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Rural Microbusiness Investment Credit Act of 2010

Bill: 111-hr-5990
Sponsor: Rep. Kind, Ron [D-WI-3]
Introduced: 2010-07-30 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Business investment and capital
Income tax credits
Rural conditions and development
Small business

Summary:
action_date: 2010-07-30
text: 
Rural Microbusiness Investment Credit Act of 2010 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow a business-related tax credit for 35% of new investment in a rural microbusiness. Imposes limits on such credit for businesses and individual taxpayers. 
 
Defines: (1) &quot;rural microbusiness&quot; as a trade or business that employs not more than 5 full-time employees in a taxable year and is carried on in a distressed rural area; and (2) &quot;distressed rural area&quot; as an area that has lost at least 5% of its population over the last 10 years or 10% of its population over the last 20 years, that has a median family income below 85 % of the national median family income, that has a poverty rate that exceeds 12.5%, or where average unemployment in the preceding year exceeds 125% of the national average.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-07-30
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2010-07-30
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-07-30
text: Introduced in House
American Metalworking Manufacturers Support Act

Bill: 111-hr-5991
Sponsor: Rep. Murphy, Christopher [D-CT-5]
Introduced: 2010-07-30 in the House
Policy area: Commerce
Subjects: Government lending and loan guarantees
Income tax credits
Manufacturing
Metals
Small business

Summary:
action_date: 2010-07-30
text: 
American Metalworking Manufacturers Support Act - Directs the Administrator of the Small Business Administration (SBA) to: (1) carry out a program to provide business stabilization loans to viable small metalworking businesses that have a qualifying SBA small business loan and are experiencing immediate financial hardship; and (2) establish a technical assistance program to assist a bank or other financial institution to provide such loans to such businesses. Prohibits the Administrator from charging any loan fees.
 
Makes specified funds available to the Secretary of the Treasury for the loan program. Limits each loan to a maximum of $3 million and 18 months, without interest.
 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to provide a small metalworking business tax credit of 30% of the amount paid or incurred for metal parts, components, or assemblies produced for the taxpayer under a contract between the taxpayer and a small metalworking business.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-07-30
text: Referred to House Ways and Means
action_date: 2010-07-30
text: Referred to the Committee on Small Business, and in addition to the Committee on Ways and Means, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2010-07-30
text: Referred to House Small Business
action_date: 2010-07-30
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-07-30
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Federal Water Pollution Control Act to eliminate the authority of the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency to deny or restrict the use of a defined area as a dredged or fill material disposal site, and for other purposes.

Bill: 111-hr-5992
Sponsor: Rep. Young, Don [R-AK-At Large]
Introduced: 2010-07-30 in the House
Policy area: Environmental Protection
Subjects: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
Environmental regulatory procedures
Licensing and registrations
Marine pollution
Solid waste and recycling
Water quality

Summary:
action_date: 2010-07-30
text: 
Amends the Federal Water Pollution Control Act (commonly known as the Clean Water Act) to repeal the authority of the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to prohibit the specification of, or to deny or restrict the use of, a defined area as a disposal site for the discharge of dredged or fill material into navigable waters. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-08-02
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Coast Guard and Maritime Transportation.
action_date: 2010-08-02
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment.
action_date: 2010-07-30
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2010-07-30
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-07-30
text: Introduced in House
Stop Deducting Damages Act of 2010

Bill: 111-hr-5994
Sponsor: Rep. Welch, Peter [D-VT-At Large]
Introduced: 2010-07-30 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Civil actions and liability
Competition and antitrust
Income tax deductions
Income tax exclusion
Life, casualty, property insurance

Summary:
action_date: 2010-07-30
text: 
Stop Deducting Damages Act of 2010 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) deny a tax deduction for any amount paid or incurred for punitive damages in connection with any judgment in, or settlement of, any legal action; and (2) include any amount paid as punitive damages in gross income for income tax purposes. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-07-30
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2010-07-30
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-07-30
text: Introduced in House
Closing Oil Spill Tax Loopholes Act of 2010

Bill: 111-hr-5995
Sponsor: Rep. Grijalva, Raúl M. [D-AZ-7]
Introduced: 2010-07-30 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Income tax deductions
Oil and gas
Pollution liability

Summary:
action_date: 2010-07-30
text: 
Closing Oil Spill Tax Loopholes Act of 2010 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to deny a tax deduction for payment of any claim for damages under the Oil Spill Pollution Act of 1990 with respect to any discharge of oil. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-07-30
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2010-07-30
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-07-30
text: Introduced in House
To direct the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to improve the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of veterans with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.

