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Service Members Permanent Change of Station Relief Act

Bill: 111-hr-5469
Sponsor: Rep. McMorris Rodgers, Cathy [R-WA-5]
Introduced: 2010-05-28 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Military personnel and dependents
Motor vehicles
Transportation costs

Summary:
action_date: 2010-05-28
text: 
Service Members Permanent Change of Station Relief Act - Sets at the business standard mileage rate of the Internal Revenue Service the monetary allowance for a member of the Armed Forces for travel by privately owned vehicles in lieu of government transportation in the case of: (1) a change of permanent station; (2) travel to the first station upon call to active duty; and (3) travel from a last duty station upon separation from service. Sets the monetary allowance for authorized travel by a member's dependent at the rate per mile established by the Administrator of General Services instead of the actual expenses for such transportation.
 
Revises requirements allowing the transport at government expense of one motor vehicle owned or leased by a member (or member's dependent) to the new station of the member who has been ordered to make a change of permanent station. 
 
Authorizes the transport at government expense of one additional motor vehicle of a member (or member's dependent) if: (1) the member is ordered to make a change of permanent station to or from a nonforeign area outside the continental United States and the member has at least one dependent of driving age who will use the motor vehicle; or (2) the Secretary of the military department concerned determines that a replacement for the transported motor vehicle is necessary for reasons beyond the member's control and is in the interest of the United States.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-06-28
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Military Personnel.
action_date: 2010-05-28
text: Referred to the House Committee on Armed Services.
action_date: 2010-05-28
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-05-28
text: Introduced in House
To amend the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 to extend for 6 months the increase provided under that Act in the Medicaid Federal medical assistance percentage (FMAP).

Bill: 111-hr-5471
Sponsor: Rep. Pingree, Chellie [D-ME-1]
Introduced: 2010-05-28 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Child health
Economic performance and conditions
Health care costs and insurance
Health care coverage and access
Intergovernmental relations
Medicaid
State and local finance
Unemployment

Summary:
action_date: 2010-05-28
text: 
Amends the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA) to extend until January 1, 2011, the temporary increase in the federal medical assistance percentage (FMAP), under title XIX (Medicaid) of the Social Security Act (SSA), for any state with a certain unemployment increase percentage during the recession adjustment period. Extends the entire recession adjustment period from December 31, 2010, through December 31, 2011.
 
Declares that increases in the FMAP for a state shall apply to Medicaid payments attributable to expenditures for medical assistance provided to nonpregnant childless adults made eligible under a state plan who would have been eligible for child health assistance or other health benefits under eligibility standards in effect as of December 31, 2009, of a waiver of the state child health plan under SSA title XXI (Children's Health Insurance Program) (CHIP).
 
Prohibits any additional federal payments to a state under this temporary FMAP increase for a calendar quarter occurring between January 1, 2011, and June 30, 2011, unless, within 45 days after enactment of this Act, the state's chief executive officer certifies that the state will request and use such additional federal funds.
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-05-28
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2010-05-28
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-05-28
text: Introduced in House
America RISING Act of 2010

Bill: 111-hr-5472
Sponsor: Rep. Richardson, Laura [D-CA-37]
Introduced: 2010-05-28 in the House
Policy area: Labor and Employment
Subjects: Education programs funding
Employment and training programs
Government lending and loan guarantees
Higher education
Science and engineering education
Small business
Student aid and college costs
Wages and earnings

Summary:
action_date: 2010-05-28
text: 
America Realizing the Informational Skills and Initiative of New Graduates Act of 2010 or America RISING Act of 2010 - Directs the Secretary of Labor to establish a program of grants to: (1) eligible small business employers to defray the cost of compensation they pay to recent graduates from institutions of higher education; and (2) such graduates to enable them to defray the cost of undertaking further education for up to 24 months in subjects relating to mathematics, science, engineering, or technology.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-05-28
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and Labor.
action_date: 2010-05-28
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-05-28
text: Introduced in House
Investing Income at Home Act of 2010

Bill: 111-hr-5473
Sponsor: Rep. Sánchez, Linda T. [D-CA-39]
Introduced: 2010-05-28 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Foreign and international corporations
Income tax exclusion
Interest, dividends, interest rates
Taxation of foreign income
U.S. and foreign investments

Summary:
action_date: 2010-05-28
text: 
Investing Income at Home Act of 2010 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to exclude from the definition of &quot;personal holding company income&quot; foreign affiliate dividends designated for reinvestment in the United States. Imposes an additional tax on such dividends if they are not reinvested in the United States within five years.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-05-28
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2010-05-28
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-05-28
text: Introduced in House
Hospital Reclassification Correction Act of 2010

Bill: 111-hr-5474
Sponsor: Rep. Schauer, Mark H. [D-MI-7]
Introduced: 2010-05-28 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Health facilities and institutions
Hospital care
Medicare
Wages and earnings

Summary:
action_date: 2010-05-28
text: 
Hospital Reclassification Correction Act of 2010 - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to prohibit the Medicare Geographic Classification Review Board, in rendering decisions on applications for a change in geographic classification, from rejecting the application of a hospital which is the only subsection (d) hospital in its Metropolitan Statistical Area on the basis of any comparison between the hospital's average hourly wage and the average hourly wage of hospitals in the area in which it is located.
 
