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Eat Local Foods Act

Bill: 111-hr-5806
Sponsor: Rep. Pingree, Chellie [D-ME-1]
Introduced: 2010-07-21 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Education programs funding
Elementary and secondary education
Food assistance and relief
Poverty and welfare assistance

Summary:
action_date: 2010-07-21
text: 
Eat Local Foods Act - Amends the Richard B. Russell National School Lunch Act to direct the Secretary of Agriculture to provide grants to states, by the beginning of each school year (beginning with the 2012-2013 school year), for use in providing school food authorities with local food credits that represent up to 10% of the total value of the commodity assistance (or cash payments in lieu thereof) that the authority would be eligible to receive for the school year. 
 
Subtracts the value of the food credit from the amount of commodity assistance (or cash payments in lieu thereof) that a school food authority would otherwise receive.
 
Requires school food authorities to use their credits to purchase locally or regionally produced agricultural food products to serve in the school lunch program. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-10-13
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Healthy Families and Communities.
action_date: 2010-07-22
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR H5923)
action_date: 2010-07-21
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and Labor.
action_date: 2010-07-21
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-07-21
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act to establish a public health insurance option.

Bill: 111-hr-5808
Sponsor: Rep. Woolsey, Lynn C. [D-CA-6]
Introduced: 2010-07-21 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Comprehensive health care
Department of Health and Human Services
Executive agency funding and structure
Health care costs and insurance
Health care coverage and access
Health programs administration and funding

Summary:
action_date: 2010-07-21
text: 
Amends the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act to require the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) to offer through Exchanges a health benefits plan (public health insurance option) that ensures choice, competition, and stability of affordable, high-quality coverage throughout the United States. Declares that the Secretary's primary responsibility is to create a low-cost plan without compromising quality or access to care.
 
Sets forth provisions related to the establishment and governance of the public health insurance option, including that such plan: (1) may be made available only through Exchanges; (2) must comply with requirements applicable to other health benefits plans offered through such Exchanges, including requirements related to benefits, benefit levels, provider networks, notices, consumer protections, and cost sharing; and (3) must offer bronze, silver, and gold plan levels.
 
Requires the Secretary to: (1) establish an office of the ombudsman for the public health insurance option; (2) collect such data as may be required to establish premiums and payment rates; (3) establish geographically adjusted premiums at a level sufficient to fully finance the costs of the health benefits provided and administrative costs related to the operation of the plan; and (4) establish payment rates and provide for greater payment rates for the first three years.
 
Requires repayment of start-up costs for the public health insurance option. 
 
Authorizes the Secretary to utilize innovative payment mechanisms and policies to determine payments for items and services under the public health insurance option.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-07-21
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2010-07-21
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-07-21
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Ysleta del Sur Pueblo and Alabama and Coushatta Indian Tribes of Texas Restoration Act to allow the Ysleta del Sur Pueblo Tribe to determine blood quantum requirement for membership in that tribe.

Bill: 111-hr-5811
Sponsor: Rep. Reyes, Silvestre [D-TX-16]
Introduced: 2010-07-21 in the House
Policy area: Native Americans
Subjects: Federal-Indian relations
Texas

Summary:
action_date: 2010-07-21
text: 
Amends the Ysleta del Sur Pueblo and Alabama and Coushatta Indian Tribes of Texas Restoration Act to revise tribal membership requirements to provide tribal membership to any person of Tigua Ysleta del Sur Pueblo Indian blood enrolled by the tribe.

action_date: 2010-09-22
text: 

(This measure has not been amended since it was introduced. The summary of that version is repeated here.)

 
Amends the Ysleta del Sur Pueblo and Alabama and Coushatta Indian Tribes of Texas Restoration Act to revise tribal membership requirements to provide tribal membership to any person of Tigua Ysleta del Sur Pueblo Indian blood enrolled by the tribe.

action_date: 2010-12-09
text: 

(This measure has not been amended since it was introduced. The summary of that version is repeated here.)

