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Sex Offender Notification of International Travel Act

Bill: 111-hr-6266
Sponsor: Rep. Sanchez, Loretta [D-CA-47]
Introduced: 2010-09-29 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Border security and unlawful immigration
Computer security and identity theft
Crime prevention
Crimes against children
Criminal investigation, prosecution, interrogation
Criminal justice information and records
Criminal procedure and sentencing
Department of Homeland Security
Executive agency funding and structure
Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management
Government information and archives
Law enforcement administration and funding
Law enforcement officers
Research and development
Sex offenses
Travel and tourism
Veterans' education, employment, rehabilitation
Youth employment and child labor

Summary:
action_date: 2010-09-29
text: 
Sex Offender Notification of International Travel Act - Amends the Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act to require sex offenders required to register under such Act to notify their residential jurisdictions of their intent to travel from the United States to another country, regardless of the duration of the travel.
 
Requires the Attorney General, in consultation with the Secretary of Homeland Security (DHS), to develop an international travel notification form to obtain information about sex offenders traveling outside the United States, including each such offender's name, address, social security number, email addresses, citizenship, passport or passport card number, and travel itinerary and the purpose of the trip. 
 
Establishes: (1) a Cyber Crimes Center (CCC) in the United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement Office of DHS to address criminal acts crossing U.S. borders through cyberspace; and (2) the Child Exploitation Investigations Center within the CCC to coordinate all agency child exploitation initiatives relating to child exploitation, child trafficking, and forced child labor. Authorizes the CCC to create and advance public awareness campaigns to further its mission.
 
Directs the Attorney General, in consultation with the DHS Secretary, to conduct research and development activities for the prevention and investigation of child exploitation crimes.
 
Amends the federal criminal code to extend the authority to issue administrative subpoenas in federal offenses involving the sexual exploitation or abuse of children to the DHS Secretary and the Postmaster General. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-12-20
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.
action_date: 2010-09-29
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2010-09-29
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-09-29
text: Introduced in House
Complete the Networx Telecommunications Transition Act

Bill: 111-hr-6267
Sponsor: Rep. Towns, Edolphus [D-NY-10]
Introduced: 2010-09-29 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Broadcasting, cable, digital technologies
Internet and video services
Internet, web applications, social media
Public contracts and procurement
Telephone and wireless communication

Summary:
action_date: 2010-09-29
text: 
Complete the Networx Telecommunications Transition Act - Requires federal agencies, to the maximum extent practicable, to acquire all telecommunications services under the Networx contracts of the General Services Administration (GSA). Precludes the GSA Administrator, to the maximum extent practicable, from accepting any offer for an FTS2001 (Federal Technology Service 2001) contract unless the services are at a price that is equal to or less than the price of comparable services under the Networx contacts.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-09-29
text: Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.
action_date: 2010-09-29
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-09-29
text: Introduced in House
Wage Theft Prevention and Community Partnership Act

Bill: 111-hr-6268
Sponsor: Rep. Hare, Phil [D-IL-17]
Introduced: 2010-09-29 in the House
Policy area: Labor and Employment
Subjects: Employment discrimination and employee rights
Government trust funds
Labor standards
Labor-management relations
Performance measurement
Public-private cooperation
Wages and earnings

Summary:
action_date: 2010-09-29
text: 
Wage Theft Prevention and Community Partnership Act - Authorizes the Secretary of Labor to award one- to three-year renewable grants, on a competitive basis, to eligible partners to prevent wage and hour violations of the Fair Labor Standards Act, the Migrant and Seasonal Agricultural Worker Protection Act, or any related regulations, or violations of any other law enforced by the Wage and Hour Division of the Department of Labor by: (1) informing workers of their rights and the remedies available to them; and (2) expanding and improving cooperative efforts between agencies charged with enforcing wage and hour requirements and employers and their employees.
 
Makes eligible for such grants such partners as: (1) not-for-profit community organizations dedicated to combating poverty and preventing abuse of wage and hour laws; (2) labor organizations; and (3) Joint Labor Management Cooperative Committees established under the Labor Management Relations Act, 1947.
 
Directs the Secretary to establish a Wage Theft Prevention Fund to fund such grants.
 
