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Medical Checklist Act of 2010

Bill: 111-hr-5742
Sponsor: Rep. Holt, Rush [D-NJ-12]
Introduced: 2010-07-15 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Computers and information technology
Health care quality
Health information and medical records
Medical research

Summary:
action_date: 2010-07-15
text: 
Medical Checklist Act of 2010 - Requires the Director of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, acting through the Center for Quality Improvement and Patient Safety, to conduct research and a study regarding the development and efficacy of medical checklists, including regarding: (1) the testing of different models of medical checklists; (2) an examination of checklist development and use in other industries; and (3) a measurement of the effects of the use of medical checklists on patient safety and health outcomes. Requires dissemination of the results of such study to patient safety organizations. Defines &quot;medical checklist&quot; as a predetermined, evidence-based, well-defined set of steps that should be completed during a designated medical clinical encounter or medical procedure. 
 
Requires the HIT Policy Committee to develop policy recommendations regarding: (1) the extent to which the use of medical checklists should be incorporated into health information technology systems; and (2) measures to determine the effectiveness of such use.
 
Requires the Secretary to enter into an agreement with the Institute of Medicine and the National Academy of Engineering of the National Academies to conduct a study on medical checklists that includes: (1) a review of available medical checklists and similar quality improvement techniques; (2) an identification of areas of research needed to improve medical checklists; (3) an analysis of organizational impediments to the adoption and use of medical checklists; and (4) a determination of whether the availability of an increased number of medical checklists would improve patient safety and health outcomes.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-07-15
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2010-07-15
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-07-15
text: Introduced in House
Protecting Homeowners' Credit History Act of 2010

Bill: 111-hr-5743
Sponsor: Rep. Speier, Jackie [D-CA-12]
Introduced: 2010-07-15 in the House
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: Consumer credit
Housing finance and home ownership

Summary:
action_date: 2010-07-15
text: 
Protecting Homeowners' Credit History Act of 2010 - Amends the Fair Credit Reporting Act to prohibit a person from furnishing to a consumer reporting agency any negative information resulting from the modification of the terms of a consumer loan secured by one to four units of residential real property, including any agreement to reduce the amount of the payments for the loan or to reduce the principal amount of such loan. 
 
Prohibits a person, in calculating any consumer's credit score, from producing a less favorable credit score on the basis of any information resulting from the modification of the terms of a consumer loan secured by one to four units of residential real property, including any such agreement as well.
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-07-15
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2010-07-15
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-07-15
text: Introduced in House
Revitalizing American Manufacturing Act of 2010

Bill: 111-hr-5744
Sponsor: Rep. Yarmuth, John A. [D-KY-3]
Introduced: 2010-07-15 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Energy efficiency and conservation
Income tax credits

Summary:
action_date: 2010-07-15
text: 
Revitalizing American Manufacturing Act of 2010 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) extend through 2013 and increase the amounts of the tax credit for energy efficient appliances (i.e., dishwashers, clothes washers, and refrigerators which meet certain energy efficiency standards); (2) provide that the aggregate amount of the credit for such appliances, other than certain energy efficient refrigerators or clothes washers, shall be reduced by the amount of such credit allowed for all prior taxable years beginning after December 31, 2010 (currently, after December 31, 2007); and (3) provide that the allowable amount of such credit may not exceed 4% of taxpayer average annual gross receipts (currently, 2%). 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-07-15
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2010-07-15
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-07-15
text: Introduced in House
United States Postal Service's CSRS Obligation Modification Act of 2010

Bill: 111-hr-5746
Sponsor: Rep. Lynch, Stephen F. [D-MA-9]
Introduced: 2010-07-15 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management
Government trust funds
U.S. Postal Service

Summary:
action_date: 2010-07-15
text: 
United States Postal Service's CSRS Obligation Modification Act of 2010 - Prescribes the &quot;average pay&quot; and the appropriate percentage thereof to be used in determining annuities for civilian employment with the United States Postal Service (USPS) for purposes of provisions relating to future benefits attributable to such employment in order to calculate the amount of any Postal surplus or supplemental liability under the Civil Service Retirement System. 
 
