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Iran Human Rights Sanctions Act

Bill: 111-hr-4647
Sponsor: Rep. McMahon, Michael E. [D-NY-13]
Introduced: 2010-02-23 in the House
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 individuals responsible.
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-04-26
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration, Citizenship, Refugees, Border Security, and International Law.
action_date: 2010-03-08
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Trade.
action_date: 2010-02-23
text: Referred to House Judiciary
action_date: 2010-02-23
text: Referred to House Ways and Means
action_date: 2010-02-23
text: Referred to House Financial Services
action_date: 2010-02-23
text: Referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, and in addition to the Committees on Financial Services, Ways and Means, and the Judiciary, 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: 2010-02-23
text: Referred to House Foreign Affairs
action_date: 2010-02-23
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-02-23
text: Introduced in House
Keep Terrorists at Bay Act of 2010

Bill: 111-hr-4648
Sponsor: Rep. Smith, Lamar [R-TX-21]
Introduced: 2010-02-23 in the House
Policy area: Law
Subjects: Caribbean area
Correctional facilities and imprisonment
Cuba
Immigration status and procedures
Judicial procedure and administration
Latin America
Military facilities and property
Terrorism
Visas and passports

Summary:
action_date: 2010-02-23
text: 
Keep Terrorists at Bay Act of 2010 - Prohibits any court from ordering the release into the United States of an alien: (1) who is an unprivileged enemy belligerent (i.e., an alien who has engaged in or supported hostilities against the United States or was a part of Al Qaeda) or who has been determined by a Combatant Status Review Tribunal, at any time, to be an enemy combatant; and (2) who is or was in U.S. custody at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Prohibits the Secretary of State from issuing a visa to any such alien or the Secretary of Homeland Security (DHS) from admitting into the United States, or granting any type of immigration status to, any such alien. 
 
Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to prohibit the Secretary of Homeland Security from paroling (i.e., admitting for a temporary period) any such alien into the United States. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-04-26
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration, Citizenship, Refugees, Border Security, and International Law.
action_date: 2010-02-23
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2010-02-23
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-02-23
text: Introduced in House
Iran Human Rights Sanctions Act

Bill: 111-hr-4649
Sponsor: Rep. Ros-Lehtinen, Ileana [R-FL-18]
Introduced: 2010-02-23 in the House
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 exchange and broadcasting
International law and treaties
Iran
Judicial procedure and administration
Middle East
News media and reporting
Political parties and affiliation
Protest and dissent
Rule of law and government transparency
Sanctions
Sovereignty, recognition, national governance and status
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.
 
Terminates sanctions upon presidential certification to Congress that: (1) the sanctioned persons have ceased complicity in human rights abuses; and (2) the government of Iran has released all political prisoners, ceased its killing and abuse of Iranian citizens engaging in peaceful political activity and prosecuted those responsible, committed itself to free elections and respect for human rights, and ceased broadcast interference.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-04-26
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration, Citizenship, Refugees, Border Security, and International Law.
action_date: 2010-03-08
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Trade.
action_date: 2010-02-23
text: Referred to House Judiciary
action_date: 2010-02-23
text: Referred to House Ways and Means
action_date: 2010-02-23
text: Referred to House Financial Services
action_date: 2010-02-23
text: Referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, and in addition to the Committees on Financial Services, Ways and Means, and the Judiciary, 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: 2010-02-23
text: Referred to House Foreign Affairs
action_date: 2010-02-23
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-02-23
text: Introduced in House
Stop Outsourcing Security Act

Bill: 111-hr-4650
Sponsor: Rep. Schakowsky, Janice D. [D-IL-9]
Introduced: 2010-02-23 in the House
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: Referred to House Intelligence (Permanent)
action_date: 2010-02-23
text: Referred to House Armed Services
action_date: 2010-02-23
text: Referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, and in addition to the Committees on Armed Services, and Intelligence (Permanent Select), 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: 2010-02-23
text: Referred to House Foreign Affairs
action_date: 2010-02-23
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-02-23
text: Introduced in House
To prohibit the further extension or establishment of national monuments in Utah except by express authorization of Congress.

