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Space to Schools Act of 2010

Bill: 111-hr-5093
Sponsor: Rep. Kosmas, Suzanne M. [D-FL-24]
Introduced: 2010-04-21 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Advisory bodies
Education of the disadvantaged
Elementary and secondary education
Licensing and registrations
Science and engineering education
Student aid and college costs
Teaching, teachers, curricula
Vocational and technical education

Summary:
action_date: 2010-04-21
text: 
Space to Schools Act of 2010 - Authorizes the Secretary of Education to implement a program to encourage individuals who are former employees of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), its suppliers, or related contractors who have relevant work experience in the aerospace industry to pursue careers as elementary, secondary, or vocational school teachers.
 
Sets forth educational background requirements for program participants.
 
Requires program participants to enter into an agreement to: (1) obtain certification or licensing as an elementary, secondary, vocational, or technical school teacher, and to become a highly qualified teacher; and (2) accept an offer of full-time employment as an elementary, secondary, vocational, or technical school teacher for at least three school years and commit to teaching science, technology, engineering, or mathematics after obtaining such certification or licensing.
 
Directs the Secretary to provide program participants with: (1) a stipend for use in obtaining certification or licensing; or (2) a larger bonus if they agree to perform their service in high-need schools.
 
Requires the Secretary to establish an Advisory Board to oversee the program.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-04-21
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and Labor.
action_date: 2010-04-21
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-04-21
text: Introduced in House
To authorize the National Science Foundation to carry out a pilot program to award innovation inducement cash prizes in areas of research funded by the National Science Foundation.

Bill: 111-hr-5094
Sponsor: Rep. Lipinski, Daniel [D-IL-3]
Introduced: 2010-04-21 in the House
Policy area: Science, Technology, Communications
Subjects: Advanced technology and technological innovations
Competitiveness, trade promotion, trade deficits
Government information and archives
Public-private cooperation
Research administration and funding
Research and development
Technology transfer and commercialization

Summary:
action_date: 2010-04-21
text: 
Requires the Director of the National Science Foundation (NSF) to carry out a pilot program for awarding innovation inducement cash prizes in any area of research supported by NSF. 
 
Instructs the Director, in identifying topics for prize competitions to be held under such program, to: (1) consult widely within and outside of the federal government; (2) give priority to high-risk, high-reward research challenges and to problems whose solution could improve the economic competitiveness of the United States; and (3) give consideration to the extent to which the topics have the potential to raise public awareness about federally sponsored research. 
 
Sets forth provisions with regard to the types of contests, advertising and announcements, funding, and eligibility for prizes competitions under this Act. 
 
Authorizes the Director to: (1) announce up to five prize competitions through FY2013; (2) set the amount of each prize award based on the prize topic; and (3) convene an expert panel to select the winners of prize competitions. 
 
Allows the Director to enter into an agreement with a private, nonprofit entity to administer a prize competition.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-04-21
text: Referred to the House Committee on Science and Technology.
action_date: 2010-04-21
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-04-21
text: Introduced in House
Protect Medical Innovation Act

Bill: 111-hr-5095
Sponsor: Rep. Paulsen, Erik [R-MN-3]
Introduced: 2010-04-21 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Health technology, devices, supplies
Sales and excise taxes

Summary:
action_date: 2010-04-21
text: 
Protect Medical Innovation Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to repeal the excise tax on medical device manufacturers and importers (established by the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act [PPACA]). 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-04-21
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2010-04-21
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-04-21
text: Introduced in House
Diverse Teachers Recruitment Act of 2010

Bill: 111-hr-5096
Sponsor: Rep. Davis, Susan A. [D-CA-53]
Introduced: 2010-04-21 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Education programs funding
Elementary and secondary education
Government information and archives
Minority education
Teaching, teachers, curricula

Summary:
action_date: 2010-04-21
text: 
Diverse Teachers Recruitment Act of 2010 - Amends the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to direct the Secretary of Education to award competitive matching grants to local educational agencies (LEAs) or nonprofits, educational service agencies, institutions of higher education, or states that enter into partnerships with such LEAs, for recruiting, training, and retaining individuals from underrepresented groups as public elementary and secondary school teachers.
 
