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1863 Gettysburg Campaign Act

Bill: 111-s-3009
Sponsor: Sen. Specter, Arlen [D-PA]
Introduced: 2010-02-11 in the Senate
Policy area: Social Sciences and History
Subjects: Conflicts and wars
Currency
Pennsylvania
Presidential administrations
U.S. history

Summary:
action_date: 2010-02-11
text: 
1863 Gettysburg Campaign Act - Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to mint and issue five-dollar gold coins, one-dollar silver coins, and half-dollar clad coins emblematic of the history and memory of the Battle of Gettysburg and the Gettysburg Address of President Abraham Lincoln.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-02-11
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.
action_date: 2010-02-11
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S570-571)
action_date: 2010-02-11
text: Introduced in Senate
Flight 3407 Memorial Act

Bill: 111-s-3010
Sponsor: Sen. Gillibrand, Kirsten E. [D-NY]
Introduced: 2010-02-11 in the Senate
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Accidents
Aviation and airports
Congressional oversight
Government studies and investigations
New York State
Transportation safety and security

Summary:
action_date: 2010-02-11
text: 
Flight 3407 Memorial Act - Directs the Administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to implement the recommendations of the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) contained in the Aircraft Accident Report on the Loss of Control on Approach of Colgan Air, Incorporated, Operating as Continental Connections Flight 3407 at Clarence Center, New York, on February 12, 2009 (NTSB/AAR-10-01).
 
Requires the FAA Administrator, within 180 days after the NTSB makes a safety recommendation to the Administrator, to notify Congress: (1) whether or not the Administrator has determined to implement it; and (2) what actions the Administrator plans to take to implement it, or what reasons the Administrator has for not doing so.
 
Requires the Administrator, within 180 days after the enactment of this Act, to send Congress such a notification with respect to each NTSB recommendation made before the enactment of this Act which has not been implemented.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-02-11
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
action_date: 2010-02-11
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 2-116th Street in North Troy, New York, as the Martin G. "Marty" Mahar Post Office.

Bill: 111-s-3012
Sponsor: Sen. Gillibrand, Kirsten E. [D-NY]
Introduced: 2010-02-22 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: 2010-02-22
text: Designates the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 2-116th Street in North Troy, New York, as the Martin G. "Marty" Mahar Post Office.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-05-18
text: Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 382.
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: 2010-03-04
text: Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs referred to Subcommittee on Federal Financial Management, Government Information, Federal Services, and International Security.
action_date: 2010-02-22
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.
action_date: 2010-02-22
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 216 Westwood Avenue in Westwood, New Jersey, as the "Sergeant Christopher R. Hrbek Post Office Building".

Bill: 111-s-3013
Sponsor: Sen. Lautenberg, Frank R. [D-NJ]
Introduced: 2010-02-22 in the Senate
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Congressional tributes
Government buildings, facilities, and property
New Jersey
Postal service

Summary:
action_date: 2010-02-22
text: Designates the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 216 Westwood Avenue in Westwood, New Jersey, as the "Sergeant Christopher R. Hrbek Post Office Building."

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-05-18
text: Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 383.
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: 2010-03-04
text: Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs referred to Subcommittee on Federal Financial Management, Government Information, Federal Services, and International Security.
action_date: 2010-02-22
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.
action_date: 2010-02-22
text: Introduced in Senate
American Job Creation and Investment Act

Bill: 111-s-3014
Sponsor: Sen. Stabenow, Debbie [D-MI]
Introduced: 2010-02-22 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Business investment and capital
Income tax credits
Income tax rates
Wages and earnings

Summary:
action_date: 2010-02-22
text: 
American Job Creation and Investment Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow a corporation to elect in 2010 and 2011 to increase its alternative minimum tax (AMT) credits by a specified credit adjustment amount for purposes of increasing its U.S. workforce and making investments in business equipment. Terminates such additional credit allowance after December 31, 2011. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-02-22
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2010-02-22
text: Introduced in Senate
Public Transportation Safety Program Act of 2010

Bill: 111-s-3015
Sponsor: Sen. Dodd, Christopher J. [D-CT]
Introduced: 2010-02-22 in the Senate
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Department of Transportation
Drug, alcohol, tobacco use
Federal preemption
Government studies and investigations
Public transit
Transportation programs funding
Transportation safety and security

Summary:
action_date: 2010-02-22
text: 
Public Transportation Safety Program Act of 2010 - Directs the Secretary of Transportation to establish a federal public transportation safety program to improve the safety of, and reduce the number of accidents involving, rail fixed guideway public transportation systems and public transportation bus systems that receive federal assistance. 
 