Requires the Office of Personnel Management (OPM): (1) within six months after enactment of this Act, to determine (or, if applicable, redetermine) the amount of such surplus or liability as of the close of the most recently ending fiscal year using the methodology required under this Act; and (2) if the result is a surplus, to transfer the surplus amount to the Postal Service Retiree Health Benefits Fund.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-07-21
text: Forwarded by Subcommittee to Full Committee in the Nature of a Substitute by the Yeas and Nays: 8 - 1 .
action_date: 2010-07-21
text: Subcommittee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
action_date: 2010-07-20
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Federal Workforce, Post Office, and the District of Columbia.
action_date: 2010-07-15
text: Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.
action_date: 2010-07-15
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E1340-1341)
action_date: 2010-07-15
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-07-15
text: Introduced in House
Families Beyond Bars Act of 2010

Bill: 111-hr-5747
Sponsor: Rep. Rush, Bobby L. [D-IL-1]
Introduced: 2010-07-15 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Correctional facilities and imprisonment
Family relationships
Law enforcement administration and funding

Summary:
action_date: 2010-07-15
text: 
Families Beyond Bars Act of 2010 - Authorizes the Attorney General to award grants to qualified organizations to carry out, directly or through subgrants to other entities, child-parent visitation programs that foster and develop familial ties between eligible children and their incarcerated parents. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-10-13
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Healthy Families and Communities.
action_date: 2010-07-15
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and Labor.
action_date: 2010-07-15
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-07-15
text: Introduced in House
End Racial Profiling Act of 2010

Bill: 111-hr-5748
Sponsor: Rep. Conyers, John, Jr. [D-MI-14]
Introduced: 2010-07-15 in the House
Policy area: Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Civil actions and liability
Criminal justice information and records
Department of Justice
Government information and archives
Government liability
Law enforcement administration and funding
Racial and ethnic relations

Summary:
action_date: 2010-07-15
text: 
End Racial Profiling Act of 2010 - Prohibits any law enforcement agent or agency from engaging in racial profiling. Grants the United States or an individual injured by racial profiling the right to obtain declaratory or injunctive relief.
 
Requires federal law enforcement agencies to maintain adequate policies and procedures to eliminate racial profiling and to cease existing practices that permit racial profiling.
 
Requires state or local governmental entities or state, local, or tribal law enforcement agencies that apply for grants under the Edward Byrne Memorial Justice Assistance Grant Program and the Cops on the Beat Program to certify that they maintain adequate policies and procedures for eliminating racial profiling and have eliminated any existing practices that permit or encourage racial profiling. 
 
Authorizes the Attorney General to award grants and contracts for the collection of data relating to racial profiling and for the development of best practices and systems to eliminate racial profiling. Requires the Attorney General to issue regulations for the collection and compilation of data on racial profiling and for the implementation of this Act.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-11-16
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.
action_date: 2010-11-16
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights, and Civil Liberties.
action_date: 2010-07-15
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2010-07-15
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E1341-1342)
action_date: 2010-07-15
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-07-15
text: Introduced in House
FAMS Augmentation Act of 2010

Bill: 111-hr-5750
Sponsor: Rep. Jackson Lee, Sheila [D-TX-18]
Introduced: 2010-07-15 in the House
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Aviation and airports
Criminal investigation, prosecution, interrogation
Department of Homeland Security
Executive agency funding and structure
Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management
Law enforcement administration and funding
Law enforcement officers
Terrorism
Transportation safety and security

Summary:
action_date: 2010-07-15
text: 
FAMS Augmentation Act of 2010 - Directs the Assistant Secretary of Homeland Security (DHS) for the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) to increase the number of federal air marshals by at least an additional 1,750 above the number of such marshals as of January 31, 2010, to ensure increased transportation security for inbound international flights.
 
Declares the goal of this Act is to increase the number of inbound flights with federal marshals onboard while maintaining federal marshal presence on domestic point-to-point flights at or above December 25, 2009, levels.
 
Directs the Federal Air Marshal Service (FAMS) to establish a policy requiring newly hired federal air marshals to complete as part of their basic training the criminal investigative training program at the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center. Requires federal air marshals hired before enactment of this Act who have not completed such program to attend an alternative training program.
 
Directs the Assistant Secretary to establish in FAMS an Office of the Ombudsman.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-08-03
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Transportation Security and Infrastructure Protection.
action_date: 2010-07-15
text: Referred to the House Committee on Homeland Security.
action_date: 2010-07-15
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-07-15
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to award grants to eligible entities to establish, expand, or support an existing school-based mentoring program to assist at-risk middle school students with the transition from middle school to high school.

