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Protecting Gun Owners in Bankruptcy Act of 2010

Bill: 111-hr-5827
Sponsor: Rep. Boccieri, John A. [D-OH-16]
Introduced: 2010-07-22 in the House
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: Bankruptcy
Firearms and explosives

Summary:
action_date: 2010-07-22
text: 
Protecting Gun Owners in Bankruptcy Act of 2010 - Amends federal bankruptcy law to permit an individual debtor to exempt from the property of the estate in bankruptcy a single rifle, shotgun, or pistol of any value or any combination of rifle, shotgun, or pistol in aggregate value not to exceed $1,500.
 
Declares the date of enactment as the effective date of this Act.

action_date: 2010-07-28
text: 
Protecting Gun Owners in Bankruptcy Act of 2010 - Amends federal bankruptcy law to permit an individual debtor to exempt from the property of the estate in bankruptcy the debtor's aggregate interest not to exceed $3,000 in value, in a single rifle, shotgun, or pistol or any combination of them. 
 
Declares the date of enactment as the effective date of this Act.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-09-20
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Commercial and Administrative Law.
action_date: 2010-08-12
text: Read the second time. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 552.
action_date: 2010-08-05
text: Read the first time. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under Read the First Time.
action_date: 2010-07-29
text: Received in the Senate.
action_date: 2010-07-28
text: Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
action_date: 2010-07-28
text: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended Agreed to by the Yeas and Nays: (2/3 required): 307 - 113 (Roll no. 479). (text: CR 7/27/2010 H6137)
action_date: 2010-07-28
text: Passed/agreed to in House: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended Agreed to by the Yeas and Nays: (2/3 required): 307 - 113 (Roll no. 479).(text: CR 7/27/2010 H6137)
action_date: 2010-07-28
text: Considered as unfinished business. (consideration: CR H6215-6216)
action_date: 2010-07-27
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: 2010-07-27
text: DEBATE - The House proceeded with forty minutes of debate on H.R. 5827.
action_date: 2010-07-27
text: Considered under suspension of the rules. (consideration: CR H6137-6139)
action_date: 2010-07-27
text: Mr. Scott (VA) moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended.
action_date: 2010-07-22
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2010-07-22
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-07-22
text: Introduced in House
World War II Merchant Mariner Service Act

Bill: 111-hr-5829
Sponsor: Rep. Butterfield, G. K. [D-NC-1]
Introduced: 2010-07-22 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Government information and archives
Marine and inland water transportation
National Guard and reserves
Personnel records
Transportation employees
Veterans' education, employment, rehabilitation
Veterans' loans, housing, homeless programs
Veterans' medical care
Veterans' pensions and compensation

Summary:
action_date: 2010-07-22
text: 
World War II Merchant Mariner Service Act - Directs the Secretary of Defense (DOD) to consider certain methods for verifying that an individual performed honorable service as a member of the merchant marine during the period beginning on December 7, 1941, and ending on December 31, 1946, for purposes of eligibility for veterans' benefits under the GI Bill Improvement Act of 1977. Requires such methods to include Social Security Administration (SSA) records and validated testimony in the case of the absence of Coast Guard shipping or discharge forms, ship logbooks, or other official employment records.
 
Requires the Secretary to recognize masters of seagoing vessels or other command officers who were authorized to document an individual for purposes of hiring for the merchant marine or discharge therefrom, when determining whether to recognize service allegedly performed during such period.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-09-16
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Military Personnel.
action_date: 2010-07-22
text: Referred to House Armed Services
action_date: 2010-07-22
text: Referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs, and in addition to the Committee on Armed 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: 2010-07-22
text: Referred to House Veterans' Affairs
action_date: 2010-07-22
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-07-22
text: Introduced in House
One Church, One Child Act of 2010

Bill: 111-hr-5830
Sponsor: Rep. Cooper, Jim [D-TN-5]
Introduced: 2010-07-22 in the House
Policy area: Families
Subjects: Adoption and foster care
Government information and archives
Public-private cooperation
Religion
Social work, volunteer service, charitable organizations

Summary:
action_date: 2010-07-22
text: 
One Church, One Child Act of 2010 - Amends part E (Foster Care and Adoption Assistance) of the Social Security Act to direct the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) to make competitive grants to support establishment and expansion of programs that use networks of public, private, and faith-based organizations to: (1) recruit and train foster and adoptive parents; and (2) provide support services to foster and adoptive children and their families. Makes eligible for such grants state or local governments, local public agencies, community-based or nonprofit organizations, or private entities, including charitable or faith-based organizations.
 
