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Farm Credit Expansion Act

Bill: 111-hr-6057
Sponsor: Rep. Owens, William L. [D-NY-23]
Introduced: 2010-07-30 in the House
Policy area: Agriculture and Food
Subjects: Agricultural prices, subsidies, credit
Disaster relief and insurance
Family relationships
Government lending and loan guarantees

Summary:
action_date: 2010-07-30
text: 
Farm Credit Expansion Act - Amends the Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act to expand eligibility for Farm Service Agency operating loans, farm ownership loans, conservation loans, and emergency loans. 
 
Deems specified embedded entities (an entity owned wholly or in part by another entity) eligible for farm ownership and operating loans. 
 
Deems specified operating-only entities eligible for farm ownership loans.
 
Deems an entity that is an owner-operator or operator to meet the direct ownership loan requirement if it is owned in whole or in part by other entities and each individual that is an owner of the family farm involved has an ownership interest in each of the other entities.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-11-16
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Conservation, Credit, Energy, and Research.
action_date: 2010-07-30
text: Referred to the House Committee on Agriculture.
action_date: 2010-07-30
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-07-30
text: Introduced in House
Wounded Warrior and Military Survivor Housing Assistance Act of 2010

Bill: 111-hr-6058
Sponsor: Rep. Paulsen, Erik [R-MN-3]
Introduced: 2010-07-30 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Government lending and loan guarantees
Housing finance and home ownership
Veterans' loans, housing, homeless programs

Summary:
action_date: 2010-07-30
text: 
Wounded Warrior and Military Survivor Housing Assistance Act of 2010 - Directs the Secretaries of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) and of Veterans Affairs (VA) to ensure that the housing assistance programs they administer, including mortgage insurance and home loan programs, are accessible by and available to, and address the particular needs and circumstances of, veterans and members of the Armed Forces who have service-connected injuries and survivors and dependents of such veterans and members.

action_date: 2010-09-28
text: 

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

 
Wounded Warrior and Military Survivor Housing Assistance Act of 2010 - Directs the Secretaries of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) and of Veterans Affairs (VA) to ensure that the housing assistance programs they administer, including mortgage insurance and home loan programs, are accessible by and available to, and address the particular needs and circumstances of, veterans and members of the Armed Forces who have service-connected injuries and survivors and dependents of such veterans and members.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-09-29
text: Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.
action_date: 2010-09-28
text: Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
action_date: 2010-09-28
text: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill Agreed to by voice vote. (text: CR H7082)
action_date: 2010-09-28
text: Passed/agreed to in House: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill Agreed to by voice vote.(text: CR H7082)
action_date: 2010-09-28
text: DEBATE - The House proceeded with forty minutes of debate on H.R. 6058.
action_date: 2010-09-28
text: Considered under suspension of the rules. (consideration: CR H7082-7083)
action_date: 2010-09-28
text: Mr. Minnick moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill.
action_date: 2010-09-17
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Economic Opportunity.
action_date: 2010-07-30
text: Referred to House Veterans' Affairs
action_date: 2010-07-30
text: Referred to the Committee on Financial Services, and in addition to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2010-07-30
text: Referred to House Financial Services
action_date: 2010-07-30
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-07-30
text: Introduced in House
Federal First Offender Improvement Act of 2010

Bill: 111-hr-6059
Sponsor: Resident Commissioner Pierluisi, Pedro R. [D-PR-At Large]
Introduced: 2010-07-30 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Criminal procedure and sentencing
Drug trafficking and controlled substances

Summary:
action_date: 2010-07-30
text: 
Federal First Offender Improvement Act of 2010 - Amends the federal criminal code to extend the pre-judgment probation and expungement procedures for simple possession of a controlled substance under the Controlled Substances Act to individuals who are convicted under such Act of drug trafficking or of attempting or conspiring to commit a drug offense. Sets forth new requirements for granting pre-judgment probation, including that: (1) the offender did not use violence or credible threats of violence or possess a firearm or other dangerous weapon (or induce another participant to do so) while committing the offense; (2) the offense did not result in death or serious injury to any person; (3) the offender was not an organizer, leader, manager, or supervisor of others in the offense and was not engaged in a continuing criminal enterprise; and (4) the offender has not been previously convicted of a crime of violence or other offense punishable by a prison term of more than one year. Increases the required period of probation from one to two years. 
 
