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Offshore Lease Fairness Act

Bill: 111-hr-5973
Sponsor: Rep. Poe, Ted [R-TX-2]
Introduced: 2010-07-29 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Energy revenues and royalties
Intergovernmental relations
Marine and coastal resources, fisheries
Oil and gas
State and local finance

Summary:
action_date: 2010-07-29
text: 
Offshore Lease Fairness Act - Amends the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act to increase from 27% to 50% the revenues: (1) shared with states from leases within three miles of the coast line entered into after enactment of this Act; and (2) from energy-related activities for any lease, easement, or right-of-way granted after enactment of this Act.
 
Amends the Gulf of Mexico Energy Security Act of 2006 to redefine current qualified Outer Continental Shelf revenues as sums received by the United States from leases entered into between December 20, 2006, and the date of enactment of this Act.
 
Requires for FY2010 and each ensuing fiscal year that new outer Continental Shelf revenues be deposited: (1) 50% into the general fund of the Treasury; and (2) 50% into a special account in the Treasury for disbursement to coastal states by the Secretary of the Treasury.
 
Restricts allocation of new outer Continental Shelf revenues from leases in the Gulf of Mexico, the Atlantic Ocean, the Pacific Ocean, and the Arctic Ocean to states that are in, or border on, such specified geographical areas.
 
Prescribes requirements for the timing and administration of the disposition of revenues.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-08-05
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources.
action_date: 2010-07-29
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2010-07-29
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-07-29
text: Introduced in House
To direct the Secretary of Education to pay to Fort Lewis College in the State of Colorado an amount equal to the tuition charges for Indian students who are not residents of the State of Colorado.

Bill: 111-hr-5974
Sponsor: Rep. Salazar, John T. [D-CO-3]
Introduced: 2010-07-29 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Colorado
Education programs funding
Federal-Indian relations
Higher education
Indian social and development programs
Intergovernmental relations
Minority education
State and local finance
Student aid and college costs

Summary:
action_date: 2010-07-29
text: 
Requires the Secretary of Education, beginning in FY2011, to pay to Fort Lewis College in Colorado an amount equal to the charges for tuition for Indian students who are not residents of Colorado and who are enrolled in the College. 
 
Limits the amount paid to Fort Lewis College per fiscal year to an amount equal to the charges for tuition for Indian students who were Colorado non-residents and who were enrolled for the academic year 2009-2010. 
 
Treats amounts received under this Act as a reimbursement from Colorado to Fort Lewis College for complying with federal law requiring the admission of Indian students at the College free of charge of tuition. 
 
Prohibits anything in this Act from being construed as relieving Colorado from reimbursing Fort Lewis College for each academic year: (1) with respect to Indian students who are not Colorado residents and who are enrolled in Fort Lewis College, any amount of the charges for tuition for such enrolled Indian students which exceeds the amount received under this Act; and (2) with respect to Indian students who are Colorado residents and who are enrolled in Fort Lewis College, an amount equal to the charges for tuition for such enrolled Indian students.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-10-13
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Higher Education, Lifelong Learning, and Competitiveness.
action_date: 2010-07-29
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and Labor.
action_date: 2010-07-29
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-07-29
text: Introduced in House
Focusing Resources, Economic Investment, and Guidance to Help Transportation Act of 2010

Bill: 111-hr-5976
Sponsor: Rep. Sires, Albio [D-NJ-13]
Introduced: 2010-07-29 in the House
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Advanced technology and technological innovations
Air quality
Climate change and greenhouse gases
Congressional oversight
Department of Transportation
Energy efficiency and conservation
Environmental health
Executive agency funding and structure
Government information and archives
Infrastructure development
Motor carriers
Navigation, waterways, harbors
Noise pollution
Performance measurement
Public-private cooperation
Railroads
Transportation programs funding
Transportation safety and security
Water quality

Summary:
action_date: 2010-07-29
text: 
Focusing Resources, Economic Investment, and Guidance to Help Transportation Act of 2010 - Declares U.S. policy with respect to freight transportation.
 
Establishes within the Office of the Secretary of Transportation (DOT) an Office of Freight Planning and Development. 
 
Directs the Secretary to develop a long-term National Freight Freight Transportation Strategic Plan to guide planning and investments in the national transportation system to move freight.
 