Directs the Secretary to provide for a National Clearinghouse for Adoption Promotion and Foster Parent Recruitment Programs through a contract with a nationally recognized, nonprofit adoption promotion and foster parent recruitment organization.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-07-22
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2010-07-22
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-07-22
text: Introduced in House
To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 1081 Elbel Road in Schertz, Texas, as the "Schertz Veterans Post Office".

Bill: 111-hr-5831
Sponsor: Rep. Cuellar, Henry [D-TX-28]
Introduced: 2010-07-22 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Congressional tributes
Government buildings, facilities, and property
Postal service
Texas
Veterans' organizations and recognition

Summary:
action_date: 2010-07-22
text: Designates the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 1081 Elbel Road in Schertz, Texas, as the "Schertz Veterans Post Office."

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-07-22
text: Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.
action_date: 2010-07-22
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-07-22
text: Introduced in House
ITA Act of 2010

Bill: 111-hr-5833
Sponsor: Rep. Deutch, Theodore E. [D-FL-19]
Introduced: 2010-07-22 in the House
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: Arms control and nonproliferation
Business records
Congressional oversight
Financial services and investments
Government information and archives
Iran
Middle East
Nuclear weapons
Sanctions
Terrorism
U.S. and foreign investments

Summary:
action_date: 2010-07-22
text: 
Iran Transparency and Accountability Act of 2010 or ITA Act of 2010 - Amends the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 to require an issuer to state, in its mandatory periodic report, whether it (or any subsidiary or affiliate) has: (1) engaged in an activity of a type and involving an amount that could subject it to sanctions under the Iran Sanctions Act of 1996; (2) knowingly engaged in an activity or violated regulations described under the Comprehensive Iran Sanctions, Accountability, and Divestment Act of 2010; or (3) had any ties to a company designated by either the Secretary of the Treasury or the Secretary of State as contributing or supporting the proliferation activities of Iran.
 
Prescribes specified disclosures. Requires the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to make such disclosures public.
 
Directs the President, upon receipt of such report, to investigate and determine if the issuer should be subject to sanctions under the Iran Sanctions Act of 1996.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-07-22
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2010-07-22
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-07-22
text: Introduced in House
Preserving Our Promise to Seniors Act

Bill: 111-hr-5834
Sponsor: Rep. Deutch, Theodore E. [D-FL-19]
Introduced: 2010-07-22 in the House
Policy area: Social Welfare
Subjects: Employee benefits and pensions
Inflation and prices
Legislative rules and procedure
Poverty and welfare assistance
Railroads
Social security and elderly assistance
Transportation employees
Veterans' pensions and compensation

Summary:
action_date: 2010-07-22
text: 
Preserving Our Promise to Seniors Act - Directs the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) of the Department of Labor to prepare and publish for each calendar month a Consumer Price Index for Elderly Consumers (CPIEC) that indicates changes over time in consumption expenditures typical for individuals in the United States 62 years of age or older.
 
Amends title II (Old Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance) (OASDI) of the Social Security Act to tie the CPIEC to computation of cost-of-lving increases in OASDI benefits. 
 
Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to disburse a cash payment of $250 (adjusted for inflation) for each non-COLA year to certain recipients of OASDI benefits, railroad retirement benefits, veterans disability compensation or pension benefits, or Supplemental Security Income (SSI) benefits under SSA title XVI.
 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to prescribe special rules for the determination of wages and self-employment income above the contribution and benefit base after 2010.
 
Develops points of order in the House of Representatives and the Senate with respect to consideration of any legislation whose effect would be a program: (1) reducing OASDI benefits in connection with contributions to individual beneficiary accounts in the private sector; or (2) providing for investment of amounts in the Federal Old-Age and Survivors Insurance Trust Fund and the Federal Disability Insurance Trust Fund in any investment vehicle other than interest-bearing U.S. obligations or U.S.-guaranteed obligations.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-10-13
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2010-07-23
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Railroads, Pipelines, and Hazardous Materials.
action_date: 2010-07-22
text: Referred to House Veterans' Affairs
action_date: 2010-07-22
text: Referred to House Transportation and Infrastructure
action_date: 2010-07-22
text: Referred to House Rules
action_date: 2010-07-22
text: Referred to House Education and Labor
action_date: 2010-07-22
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committees on Education and Labor, Rules, 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: 2010-07-22
text: Referred to House Ways and Means
action_date: 2010-07-22
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-07-22
text: Introduced in House
Improving Lead-Based Paint Investigations Act of 2010