Requires the Secretary to promulgate regulations to establish a federal certification program for employees and contractors who carry out state public transportation safety program activities in compliance with this Act. Delineates requirements for state preemption of federal law with respect to public transportation safety.
 
Authorizes the Secretary to carry out certain public transportation safety program activities, including inspection and testing of public transportation systems and accident prevention and investigation.
 
Allows a state to establish a state public transportation safety program that complies with federal regulations and policies issued by the Secretary. Authorizes the Secretary to award grants or enter into agreements to carry out such state programs, including to: (1) train employees to administer the program; and (2) enforce federal and state public transportation safety laws and regulations.
 
Grants the Secretary enforcement authority for violations of public transportation safety, including alcohol and controlled substances testing.
 
Authorizes the Secretary immediately, without regard to ordinary administrative procedure, to order restrictions and prohibitions to abate an emergency situation.
 

 



Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-02-22
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs. (text of measure as introduced: CR S622-624)
action_date: 2010-02-22
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S622)
action_date: 2010-02-22
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to prohibit the further extension or establishment of national monuments in Utah except by express authorization of Congress.

Bill: 111-s-3016
Sponsor: Sen. Bennett, Robert F. [R-UT]
Introduced: 2010-02-22 in the Senate
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Monuments and memorials
Utah
Wilderness and natural areas, wildlife refuges, wild rivers, habitats

Summary:
action_date: 2010-02-22
text: 
Prohibits any further extension or establishment of national parks and monuments in Utah except by express authorization of Congress. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-02-22
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
action_date: 2010-02-22
text: Introduced in Senate
State Witness Protection Act of 2010

Bill: 111-s-3017
Sponsor: Sen. Specter, Arlen [D-PA]
Introduced: 2010-02-23 in the Senate
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Assault and harassment offenses
Criminal procedure and sentencing
Evidence and witnesses
Judicial procedure and administration
U.S. Sentencing Commission
Violent crime

Summary:
action_date: 2010-02-23
text: 
State Witness Protection Act of 2010 - Amends the federal criminal code to impose criminal penalties on any person who kills, or attempts to kill, a witness in a state or local judicial proceeding, who uses physical force or the threat of force against such a witness, or who offers such witness anything of value with the intent to: (1) influence, delay, or prevent the testimony or attendance of such witness at a state or local judicial proceeding; (2) prevent the production of a record or document in a state or local judicial proceeding, (3) cause or induce any person to withhold testimony or evidence, destroy evidence, evade legal process, or be absent from a state or local judicial proceeding; (4) hinder, delay, or prevent any person from providing information to a state or local law enforcement officer or judge; or (5) retaliate against any person for attending a state or local judicial proceeding or providing information to a law enforcement officer.
 
Directs the United States Sentencing Commission to amend guidelines to increase the sentencing range for obstruction of justice if such crime involved threatening, harming, or bribing a witness or the destruction of evidence.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-02-23
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. (text of measure as introduced: CR S701)
action_date: 2010-02-23
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S700-701)
action_date: 2010-02-23
text: Introduced in Senate
Billy's Law

Bill: 111-s-3019
Sponsor: Sen. Lieberman, Joseph I. [ID-CT]
Introduced: 2010-02-23 in the Senate
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Crimes against children
Criminal justice information and records
Department of Justice
Evidence and witnesses
Government information and archives
Law enforcement administration and funding

Summary:
action_date: 2010-02-23
text: 
Help Find the Missing Act or Billy's Law - Authorizes the Attorney General to maintain public databases, known as the National Missing and Unidentified Persons System or NamUs, to contain missing persons records and unidentified remains cases to assist in identifying missing people and solve cases of unidentified human remains. (Transfers to such System all functions, personnel, assets, liabilities, and administrative actions applicable to the National Missing and Unidentified Persons System carried out by the National Institute of Justice before enactment of this Act.)
 
Directs the Attorney General to: (1) share information on missing persons and unidentified human remains contained in the National Crime Information Center (NCIC) Missing and Unidentified Person File database with the NamUs database; (2) update the online data entry format for such databases to allow states to report information to each database; (3) establish a grant program to assist in the reporting of missing persons and unidentified remains information to the NCIC and NamUs databases; (4) issue a report to the offices of medical examiners, offices of coroners, and federal, state, local, and tribal law enforcement agencies describing the best practices for collecting, reporting, and analyzing data and information on missing persons and unidentified human remains; and (5) report to Congress on the status of the NCIC Missing and Unidentified Person File and NamUs databases. 
 
