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Genetically Engineered Food Right to Know Act

Bill: 111-hr-5577
Sponsor: Rep. Kucinich, Dennis J. [D-OH-10]
Introduced: 2010-06-23 in the House
Policy area: Agriculture and Food
Subjects: Civil actions and liability
Food supply, safety, and labeling
Genetics

Summary:
action_date: 2010-06-23
text: 
Genetically Engineered Food Right to Know Act - Amends the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (FDCA), the Federal Meat Inspection Act, and the Poultry Products Inspection Act to deem a food misbranded if it contains or was produced with a genetically engineered material unless its labeling contains statements meeting specified requirements. Requires the periodic testing of such foods transferred along a chain of distribution to assure accuracy of labels, subject to specified exceptions. Excludes, in all three Acts, food: (1) served in restaurants; or (2) prepared primarily in a retail establishment, ready for human consumption, but not offered for sale for immediate consumption in the establishment. 
 
Excludes, for purposes of the FDCA, a medical food as defined in the Orphan Drug Act.
 
Subjects violators to civil monetary penalties, exempting recipients who accept a guarantee of the absence of genetically engineered material in good faith or producers whose food inadvertently becomes contaminated by genetically engineered material. Authorizes citizen suits as specified.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-11-16
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Livestock, Dairy, and Poultry.
action_date: 2010-11-16
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Rural Development, Biotechnology, Specialty Crops, and Foreign Agriculture.
action_date: 2010-06-23
text: Referred to House Energy and Commerce
action_date: 2010-06-23
text: Referred to the Committee on Agriculture, and in addition to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, 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: 2010-06-23
text: Referred to House Agriculture
action_date: 2010-06-23
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-06-23
text: Introduced in House
National Monument Designation Transparency and Accountability Act of 2010

Bill: 111-hr-5580
Sponsor: Rep. Nunes, Devin [R-CA-21]
Introduced: 2010-06-23 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Alternative and renewable resources
Coal
Congressional oversight
Energy storage, supplies, demand
Federal-Indian relations
Historic sites and heritage areas
Indian lands and resources rights
Intergovernmental relations
Land use and conservation
Monuments and memorials
Oil and gas
Presidents and presidential powers, Vice Presidents
Public participation and lobbying
State and local government operations

Summary:
action_date: 2010-06-23
text: 
National Monument Designation Transparency and Accountability Act of 2010 - Amends the Antiquities Act of 1906 to require land reserved as part of a national monument to be confined to the smallest area essential to ensure the proper care and management of the objects of historic or scientific interest protected by the monument. 
 
Sets forth procedures for the designation of national monuments under this Act. 
 
Bars the President from issuing a proclamation to designate a national monument under this Act before the final day of a 30-day period beginning when the language of the proposed proclamation is provided by the President to Congress, the governor of each state, and specified local and tribal government officials having jurisdiction over land within the proposed monument. 
 
Requires at least one public hearing and a notice and comment period after the issuance of a proclamation to designate a national monument. Requires the President to report to Congress on any hearings held, any written comments received, and the impact of such designation on communities within the boundaries of the monument, the nation's energy security, and interests, rights, and uses associated with the land within the monument. 
 
Makes a proclamation ineffective two years following its issuance, unless it is approved by an Act of Congress. 
 
Bars the issuance of a proclamation which is substantially similar to a previously issued proclamation that Congress has not approved.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-06-24
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests and Public Lands.
action_date: 2010-06-23
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2010-06-23
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E1181)
action_date: 2010-06-23
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-06-23
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to make qualified biogas property eligible for the energy credit and to permit new clean renewable energy bonds to finance qualified biogas property.

Bill: 111-hr-5581
Sponsor: Rep. Kind, Ron [D-WI-3]
Introduced: 2010-06-23 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Alternative and renewable resources
Energy research
Income tax credits
Oil and gas
Securities

Summary:
action_date: 2010-06-23
text: 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow: (1) an energy tax credit through 2016 for investment in qualified biogas property; and (2) financing of qualified biogas property with new clean renewable energy bonds. Defines &quot;qualified biogas property&quot; as property comprising a system which uses anaerobic digesters to convert biomas into a gas which consists of not less than 52% methane and which captures such gas for use as a fuel. 
 
Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to enter into an agreement with the National Renewable Energy Laboratory to undertake a study of biogas and to submit a report to Congress on such study.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-06-23
text: Referred to House Science and Technology
action_date: 2010-06-23
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, 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: 2010-06-23
text: Referred to House Ways and Means
action_date: 2010-06-23
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-06-23
text: Introduced in House
Private Property Rights Protection and Government Accountability Act

Bill: 111-hr-5582
Sponsor: Rep. Sullivan, John [R-OK-1]
Introduced: 2010-06-23 in the House
Policy area: Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Subjects: Civil actions and liability
Intergovernmental relations
Property rights
State and local finance

Summary:
action_date: 2010-06-23
text: 
Private Property Rights Protection and Government Accountability Act - Makes any state or political subdivision thereof that carries out a public taking for any private purpose in or affecting interstate commerce ineligible for any federal economic development funds for ten fiscal years.
 
Entitles any owner of private property subject to such a taking to injunctive and declaratory relief.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-06-24
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Economic Development, Public Buildings and Emergency Management.
action_date: 2010-06-23
text: Referred to House Financial Services
action_date: 2010-06-23
text: Referred to House Transportation and Infrastructure
action_date: 2010-06-23
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Transportation and Infrastructure, and Financial Services, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2010-06-23
text: Referred to House Energy and Commerce
action_date: 2010-06-23
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E1182)
action_date: 2010-06-23
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-06-23
text: Introduced in House
Cell Phone ETF Act

Bill: 111-hr-5583
Sponsor: Rep. Shea-Porter, Carol [D-NH-1]
Introduced: 2010-06-23 in the House
Policy area: Science, Technology, Communications
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Federal Communications Commission (FCC)
Telecommunication rates and fees
Telephone and wireless communication

Summary:
action_date: 2010-06-23
text: 
Cell Phone Early Termination Fee, Transparency, and Fairness Act or the Cell Phone ETF Act - Requires the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to promulgate regulations requiring, at a minimum, that providers of commercial mobile service: (1) prorate any early termination fee over the term of a subscriber's contract; and (2) link the fee to the cost to the provider of the handset provided to the subscriber, reduced by the price paid by the subscriber for the handset at the start of a subscriber's contract.
 
Prohibits construing this Act to preempt related state or local laws.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-06-23
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2010-06-23
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-06-23
text: Introduced in House
To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 500 East Whitestone Boulevard in Cedar Park, Texas, as the "Army Specialist Matthew Troy Morris Post Office Building".

Bill: 111-hr-5584
Sponsor: Rep. Carter, John R. [R-TX-31]
Introduced: 2010-06-23 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: 2010-06-23
text: Designates the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 500 East Whitestone Boulevard in Cedar Park, Texas, as the "Army Specialist Matthew Troy Morris Post Office Building."

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-06-23
text: Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.
action_date: 2010-06-23
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-06-23
text: Introduced in House
Water Assistance from International Vessels for Emergency Response Act

Bill: 111-hr-5585
Sponsor: Rep. Carter, John R. [R-TX-31]
Introduced: 2010-06-23 in the House
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Accidents
Gulf of Mexico
Licensing and registrations
Marine and coastal resources, fisheries
Marine and inland water transportation
Marine pollution
Oil and gas
Transportation safety and security

Summary:
action_date: 2010-06-23
text: 
Water Assistance from International Vessels for Emergency Response Act or WAIVER Act - Waives requirements for coastwise endorsements to a certificate of documentation in order to engage in coastwise trade for foreign vessels engaged in containment, remediation, or associated activities in connection with the mobile offshore drilling unit Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-06-24
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Coast Guard and Maritime Transportation.
action_date: 2010-06-23
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2010-06-23
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-06-23
text: Introduced in House
Equity in Excellence Act of 2010

Bill: 111-hr-5586
Sponsor: Rep. Payne, Donald M. [D-NJ-10]
Introduced: 2010-06-23 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Academic performance and assessments
Adult education and literacy
Education of the disadvantaged
Education programs funding
Elementary and secondary education
Family relationships
Teaching, teachers, curricula

Summary:
action_date: 2010-06-23
text: 
Equity in Excellence Act of 2010 - Amends title I of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to establish an Equity in Excellence Grant program authorizing the Secretary of Education to award competitive grants to eligible entities for efforts to ensure that the academic achievement rates of high-achieving students in grades one through four, who are from impoverished families and served by high-need local educational agencies (LEAs), do not fall behind the achievement rates of their more advantaged, high-achieving peers.
 
Lists as eligible grantees: (1) high-need LEAs; (2) consortia of LEAs that include high-need LEAs; and (3) partnerships composed of high-need LEAs and institutions of higher education or nonprofits that have expertise in educating gifted students.
 
