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PRECAUTION Act

Bill: 111-s-3160
Sponsor: Sen. Feingold, Russell D. [D-WI]
Introduced: 2010-03-24 in the Senate
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Advisory bodies
Crime prevention
Government studies and investigations
Juvenile crime and gang violence
Law enforcement administration and funding

Summary:
action_date: 2010-03-24
text: 
Prevention Resources for Eliminating Criminal Activity Using Tailored Interventions in Our Neighborhoods Act of 2010 or the PRECAUTION Act - Establishes the National Commission on Public Safety Through Crime Prevention to: (1) carry out a comprehensive study of the effectiveness of certain crime and delinquency prevention and intervention strategies: and (2) make initial and final reports on such strategies to specified federal and state officials. Exempts such Commission from the Federal Advisory Committee Act.
 
Authorizes the Attorney General and the Director of the National Institute of Justice to make grants and coordinate federal efforts to implement and evaluate innovative crime or delinquency prevention or intervention strategies.
 
Provides for funding from the Department of Justice Assets Forfeiture Fund to carry out this Act. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-03-24
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. (text of measure as introduced: CR S2022-2024)
action_date: 2010-03-24
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S2021)
action_date: 2010-03-24
text: Introduced in Senate
Mortgage Modification Reform Act of 2010

Bill: 111-s-3161
Sponsor: Sen. Shaheen, Jeanne [D-NH]
Introduced: 2010-03-24 in the Senate
Policy area: Housing and Community Development
Subjects: Administrative remedies
Business records
Department of the Treasury
Government information and archives
Housing finance and home ownership

Summary:
action_date: 2010-03-24
text: 
Mortgage Modification Reform Act of 2010 - Prohibits a residential mortgage servicer from initiating or continuing a foreclosure on a homeowner's mortgage if: (1) the homeowner applied for a loan modification under a home loan modification program either before receiving notice of the foreclosure or within 30 days after receiving it; and (2) the servicer has not yet determined that the homeowner does not qualify under a home loan modification program.
 
Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to establish a process by which a homeowner may request review of a servicer's denial of an application for either a trial or a permanent loan modification.
 
Subjects servicers to administrative penalties for wrongful denial of a loan modification application.
 
Requires servicers to evaluate loan applications in the order received, and to notify the homeowner within three months after the date of application submission.
 
Requires the Secretary to reduce servicer incentive payments for tardy evaluations by servicers of loan modification applications. 
 
Prohibits servicers from imposing a delinquency fee upon homeowners while the loan modification application is pending.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-03-24
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs. (text of measure as introduced: CR S2025-2026)
action_date: 2010-03-24
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S2024-2025)
action_date: 2010-03-24
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to clarify the health care provided by the Secretary of Veterans Affairs that constitutes minimum essential coverage.

Bill: 111-s-3162
Sponsor: Sen. Akaka, Daniel K. [D-HI]
Introduced: 2010-03-24 in the Senate
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Health care coverage and access
Veterans' medical care

Summary:
action_date: 2010-03-24
text: 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to include children of Vietnam War and certain Korean War veterans receiving care and services through the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) for spina bifida-related medical conditions and children of women Vietnam veterans born with certain birth defects as meeting the definition of minimum essential coverage under requirements of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA).

action_date: 2010-03-26
text: 

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

 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to include children of Vietnam War and certain Korean War veterans receiving care and services through the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) for spina bifida-related medical conditions and children of women Vietnam veterans born with certain birth defects as meeting the definition of minimum essential coverage under requirements of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA).


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-09-23
text: Message received in the Senate: Returned to the Senate pursuant to the provisions of H.Res. 1653.
action_date: 2010-09-23
text: Pursuant to the provisions of H. Res. 1653, papers are returned to the Senate.
action_date: 2010-04-13
text: Held at the desk.
action_date: 2010-04-13
text: Received in the House.
action_date: 2010-03-26
text: Passed Senate without amendment by Unanimous Consent. (text: CR S2165)
action_date: 2010-03-26
text: Passed/agreed to in Senate: Passed Senate without amendment by Unanimous Consent.(text: CR S2165)
action_date: 2010-03-26
text: Senate Committee on Veterans' Affairs discharged by Unanimous Consent. (consideration: CR S2165)
action_date: 2010-03-26
text: Senate Committee on Veterans' Affairs discharged by Unanimous Consent.(consideration: CR S2165)
action_date: 2010-03-24
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs. (text of measure as introduced: CR S2026)
action_date: 2010-03-24
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S2026)
action_date: 2010-03-24
text: Introduced in Senate
Meat Safety and Accountability Act of 2010

Bill: 111-s-3163
Sponsor: Sen. Tester, Jon [D-MT]
Introduced: 2010-03-24 in the Senate
Policy area: Agriculture and Food
Subjects: Food supply, safety, and labeling
Meat

Summary:
action_date: 2010-03-24
text: 
Meat Safety and Accountability Act of 2010 - Amends the Federal Meat Inspection Act to require the Secretary to implement sampling protocols to enable Food Safety and Inspection Service personnel to rapidly trace potential adulteration and contamination of meat and meat food products by enteric foodborne pathogens to possible preceding adulteration and contamination sources, including preparation, packaging, and slaughtering establishments, to determine the original contamination source. 
 