Amends the Crime Control Act of 1990 to require reports of missing children (under age 21) to NamUs databases.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-02-23
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2010-02-23
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S701-702)
action_date: 2010-02-23
text: Introduced in Senate
HUBZone Improvement Act of 2010

Bill: 111-s-3020
Sponsor: Sen. Snowe, Olympia J. [R-ME]
Introduced: 2010-02-23 in the Senate
Policy area: Commerce
Subjects: Census and government statistics
Congressional oversight
Economic development
Employment and training programs
Government information and archives
Small business

Summary:
action_date: 2010-02-23
text: 
HUBZone Improvement Act of 2010 - Directs the Administrator of the Small Business Administration (SBA) to ensure that the map used by the SBA to identify HUBZones (historically underutilized business zones) is accurate, up-to-date, and revised as new data is made available.
 
Requires the Administrator to: (1) implement policies for ensuring that only qualified HUBZone small businesses are participating in the HUBZone program; (2) report to the congressional small businesses concerning qualification for, and recertification of, a HUBZone small business; and (3) develop measures and implement plans to assess HUBZone program effectiveness.
 
Amends the Small Business Act to prohibit the Administrator, during the period beginning on the date that a small business is determined qualified as a HUBZone small business and ending the day before a HUBZone program contract for which such small business submits a bid is awarded, from determining that the small business is no longer qualified based on a failure to meet the applicable employment percentage unless, among other things, the small business has not attempted to maintain such percentage.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-02-23
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship. (text of measure as introduced: CR S702-703)
action_date: 2010-02-23
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S702)
action_date: 2010-02-23
text: Introduced in Senate
Support Renewable Energy Act of 2010

Bill: 111-s-3021
Sponsor: Sen. Feingold, Russell D. [D-WI]
Introduced: 2010-02-23 in the Senate
Policy area: Energy
Subjects: Alternative and renewable resources
Electric power generation and transmission

Summary:
action_date: 2010-02-23
text: 
Support Renewable Energy Act of 2010 - Amends the Public Utility Regulatory Policies Act of 1978, as it would be amended by the American Clean Energy Leadership Act of 2009 as reported to the Senate as an original measure on July 16, 2009 (S.1462), to revise the Federal Renewable Electricity Standard by expanding the definition of &quot;renewable energy&quot; to include energy produced through the use of customer-sited renewable energy equipment, including solar water heating, solar water and space heating or cooling, solar daylight and light-pipe technology, biogas, and ground source geothermal heat pump energy applications. Revises the Federal Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency Credit Trading Programs by requiring the Secretary of Energy (DOE) to: (1) issue renewable energy credits equal to 100% of the electricity (or thermal energy expressed in an electricity-equivalent) displaced by qualifying renewable energy equipment; and (2) allocate such credits and credits for generators of electric energy produced through distributed generations facilities issued to the utility, project owner, and end user that paid for the purchase, installation, and maintenance of such equipment, on the basis of the cost incurred.
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-02-23
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
action_date: 2010-02-23
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S703)
action_date: 2010-02-23
text: Introduced in Senate
Iran Human Rights Sanctions Act

Bill: 111-s-3022
Sponsor: Sen. McCain, John [R-AZ]
Introduced: 2010-02-23 in the Senate
Policy area: International Affairs
Subjects: Congressional oversight
Criminal investigation, prosecution, interrogation
Detention of persons
Government information and archives
Government studies and investigations
Human rights
International law and treaties
Iran
Middle East
Protest and dissent
Rule of law and government transparency
Sanctions
Trade restrictions
Visas and passports

Summary:
action_date: 2010-02-23
text: 
Iran Human Rights Sanctions Act - Directs the President to impose visa entry and financial sanctions on a person determined to be complicit in human rights abuses committed against Iranian citizens or their family members on or after June 12, 2009, regardless of whether such abuses occurred in Iran.
 
Requires that: (1) the list of such persons required by this Act be made available to the public and posted on the Department of the Treasury and the Department of State websites; and (2) the President consider data obtained by other countries and nongovernmental organizations that monitor Iran's human rights abuses in preparing such list.
 
