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Eagle and Summit County Wilderness Preservation Act

Bill: 111-hr-6280
Sponsor: Rep. Polis, Jared [D-CO-2]
Introduced: 2010-09-29 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Colorado
Forests, forestry, trees
Land use and conservation
Motor vehicles
Parks, recreation areas, trails
Wilderness and natural areas, wildlife refuges, wild rivers, habitats

Summary:
action_date: 2010-09-29
text: 
Eagle and Summit County Wilderness Preservation Act - Amends the Colorado Wilderness Act of 1993 to designate certain lands in Colorado in the White River National Forest and certain public lands administered by Colorado River Valley Field Office of the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) as wilderness and as components of the National Wilderness Preservation System (NWPS). 
 
Releases the portions of the Castle Peak and Bull Gulch wilderness study areas that are not designated as wilderness by this Act from further study for designation as wilderness.
 
Designates certain BLM administered lands and certain lands in the White River National Forest as the Red Table Mountain, Pisgah Mountain, and Castle Peak Areas. 
 
 Provides for the eventual designation of the Castle Peak and Pisgah Mountain Areas as the Castle Peak Wilderness and Pisgah Mountain Wilderness, respectively, upon publication of a notice in the Federal Register that such areas are no longer needed by the Colorado Army National Guard for helicopter training, testing, or evaluation. 
 
Designates certain federal lands in the White River National Forest as: (1) the Tenmile and Hoosier Ridge Special Management Areas; and (2) the Porcupine Gulch Protection Area.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-10-13
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests and Public Lands.
action_date: 2010-09-29
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2010-09-29
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-09-29
text: Introduced in House
Western Water Supply Enhancement Act

Bill: 111-hr-6281
Sponsor: Rep. Hastings, Doc [R-WA-4]
Introduced: 2010-09-29 in the House
Policy area: Water Resources Development
Subjects: Intergovernmental relations
Water resources funding
Water use and supply
Watersheds

Summary:
action_date: 2010-09-29
text: 
Western Water Supply Enhancement Act - Amends the Omnibus Public Land Management Act of 2009 to direct the Secretary of the Interior, in calculating the non-federal share of the cost of an infrastructure improvement or activity proposed by an eligible applicant for a water management improvement grant or agreement, to consider: (1) non-federal funds secured and committed to the planning, design, or construction of improvements authorized for research activity funding, even if such funds are secured and committed in advance of an application for such a grant or agreement; and (2) amounts that the applicant receives from federal power marketing agencies.
 
Directs the Secretary to provide such a grant or agreement to assist any eligible applicant in planning, designing, or constructing any water management improvements as part of a multiyear regional, integrated, and coordinated water conservation and management plan. Requires an applicant, in order to be eligible for such a grant or agreement, to: (1) be located in Arizona, California, Colorado, Idaho, Kansas, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Mexico, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Oregon, South Dakota, Texas, Utah, Washington, Wyoming, American Samoa, Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands, or the Virgin Islands; and (2) submit to the Secretary an application that includes a long-term (minimum of five years) water conservation and management plan based on a regional, coordinated, and integrated water conservation and management model for either an entire watershed or river basin or a regional effort that includes multiple partnering irrigation or municipal entities and a proposed budget and schedule for improvements or activities to be planned, designed, constructed, or implemented by the applicant consistent with the plan submitted.
 
Limits the amount provided to a grant or agreement applicant to $15 million for each five-year period. Directs the Secretary to consider providing at least one grant to two of the five Reclamation Regions having submitted a valid grant application.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-10-13
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Water and Power.
action_date: 2010-09-29
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2010-09-29
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E1858)
action_date: 2010-09-29
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-09-29
text: Introduced in House
Repeal of the Authorization for Use of Military Force

Bill: 111-hr-6282
Sponsor: Rep. Lee, Barbara [D-CA-9]
Introduced: 2010-09-29 in the House
Policy area: International Affairs
Subjects: Congressional oversight
Presidents and presidential powers, Vice Presidents
Terrorism
War and emergency powers

Summary:
action_date: 2010-09-29
text: 
Repeal of the Authorization for Use of Military Force - States that the Authorization for Use of Military Force (P.L. 107-40) has been used to justify an open-ended authorization for the use of military force and such an interpretation is inconsistent with the authority of Congress to declare war and make all laws for executing powers vested by the Constitution in the U.S. government.
 
