalties
Gulf of Mexico
Intergovernmental relations
Marine and coastal resources, fisheries
Oil and gas
State and local finance

Summary:
action_date: 2010-07-29
text: 
Strengthening Our Share (S.O.S.) Act - Amends the Gulf of Mexico Energy Security Act of 2006 to revise and increase the allocations (planned sharing) with Gulf states of certain qualified outer Continental Shelf (OCS) revenues due and payable to the United States from specified Gulf of Mexico leases.
 
Repeals the limitation placed upon the amount of distributed qualified OCS revenues.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-08-04
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources.
action_date: 2010-07-29
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2010-07-29
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-07-29
text: Introduced in House
P.E. for the 21st Century Act

Bill: 111-hr-5946
Sponsor: Rep. Boswell, Leonard L. [D-IA-3]
Introduced: 2010-07-29 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Child health
Education programs funding
Elementary and secondary education
Physical fitness and lifestyle
Public-private cooperation
School athletics
Teaching, teachers, curricula

Summary:
action_date: 2010-07-29
text: 
P.E. for the 21st Century Act - Directs the Secretary of Education to award competitive grants to local educational agencies and charter schools to improve physical fitness education and curricula in elementary and secondary schools.
 
Requires each grantee to carry out a pilot program for one school year that: (1) makes technology a key component of assessing students' physical fitness and improvement; (2) creates partnerships with local businesses to ensure community support for the program, and their financial and professional assistance; and (3) incorporates physical fitness education (in addition to regular physical fitness education classes) into multiple areas of the curriculum.
 
Limits such grants to one grantee in each state.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-10-13
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Healthy Families and Communities.
action_date: 2010-07-29
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and Labor.
action_date: 2010-07-29
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-07-29
text: Introduced in House
Voluntary Incentive Auctions Act of 2010

Bill: 111-hr-5947
Sponsor: Rep. Boucher, Rick [D-VA-9]
Introduced: 2010-07-29 in the House
Policy area: Science, Technology, Communications
Subjects: Broadcasting, cable, digital technologies
Licensing and registrations

Summary:
action_date: 2010-07-29
text: 
Voluntary Incentive Auctions Act of 2010 - Amends the Communications Act of 1934 to provide that, if consistent with the public interest for a licensee to voluntarily relinquish some or all of its spectrum usage rights in order to permit the assignment of new initial licenses or the allocation of spectrum for unlicensed use, the proceeds from the use of a competitive bidding system may be shared with any licensee who agreed to voluntarily relinquish such usage rights. 
 
 Prohibits the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) from reclaiming frequencies of broadcast television licensees or any other licensees on an involuntary basis for certain licensing purposes.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-07-29
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2010-07-29
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E1471)
action_date: 2010-07-29
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-07-29
text: Introduced in House
To repeal section 929I of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act.

Bill: 111-hr-5948
Sponsor: Rep. Campbell, John [R-CA-48]
Introduced: 2010-07-29 in the House
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: Business records
Corporate finance and management
Financial services and investments
Freedom of information
Government information and archives
Securities

Summary:
action_date: 2010-07-29
text: 
 Amends the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act (the Act) to repeal the exemption from the disclosure requirements of the Freedom of Information Act granted to materials submitted to the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the Investment Advisers Act of 1940, and the Investment Company Act of 1940.
 
Restores or revives the provisions of law amended or repealed by the Act as if the Act had not been enacted. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-07-29
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2010-07-29
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-07-29
text: Introduced in House
STARS Act of 2010

Bill: 111-hr-5949
Sponsor: Rep. Capuano, Michael E. [D-MA-8]
Introduced: 2010-07-29 in the House
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Advisory bodies
Child safety and welfare
Drug, alcohol, tobacco use
Education programs funding
Elementary and secondary education
Government information and archives
Motor vehicles
Roads and highways
Transportation programs funding
Transportation safety and security

Summary:
action_date: 2010-07-29
text: 
Students Taking Action for Road Safety Act of 2010 or STARS Act of 2010 - Directs the Secretary of Transportation to establish a teen traffic safety grant program to make formula grants to states to implement statewide programs to improve the traffic safety of teen drivers.
 
Authorizes a state to use grant funds to implement a statewide program to improve the traffic safety of teen drivers, including activities to support peer-to-peer education and prevention strategies in schools and communities to increase safety belt use and reduce speeding, impaired and distracted driving, underage drinking, and other destructive teen driver decisions that lead to injuries and fatalities.
 
