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Cluster-Based Economy Enhancement Act of 2010

Bill: 111-hr-4666
Sponsor: Rep. Owens, William L. [D-NY-23]
Introduced: 2010-02-23 in the House
Policy area: Economics and Public Finance
Subjects: Economic development

Summary:
action_date: 2010-02-23
text: 
Cluster-Based Economy Enhancement Act of 2010 - Amends the Public Works and Economic Development Act of 1965 to authorize the Secretary of Commerce to make block grants to a state or local government, an institution of higher education, or a nonprofit economic development organization to: (1) assess the potential for the development or enhancement of business clusters (geographic concentrations of business entities that are competing, complementary, or interdependent firms and industries, that do business with one another, and that have common needs for talent, technology, and infrastructure); (2) establish cluster development programs in specified regions of the United States; and (3) promote cluster development programs in such regions and support the staff who operate such programs.
 
Permits a recipient of grant funds to use the funds to provide assistance for startup costs, worker training, relocation costs, planning, and other projects identified by the recipient that are consistent with the purposes of this Act.
 
Limits: (1) the federal share of the cost of projects carried out using funds authorized by this Act to 50%; and (2) the portion of the non-federal share of project costs that may be provided through in-kind contributions to 50%.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-02-24
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Economic Development, Public Buildings and Emergency Management.
action_date: 2010-02-23
text: Referred to House Financial Services
action_date: 2010-02-23
text: Referred to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, and in addition to the Committee on 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 Transportation and Infrastructure
action_date: 2010-02-23
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-02-23
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to increase the maximum amount that may be allotted to Puerto Rico under part A of title III.

Bill: 111-hr-4668
Sponsor: Resident Commissioner Pierluisi, Pedro R. [D-PR-At Large]
Introduced: 2010-02-23 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Education of the disadvantaged
Education programs funding
Elementary and secondary education
Language arts
Puerto Rico
U.S. territories and protectorates

Summary:
action_date: 2010-02-23
text: 
Amends part A of title III of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to increase the maximum federal allotment to Puerto Rico, which is expressed as a percentage of the federal funds allotted to states, to improve the education of limited English proficient children and immigrant youth.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-03-22
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education.
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
To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to provide that hospitals located in territories are eligible for electronic health record incentive payments under Medicare in the same manner as hospitals located in one of the 50 States are eligible for such incentive payments.

Bill: 111-hr-4669
Sponsor: Resident Commissioner Pierluisi, Pedro R. [D-PR-At Large]
Introduced: 2010-02-23 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: American Samoa
Caribbean area
Computers and information technology
Guam
Health facilities and institutions
Health information and medical records
Health programs administration and funding
Hospital care
Medicare
Northern Mariana Islands
Puerto Rico
Virgin Islands

Summary:
action_date: 2010-02-23
text: 
Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to make subsection (d) hospitals located in the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, Guam, American Samoa, or the Northern Mariana Islands eligible for electronic health record (EHR) incentive payments in the same manner as subsection (d) hospitals located in the 50 states.
 
(Generally, a subsection [d] hospital is an acute care hospital, particularly one that receives payments under Medicare's inpatient prospective payment system when providing covered inpatient services to eligible beneficiaries.)


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-03-08
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
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 establish a program through which each State may provide a bust to be displayed in one of the House Office Buildings.

Bill: 111-hr-4670
Sponsor: Rep. Pitts, Joseph R. [R-PA-16]
Introduced: 2010-02-23 in the House
Policy area: Congress
Subjects: Art, artists, authorship
House of Representatives
State and local government operations
U.S. Capitol
U.S. history

Summary:
action_date: 2010-02-23
text: 
 Establishes a program under which the Architect of the Capitol shall solicit, accept, and place busts from each of the states for display in one of the Cannon, Rayburn, or Longworth House Office Buildings.
 
 Considers such bust a gift to the United States.
 
 Limits such bust to one per state on display.
 