Gives priority to LEAs that serve the most high-need schools and those that serve schools with the highest percentages of minorities in their student bodies. 
 
Requires the Secretary to evaluate the success of the grantees and compile a database of best practices for recruiting, training, and retaining individuals from underrepresented groups as public elementary and secondary school teachers.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-05-27
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education.
action_date: 2010-04-21
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and Labor.
action_date: 2010-04-21
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E612)
action_date: 2010-04-21
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-04-21
text: Introduced in House
Erica's Law

Bill: 111-hr-5097
Sponsor: Rep. Markey, Betsy [D-CO-4]
Introduced: 2010-04-21 in the House
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Child safety and welfare
Educational facilities and institutions
Intergovernmental relations
Motor vehicles
Roads and highways
State and local government operations
Telephone and wireless communication
Transportation programs funding
Transportation safety and security

Summary:
action_date: 2010-04-21
text: 
Erica's Law - Requires the Secretary of Transportation to withhold 15% of a state's apportionment of certain federal-aid highway program funds if the state has not enacted or is not enforcing a law that: (1) prohibits, with specified exceptions, an individual from using a wireless communication device to call or compose, read, or send an electronic message while operating a motor vehicle in a school zone; and (2) requires, upon conviction of a violation of the prohibition, the imposition of certain minimum penalties.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-04-22
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Highways and Transit.
action_date: 2010-04-21
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2010-04-21
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-04-21
text: Introduced in House
Flexible Licensing Compliance for Nonprofit Housing Employees Act of 2010

Bill: 111-hr-5098
Sponsor: Rep. Ellison, Keith [D-MN-5]
Introduced: 2010-04-21 in the House
Policy area: Housing and Community Development
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Department of Housing and Urban Development
Housing finance and home ownership
Licensing and registrations

Summary:
action_date: 2010-04-21
text: 
 Flexible Licensing Compliance for Nonprofit Housing Employees Act of 2010 - Delays until January 1, 2011,
 the effective date of any regulations of the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) regarding licensing or registration requirements under the S.A.F.E Mortgage Licensing Act of 2008 for engaging in the business of a loan originator. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-04-21
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2010-04-21
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-04-21
text: Introduced in House
Meers Point Boundary Adjustment Act

Bill: 111-hr-5100
Sponsor: Rep. Grijalva, Raúl M. [D-AZ-7]
Introduced: 2010-04-21 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Arizona
Land transfers
Travel and tourism
User charges and fees
Wilderness and natural areas, wildlife refuges, wild rivers, habitats

Summary:
action_date: 2010-04-21
text: 
Meers Point Boundary Adjustment Act - Directs the Secretary of the Interior, after completing a survey of Meers Point which covers those portions of lots 34, 35, 37, and 38 that are currently within the Imperial National Wildlife Refuge in Yuma County, Arizona, to convey to the current landowner or landowners of certain properties within such lots (grantees) by quitclaim deed that federal land that is within each grantee's lot. 
 
Requires each grantee to pay a percentage of the total administrative costs incurred by the United States. Waives such payment respecting any conveyance of federal land to the state of Arizona. 
 
Requires any proceeds paid to the Secretary to remain available for visitor services and resource protection at the Imperial National Wildlife Refuge.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-04-26
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Insular Affairs, Oceans and Wildlife.
action_date: 2010-04-21
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2010-04-21
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-04-21
text: Introduced in House
United States Exploration on Idle Tracts Act

Bill: 111-hr-5102
Sponsor: Rep. Markey, Edward J. [D-MA-7]
Introduced: 2010-04-21 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Department of the Interior
Energy revenues and royalties
Oil and gas
User charges and fees

Summary:
action_date: 2010-04-21
text: 
United States Exploration on Idle Tracts Act or USE IT Act - Directs the Secretary of the Interior to issue regulations to establish a specified graduated annual production incentive fee with respect to federal onshore and offshore lands subject to a lease for production of oil or natural gas under which production is not occurring. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-04-27
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources.
action_date: 2010-04-21
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2010-04-21
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E610)
action_date: 2010-04-21
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-04-21
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow for the deduction for domestic oil related production activities of companies which are not major integrated oil companies.