Bill: 111-hr-5996
Sponsor: Rep. Stearns, Cliff [R-FL-6]
Introduced: 2010-07-30 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Cardiovascular and respiratory health
Drug, alcohol, tobacco use
Health promotion and preventive care
Long-term, rehabilitative, and terminal care
Medical research
Veterans' medical care

Summary:
action_date: 2010-07-30
text: 
Directs the Secretary of Veterans Affairs (VA) to: (1) develop treatment protocols and related tools for the prevention, diagnosis, treatment, and management of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD); (2) improve biomedical and prosthetic research programs regarding COPD; (3) develop pilot programs to demonstrate best practices for the diagnosis and management of COPD; and (4) develop improved techniques and best practices for assisting individuals with COPD in successfully quitting smoking.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-09-29
text: Subcommittee Hearings Held.
action_date: 2010-09-17
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2010-07-30
text: Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2010-07-30
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-07-30
text: Introduced in House
Anti-Pork Act of 2010

Bill: 111-hr-5997
Sponsor: Rep. Turner, Michael R. [R-OH-3]
Introduced: 2010-07-30 in the House
Policy area: Congress
Subjects: Appropriations
Congressional committees
Government ethics and transparency, public corruption
Government information and archives
House Committee on Appropriations
House of Representatives
Legislative rules and procedure
Members of Congress
Public participation and lobbying

Summary:
action_date: 2010-07-30
text: 
Anti-Pork Act of 2010 - Amends Rule XXIII (Code of Official Conduct) of the Rules of the House of Representatives to require a Member, Delegate, or Resident Commissioner (Member) requesting a congressional earmark in any bill or joint resolution (or an accompanying report) to provide a written statement to the chair and ranking minority member of the committee of jurisdiction certifying that specified requirements have been met.
 
Requires a governmental entity or nonprofit, earmark recipient within the district of, and designated by, the Member to have held a public hearing on the congressional earmark at least 30 days before its submission to the committee. Requires notice of the public hearing to have been printed in the appropriate local newspaper at least 15 days before the hearing.
 
Requires further that, if such earmark request is for public improvement purposes, the local government entity with jurisdiction over the requested improvement has passed a resolution in support of the earmark request or written a binding official communication in its support.
 
Limits the amount of appropriated funds for the project to 50% of its total cost. Prohibits an earmark from funding any administrative costs.
 
Requires the requesting Member to have posted the earmark request on his or her public website, including the name and address of the intended recipient or, if there is no specifically intended recipient, the intended location of the activity, the earmark's purpose, and the 30-day public hearing notice.
 
Amends Rule X (Organization of Committees) to require any subcommittee of the House Committee on Appropriations to hold a hearing on all requested earmarks to be included in a measure or any accompanying report before it approves such legislation. Requires a 14-day advance public notice of the hearing on the committee website. 
 
Requires the Member requesting an earmark to testify in its support at the applicable subcommittee hearing.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-07-30
text: Referred to House Rules
action_date: 2010-07-30
text: Referred to the Committee on Standards of Official Conduct, 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: 2010-07-30
text: Referred to House Standards of Official Conduct
action_date: 2010-07-30
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-07-30
text: Introduced in House
To repeal the enhanced compensation structure reporting requirement of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act.

Bill: 111-hr-5998
Sponsor: Rep. Hensarling, Jeb [R-TX-5]
Introduced: 2010-07-30 in the House
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Banking and financial institutions regulation
Business records
Corporate finance and management
Department of the Treasury
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC)
Federal Housing Finance Agency
Federal Reserve System
National Credit Union Administration
Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)
Wages and earnings

Summary:
action_date: 2010-07-30
text: 
Amends the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act to repeal the requirement for regulations requiring each covered financial institution to disclose the structures of all incentive-based compensation arrangements it offers.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-07-30
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2010-07-30
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-07-30
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act to repeal the Office of Financial Research.