Requires, if a meat or meat food product sample tests positive for enteric foodborne pathogen contamination, a trace to identify: (1) adulteration and contamination sites, including preparation, packaging, and slaughtering establishments; and (2) the original adulteration or contamination source.
 
Requires, if a raw ground meat sample tests positive for enteric foodborne pathogen contamination at a preparation, packaging, or slaughtering establishment, subsequent daily sampling at the establishment and any supplying establishments for at least 15 consecutive days after the date on which the adulterated or contaminated sample is collected.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-03-24
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry.
action_date: 2010-03-24
text: Introduced in Senate
Polluter Pays Restoration Act

Bill: 111-s-3164
Sponsor: Sen. Lautenberg, Frank R. [D-NJ]
Introduced: 2010-03-25 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Government trust funds
Hazardous wastes and toxic substances
Income tax rates
Pollution liability
Sales and excise taxes

Summary:
action_date: 2010-03-25
text: Polluter Pays Restoration Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code by reinstating until January 1, 2017, the Hazardous Substance Superfund financing rate and the corporate environmental income tax.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-03-25
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2010-03-25
text: Introduced in Senate
Small Business Community Partner Relief Act of 2010

Bill: 111-s-3165
Sponsor: Sen. Landrieu, Mary L. [D-LA]
Introduced: 2010-03-25 in the Senate
Policy area: Commerce
Subjects: Government lending and loan guarantees
Small business
Veterans' education, employment, rehabilitation
Women in business

Summary:
action_date: 2010-03-25
text: 
Small Business Community Partner Relief Act of 2010 - Amends the Small Business Act relating to the Microloan program (loans to intermediaries to provide small-scale loans to startup, newly-established, and growing small businesses) to authorize the Administrator of the Small Business Administration (SBA), at the request of a loan intermediary, to waive the requirement that the intermediary obtain a percentage of the loan amount in cash or in-kind contributions from non-federal sources. Allows such waiver for up to two years. Provides conditions to be considered by the Administrator in determining whether to exercise such waiver, including economic conditions affecting the intermediary as well as the impact the waiver would have on the program.
 
Provides an identical waiver, with the same conditions, with respect to: (1) grants made to intermediaries for small business marketing, management, and technical assistance; and (2) the SBA's women's business center program.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-03-25
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship. (text of measure as introduced: CR S2117)
action_date: 2010-03-25
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S2116-2117)
action_date: 2010-03-25
text: Introduced in Senate
Ponzi Scheme Victim's Bill of Rights Act of 2010

Bill: 111-s-3166
Sponsor: Sen. Schumer, Charles E. [D-NY]
Introduced: 2010-03-25 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Crime victims
Employee benefits and pensions
Financial services and investments
Fraud offenses and financial crimes
Income tax deductions
Tax administration and collection, taxpayers
Transfer and inheritance taxes

Summary:
action_date: 2010-03-25
text: 
Ponzi Scheme Victim's Bill of Rights Act of 2010 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow: (1) a special tax deduction for qualified fraudulent investment losses held in an individual retirement account (IRA); (2) a six-year carryback of net operating losses which are qualified fraudulent investment losses; (3) withdrawals from tax-exempt retirement plans for a 10-year period without penalty to replace qualified fraudulent investment losses; (4) catch-up contributions to retirement plans to compensate for fraudulent investment losses; and (5) an extension of the limitation period for filing refund claims for overpayments of tax in connection with gifts and bequests of an interest in an investment for which there is a qualified fraudulent investment loss. 
 