Bill: 111-hr-5104
Sponsor: Rep. Pomeroy, Earl [D-ND-At Large]
Introduced: 2010-04-21 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Income tax deductions
Oil and gas

Summary:
action_date: 2010-04-21
text: 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code with respect to the tax deduction for domestic oil related production activities to limit the 3% reduction in such deduction to major integrated oil companies (companies which have an average daily worldwide annual production of crude oil of at least 500,000 barrels and annual gross receipts in excess of $1 billion).


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-04-21
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2010-04-21
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-04-21
text: Introduced in House
To direct the Secretary of Defense to establish a commission on urotrauma.

Bill: 111-hr-5106
Sponsor: Rep. Space, Zachary T. [D-OH-18]
Introduced: 2010-04-21 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Advisory bodies
Congressional oversight
Digestive and metabolic diseases
Emergency medical services and trauma care
Government studies and investigations
Health promotion and preventive care
Long-term, rehabilitative, and terminal care
Medical research
Sex and reproductive health
Veterans' medical care

Summary:
action_date: 2010-04-21
text: 
Directs the Secretary of Defense (DOD) to establish the Commission on Urotrauma to: (1) conduct a study on urotrauma (injury to the urinary tract from a penetrating, blunt, blast, thermal, chemical, or biological cause) among members of the Armed Forces and veterans; and (2) provide an interim and final report to the congressional defense and veterans committees on such study.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-05-06
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Military Personnel.
action_date: 2010-04-23
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2010-04-21
text: Referred to House Veterans' Affairs
action_date: 2010-04-21
text: Referred to the Committee on Armed Services, and in addition to the Committee on 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: 2010-04-21
text: Referred to House Armed Services
action_date: 2010-04-21
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-04-21
text: Introduced in House
Cyber Privacy Act

Bill: 111-hr-5108
Sponsor: Rep. McCotter, Thaddeus G. [R-MI-11]
Introduced: 2010-04-22 in the House
Policy area: Science, Technology, Communications
Subjects: Consumer affairs
Internet and video services
Internet, web applications, social media
Right of privacy

Summary:
action_date: 2010-04-22
text: 
Cyber Privacy Act - Requires any Internet website that makes available to the public personal information of individuals to: (1) provide, in a clear and conspicuous location on the Internet website, a means for individuals whose personal information it contains to request the removal of such information; and (2) promptly remove the personal information of any individual who requests its removal.
 
Treats a violation of this Act as an unfair and deceptive act or practice in violation of the Federal Trade Commission Act regarding unfair or deceptive acts or practices.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-04-22
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2010-04-22
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-04-22
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act to modify special rules relating to coverage of abortion services under such Act.

Bill: 111-hr-5111
Sponsor: Rep. Pitts, Joseph R. [R-PA-16]
Introduced: 2010-04-22 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Abortion
Health care costs and insurance
Health care coverage and access
Health programs administration and funding

Summary:
action_date: 2010-04-22
text: 
Amends the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act to prohibit federal funds from being to used to cover any part of the costs of any health plan that includes coverage of abortion services. (Currently, federal funds cannot be used for abortion services and plans receiving federal funds must keep federal funds segregated from any funds for abortion services.) 
 
Requires any qualified health benefit plan offered through an Exchange that includes coverage for abortions to also offer a qualified health benefit plan through the Exchange that is identical in every respect except that it does not cover abortions.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-04-22
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2010-04-22
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-04-22
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Child Nutrition Act of 1966 to establish the Healthy Habits School Challenge Program to reduce childhood obesity by recognizing schools that are creating healthier school environments for children by promoting good nutrition and physical activity, and for other purposes.

Bill: 111-hr-5113
Sponsor: Rep. Dahlkemper, Kathleen A. [D-PA-3]
Introduced: 2010-04-22 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Child health
Department of Agriculture
Elementary and secondary education
Food assistance and relief
Health promotion and preventive care
Nutrition and diet
Physical fitness and lifestyle
Poverty and welfare assistance

Summary:
action_date: 2010-04-22
text: 
Amends the Child Nutrition Act of 1966 to require local educational agencies (LEA) participating in the school lunch or breakfast programs to establish or expand a local school wellness policy for their schools that: (1) includes goals for nutrition education, physical activity, and other school-based activities that promote student wellness; (2) includes nutrition guidelines for all foods in school during the day that promote student health and reduce childhood obesity; (3) ensures that the dietary guidelines for reimbursable school meals are no less restrictive than those issued by the Secretary of Agriculture under the school lunch program; (4) provides for the measurement and oversight of the policy's implementation; and (5) involves parents, students, the school food authority, the school board, school administrators, and the public in its development.
 
