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To direct the Secretary of Labor to establish an office in Anchorage, Alaska, under the Office of Workers' Compensation Programs.

Bill: 111-hr-5316
Sponsor: Rep. Young, Don [R-AK-At Large]
Introduced: 2010-05-13 in the House
Policy area: Labor and Employment
Subjects: Alaska
Department of Labor
Executive agency funding and structure
Worker safety and health

Summary:
action_date: 2010-05-13
text: 
Directs the Secretary of Labor to establish a local Office of Workers' Compensation Programs (Department of Labor) in Anchorage, Alaska.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-06-29
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Workforce Protections.
action_date: 2010-05-13
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and Labor.
action_date: 2010-05-13
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-05-13
text: Introduced in House
To provide for the conveyance of certain property from the United States to the Maniilaq Association located in Kotzebue, Alaska.

Bill: 111-hr-5317
Sponsor: Rep. Young, Don [R-AK-At Large]
Introduced: 2010-05-13 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Alaska
Government buildings, facilities, and property
Health facilities and institutions
Land transfers
Social work, volunteer service, charitable organizations

Summary:
action_date: 2010-05-13
text: 
Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) to convey specified property, including all land appurtenances, in Kotzebue, Alaska, to the Maniilaq Association for use in connection with health and social services programs. 
 
Shields the Maniilaq Association from liability for soil, surface water, groundwater, or other contamination resulting from the disposal, release, or presence of environmental contamination, including oil or petroleum products, or hazardous substances on any of the property as of the date of conveyance. 
 
Accords to the Secretary any easement or access to the conveyed property as may be necessary to satisfy any retained obligations and liability. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-05-13
text: Referred to House Energy and Commerce
action_date: 2010-05-13
text: Referred to the Committee on Natural Resources, 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: 2010-05-13
text: Referred to House Natural Resources
action_date: 2010-05-13
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-05-13
text: Introduced in House
Small Business Investment Penalty Relief Act of 2010

Bill: 111-hr-5318
Sponsor: Rep. Gingrey, Phil [R-GA-11]
Introduced: 2010-05-14 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Business investment and capital
Employee benefits and pensions
Sales and excise taxes
Small business

Summary:
action_date: 2010-05-14
text: 
Small Business Investment Penalty Relief Act of 2010 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to waive the 10% penalty on premature distributions made in 2010 or 2011 from a tax-exempt retirement plan if made for investment in a qualified small business (defined as having gross receipts not exceeding $20 million or not more than 50 full-time employees during the preceding taxable year).


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-05-14
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2010-05-14
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-05-14
text: Introduced in House
Foreign-Held Debt Transparency and Threat Assessment Act

Bill: 111-hr-5319
Sponsor: Rep. Johnson, Sam [R-TX-3]
Introduced: 2010-05-18 in the House
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Asia
Budget deficits and national debt
China
Congressional oversight
Economic performance and conditions
Foreign loans and debt

Summary:
action_date: 2010-05-18
text: 
Foreign-Held Debt Transparency and Threat Assessment Act - Expresses the sense of Congress about the growing federal debt of the United States, the increasing U.S. dependence on foreign creditors like its largest foreign creditor, the People's Republic of China, whose holdings could give China a tool with which to manipulate U.S. policymaking (including with respect to Taiwan) and pose a direct threat to the national economy and national security.
 
Directs the President to report quarterly to certain congressional committees on the risks posed by foreign holdings of U.S. debt instruments, and make such report public on the Internet.
 
Directs the Comptroller General to report annually to certain congressional committees on such risks.
 
Directs the President to formulate, report to the appropriate congressional committees, and implement a plan of action to reduce an unsustainable level of risk to an acceptable and sustainable level, in a manner that results in a reduction in federal spending, in any case in which the President or the Comptroller General makes specified determinations that a foreign country's holdings of U.S. debt instruments pose an unacceptable risk to long-term national security or economic stability, or that the levels of risk posed by the federal debt are unsustainable.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-05-21
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2010-05-18
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2010-05-18
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR H3546-3547)
action_date: 2010-05-18
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-05-18
text: Introduced in House
Airport Security Act of 2010

Bill: 111-hr-5321
Sponsor: Rep. Johnson, Henry C. "Hank," Jr. [D-GA-4]
Introduced: 2010-05-18 in the House
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Aviation and airports
Firearms and explosives

Summary:
action_date: 2010-05-18
text: 
Airport Security Act of 2010 - Directs the Assistant Secretary of Homeland Security (Transportation Security Administration [TSA]) to establish a program to prohibit all but specified authorized individuals from possessing a firearm at a covered airport, including any individual who enters the airport, or exits public transportation at it, for air travel, meeting another individual, picking up cargo, or employment.
 