Authorizes the Secretary to contract with a national, nonprofit organization (center) to provide training and technical assistance to state and local officials, student leaders, school advisors, and other entities associated with the grant program. Authorizes the center to operate a national teen traffic safety clearinghouse.
 
Directs the Secretary to establish the National Teen Driver Advisory Council to study and develop an education and prevention strategy to reduce teen driver injuries and fatalities.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-07-30
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Highways and Transit.
action_date: 2010-07-29
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2010-07-29
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-07-29
text: Introduced in House
Improving Access to Medicare Coverage Act of 2010

Bill: 111-hr-5950
Sponsor: Rep. Courtney, Joe [D-CT-2]
Introduced: 2010-07-29 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Health care coverage and access
Hospital care
Long-term, rehabilitative, and terminal care
Medicare

Summary:
action_date: 2010-07-29
text: 
Improving Access to Medicare Coverage Act of 2010 - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act, with respect to post-hospital extended care services, to provide that: (1) an individual who is in a period of observation status in a hospital exceeding 24 hours shall be deemed to have been an inpatient during such period of observation status (for purposes of counting toward the three-day inpatient hospital requirement for Medicare coverage of skilled nursing facility [SNF] services); and (2) the individual's leaving the hospital after such period of status shall be treated as a discharge from the hospital.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-07-29
text: Referred to House Energy and Commerce
action_date: 2010-07-29
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: 2010-07-29
text: Referred to House Ways and Means
action_date: 2010-07-29
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E1486)
action_date: 2010-07-29
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-07-29
text: Introduced in House
Corridor N Extension Act of 2010

Bill: 111-hr-5951
Sponsor: Rep. Critz, Mark S. [D-PA-12]
Introduced: 2010-07-29 in the House
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Maryland
Pennsylvania
Roads and highways
Rural conditions and development

Summary:
action_date: 2010-07-29
text: 
Corridor N Extension Act of 2010 - Designates as an addition to Corridor N of the Appalachian development highway system a 149-mile segment from Corridor M to Corridor T in Maryland and Pennsylvania.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-07-30
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Economic Development, Public Buildings and Emergency Management.
action_date: 2010-07-29
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2010-07-29
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-07-29
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow a credit for installation of composite, recyclable power line poles.

Bill: 111-hr-5952
Sponsor: Rep. Davis, Danny K. [D-IL-7]
Introduced: 2010-07-29 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Business investment and capital
Electric power generation and transmission
Income tax credits
Solid waste and recycling

Summary:
action_date: 2010-07-29
text: 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow: (1) a 30% qualifying advanced energy project tax credit for investment in utility poles or supports made from composite materials which are comprised of at least 15% recycled materials and are fully recyclable; and (2) a business-related tax credit for a qualified composite pole placed in service after December 31, 2010, and before January 1, 2016. Defines &quot;qualified composite pole&quot; as any pole which is used to support one or more wires to transmit or distribute electricity, which is comprised of not more than 85% virgin materials, and not less than 90% of which can be recycled.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-07-29
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2010-07-29
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E1479)
action_date: 2010-07-29
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-07-29
text: Introduced in House
Truth in Spending Act of 2010

Bill: 111-hr-5954
Sponsor: Rep. Giffords, Gabrielle [D-AZ-8]
Introduced: 2010-07-29 in the House
Policy area: Economics and Public Finance
Subjects: Accounting and auditing
Budget deficits and national debt
Budget process
Legislative rules and procedure

Summary:
action_date: 2010-07-29
text: 
Truth in Spending Act of 2010 - Requires the President's annual budget request to Congress to include the most recent reports of the Director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) regarding the difference between the actual costs and the estimated costs of direct spending legislation, including proposed legislative language, if any, in such reports.
 
Requires OMB to submit annually for inclusion in the President's budget request reports (with follow-up reports every five fiscal years) on the total estimated cost and total actual cost of direct spending legislation for the then budget year and four outyears.
 
Requires the President, within seven days after receiving an OMB report, to submit proposed legislative language, if any, set forth in the report to both chambers.
 
Prescribes the procedure for fast track consideration of the legislation in both chambers.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-07-29
text: Referred to House Rules
action_date: 2010-07-29
text: Referred to the Committee on the Budget, 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: 2010-07-29
text: Referred to House Budget
action_date: 2010-07-29
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-07-29
text: Introduced in House