(Generally, a subsection [d] hospital is an acute care hospital particularly one that receives payment under Medicare's inpatient prospective payment system [IPPS] when providing covered inpatient services to eligible beneficiaries.)


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-05-28
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2010-05-28
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-05-28
text: Introduced in House
Family Farm Estate Tax Relief Act of 2010

Bill: 111-hr-5475
Sponsor: Rep. Thompson, Mike [D-CA-1]
Introduced: 2010-05-28 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Contracts and agency
Farmland
Land transfers
Land use and conservation
Transfer and inheritance taxes

Summary:
action_date: 2010-05-28
text: 
Family Farm Estate Tax Relief Act of 2010 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) exclude from the value of a decedent's gross estate farmland used by an heir for farming purposes; (2) impose a recapture tax on an heir who disposes of such farmland after the decedent's death or who ceases to use such farmland for farming purposes; and (3) increase the limitation on the estate tax exclusion for land subject to a qualified conservation easement to $5 million and the percentage of the value of such land that is excludable.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-06-07
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2010-05-28
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2010-05-28
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-05-28
text: Introduced in House
Building Star Energy Efficiency Act of 2010

Bill: 111-hr-5476
Sponsor: Rep. Welch, Peter [D-VT-At Large]
Introduced: 2010-05-28 in the House
Policy area: Energy
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Building construction
Department of Energy
Energy efficiency and conservation
Government lending and loan guarantees
Housing industry and standards
Lighting and heating
Lighting, heating, cooling
Public contracts and procurement
Wages and earnings

Summary:
action_date: 2010-05-28
text: 
Building Star Energy Efficiency Act of 2010 - Establishes in the Department of Energy (DOE) the Building Star Energy Efficiency Rebate Program of 2010. 
 
Directs the Secretary of Energy to issue rebates to building owners to offset a portion of the cost of purchasing and installing qualifying equipment or materials or undertaking qualifying services to enhance the energy efficiency of existing commercial buildings and multifamily residential buildings.
 
Prescribes rebates for the purchase and installation of qualifying: (1) insulation, windows, and qualified high-efficiency window films and screens; (2) new energy efficient equipment, such as boilers, furnaces, and water heaters; (3) unitary air conditioners and unitary heat pumps; (4) variable speed drives for motors; and (5) interior lighting.
 
Prescribes calculations for reductions in: (1) installed lighting power resulting from installation of qualified interior lighting; and (2) annual energy usage resulting from installation of qualified exterior lighting.
 
 Prescribes calculations also for rebates for qualified: (1) replacement chillers; (2) qualifying services to enhance the energy efficiency of buildings; (3) energy-efficient building operation and maintenance training; (4) service on space heating equipment and cooling systems, (5) energy monitoring and management systems with analog controls; and (6) HVAC testing, balancing, and duct sealing.
 
Directs the Secretary to: (1) establish a Building Star Energy Efficiency Loan Program to make grants to states to support financial assistance provided by qualified program delivery entities for making energy efficiency and renewable energy improvements to existing buildings that qualify under the Building Star energy retrofit program.
 
Amends the Energy Policy Act of 2005 to: (1) direct the Secretary to make guarantees for energy efficiency projects, including projects to retrofit residential, commercial, and industrial buildings, facilities, and equipment; and (2) authorize the Secretary, in the case of programs that finance such retrofitting, to offer loan guarantees for portfolios of debt obligations, and to purchase or make commitments to purchase portfolios of debt obligations.
 
Prescribes prevailing wage rate requirements for work conducted using rebates or financial assistance.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-05-28
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2010-05-28
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-05-28
text: Introduced in House
Ready to Compete Act

Bill: 111-hr-5477
Sponsor: Rep. Yarmuth, John A. [D-KY-3]
Introduced: 2010-05-28 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Adult education and literacy
Advisory bodies
Broadcasting, cable, digital technologies
Digital media
Education of the disadvantaged
Education programs funding
Educational technology and distance education
Elementary and secondary education
Preschool education
Science and engineering education
Teaching, teachers, curricula
Television and film

Summary:
action_date: 2010-05-28
text: 
Ready to Compete Act - Amends the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to create a new Ready to Learn program authorizing the Secretary of Education to award a grant to the Corporation for Public Broadcasting to provide a coordinated Ready to Learn television service by awarding subgrants and contracts to public television stations and producers or distributors of educational programming for the operation of Ready to Learn programs for preschool and elementary school children.
 
