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Equal Access to Preseparation Counseling Act

Bill: 111-hr-5259
Sponsor: Rep. Pingree, Chellie [D-ME-1]
Introduced: 2010-05-11 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Mental health
Military personnel and dependents

Summary:
action_date: 2010-05-11
text: 
Equal Access to Preseparation Counseling Act - Requires the Secretary of the military department concerned to provide individual preseparation counseling for each member of the reserves whose discharge or release from service is anticipated as of a specific date. (Under current law, such counseling must be provided only to a member of the Armed Forces whose discharge or release from active duty is anticipated as of a specific date.)


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-06-18
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Military Personnel.
action_date: 2010-05-11
text: Referred to the House Committee on Armed Services.
action_date: 2010-05-11
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E805)
action_date: 2010-05-11
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-05-11
text: Introduced in House
Support Working Parents Act of 2010

Bill: 111-hr-5260
Sponsor: Rep. Schwartz, Allyson Y. [D-PA-13]
Introduced: 2010-05-11 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Adult day care
Child care and development
Income tax credits

Summary:
action_date: 2010-05-11
text: 
Support Working Parents Act of 2010 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to repeal the phaseout of the tax credit for dependent care services for taxpayers whose adjusted gross incomes exceed $15,000.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-05-11
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2010-05-11
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-05-11
text: Introduced in House
Student Enhancement Act of 2010

Bill: 111-hr-5261
Sponsor: Rep. McCotter, Thaddeus G. [R-MI-11]
Introduced: 2010-05-11 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Elementary and secondary education
Income tax deductions

Summary:
action_date: 2010-05-11
text: 
Student Enhancement Act of 2010 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow a tax deduction, up to $10,000 per year, for supplemental education expenses. Defines &quot;supplemental education expenses&quot; as expenses not required for the a student's enrollment or attendance at an elementary or secondary school that are for academic tutoring designed to supplement or enhance the student's education and related books, supplies, and equipment. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-05-11
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2010-05-11
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-05-11
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Atomic Energy Defense Act to authorize the Administrator for Nuclear Security to establish technology transfer centers at national security laboratories, and for other purposes.

Bill: 111-hr-5262
Sponsor: Rep. Garamendi, John [D-CA-10]
Introduced: 2010-05-11 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: California
Department of Energy
Government buildings, facilities, and property
Nuclear weapons
Public-private cooperation
Technology transfer and commercialization

Summary:
action_date: 2010-05-11
text: 
Amends the Atomic Energy Defense Act to authorize the Administrator for Nuclear Security to establish technology transfer centers at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, California, and Sandia National Laboratory, California. Requires each center to foster collaborative scientific research, technology development, and the appropriate transfer of research and technology to users in addition to the national security laboratories.
 
Authorizes the Administrator to establish such centers at any other national security laboratory.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-06-18
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Strategic Forces.
action_date: 2010-05-11
text: Referred to House Science and Technology
action_date: 2010-05-11
text: Referred to the Committee on Armed Services, and in addition to the Committee on Science and Technology, 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: 2010-05-11
text: Referred to House Armed Services
action_date: 2010-05-11
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-05-11
text: Introduced in House
Real Estate Investment Incentive Act of 2010

Bill: 111-hr-5263
Sponsor: Rep. Yarmuth, John A. [D-KY-3]
Introduced: 2010-05-11 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Capital gains tax
Housing finance and home ownership
Income tax rates
Real estate business

Summary:
action_date: 2010-05-11
text: 
Real Estate Investment Incentive Act of 2010 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to reduce to 5% the rate of tax on net capital gains from the sale or exchange of depreciable real property placed in service before January 1, 2011. Defines &quot;depreciable real property&quot; as investment property which is part of a building with fewer than two residential rental units.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-05-11
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2010-05-11
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-05-11
text: Introduced in House
Department of Justice Appropriations Authorization Act, Fiscal Year 2011

Bill: 111-hr-5264
Sponsor: Rep. Conyers, John, Jr. [D-MI-14]
Introduced: 2010-05-11 in the House
Policy area: Law
Subjects: Department of Justice
Executive agency funding and structure

