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A bill to designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 23 Genesee Street in Hornell, New York, as the "Zachary Smith Post Office Building".

Bill: 111-s-3200
Sponsor: Sen. Gillibrand, Kirsten E. [D-NY]
Introduced: 2010-04-14 in the Senate
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Congressional tributes
Government buildings, facilities, and property
New York State
Postal service

Summary:
action_date: 2010-04-14
text: Designates the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 23 Genesee Street in Hornell, New York, as the "Zachary Smith Post Office Building."

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-05-25
text: Held at the desk.
action_date: 2010-05-25
text: Message on Senate action sent to the House.
action_date: 2010-05-25
text: Received in the House.
action_date: 2010-05-25
text: Passed Senate without amendment by Unanimous Consent. (consideration: CR S4171-4172; text as passed Senate: CR S4171)
action_date: 2010-05-25
text: Passed/agreed to in Senate: Passed Senate without amendment by Unanimous Consent.(consideration: CR S4171-4172; text as passed Senate: CR S4171)
action_date: 2010-05-18
text: Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 384.
action_date: 2010-05-18
text: Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. Reported by Senator Lieberman without amendment. Without written report.
action_date: 2010-05-18
text: Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. Reported by Senator Lieberman without amendment. Without written report.
action_date: 2010-05-17
text: Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. Ordered to be reported without amendment favorably.
action_date: 2010-04-16
text: Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs referred to Subcommittee on Federal Financial Management, Government Information, Federal Services, and International Security.
action_date: 2010-04-14
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.
action_date: 2010-04-14
text: Introduced in Senate
TRICARE Dependent Coverage Extension Act

Bill: 111-s-3201
Sponsor: Sen. Udall, Mark [D-CO]
Introduced: 2010-04-14 in the Senate
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Child health
Department of Defense
Health care costs and insurance
Military medicine
Military personnel and dependents

Summary:
action_date: 2010-04-14
text: 
TRICARE Dependent Coverage Extension Act - Deems the following individuals as dependents, for purposes of dependent coverage under TRICARE (a Department of Defense [DOD] managed health care program): (1) a child who has not yet attained age 26 and is not eligible to enroll in any employer-sponsored plan; or (2) a person who is in the legal custody of the covered member, has not attained age 26, is not eligible to enroll in any employer-sponsored plan, resides with the member, is not otherwise a dependent under TRICARE, and is not the child of another covered beneficiary. Requires a premium payment for such coverage.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-04-14
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Armed Services.
action_date: 2010-04-14
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S2297-2298)
action_date: 2010-04-14
text: Introduced in Senate
Haitian-American Enterprise Fund Act

Bill: 111-s-3202
Sponsor: Sen. Lugar, Richard G. [R-IN]
Introduced: 2010-04-14 in the Senate
Policy area: International Affairs
Subjects: Agricultural trade
Business investment and capital
Caribbean area
Congressional oversight
Foreign aid and international relief
Foreign loans and debt
Haiti
Latin America
Small business
Social work, volunteer service, charitable organizations

Summary:
action_date: 2010-04-14
text: 
Haitian-American Enterprise Fund Act - Authorizes the President, after congressional consultation, to designate one private, nonprofit organization as the Haitian-American Enterprise Fund to receive funds and support under this Act to promote the Haitian private and agricultural sectors and joint U.S.-Haitian ventures through loans, grants, equity investments, technical assistance, training, and insurance.
 
 
 States that: (1) a grant agreement between the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and the Fund shall require the Fund to liquidate its assets and dissolve not later than December 31, 2020, unless USAID determines that the Fund should be extended; and (2) all Fund assets remaining at such time shall be used to organize a follow-on U.S.-Haiti legacy foundation.
 
 
Applies the enterprise fund provisions of the Support for East European Democracy (SEED) Act of 1989 to the Fund in the same manner as such provisions apply to other similar U.S.-established enterprise funds. 
 
Authorizes appropriations.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-04-14
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations.
action_date: 2010-04-14
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to extend the National Flood Insurance Program through May 31, 2010.