Prohibits the award of such a grant to: (1) any entity that infringes upon the organizational and collective bargaining rights guaranteed by the National Labor Relations Act; or (2) the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN) or any of its subsidiaries.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-11-18
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Workforce Protections.
action_date: 2010-09-29
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and Labor.
action_date: 2010-09-29
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-09-29
text: Introduced in House
To amend title 38, United States Code, to expand eligibility for burial in national cemeteries for certain members of the reserve components of the Armed Forces and National Guard, and to increase the amount payable by the Secretary of Veterans Affairs for the burial and funeral expenses of certain veterans.

Bill: 111-hr-6269
Sponsor: Rep. Shea-Porter, Carol [D-NH-1]
Introduced: 2010-09-29 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Cemeteries and funerals
Military education and training
National Guard and reserves

Summary:
action_date: 2010-09-29
text: 
Makes eligible for burial in a national cemetery any member of the reserves, including the Army or Air National Guard, who performed active duty for training and was discharged or released from such duty under conditions other than dishonorable. Applies to such duty the same minimum service requirements applicable to a period of active duty.
 
Increases from $300 to $500 the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) payment for funeral expenses of a veteran who: (1) at the time of death was in receipt of veterans' disability compensation or pension, or was a veteran of any war or was discharged or released from active duty for a disability incurred in the line of duty; or (2) dies in a VA hospital, nursing home, or domiciliary care facility.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-09-29
text: Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2010-09-29
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-09-29
text: Introduced in House
MADE Act

Bill: 111-hr-6270
Sponsor: Rep. Kildee, Dale E. [D-MI-5]
Introduced: 2010-09-29 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Buy American requirements
Monuments and memorials
Public contracts and procurement

Summary:
action_date: 2010-09-29
text: 
Monuments Assembled and Domestically Engineered Act or the MADE Act - Requires a commemorative work in the District of Columbia and its environs to be constructed using: (1) unmanufactured material mined or produced in the United States; and (2) material manufactured in the United States substantially all from articles, materials, or supplies mined, produced, or manufactured in the United States. 
 
Requires the Secretary of the Interior or the Administrator of General Services (GSA), before issuing a permit for the construction of such a work, to determine that the contract documents demonstrate that the material to be used in its construction complies with such requirement.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-10-12
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests and Public Lands.
action_date: 2010-09-29
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2010-09-29
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-09-29
text: Introduced in House
South Utah Valley Electric Conveyance Act

Bill: 111-hr-6271
Sponsor: Rep. Chaffetz, Jason [R-UT-3]
Introduced: 2010-09-29 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Electric power generation and transmission
Land transfers
Utah

Summary:
action_date: 2010-09-29
text: 
South Utah Valley Electric Conveyance Act - Requires the Secretary of the Interior, insofar as the Strawberry Water Users Association conveyed its interest in an electric distribution system to the South Utah Valley Electric Service District, to convey and assign to the District: (1) all interest of the United States in all fixtures owned by the United States as part of the electric distribution system and the federal lands and interests where the fixtures are located; (2) license for use in perpetuity of the shared power poles; and (3) licenses for use and access in perpetuity to specified project lands and interests and corridors where federal lands and interests are abutting public streets and roads and can provide access to facilities. 
 
Requires the District to assume all liability from the United States for the administration, operation, maintenance, and replacement of such electric distribution system. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-10-12
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Water and Power.
action_date: 2010-09-29
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2010-09-29
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-09-29
text: Introduced in House
Servicemember Homeowner Assistance Program Extension Act

Bill: 111-hr-6272
Sponsor: Rep. Giffords, Gabrielle [D-AZ-8]
Introduced: 2010-09-29 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Housing finance and home ownership
Military personnel and dependents

Summary:
action_date: 2010-09-29
text: 
Servicemember Homeowner Assistance Program Extension Act - Amends the Demonstration Cities and Metropolitan Development Act of 1966 to provide a specific date of September 30, 2012, for the expiration of homeowners assistance provided through the Department of Defense (DOD) for members of the Armed Forces permanently reassigned to a duty station or home port outside a 50-mile radius of the member's home base or installation.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-10-20
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Military Personnel.
action_date: 2010-09-29
text: Referred to House Financial Services
action_date: 2010-09-29
text: Referred to the Committee on Armed Services, and in addition to the Committee on 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: 2010-09-29
text: Referred to House Armed Services
action_date: 2010-09-29
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-09-29
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act to exempt the application of pesticides subject to that Act, when applied in conformance with that Act, from certain permit requirements under the Federal Water Pollution Control Act, and for other purposes.