Summary:
action_date: 2010-05-11
text: 
Authorizes appropriations for the Department of Justice (DOJ) for FY2011 to carry out specified activities.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-05-11
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2010-05-11
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-05-11
text: Introduced in House
Combat Illegal Immigration Through Employment Verification Act

Bill: 111-hr-5265
Sponsor: Rep. Boswell, Leonard L. [D-IA-3]
Introduced: 2010-05-11 in the House
Policy area: Immigration
Subjects: Border security and unlawful immigration
Criminal investigation, prosecution, interrogation
Department of the Treasury
Executive agency funding and structure
Foreign labor
Fraud offenses and financial crimes
Government information and archives
Internal Revenue Service (IRS)
Tax administration and collection, taxpayers

Summary:
action_date: 2010-05-11
text: 
Combat Illegal Immigration Through Employment Verification Act - Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to make employment of unauthorized aliens unlawful. 
 
Sets forth provisions respecting: (1) employer document verification requirements; and (2) employment authorization and/or identity documents.
 
Sets forth employment eligibility verification system (EEVS) provisions.
 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) provide for the disclosure of certain taxpayer identity information to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to assist in immigration enforcement; and (2) increase specified penalties for employer failure to provide correct information returns.
 
Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to establish within the Criminal Investigation office of the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) a unit to investigate tax-related violations related to the employment of unauthorized aliens.
 
Sets forth IRS and Social Security Administration (SSA) immigration-related enforcement provisions. 
 
Provides for increases in worksite enforcement and immigration fraud detection personnel.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-06-29
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Workforce Protections.
action_date: 2010-06-15
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration, Citizenship, Refugees, Border Security, and International Law.
action_date: 2010-05-17
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Social Security.
action_date: 2010-05-11
text: Referred to House Education and Labor
action_date: 2010-05-11
text: Referred to House Ways and Means
action_date: 2010-05-11
text: Referred to House Judiciary
action_date: 2010-05-11
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committees on Ways and Means, and Education and Labor, 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: 2010-05-11
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-05-11
text: Introduced in House
National Commission on Children and Disasters Reauthorization Act of 2010

Bill: 111-hr-5266
Sponsor: Rep. Brown, Corrine [D-FL-3]
Introduced: 2010-05-11 in the House
Policy area: Emergency Management
Subjects: Advisory bodies
Child safety and welfare
Congressional oversight
Natural disasters

Summary:
action_date: 2010-05-11
text: 
National Commission on Children and Disasters Reauthorization Act of 2010 - Amends the Kids in Disasters Well-being, Safety, and Health Act of 2007 to authorize appropriations for the National Commission on Children and Disasters through FY2013. 
 
Requires any vacancy in the Commission to be filled within 90 days after the date of the vacancy. Requires the Commission to submit: (1) interim reports to the President and Congress annually; and (2) its final report by December 31, 2012. 

action_date: 2010-07-20
text: 

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

National Commission on Children and Disasters Reauthorization Act of 2010 - Amends the Kids in Disasters Well-being, Safety, and Health Act of 2007 to authorize appropriations for the National Commission on Children and Disasters through FY2013. 

Requires any vacancy in the Commission to be filled within 90 days after the date of the vacancy. Requires the Commission to submit: (1) interim reports to the President and Congress annually; and (2) its final report by December 31, 2012. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-07-21
text: Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2010-07-20
text: Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
action_date: 2010-07-20
text: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill Agreed to by voice vote. (text: CR H5740-5641)
action_date: 2010-07-20
text: Passed/agreed to in House: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill Agreed to by voice vote.(text: CR H5740-5641)
action_date: 2010-07-20
text: DEBATE - The House proceeded with forty minutes of debate on H.R. 5266.
action_date: 2010-07-20
text: Considered under suspension of the rules. (consideration: CR H5740-5743)
action_date: 2010-07-20
text: Ms. Norton moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill.
action_date: 2010-07-19
text: Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 313.
action_date: 2010-07-19
text: Reported by the Committee on Transportation. H. Rept. 111-548.
action_date: 2010-07-19
text: Reported by the Committee on Transportation. H. Rept. 111-548.
action_date: 2010-07-01
text: Subcommittee on Economic Development, Public Buildings and Emergency Management Discharged.
action_date: 2010-07-01
text: Ordered to be Reported by Voice Vote.
action_date: 2010-07-01
text: Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
action_date: 2010-05-12
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Economic Development, Public Buildings and Emergency Management.
action_date: 2010-05-11
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2010-05-11
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-05-11
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Gulf of Mexico Energy Security Act of 2006 to accelerate the increase in the amount of Gulf of Mexico oil and gas lease revenues that is shared with States.