Bill: 111-hr-5999
Sponsor: Rep. Hensarling, Jeb [R-TX-5]
Introduced: 2010-07-30 in the House
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: Bank accounts, deposits, capital
Banking and financial institutions regulation
Department of the Treasury
Executive agency funding and structure
Government studies and investigations
Insurance industry and regulation

Summary:
action_date: 2010-07-30
text: 
Amends the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act to repeal the establishment of the Office of Financial Research.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-07-30
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2010-07-30
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-07-30
text: Introduced in House
Thou Shalt Not Kill Thy Customers Act

Bill: 111-hr-6000
Sponsor: Rep. Grayson, Alan [D-FL-8]
Introduced: 2010-07-30 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Business ethics
Criminal investigation, prosecution, interrogation
Criminal procedure and sentencing
Government information and archives
Health care costs and insurance
Health care coverage and access
Insurance industry and regulation

Summary:
action_date: 2010-07-30
text: 
Thou Shalt Not Kill Thy Customers Act - Imposes a fine and/or prison term of up to one year on any responsible officer or employee of an insurance entity that engages in a denial of coverage under a health plan in violation of provisions of the Public Health Service Act. Makes such offense punishable as involuntary manslaughter if it results in death.
 
Directs the Inspector General of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to: (1) establish a website and a toll-free telephone number to receive reports of instances of denial of health care treatment or coverage by insurance entities for investigation of such reports; and (2) report instances for which sufficient evidence exists of a violation of this Act to the Attorney General for further investigation and prosecution.
 
Expresses the sense of Congress that each state should thoroughly investigate violations of this Act.


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 House Judiciary
action_date: 2010-07-30
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on the Judiciary, 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: Referred to House Energy and Commerce
action_date: 2010-07-30
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-07-30
text: Introduced in House
COBRA Affordability Act of 2010

Bill: 111-hr-6001
Sponsor: Rep. Pitts, Joseph R. [R-PA-16]
Introduced: 2010-07-30 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Employee benefits and pensions
Health care costs and insurance
Health care coverage and access
Income tax deductions
Income tax exclusion

Summary:
action_date: 2010-07-30
text: 
COBRA Affordability Act of 2010 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow: (1) the establishment of tax-exempt accounts for the payment of COBRA (health insurance continuation benefits under the Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1985) premiums; (2) an income-based tax deduction, up to $2,500, for cash contributions to such a COBRA premium payment account; (3) tax-free distributions from such an account for payment of COBRA premiums; (4) the rollover of unused amounts in such an account into a tax-exempt retirement account; and (5) employees to elect to enroll in an alternative health plan offered by their employers, in lieu of COBRA coverage.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-07-30
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2010-07-30
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-07-30
text: Introduced in House
Terminally Ill Disability Beneficiary Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-6002
Sponsor: Rep. Costello, Jerry F. [D-IL-12]
Introduced: 2010-07-30 in the House
Policy area: Social Welfare
Subjects: Long-term, rehabilitative, and terminal care
Social security and elderly assistance

Summary:
action_date: 2010-07-30
text: 
Terminally Ill Disability Beneficiary Act of 2009 [
sic
] - Amends title II (Old Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance) of the Social Security Act to create an exception from the waiting period otherwise required for Social Security disability insurance benefits for beneficiaries suffering from a medically determined terminal illness with not more: (1) than six months to live; or (2) 12 months to live in the case of an impairment consisting of a burn injury. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-07-30
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2010-07-30
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-07-30
text: Introduced in House
National Fab Lab Network Act of 2010

Bill: 111-hr-6003
Sponsor: Rep. Foster, Bill [D-IL-14]
Introduced: 2010-07-30 in the House
Policy area: Commerce
Subjects: Advanced technology and technological innovations
Broadcasting, cable, digital technologies
Computers and information technology
Government corporations and government-sponsored enterprises
Industrial facilities
Industrial policy and productivity
Manufacturing
Product development and innovation
Science and engineering education

Summary:
action_date: 2010-07-30
text: 
National Fab Lab Network Act of 2010 - Establishes the National Fab Lab Network (NFLN), as a non-profit entity, to facilitate the construction of a network of connected labs. 
 
