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Protecting Small Businesses From Costly Regulations Act of 2010

Bill: 111-hr-6333
Sponsor: Rep. Graves, Sam [R-MO-6]
Introduced: 2010-09-29 in the House
Policy area: Commerce
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
Environmental regulatory procedures
Natural disasters
Small business

Summary:
action_date: 2010-09-29
text: 
Protecting Small Businesses From Costly Regulations Act of 2010 - Prohibits the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), during the one-year period after the enactment of this Act, from issuing a regulation that would result in increased costs for a small business, unless the regulation is in response to a major disaster, necessary to prevent a major disaster, or necessary to protect human life.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-11-16
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on General Farm Commodities and Risk Management.
action_date: 2010-09-30
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Economic Development, Public Buildings and Emergency Management.
action_date: 2010-09-29
text: Referred to House Agriculture
action_date: 2010-09-29
text: Referred to House Transportation and Infrastructure
action_date: 2010-09-29
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Transportation and Infrastructure, and Agriculture, 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: 2010-09-29
text: Referred to House Energy and Commerce
action_date: 2010-09-29
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-09-29
text: Introduced in House
Uranium Mining Modernization Act

Bill: 111-hr-6335
Sponsor: Rep. Heinrich, Martin [D-NM-1]
Introduced: 2010-09-29 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Land transfers
Licensing and registrations
Metals
Mining
Radioactive wastes and releases

Summary:
action_date: 2010-09-29
text: 
Uranium Mining Modernization Act - Amends the Mineral Leasing Act to: (1) withdraw all fedral lands permanently from location and entry for uranium; and (2) prescribe a uranium leasing program for such lands.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-10-14
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources.
action_date: 2010-10-14
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests and Public Lands.
action_date: 2010-09-29
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2010-09-29
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-09-29
text: Introduced in House
Post-9/11 Military Family Fair Education Opportunity Act

Bill: 111-hr-6336
Sponsor: Rep. Heinrich, Martin [D-NM-1]
Introduced: 2010-09-29 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Veterans' education, employment, rehabilitation

Summary:
action_date: 2010-09-29
text: 
Post-9/11 Military Family Fair Education Opportunity Act - Extends to ten years after the date of an individual's last discharge or release from active duty the period in which such individual may transfer to his or her dependents any remaining entitlement to post-9/11 educational assistance benefits available through the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA).


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-09-29
text: Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2010-09-29
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-09-29
text: Introduced in House
Truth in Bailouts Act

Bill: 111-hr-6337
Sponsor: Rep. Hensarling, Jeb [R-TX-5]
Introduced: 2010-09-29 in the House
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: Bank accounts, deposits, capital
Consumer affairs
Financial crises and stabilization

Summary:
action_date: 2010-09-29
text: 
 Truth in Bailouts Act - Amends the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008 to require any financial institution in which the Treasury holds an equity or debt position acquired under the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) to provide the following displays: (1) at each of its places of business, signs disclosing, in a clear and conspicuous manner, the statement &quot;This institution has received financial assistance from the Federal Government under the Troubled Asset Relief Program and has not yet repaid the taxpayers&quot;; and (2) on the main page of its website, the same disclosure in a clear and conspicuous manner.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-09-29
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2010-09-29
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-09-29
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Federal Crop Insurance Act to permit certain livestock owners to plant a secondary crop for the use of the producer as emergency feed.

Bill: 111-hr-6338
Sponsor: Rep. Herseth Sandlin, Stephanie [D-SD-At Large]
Introduced: 2010-09-29 in the House
Policy area: Agriculture and Food
Subjects: Agricultural insurance
Disaster relief and insurance
Livestock

Summary:
action_date: 2010-09-29
text: 
Amends the Federal Crop Insurance Act to permit an agricultural producer who owns livestock to plant a second crop on the same acreage for harvest in the same crop year as a first crop and receive full prevented planting indemnity payments if such producer: (1) is located in an area that experienced excessive precipitation which prevented the first crop's planting by its final planting date; and (2) uses the second crop solely for emergency feed for the producer's livestock.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-11-16
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on General Farm Commodities and Risk Management.
action_date: 2010-09-29
text: Referred to the House Committee on Agriculture.
action_date: 2010-09-29
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-09-29
text: Introduced in House
Veteran Medic Corpsmen Physician Assistant Demonstration Program Act of 2010