Eliminates the requirement that an offender seeking expungement of a record of a disposition be less than 21 years old at the time of the offense. 


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 the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2010-07-30
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-07-30
text: Introduced in House
American Textile Technology Innovation and Research for Exportation (ATTIRE) Act

Bill: 111-hr-6060
Sponsor: Rep. Price, David E. [D-NC-4]
Introduced: 2010-07-30 in the House
Policy area: Science, Technology, Communications
Subjects: Advanced technology and technological innovations
Competitiveness, trade promotion, trade deficits
Education programs funding
Higher education
Industrial policy and productivity
Manufacturing
Product development and innovation
Research administration and funding
Research and development
Technology transfer and commercialization

Summary:
action_date: 2010-07-30
text: 
American Textile Technology Innovation and Research for Exportation (ATTIRE) Act - Directs the Secretary of Commerce to establish a grant program to fund textile research and innovation in the U.S. textile and fiber products industry and to promote increased U.S. textile exports.
 
Limits eligibility under such grant program to institutions of higher education and not-for-profit research institutions, including not-for-profit industry associations whose mission is to support textile research and innovation.
 
Gives preference in the award of such grants to collaborative research organizations that emphasize peer-reviewed research by leading academic and industry experts. 
 
Requires grant funds to be used for research and development activities that achieve at least one of the goals described in this Act, including to: (1) build and sustain innovation and competitiveness in the U.S. textile industry; (2) contribute to transforming the U.S. textile and apparel industry into a highly flexible supply chain; and (3) facilitate the creation of domestic jobs in the textile industry.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-08-10
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Technology and Innovation.
action_date: 2010-07-30
text: Referred to the House Committee on Science and Technology.
action_date: 2010-07-30
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-07-30
text: Introduced in House
Criminal Alien Removal Act of 2010

Bill: 111-hr-6062
Sponsor: Rep. Rooney, Thomas J. [R-FL-16]
Introduced: 2010-07-30 in the House
Policy area: Immigration
Subjects: Border security and unlawful immigration
Correctional facilities and imprisonment
Criminal justice information and records
Detention of persons
Government information and archives
Immigration status and procedures
Intergovernmental relations
Law enforcement administration and funding
State and local government operations

Summary:
action_date: 2010-07-30
text: 
Criminal Alien Removal Act of 2010 - Directs the the Secretary of Homeland Security (DHS) to carry out a Criminal Alien Program to: (1) identify incarcerated criminal aliens; (2) ensure that such aliens are not released into the community; and (3) remove such aliens from the United States upon release.
 
Makes a state that does not cooperate with the Secretary to carry out the Program ineligible for Department of Justice (DOJ) law enforcement grant programs (including the criminal alien incarceration program under the Immigration and Nationality Act). 
 
Authorizes appropriate state officials to: (1) hold an illegal alien for up to 14 days after completion of the term of incarceration in order to effectuate transfer to federal custody if the alien is removable or not lawfully present in the United States; and (2) issue a detainer permitting an alien who completes a term of incarceration to be held until U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement takes the alien into custody.
 
Directs the Secretary to carry out the Program as follows: (1) by December 31, 2012, identify each criminal alien incarcerated in a federal facility who will be deportable or removable upon release; and (2) by December 31, 2014, identify each criminal alien serving a term of three or more years in a state or local facility who will be deportable or removable upon release.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-09-20
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration, Citizenship, Refugees, Border Security, and International Law.
action_date: 2010-09-20
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.
action_date: 2010-07-30
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2010-07-30
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-07-30
text: Introduced in House
School Safety Enhancements Act of 2010

Bill: 111-hr-6063
Sponsor: Rep. Rothman, Steven R. [D-NJ-9]
Introduced: 2010-07-30 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Advisory bodies
Child safety and welfare
Crime prevention
Criminal justice information and records
Education programs funding
Elementary and secondary education
Higher education
Law enforcement administration and funding

Summary:
action_date: 2010-07-30
text: 
School Safety Enhancements Act of 2010 - Amends the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 to: (1) allow the installation and use of surveillance equipment in schools under the matching grant program for school security; (2) allow the use of grant funds to establish hotlines or tiplines for reporting potentially dangerous students or situations; (3) prohibit the federal matching share of program costs from exceeding 75%; and (4) revise application requirements for school security grants.
 
