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Flood Insurance Fairness Act of 2010

Bill: 111-hr-5559
Sponsor: Rep. Hinchey, Maurice D. [D-NY-22]
Introduced: 2010-06-17 in the House
Policy area: Emergency Management
Subjects: Congressional oversight
Disaster relief and insurance
Floods and storm protection

Summary:
action_date: 2010-06-17
text: 
Flood Insurance Fairness Act of 2010 - Amends the Flood Disaster Protection Act of 1973 to delay, for certain areas not previously designated as having special flood hazards, the effective date for the mandatory purchase of flood insurance until the expiration of the five-year period beginning upon the date that revisions to certain flood insurance maps become available.
 
Prohibits this Act from being construed to authorize or require any payment or refund for flood insurance coverage purchases that covered any period during which such coverage is not required for the insured property.
 
Amends the National Flood Insurance Act of 1968 to prescribe a five-year phase-in schedule for flood insurance rates for areas newly mapped as having special flood hazards.
 
Requires the Administrator of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to reimburse property owners for costs incurred in requests to remove property from base flood elevations.
 
Instructs the FEMA Administrator to submit to Congress a community outreach plan updating floodplain areas and flood-risk zones.
 
Instructs the FEMA Administrator to notify the appropriate Members of Congress of actions taken regarding any modernization of a floodplain area or flood-risk zone in their respective states or districts.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-06-17
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2010-06-17
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-06-17
text: Introduced in House
Quality Cancer Care for Life Act of 2010

Bill: 111-hr-5560
Sponsor: Rep. Moore, Dennis [D-KS-3]
Introduced: 2010-06-17 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Advisory bodies
Cancer
Health care quality
Health programs administration and funding
Medical research

Summary:
action_date: 2010-06-17
text: 
Quality Cancer Care for Life Act of 2010 - Amends the Public Health Service Act to require the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS), acting through the Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), to improve the quality of cancer care and the quality of life for cancer patients and survivors by expanding CDC cancer control programs, including the National Comprehensive Cancer Control Program and the National Program of Cancer Registries.
 
Requires the Director of CDC to award grants to: (1) develop, implement, and evaluate cancer case management and coordination programs to enhance the quality of cancer care and the quality of life for patients and survivors and to improve cancer outcomes; and (2) train individuals to undertake the quality of life needs of cancer patients, survivors, and family caregivers.
 
Requires the Secretary to establish a Quality of Life Advisory Committee to advise, coordinate, and assist the CDC in creating and conducting the cancer quality of life and survivorship activities, program enhancements, and training initiatives under this Act.
 
Requires the Director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to undertake additional cancer quality of life and survivorship research that addresses pain, symptom management, side effects and late effects, and psychosocial factors to improve cancer clinical communication and care planning, treatment and post-treatment, and follow-up care across the life course.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-06-17
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2010-06-17
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-06-17
text: Introduced in House
Emergency Contraception Education Act of 2010

Bill: 111-hr-5561
Sponsor: Rep. Slaughter, Louise McIntosh [D-NY-28]
Introduced: 2010-06-17 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Emergency medical services and trauma care
Family planning and birth control
Government information and archives
Health promotion and preventive care

Summary:
action_date: 2010-06-17
text: 
Emergency Contraception Education Act of 2010 - Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS), acting through the Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), to develop and disseminate to the public information on emergency contraception, including, at a minimum, a description of emergency contraception and an explanation of the use, safety, efficacy, and availability of such contraception.
 
Requires that the Secretary, acting through the Administrator of the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), to develop and disseminate to health care providers, including pharmacists, information on emergency contraception that includes, at a minimum: (1) information describing the use, safety, efficacy, and availability of emergency contraception; (2) a recommendation regarding its use in appropriate cases; and (3) information explaining how to obtain copies of information from the CDC.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-06-17
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2010-06-17
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-06-17
text: Introduced in House
Homeland Security Grant Management Improvement Act

Bill: 111-hr-5562
Sponsor: Rep. Richardson, Laura [D-CA-37]
Introduced: 2010-06-21 in the House
Policy area: Emergency Management
Subjects: Government studies and investigations
Homeland security
Law enforcement administration and funding
Urban and suburban affairs and development

Summary:
action_date: 2010-06-21
text: 
Homeland Security Grant Management Improvement Act - Amends the Homeland Security Act of 2002 to prohibit the Administrator of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) from requiring the recipient of a grant under the Urban Area Security Initiative or the State Homeland Security Grant Program to use a specified percentage of such grant for any one of the specified permitted uses.
 