Bill: 111-hr-6273
Sponsor: Rep. Peterson, Collin C. [D-MN-7]
Introduced: 2010-09-29 in the House
Policy area: Environmental Protection
Subjects: Hazardous wastes and toxic substances
Licensing and registrations
Pest management
Water quality

Summary:
action_date: 2010-09-29
text: 
Amends the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA) and the Federal Water Pollution Control Act (commonly known as the Clean Water Act) to prohibit the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) from requiring a national pollutant discharge elimination system permit under the Clean Water Act, or directly or indirectly requiring any state to require a permit, for the application of any pesticide subject to FIFRA if the pesticide is applied in conformance with FIFRA.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-11-16
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Horticulture and Organic Agriculture.
action_date: 2010-09-30
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment.
action_date: 2010-09-29
text: Referred to House Agriculture
action_date: 2010-09-29
text: Referred to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, and in addition to the Committee on Agriculture, 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: 2010-09-29
text: Referred to House Transportation and Infrastructure
action_date: 2010-09-29
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-09-29
text: Introduced in House
INSPIRES Act

Bill: 111-hr-6274
Sponsor: Rep. Davis, Susan A. [D-CA-53]
Introduced: 2010-09-29 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Academic performance and assessments
Education of the disadvantaged
Education programs funding
Elementary and secondary education
Government information and archives
Performance measurement
School administration
Teaching, teachers, curricula

Summary:
action_date: 2010-09-29
text: 
Investing in New and Supportive Pathways to Improve and Reward Educators in our Schools Act or INSPIRES Act - Amends the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to require each state receiving school improvement funds to: (1) define teacher and principal effectiveness and establish performance ratings; (2) demonstrate that it has developed, in collaboration with teachers and principals, a model teacher and principal evaluation program; (3) demonstrate that each of its local educational agencies (LEAs) has adopted a teacher and principal evaluation program; and (4) demonstrate that each LEA is actively collaborating with teachers and principals in developing and making annual improvements to such program.
 
Requires teacher evaluations to: (1) emphasize student academic growth; (2) include observations of the teacher's classroom performance; (3) rate teachers using at least four performance categories; and (4) provide results that are comparable across all teachers within the LEA.
 
Requires principal evaluations to: (1) emphasize student academic growth; (2) factor in their school's graduation rates; (3) assess the principal's success in recruiting, developing, evaluating, and retaining effective teachers; (4) assess the principal's leadership abilities through observations and other relevant data; (5) rate principals using at least four performance categories; and (6) provide results that are comparable across all principals within the LEA.
 
Requires states and LEAs to report the number and percentage of teachers and principals in each performance category within their respective jurisdictions overall, and at their LEAs and schools that have the highest and lowest poverty rates or the highest and lowest percentages of minority students.
 
Directs the Secretary of Education to: (1) recognize each LEA that has innovative, high-quality, and effective teacher or principal evaluation programs that lead to professional development and improved student performance; and (2) establish a clearinghouse to share the best practices of such programs with educators.
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-11-18
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education.
action_date: 2010-09-29
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and Labor.
action_date: 2010-09-29
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-09-29
text: Introduced in House
Air Cargo Security Act of 2010

Bill: 111-hr-6275
Sponsor: Rep. Markey, Edward J. [D-MA-7]
Introduced: 2010-09-29 in the House
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Aviation and airports
Department of Homeland Security
Government trust funds
Homeland security
Transportation safety and security
User charges and fees

Summary:
action_date: 2010-09-29
text: 
Air Cargo Security Act of 2010 - Directs the Secretary of Homeland Security (DHS), acting through the Assistant Secretary of Homeland Security (TSA), to: (1) establish at each U.S. airport federal air cargo screening centers to screen cargo transported on domestic and foreign passenger aircraft that operate in air transportation, including intrastate air transportation; (2) establish minimum standards for equipment, technology, procedures, personnel, and methods used to conduct such screening; and (3) ensure that air cargo screening is coordinated with the Certified Cargo Screening Program and any other established air cargo security program.
 
Requires the Assistant Secretary to impose a fee for air cargo screening.
 