Bill: 111-hr-4651
Sponsor: Rep. Bishop, Rob [R-UT-1]
Introduced: 2010-02-23 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Monuments and memorials
Utah
Wilderness and natural areas, wildlife refuges, wild rivers, habitats

Summary:
action_date: 2010-02-23
text: 
Prohibits any further extension or establishment of national parks and monuments in Utah except by express authorization of Congress. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-03-01
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests and Public Lands.
action_date: 2010-02-23
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2010-02-23
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-02-23
text: Introduced in House
Accurate Accounting of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac Act

Bill: 111-hr-4653
Sponsor: Rep. Garrett, Scott [R-NJ-5]
Introduced: 2010-02-23 in the House
Policy area: Economics and Public Finance
Subjects: Accounting and auditing
Budget deficits and national debt
Government corporations and government-sponsored enterprises
Housing finance and home ownership
Securities

Summary:
action_date: 2010-02-23
text: 
Accurate Accounting of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac Act - Requires the receipts and disbursements of the Federal National Mortgage Association (Fannie Mae) and the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation (Freddie Mac) to be counted as new budget authority, outlays, receipts, or deficit or surplus for purposes of: (1) the federal budget submitted by the President; (2) the congressional budget; or (3) the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 (Gramm-Rudman-Hollings Act).
 
Requires the costs of purchases of mortgages, and mortgage-backed securities issued, by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to be calculated by adjusting a specified discount rate for market risks under the Credit Reform Act of 1990.
 
Subjects to the statutory public debt limit the face amount of obligations issued by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac and outstanding at one time.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-02-23
text: Referred to House Financial Services
action_date: 2010-02-23
text: Referred to House Ways and Means
action_date: 2010-02-23
text: Referred to the Committee on the Budget, and in addition to the Committees on Ways and Means, and Financial Services, 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: 2010-02-23
text: Referred to House Budget
action_date: 2010-02-23
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-02-23
text: Introduced in House
Veterans Access to Care Act

Bill: 111-hr-4654
Sponsor: Rep. Braley, Bruce L. [D-IA-1]
Introduced: 2010-02-23 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Health facilities and institutions
Medical education
Student aid and college costs
Veterans' medical care

Summary:
action_date: 2010-02-23
text: 
Veterans Access to Care Act - Amends the Public Health Service Act to designate medical facilities of the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) as health professional shortage areas.
 
Requires, for eligibility to participate in the National Health Service Corps Scholarship Program and the National Health Service Corps Loan Repayment Program, that an individual not be participating in the VA's Health Professionals Educational Assistance Program.
 
Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS), in carrying out the National Health Service Corps Program, to consult with the Secretary of Veterans Affairs regarding health professional shortage areas that are VA medical facilities.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-02-24
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2010-02-23
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2010-02-23
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-02-23
text: Introduced in House
Small Business Expansion and Job Creation Act of 2010

Bill: 111-hr-4655
Sponsor: Rep. Bright, Bobby [D-AL-2]
Introduced: 2010-02-23 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Business investment and capital
Income tax credits
Income tax deductions
Research and development

Summary:
action_date: 2010-02-23
text: 
Small Business Expansion and Job Creation Act of 2010 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to extend through 2010: (1) the increased ($250,000) expensing allowance for depreciable business assets; (2) the additional 50% depreciation allowance for certain types of investment property acquired in 2010; and (3) the election to accelerate the tax credits for the alternative minimum tax and research expenditures in lieu of bonus depreciation.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-02-23
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2010-02-23
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-02-23
text: Introduced in House
To direct the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to carry out a pilot program establishing a child-care center for children of veterans receiving treatment and other individuals.

Bill: 111-hr-4656
Sponsor: Rep. Buchanan, Vern [R-FL-13]
Introduced: 2010-02-23 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Child care and development
Department of Veterans Affairs
Florida
Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management
Military personnel and dependents
Veterans' medical care
Veterans' organizations and recognition

Summary:
action_date: 2010-02-23
text: 
Directs the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to carry out a pilot program establishing a childcare center at Bay Pines Medical Center, Florida, for the children of: (1) veterans receiving treatment there; (2) employees of the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), VA contractors, and veterans service organizations; and (3) active-duty military personnel whose duty station is in such area and does not have childcare services made available by the Secretary of Defense.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-02-26
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Economic Opportunity.
action_date: 2010-02-26
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2010-02-23
text: Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2010-02-23
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-02-23
text: Introduced in House
Older Americans HIV Information and Prevention Act of 2010

Bill: 111-hr-4657
Sponsor: Rep. Carson, Andre [D-IN-7]
Introduced: 2010-02-23 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Health promotion and preventive care
Infectious and parasitic diseases

Summary:
action_date: 2010-02-23
text: 
Older Americans HIV Information and Prevention Act of 2010 - Amends the Older Americans Act of 1965 to include routine screening, prevention and mitigation programs, and information relating to the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) in the disease prevention and health promotion services authorized by such Act. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-03-22
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Healthy Families and Communities.
action_date: 2010-02-23
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and Labor.
action_date: 2010-02-23
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-02-23
text: Introduced in House
Credit Card Cosigner Protection Act of 2010

Bill: 111-hr-4659
Sponsor: Rep. Hodes, Paul W. [D-NH-2]
Introduced: 2010-02-23 in the House
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: Consumer affairs
Consumer credit

Summary:
action_date: 2010-02-23
text: 
Credit Card Cosigner Protection Act of 2010 - Amends the Truth in Lending Act to require the creditor or lessor to provide to each obligor involved in a consumer credit transaction or consumer lease all disclosures required under such Act.
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-02-23
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2010-02-23
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-02-23
text: Introduced in House
To direct the Comptroller General of the United States to conduct a study on the performance of Federal Government in meeting certain small business procurement contracting goals, and for other purposes.