Repeals the Authorization for Use of Military Force (P.L. 107-40), effective 180 days after the date of enactment of this Act.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-09-29
text: Referred to the House Committee on Foreign Affairs.
action_date: 2010-09-29
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-09-29
text: Introduced in House
Repealing Ineffective and Incomplete Abstinence-Only Program Funding Act of 2010

Bill: 111-hr-6283
Sponsor: Rep. Lee, Barbara [D-CA-9]
Introduced: 2010-09-29 in the House
Policy area: Families
Subjects: Appropriations
Child health
Family planning and birth control
HIV/AIDS
Health programs administration and funding
Health promotion and preventive care
Sexually transmitted diseases
Teenage pregnancy

Summary:
action_date: 2010-09-29
text: 
Repealing Ineffective and Incomplete Abstinence-Only Program Funding Act of 2010 - Amends title V (Maternal and Child Health Services) of the Social Security Act to: (1) eliminate the abstinence-only education program; (2) rescind unobligated FY2010 program appropriations; and (3) reprogram such rescinded appropriations for the personal responsibility education program (PREP) for FY2011-FY2014.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-09-29
text: Referred to House Appropriations
action_date: 2010-09-29
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Appropriations, 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: 2010-09-29
text: Referred to House Energy and Commerce
action_date: 2010-09-29
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-09-29
text: Introduced in House
To prohibit the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency from regulating, based on material composition, any type of firearm ammunition or fishing tackle.

Bill: 111-hr-6284
Sponsor: Rep. Broun, Paul C. [R-GA-10]
Introduced: 2010-09-29 in the House
Policy area: Environmental Protection
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
Hazardous wastes and toxic substances
Outdoor recreation

Summary:
action_date: 2010-09-29
text: 
Prohibits the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) from prohibiting, limiting, or controlling any type of firearm ammunition or fishing tackle based on material composition. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-09-29
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2010-09-29
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-09-29
text: Introduced in House
To prohibit the importation into the United States of paper products that are not manufactured in accordance with requirements that are at least as stringent as the requirements under the Clean Air Act and the Federal Water Pollution Control Act.

Bill: 111-hr-6285
Sponsor: Rep. Kagen, Steve [D-WI-8]
Introduced: 2010-09-29 in the House
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Air quality
Civil actions and liability
Crimes against animals and natural resources
Hazardous wastes and toxic substances
Manufacturing
Trade restrictions
Water quality

Summary:
action_date: 2010-09-29
text: 
Prohibits importing or delivering for importation into the United States any paper product if: (1) its labeling does not include an official certification that it was manufactured in accordance with air and water pollution requirements that are at least as stringent as those under the Clean Air Act and the Federal Water Pollution Control Act (commonly known as the Clean Water Act), respectively; or (2) the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) finds that it was not manufactured in accordance with such requirements.
 
Provides for a civil penalty of up to $10 million per transgression for violations. Directs the Secretary of Homeland Security (DHS) and the Administrator to enforce this Act.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-09-29
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2010-09-29
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-09-29
text: Introduced in House
Free Speech and Citizen Fairness Act of 2010

Bill: 111-hr-6286
Sponsor: Rep. Cole, Tom [R-OK-4]
Introduced: 2010-09-29 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Congressional elections
Elections, voting, political campaign regulation
First Amendment rights
Internet and video services
Internet, web applications, social media
Political advertising
Political parties and affiliation

Summary:
action_date: 2010-09-29
text: 
Free Speech and Citizen Fairness Act of 2010 - Amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to repeal the annual aggregate limit on the amount of contributions by individuals in a federal election campaign to: (1) candidates and their authorized committees; and (2) political committees which are not political committees of national political parties.
 
Repeals the limitations on the amount of coordinated or independent expenditures in a federal election campaign by national or state political parties. 
 
 
Exempts from treatment as a contribution or an expenditure in a federal election campaign any uncompensated personal services related to Internet activities, or use of equipment or services for uncompensated Internet activities, engaged in by any individual, group of individuals, or corporation wholly owned by one or more individuals that: (1) engages primarily in Internet activities; and (2) does not derive a substantial portion of its revenue from sources other than income from its Internet activities. 
 
States that &quot;Internet activity&quot; includes: (1) sending or forwarding electronic messages; (2) providing a hyperlink or other direct access to another person's website; (3) blogging; (4) creating, maintaining, or hosting a website; (5) paying a nominal fee for the use of another person's website; and (6) any other form of communication distributed over the Internet.
 