Directs the Secretary to provide LEAs, school food authorities, and states, on request, information and technical assistance in: (1) establishing healthy school nutrition environments; (2) reducing childhood obesity; and (3) preventing diet-related chronic diseases.
 
Directs the Secretary to establish the Healthy Habits School Challenge program to reduce childhood obesity by recognizing schools that are creating healthier school environments for children by promoting good nutrition and physical activity. Requires such schools to adopt a model school wellness policy developed by the Secretary.
 
Requires the Secretary to contract with the Institute of Medicine to provide the Secretary with recommendations for updating the nutrition rules for the school lunch and breakfast programs.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-05-27
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Healthy Families and Communities.
action_date: 2010-04-22
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and Labor.
action_date: 2010-04-22
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-04-22
text: Introduced in House
FSS Retirement Fairness Act of 2010

Bill: 111-hr-5115
Sponsor: Rep. Schauer, Mark H. [D-MI-7]
Introduced: 2010-04-22 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Aviation and airports
Department of Transportation
Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management

Summary:
action_date: 2010-04-22
text: 
FSS Retirement Fairness Act of 2010 - Allows certain flight service station (FSS) controllers, employed by Department of Transportation (DOT), to elect to treat qualified service in the same manner as if it had been performed as an FSS controller for purposes of determining eligibility for immediate retirement and computation of annuity under either the Civil Service Retirement System (CSRS) or the Federal Employees' Retirement System (FERS).
 
Limits the application of this Act, with specified exclusions, to FSS controllers who were separated from government service (other than for cause), or were transferred from an FSS controller position to a different government position (other than as an air traffic controller), during the period from February 1-October 3, 2005, and had completed at least five years of qualified service (as an employee of a contractor or an otherwise creditable position other than as an air traffic controller) as of the date of such separation or reassignment.
 
Requires certain individuals who make such election to make contributions to the Civil Service Retirement and Disability Fund with respect to qualified service performed after the effective date of such election.
 
Prescribes special rules relating to: (1) immediate retirement, including continued enrollment in a Federal Employee Health Benefits Plan; and (2) recomputation of the annuity of any individual (or survivor) otherwise excluded from application of this Act because of entitlement to a CSRS or a FERS annuity based on the individual's government service.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-05-25
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Federal Workforce, Post Office, and the District of Columbia.
action_date: 2010-04-22
text: Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.
action_date: 2010-04-22
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-04-22
text: Introduced in House
Education for All Act of 2010

Bill: 111-hr-5117
Sponsor: Rep. Lowey, Nita M. [D-NY-18]
Introduced: 2010-04-22 in the House
Policy area: International Affairs
Subjects: Department of State
Elementary and secondary education
Executive agency funding and structure
Foreign aid and international relief
International organizations and cooperation

Summary:
action_date: 2010-04-22
text: 
Education for All Act of 2010 - Amends the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 to state that it is U.S. policy to work with foreign countries and international and civil society organizations to achieve universal basic education by: (1) assisting developing countries and nongovernmental and multilateral organizations to provide all children with a quality basic education; and (2) promoting education as the foundation for communities' development. 
 
Directs the President to develop a comprehensive U.S. strategy to promote universal basic education by 2015. 
 
Authorizes the President to provide funds and other assistance to qualifying foreign countries to create the policies, processes, and infrastructure to develop national basic education plans. 
 
Amends the State Department Basic Authorities Act of 1956 to establish within the Department of State a Coordinator of United States Government Activities to Provide Basic Education Assistance who shall shall have primary responsibility for the oversight and coordination of all U.S. government resources and international activities to promote universal basic education.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-04-22
text: Referred to the House Committee on Foreign Affairs.
action_date: 2010-04-22
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-04-22
text: Introduced in House