Bill: 111-hr-5835
Sponsor: Rep. Ellison, Keith [D-MN-5]
Introduced: 2010-07-22 in the House
Policy area: Housing and Community Development
Subjects: Government studies and investigations
Hazardous wastes and toxic substances
Judicial procedure and administration
Residential rehabilitation and home repair

Summary:
action_date: 2010-07-22
text: 
Improving Lead-Based Paint Investigations Act of 2010 - Amends the Housing and Community Development Act of 1992, with respect to information disclosure concerning lead in the purchase and sale or lease of target housing, to grant the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) subpoena authority for investigations to enforce the lead disclosure rule under the Residential Lead-Based Paint Hazard Reduction Act of 1992.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-07-22
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2010-07-22
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-07-22
text: Introduced in House
Border Security and Employee Verification Improvement Act of 2010

Bill: 111-hr-5836
Sponsor: Rep. Graves, Sam [R-MO-6]
Introduced: 2010-07-22 in the House
Policy area: Immigration
Subjects: Arizona
Border security and unlawful immigration
California
Department of Homeland Security
Foreign labor
Government buildings, facilities, and property
Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management
Government information and archives
Latin America
Law enforcement officers
Mexico
New Mexico
Texas

Summary:
action_date: 2010-07-22
text: 
Border Security and Employee Verification Improvement Act of 2010 - Provides for: (1) an increase of full-time active-duty Border Patrol personnel along the southern border for each of FY2011-FY2013; and (2) Border Patrol infrastructure improvements along such border.
 
Amends the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996 to require the Secretary of Homeland Security (DHS) to: (1) construct two layers of reinforced fencing along at least 150 miles (in addition to any existing fencing) of the southern border; and (2) complete such work within three years.
 
Directs the Secretary to conduct a study of the E-Verify Program.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-10-13
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Workforce Protections.
action_date: 2010-09-20
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration, Citizenship, Refugees, Border Security, and International Law.
action_date: 2010-08-03
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Border, Maritime, and Global Counterterrorism.
action_date: 2010-07-22
text: Referred to House Education and Labor
action_date: 2010-07-22
text: Referred to House Judiciary
action_date: 2010-07-22
text: Referred to the Committee on Homeland Security, and in addition to the Committees on the Judiciary, 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: 2010-07-22
text: Referred to House Homeland Security
action_date: 2010-07-22
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-07-22
text: Introduced in House
To require persons to certify that they have not violated foreign corrupt practices statutes before being awarded Government contracts, and for other purposes.

Bill: 111-hr-5837
Sponsor: Rep. Green, Gene [D-TX-29]
Introduced: 2010-07-22 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Business ethics
Fraud offenses and financial crimes
Government ethics and transparency, public corruption
Public contracts and procurement

Summary:
action_date: 2010-07-22
text: 
Prohibits an executive agency from: (1) entering into a contract for the procurement of goods or services with any person or entity unless that person or entity has certified that the person or entity, and each of its officers, employees, and agents, have not violated the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 or the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act of 1977, or any comparable law of other countries; or (2) allowing any contractor awarded a contract by the agency to enter into a subcontract (at any tier) with any person or entity that has not made such certification.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-07-22
text: Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.
action_date: 2010-07-22
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-07-22
text: Introduced in House
Homeless Veterans Transitional Housing Act of 2010

Bill: 111-hr-5838
Sponsor: Rep. Halvorson, Deborah L. [D-IL-11]
Introduced: 2010-07-22 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Federal preemption
Government lending and loan guarantees
Veterans' loans, housing, homeless programs

Summary:
action_date: 2010-07-22
text: 
Homeless Veterans Transitional Housing Act of 2010 - Revises the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) multifamily transitional housing loan program (program) to require the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to issue at least five loans for the construction, rehabilitation, or acquisition of land for multifamily transitional housing projects. Authorizes the Secretary to delegate loan approval authority to a state or local government entity.
 
Terminates, as of the date of enactment of this Act, the Secretary's authority under the program to guarantee loans for such purposes.
 
Establishes the Department of Veterans Affairs Multifamily Transitional Housing Loan Program Revolving Fund to fund such loans.
 
Prohibits any federal or state law from prohibiting a program project offering preferential treatment to veterans.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-07-23
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Economic Opportunity.
action_date: 2010-07-22
text: Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2010-07-22
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-07-22
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to clarify the types of energy conservation subsidies provided by public utilities eligible for income exclusion.