Establishes the Air Cargo Security Fund for the deposit of such fees.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-11-01
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Transportation Security and Infrastructure Protection.
action_date: 2010-09-29
text: Referred to House Ways and Means
action_date: 2010-09-29
text: Referred to the Committee on Homeland Security, 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: 2010-09-29
text: Referred to House Homeland Security
action_date: 2010-09-29
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-09-29
text: Introduced in House
Wildlife Disease Emergency Act of 2010

Bill: 111-hr-6276
Sponsor: Rep. Shea-Porter, Carol [D-NH-1]
Introduced: 2010-09-29 in the House
Policy area: Animals
Subjects: Advisory bodies
Animal and plant health
Endangered and threatened species
Government trust funds
Infectious and parasitic diseases
Veterinary medicine and animal diseases
Wildlife conservation and habitat protection

Summary:
action_date: 2010-09-29
text: 
Wildlife Disease Emergency Act of 2010 - Directs the Secretary of the Interior to: (1) declare a wildlife disease emergency in one or more states for a disease that is occurring either within the United States or outside the United States with the potential to enter the United States, (2) lead a coordinated response to the emergency, and (3) implement a grant program to provide funding to state wildlife agencies and Indian tribes to address such emergencies.
 
Directs the Secretary, in making such a declaration, to consider: (1) the level of threat the disease poses to affected wildlife populations; (2) the sufficiency of resources available in the Wildlife Disease Emergency Fund; (3) the ability of the Department of the Interior and other federal, state, and local agencies, tribal governments, and other stakeholders to address and coordinate a response to the disease through other authorities; and (4) any state governor's request for such a declaration.
 
Establishes in the Treasury a Wildlife Disease Emergency Fund, which shall be available to the Secretary for activities authorized by this Act. 
 
Directs the Secretary to establish a Wildlife Disease Committee to assist the Secretary in increasing the level of preparedness of the United States to address emerging wildlife diseases. 
 
Authorizes the Secretary to convene rapid response teams to address a wildlife disease emergency.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-11-16
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Department Operations, Oversight, Nutrition and Forestry.
action_date: 2010-10-13
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Insular Affairs, Oceans and Wildlife.
action_date: 2010-09-29
text: Referred to House Agriculture
action_date: 2010-09-29
text: Referred to House Natural Resources
action_date: 2010-09-29
text: Referred to the Committee on Natural Resources, and in addition to the Committee on Agriculture, 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: 2010-09-29
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-09-29
text: Introduced in House
Combating Anti-Semitism Act of 2010

Bill: 111-hr-6277
Sponsor: Rep. Smith, Christopher H. [R-NJ-4]
Introduced: 2010-09-29 in the House
Policy area: International Affairs
Subjects: Congressional oversight
Department of State
Diplomacy, foreign officials, Americans abroad
Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management
Human rights
Israel
Middle East
Religion
Violent crime
War crimes, genocide, crimes against humanity
World history

Summary:
action_date: 2010-09-29
text: 
Combating Anti-Semitism Act of 2010 - Amends the Global Anti-Semitism Review Act of 2004 to revise substantive and periodic reporting provisions.
 
Amends the State Department Basic Authorities Act of 1956 to provide that the Office to Monitor and Combat anti-Semitism shall be headed by the Ambassador at Large for Monitoring and Combating anti-Semitism. (The Office is currently headed by the Special Envoy for Monitoring and Combating anti-Semitism.)
 
Amends the Foreign Service Act of 1980 to include in Foreign Service officer training after January 1, 2012, instruction on anti-Semitism and on legal and law enforcement issues relevant to monitoring and combating anti-Semitism.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-09-29
text: Referred to the House Committee on Foreign Affairs.
action_date: 2010-09-29
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-09-29
text: Introduced in House
National Guard and Reserve Soft Landing Reintegration Act

Bill: 111-hr-6279
Sponsor: Rep. Giffords, Gabrielle [D-AZ-8]
Introduced: 2010-09-29 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Employee leave
Military personnel and dependents
National Guard and reserves

Summary:
action_date: 2010-09-29
text: 
National Guard and Reserve Soft Landing Reintegration Act - Requires that a member of a reserve component of the Armed Forces who was deployed for more than 179 days for a contingency operation or a homeland defense mission be: (1) retained on active duty in the Armed Forces for 45 days after the end of the member's demobilization from a deployment; (2) allowed to use accrued leave; and (3) paid specified pay and allowances.
 
 Requires a member requesting an early release from such active duty to be released within 14 days after such request. Allows such request to be denied only for medical or personal safety reasons.
 
Directs the Secretary of the military department concerned to provide each member so retained (and, as practicable, appropriate family members) reintegration counseling and services.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-10-20
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Military Personnel.
action_date: 2010-09-29
text: Referred to the House Committee on Armed Services.
action_date: 2010-09-29
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-09-29
text: Introduced in House