Bill: 111-s-3203
Sponsor: Sen. Vitter, David [R-LA]
Introduced: 2010-04-14 in the Senate
Policy area: Emergency Management
Subjects: Disaster relief and insurance
Floods and storm protection

Summary:
action_date: 2010-04-14
text: Amends the Continuing Appropriations Resolution, 2010, as amended by the Temporary Extension Act of 2010, to extend the National Flood Insurance Program through May 31, 2010.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-04-14
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.
action_date: 2010-04-14
text: Introduced in Senate
Measuring and Evaluating Trends for Reliability, Integrity, and Continued  Success (METRICS) Act

Bill: 111-s-3204
Sponsor: Sen. Brown, Sherrod [D-OH]
Introduced: 2010-04-14 in the Senate
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Academic performance and assessments
Education of the disadvantaged
Education programs funding
Elementary and secondary education
Government information and archives
Higher education
Personnel records
Preschool education
Right of privacy

Summary:
action_date: 2010-04-14
text: 
Measuring and Evaluating Trends for Reliability, Integrity, and Continued Success (METRICS) Act - Authorizes the Secretary of Education to award competitive grants to states to improve access to, and the sharing and use of, education data to improve student outcomes.
 
 
Requires state grantees to have or be in the process of implementing integrated statewide education longitudinal data systems, which link individual students' early childhood, elementary, secondary, and postsecondary education and workforce data over time.
 
Requires the use of grant funds to: (1) expand the ability of the data systems to link such data and do so across state agencies; (2) improve opportunities to access, analyze, and use data from such systems; and (3) build the capacity of teachers, leaders, parents, students, researchers, and the public to use longitudinal data for effective decision-making.
 
Gives grant priority to states that propose to coordinate their efforts with local educational agencies (LEAs) or other states.
 
Authorizes the Secretary to award competitive grants to high-need LEAs to develop and implement a comprehensive plan for using data to improve teaching, learning, and student outcomes.
 
Requires such plan to include strategies to: (1) provide teachers, leaders, parents, students, researchers, and the public with access to student education data in a manner that respects student and teacher privacy; (2) coordinate with state efforts to build integrated statewide longitudinal data systems; (3) regularly analyze and share student education data with school personnel, parents, and students; (4) train teachers and school leaders to use such data effectively; (5) ensure that source data used at the local level is consistent with source data used to report indicators as required by state or federal law; and (6) provide training that addresses the use of data collection software, privacy policies, data integrity issues, report planning, and processes.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-04-14
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2010-04-14
text: Introduced in Senate
BAG Fees Act

Bill: 111-s-3205
Sponsor: Sen. Schumer, Charles E. [D-NY]
Introduced: 2010-04-14 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Aviation and airports
Sales and excise taxes

Summary:
action_date: 2010-04-14
text: 
Block Airlines' Gratuitous Fees Act or the BAG Fees Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to treat fees paid for baggage personally carried into the cabin of an aircraft by a passenger as an amount paid for taxable transportation for purposes of the 7.5% excise tax on transportation of persons by air.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-04-14
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2010-04-14
text: Introduced in Senate
Keep Our Educators Working Act of 2010

Bill: 111-s-3206
Sponsor: Sen. Harkin, Tom [D-IA]
Introduced: 2010-04-14 in the Senate
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Appropriations
Education of the disadvantaged
Education programs funding
Elementary and secondary education
Government trust funds
Higher education
State and local finance
Teaching, teachers, curricula

Summary:
action_date: 2010-04-14
text: 
Keep Our Educators Working Act of 2010 - Appropriates funds for an Education Jobs Fund. 
 
Allocates the bulk of such Fund for grants to states pursuant to a formula that considers each state's share of individuals age 5 through 24 and each state's share of the nation's total population.
 
Authorizes states to reserve a portion of the grant funds for administrative costs and for retaining or creating state education positions.
 
Requires states to use the bulk of the grant to award subgrants to local educational agencies (LEAs) and public institutions of higher education to restore the reductions in state funding for elementary and secondary education and for public institutions of higher education that remain for FY2010 and FY2011, after including the funds they received for such reductions under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009.
 
Requires states that receive a grant that is more than what is required to cover such activities to allocate the excess to their LEAs based on the LEAs' relative share of school improvement funds under title I of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965.
 
Limits the use of subgrant funds to retaining or hiring new employees, or on-the-job training activities for education careers.
 