 
Amends the Ysleta del Sur Pueblo and Alabama and Coushatta Indian Tribes of Texas Restoration Act to revise tribal membership requirements to provide tribal membership to any person of Tigua Ysleta del Sur Pueblo Indian blood enrolled by the tribe.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-12-09
text: Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 683.
action_date: 2010-12-09
text: Committee on Indian Affairs. Reported by Senator Dorgan without amendment. With written report No. 111-359.
action_date: 2010-12-09
text: Committee on Indian Affairs. Reported by Senator Dorgan without amendment. With written report No. 111-359.
action_date: 2010-11-18
text: Committee on Indian Affairs. Ordered to be reported without amendment favorably.
action_date: 2010-09-23
text: Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs.
action_date: 2010-09-22
text: Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
action_date: 2010-09-22
text: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill Agreed to by voice vote. (text: CR H6821)
action_date: 2010-09-22
text: Passed/agreed to in House: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill Agreed to by voice vote.(text: CR H6821)
action_date: 2010-09-22
text: DEBATE - The House proceeded with forty minutes of debate on H.R. 5811.
action_date: 2010-09-22
text: Considered under suspension of the rules. (consideration: CR H6821-6822)
action_date: 2010-09-22
text: Mrs. Christensen moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill.
action_date: 2010-07-21
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2010-07-21
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-07-21
text: Introduced in House
To conduct a pilot program in support of efforts to increase purchases of local fresh fruits and vegetables for schools and service institutions by giving several States the option of receiving a grant from the Secretary of Agriculture for that purpose instead of obtaining commodities under Department of Agriculture programs.

Bill: 111-hr-5812
Sponsor: Rep. Welch, Peter [D-VT-At Large]
Introduced: 2010-07-21 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Elementary and secondary education
Food assistance and relief
Fruit and vegetables
Nutrition and diet
Poverty and welfare assistance

Summary:
action_date: 2010-07-21
text: 
Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to conduct a pilot program under which a participating state, in lieu of obtaining any or a portion of the state's allotment of specialty food crops for use in the school lunch and breakfast programs, receives a grant in an amount equal to the value of the commodities for FY2011 and FY2012. 
 
Requires the grant funds to be used solely to purchase fresh fruits and vegetables for distribution to schools and service institutions participating in the school lunch and breakfast programs.
 
 Limits pilot program participation to three states.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-10-13
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Healthy Families and Communities.
action_date: 2010-07-21
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and Labor.
action_date: 2010-07-21
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-07-21
text: Introduced in House
White Clay Creek Wild and Scenic River Expansion Act of 2010

Bill: 111-hr-5813
Sponsor: Rep. Pitts, Joseph R. [R-PA-16]
Introduced: 2010-07-22 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Delaware
Pennsylvania
Wilderness and natural areas, wildlife refuges, wild rivers, habitats

Summary:
action_date: 2010-07-22
text: 
White Clay Creek Wild and Scenic River Expansion Act of 2010 - Amends the Wild and Scenic Rivers Act to designate additional segments and tributaries of the White Clay Creek in Delaware and Pennsylvania as components of the National Wild and Scenic Rivers System.
 
Applies the White Clay Creek Wild and Scenic Rivers System Act to such additional segments and tributiaries of White Clay Creek. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-07-23
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests and Public Lands.
action_date: 2010-07-22
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2010-07-22
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-07-22
text: Introduced in House
Public Housing Reinvestment and Tenant Protection Act of 2010

Bill: 111-hr-5814
Sponsor: Rep. Waters, Maxine [D-CA-35]
Introduced: 2010-07-22 in the House
Policy area: Housing and Community Development
Subjects: Allied health services
Energy efficiency and conservation
Government trust funds
Home and outpatient care
Housing and community development funding
Housing for the elderly and disabled
Income tax credits
Medical education
Property rights
Public housing
Residential rehabilitation and home repair

Summary:
action_date: 2010-07-22
text: 
Public Housing Reinvestment and Tenant Protection Act of 2010 - Choice Neighborhoods Initiative Act of 2010 - Requires the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) to make competitive grants to local governments, public housing agencies (PHAs), or nonprofit entities owning a major housing project to implement transformational programs in eligible neighborhoods with a concentration of extreme poverty and severely distressed housing.
 
Public Housing One-for-One Replacement and Tenant Protection Act of 2010 - Amends the United States Housing Act of 1937 with respect to: (1) demolition, disposition, or both pursuant to conversion of any public housing unit; and (2) the taking of public housing units through the use of eminent domain.
 
Exempts from specified requirements for demolition and disposition of public housing any public housing projects removed from a PHA inventory under the program for conversion of demolished or distressed public housing dwelling units to tenant-based assistance.
 
 
 Public Housing Preservation and Rehabilitation Act of 2010 - Authorizes the Secretary to guarantee notes or other obligations issued by PHAs to finance: (1) the rehabilitation of PHA public housing; or (2) the modernization of such housing through energy efficiency improvements.
 
Prescribes requirements for PHAs that utilize housing tax credits under the Internal Revenue Code for rental housing units.
 