Bill: 111-hr-4660
Sponsor: Rep. Hodes, Paul W. [D-NH-2]
Introduced: 2010-02-23 in the House
Policy area: Commerce
Subjects: Disability and paralysis
Government studies and investigations
Public contracts and procurement
Small business
Veterans' education, employment, rehabilitation
Women's employment

Summary:
action_date: 2010-02-23
text: 
Directs the Comptroller General to study and report to Congress on the performance of the federal government in meeting goals for participation in federal procurement contracts by small businesses owned and controlled by service-disabled veterans and women.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-02-23
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Contracting and Technology .
action_date: 2010-02-23
text: Referred to the House Committee on Small Business.
action_date: 2010-02-23
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-02-23
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to increase the dollar limitation on expensing certain depreciable assets and to extend the deduction for an additional year.

Bill: 111-hr-4661
Sponsor: Rep. Hodes, Paul W. [D-NH-2]
Introduced: 2010-02-23 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Business investment and capital
Computers and information technology
Income tax deductions

Summary:
action_date: 2010-02-23
text: 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) increase to $250,000 the expensing allowance for depreciable business assets in 2010 and 2011; and (2) extend through 2011 related provisions, including increased expensing for certain computer software. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-02-23
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2010-02-23
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-02-23
text: Introduced in House
Lymphedema Diagnosis and Treatment Cost Saving Act of 2010

Bill: 111-hr-4662
Sponsor: Rep. Kissell, Larry [D-NC-8]
Introduced: 2010-02-23 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Immunology and vaccination
Medicare

Summary:
action_date: 2010-02-23
text: 
Lymphedema Diagnosis and Treatment Cost Savings Act of 2010 - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to extend coverage to lymphedema diagnosis and treatment services. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-03-08
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2010-02-24
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2010-02-23
text: Referred to House Ways and Means
action_date: 2010-02-23
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Ways and Means, 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: 2010-02-23
text: Referred to House Energy and Commerce
action_date: 2010-02-23
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-02-23
text: Introduced in House
Enhancing Investment in Small Businesses Act of 2010

Bill: 111-hr-4663
Sponsor: Rep. Kosmas, Suzanne M. [D-FL-24]
Introduced: 2010-02-23 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Capital gains tax
Income tax exclusion
Securities
Small business

Summary:
action_date: 2010-02-23
text: 
Enhancing Investment in Small Businesses Act of 2010 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow an exclusion from gross income of all gain from the sale or exchange of qualified small business stock held for more than five years. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-02-23
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2010-02-23
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-02-23
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Servicemembers Civil Relief Act to provide for a one-year moratorium on the sale or foreclosure of property owned by surviving spouses of servicemembers killed in Operation Iraqi Freedom or Operation Enduring Freedom.

Bill: 111-hr-4664
Sponsor: Rep. Kratovil, Frank,  Jr. [D-MD-1]
Introduced: 2010-02-23 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Afghanistan
Asia
Housing finance and home ownership
Iraq
Middle East
Military operations and strategy
Military personnel and dependents

Summary:
action_date: 2010-02-23
text: 
Amends the Servicemembers Civil Relief Act to prohibit the sale, foreclosure, or seizure of property owned by the surviving spouse of a servicemember killed on active duty in Operation Iraqi Freedom or Enduring Freedom during the one-year period following the servicemember's death.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-06-10
text: Committee Hearings Held.
action_date: 2010-06-10
text: Subcommittee Hearings Held.
action_date: 2010-02-26
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Economic Opportunity.
action_date: 2010-02-23
text: Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2010-02-23
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-02-23
text: Introduced in House
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-hr-4665
Sponsor: Rep. Massa, Eric J. J. [D-NY-29]
Introduced: 2010-02-23 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Congressional tributes
Government buildings, facilities, and property
New York State
Postal service

Summary:
action_date: 2010-02-23
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: 2010-02-23
text: Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.
action_date: 2010-02-23
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-02-23
text: Introduced in House