Designates this Act's appropriation as an emergency requirement.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-04-14
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2010-04-14
text: Introduced in Senate
Protect Our Workers from Exploitation and Retaliation Act

Bill: 111-s-3207
Sponsor: Sen. Menendez, Robert [D-NJ]
Introduced: 2010-04-14 in the Senate
Policy area: Immigration
Subjects: Administrative remedies
Crime victims
Criminal investigation, prosecution, interrogation
Employment discrimination and employee rights
Foreign labor
Immigration status and procedures

Summary:
action_date: 2010-04-14
text: 
Protect Our Workers from Exploitation and Retaliation Act or the POWER Act - Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to exclude from the definition of &quot;immigrant&quot; under such Act a nonimmigrant alien who files a petition for status if the Secretary of Homeland Security (DHS) determines that the alien: (1) has suffered abuse or harm as a result of having been a victim of criminal activity; (2) has suffered substantial abuse or harm related to specified labor or employment violations related to a workplace claim (workplace violation); (3) is a victim of specified criminal activity and would suffer extreme hardship upon removal; (4) has suffered a workplace violation and would suffer extreme hardship upon removal; (5) has been helpful to a local judge, DHS, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the Department of Labor, or the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) or to other authorities investigating, prosecuting, or seeking civil remedies for workplace violation; or (6) has filed, is a material witness in, or is likely to be helpful in the investigation of, the claim in a workplace violation and reasonably fears, has been threatened with, or has been the victim of, an action involving force, physical restraint, retaliation, or abuse of the immigration or other legal process by the employer in relation to acts underlying or related to the filing of the claim.
 
Authorizes the Secretary to permit an alien to temporarily remain in the United States and grant the alien employment authorization upon determining that the alien: (1) has filed for relief under such provisions; (2) has filed, or is a material witness to, a bona fide workplace claim; and (3) has been helpful to a federal, state, or local law enforcement official, prosecutor, or judge, to DHS, EEOC, the Department of Labor, or NLRB, or to other federal, state, or local authorities investigating, prosecuting, or seeking civil remedies related to the claim. 
 
Sets forth provisions governing procedural requirements and protections in an enforcement action leading to a removal proceeding taken against an alien: (1) as a result of information provided to DHS in retaliation against an individual for exercising or attempting to exercise employment or other legal rights; (2) at a facility about which a workplace claim has been filed; or (3) who has filed a workplace claim, who is a material witness in any proceeding involving a workplace claim, or who has filed for relief under this Act.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-04-14
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2010-04-14
text: Introduced in Senate
Reinvesting in U.S. Territories, Not Corporations Act

Bill: 111-s-3208
Sponsor: Sen. Menendez, Robert [D-NJ]
Introduced: 2010-04-15 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Food industry and services
Government lending and loan guarantees
Puerto Rico
Sales and excise taxes
Virgin Islands

Summary:
action_date: 2010-04-15
text: 
Reinvesting in U.S. Territories, Not Corporations Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to reduce the amount of distilled spirits excise tax revenue returned (covered over) to the treasuries of Puerto Rico or the Virgin Islands by the amount of any unreasonable and excessive rum subsidy paid or incurred by either jurisdiction in an applicable calendar year. Defines &quot;unreasonable and excessive rum subsidy&quot; as the excess, if any, of the aggregate amount of direct and indirect government assistance paid to producers of distilled spirits in Puerto Rico or the Virginia Islands over 10% of the amounts covered over into the treasuries of such jurisdictions in a calendar year.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-04-15
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2010-04-15
text: Introduced in Senate
Embassy Design and Security Act of 2010

Bill: 111-s-3210
Sponsor: Sen. Kerry, John F. [D-MA]
Introduced: 2010-04-15 in the Senate
Policy area: International Affairs
Subjects: Advisory bodies
Building construction
Congressional oversight
Department of State
Diplomacy, foreign officials, Americans abroad
Executive agency funding and structure
Government buildings, facilities, and property
Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management

Summary:
action_date: 2010-04-15
text: 
Embassy Design and Security Act of 2010 - States that it is U.S. policy to adopt design excellence as a mandate for a new generation of secure, high-performance diplomatic and consular facilities.
 
Urges the Secretary of State to establish: (1) a design excellence program modeled after the General Services Administration (GSA) program to integrate security, innovation, and design and construction best practices for all facilities constructed under the direction of the Bureau of Overseas Building Operations; and (2) a high-level board to track the design excellence program's progress.
 