Requires such service to include programming that: (1) is aligned with state academic and early learning standards; (2) addresses specific community and school needs, ascertained via ongoing community outreach programs; and (3) is in reading and social and emotional development.
 
Specifies that public broadcasting entities are eligible for Ready to Teach grants to improve teaching in core curriculum areas by using high-tech platforms to deliver integrated educational content and services and teacher training. Requires grantees to direct a significant portion of such services to schools that have failed for two consecutive years to make adequate yearly progress (AYP) toward state academic performance standards.
 
Alters the Digital Educational Programming Grants program by authorizing competitive five-year (currently, three-year) grants to public television stations that partner with certain other entities to develop, and train teachers in the use of, innovative educational tools and digital content for core curriculum content areas, particularly math, science, and technology.
 
Reauthorizes appropriations for such revamped programs through FY2016.
 
Directs the Secretary to award five-year grants to television public broadcasting entities to develop and operate a national on-demand digital education media service available to teachers, parents, educational entities, and the public at low or no cost.
 
Amends the Workforce Investment Act of 1998 to create a Ready to Earn program authorizing the Secretary to award competitive grants to public television stations that partner with states, state workforce investment boards, or institutions of higher education to develop, disseminate, and provide on-line and on-air education and training services for adults.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-05-28
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and Labor.
action_date: 2010-05-28
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-05-28
text: Introduced in House
Green Railcar Enhancement Act of 2010

Bill: 111-hr-5478
Sponsor: Rep. Blumenauer, Earl [D-OR-3]
Introduced: 2010-06-08 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Business investment and capital
Energy efficiency and conservation
Income tax credits
Motor carriers
Railroads

Summary:
action_date: 2010-06-08
text: 
Green Railcar Enhancement Act of 2010 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow, through 2011, a new business-related tax credit for 25% of the cost of acquiring or rebuilding freight railcars which achieve an increase in capacity or fuel efficiency of at least 8%. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-06-08
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2010-06-08
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E1033)
action_date: 2010-06-08
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-06-08
text: Introduced in House
Coal Accountability and Retired Employee Act of 2010

Bill: 111-hr-5479
Sponsor: Rep. Rahall, Nick J., II [D-WV-3]
Introduced: 2010-06-08 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Coal
Employee benefits and pensions
Government trust funds
Interest, dividends, interest rates
Mining

Summary:
action_date: 2010-06-08
text: 
Coal Accountability and Retired Employee Act of 2010 or CARE Act - Amends the Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act of 1977 with respect to transfers of interest earned by the Abandoned Mine Reclamation (AMR) Fund. Requires the transfer during any fiscal year to the trustees of the 1974 United Mine Workers of America (UMWA) Pension Plan, to be used solely to pay pension benefits under such plan, of certain excess funds remaining after: (1) transfer from the AMR Fund to the UMWA Combined Benefit Fund; and (2) application of the annual $490 million cap on such transfers.

action_date: 2010-09-29
text: 

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

 
Coal Accountability and Retired Employee Act of 2010 or CARE Act - Amends the Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act of 1977 with respect to transfers of interest earned by the Abandoned Mine Reclamation (AMR) Fund. Requires the transfer during any fiscal year to the trustees of the 1974 United Mine Workers of America (UMWA) Pension Plan, to be used solely to pay pension benefits under such plan, of certain excess funds remaining after: (1) transfer from the AMR Fund to the UMWA Combined Benefit Fund; and (2) application of the annual $490 million cap on such transfers.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-09-29
text: Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 389.
action_date: 2010-09-29
text: Reported by the Committee on Natural Resources. H. Rept. 111-651.
action_date: 2010-09-29
text: Reported by the Committee on Natural Resources. H. Rept. 111-651.
action_date: 2010-07-22
text: Ordered to be Reported by Unanimous Consent.
action_date: 2010-07-22
text: Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
action_date: 2010-06-23
text: Committee Hearings Held.
action_date: 2010-06-08
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2010-06-08
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-06-08
text: Introduced in House
Ending Childhood Hunger Challenge Act of 2010

Bill: 111-hr-5480
Sponsor: Rep. Polis, Jared [D-CO-2]
Introduced: 2010-06-08 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Child health
Education programs funding
Elementary and secondary education
Food assistance and relief
Nutrition and diet
Performance measurement
Poverty and welfare assistance

Summary:
action_date: 2010-06-08
text: 
Ending Childhood Hunger Challenge Act of 2010 - Amends the Richard B. Russell National School Lunch Act to authorize the Secretary of Agriculture to award funding competitively to states, through grants or contracts, to carry out comprehensive and innovative demonstration projects that promote the reduction or elimination of childhood hunger by 2015.
 