Extends the general media exemption from treatment as an expenditure to any Internet or electronic publication (including a blog).


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-09-29
text: Referred to the House Committee on House Administration.
action_date: 2010-09-29
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-09-29
text: Introduced in House
Home School Equity Act for Tax Relief of 2010

Bill: 111-hr-6287
Sponsor: Rep. Cole, Tom [R-OK-4]
Introduced: 2010-09-29 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Elementary and secondary education
Income tax deductions
Teaching, teachers, curricula

Summary:
action_date: 2010-09-29
text: 
Home School Equity Act for Tax Relief of 2010 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) extend through 2010 the tax deduction for expenses of elementary and secondary school teachers; and (2) expand the definition of &quot;school&quot; for purposes of such tax deduction to include a home school.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-09-29
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2010-09-29
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-09-29
text: Introduced in House
Restoring Our Local Economies Act of 2010

Bill: 111-hr-6288
Sponsor: Rep. Cole, Tom [R-OK-4]
Introduced: 2010-09-29 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Business investment and capital
Economic development
Income tax credits
Income tax deductions
Income tax exclusion
Rural conditions and development
Securities
Urban and suburban affairs and development
Wages and earnings

Summary:
action_date: 2010-09-29
text: 
Restoring Our Local Economies Act of 2010 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code, with respect to the designation of tax-preferred empowerment zones and enterprise communities, to allow a five-year extension of the designation period for a zone or community that is a qualifying zone. Defines &quot;qualifying zone&quot; as any designated empowerment zone or enterprise community if the government that nominated such zone or community requests an extension of the designation period and has submitted to the Secretary of the Treasury information indicating compliance with, and progress in achieving, certain benchmarks.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-09-29
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2010-09-29
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-09-29
text: Introduced in House
Legislative Data Transparency and Public Access Act of 2010

Bill: 111-hr-6289
Sponsor: Rep. Foster, Bill [D-IL-14]
Introduced: 2010-09-29 in the House
Policy area: Congress
Subjects: Advisory bodies
Congressional Research Service (CRS)
Congressional agencies
Congressional operations and organization
Government information and archives
Internet and video services
Internet, web applications, social media
Libraries and archives
Library of Congress

Summary:
action_date: 2010-09-29
text: 
Legislative Data Transparency and Public Access Act of 2010 - Expresses the sense of Congress that the Library of Congress should work toward improving public access to all THOMAS data, including the text of legislation, in bulk.
 
Requires the Librarian of Congress to make available to the public through the Internet the bulk legislative summary and status data used by the Librarian to provide the information posted on the Library's legislative information website (www.thomas.gov).
 
Directs the Librarian to: (1) develop and publish standards for the downloading and public availability of such data; and (2) update such standards at an appropriate frequency.
 
Establishes in the Library of Congress the Advisory Committee on THOMAS.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-09-29
text: Referred to the House Committee on House Administration.
action_date: 2010-09-29
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-09-29
text: Introduced in House
To amend title XIX of the Social Security Act to require Medicaid coverage of optometrists.

Bill: 111-hr-6290
Sponsor: Rep. Schakowsky, Janice D. [D-IL-9]
Introduced: 2010-09-29 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Health personnel
Hearing, speech, and vision care
Medicaid

Summary:
action_date: 2010-09-29
text: 
Amends title XIX (Medicaid) of the Social Security Act to require coverage under Medicaid of services of optometrists.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-09-29
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2010-09-29
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-09-29
text: Introduced in House
Communication and Alert Maintenance Program for Early Response Act of 2010

Bill: 111-hr-6293
Sponsor: Rep. Richardson, Laura [D-CA-37]
Introduced: 2010-09-29 in the House
Policy area: Emergency Management
Subjects: Emergency communications systems
Natural disasters
Parks, recreation areas, trails
Terrorism

Summary:
action_date: 2010-09-29
text: 
Communication and Alert Maintenance Program for Early Response Act of 2010 or CAMPER Act of 2010 - Authorizes the Secretary of Homeland Security (DHS) to: (1) provide technical assistance to a state or local government to develop and implement an emergency notification system to warn persons using public recreational lands administered by such government of emergency situations; and (2) make grants to state and local governments to procure and install such systems. 
 
Limits a grant to $100,000. Requires a recipient to match not less than 5% of the federal funds provided. Authorizes the Secretary to establish conditions under which the cost-sharing requirement may be reduced or waived.
 