Directs the Administrator to: (1) study the use of grant funds for administrative expenses; (2) determine whether 3% of the grant amount is adequate to ensure proper oversight, management, and administration of the grant; and (3) report recommendations on whether such percentage should be adjusted to better reflect administrative costs to grant recipients. 
 
Requires the Administrator to study the feasibility, advantages, and disadvantages of issuing multiyear program guidance for such grants.

action_date: 2010-11-30
text: 

(This measure has not been amended since it was introduced. The summary of that version is repeated here.)

Homeland Security Grant Management Improvement Act - Amends the Homeland Security Act of 2002 to prohibit the Administrator of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) from requiring the recipient of a grant under the Urban Area Security Initiative or the State Homeland Security Grant Program to use a specified percentage of such grant for any one of the specified permitted uses.

Directs the Administrator to: (1) study the use of grant funds for administrative expenses; (2) determine whether 3% of the grant amount is adequate to ensure proper oversight, management, and administration of the grant; and (3) report recommendations on whether such percentage should be adjusted to better reflect administrative costs to grant recipients. 

Requires the Administrator to study the feasibility, advantages, and disadvantages of issuing multiyear program guidance for such grants.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-11-30
text: Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 395.
action_date: 2010-11-30
text: Reported by the Committee on Homeland Security. H. Rept. 111-663.
action_date: 2010-11-30
text: Reported by the Committee on Homeland Security. H. Rept. 111-663.
action_date: 2010-06-23
text: Ordered to be Reported by Voice Vote.
action_date: 2010-06-23
text: Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
action_date: 2010-06-21
text: Referred to the House Committee on Homeland Security.
action_date: 2010-06-21
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-06-21
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Homeland Security Act of 2002 to require annual risk assessments for purposes of the State Homeland Security Grant Program, and to require that risk assessments conducted for purposes of the Urban Area Security Initiative be conducted jointly with appropriate eligible metropolitan area officials.

Bill: 111-hr-5563
Sponsor: Rep. Titus, Dina [D-NV-3]
Introduced: 2010-06-21 in the House
Policy area: Emergency Management
Subjects: Homeland security
Law enforcement administration and funding
Terrorism
Urban and suburban affairs and development

Summary:
action_date: 2010-06-21
text: 
Amends the Homeland Security Act of 2002 to require the Administrator of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA): (1) in order to better inform the allocation of grants under the State Homeland Security Grant Program, to conduct an initial assessment of the relative threat of, vulnerability to, and consequences from acts of terrorism for each state, with each threat assessment for a state conducted jointly with appropriate state officials; and (2) to conduct such initial risk assessments for eligible metropolitan areas for purposes of Urban Area Security Initiative grants jointly with appropriate metropolitan area officials. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-06-28
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Emergency Communications, Preparedness, and Response.
action_date: 2010-06-21
text: Referred to the House Committee on Homeland Security.
action_date: 2010-06-21
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-06-21
text: Introduced in House
Judgment Evading Foreign States Accountability Act of 2010

Bill: 111-hr-5564
Sponsor: Rep. McMahon, Michael E. [D-NY-13]
Introduced: 2010-06-22 in the House
Policy area: International Affairs
Subjects: Business investment and capital
Civil actions and liability
Congressional oversight
Foreign aid and international relief
Foreign and international banking
Foreign and international corporations
Foreign loans and debt
Government liability
Multilateral development programs
Sanctions
Securities
U.S. and foreign investments

Summary:
action_date: 2010-06-22
text: 
Judgment Evading Foreign States Accountability Act of 2010 - States the policy of the United States regarding: (1) advocacy within the governing bodies of international organizations and other foreign policy settings for the full compensation and fair treatment of persons in whose favor judgments have been awarded by U.S. courts; (2) protection of economic interests of persons and nations that benefit from a reliable flow of foreign capital by restricting the access to U.S. capital markets of judgment evading foreign states (foreign states that fail to fully satisfy a final judgment exceeding a certain amount for more than two years) and their state-owned corporations, warning of the dangers of dealing financially with such states and state-owned corporations, and congressional scrutiny of requests for aid made by such states; and (3) protection of the authority of the U.S. courts by preventing such states from willfully flouting the judgments of those courts.
 
Directs the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to: (1) deny a judgment evading foreign state access to U.S. capital markets unless the proceeds of borrowing or securities issuance are to be used in the first instance to satisfy in full all final judgments that form the basis for such designation as such a state; and (2) require all periodic filings made by such a state with the SEC to prominently bear a warning describing its failure to satisfy outstanding judgments. Imposes similar restrictions on state-owned corporations of such states.
 