Directs the Secretary to: (1) develop new or improve existing tools to support an outcome-oriented, performance-based approach to evaluate proposed freight-related and other transportation projects; (2) facilitate the collection of transportation-related data to support a broad range of evaluation methods and techniques to assist in making transportation investment decisions; and (3) consider improvements to the Commodity Flow Survey that reduce identified freight data gaps and deficiencies and help evaluate forecasts of transportation demand. 
 
Directs the Secretary to: (1) establish a competitive grant program for capital investment projects that improve the efficiency of the national transportation system to move freight; and (2) give priority to projects with the highest system performance improvement relative to their benefit-cost analysis.
 
Limits the federal share of project net capital costs at 80%.
 
Requires a grant recipient to submit to the Secretary: (1) a project management plan and an annual financial plan for a project with a total cost of $500 million or more; and (2) an annual financial plan for a project with a total cost of $100 million or more.
 
Repeals specified prohibitions against the transfer of amounts from the Highway Trust Fund to the Port Infrastructure Development Fund.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-07-29
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2010-07-29
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-07-29
text: Introduced in House
Heat is Power Act

Bill: 111-hr-5977
Sponsor: Rep. Tonko, Paul [D-NY-21]
Introduced: 2010-07-29 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Alternative and renewable resources
Electric power generation and transmission
Income tax credits
Oil and gas

Summary:
action_date: 2010-07-29
text: 
Heat is Power Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow through 2016: (1) an energy tax credit for investment in wasted heat to electricity property; and (2) a tax credit for the production of electricity from renewable resources for wasted heat. Defines &quot;wasted heat to electricity property&quot; as property comprising a system which generates electricity through the recovery of a qualified wasted heat resource (e.g., exhaust heat or flared gas from any industrial process or waste gas or industrial tail gas, but not a heat resource from a process whose primary purpose is the generation of electricity using a fossil fuel).


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-07-29
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2010-07-29
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-07-29
text: Introduced in House
Small Business Tax Relief and Retirement Restoration Act of 2010

Bill: 111-hr-5978
Sponsor: Rep. Tsongas, Niki [D-MA-5]
Introduced: 2010-07-29 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Business investment and capital
Credit and credit markets
Employee benefits and pensions
Sales and excise taxes
Small business
Wages and earnings

Summary:
action_date: 2010-07-29
text: 
Small Business Tax Relief and Retirement Restoration Act of 2010 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to permit until December 31, 2010, penalty-free distributions from an individual retirement account (IRA) or a qualified employer plan for the purpose of making loans to a small business to purchase depreciable property to be used by such business or for employee salaries or wages (other than for bonuses). Requires such loans to be repaid to the IRA within five years. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-07-29
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2010-07-29
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-07-29
text: Introduced in House
United States Nuclear Fuel Management Corporation Establishment Act of 2010

Bill: 111-hr-5979
Sponsor: Rep. Upton, Fred [R-MI-6]
Introduced: 2010-07-29 in the House
Policy area: Energy
Subjects: Executive agency funding and structure
Forests, forestry, trees
Government corporations and government-sponsored enterprises
Government trust funds
Land use and conservation
Nuclear power
Parks, recreation areas, trails
Radioactive wastes and releases
Wilderness and natural areas, wildlife refuges, wild rivers, habitats

Summary:
action_date: 2010-07-29
text: 
United States Nuclear Fuel Management Corporation Establishment Act of 2010 - Amends the Atomic Energy Act of 1954 to establish the United States Nuclear Fuel Management Corporation.
 
Authorizes the Corporation to: (1) implement integrated spent nuclear fuel management consistent with federal policy on a self-sustaining basis through the use of a spent nuclear fuel management enterprise that will eliminate the need for federal funding; and (2) assume responsibility for the activities, obligations, and use of resources of the federal government with respect to spent nuclear fuel management.
 
Establishes in the Treasury the United States Nuclear Fuel Management Corporation Fund.
 
Directs the President to appoint a Transition Manager to transfer spent nuclear fuel management obligations, functions, personnel, and funds from the Secretary of Energy to the Corporation.
 