Bill: 111-hr-5839
Sponsor: Rep. Heinrich, Martin [D-NM-1]
Introduced: 2010-07-22 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Alternative and renewable resources
Energy efficiency and conservation
Income tax exclusion
Public utilities and utility rates

Summary:
action_date: 2010-07-22
text: 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code, with respect to the income tax exclusion for energy conservation subsidies, to define &quot;subsidy&quot; to include amounts received by a customer from a public utility to: (1) pay for electricity generated from an energy conservation measure under a net metering or net billing program; or (2) pay for renewable energy credits attributable to an energy conservation measure. Limits the excludable amount of any subsidy for renewable energy credits to $2,000 times the whole number of years worth of renewable energy credits that are sold by the customer. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-07-22
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2010-07-22
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-07-22
text: Introduced in House
Sanctuary City Prevention Act of 2010

Bill: 111-hr-5840
Sponsor: Rep. Hunter, Duncan D. [R-CA-52]
Introduced: 2010-07-22 in the House
Policy area: Immigration
Subjects: Arizona
Border security and unlawful immigration
Civil actions and liability
Criminal investigation, prosecution, interrogation
Intergovernmental relations
State and local government operations

Summary:
action_date: 2010-07-22
text: 
Sanctuary City Prevention Act of 2010 - Prohibits the Attorney General from expending funds in any lawsuit that seeks to invalidate those provisions of the Arizona Revised Statutes that were amended by Arizona Senate Bill 1070, as amended by Arizona House Bill 2162, until the Attorney General reports to Congress with a plan to enforce the immigration laws in any state or subdivision that has in effect any law, policy, or procedure contravening specified provisions of the Illegal Immigrant Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996 that prohibit federal, state, or local government entities or officials, or persons or agencies from restricting certain immigration status-related communications with immigration or law enforcement personnel.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-09-20
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration, Citizenship, Refugees, Border Security, and International Law.
action_date: 2010-07-22
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2010-07-22
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-07-22
text: Introduced in House
To authorize the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to establish public-private partnerships for the treatment and research of post-traumatic stress disorder.

Bill: 111-hr-5841
Sponsor: Rep. Israel, Steve [D-NY-2]
Introduced: 2010-07-22 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Health programs administration and funding
Medical research
Mental health
Public-private cooperation
Research administration and funding
Veterans' medical care

Summary:
action_date: 2010-07-22
text: 
Authorizes the Secretary of Veterans Affairs (VA) to enter into agreements with a university, hospital, or other similar entity for the treatment of, and research on, post-traumatic stress disorder.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-07-23
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2010-07-22
text: Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2010-07-22
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-07-22
text: Introduced in House
End the Lame Duck Act

Bill: 111-hr-5842
Sponsor: Rep. Jenkins, Lynn [R-KS-2]
Introduced: 2010-07-22 in the House
Policy area: Congress
Subjects: Appropriations
Congressional elections
Congressional operations and organization
Elections, voting, political campaign regulation

Summary:
action_date: 2010-07-22
text: 
End the Lame Duck Act - Considers the House of Representatives to be adjourned sine die if it stands adjourned on the date of the regularly scheduled general election for federal office during a Congress (beginning with the 110th Congress) pursuant to a concurrent resolution providing for the adjournment of the House.
 
Authorizes the Speaker of the House and the Majority Leader of the Senate, or their respective designees, acting jointly after consultation with the Minority Leaders of both chambers, to notify the Members of the House and Senate to reassemble if they determine that the existence of a national emergency warrants it.
 
Provides for automatic continuing appropriations if a regular appropriation bill for a fiscal year does not become law before the date of the regularly scheduled general election for federal office held during such fiscal year. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-07-22
text: Referred to House Rules
action_date: 2010-07-22
text: Referred to the Committee on Appropriations, and in addition to the Committee on Rules, 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: 2010-07-22
text: Referred to House Appropriations
action_date: 2010-07-22
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-07-22
text: Introduced in House
To amend title VIII of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to require the Secretary of Education to complete payments under such title to local educational agencies eligible for such payments within 3 fiscal years.

Bill: 111-hr-5843
Sponsor: Rep. Larsen, Rick [D-WA-2]
Introduced: 2010-07-22 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Education programs funding
Elementary and secondary education

Summary:
action_date: 2010-07-22
text: 
Amends title VIII (Impact Aid) of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to require the Secretary of Education to complete Impact Aid payments to eligible local educational agencies (LEAs) within three fiscal years of their appropriation. (The Impact Aid program compensates LEAs for the financial burden of federal activities affecting their school districts.)
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-10-13
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education.
action_date: 2010-07-22
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and Labor.
action_date: 2010-07-22
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-07-22
text: Introduced in House