 Requires the House Committee on House Administration to specify standards which must be met by such state provided bust, including that: (1) it must portray a leading political, religious, or cultural figure from the state's history; (2) it must conform to roughly uniform dimensions; (3) its construction must be in either bronze or marble; (4) its style must be realistic; and (5) no bust representing any individual may be accepted for display as part of the program until 50 years after his or her death.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-02-23
text: Referred to the House Committee on House Administration.
action_date: 2010-02-23
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-02-23
text: Introduced in House
National Discovery Trails Act of 2010

Bill: 111-hr-4671
Sponsor: Rep. Sarbanes, John P. [D-MD-3]
Introduced: 2010-02-23 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: California
Colorado
Delaware
District of Columbia
Illinois
Indiana
Iowa
Kansas
Kentucky
Land use and conservation
Maryland
Missouri
Nebraska
Nevada
Ohio
Parks, recreation areas, trails
Social work, volunteer service, charitable organizations
Utah
West Virginia

Summary:
action_date: 2010-02-23
text: 
National Discovery Trails Act of 2010 - Amends the National Trails System Act to establish national discovery trails which shall be extended, continuous interstate trails located so as to provide for outdoor recreation and travel and to connect representative examples of America's trails and communities. 
 
Authorizes the designation of such trails on federal lands and, with the consent of the owner, on non-federal lands. 
 
 Designates as a national discovery trail the 6,000-mile American Discovery Trail which shall extend from Cape Henlopen State Park in Delaware to Point Reyes National Seashore in California, traveling northern and southern routes from Cincinnati, Ohio, to Denver, Colorado. 
 
Sets forth requirements for designation as a national discovery trail. 
 
Requires the appropriate Secretary for each national discovery trail to: (1) administer the trail in cooperation with a competent trailwide volunteer-based organization; and (2) submit a comprehensive plan for the protection, management, development, and use of such trail.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-02-26
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: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E214)
action_date: 2010-02-23
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-02-23
text: Introduced in House
Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium Land Transfer Act of 2010

Bill: 111-hr-4672
Sponsor: Rep. Young, Don [R-AK-At Large]
Introduced: 2010-02-23 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Alaska
Alaska Natives and Hawaiians
Health facilities and institutions
Land transfers

Summary:
action_date: 2010-02-23
text: 
Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium Land Transfer Act of 2010 - Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) to convey to the Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium specified property in Anchorage, Alaska, for use in connection with health and related programs.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-02-24
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2010-02-23
text: Referred to House Energy and Commerce
action_date: 2010-02-23
text: Referred to the Committee on Natural Resources, and in addition to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, 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 Natural Resources
action_date: 2010-02-23
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-02-23
text: Introduced in House
For the relief of Martha Palmillas de Morales.

Bill: 111-hr-4673
Sponsor: Rep. Pastor, Ed [D-AZ-4]
Introduced: 2010-02-23 in the House
Policy area: Private Legislation

Summary:
action_date: 2010-02-23
text: Provides for the relief of Martha Palmillas de Morales.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-03-01
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
Renewable Fuel Pipeline Act of 2010

Bill: 111-hr-4674
Sponsor: Rep. Boswell, Leonard L. [D-IA-3]
Introduced: 2010-02-24 in the House
Policy area: Energy
Subjects: Alternative and renewable resources
Government lending and loan guarantees
Motor fuels
Pipelines

Summary:
action_date: 2010-02-24
text: 
Renewable Fuel Pipeline Act of 2010 - Amends the Energy Policy Act of 2005 to allow federally-guaranteed loans for renewable fuel pipelines in amounts equal to 80% of the project cost of the facility that is the subject of the guarantee, as estimated at the time the guarantee is issued.
 
Defines &quot;renewable fuel&quot; to mean fuel that: (1) is produced from renewable biomass and that is used to replace or reduce the quantity of fossil fuel present in a transportation fuel; and (2) includes ethanol and biodiesel.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-02-25
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Environment.
action_date: 2010-02-25
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Railroads, Pipelines, and Hazardous Materials.
action_date: 2010-02-24
text: Referred to House Transportation and Infrastructure
action_date: 2010-02-24
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, 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: 2010-02-24
text: Referred to House Energy and Commerce
action_date: 2010-02-24
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-02-24
text: Introduced in House
To prohibit the further extension or establishment of national monuments in Nevada except by express authorization of Congress.

Bill: 111-hr-4675
Sponsor: Rep. Heller, Dean [R-NV-2]
Introduced: 2010-02-24 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Congressional oversight
Monuments and memorials
Nevada
Parks, recreation areas, trails

Summary:
action_date: 2010-02-24
text: 
Prohibits any further extension or establishment of national parks and monuments in Nevada from being undertaken except by express authorization of Congress. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-02-25
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests and Public Lands.
action_date: 2010-02-24
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2010-02-24
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-02-24
text: Introduced in House
Travel Regional Investment Partnership Act

Bill: 111-hr-4676
Sponsor: Rep. Farr, Sam [D-CA-17]
Introduced: 2010-02-24 in the House
Policy area: Commerce
Subjects: Industrial policy and productivity
Travel and tourism

Summary:
action_date: 2010-02-24
text: 
Travel Regional Investment Partnership Act - Directs the Secretary of Commerce to establish a competitive grant program, administered by the Office of Travel and Tourism Industries, to award grants to eligible entities (such as a Convention and Visitors Bureau or a partnership between a state or local government and a local tourism entity) to promote domestic regional tourism growth and new domestic tourism market creation.
 



Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-02-25
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Commerce, Trade and Consumer Protection.
action_date: 2010-02-24
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2010-02-24
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-02-24
text: Introduced in House
Virgin Islands Improvement Act of 2010

Bill: 111-hr-4679
Sponsor: Del. Christensen, Donna M. [D-VI-At Large]
Introduced: 2010-02-24 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Caribbean area
Employee benefits and pensions
Financial services and investments
Income tax exclusion
Infrastructure development
Sales and excise taxes
State and local finance
Virgin Islands

Summary:
action_date: 2010-02-24
text: 
Virgin Islands Improvement Act of 2010 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to provide for a reduction of taxes on distributions from certain retirement savings plans designated by an individual under the age of 61 as being under investment by the Virgin Islands Investment Program for at least 30 years. Defines &quot;Virgin Islands Investment Program&quot; for purposes of this Act as a fund with managed amounts of $50 billion or less. Imposes a 1.5% annual tax for 10 years, and 1% thereafter, on managed funds to benefit Virgin Island infrastructure development.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-02-24
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2010-02-24
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-02-24
text: Introduced in House
Jobs Momentum Act of 2010

Bill: 111-hr-4680
Sponsor: Rep. Ellsworth, Brad [D-IN-8]
Introduced: 2010-02-24 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Employment taxes

Summary:
action_date: 2010-02-24
text: 
Jobs Momentum Act of 2010 - Allows a reduction in 2010 and 2011 of an employer's payroll taxes by a specified percentage of the amount by which such employer increases aggregate payroll over the preceding calendar year.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-02-24
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2010-02-24
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-02-24
text: Introduced in House
Congressional Accountability Pay Act

Bill: 111-hr-4681
Sponsor: Rep. Forbes, J. Randy [R-VA-4]
Introduced: 2010-02-24 in the House
Policy area: Congress
Subjects: Budget deficits and national debt
Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management
Members of Congress

Summary:
action_date: 2010-02-24
text: 
Congressional Accountability Pay Act - Amends the Legislative Reorganization Act of 1946 to revise the method of adjusting the annual rate of pay of Members of Congress.
 
Requires a decrease in the rate of pay for each Member by a specified percentage if outlays for any fiscal year are greater than outlays for the preceding fiscal year.
 
Amends the Federal Salary Act of 1967 to require that recommendations by the Citizens' Commission on Public Service and Compensation conform with this Act, except those for the salaries of the Chief Justice of the United States, judges of U.S. district courts, and judges of the U.S. Court of International Trade.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-02-24
text: Referred to House Oversight and Government Reform
action_date: 2010-02-24
text: Referred to the Committee on House Administration, and in addition to the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, 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: 2010-02-24
text: Referred to House Administration
action_date: 2010-02-24
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-02-24
text: Introduced in House
America Saving for Personal Investment, Retirement, and Education Act of 2010

Bill: 111-hr-4682
Sponsor: Rep. Kennedy, Patrick J. [D-RI-1]
Introduced: 2010-02-24 in the House
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: Department of the Treasury
Employee benefits and pensions
Executive agency funding and structure
Financial literacy
Financial services and investments
Government trust funds
Higher education
Income tax exclusion
Student aid and college costs

Summary:
action_date: 2010-02-24
text: 
America Saving for Personal Investment, Retirement, and Education Act of 2010 or ASPIRE Act of 2010 - Establishes an ASPIRE Fund in the Treasury, including a Lifetime Savings Account. Makes eligible to contribute to such an account, and to receive certain federal contributions, any U.S. citizen or lawful resident alien born after December 31, 2009, and under 18 years of age, whose modified adjusted gross income is below the applicable national median adjusted gross income amount.
 
Prescribes requirements for distributions for higher education expenses.
 
States that, for purposes of the Internal Revenue Code (IRC), each Lifetime Savings Account shall be treated in the same manner as a Roth IRA. Amends the IRC to require that, except in certain respects, privately managed Lifetime Savings Accounts be treated also in the same manner as a Roth IRA.
 