Bill: 111-hr-5267
Sponsor: Rep. Cao, Anh "Joseph" [R-LA-2]
Introduced: 2010-05-11 in the House
Policy area: Energy
Subjects: Energy revenues and royalties
Gulf of Mexico
Marine and coastal resources, fisheries
Oil and gas
State and local finance

Summary:
action_date: 2010-05-11
text: 
Amends the Gulf of Mexico Energy Security Act of 2006 to accelerate from FY2017 to FY2011 the allocation of certain Gulf of Mexico oil and gas lease revenues from covered leases among the affected states (thus increasing each state's share).


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-05-12
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources.
action_date: 2010-05-11
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2010-05-11
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-05-11
text: Introduced in House
Improvements in Global MOMS Act

Bill: 111-hr-5268
Sponsor: Rep. Capps, Lois [D-CA-23]
Introduced: 2010-05-11 in the House
Policy area: International Affairs
Subjects: Child health
Foreign aid and international relief
HIV/AIDS
Health promotion and preventive care
Sex and reproductive health
World health

Summary:
action_date: 2010-05-11
text: 
Improvements in Global Maternal and Newborn Health Outcomes while Maximizing Successes Act or Improvements in Global MOMS Act - Amends the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 to authorize the President to furnish assistance to reduce mortality and improve maternal health and the health of newborns in developing countries, including HIV/AIDS prevention programs.
 
Directs the President to implement a comprehensive strategy as part of the Global Health Initiative to reduce mortality and improve the health of mothers and newborns in developing countries.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-05-11
text: Referred to the House Committee on Foreign Affairs.
action_date: 2010-05-11
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-05-11
text: Introduced in House
To express the sense of Congress that Federal job training programs that target older adults should work with nonprofit organizations that have a record of success in developing and implementing research-based technology curriculum designed specifically for older adults.

Bill: 111-hr-5269
Sponsor: Rep. Clay, Wm. Lacy [D-MO-1]
Introduced: 2010-05-11 in the House
Policy area: Labor and Employment
Subjects: Aging
Computers and information technology
Employment and training programs
Internet and video services
Internet, web applications, social media
Teaching, teachers, curricula

Summary:
action_date: 2010-05-11
text: 
Expresses the sense of Congress that the Senior Community Service Employment Program (SCSEP), and any other federal program that provides job training and placement services for older adults, should: (1) work with nonprofit organizations that have a record of success in developing and implementing research-based technology curriculum designed specifically for older adults; and (2) partner with such organizations to provide training, student materials, and support for a broad range of workforce technology skills, including basic and intermediate computer skills, Internet, email, word processing, spreadsheets, presentations, and other appropriate key skills for assisting older workers to enter or reenter the workforce.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-06-29
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Healthy Families and Communities.
action_date: 2010-05-11
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and Labor.
action_date: 2010-05-11
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-05-11
text: Introduced in House
Improving Access to Workers' Compensation for Injured Federal Workers Act

Bill: 111-hr-5270
Sponsor: Rep. Hare, Phil [D-IL-17]
Introduced: 2010-05-11 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Allied health services
Disability assistance
Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management
Health care coverage and access
Health personnel
Nursing

Summary:
action_date: 2010-05-11
text: 
Improving Access to Workers' Compensation for Injured Federal Workers Act - Amends the Federal Employees' Compensation Act to include physician assistants, nurse practitioners, clinical nurse specialists, certified nurse midwives, and certified registered nurse anesthetists as eligible providers of medical, surgical, and hospital services and supplies under such Act.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-06-29
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Workforce Protections.
action_date: 2010-05-11
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and Labor.
action_date: 2010-05-11
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-05-11
text: Introduced in House
To amend section 1877 of the Social Security Act to delay by 2 years the expansion cut-off date imposed by the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.