Requires the Director of the Bureau of Justice Assistance and the Secretary of Education to establish an interagency task force to develop and promulgate advisory school safety guidelines.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-09-20
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration, Citizenship, Refugees, Border Security, and International Law.
action_date: 2010-07-30
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2010-07-30
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-07-30
text: Introduced in House
Commuter Bill of Rights Act of 2010

Bill: 111-hr-6064
Sponsor: Rep. Ruppersberger, C. A. Dutch [D-MD-2]
Introduced: 2010-07-30 in the House
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Advisory bodies
Commuting
Consumer affairs
Department of Transportation
Emergency planning and evacuation
Public transit
Transportation programs funding
Transportation safety and security

Summary:
action_date: 2010-07-30
text: 
Commuter Bill of Rights Act of 2010 - Establishes the Commuter Transit Rights Commission.
 
Requires the Commission to make recommendations to the Secretary of Transportation in the form of a Commuter Bill of Rights which includes: (1) a list of situations in which a provider of public transportation will implement its contingency plan during an emergency; (2) recommendations for minimum standards that a plan must meet, including the provision of food, water, restrooms, ventilation, and medical services, as well as the distribution of certain critical information to commuters on a disabled or delayed train or other transit vehicle; and (3) recommendations for federal regulations on commuter safety during emergencies.
 
Authorizes the Secretary to provide competitive grants to providers of public transportation to develop and implement contingency plans that fulfill the Bill of Rights.
 
Requires the Secretary to review the Bill of Rights and issue regulations to require providers of public transportation to comply with the Bill's recommended standards.
 
Requires the Secretary to use the Bill of Rights to develop related federal policies.
 
Authorizes the Secretary to assess penalties or sanctions against providers of public transportation who fail to submit, obtain approval of, or adhere to its contingency plan.
 
Requires the Secretary to establish a consumer hotline telephone number for public transportation complaints.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-08-02
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Highways and Transit.
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
United States Secret Service Retirement Act of 2010

Bill: 111-hr-6065
Sponsor: Rep. Ruppersberger, C. A. Dutch [D-MD-2]
Introduced: 2010-07-30 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Department of Homeland Security
District of Columbia
Employee benefits and pensions
Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management
Law enforcement officers
Office of Personnel Management (OPM)

Summary:
action_date: 2010-07-30
text: 
United States Secret Service Retirement Act of 2010 - Authorizes an individual who was hired as a member of the United States Secret Service Division or the United States Secret Service Uniformed Division from January 1, 1984, through December 31, 1986, who has actively performed duties other than clerical for 10 or more years directly related to the Secret Service's protection mission, who is serving as a member of the Secret Service Division or the Secret Service Uniformed Division and participating in the Federal Employees' Retirement System on the date of enactment of this Act, and who has an amount in his or her Thrift Savings Fund account that exceeds that individual's transition cost and that is available for withdrawal immediately before filing an election, to file an election to transition to the District of Columbia Police and Firefighters Retirement and Disability System (DCPFRDS).
 
 Directs the Secret Service to notify Secret Service employees regarding: (1) their eligibility to file such an election; (2) transition costs; and (3) requirements to complete withdrawal forms and to provide for the transfer of such costs from the employee's Thrift Savings Fund account. Requires the Office of Pay and Retirement Services of the District of Columbia to transmit to the Secret Service determinations regarding such transition costs.
 
Requires: (1) the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) to prescribe regulations to provide for transition of covered employees from the Federal Employees' Retirement System to the Civil Service Retirement System; and (2) the District of Columbia government to provide for coverage of such employees in the DCPFRDS. Sets forth provisions regarding: (1) the transfer of Civil Service Retirement and Disability Fund funds of a covered employee to the Contributions for Annuity Benefits, United States Secret Service appropriations account of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS); and (2) the forfeiture of of a covered employee's Social Security contributions upon conversion. 


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 Oversight and Government Reform, 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 Oversight and Government Reform
action_date: 2010-07-30
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-07-30
text: Introduced in House
Preventing Social Security Fraud Act of 2010

Bill: 111-hr-6066
Sponsor: Rep. Sánchez, Linda T. [D-CA-39]
Introduced: 2010-07-30 in the House
Policy area: Social Welfare
Subjects: Disability assistance
Social security and elderly assistance

Summary:
action_date: 2010-07-30
text: 
Preventing Social Security Fraud Act of 2010 - Amends title II (Old Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance) (OASDI) of the Social Security Act to require an insurance issuer providing private disability insurance coverage, at the time at which the issuer takes specified action which constitutes a presumed entitlement benefit reduction, to certify to the Commissioner of Social Security that there is reasonable cause to assume that the individual covered by the disability insurance is under a disability and is, or upon application would be, entitled to disability insurance benefits.
 