Bill: 111-hr-6339
Sponsor: Rep. Herseth Sandlin, Stephanie [D-SD-At Large]
Introduced: 2010-09-29 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Education programs funding
Government studies and investigations
Health personnel
Medical education
Veterans' education, employment, rehabilitation

Summary:
action_date: 2010-09-29
text: 
Veteran Medic Corpsmen Physician Assistant Demonstration Program Act of 2010 - Directs the Secretary of Veterans Affairs (VA) to establish a program to examine methods of enabling individuals with military medical or health professional work experience to build on such skills by entering into the physician assistant workforce. Outlines study requirements. Requires: (1) the Secretary to award grants to institutions of higher education with accredited physician assistant programs to carry out demonstration projects under the program; and (2) such institutions to give priority to individuals who serve or have served in the Armed Forces as a paramedic or other similar medical support position.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-09-29
text: Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2010-09-29
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-09-29
text: Introduced in House
Fairness in Unemployment Act

Bill: 111-hr-6340
Sponsor: Rep. Hinchey, Maurice D. [D-NY-22]
Introduced: 2010-09-29 in the House
Policy area: Labor and Employment
Subjects: Unemployment

Summary:
action_date: 2010-09-29
text: 
Fairness in Unemployment Act - Amends the Supplemental Appropriations Act, 2008 to revise the formula for determining if a state is in an extended benefit period.
 
Modifies the threshold rates of unemployment that must be met by a state in order to establish eligibility for Tier-4 emergency unemployment compensation (EUC) for such state.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-09-29
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2010-09-29
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-09-29
text: Introduced in House
To establish a loan program to promote energy conservation in rural areas.

Bill: 111-hr-6341
Sponsor: Rep. Holden, Tim [D-PA-17]
Introduced: 2010-09-29 in the House
Policy area: Agriculture and Food
Subjects: Agricultural conservation and pollution
Energy efficiency and conservation
Government lending and loan guarantees
Rural conditions and development

Summary:
action_date: 2010-09-29
text: 
Amends the Rural Electrification Act of 1936 to direct the Secretary of Agriculture to establish an initiative to promote energy efficiency by providing interest-free loans for purposes of making energy efficiency improvements and achieving energy conservation.
 
Requires the Secretary to: (1) make interest-free loans to encourage eligible borrowers (entities that have received and cooperatives that are eligible to receive a loan or loan guarantee under such Act) to invest in and facilitate consumer energy efficiency improvements or to increase energy conservation; and (2) use fees collected from lenders who receive guarantees for bonds or notes issued for electrification or telephone purposes under such Act to provide such loans.
 
Directs the Secretary to: (1) use only those fees that are collected for loans guaranteed after this Act's enactment; and (2) require the amount of the annual fee paid for the guarantee of a bond or note to be equal to 50 basis points of the amount of the unpaid principal of the bond or note guaranteed, with an additional loan origination fee equal to 50 such basis points to be paid at the time the guarantee is approved. Terminates such requirements on or after September 30, 2011.
 
Directs the Secretary to approve $3 million in loan guarantees under this Act to qualified lenders for FY2010.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-11-16
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Rural Development, Biotechnology, Specialty Crops, and Foreign Agriculture.
action_date: 2010-11-16
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Conservation, Credit, Energy, and Research.
action_date: 2010-09-29
text: Referred to the House Committee on Agriculture.
action_date: 2010-09-29
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-09-29
text: Introduced in House
To establish pilot projects for agriculture renewable energy systems.

Bill: 111-hr-6342
Sponsor: Rep. Holden, Tim [D-PA-17]
Introduced: 2010-09-29 in the House
Policy area: Agriculture and Food
Subjects: Agricultural conservation and pollution
Agricultural practices and innovations
Agricultural prices, subsidies, credit
Alternative and renewable resources
Electric power generation and transmission
Government lending and loan guarantees

Summary:
action_date: 2010-09-29
text: 
Directs the Secretary of Agriculture (USDA) to establish renewable energy pilot programs to provide eligible entities in a participating state with financial and technical assistance to implement renewable energy systems on farms.
 
