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American Infrastructure Investment Act of 2010

Bill: 111-hr-6181
Sponsor: Rep. Hastings, Alcee L. [D-FL-23]
Introduced: 2010-09-22 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Floods and storm protection
Income tax credits
Income tax exclusion
Income tax rates
Indian social and development programs
Infrastructure development
Interest, dividends, interest rates
Securities
Solid waste and recycling
State and local finance
Unemployment
Water use and supply

Summary:
action_date: 2010-09-22
text: 
American Infrastructure Investment Act of 2010 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to extend until January 1, 2013, the period for issuing Build America Bonds and for credits allowable to issuers of such bonds. Allows funding through such bonds for capital expenditures for levees and flood control projects.
 
Exempts private activity bonds for sewage and water supply facilities from the state volume caps applicable to such bonds. Allows Indian tribal governments to issue tax-exempt private activity bonds to provide water or sewage facilities.
 
Extends through 2011 the exemption from alternative minimum tax (AMT) treatment of interest on certain tax-exempt bonds.
 
Extends through 2011 the period for issuing recovery zone economic development bonds and recovery zone facility bonds. Requires the Secretary of the Treasury to allocate 2010 national limitations on recovery bonds based upon state unemployment statistics.
 
Allows a full offset against the AMT for new market tax credit amounts. 
 
Extends through 2011: (1) the tax exemption allowed for interest on bonds guaranteed by a federal home loan bank; and (2) small issuer rules for the allocation of tax-exempt interest expense by financial institutions.
 
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-09-22
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2010-09-22
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E1690)
action_date: 2010-09-22
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-09-22
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Federal Water Pollution Control Act to authorize the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency to make additional capitalization grants to the water pollution control revolving funds of States that adopt smart growth principles.

Bill: 111-hr-6182
Sponsor: Rep. Kratovil, Frank,  Jr. [D-MD-1]
Introduced: 2010-09-22 in the House
Policy area: Environmental Protection
Subjects: Economic development
Government trust funds
State and local finance
State and local government operations
Water quality

Summary:
action_date: 2010-09-22
text: 
Amends the Federal Water Pollution Control Act (commonly known as the Clean Water Act) to require the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), in addition to making capitalization grants for state water pollution control revolving funds, to make available additional funds for the same purposes (constructing publicly owned treatment works, implementing nonpoint source management programs, and developing and implementing conservation and management plans under the National Estuary program) for distribution among states that have adopted smart growth principles.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-09-23
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment.
action_date: 2010-09-22
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2010-09-22
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-09-22
text: Introduced in House
Federal Employees Responsible Investment Act

Bill: 111-hr-6183
Sponsor: Rep. Langevin, James R. [D-RI-2]
Introduced: 2010-09-22 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Business ethics
Financial services and investments
Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management
Securities

Summary:
action_date: 2010-09-22
text: 
Federal Employees Responsible Investment Act - Provides for the establishment of a Corporate Responsibility Stock Index Fund as an investment option under the Thrift Savings Plan (TSP). 
 
Directs the Federal Retirement Thrift Investment Board to select a minimum of one index which is a commonly recognized, passively managed index comprised of stocks based on criteria which shall at a minimum include corporate governance, environmental practices, workplace relations and benefits, product safety and impact, international operations and human rights, involvement with repressive regimes, and community relations. Requires that the index's financial track record be comparable to that of the other options available under TSP.
 
Directs that the Fund be invested in a portfolio which shall be designed such that the percentage of the Fund that is invested in each stock is the same as the percentage determined by dividing the aggregate market value of all shares of that stock by the aggregate market value of all shares of all stocks included in such index.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-09-22
text: Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.
action_date: 2010-09-22
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E1692)
action_date: 2010-09-22
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-09-22
text: Introduced in House
To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 122 North Holderrieth Boulevard in Tomball, Texas, as the "Tomball Veterans Post Office".

Bill: 111-hr-6185
Sponsor: Rep. McCaul, Michael T. [R-TX-10]
Introduced: 2010-09-22 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Congressional tributes
Government buildings, facilities, and property
Postal service
Texas
Veterans' organizations and recognition

Summary:
action_date: 2010-09-22
text: Designates the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 122 North Holderrieth Boulevard in Tomball, Texas, as the "Tomball Veterans Post Office."