Designates the Corporation the exclusive marketing agent on behalf of the United States for entering into contracts to provide spent nuclear fuel management and related products and services.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-07-29
text: Referred to House Budget
action_date: 2010-07-29
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on the Budget, 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: 2010-07-29
text: Referred to House Energy and Commerce
action_date: 2010-07-29
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-07-29
text: Introduced in House
Javits-Wagner-O'Day Act of 2010

Bill: 111-hr-5983
Sponsor: Rep. Towns, Edolphus [D-NY-10]
Introduced: 2010-07-30 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Administrative remedies
Advisory bodies
Disability and paralysis
Executive agency funding and structure
Government information and archives
Government studies and investigations
Government trust funds
Public Lands and Natural Resources
Social work, volunteer service, charitable organizations
User charges and fees

Summary:
action_date: 2010-07-30
text: 
Javits-Wagner-O'Day Act of 2010 - Establishes as an independent federal entity the Committee for Purchase From People Who Are Blind or People With Other Significant Disabilities. (Effectively replacing the Committee for Purchase From People Who Are Blind or Severely Disabled.)
 
 
Requires the Committee to establish and publish in the Federal Register a list of products and services suitable for federal government procurement which are provided by qualified nonprofit agencies for people who are blind or for people with other significant disabilities.
 
Requires federal agencies to procure from such qualified nonprofit agencies, at a Committee-established price, products (except prison-made products) or services essentially the same as those on the procurement list.
 
Requires the Committee to designate a tax-exempt central nonprofit agency or agencies for people who are blind and one or more for people with other significant disabilities, which shall evaluate their respective nonprofit agencies and recommend suitable products or services to add to the procurement list.
 
Authorizes the Committee to conduct pilot or demonstration projects on methods to increase the use of: (1) such products or services by the federal government; as well as (2) people who are blind and people with other significant disabilities.
 
Amends the Inspector General Act of 1978 to require the Committee Chairman to: (1) appoint an Inspector General for the Committee; and (2) establish a Panel on the Committee for Purchase From People Who Are Blind or People With Other Significant Disabilities.
 
Establishes in the general fund of the Treasury in a separate account a Committee for Purchase Fund for the collection and deposit of fees from each central nonprofit agency.
 
Repeals the Javits-Wagner-O'Day Act.
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-07-30
text: Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.
action_date: 2010-07-30
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-07-30
text: Introduced in House
Cooking Helps Elevate Futures Act

Bill: 111-hr-5984
Sponsor: Rep. Richardson, Laura [D-CA-37]
Introduced: 2010-07-30 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Correctional facilities and imprisonment
Employment and training programs
Food industry and services
Vocational and technical education

Summary:
action_date: 2010-07-30
text: 
Cooking Helps Elevate Futures Act or the CHEF Act - Directs the Attorney General to establish a pilot program providing federal inmates with training and certification in the culinary arts, and the customary job placement assistance after their release from custody.
 
Directs the Attorney General to select ten different federal correctional facilities in different regions of the continental United States to participate in the program. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-09-20
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.
action_date: 2010-07-30
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2010-07-30
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-07-30
text: Introduced in House
To authorize the conveyance of two small parcels of land within the boundaries of the Coconino National Forest containing private improvements that were developed based upon the reliance of the landowners in an erroneous survey conducted in May 1960.

Bill: 111-hr-5985
Sponsor: Rep. Kirkpatrick, Ann [D-AZ-1]
Introduced: 2010-07-30 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Arizona
Forests, forestry, trees
Land transfers

Summary:
action_date: 2010-07-30
text: 
Authorizes the Secretary of Agriculture (USDA) to convey all interest of the United States in and to two parcels of land within the boundaries of the Coconino National Forest, Arizona, that contain private improvements that landowners developed based upon an erroneous survey conducted in May 1960, to the person or legal entity representing the majority of those landowners. 
 
Requires such person or legal entity to pay the Secretary a specified amount as consideration for the conveyance of such parcels. Sets forth requirements for the use of such consideration. 
 
Revokes public orders withdrawing any of the federal land specified above from appropriation or disposal under the public land laws to the extent necessary to permit conveyance of such land.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-08-05
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests and Public Lands.
action_date: 2010-07-30
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2010-07-30
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-07-30
text: Introduced in House
Seniors Protection Act of 2010

Bill: 111-hr-5987
Sponsor: Rep. Pomeroy, Earl [D-ND-At Large]
Introduced: 2010-07-30 in the House
Policy area: Social Welfare
Subjects: Disability assistance
Inflation and prices
Poverty and welfare assistance
Railroads
Social security and elderly assistance
Transportation employees
Veterans' pensions and compensation