Requires a participating state to establish a net metering program that measures the difference between electricity supplied by an electric utility and the electricity generated by a net metering customer and fed back to the electric utility over an applicable billing period.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-11-16
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Rural Development, Biotechnology, Specialty Crops, and Foreign Agriculture.
action_date: 2010-11-16
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Conservation, Credit, Energy, and Research.
action_date: 2010-09-29
text: Referred to the House Committee on Agriculture.
action_date: 2010-09-29
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-09-29
text: Introduced in House
Clean, Renewable Jet Fuel Act

Bill: 111-hr-6343
Sponsor: Rep. Inslee, Jay [D-WA-1]
Introduced: 2010-09-29 in the House
Policy area: Energy
Subjects: Agricultural prices, subsidies, credit
Air quality
Alternative and renewable resources
Aviation and airports
Climate change and greenhouse gases
Motor fuels

Summary:
action_date: 2010-09-29
text: 
Clean, Renewable Jet Fuel Act - Directs the Secretary of Agriculture (USDA) to enter into a standby loan agreement with the owners or operators of not more than 10 qualifying jet fuel projects.
 
Defines &quot;qualifying jet fuel project&quot; as a project located in the United States that produces at least 25 million gallons per year of liquid aviation turbine fuel or blending component that: (1) has at least 50% less lifecycle greenhouse gas emissions than petroleum; (2) is produced from renewable biomass; and (3) meets, or can be blended to produce a fuel that meets, an American Society of Testing and Materials (ASTM) standard for aviation turbine fuels.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-09-29
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2010-09-29
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E1857)
action_date: 2010-09-29
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-09-29
text: Introduced in House
Marine and Hydrokinetic Renewable Energy Promotion Act of 2010

Bill: 111-hr-6344
Sponsor: Rep. Inslee, Jay [D-WA-1]
Introduced: 2010-09-29 in the House
Policy area: Energy
Subjects: Advanced technology and technological innovations
Alternative and renewable resources
Energy research
Environmental assessment, monitoring, research
Research administration and funding
Research and development
Technology transfer and commercialization

Summary:
action_date: 2010-09-29
text: 
Marine and Hydrokinetic Renewable Energy Promotion Act of 2010 - Amends the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007 to revise the program of marine and hydrokinetic renewable energy technology research, development, demonstration, and commercial application, including by requiring the program to include specified activities, including: (1) determining the potential availability, extractability, and cost-effectiveness of marine and hydrokinetic renewable energy generation in the United States; (2) designing and developing evaluation and performance standards domestically and with international partners; and (3) improving interagency collaboration to address challenges associated with the development of such technologies. Requires such program to be separate from the Department of Energy's (DOE) Wind and Hydropower Program.
 
Requires the Secretary of Energy to establish a competitive marine and hydrokinetic renewable energy technology demonstration grant program to: (1) verify the performance, reliability, maintainability, environmental impact, and cost of technology components, devices, and system designs in an operating environment; and (2) facilitate the commercial application of technology components, devices, and systems at a variety of scales.
 
 
Requires the Secretary to establish a competitive research, development, and demonstration grant program to identify and assess ways to avoid and minimize environmental impacts potentially arising from marine and hydrokinetic renewable energy technologies, devices, and systems. 
 
Requires the Secretary to award competitive grants to support modifying or constructing three or more geographically dispersed marine and hydrokinetic renewable energy technology research, development, and demonstration test facilities for the demonstration of multiple technologies in actual operating environments.
 
Authorizes National Marine Renewable Energy Research, Development, and Demonstration Centers to serve as technology test facilities.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-10-15
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Environment.
action_date: 2010-09-29
text: Referred to the House Committee on Science and Technology.
action_date: 2010-09-29
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E1813)
action_date: 2010-09-29
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-09-29
text: Introduced in House
Personal Exemption Fairness Act of 2010

Bill: 111-hr-6345
Sponsor: Rep. Israel, Steve [D-NY-2]
Introduced: 2010-09-29 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Government information and archives
Income tax exclusion
Inflation and prices
Urban and suburban affairs and development

Summary:
action_date: 2010-09-29
text: 
Personal Exemption Fairness Act of 2010 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to require annual metropolitan statistical area cost-of-living adjustments, beginning after 2010, to the personal tax exemption amount. Directs the Secretary of Labor to determine and publish a cost-of-living index for each metropolitan statistical area. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-09-29
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2010-09-29
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-09-29
text: Introduced in House
Rural Hospital Protection Act

Bill: 111-hr-6346
Sponsor: Rep. Kind, Ron [D-WI-3]
Introduced: 2010-09-29 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Health facilities and institutions
Hospital care
Medicare
State and local taxation