Requires: (1) a proposal to extend bilateral or multilateral assistance to a judgment evading state to bear notice that such state is a judgment evading state; and (2) the Secretary of the Treasury to report annually to Congress identifying each such state.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-06-22
text: Referred to House Foreign Affairs
action_date: 2010-06-22
text: Referred to the Committee on Financial Services, and in addition to the Committee on Foreign 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: 2010-06-22
text: Referred to House Financial Services
action_date: 2010-06-22
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-06-22
text: Introduced in House
To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 5014 Gary Avenue in Lubbock, Texas, as the "Sergeant Chris Davis Post Office".

Bill: 111-hr-5565
Sponsor: Rep. Neugebauer, Randy [R-TX-19]
Introduced: 2010-06-22 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Congressional tributes
Government buildings, facilities, and property
Military personnel and dependents
Postal service
Texas

Summary:
action_date: 2010-06-22
text: Designates the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 5014 Gary Avenue in Lubbock, Texas, as the "Sergeant Chris Davis Post Office."

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-06-22
text: Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.
action_date: 2010-06-22
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-06-22
text: Introduced in House
Stop Waste by Eliminating Excessive Programs Act of 2010

Bill: 111-hr-5568
Sponsor: Rep. Nye, Glenn C. [D-VA-2]
Introduced: 2010-06-22 in the House
Policy area: Economics and Public Finance
Subjects: Advisory bodies
Appropriations
Budget process
Congressional oversight
Government studies and investigations
Legislative rules and procedure
Performance measurement

Summary:
action_date: 2010-06-22
text: 
Stop Waste by Eliminating Excessive Programs Act of 2010 or the SWEEP Act - Declares that it shall not be in order in the House of Representatives or the Senate to consider any legislation that authorizes a program unless it provides budget authority for the program for 10 or fewer fiscal years.
 
Requires a federal agency to make the program performance report for each program under its control available to Congress upon request.
 
Establishes the Federal Program Sunset Commission, which shall: (1) submit to Congress a report analyzing the interaction between authorizing legislation and appropriations legislation and the effects of such interaction; (2) establish a schedule to review each activity or project (program) listed in the program and financing schedules of the annual federal budget every 10 years; (3) conduct a review of the efficiency of operation and public need for each such program according to that schedule; and (4) annually report to Congress on the programs reviewed, including recommendations regarding whether each program should be abolished or reorganized and whether the functions of any programs should be consolidated, transferred, or reorganized in an agency or among agencies and proposals for appropriate administrative or legislative action. Terminates the Commission 11 years after this Act's enactment unless reauthorized.
 
Requires the Comptroller General: (1) in cooperation with the Director of the Congressional Research Service (CRS), to submit to Congress and update annually an inventory of all federal programs, with budgetary information to be provided by the Director of the Congressional Budget Office (CBO); and (2) organize the inventory by program areas that are reflective of national needs and agency missions and that are appropriate for the exercise of the review requirements of this Act. Requires the Comptroller General, the Director of CRS, and the Director of CBO to permit the mutual exchange of information that would aid in inventory compilation.
 
 Sets forth requirements for, and procedures for congressional consideration of, proposed legislation to abolish programs.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-06-24
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E1187-1188)
action_date: 2010-06-22
text: Referred to House Rules
action_date: 2010-06-22
text: Referred to the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, 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: 2010-06-22
text: Referred to House Oversight and Government Reform
action_date: 2010-06-22
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-06-22
text: Introduced in House
To provide that no funds are authorized to be appropriated to the Internal Revenue Service to expand its workforce in order to implement, enforce, or otherwise carry out either the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act or the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010.

Bill: 111-hr-5570
Sponsor: Rep. Upton, Fred [R-MI-6]
Introduced: 2010-06-22 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Comprehensive health care
Department of the Treasury
Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management
Health care costs and insurance
Health care coverage and access
Internal Revenue Service (IRS)
Tax administration and collection, taxpayers

Summary:
action_date: 2010-06-22
text: 
Prohibits the authorization of appropriations to the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) for the hiring of any agent, employee, or contractor to implement, enforce, or otherwise carry out any provision of, or amendment made by, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act or the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-06-22
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2010-06-22
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-06-22
text: Introduced in House
Legislative Transparency Act of 2010

Bill: 111-hr-5571
Sponsor: Rep. Owens, William L. [D-NY-23]
Introduced: 2010-06-22 in the House
Policy area: Congress
Subjects: Legislative rules and procedure

Summary:
action_date: 2010-06-22
text: 
Legislative Transparency Act of 2010 - Prohibits an Act of Congress from being revised or amended by mere reference to it.
 