Bill: 111-hr-5753
Sponsor: Rep. Carson, Andre [D-IN-7]
Introduced: 2010-07-15 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Education of the disadvantaged
Education programs funding
Elementary and secondary education
Teaching, teachers, curricula

Summary:
action_date: 2010-07-15
text: 
Amends title I of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (ESEA) to reauthorize appropriations under part H (School Dropout Prevention).
 
Establishes a transition-to-success mentoring program under part H of the ESEA requiring the Secretary of Education to award five-year grants to local educational agencies (LEAs) or partnerships between LEAs and community-based nonprofit organizations to establish, expand, or support school-based mentoring programs to assist at-risk students in transitioning from middle to high school.
 
Requires grantees to assign to each at-risk student in his or her middle school a success coach who: (1) creates a plan of success for the student; (2) enters into an agreement with the student's parents regarding their role in implementing such plan; (3) meets with the student at least once a month to assess and assist the student's progress; (4) meets at least quarterly with the student and the student's parents, teachers, or counselors to evaluate the student's progress and revise or establish new goals for the next academic year; and (5) serves as the student's advocate between the student's parents and teachers.
 
Authorizes the use of grant funds to train success coaches and cover the cost of any materials they use under the mentoring program.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-10-13
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education.
action_date: 2010-07-15
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and Labor.
action_date: 2010-07-15
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-07-15
text: Introduced in House
Preventing Homeowners from Foreclosure Act of 2010

Bill: 111-hr-5754
Sponsor: Rep. Cohen, Steve [D-TN-9]
Introduced: 2010-07-15 in the House
Policy area: Housing and Community Development
Subjects: Housing and community development funding
Housing finance and home ownership

Summary:
action_date: 2010-07-15
text: 
Preventing Homeowners from Foreclosure Act of 2010 - Directs the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) to implement a competitive grants program for states and local governmental entities to establish mediation programs to assist mortgagors under home mortgages facing foreclosure on such mortgages.
 
Requires the program to provide the mortgagor with a referral and contact information for a paid or pro bono attorney or a HUD-certified housing counselor.
 
Requires grant recipients to establish an outreach program to raise homeowner awareness of the existence of the foreclosure mediation program, including a telephone hotline, a World Wide Web site, or both.
 
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-07-15
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2010-07-15
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-07-15
text: Introduced in House
To amend title 10, United States Code, to provide authority to restrict competition to businesses within States that fund projects at military installations.

Bill: 111-hr-5755
Sponsor: Rep. Courtney, Joe [D-CT-2]
Introduced: 2010-07-15 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Congressional oversight
Military facilities and property
Military procurement, research, weapons development
State and local finance

Summary:
action_date: 2010-07-15
text: 
Authorizes the head of the Department of Defense (DOD), each of the military departments, the Coast Guard, and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) (agency head), in the procurement of property or services, to use procedures other than competitive procedures when the contract is for a military construction project at a military installation in a state, the state provided all funding for the project, and the agency head: (1) determines that it is in its best interest to limit the sources for bids or proposals to prospective contractors with a physical presence in that state; and (2) notifies the congressional defense and appropriations committees of such determination at least 30 days before the contract award.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-07-23
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Readiness.
action_date: 2010-07-15
text: Referred to the House Committee on Armed Services.
action_date: 2010-07-15
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-07-15
text: Introduced in House
Protecting Rural Landscapes Act of 2010

Bill: 111-hr-5759
Sponsor: Rep. Heinrich, Martin [D-NM-1]
Introduced: 2010-07-15 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Civil actions and liability
Contracts and agency
Farmland
Government information and archives
Land use and conservation
Oil and gas
Property rights

Summary:
action_date: 2010-07-15
text: 
 Protecting Rural Landscapes Act of 2010 - Amends the Mineral Leasing Act, with respect to the lease of oil and gas lands, to require a person with the legal right to conduct oil and gas operations on covered land (operator) to compensate the surface owner for damages resulting from: (1) loss of agricultural production and income; (2) lost land value; (3) lost use of and lost access to the land; and (4) the lost value of improvements. Requires the operator to reclaim the affected surface.
 
Requires the operator to give notice prior to: (1) initial entry for activities that do not disturb the surface; and (2) commencing oil and gas operations. Requires the operator, at the time of providing notice of commencement of oil and gas operations, to provide the surface owner with a proposed surface use agreement that includes an offer of compensation for damages to the surface affected by oil and gas operations.
 
Requires an operator to provide the surface owner with appropriate financial assurance of reclamation in lieu of executing a surface use agreement.
 