Requires the use of grant funds to: (1) ensure that assessments provide diagnostic information that informs the instruction of high-achieving students; (2) implement evidence-based, innovative educational strategies, such as enrichment programs and academic acceleration strategies; (3) procure or use high-quality instructional materials; (4) train school personnel involved in teaching high-achieving students from impoverished families; and (5) conduct education and training for such students' parents that supports their children's excellence.
 
Allows the Secretary to extend such grants based on recipient performance.
 
Directs the Secretary to: (1) collect data annually comparing the longitudinal achievement levels of the students served by this Act's grants with their more advantaged peers; and (2) release such data for analysis to independent research institutions.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-09-13
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education.
action_date: 2010-06-23
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and Labor.
action_date: 2010-06-23
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-06-23
text: Introduced in House
To establish a United States Commission on Planetary Defense, and for other purposes.

Bill: 111-hr-5587
Sponsor: Rep. Rohrabacher, Dana [R-CA-46]
Introduced: 2010-06-23 in the House
Policy area: Science, Technology, Communications
Subjects: Advisory bodies
Astronomy
Congressional agencies
Congressional oversight
Emergency planning and evacuation
Government studies and investigations
International organizations and cooperation
Nuclear weapons
Spacecraft and satellites
Technology assessment

Summary:
action_date: 2010-06-23
text: 
Establishes in the legislative branch the United States Commission on Planetary Defense to: (1) review the structure, coordination, management policies, and procedures of the federal government, and as appropriate, international bodies, and nongovernmental entities, relative to the detection, characterization, mitigation, and over all response efforts to dangerous Near-Earth Objects (NEOs); (2) assess U.S. and foreign technology readiness levels required to provide effective planetary defense and make recommendations to develop required technologies, including NEO detection and characterization systems, spacecraft, nuclear devices, and laser systems; and (3) submit interim reports and a final report to the President and Congress containing such findings, conclusions, and recommendations as the Commission shall determine for corrective measures. 
 
Sets forth provisions regarding the membership, powers, and staff of the Commission. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-06-23
text: Referred to the House Committee on Science and Technology.
action_date: 2010-06-23
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-06-23
text: Introduced in House
Medicare Enrollment Protection Act of 2010

Bill: 111-hr-5588
Sponsor: Rep. Schrader, Kurt [D-OR-5]
Introduced: 2010-06-23 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Congressional oversight
Employee benefits and pensions
Health care costs and insurance
Health care coverage and access
Medicare

Summary:
action_date: 2010-06-23
text: 
Medicare Enrollment Protection Act of 2010 - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to: (1) establish a special Medicare part B (Supplementary Medical Insurance) enrollment period period for individuals enrolled in COBRA (Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act) continuation coverage who elected not to enroll under part B during the individual's initial enrollment period; (2) require a continuous open Medicare part B enrollment, apart from an initial enrollment period or a special enrollment period, during which there shall be an increase in the monthly premium; (3) provide for special enrollment periods to correct errors, misrepresentations, or the inaction of officers, employees, or agents of group health plans or plan sponsors; and (4) direct the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) to ensure appropriate coordination of Medicare part B with American Health Benefit Exchanges under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA). 
 
Directs the Comptroller General to report to Congress on enrollment in the Medicare part B program.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-06-23
text: Referred to House Ways and Means
action_date: 2010-06-23
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: 2010-06-23
text: Referred to House Energy and Commerce
action_date: 2010-06-23
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-06-23
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Foreign Affairs Reform and Restructuring Act of 1998 to reauthorize the United States Advisory Commission on Public Diplomacy.

Bill: 111-hr-5589
Sponsor: Rep. Watson, Diane E. [D-CA-33]
Introduced: 2010-06-23 in the House
Policy area: International Affairs
Subjects: Advisory bodies
Diplomacy, foreign officials, Americans abroad

Summary:
action_date: 2010-06-23
text: 
Amends the Foreign Affairs Reform and Restructuring Act of 1998 to reauthorize the United States Advisory Commission on Public Diplomacy through October 1, 2011.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-06-23
text: Referred to the House Committee on Foreign Affairs.
action_date: 2010-06-23
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-06-23
text: Introduced in House
Blackfeet Water Rights Settlement Act of 2010

Bill: 111-hr-5592
Sponsor: Rep. Rehberg, Denny [R-MT-At Large]
Introduced: 2010-06-24 in the House
Policy area: Native Americans
Subjects: Dams and canals
Forests, forestry, trees
Government trust funds
Indian claims
Indian lands and resources rights
Lakes and rivers
Montana
Water use and supply