Bill: 111-hr-5271
Sponsor: Rep. Johnson, Eddie Bernice [D-TX-30]
Introduced: 2010-05-11 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Health facilities and institutions
Health personnel
Medical ethics
Medicare
Rural conditions and development

Summary:
action_date: 2010-05-11
text: 
Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act, as amended by the Patient Protection and Affordability Care Act (PPACA) and the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010, to postpone from December 31, 2010, to December 31, 2012, the date by which physician-owned hospitals must have a service provider agreement in order to participate in Medicare under a rural provider and hospital exception to the prohibition against physician-ownership of or -investment in a hospital, if they also meet certain requirements addressing conflicts of interest, bona fide investments, patient safety issues, and expansion limitations.
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-05-12
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2010-05-11
text: Referred to House Ways and Means
action_date: 2010-05-11
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: 2010-05-11
text: Referred to House Energy and Commerce
action_date: 2010-05-11
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-05-11
text: Introduced in House
To increase the maximum civil penalty for violations of Federal motor vehicle safety standards.

Bill: 111-hr-5272
Sponsor: Rep. Kaptur, Marcy [D-OH-9]
Introduced: 2010-05-11 in the House
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Civil actions and liability
Transportation safety and security

Summary:
action_date: 2010-05-11
text: 
Increases from $5,000 to $20,000 per violation the maximum civil penalty for persons who violate federal motor vehicle safety requirements.
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-05-11
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2010-05-11
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-05-11
text: Introduced in House
National Disaster Tax Extenders Act

Bill: 111-hr-5273
Sponsor: Rep. Langevin, James R. [D-RI-2]
Introduced: 2010-05-11 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Business investment and capital
Disaster relief and insurance
Income tax deductions
Income tax exclusion
Natural disasters

Summary:
action_date: 2010-05-11
text: 
National Disaster Tax Extenders Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to exclude a casualty loss tax deduction for disaster losses sustained after December 31, 2009, and before January 1, 2011, from an individual's gross income in determining adjusted gross income. Extends through 2010: (1) such casualty loss deduction; (2) expensing of disaster abatement and cleanup expenses; (3) the five-year carryback period of net operating losses attributable to federally declared disasters; and (4) the special depreciation allowance for qualified disaster assistance property. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-05-11
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2010-05-11
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-05-11
text: Introduced in House
To amend title 38, United States Code, to clarify the requirements for verifying a small business concern owned and controlled by a veteran.

Bill: 111-hr-5274
Sponsor: Rep. Roskam, Peter J. [R-IL-6]
Introduced: 2010-05-11 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Government information and archives
Public contracts and procurement
Small business
Veterans' education, employment, rehabilitation

Summary:
action_date: 2010-05-11
text: 
Prohibits the Secretary of Veterans Affairs (VA), in determining the eligibility of a small business for inclusion in a VA-maintained database of small businesses owned and controlled by veterans and the veteran owners thereof, from considering: (1) the work schedule of the veteran owner; or (2) whether the small business sells or otherwise conducts business with respect to more than one product line.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-05-14
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Economic Opportunity.
action_date: 2010-05-11
text: Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2010-05-11
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-05-11
text: Introduced in House
Seniors Purchasing Power Protection Act

Bill: 111-hr-5275
Sponsor: Rep. Sestak, Joe [D-PA-7]
Introduced: 2010-05-11 in the House
Policy area: Economics and Public Finance
Subjects: Aging
Consumer affairs
Inflation and prices
Social security and elderly assistance

Summary:
action_date: 2010-05-11
text: 
Seniors Purchasing Power Protection Act - Directs the Bureau of Labor Statistics of the Department of Labor to prepare and publish a monthly Consumer Price Index for Elderly Consumers (CPI) that indicates changes over time in expenditures for consumption which are typical for individuals aged 62 years of age or older. 
 
Amends title II (Old Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance) (OASDI) to use such new CPI in the computation of cost-of-living increases for Social Security benefits.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-06-29
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2010-05-12
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Social Security.
action_date: 2010-05-11
text: Referred to House Education and Labor
action_date: 2010-05-11
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Education and Labor, 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: 2010-05-11
text: Referred to House Ways and Means
action_date: 2010-05-11
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-05-11
text: Introduced in House