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-09-22
text: Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.
action_date: 2010-09-22
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-09-22
text: Introduced in House
Cutting Earmarks And Savings Enforcement (CEASE) Act

Bill: 111-hr-6186
Sponsor: Rep. Posey, Bill [R-FL-15]
Introduced: 2010-09-22 in the House
Policy area: Congress
Subjects: Appropriations
Budget deficits and national debt
Budget process
Legislative rules and procedure

Summary:
action_date: 2010-09-22
text: 
Cutting Earmarks And Savings Enforcement (CEASE) Act - Amends the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 to require each of the chairs of the congressional budget committees to maintain a deficit reduction Discretionary Account and a deficit reduction Mandatory Account.
 
Prescribes procedures for the crediting to such accounts of the amounts of either discretionary or mandatory deficit reduction in any amendment to a bill that reduces the appropriate budget authority. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-09-22
text: Referred to House Budget
action_date: 2010-09-22
text: Referred to the Committee on Rules, and in addition to the Committee on the Budget, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2010-09-22
text: Referred to House Rules
action_date: 2010-09-22
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-09-22
text: Introduced in House
To direct the Secretary of the Army to seek to enter into certain contracts regarding roller systems.

Bill: 111-hr-6187
Sponsor: Rep. Taylor, Gene [D-MS-4]
Introduced: 2010-09-22 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Military procurement, research, weapons development

Summary:
action_date: 2010-09-22
text: 
Directs the Secretary of the Army to seek to enter into: (1) a contract with Pearson Engineering Limited of Newcastle, the United Kingdom, for the purchase or unlimited lease of the self-protective adaptive roller kit II system (SPARK) technical data package; and (2) contracts with any domestic manufacturer with the capacity to produce such system. (SPARK systems are mounted on tactical vehicles and used to defeat mines.)
 
 
Provides that if no contract is entered into: (1) with a domestic manufacturer within 30 days after entering into the Pearson contract, the Secretary shall terminate the Pearson contract; and (2) with either Pearson or a domestic manufacturer within 30 days, the Secretary shall coordinate with the Secretary of the Navy to procure the Panama City Generation Three roller system.
 
Directs the Secretary of the Army to enter into such contracts utilizing the rapid acquisition authority for urgently needed systems authorized under the Bob Stump National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2003.
 
Authorizes the Secretary of Defense (DOD) to waive such contract requirements if such Secretary: (1) determines that entering into such contracts will result in unnecessary combat casualties; and (2) notifies the congressional defense and appropriations committees of such determination, including the reasons supporting such determination.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-10-01
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Air and Land Forces.
action_date: 2010-09-22
text: Referred to the House Committee on Armed Services.
action_date: 2010-09-22
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-09-22
text: Introduced in House
Veterans' Homelessness Prevention and Early Warning Act of 2010

Bill: 111-hr-6188
Sponsor: Rep. Walz, Timothy J. [D-MN-1]
Introduced: 2010-09-22 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: 2010-09-22
text: 
Veterans' Homelessness Prevention and Early Warning Act of 2010 - Revises federal provisions relating to default procedures for loans guaranteed by the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to require the Secretary of Veterans Affairs, within seven days after receiving notification from a veteran of a defaulted loan so guaranteed, to: (1) provide the veteran with specified financial counseling and advice relating to such foreclosure; (2) notify a VA homelessness case manager of the default; and (3) ensure that such case manager develops a plan to provide alternate housing for the veteran in case of loss of the home.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-09-24
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Economic Opportunity.
action_date: 2010-09-22
text: Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2010-09-22
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-09-22
text: Introduced in House
EEOICPA Amendment Act of 2010

Bill: 111-hr-6189
Sponsor: Rep. Whitfield, Ed [R-KY-1]
Introduced: 2010-09-22 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Advisory bodies
Department of Energy
Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management
Government information and archives
Government liability
Hazardous wastes and toxic substances
Public contracts and procurement
Radioactive wastes and releases
Worker safety and health

Summary:
action_date: 2010-09-22
text: 
EEOICPA Amendment Act of 2010 - Amends the Energy Employees Occupational Illness Compensation Program Act of 2000 to require the President to establish an Advisory Board on Toxic Substances and Worker Health.
 