Summary:
action_date: 2010-06-24
text: Blackfeet Water Rights Settlement Act of 2010 - Directs the Secretary of the Interior, in providing to the Blackfeet Tribe of the Blackfeet Indian Reservation of Montana the St. Mary River water right, to allocate to the Tribe 50,000 acre-feet per year of stored water in Lake Sherburne Reservoir as part of the tribal water right. Exempts the Tribe from any requirement to pay any costs associated with the allocation. Prohibits the allocation from being increased by any year-to-year carryover storage. 
Requires the Tribe and the Secretary to enter into an agreement to lease the water allocated to the Tribe for use by the Secretary for the Milk River Project.
 
 
Requires, as part of the tribal water right, the Secretary to permanently allocate to the Tribe all remaining unallocated water in Lake Elwell.
 
Directs the Secretary to carry out such activities as are necessary relating to: (1) planning, design, and construction for rehabilitation and improvement of the Blackfeet Irrigation Project; (2) the completion to authorized acreage of the Blackfeet Irrigation Project; and (3) planning, design, and construction for rehabilitation and improvement of the Four Horns Dam and Reservoir and associated delivery systems of the Blackfeet Irrigation Project.
 
Authorizes, ratifies, and confirms a specified compact and the Birch Creek Agreement.
 
Holds the tribal water right in trust by the United States for the benefit of the Tribe.
 
 
Establishes: (1) the Blackfeet Land and Water Development Fund; and (2) the Birch Creek Mitigation Fund.
 
Sets forth provisions concerning: (1) water rights in the Lewis and Clark National Forest; and (2) Milk River water rights.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-06-29
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Water and Power.
action_date: 2010-06-24
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2010-06-24
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-06-24
text: Introduced in House
To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to provide for timely access to post-mastectomy items under Medicare.

Bill: 111-hr-5593
Sponsor: Rep. Sutton, Betty [D-OH-13]
Introduced: 2010-06-24 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Cancer
Health care coverage and access
Health technology, devices, supplies
Medicare
Women's health

Summary:
action_date: 2010-06-24
text: 
Amends title XVIII (Medicare) to require payment for post-mastectomy external breast prosthesis garments regardless of whether such items are supplied to the beneficiary before or after the mastectomy or other breast cancer surgical procedure.
 
Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) to develop policies to ensure appropriate beneficiary access and utilization safeguards for such items.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-06-24
text: Referred to House Ways and Means
action_date: 2010-06-24
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: 2010-06-24
text: Referred to House Energy and Commerce
action_date: 2010-06-24
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-06-24
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Workforce Investment Act of 1998 to establish a technical school training subsidy program.

Bill: 111-hr-5594
Sponsor: Rep. Barrow, John [D-GA-12]
Introduced: 2010-06-24 in the House
Policy area: Labor and Employment
Subjects: Employment and training programs
Student aid and college costs
Vocational and technical education

Summary:
action_date: 2010-06-24
text: 
Amends the Workforce Investment Act of 1998 to require the Secretary of Labor to award competitive grants to states to provide funds to local boards for provision of technical school training subsidies in local areas through one-stop delivery systems to pay tuition costs for the career and technical education of unemployed individuals enrolled or accepted at a technical school. Limits the aggregate amount of subsidies to an individual to $2,000. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-09-13
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Higher Education, Lifelong Learning, and Competitiveness.
action_date: 2010-06-24
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and Labor.
action_date: 2010-06-24
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-06-24
text: Introduced in House
To amend section 214(b) of the Immigration and Nationality Act to create, for an alien seeking to enter the United States as a nonimmigrant to care for a relative with a serious health condition, an exemption from the presumption that the alien is an immigrant.

Bill: 111-hr-5595
Sponsor: Rep. Ellison, Keith [D-MN-5]
Introduced: 2010-06-24 in the House
Policy area: Immigration
Subjects: Immigrant health and welfare
Immigration status and procedures

Summary:
action_date: 2010-06-24
text: 
 Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to create an exemption from the presumption that an alien seeking U.S. entry is an immigrant for an alien seeking U.S. entry to care for a relative who is a U.S. citizen or lawful permanent resident with a serious health condition.
 
Requires such alien to submit an attestation from a health care provider that includes: (1) a diagnosis and treatment statement; and (2) the expected length of such care.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-06-24
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2010-06-24
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-06-24
text: Introduced in House