Defines &quot;qualified fraudulent investment loss&quot; as a loss discovered in 2008 or 2009 resulting from a fraudulent arrangement in which a person receives cash or property from investors, purports to earn income for investors, reports partially or wholly fictitious income to such investors, makes payments to some investors from payments made by other investors, and appropriates some or all of the investors' cash or property. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-03-25
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2010-03-25
text: Introduced in Senate
Fort Necessity National Battlefield Land Acquisition Act

Bill: 111-s-3168
Sponsor: Sen. Casey, Robert P., Jr. [D-PA]
Introduced: 2010-03-25 in the Senate
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Historic sites and heritage areas
Land transfers
Military history
Pennsylvania

Summary:
action_date: 2010-03-25
text: 
Fort Necessity National Battlefield Land Acquisition Act - Authorizes the Secretary of the Interior to acquire, by donation or purchase, approximately 157 acres of land owned by Marie Rush in Farmington, Pennsylvania, for inclusion in the Fort Necessity National Battlefield.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-05-19
text: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources Senate Subcommittee on National Parks. Hearings held. With printed Hearing: S.Hrg. 111-645.
action_date: 2010-03-25
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
action_date: 2010-03-25
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to require the Attorney General to make recommendations to the Interstate Commission for Adult Offender Supervision on policies and minimum standards to better protect public and officer safety.

Bill: 111-s-3169
Sponsor: Sen. Murray, Patty [D-WA]
Introduced: 2010-03-25 in the Senate
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Congressional oversight
Criminal justice information and records
Criminal procedure and sentencing
Government studies and investigations
Intergovernmental relations
Law enforcement officers
Mental health
Sex offenses
State and local government operations

Summary:
action_date: 2010-03-25
text: 
Directs the Attorney General to make recommendations to the Interstate Commission for Adult Offender Supervision established by the Interstate Compact for the Supervision of Adult Offenders and report to Congress on: (1) whether minimum standards in such Compacts should be updated to better protect public and officer safety; and (2) policies regarding the transfer of supervision of an adult offender from an originating state of jurisdiction to a receiving state.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-03-25
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2010-03-25
text: Introduced in Senate
Save Our Industries Act of 2010

Bill: 111-s-3170
Sponsor: Sen. Bond, Christopher S. [R-MO]
Introduced: 2010-03-25 in the Senate
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Asia
Congressional oversight
Free trade and trade barriers
Government studies and investigations
Normal trade relations, most-favored-nation treatment
Philippines
Tariffs

Summary:
action_date: 2010-03-25
text: 
Save Our Industries Act of 2010 or the SAVE Act - Grants duty-free treatment, subject to specified conditions, to certain apparel wholly assembled in the United States or the Philippines, or both, and components of such apparel consisting entirely of: (1) fabric cut in the United States or the Philippines, or both, from fabric wholly formed in the United States from yarns wholly formed in the United States; (2) components knit-to-shape in the United States from yarns wholly formed in the United States; or (3) any combination of such fabric or components. 
 
Grants: (1) a reduction of duty for such apparel, provided the same criteria are met; and (2) duty-free treatment to apparel that meet both the requirements for duty-free treatment and reduction of duty.
 
Prescribes single transformation duty-free rules for specified apparel articles, regardless of the source of the fabric, fabric components, components knit-to-shape, or yarns from which the articles are made, if they: (1) are wholly assembled, or knit-to-shape, in the Philippines from any combination of such components; and (2) are imported directly into the United States from the Philippines.
 
Prescribes requirements for review and enforcement of the program.
 
Prescribes penalties for exporters and importers who engage in the transshipment of apparel that has been afforded preferential treatment under this Act.
 



Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-03-25
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2010-03-25
text: Introduced in Senate
Veterans Training Act

Bill: 111-s-3171
Sponsor: Sen. Lincoln, Blanche L. [D-AR]
Introduced: 2010-03-25 in the Senate
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Veterans' education, employment, rehabilitation

Summary:
action_date: 2010-03-25
text: 
Veterans Training Act - Deems a program of education as an approved program for purposes of the post-9/11 veterans' educational assistance program if the program is offered by an institution offering: (1) postsecondary instruction that leads to an associate or higher degree and the institution is an approved institution of higher learning; or (2) instruction that does not lead to an associate or higher degree and the institution is an approved educational institution.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-03-25
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2010-03-25
text: Introduced in Senate
Health Reform Accountability Act

Bill: 111-s-3174
Sponsor: Sen. Grassley, Chuck [R-IA]
Introduced: 2010-03-25 in the Senate
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Congressional officers and employees
Federal officials
Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management
Health care costs and insurance
Health care coverage and access
Members of Congress
Presidents and presidential powers, Vice Presidents

Summary:
action_date: 2010-03-25
text: 
Health Reform Accountability Act - Amends the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) to require the participation of the President, Vice President, each Member of Congress, each political appointee, and each Congressional employee in state Exchanges established for the purchase of health care coverage under such Act. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-03-25
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.
action_date: 2010-03-25
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to amend the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1993 to require the Bureau of Land Management to provide a claimant of a small miner waiver from claim maintenance fees with a period of 60 days after written receipt of 1 or more defects is provided to the claimant by registered mail to cure the 1 or more defects or pay the claim maintenance fee, and for other purposes.