Requires the Board to advise the Secretary of Labor, the Secretary of Energy (DOE), and the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) on the review and approval of the site exposure matrix (SEM) used to determine the eligibility of DOE contractor employee claims for compensation for illnesses resulting from exposure to toxic substances.
 
(The SEM is a Department of Labor database on the presence of toxic substances at DOE and Radiation Exposure Compensation Act [RECA] facilities, as well as of information on scientifically established links between toxic substances and illnesses.)


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-12-20
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration, Citizenship, Refugees, Border Security, and International Law.
action_date: 2010-11-18
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Workforce Protections.
action_date: 2010-09-22
text: Referred to House Education and Labor
action_date: 2010-09-22
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committee on 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: 2010-09-22
text: Referred to House Judiciary
action_date: 2010-09-22
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-09-22
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Small Business Jobs Act of 2010 to include certain construction and land development loans in the definition of small business lending.

Bill: 111-hr-6191
Sponsor: Rep. Miller, Brad [D-NC-13]
Introduced: 2010-09-23 in the House
Policy area: Commerce
Subjects: Building construction
Government lending and loan guarantees
Land transfers
Small business

Summary:
action_date: 2010-09-23
text: 
Amends the Small Business Jobs Act of 2010 to include in the definition of small business lending under such Act loans secured by real estate: (1) that are made to finance land development that is preparatory to erecting new structures, including improving land, laying sewers, and laying water pipes, or the on-site construction of industrial, commercial, residential, or farm buildings; (2) that is vacant land, except land known to be used or usable for agricultural purposes; (3) the proceeds of which are to be used to acquire and improve developed or undeveloped property; or (4) that are made under title I or title X of the National Housing Act.
 
Makes such inclusion applicable only to loans extended to small businesses in the construction industry.

action_date: 2010-09-28
text: 

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

 
Amends the Small Business Jobs Act of 2010 to include in the definition of small business lending under such Act loans secured by real estate: (1) that are made to finance land development that is preparatory to erecting new structures, including improving land, laying sewers, and laying water pipes, or the on-site construction of industrial, commercial, residential, or farm buildings; (2) that is vacant land, except land known to be used or usable for agricultural purposes; (3) the proceeds of which are to be used to acquire and improve developed or undeveloped property; or (4) that are made under title I or title X of the National Housing Act.
 
Makes such inclusion applicable only to loans extended to small businesses in the construction industry.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-09-29
text: Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship.
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 H7081)
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 H7081)
action_date: 2010-09-28
text: DEBATE - The House proceeded with forty minutes of debate on H.R. 6191.
action_date: 2010-09-28
text: Considered under suspension of the rules. (consideration: CR H7081-7082)
action_date: 2010-09-28
text: Mr. Miller (NC) moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill.
action_date: 2010-09-23
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2010-09-23
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-09-23
text: Introduced in House
Foster Youth Financial Security Act of 2010

Bill: 111-hr-6193
Sponsor: Rep. Langevin, James R. [D-RI-2]
Introduced: 2010-09-23 in the House
Policy area: Families
Subjects: Adoption and foster care
Bank accounts, deposits, capital
Child safety and welfare
Consumer credit
Elementary and secondary education
Financial literacy
Health care costs and insurance
Health care coverage and access
Higher education
Housing finance and home ownership
Licensing and registrations
Motor vehicles
Student aid and college costs
Vocational and technical education

Summary:
action_date: 2010-09-23
text: 
Foster Youth Financial Security Act of 2010 - Amends part E (Foster Care and Adoption Assistance) of the Social Security Act, with respect to the John H. Chafee Foster Care Independence Program, to: (1) require states to take certain additional steps to assist children in foster care in making the transition to independent living, such as providing credit reports and helping a child age 14 or older obtain a driver's license; (2) establish individual development accounts and custodial accounts; (3) require state evaluations of specific services provided to assist the transition to independent living; (4) eliminate the use of a Social Security number as an identifier for a foster child; and (5) authorize additional appropriations to enable states to take such additional steps.
 
Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS), on request, to provide the state agency with technical assistance in carrying out this Act. Authorizes the Secretary to award grants to and enter into contracts with qualified nonprofit or other community-based service providers with substantive expertise to provide the assistance.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-09-29
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E1833-1834)
action_date: 2010-09-23
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2010-09-23
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-09-23
text: Introduced in House
National Environmental Education Reauthorization Act of 2010

Bill: 111-hr-6194
Sponsor: Rep. Polis, Jared [D-CO-2]
Introduced: 2010-09-23 in the House
Policy area: Environmental Protection
Subjects: Advisory bodies
Alternative and renewable resources
Climate change and greenhouse gases
Education programs funding
Elementary and secondary education
Energy efficiency and conservation
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
Environmental health
Executive agency funding and structure
Government information and archives
Higher education
Student aid and college costs
Teaching, teachers, curricula

Summary:
action_date: 2010-09-23
text: 
National Environmental Education Reauthorization Act of 2010 - Reauthorizes appropriations for, and revises, the National Environmental Education Act. 
 
Revises the duties of the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) Office of Environmental Education, including by requiring the Office to: (1) develop and support programs to improve the understanding of the benefits of exposure to the natural environment and programs that educate the public on the benefits of reducing dependence on nonrenewable forms of energy promote efforts to prepare citizens for employment in environmentally friendly fields that contribute to healthy communities; and (2) promote research, development, and evaluation of effective approaches to achieving an environmentally literate population. 
 
Revises: (1) the Environmental Education and Training Program by expanding the program's functions and activities; (2) the Environmental Education Grants program by expanding its eligibility requirements; (3) environment internships and fellowships by limiting training opportunities to training with EPA staff (currently agency staff); (4) environmental education awards, including by removing requirements that specific awards be given; and (6) the National Environmental Education and Training Foundation, including by renaming it as the National Environmental Education Foundation.
 
Authorizes appropriations to the EPA Administrator for FY2010-FY2021 to carry out such Act and revises how funds shall be distributed. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-11-18
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Higher Education, Lifelong Learning, and Competitiveness.
action_date: 2010-11-18
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education.
action_date: 2010-09-23
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and Labor.
action_date: 2010-09-23
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-09-23
text: Introduced in House
Ensuring Justice Along the Southwest Border Act of 2010

Bill: 111-hr-6195
Sponsor: Rep. Miller, Gary G. [R-CA-42]
Introduced: 2010-09-23 in the House
Policy area: Law
Subjects: Arizona
Border security and unlawful immigration
California
Criminal investigation, prosecution, interrogation
Federal district courts
Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management
Judges
Law enforcement administration and funding
Law enforcement officers
Lawyers and legal services
New Mexico
Texas

Summary:
action_date: 2010-09-23
text: 
Ensuring Justice Along the Southwest Border Act of 2010 - Directs the President to appoint additional district judges for certain judicial districts in Arizona, California, New Mexico, and Texas, including temporary judgeships in Arizona and California. 
 
Directs the Attorney General to allocate any amounts appropriated pursuant to this Act for the hiring and training of special assistant U.S. attorneys.
 
Requires such funds to be used to: (1) train local prosecutors in techniques used to prosecute border-related offenses cases; (2) train local prosecutors in federal and state laws relating to border-related offenses; (3) cross-designate local prosecutors as special assistant U.S. attorneys; and (4) hire additional local prosecutors who, with the approval of the U.S. attorney, shall be cross-designated to prosecute both federal and state border-related offenses cases.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-12-20
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Courts and Competition Policy.
action_date: 2010-09-23
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2010-09-23
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-09-23
text: Introduced in House
To amend title 23, United States Code, to modify the deadline for filing a claim seeking judicial review of a permit, license, or approval issued by a Federal agency for a highway or public transportation capital project, and for other purposes.

Bill: 111-hr-6196
Sponsor: Rep. Young, Don [R-AK-At Large]
Introduced: 2010-09-23 in the House
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Judicial procedure and administration
Judicial review and appeals
Licensing and registrations
Public transit
Roads and highways

Summary:
action_date: 2010-09-23
text: 
Reduces from 180 days to 90 days after publication of a final action notice in the Federal Register the deadline for filing a claim seeking judicial review of a permit, license, or approval issued by a federal agency for a highway or public transportation capital project.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-09-24
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Highways and Transit.
action_date: 2010-09-23
text: Referred to House Judiciary
action_date: 2010-09-23
text: Referred to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, 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: 2010-09-23
text: Referred to House Transportation and Infrastructure
action_date: 2010-09-23
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-09-23
text: Introduced in House