Creates the ASPIRE Fund Board to establish a default investment program under which, in a manner similar to a lifecycle investment program, sums in each Lifetime Savings Account are allocated to investment funds in the ASPIRE Fund based on the amount of time before the account holder attains the age of 18.
 
Subjects the Board to the same composition requirements, duties, and responsibilities as the Federal Retirement Thrift Investment Board.
 
Instructs the Secretary of the Treasury, in coordination with the Financial Literacy and Education Commission, to develop programs to promote the financial literacy of account holders of Lifetime Savings Accounts.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-02-24
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2010-02-24
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-02-24
text: Introduced in House
Scrap the MAP Act

Bill: 111-hr-4683
Sponsor: Rep. Murphy, Patrick J. [D-PA-8]
Introduced: 2010-02-24 in the House
Policy area: Agriculture and Food
Subjects: Agricultural marketing and promotion
Agricultural trade
Competitiveness, trade promotion, trade deficits

Summary:
action_date: 2010-02-24
text: 
Scrap the MAP Act - Amends the Agricultural Trade Act of 1978 to repeal the Market Access Program (MAP) of the Department of Agriculture (USDA). (MAP is a program that uses funds from the USDA's Commodity Credit Corporation [CCC] to aid in the creation, expansion, and maintenance of foreign markets for U.S. agricultural products.)


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-02-24
text: Referred to the House Committee on Agriculture.
action_date: 2010-02-24
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-02-24
text: Introduced in House
United States Parole Commission Authorization Act of 2010

Bill: 111-hr-4685
Sponsor: Del. Norton, Eleanor Holmes [D-DC-At Large]
Introduced: 2010-02-24 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Criminal procedure and sentencing
Department of Justice
Executive agency funding and structure

Summary:
action_date: 2010-02-24
text: 
United States Parole Commission Authorization Act of 2010 - Provides that a specified provision of the Sentencing Reform Act of 1984 shall apply with respect to the United States Parole Commission as though it contains no limitation on the time period of its effect (thus rendering the existence of the Commission permanent). 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-04-26
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.
action_date: 2010-02-24
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2010-02-24
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E223-224)
action_date: 2010-02-24
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-02-24
text: Introduced in House
Rota Cultural and Natural Resources Study Act

Bill: 111-hr-4686
Sponsor: Del. Sablan, Gregorio Kilili Camacho [D-MP-At Large]
Introduced: 2010-02-24 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Forests, forestry, trees
Government studies and investigations
Northern Mariana Islands

Summary:
action_date: 2010-02-24
text: 
Rota Cultural and Natural Resources Study Act - Directs the Secretary of the Interior to study the suitability and feasibility of designating prehistoric, historic, and limestone forest sites on the island of Rota, Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, as a unit of the National Park System and to consider management alternatives for Rota. 

action_date: 2010-07-13
text: 
Rota Cultural and Natural Resources Study Act - Directs the Secretary of the Interior to study and report to Congress on the suitability and feasibility of designating prehistoric, historic, and limestone forest sites on the island of Rota, Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, as a unit of the National Park System and to consider management alternatives for Rota. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-07-14
text: Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
action_date: 2010-07-13
text: The title of the measure was amended. Agreed to without objection.
action_date: 2010-07-13
text: Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
action_date: 2010-07-13
text: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended Agreed to by voice vote. (text: CR H5509)
action_date: 2010-07-13
text: Passed/agreed to in House: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended Agreed to by voice vote.(text: CR H5509)
action_date: 2010-07-13
text: DEBATE - The House proceeded with forty minutes of debate on H.R. 4686.
action_date: 2010-07-13
text: Considered under suspension of the rules. (consideration: CR H5509-5511)
action_date: 2010-07-13
text: Ms. Bordallo moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended.
action_date: 2010-07-13
text: Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 301.
action_date: 2010-07-13
text: Reported (Amended) by the Committee on Natural Resources. H. Rept. 111-528.
action_date: 2010-07-13
text: Reported (Amended) by the Committee on Natural Resources. H. Rept. 111-528.
action_date: 2010-06-16
text: Ordered to be Reported (Amended) by Voice Vote.
action_date: 2010-06-16
text: Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
action_date: 2010-06-16
text: Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests and Public Lands Discharged.
action_date: 2010-04-27
text: Subcommittee Hearings Held.
action_date: 2010-02-26
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests and Public Lands.
action_date: 2010-02-24
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2010-02-24
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-02-24
text: Introduced in House