Defines &quot;Fab Lab&quot; or &quot;Fabrication Laboratory&quot; to mean a facility containing a variety of manufacturing and other fabrication tools operable by digital input as well as the software and computers required to design and operate those tools. States that these labs serve a broad range of purposes, but each allow for how members of the local community, businesses, and academic or educational purposes can be pursued with the lab's resources.
 
Authorizes and empowers the NFLN to receive real or personal property and to hold it absolutely or in trust, and to invest, reinvest, and manage it, and to apply such property and the income arising therefrom to the objects of its creation and according to the instructions of its donors. 
 
Sets forth the functions of the NFLN. 
 
Requires the NFLN to: (1) facilitate the construction of a new type of information and digital fabrication infrastructure; and (2) promote the goals of greater science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) education, workforce development in manufacturing and product design, increased innovation in the private sector, as well as scientific and academic discovery through the use of distributed digital fabrication tools. 
 
Permits acceptance by the NFLN of donations from private individuals, corporations, government agencies, or other organizations.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-08-10
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Technology and Innovation.
action_date: 2010-07-30
text: Referred to House Science and Technology
action_date: 2010-07-30
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Science and Technology, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2010-07-30
text: Referred to House Energy and Commerce
action_date: 2010-07-30
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-07-30
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to modify certain provisions concerning charter schools.

Bill: 111-hr-6004
Sponsor: Rep. Shea-Porter, Carol [D-NH-1]
Introduced: 2010-07-30 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Education programs funding
Elementary and secondary education
Government information and archives
School administration

Summary:
action_date: 2010-07-30
text: 
Amends the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to require states (which currently are authorized) to reserve a portion of their charter school planning and implementation grant to fund efforts by local educational agencies and successful charter schools to disseminate information about their successful charter school programs or assist schools in adopting such programs.


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
Ensuring Equality for Early EHR Adoption Act of 2010

Bill: 111-hr-6005
Sponsor: Rep. Burgess, Michael C. [R-TX-26]
Introduced: 2010-07-30 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Computers and information technology
Health information and medical records
Medicaid
Medicare

Summary:
action_date: 2010-07-30
text: 
Ensuring Equality for Early EHR Adoption Act of 2010 - Amends titles XVIII (Medicare) and XIX (Medicaid) of the Social Security Act to treat as certified electronic health record (EHR) technology, for incentive payment years 2011 and 2012, an EHR that is not certified and that: (1) enables the demonstration of meaningful EHR use for an EHR reporting period for the payment year involved; and (2) enables a Medicaid provider to demonstrate meaningful EHR use.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-07-30
text: Referred to House Ways and Means
action_date: 2010-07-30
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Ways and Means, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2010-07-30
text: Referred to House Energy and Commerce
action_date: 2010-07-30
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-07-30
text: Introduced in House
To affirm that waters of the Great Lakes Basin are impressed with a public trust and managed consistent with public trust principles and other standards to protect the navigational, conservation, and public interests in such waters, to provide for enforcement, and for other purposes.

Bill: 111-hr-6006
Sponsor: Rep. Kucinich, Dennis J. [D-OH-10]
Introduced: 2010-07-30 in the House
Policy area: Water Resources Development
Subjects: Civil actions and liability
Great Lakes
Hydrology and hydrography
Lakes and rivers
Trade restrictions
Water use and supply

Summary:
action_date: 2010-07-30
text: 
Amends the Water Resources Development Act of 1986 to authorize enforcement through a civil suit of the prohibition against the diversion or export of Great Lakes water by a state, federal agency, or private entity for use outside the Great Lakes basin unless such diversion or export is approved by the governor of each of the Great Lakes states.
 
Allows such a civil suit to be filed by the federal government, a state or local government, or by any person or organization whose property or other legally recognized interest will be adversely affected. Makes the proper venue for such a civil suit the federal judicial district with jurisdiction over any portion of the Great Lakes Basin and from which the diversion or export of water will occur or has occurred.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-08-02
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment.
action_date: 2010-07-30
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2010-07-30
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-07-30
text: Introduced in House