Authorizes the President to: (1) not apply such sanctions in order to permit U.S. compliance with the Agreement between the United Nations and the United States of America regarding the Headquarters of the United Nations and other international agreements; and (2) waive such sanctions if in the U.S. national interest. 
 
Terminates sanctions upon presidential certification to Congress that the government of Iran has: (1) released all political prisoners; (2) ceased its practices of violence and abuse of Iranian citizens engaging in peaceful political activity; and (3) conducted a transparent investigation into the killings and abuse of peaceful political activists in Iran and prosecuted those responsible.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-02-23
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.
action_date: 2010-02-23
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S703-704)
action_date: 2010-02-23
text: Introduced in Senate
Stop Outsourcing Security Act

Bill: 111-s-3023
Sponsor: Sen. Sanders, Bernard [I-VT]
Introduced: 2010-02-23 in the Senate
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Accounting and auditing
Afghanistan
Asia
Congressional oversight
Diplomacy, foreign officials, Americans abroad
Employment discrimination and employee rights
Iraq
Middle East
Military operations and strategy
Military procurement, research, weapons development
Public contracts and procurement

Summary:
action_date: 2010-02-23
text: 
Stop Outsourcing Security Act - Directs the Secretary of State to ensure that only government personnel provide security services at U.S. diplomatic or consular missions in Iraq or Afghanistan. 
 
Requires the President to report to Congress, by June 1, 2010, on the status of planning for the use, by January 1, 2011, of government and military personnel instead of private contractors for mission critical or emergency essential functions in all conflict zones where Congress has authorized the use of force. Directs any individual or entity under contract with the federal government to provide mission critical or emergency essential functions after such date to allow Congress to examine their accounting practices. Outlines additional requirements relating to renewals of such contracts.
 
Authorizes specified congressional access to contracts and task orders in excess of $5 million entered into by the Department of Defense (DOD), the Department of State, the Department of the Interior, and the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) during the period beginning October 1, 2001, and ending on the last day of the month during which this Act is enacted for work to be performed in Iraq and Afghanistan.
 
Requires certain reports to Congress regarding contracts for the performance of work in Iraq and Afghanistan.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-02-23
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Armed Services.
action_date: 2010-02-23
text: Introduced in Senate
Job Impact Analysis Act of 2010

Bill: 111-s-3024
Sponsor: Sen. Snowe, Olympia J. [R-ME]
Introduced: 2010-02-23 in the Senate
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Appropriations
Budget process
Government information and archives
Legislative rules and procedure
Small Business Administration
Small business
Unemployment

Summary:
action_date: 2010-02-23
text: 
Job Impact Analysis Act of 2010 - Amends the Congressional Budget and Impoundment Control Act of 1974 to require the Director of the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) to include in the statement submitted to an authorizing congressional committee for a public bill or joint resolution reported by that committee for which estimated direct costs of all federal intergovernmental mandates, or all federal private sector mandates, will equal or exceed $5 billion (adjusted annually for inflation) estimates of the potential job creation or job loss in state, local, and tribal governments, or in the private sector, as a result of such mandates. 
 
Amends the Regulatory Flexibility Act to require: (1) each initial regulatory flexibility analysis to contain a detailed statement estimating the additional cumulative economic impact of the proposed rule on small businesses; (2) an agency to notify the Chief Counsel for Advocacy of the Small Business Administration (SBA) of any draft rules that may have a significant economic impact on a substantial number of small businesses; (3) each final regulatory flexibility analysis to include the agency's response to any comments filed by the Chief Counsel in response to the proposed rule; and (4) the agency to publish the final regulatory flexibility analysis on its website.
 
Requires each agency: (1) to place on its website its plan for the periodic review of rules, providing for the review of all agency rules at specified intervals; and (2) in reviewing the rules, to consider specified factors, including the continued need for the rule, the nature of complaints received, and the rule's complexity and current impact.
 
Requires: (1) the Office of Advocacy of the SBA to carry out responsibilities concerning the analysis of regulatory functions; (2) each federal budget to include a separate statement of the amount requested for the Office, designated in a separate account in the General Fund of the Treasury; and (3) the SBA Administrator to provide the Office with appropriate office space and necessary equipment, operating budget, communications, and maintenance services.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-02-23
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. (text of measure as introduced: CR S706-707)
action_date: 2010-02-23
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S704-706)
action_date: 2010-02-23
text: Introduced in Senate