Directs the Secretary to report to specified congressional committees for each fiscal year such assistance is provided on: (1) the state of preparedness of state park and recreation departments to provide adequate emergency notification; and (2) recommendations for appropriate additional legislative action.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-11-01
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Emergency Communications, Preparedness, and Response.
action_date: 2010-09-30
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Economic Development, Public Buildings and Emergency Management.
action_date: 2010-09-29
text: Referred to House Homeland Security
action_date: 2010-09-29
text: Referred to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, and in addition to the Committee on Homeland Security, 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: 2010-09-29
text: Referred to House Transportation and Infrastructure
action_date: 2010-09-29
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-09-29
text: Introduced in House
Social Security Safety Dividend Act

Bill: 111-hr-6294
Sponsor: Rep. Richardson, Laura [D-CA-37]
Introduced: 2010-09-29 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: 2010-09-29
text: 
Social Security Safety Dividend Act - Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to disburse a $250 payment for a particular year to recipients of Social Security benefits, Supplemental Security Income (SSI) benefits (under title XVI of the Social Security Act), railroad retirement benefits, or veterans disability compensation or pension benefits if no cost-of-living adjustment (COLA) is payable for any month in such a year.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-09-30
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Railroads, Pipelines, and Hazardous Materials.
action_date: 2010-09-29
text: Referred to House Veterans' Affairs
action_date: 2010-09-29
text: Referred to House Transportation and Infrastructure
action_date: 2010-09-29
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: 2010-09-29
text: Referred to House Ways and Means
action_date: 2010-09-29
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-09-29
text: Introduced in House
Jobs Through Environmental Safeguarding and Streamlining Act of 2010

Bill: 111-hr-6299
Sponsor: Rep. Richardson, Laura [D-CA-37]
Introduced: 2010-09-29 in the House
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Air quality
Environmental assessment, monitoring, research
Intergovernmental relations
Roads and highways
State and local government operations
Transportation programs funding

Summary:
action_date: 2010-09-29
text: 
Jobs Through Environmental Safeguarding and Streamlining Act of 2010 - Modifies the prohibition, under the surface transportation project delivery pilot program, against assignment to a state of the responsibility of the Secretary of Transportation (DOT) for any conformity determination under the Clean Air Act with regard to highway projects in the state. Allows the Secretary to assign a state that responsibility for an individual project.
 
Treats any project as a highway project if the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) is the lead agency for it. Allows the Secretary to assign a state authorities relating to the FHWA and another DOT modal administration with regard to any highway project involving such agencies.
 
Eliminates the limitation to Alaska, California, Ohio, Oklahoma, and Texas of state participation in the program. Allows program participation by any state meeting the selection criteria.
 
Revises requirements for the written agreement under the pilot program between the Secretary and a state governor to include agreement to carry out the Secretary's assigned responsibilities using the best available science. Limits such an agreement to a five-year renewable term. Allows the agreement to list projects excluded from the program.
 
Prohibits the agreement from imposing on the state a limitation on the use of a project delivery method, if the limitation would not otherwise apply to the state. Treats as a project delivery method state authority to acquire rights-of-way and conduct final design work for a project with state funds on an at-risk basis before completion of the project's environmental review process.
 
Authorizes the Secretary to monitor state compliance with an agreement, instead of conducting an audit, if the state has been participating in the program pursuant to the agreement for ten consecutive years. Requires the Secretary to commence the auditing process, however, if a state, while participating in the monitoring program, repeatedly fails to comply with all aspects of the agreement.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-09-30
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Highways and Transit.
action_date: 2010-09-29
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2010-09-29
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-09-29
text: Introduced in House
State and Local Spending Will Help Save America Act of 2010

Bill: 111-hr-6300
Sponsor: Rep. Kucinich, Dennis J. [D-OH-10]
Introduced: 2010-09-29 in the House
Policy area: Economics and Public Finance
Subjects: Intergovernmental relations
State and local finance

Summary:
action_date: 2010-09-29
text: 
State and Local Spending Will Help Save America Act of 2010 - Appropriates $200 billion for quarterly payments to the states in FY2011 and 2012 by the Secretary of the Treasury on the basis of population to supplement state operating budgets. Prohibits the use of such funds to supplement state capital budgets
 
.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-09-29
text: Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.
action_date: 2010-09-29
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-09-29
text: Introduced in House