Summary:
action_date: 2010-07-30
text: 
Seniors Protection Act of 2010 - Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to disburse a $250 payment to recipients of Social Security, SSI (Supplemental Security Income under title XVI of the Social Security Act), railroad retirement benefits, and veterans disability compensation or pension benefits if no cost-of-living adjustment is payable in 2011. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-12-08
text: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended Failed by the Yeas and Nays: (2/3 required): 254 - 153 (Roll no. 611).
action_date: 2010-12-08
text: Failed of passage/not agreed to in House: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended Failed by the Yeas and Nays: (2/3 required): 254 - 153 (Roll no. 611).
action_date: 2010-12-08
text: Considered as unfinished business. (consideration: CR H8107-8108)
action_date: 2010-12-08
text: At the conclusion of debate, the Yeas and Nays were demanded and ordered. Pursuant to the provisions of clause 8, rule XX, the Chair announced that further proceedings on the motion would be postponed.
action_date: 2010-12-08
text: DEBATE - The House proceeded with forty minutes of debate on H.R. 5987.
action_date: 2010-12-08
text: Considered under suspension of the rules. (consideration: CR H8094-8100; text of measure as introduced: CR H8094-8096)
action_date: 2010-12-08
text: Mr. Pomeroy moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended.
action_date: 2010-08-02
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Railroads, Pipelines, and Hazardous Materials.
action_date: 2010-07-30
text: Referred to House Veterans' Affairs
action_date: 2010-07-30
text: Referred to House Transportation and Infrastructure
action_date: 2010-07-30
text: Referred to House Ways and Means
action_date: 2010-07-30
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committees on Transportation and Infrastructure, and Veterans' Affairs, 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: 2010-07-30
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E1530)
action_date: 2010-07-30
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-07-30
text: Introduced in House
Cost Recovery and Fair Value for Services Act of 2010

Bill: 111-hr-5988
Sponsor: Rep. Richardson, Laura [D-CA-37]
Introduced: 2010-07-30 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Executive agency funding and structure
User charges and fees

Summary:
action_date: 2010-07-30
text: 
Cost Recovery and Fair Value for Services Act of 2010 - Requires each federal agency's chief financial officer, by October 1 of each odd-numbered year, to report to the Director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) on that officer's biennial review of agency charges for services and things of value that it provides and recommendations on revising those charges to reflect its costs in doing so.
 
Requires such report to include: (1) with regard to such recommendations, an evaluation of whether each user is paying an equitable amount and of the user's ability to pay, the extent to which use of such program provides a public benefit, and the extent to which the program the fee is funding benefits the public and identifiable users; (2) the amount of the fee sufficient to cover the full cost of the service or thing of value; (3) whether the agency has timely and reliable cost data to determine such amount; (4) the extent to which the fee will fully or partially recover costs; (5) whether the fee structure should include exemptions or reduced fees; (6) whether the fee should be set as a percentage or as a fixed dollar amount; (7) how the fee will be structured to cover the intended share of the cost over time; and (8) whether fee collections are projected to change over time in relation to the cost of the service or thing of value.
 
Requires the OMB Director, by December 1 of each such year, to compile and transmit such reports to specified congressional committees and to identify any recommendations with which the Director does not agree.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-07-30
text: Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.
action_date: 2010-07-30
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-07-30
text: Introduced in House
Green Credit Enhancement Program Act of 2010

Bill: 111-hr-5989
Sponsor: Rep. Polis, Jared [D-CO-2]
Introduced: 2010-07-30 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Building construction
Credit and credit markets
Education programs funding
Educational facilities and institutions
Elementary and secondary education
Energy efficiency and conservation
Environmental technology
Government lending and loan guarantees

Summary:
action_date: 2010-07-30
text: 
Green Credit Enhancement Program Act of 2010 - Amends the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to direct the Secretary of Education to award competitive grants to public entities, private nonprofit entities, or consortia of such entities to demonstrate innovative means of enhancing credit for the financing of charter school acquisition, construction, or renovation.
 
Requires each grantee to place its grant funds in a reserve account for use in facilitating one or more charter schools' access to private-sector capital.
 
Conditions the grant on the grantee's using at least 50% of the grant to fund projects consistent with one of several green building certification programs that include: (1) the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) Green Building Rating System; (2) the Energy Star program; (3) the Collaborative for High Performance Schools (CHPS) green building rating program; (4) the Green Building Initiative environmental design and rating system (Green Globes); or (5) any other green building certification program adopted by the state or entity that has authority over the local educational agency. Allows the waiver of such condition in certain circumstances.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-10-13
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education.
action_date: 2010-07-30
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and Labor.
action_date: 2010-07-30
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-07-30
text: Introduced in House