Bill: 111-s-3175
Sponsor: Sen. Murkowski, Lisa [R-AK]
Introduced: 2010-03-25 in the Senate
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Administrative remedies
Department of the Interior
Mining
User charges and fees

Summary:
action_date: 2010-03-25
text: 
Amends the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1993 regarding waivers of small miner claim maintenance fees to extend the allowance of a certain period to cure a defect in the waiver application to a failure to timely file either a waiver application or an affidavit of annual labor associated with the application and the required application fees.
 
Considers specified claimholder claims as: (1) having received a first half final certificate for application before September 30, 1994; and/or (2) qualifying for specified relief under the Act, including opportunity to cure.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-03-25
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
action_date: 2010-03-25
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S2119-2120)
action_date: 2010-03-25
text: Introduced in Senate
Department of Justice Global Advisory Committee Authorization Act of 2010

Bill: 111-s-3176
Sponsor: Sen. Durbin, Richard J. [D-IL]
Introduced: 2010-03-25 in the Senate
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Advisory bodies
Criminal justice information and records
Intergovernmental relations
Judicial procedure and administration
Law enforcement administration and funding

Summary:
action_date: 2010-03-25
text: 
Department of Justice Global Advisory Committee Authorization Act of 2010 - Authorizes the Attorney General to provide technical and financial assistance and support to the Global Justice Information Sharing Initiative Advisory Committee. Expands the activities of the Committee to include the gathering of views from federal, state, local, and tribal law enforcement and other agencies that work to support public safety and justice and to provide recommendations for improving the administration of justice and the protection of the public through information sharing.
 
Expresses the sense of Congress that state, local, and tribal governments and other relevant entities should use the recommendations developed by the Committee to evaluate, improve, and develop effective strategies and technologies to improve public safety and information sharing.
 
Directs the Attorney General to review the state of information sharing between corrections and law enforcement agencies and report recommendations.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-03-25
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. (text of measure as introduced: CR S2120-2121)
action_date: 2010-03-25
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S2120)
action_date: 2010-03-25
text: Introduced in Senate
Home Star Energy Retrofit Act of 2010

Bill: 111-s-3177
Sponsor: Sen. Bingaman, Jeff [D-NM]
Introduced: 2010-03-25 in the Senate
Policy area: Energy
Subjects: Building construction
Business records
Consumer affairs
Consumer credit
Energy efficiency and conservation
Energy prices
Government information and archives
Government lending and loan guarantees
Indian social and development programs
Licensing and registrations
Lighting and heating
Lighting, heating, cooling
Performance measurement
Public-private cooperation
Residential rehabilitation and home repair
State and local government operations

Summary:
action_date: 2010-03-25
text: 
Home Star Energy Retrofit Act of 2010 - Requires the Secretary of Energy to establish: (1) the Home Star Retrofit Rebate Program to provide rebates to contractors to be passed through as discounts to homeowners who retrofit their homes to achieve energy savings; (2) a Federal Rebate Processing System to enable rebate aggregators to submit claims for reimbursement; and (3) a national retrofit website and public information campaign that provide information on the Program.
 
Requires the Secretary to: (1) develop a network of rebate aggregators that can facilitate the delivery of rebates to reimburse participating contractors; and (2) develop guidelines for states to allow utilities participating as rebate aggregators to count the energy savings from their participation toward state-level energy saving targets. Sets forth eligibility criteria for rebate aggregators.
 
Establishes: (1) a Silver Star Home Energy Retrofit Program to award rebates during the first year after this Act's enactment for the energy retrofit of a home for the installation of specified energy saving measures, including air-sealing and insulation measures, duct seal or replacement, window or door replacement, heating or cooling system replacement, and water heater replacement; and (2) a Gold Star Home Energy Retrofit Program to award rebates for retrofits that achieve whole home energy savings.
 
Sets forth provisions concerning: (1) the amount of the rebates (up to $3,000 per home for Silver Star rebates or $8,000 per home for Gold Star rebates); and (2) the treatment of rebates for tax purposes (excluded from taxable income).
 
Requires a state that receives funding under this Act to submit to the Secretary a plan to implement a quality assurance program that covers all federally assisted residential efficiency retrofit work administered, supervised, or sponsored by the state.
 
Requires the Secretary to establish a Home Star Energy Efficiency Loan Program to make funds available to states to support financial assistance provided by qualified financing entities for making, to existing homes, energy efficiency improvements that qualify under the Silver Star or Gold Star programs. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-03-25
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. (text of measure as introduced: CR S2121-2127)
action_date: 2010-03-25
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S2121)
action_date: 2010-03-25
text: Introduced in Senate