Removes a specified limitation on the use of amounts from the public housing Capital Fund or Operation Fund by a PHA to construct new public housing units. Permits a PHA to use amounts from the Capital Fund for public housing units not included in the regular formula for determining the amount of assistance, subject to certain conditions.
 
Authorizes the Secretary to make grants to PHAs for conversion of public housing projects to assisted living. 
 
Together We Care Act of 2010 - Requires the Secretary to establish a competitive grant pilot program for eligible entities to train public housing residents as home health aides and as providers of home-based health services for residents of public housing or federally-assisted rental housing who are elderly, disabled, or both.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-07-27
text: Ordered to be Reported (Amended) by the Yeas and Nays: 42 - 27.
action_date: 2010-07-27
text: Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
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
Commercial Real Estate Stabilization Act of 2010

Bill: 111-hr-5816
Sponsor: Rep. Minnick, Walter [D-ID-1]
Introduced: 2010-07-22 in the House
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: Advisory bodies
Credit and credit markets
Government lending and loan guarantees
Industrial facilities
Real estate business
Small business

Summary:
action_date: 2010-07-22
text: 
Commercial Real Estate Stabilization Act of 2010 - Establishes an Oversight Board to: (1) advise the Secretary of the Treasury on the Commercial Real Estate Credit Guarantee Program (established by this Act); and (2) report quarterly to Congress on the Program and on the current state of the credit system in the United States with respect to commercial lending, small business, and commercial real estate lending.
 
Directs the Secretary to establish the Commercial Real Estate Credit Guarantee Program, under which the Secretary shall guarantee payments of interest and principal on an approved credit instrument.
 
Requires 50% of the Program to be used for small- and mid-sized institutions.
 
Permits loans for either owner-occupied or nonowner-occupied commercial real estate.
 
States that guarantees issued under this Act constitute general obligations of the United States, for which the full faith and credit of the United States is pledged.
 
Expresses the intent of Congress that the Program be utilized when such utilization proves beneficial, and not be unduly inhibited by concerns related to potential unfavorable regulatory accounting treatment.


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
Mandate Prevention Act of 2010

Bill: 111-hr-5818
Sponsor: Rep. Garrett, Scott [R-NJ-5]
Introduced: 2010-07-22 in the House
Policy area: Congress
Subjects: Appropriations
Budget process
House of Representatives
Legislative rules and procedure
Senate

Summary:
action_date: 2010-07-22
text: 
Mandate Prevention Act of 2010 - Amends the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 (CBA) to make it out of order to consider in either chamber of Congress any legislation that would increase the direct costs of federal private sector mandates by an amount that causes the applicable thresholds to be exceeded, unless the legislation: (1) provides new budget or entitlement authority in the House of Representatives or direct spending authority in the Senate for each fiscal year for such mandates in an amount equal to or exceeding the direct costs of each such mandate; or (2) includes an authorization of appropriations in an amount equal to or exceeding the direct costs of such mandates and makes other specified arrangements for up to 10 years during which each mandate shall be in effect under the legislation.
 
Applies such prohibition to any legislative provision increasing direct costs of a federal private sector mandate (currently, federal intergovernmental mandate only) in any legislation reported by a congressional appropriations committee.
 
Amends Rule XVIII (The Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union) of the Rules of the House to state that the Committee of the Whole may be precluded from considering an amendment proposing only to strike an unfunded federal private sector mandate from the portion of the bill then open to amendment only by specific terms of a special order of the House.
 
Amends the CBA to equalize the threshold between private sector and intergovernmental mandates.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-07-22
text: Referred to House Budget
action_date: 2010-07-22
text: Referred to the Committee on Rules, and in addition to the Committee on the Budget, 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 Rules
action_date: 2010-07-22
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-07-22
text: Introduced in House
Roadway Safety Training and Access Act of 2010

Bill: 111-hr-5819
Sponsor: Rep. Guthrie, Brett [R-KY-2]
Introduced: 2010-07-22 in the House
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Employment and training programs
Roads and highways
Transportation employees
Transportation programs funding
Transportation safety and security
Worker safety and health

Summary:
action_date: 2010-07-22
text: 
Roadway Safety Training and Access Act of 2010 - Directs the Secretary of Transportation to make grants to one not-for-profit organization to develop a roadway safety training institute to deliver comprehensive and uniform roadway safety training to roadway workers across the United States.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-07-23
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Highways and Transit.
action_date: 2010-07-22
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2010-07-22
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-07-22
text: Introduced in House
10 Million Solar Roofs Act of 2010