Requires the Secretary, when determining the amount of funds to be provided to a state, to consider: (1) the proportion of children in the state eligible for free or reduced price meals under the Act; and (2) the rates of food insecurity, hunger, or poverty in the state.
 
Includes among the demonstration projects eligible for funding those that: (1) enhance federal child nutrition program benefits or establish innovative models for the delivery of program benefits; (2) increase children's access to and participation in such programs; and (3) improve the coordination of federal, state, and community resources and services aimed at eliminating food insecurity and hunger.
 
Requires each state that receives such funding to: (1) collaborate with key stakeholders in the state to develop a comprehensive agenda for eliminating childhood hunger that is approved by the Secretary; (2) set specific performance goals for reducing or eliminating childhood hunger; and (3) arrange for an independent evaluation of its project's effectiveness.
 
Favors projects with a 25% nonfederal match in cash or in-kind contributions.
 
Limits project funding to five years and states to no more than one funded project. 
 
Makes the amount of federal funding provided for a project each year contingent on its progress toward performance goals.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-09-13
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Healthy Families and Communities.
action_date: 2010-06-08
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and Labor.
action_date: 2010-06-08
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-06-08
text: Introduced in House
Corolla Wild Horses Protection Act

Bill: 111-hr-5482
Sponsor: Rep. Jones, Walter B., Jr. [R-NC-3]
Introduced: 2010-06-08 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Administrative remedies
Animal protection and human-animal relationships
Department of the Interior
Endangered and threatened species
Mammals
North Carolina
Seashores and lakeshores
Wilderness and natural areas, wildlife refuges, wild rivers, habitats
Wildlife conservation and habitat protection

Summary:
action_date: 2010-06-08
text: 
Corolla Wild Horses Protection Act - Directs the Secretary of the Interior to enter into an agreement with the Corolla Wild Horse Fund in the County of Currituck, North Carolina, and the state of North Carolina to provide for the management of free-roaming wild horses in and around the Currituck National Wildlife Refuge. 
 
Specifies that such agreement: (1) allow a herd of not less than 110 free-roaming wild horses in and around the Refuge; (2) provide for cost-effective management of such horses; and (3) provide for the introduction of a small number of free-roaming wild horses from the herd at Cape Lookout National Seashore as is necessary to maintain the genetic viability of the herd in and around the Refuge. 
 
Bars the Secretary from excluding free-roaming wild horses from any part of the Currituck National Wildlife Refuge unless: (1) it is found that the presence of such horses on a part of the Refuge threatens the survival of an endangered species for which such land is designated as critical habitat; (2) such finding is based on a peer-reviewed scientific assessment; and (3) a period of public notice and comment is provided on that finding. 
 
Prohibits the removal of any horse from the Seashore for introduction at the Refuge, except with the approval of the Foundation for Shackleford Horses Inc. and consistent with the memorandum of understanding between the National Park Service (NPS) and the Foundation and the management plan for the Shackleford Banks Horse Herd. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-07-27
text: Subcommittee Hearings Held.
action_date: 2010-06-10
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Insular Affairs, Oceans and Wildlife.
action_date: 2010-06-10
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests and Public Lands.
action_date: 2010-06-08
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2010-06-08
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-06-08
text: Introduced in House
To award a congressional gold medal to the United States Cadet Nurse Corps.

Bill: 111-hr-5483
Sponsor: Rep. Lowey, Nita M. [D-NY-18]
Introduced: 2010-06-08 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Conflicts and wars
Congressional tributes
Health personnel
Military history
Museums, exhibitions, cultural centers
Nursing
Smithsonian Institution

Summary:
action_date: 2010-06-08
text: 
Directs the President ProTempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives to arrange for the award of a congressional gold medal in honor of the United States Cadet Nurse Corps, collectively, in recognition of their patriotism and civic activism in a time of emergency during World War II which saved civilian hospital nursing services and provided 80% of the nursing staff for civilian hospitals during World War II.
 
Directs that such medal be given to the Smithsonian Institution to be displayed as appropriate and made available for research.
 
Expresses the sense of Congress that the Smithsonian Institution shall make the gold medal received under this Act available for display elsewhere, particularly at other locations associated with the Corps.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-06-08
text: Referred to House Administration
action_date: 2010-06-08
text: Referred to the Committee on Financial Services, and in addition to the Committee on House Administration, 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: 2010-06-08
text: Referred to House Financial Services
action_date: 2010-06-08
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-06-08
text: Introduced in House