Directs the Assistant Secretary to require airport operators to: (1) display conspicuous notices summarizing the program at each airport entrance; and (2) require law enforcement personnel to monitor the airport to prevent violations and escort air travelers who are authorized to carry a firearm.
 
Prescribes criminal penalties for nonauthorized individuals who knowingly possess a firearm at a covered airport.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-07-26
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.
action_date: 2010-05-27
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Transportation Security and Infrastructure Protection.
action_date: 2010-05-18
text: Referred to House Judiciary
action_date: 2010-05-18
text: Referred to the Committee on Homeland Security, 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: 2010-05-18
text: Referred to House Homeland Security
action_date: 2010-05-18
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-05-18
text: Introduced in House
Patent and Trademark Office Funding Stabilization Act of 2010

Bill: 111-hr-5322
Sponsor: Rep. Conyers, John, Jr. [D-MI-14]
Introduced: 2010-05-18 in the House
Policy area: Commerce
Subjects: Department of Commerce
Executive agency funding and structure
Government trust funds
Intellectual property
Small business
User charges and fees

Summary:
action_date: 2010-05-18
text: 
Patent and Trademark Office Funding Stabilization Act of 2010 - Authorizes the Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director of the United States Patent and Trademark Office (Director) to set or adjust patent and trademark fees in order to recover costs, including administrative costs, for patent and trademark processing, activities, services, and materials. 
 
Reduces such fees for micro and small entities.
 
Terminates the Director's authority to establish and adjust fees upon the expiration of the 10-year period beginning on the date of enactment of this Act.
 
Makes, as of October 1, 2011, funds for the United States Patent and Trademark Office available until expended.
 
Establishes in the Treasury the United States Patent and Trademark Office Public Enterprise Fund.
 
Revises patent service fees. 
 
Establishes a 15% patent fee surcharge through September 30, 2011.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-05-18
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2010-05-18
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E867-868)
action_date: 2010-05-18
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-05-18
text: Introduced in House
Save America's Future Economy Act of 2010

Bill: 111-hr-5323
Sponsor: Rep. Smith, Lamar [R-TX-21]
Introduced: 2010-05-18 in the House
Policy area: Economics and Public Finance
Subjects: Appropriations
Budget deficits and national debt
Budget process
Inflation and prices
Legislative rules and procedure

Summary:
action_date: 2010-05-18
text: 
Save America's Future Economy Act of 2010 - Amends the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 (Gramm-Rudman-Hollings Act) to require the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) to calculate the uniform percentage by which nonexempt spending accounts are to be sequestered such that total government spending for a budget year, compared to the preceding fiscal year, does not increase at a rate greater than the percentage point change in the Consumer Price Index (CPI) plus the percentage point change in annual population growth. 
 
Requires OMB to prepare annually a report to be included in the President's budget for each fiscal year setting forth: (1) the projected level of total federal spending for the current year; (2) the percentage point increase in the CPI over the fiscal year before the current year; (3) the total percentage point increase in population from July 1 of the second preceding fiscal year before the current year and July 1 of the fiscal year before the current year; (4) the sum of such total percentage point increases; and (5) the projected level of total federal spending for the budget year and the amount, if any, by which that spending would exceed the projected level of total federal spending for the current year, as adjusted by the such sum of the total percentage point increases.
 
Prescribes requirements for OMB Preview Reports and OMB Final Sequestration Reports.
 
Requires the President to issue a sequestration order, effective on issuance, if OMB in its Final Sequestration Report estimates that any sequestration is required.
 

 
Prohibits OMB from including the budgetary effects of an emergency requirement in its estimates.
 
Exempts from any sequestration reduction order: (1) payments for net interest; and (2) federal obligations required to be paid under the U.S. Constitution or legally contractual obligations.
 
Extends indefinitely certain Pay-As-You-Go (PAYGO) enforcement mechanisms.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-05-18
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Budget.
action_date: 2010-05-18
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-05-18
text: Introduced in House
COBRA Health Benefits Extension Act of 2010

Bill: 111-hr-5324
Sponsor: Rep. Davis, Susan A. [D-CA-53]
Introduced: 2010-05-18 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Employee benefits and pensions
Federal preemption
Health care costs and insurance
Health care coverage and access

Summary:
action_date: 2010-05-18
text: 
COBRA Health Benefits Extension Act of 2010 - Extends COBRA coverage (health insurance continuation benefits) until the earlier of: (1) the first date in which an individual is eligible for coverage under an employment-based health plan; or (2) the date on which such individual becomes eligible for health insurance coverage through an American Health Benefit Exchange under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA). 
 