Summary:
action_date: 2010-09-29
text: 
Rural Hospital Protection Act - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to direct the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS), in determining reasonable costs for reimbursements to critical access hospitals (CAHs) after January 1, 2004, to include certain health care related taxes as allowable costs. Prohibits any offset, in computing such costs, against tax assessments paid by such a hospital of amounts the hospital receives from a state, if the Secretary has not determined that a hold harmless provision, meeting specified criteria, is in effect with respect to the health care related tax.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-09-29
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2010-09-29
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-09-29
text: Introduced in House
Holocaust Accountability and Corporate Responsibility Act of 2010

Bill: 111-hr-6347
Sponsor: Rep. Klein, Ron [D-FL-22]
Introduced: 2010-09-29 in the House
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Business ethics
Business records
Crime victims
Europe
Germany
Public contracts and procurement
Railroads
Transportation programs funding
War crimes, genocide, crimes against humanity

Summary:
action_date: 2010-09-29
text: 
Holocaust Accountability and Corporate Responsibility Act of 2010 - Prescribes a certification requirement for certain entities that apply to a state or local government agency for a contract for a federally-funded high-speed rail project.
 
Defines such an entity as a corporation, affiliate, or other entity that controls, is controlled by, or is a member of a partnership or a consortium with, an entity that certifies it had direct involvement in the ownership or operation of the trains on which individuals were deported to extermination camps, death camps, or any facility used to transit individuals to extermination or death camps, between January 1, 1942, and December 31, 1944.
 
Requires such an entity to certify to such agency: (1) whether or not it had any such direct involvement; and (2) if so, to disclose whether it has records, taken property, or made restitution to the victims or their families in connection with such deportations.
 
Prohibits the award of any contract for a high-speed rail project to any entity certifying direct involvement in such deportations that has failed to make restitution to such victims or their families.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-09-30
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Railroads, Pipelines, and Hazardous Materials.
action_date: 2010-09-29
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2010-09-29
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-09-29
text: Introduced in House
To amend title XIX of the Social Security Act to clarify the treatment of Medicaid EHR incentive payments for Federally qualified health centers.

Bill: 111-hr-6348
Sponsor: Rep. Kratovil, Frank,  Jr. [D-MD-1]
Introduced: 2010-09-29 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Health facilities and institutions
Medicaid

Summary:
action_date: 2010-09-29
text: 
Amends title XIX (Medicaid) of the Social Security Act with respect to the treatment of electronic health record (EHR) incentive payments for federally qualified health centers.
 
Prohibits duplicate payments to both a Medicaid provider who practices in a federally qualified health center (FQHC) and the FQHC.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-09-29
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2010-09-29
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-09-29
text: Introduced in House
To amend title 10, United States Code, to provide for greater transparency in the conversion of Department of Defense functions previously performed by contractors to performance by Department of Defense employees, and for other purposes.

Bill: 111-hr-6349
Sponsor: Rep. Lamborn, Doug [R-CO-5]
Introduced: 2010-09-29 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Accounting and auditing
Administrative remedies
Department of Defense
Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management
Government information and archives
Military facilities and property
Military procurement, research, weapons development
Small business

Summary:
action_date: 2010-09-29
text: 
Directs the Secretary of Defense (DOD) to submit to Congress and make publicly available on an Internet website the total number of: (1) jobs, performed by both DOD civilian employees and contractors, in each state and at each military installation; and (2) DOD functions converted from performance by contractors to performance by DOD civilian employees in each state and at each military installation, as well as the task area of each function. Requires the Secretary to make publicly available the comparison of the cost of performance of each DOD function so converted.
 
Allows any small business that performs a DOD function that is converted to performance by DOD civilian employees and, by reason of that conversion, loses 33% or more of its revenue generated through contracts or 33% or more of its employees, to appeal such conversion to the inspector general of the military department concerned or to the Secretary.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-10-20
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Military Personnel.
action_date: 2010-09-29
text: Referred to the House Committee on Armed Services.
action_date: 2010-09-29
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-09-29
text: Introduced in House
Lifespan Respite Care Reauthorization Act of 2010

Bill: 111-hr-6350
Sponsor: Rep. Langevin, James R. [D-RI-2]
Introduced: 2010-09-29 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Family relationships
Health programs administration and funding
Long-term, rehabilitative, and terminal care

Summary:
action_date: 2010-09-29
text: 
Lifespan Respite Care Reauthorization Act of 2010 - Amends the Public Health Service Act to authorize appropriations to carry out lifespan respite care programs for FY2012 and subsequent fiscal years.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-09-29
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2010-09-29
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-09-29
text: Introduced in House