Requires every bill or joint resolution that amends an existing section, subsection, or other subdivision of any Act to set forth the section, subsection, or other subdivision sufficiently to enable the intent and effect of the legislation to be clearly understood. Requires deleted matter to be enclosed in brackets and added matter to be in italics.
 

 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-07-26
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Courts and Competition Policy.
action_date: 2010-06-22
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2010-06-22
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-06-22
text: Introduced in House
Homeland Security Grant Review Act

Bill: 111-hr-5573
Sponsor: Rep. Carney, Christopher P. [D-PA-10]
Introduced: 2010-06-22 in the House
Policy area: Emergency Management
Subjects: Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA)
Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management
Homeland security
Law enforcement administration and funding
Marine and inland water transportation
Motor carriers
Performance measurement
Public transit
Railroads
Transportation programs funding
Transportation safety and security
Urban and suburban affairs and development

Summary:
action_date: 2010-06-22
text: 
Homeland Security Grant Review Act - Directs the Inspector General of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), one year after this Act's enactment and every two years thereafter, to review the grants management and oversight practices of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) with respect to the Urban Area Security Initiative grant program, the State Homeland Security Grant Program, public transportation security grants, railroad security grants, over-the-road bus security grants, and maritime transportation and facility security grants.
 
Requires such review to assess: (1) the FEMA workforce that administers such grants; (2) any additional resources and staff necessary to carry out management and oversight; (3) coordination with other DHS components with a role in assisting FEMA in managing and administering the grants; and (4) the procedures that grant recipients must follow to obligate and expend their grant awards.
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-06-28
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Emergency Communications, Preparedness, and Response.
action_date: 2010-06-22
text: Referred to the House Committee on Homeland Security.
action_date: 2010-06-22
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-06-22
text: Introduced in House
Making Work and Marriage Pay Act of 2010

Bill: 111-hr-5574
Sponsor: Rep. Petri, Thomas E. [R-WI-6]
Introduced: 2010-06-22 in the House
Policy area: Social Welfare
Subjects: Advisory bodies
Child care and development
Child health
Food assistance and relief
Government lending and loan guarantees
Government studies and investigations
Health care costs and insurance
Housing finance and home ownership
Income tax credits
Income tax deductions
Income tax rates
Medicaid
Policy sciences
Poverty and welfare assistance
Public housing
Veterans' loans, housing, homeless programs

Summary:
action_date: 2010-06-22
text: 
Making Work and Marriage Pay Act of 2010 - Establishes the National Commission on Effective Marginal Tax Rates for Low-Income Families to study, report, and make recommendations on policy changes to mitigate the impact of the effective marginal tax rate and of phaseouts in federal benefits on low-income earners and their families.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-11-16
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Department Operations, Oversight, Nutrition and Forestry.
action_date: 2010-09-13
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2010-09-13
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Healthy Families and Communities.
action_date: 2010-06-22
text: Referred to House Education and Labor
action_date: 2010-06-22
text: Referred to House Energy and Commerce
action_date: 2010-06-22
text: Referred to House Financial Services
action_date: 2010-06-22
text: Referred to House Veterans' Affairs
action_date: 2010-06-22
text: Referred to House Agriculture
action_date: 2010-06-22
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committees on Agriculture, Veterans' Affairs, Financial Services, Energy and Commerce, 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: 2010-06-22
text: Referred to House Ways and Means
action_date: 2010-06-22
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E1160)
action_date: 2010-06-22
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-06-22
text: Introduced in House
Good Samaritan Protection for Construction, Architectural, and Engineering Volunteers Act

Bill: 111-hr-5576
Sponsor: Rep. Reichert, David G. [R-WA-8]
Introduced: 2010-06-23 in the House
Policy area: Law
Subjects: Building construction
Civil actions and liability
Disaster relief and insurance
Residential rehabilitation and home repair
Social work, volunteer service, charitable organizations

Summary:
action_date: 2010-06-23
text: 
Good Samaritan Protection for Construction, Architectural, and Engineering Volunteers Act - Grants construction companies and architectural and engineering firms and their employees immunity from liability for negligence, except for gross negligence or willful misconduct, when providing emergency assistance on a voluntary basis in response to a declared emergency or disaster, in good faith, and without expectation of compensation.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-06-23
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2010-06-23
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-06-23
text: Introduced in House