Directs the Secretary of Labor to provide rules setting forth the form and manner in which prompt notice to individuals of such continued coverage shall be made.
 
Allows a state to enforce the provisions of this Act with respect to COBRA continuation coverage provided under a state program.
 
Provides that this Act shall: (1) have no effect on termination of continuation coverage for any reason other than expiration of a period of a specified number of months; and (2) supersede any provision of the law of a state or political subdivision that limits or precludes access by a qualified beneficiary, whose COBRA continuation coverage has been extended under this Act, to a state high risk pool established under PPACA solely by reason of such extension.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-06-29
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2010-05-18
text: Referred to House Ways and Means
action_date: 2010-05-18
text: Referred to House Energy and Commerce
action_date: 2010-05-18
text: Referred to the Committee on Education and Labor, and in addition to the Committees on Energy and Commerce, and 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: 2010-05-18
text: Referred to House Education and Labor
action_date: 2010-05-18
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E870)
action_date: 2010-05-18
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-05-18
text: Introduced in House
To repeal the National Organic Certification Cost-Share Program.

Bill: 111-hr-5326
Sponsor: Rep. Conaway, K. Michael [R-TX-11]
Introduced: 2010-05-18 in the House
Policy area: Agriculture and Food
Subjects: Agricultural practices and innovations
Agricultural prices, subsidies, credit

Summary:
action_date: 2010-05-18
text: 
Amends the Farm Security and Rural Investment Act of 2002 to repeal the national organic certification cost-share program.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-06-18
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Horticulture and Organic Agriculture.
action_date: 2010-05-18
text: Referred to the House Committee on Agriculture.
action_date: 2010-05-18
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-05-18
text: Introduced in House
United States-Israel Rocket and Missile Defense Cooperation and Support Act

Bill: 111-hr-5327
Sponsor: Rep. Nye, Glenn C. [D-VA-2]
Introduced: 2010-05-18 in the House
Policy area: International Affairs
Subjects: Israel
Middle East
Military assistance, sales, and agreements

Summary:
action_date: 2010-05-18
text: 
United States-Israel Missile Defense Cooperation and Support Act - Authorizes the President to provide assistance to the government of Israel for the procurement, maintenance, and sustainment of the Iron Dome anti-missile defense system for purposes of intercepting short-range missiles launched against Israel.

action_date: 2010-05-20
text: 
United States-Israel Rocket and Missile Defense Cooperation and Support Act - Authorizes the President to provide assistance to the government of Israel for the procurement, maintenance, and sustainment of the Iron Dome Short Range Artillery Rocket Defense System for purposes of intercepting short-range rockets, missiles, and mortars launched against Israel.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-05-24
text: Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations.
action_date: 2010-05-20
text: Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
action_date: 2010-05-20
text: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended Agreed to by the Yeas and Nays: (2/3 required): 410 - 4 (Roll no. 284). (text: CR 5/19/2010 H3617)
action_date: 2010-05-20
text: Passed/agreed to in House: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended Agreed to by the Yeas and Nays: (2/3 required): 410 - 4 (Roll no. 284).(text: CR 5/19/2010 H3617)
action_date: 2010-05-20
text: Considered as unfinished business. (consideration: CR H3667-3668)
action_date: 2010-05-19
text: At the conclusion of debate, the Yeas and Nays were demanded and ordered. Pursuant to the provisions of clause 8, rule XX, the Chair announced that further proceedings on the motion would be postponed.
action_date: 2010-05-19
text: DEBATE - The House proceeded with forty minutes of debate on H.R. 5327.
action_date: 2010-05-19
text: Considered under suspension of the rules. (consideration: CR H3617-3620)
action_date: 2010-05-19
text: Mr. McMahon moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended.
action_date: 2010-05-18
text: Referred to the House Committee on Foreign Affairs.
action_date: 2010-05-18
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-05-18
text: Introduced in House
International Tax Competitiveness Act of 2010

Bill: 111-hr-5328
Sponsor: Rep. Doggett, Lloyd [D-TX-25]
Introduced: 2010-05-18 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Corporate finance and management
Foreign and international corporations
Interest, dividends, interest rates
Tax administration and collection, taxpayers
Taxation of foreign income

Summary:
action_date: 2010-05-18
text: 
International Tax Competitiveness Act of 2010 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) treat foreign corporations that are managed, directly or indirectly, within the United States as domestic corporations for U.S. tax purposes; (2) make certain royalty income and income from intangibles received from a controlled foreign corporation subject to U.S. taxation; (3) repeal tax rules exempting foreign source income attributable to the active conduct of a foreign trade or business from withholding of tax requirements; and (4) revise the tax treatment of property other than stock (i.e., boot) received in connection with a corporate reorganization to provide that such property shall be treated as a taxable dividend.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-05-18
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2010-05-18
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-05-18
text: Introduced in House
To modify the project for navigation and environmental restoration, Houston-Galveston Navigation Channels, Texas, authorized by the Water Resources Development Act of 1996, and for other purposes.