Bill: 111-hr-5821
Sponsor: Rep. Cohen, Steve [D-TN-9]
Introduced: 2010-07-22 in the House
Policy area: Energy
Subjects: Alternative and renewable resources
Energy research
Government lending and loan guarantees
Income tax credits
Lighting and heating
Lighting, heating, cooling
Research and development
Residential rehabilitation and home repair

Summary:
action_date: 2010-07-22
text: 
10 Million Solar Roofs Act of 2010 - Directs the Secretary of Energy (DOE) to establish a program under which the Secretary shall provide competitive grants to states, Indian tribes, and local governments to provide rebates, loans, or other incentives to eligible participants for the purchase and installation of solar energy systems for properties located in the United States. 
 
Requires the Secretary to implement specified criteria for awarding such grants that includes: (1) providing the maximum leverage of federal funds; (2) providing for the maximum deployment of solar energy; and (3) ensuring that grants are awarded to a diversity of geographic locations and recipients with different population sizes. 
 
 Authorizes the use of funds received to expand or establish a solar rebate program, a solar loan program, a solar performance-based incentive program, or another solar incentive program, solar deployment program or project, or innovative solar financing program as determined by the Secretary. Requires a grant recipient to: (1) certify that funds will be used to supplement, expand, or create new programs and to deploy an increased quantity of solar energy systems; and (2) submit to the Secretary an implementation plan that contains projections for solar energy systems deployment, data regarding the number of eligible participants that are assisted under existing applicable state and local programs, and projections for additional solar energy system deployment and the number of additional eligible participants covered. 
 
Authorizes the Secretary to specify the type and capacity of solar energy system and type of deployment or incentive program for which the grant funds are made available. Makes each eligible entity receiving funds responsible for 20% of the amount of the provided funds.
 
Provides that a participant who receives a rebate under this Act shall not be eligible for a rebate for expenditures for installation of a renewable energy system in connection with a dwelling unit or small business under the Energy Policy Act of 2005.
 
 Limits the aggregate value of the grants, rebates, and tax credits provided to an eligible participant to 50% of the cost to the purchaser of the purchase and installation. 
 
Sets a goal of installing distributed solar energy systems on not less than 10 million properties located in the United States by December 31, 2021.


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
Transportation and Housing Affordability Transparency Act

Bill: 111-hr-5824
Sponsor: Rep. Blumenauer, Earl [D-OR-3]
Introduced: 2010-07-22 in the House
Policy area: Housing and Community Development
Subjects: Government information and archives
Housing finance and home ownership
Housing supply and affordability
Public housing
Public transit
Transportation costs

Summary:
action_date: 2010-07-22
text: 
Transportation and Housing Affordability Transparency Act - Requires the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) to develop publicly a transportation affordability index that measures the transportation costs associated with the location of a home, both on a neighborhood and regional basis.
 
Requires HUD to make the index publicly available through the Internet, as well as to Multiple Listing Services for real estate, regional and metropolitan planning organizations, local housing and planning agencies, and states, local governments, nonprofit organizations, and transportation management agencies.
 
Requires HUD to: (1) incorporate transportation costs associated with the location of housing into affordability measures and standards for HUD housing programs; (2) provide related information and resources to states to encourage them to incorporate transportation costs into their housing and land use plans; (3) work with regional and local government entities to integrate housing, transportation, and other costs associated with location into long-range transportation, land use, housing and community development, or investment plans; and (4) work with federal agencies to incorporate the transportation affordability index.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-07-22
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2010-07-22
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E1407)
action_date: 2010-07-22
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-07-22
text: Introduced in House
To amend title 38, United States Code, to expand the definition of active duty for purposes of the Post-9/11 Educational Assistance Program of the Department of Veterans Affairs to include certain service in the National Guard.

Bill: 111-hr-5826
Sponsor: Rep. Altmire, Jason [D-PA-4]
Introduced: 2010-07-22 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Disaster relief and insurance
Military civil functions
Military education and training
National Guard and reserves
Veterans' education, employment, rehabilitation

Summary:
action_date: 2010-07-22
text: 
Revises provisions concerning the post-9/11 veterans' educational assistance program to include as active duty service (and therefore qualify for program assistance) full-time service in the National Guard: (1) organizing, administering, recruiting, instructing, or training the National Guard; or (2) when authorized by the President or the Secretary of Defense (DOD) for responding to a national emergency declared by the President and supported by federal funds.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-07-23
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Economic Opportunity.
action_date: 2010-07-22
text: Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2010-07-22
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-07-22
text: Introduced in House