 Directs the Secretary to reestablish the Architectural Advisory Board to: (1) advise the Department of State on design standards; and (2) review design quality and fitness.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-04-15
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations.
action_date: 2010-04-15
text: Introduced in Senate
Medicare Diabetes Self-Management Training Act of 2010

Bill: 111-s-3211
Sponsor: Sen. Shaheen, Jeanne [D-NH]
Introduced: 2010-04-15 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Congressional oversight
Digestive and metabolic diseases
Government studies and investigations
Health information and medical records
Health personnel
Home and outpatient care
Licensing and registrations
Medicare

Summary:
action_date: 2010-04-15
text: 
Medicare Diabetes Self-Management Training Act of 2010 - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to provide for the recognition of state-licensed or -registered health care professionals who are certified diabetes educators as Medicare providers of diabetes outpatient self-management training services.
 
Directs the Comptroller General to study and report to Congress on the barriers that exist for Medicare beneficiaries with diabetes in accessing diabetes self-management training services under the Medicare program.
 
Directs the Director of the Agency for Health Care Research and Quality to develop a series of recommendations on effective outreach methods to educate primary care physicians and the public about the benefits of diabetes self-management training.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-04-15
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2010-04-15
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 and section 1603 of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Tax Act of 2009 to provide that qualified energy efficiency property is eligible for the energy credit and the Department of Treasury grant.

Bill: 111-s-3212
Sponsor: Sen. Menendez, Robert [D-NJ]
Introduced: 2010-04-15 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Building construction
Energy efficiency and conservation
Income tax credits
Residential rehabilitation and home repair

Summary:
action_date: 2010-04-15
text: 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow a 30% energy tax credit for qualified energy efficiency property. Defines &quot;qualified energy efficiency property&quot; as property which: (1) is residential rental property, nonresidential real property, or mixed use real property; (2) is a qualified building as defined by this Act; and (3) achieves a specified energy savings. 
 
Amends the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act to allow grants for investment in qualified energy efficiency property in lieu of tax credits. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-04-15
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2010-04-15
text: Introduced in Senate
Harbor Maintenance Act of 2010

Bill: 111-s-3213
Sponsor: Sen. Levin, Carl [D-MI]
Introduced: 2010-04-15 in the Senate
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Appropriations
Government trust funds
Navigation, waterways, harbors
Sales and excise taxes
Transportation programs funding

Summary:
action_date: 2010-04-15
text: 
Harbor Maintenance Act of 2010 - Requires the total budget resources for expenditures from the Harbor Maintenance Trust Fund for harbor maintenance programs to equal the level of receipts plus interest credited to such Fund for that fiscal year. Limits the use of such resources to such programs only.
 
Declares that it shall be out of order in the House of Representatives or the Senate to consider any bill, joint resolution, amendment, motion, or conference report that would cause total budget resources for the Fund in a fiscal year for harbor maintenance programs to be less than the level of receipts plus interest credited to the Fund for that fiscal year.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-11-17
text: Committee on Environment and Public Works. Hearings held. Hearings printed: S.Hrg. 111-1249.
action_date: 2010-04-15
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.
action_date: 2010-04-15
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S2378-2379)
action_date: 2010-04-15
text: Introduced in Senate
Surreptitious Video Surveillance Act of 2010

Bill: 111-s-3214
Sponsor: Sen. Specter, Arlen [D-PA]
Introduced: 2010-04-15 in the Senate
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Civil actions and liability
Criminal investigation, prosecution, interrogation
Evidence and witnesses
Intelligence activities, surveillance, classified information
Right of privacy

Summary:
action_date: 2010-04-15
text: 
Surreptitious Video Surveillance Act of 2010 - Amends the federal criminal code to prohibit the unauthorized video surveillance of an individual who: (1) is in an area of a temporary or permanent residence that is not readily observable from a public location; and (2) has a reasonable expectation of privacy in the area. Prohibits (with exceptions) the use of such surveillance as evidence.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-04-15
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. (text of measure as introduced: CR S2380-2381)
action_date: 2010-04-15
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S2379-2380)
action_date: 2010-04-15
text: Introduced in Senate