Specifies such an action as one which has the effect of reducing an individual's covered benefits by reason of the individual's failure to: (1) apply for disability insurance benefits or child's, widow's, or widower's insurance benefits based on disability; or (2) timely request a hearing (or an administrative review prior to such a hearing) with respect to such benefits.
 
Requires the Commissioner to include on any benefits application form a question as to whether the applicant has been requested by the insurance issuer, or any other person on the issuer's behalf, to file the application.
 
Provides penalties for furnishing or causing to be furnished false information in such a certification or failing to timely provide such certification in order to willfully, knowingly, and with intent to deceive the Commissioner.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-07-30
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2010-07-30
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E1533)
action_date: 2010-07-30
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-07-30
text: Introduced in House
IDA Protection Act of 2010

Bill: 111-hr-6067
Sponsor: Rep. Sánchez, Linda T. [D-CA-39]
Introduced: 2010-07-30 in the House
Policy area: Social Welfare
Subjects: Bank accounts, deposits, capital
Business investment and capital
Coal
Higher education
Housing finance and home ownership
Income tax deductions
Oil and gas
Poverty and welfare assistance
Small business
Student aid and college costs

Summary:
action_date: 2010-07-30
text: 
IDA Protection Act of 2010 - Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) to make grants to qualified entities for individual development accounts from funds authorized to be appropriated in FY2011 and FY2012. Provides that: (1) the rules applicable to such grants shall be similar to the rules of the Assets for Independence Act; and (2) funds for such grants shall be supplemental to other federal, state, and local funding for such accounts.
 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to deny a tax deduction for income attributable to the sale, exchange, or other disposition of coal, other hard mineral fossil fuels (including lignite and oil shale), or any primary product thereof.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-07-30
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2010-07-30
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E1508-1509)
action_date: 2010-07-30
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-07-30
text: Introduced in House
Paperwork Assistance Act

Bill: 111-hr-6068
Sponsor: Rep. Sanchez, Loretta [D-CA-47]
Introduced: 2010-07-30 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Government information and archives

Summary:
action_date: 2010-07-30
text: 
 Paperwork Assistance Act - Requires a federal agency to inform any person receiving a collection of information from the agency of the agency's contact information, including a website and a telephone number, by which a person may obtain a specific contact person responsible for answering questions about the information collection and other information to assist in responding to the information collection.

Requires the Director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) to include in the Director's annual report on information policy activities: (1) the status of implementation by agencies of the requirements of this Act; and (2) a description of how each agency has responded to complaints related to the agency's compliance with such requirements.

Makes this Act's contact information requirements applicable to new or revised collections of information approved by the Director beginning one year after enactment.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-07-30
text: Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.
action_date: 2010-07-30
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-07-30
text: Introduced in House
Making Home Affordable Improvements Act

Bill: 111-hr-6069
Sponsor: Rep. Sarbanes, John P. [D-MD-3]
Introduced: 2010-07-30 in the House
Policy area: Housing and Community Development
Subjects: Business records
Government information and archives
Housing finance and home ownership

Summary:
action_date: 2010-07-30
text: 
Making Home Affordable Improvements Act - Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to provide assistance in specified amounts to the National Foreclosure Mitigation Counseling Program (Program) of the Neighborhood Reinvestment Corporation (NRC) for foreclosure mitigation counseling activities in connection with the Home Affordable Modification Program (HAMP) of the Making Home Affordable initiative.
 
Directs the Program to distribute funds to grantee housing counseling agencies in good standing.
 
 Directs the NRC to establish a procedure by which the Program shall direct funds to such agencies.
 
Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to: (1) revise HAMP guidelines to provide for monthly collection by the Secretary of the Treasury from each participating mortgage servicer and lender of comprehensive data on its activities; and (2) report such data to the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), report it to Congress, and make it publicly available on the Treasury World Wide Web site.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-07-30
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2010-07-30
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E1527-1528)
action_date: 2010-07-30
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-07-30
text: Introduced in House