Bill: 111-hr-5329
Sponsor: Rep. Green, Gene [D-TX-29]
Introduced: 2010-05-18 in the House
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Navigation, waterways, harbors
Texas

Summary:
action_date: 2010-05-18
text: 
Modifies the project for navigation and environmental restoration, Houston-Galveston Navigation Channels, Texas, to authorize the Secretary of the Army to extend the boundaries of the Galveston channel approximately 2600 feet beyond Pier 38, if deemed feasible.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-05-19
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment.
action_date: 2010-05-18
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2010-05-18
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-05-18
text: Introduced in House
To revise the boundaries of John H. Chaffee Coastal Barrier Resources System Sachuest Point Unit RI-04P, Easton Beach Unit RI-05P, Almy Pond Unit RI-06, and Hazards Beach Unit RI-07 in Rhode Island.

Bill: 111-hr-5331
Sponsor: Rep. Kennedy, Patrick J. [D-RI-1]
Introduced: 2010-05-18 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Marine and coastal resources, fisheries
Rhode Island

Summary:
action_date: 2010-05-18
text: 
Replaces the map subtitled &quot;Sachuest Point Unit RI-04P, Easton Beach Unit RI-05P, Almy Pond Unit RI-06, Hazards Beach Unit RI-07&quot; included in the set of maps entitled &quot;John H. Chafee Coastal Barrier Resources System&quot; relating to certain John H. Chafee Coastal Barrier Resources System units in Rhode Island, with another map relating to the units entitled &quot;John H. Chafee Coastal Barrier Resources System Sachuest Point Unit RI-04P, Easton Beach Unit RI-05P, Almy Pond Unit RI-06, and Hazards Beach Unit RI-07&quot; (dated September 30, 2009).


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-07-27
text: Subcommittee Hearings Held.
action_date: 2010-05-20
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Insular Affairs, Oceans and Wildlife.
action_date: 2010-05-18
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2010-05-18
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-05-18
text: Introduced in House
Small Business Intermediary Lending Pilot Program Act of 2010

Bill: 111-hr-5332
Sponsor: Rep. Kilroy, Mary Jo [D-OH-15]
Introduced: 2010-05-18 in the House
Policy area: Commerce
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Business investment and capital
Community life and organization
Economic performance and conditions
Government lending and loan guarantees
Small Business Administration
Small business
Social work, volunteer service, charitable organizations

Summary:
action_date: 2010-05-18
text: 
Small Business Intermediary Lending Pilot Program Act of 2010 - Establishes a three-year small business intermediary lending pilot program under which the Administrator of the Small Business Administration (SBA) may make direct loans to eligible nonprofit lending intermediaries for the purpose of making loans of up to $200,000 each to startup, newly-established, and growing small businesses. Authorizes the Administrator, under the program, to make one percent, 20-year loans of up to $3 million to up to 20 lending intermediaries.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-05-20
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR H3665-3666)
action_date: 2010-05-18
text: Referred to the House Committee on Small Business.
action_date: 2010-05-18
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-05-18
text: Introduced in House
Children of Military Service Members Commemorative Lapel Pin Act

Bill: 111-hr-5333
Sponsor: Rep. Latta, Robert E. [R-OH-5]
Introduced: 2010-05-18 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Military personnel and dependents
Veterans' organizations and recognition

Summary:
action_date: 2010-05-18
text: 
Children of Military Service Members Commemorative Lapel Pin Act - Requires a lapel button, to be known as the children of military service members commemorative lapel button, to be designed, as approved by the Secretary of Defense (DOD), to identify and recognize child dependents of members of the Armed Forces who serve on active duty for more than 30 days. Expresses the sense of Congress that the Secretary should expedite the design and manufacture of the button, as well as mechanisms to facilitate its issuance.
 
Makes such button available retroactively to the child of any member satisfying such eligibility conditions before the enactment of this Act.
 
Requires the Secretary to notify members with qualifying service since September 11, 2001, of the availability of the button.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-06-18
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Military Personnel.
action_date: 2010-05-18
text: Referred to the House Committee on Armed Services.
action_date: 2010-05-18
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-05-18
text: Introduced in House