Requires the Secretary of the Interior to provide notice of upcoming lease sales and drilling permits to each: (1) surface owner of affected covered land; and (2) permittee or right-of-way holder with the right to use the surface of affected federal land.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-07-20
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources.
action_date: 2010-07-15
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2010-07-15
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-07-15
text: Introduced in House
To expand eligibility for Pell grants to certain students who are pursuing a postbaccalaureate professional certification or licensing credential required for employment as a teacher.

Bill: 111-hr-5760
Sponsor: Rep. Melancon, Charlie [D-LA-3]
Introduced: 2010-07-15 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Education programs funding
Higher education
Licensing and registrations
Student aid and college costs
Teaching, teachers, curricula

Summary:
action_date: 2010-07-15
text: 
Amends the Higher Education Act of 1965 to allow students who are pursuing a postbaccalaureate professional certification or licensing credential required for employment as a teacher to receive a Pell grant even if their institution of higher education (IHE) offers a baccalaureate degree in education, provided they do not live within 45 miles of an IHE that offers such a postbaccalaureate program but not a baccalaureate degree in education. (Currently, students are not eligible for Pell grants for such postbaccalaureate studies if their IHE offers a baccalaureate degree in education.)


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-10-13
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Higher Education, Lifelong Learning, and Competitiveness.
action_date: 2010-07-15
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and Labor.
action_date: 2010-07-15
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-07-15
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act to expedite the application of the provision prohibiting rescissions of health insurance coverage.

Bill: 111-hr-5761
Sponsor: Rep. Melancon, Charlie [D-LA-3]
Introduced: 2010-07-15 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Employee benefits and pensions
Health care costs and insurance
Health care coverage and access

Summary:
action_date: 2010-07-15
text: 
Amends the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) to make the prohibition against health plans rescinding coverage of an enrollee effective on the day of enactment of PPACA.
 
Requires a health plan that rescinded the coverage of an enrollee during the period beginning on March 23, 2010, and ending on the date of enactment of this Act to reinstate such enrollee in the plan or coverage and treat claims for services furnished to such enrollee during such period as if such rescission had not occurred. Exempts the plan or issuer from any penalty for any violation occurring during such period.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-07-15
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2010-07-15
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-07-15
text: Introduced in House
District of Columbia National Disaster Insurance Protection Act

Bill: 111-hr-5762
Sponsor: Del. Norton, Eleanor Holmes [D-DC-At Large]
Introduced: 2010-07-15 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Disaster relief and insurance
District of Columbia
Income tax exclusion
Insurance industry and regulation
Life, casualty, property insurance

Summary:
action_date: 2010-07-15
text: 
District of Columbia National Disaster Insurance Protection Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to provide for a tax-exempt natural disaster protection fund held by an insurance company that: (1) is incorporated and domiciled in the District of Columbia; (2) is subject to supervision by the District of Columbia Commissioner of Insurance, Securities, and Banking; (3) maintains an office in the District of Columbia that employs no fewer than 10 full-time employees, at least 5 of whom are District of Columbia residents; (4) is subject to taxes imposed by the District of Columbia on premiums for natural catastrophic risk coverage; and (5) is not subject to premium taxes imposed by any state or other taxing jurisdiction for natural catastrophic risk coverage written through the fund. 
 
Allows distributions from such fund to cover losses attributable to wind (including hurricanes and tornadoes), earthquakes, floods, tsunami or tidal wave, volcanic eruption, fire, hail, snow, ice freezing, or other winter catastrophes, or a pandemic or other public health catastrophe. 
 
Sets forth tax rules for contributions to and distributions from such fund.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-07-15
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2010-07-15
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E1339)
action_date: 2010-07-15
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-07-15
text: Introduced in House
Solar EDGE Act

Bill: 111-hr-5763
Sponsor: Rep. Polis, Jared [D-CO-2]
Introduced: 2010-07-15 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Alternative and renewable resources
Electric power generation and transmission
Environmental technology
Income tax credits

Summary:
action_date: 2010-07-15
text: 
Solar Expansion of Distributed Generation Exponentially Act or the Solar EDGE Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to increase the rate of the residential energy tax credit and the energy investment tax credit to 50% in 2010 and 2011 for qualified solar electric property expenditures with respect to property that has a nameplate capacity of less than 20 kilowatts (or the thermal energy equivalent). 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-07-15
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2010-07-15
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-07-15
text: Introduced in House