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Hospital Energy Conservation Act

Bill: 111-hr-6553
Sponsor: Rep. Engel, Eliot L. [D-NY-17]
Introduced: 2010-12-17 in the House
Policy area: Energy
Subjects: Energy efficiency and conservation
Energy storage, supplies, demand
Government lending and loan guarantees
Health facilities and institutions
Health programs administration and funding

Summary:
action_date: 2010-12-17
text: 
Hospital Energy Conservation Act - Directs the Secretary of Energy (DOE) to establish a pilot program to award grants and loan guarantees to no more than six hospitals during FY2011-FY2012 to carry out energy conservation projects for: (1) significantly improving energy efficiency; and (2) encouraging on-site power generation and energy storage, capable of operating independent of the grid, and providing sufficient on-site emergency backup power for essential hospital functions.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-12-17
text: Referred to House Appropriations
action_date: 2010-12-17
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Appropriations, 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: 2010-12-17
text: Referred to House Energy and Commerce
action_date: 2010-12-17
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-12-17
text: Introduced in House
Domestic Fuel for Enhancing National Security Act of 2010

Bill: 111-hr-6554
Sponsor: Rep. Inslee, Jay [D-WA-1]
Introduced: 2010-12-17 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Alternative and renewable resources
Military procurement, research, weapons development
Public contracts and procurement

Summary:
action_date: 2010-12-17
text: 
Domestic Fuel for Enhancing National Security Act of 2010 - Amends the Federal Property and Administrative Services Act of 1949 and federal defense provisions to extend to 15 the number of years that a federal or Department of Defense (DOD) multiyear contract may be entered into in the case of the purchase of advanced biofuel. (Under current law, federal and DOD multiyear procurement contracts are limited to a five-year period.)


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-12-17
text: Referred to House Armed Services
action_date: 2010-12-17
text: Referred to the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, and in addition to the Committee on Armed 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: 2010-12-17
text: Referred to House Oversight and Government Reform
action_date: 2010-12-17
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-12-17
text: Introduced in House
To repeal the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010.

Bill: 111-hr-6555
Sponsor: Rep. King, Steve [R-IA-5]
Introduced: 2010-12-17 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Comprehensive health care
Government lending and loan guarantees
Health care costs and insurance
Health care coverage and access
Higher education
Student aid and college costs

Summary:
action_date: 2010-12-17
text: 
 Repeals the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010, effective as of their enactment. Restores provisions of law amended by such Acts. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-12-17
text: Referred to House Rules
action_date: 2010-12-17
text: Referred to House Administration
action_date: 2010-12-17
text: Referred to House Natural Resources
action_date: 2010-12-17
text: Referred to House Judiciary
action_date: 2010-12-17
text: Referred to House Education and Labor
action_date: 2010-12-17
text: Referred to House Ways and Means
action_date: 2010-12-17
text: Referred to House Appropriations
action_date: 2010-12-17
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Appropriations, Ways and Means, Education and Labor, the Judiciary, Natural Resources, House Administration, and Rules, 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: 2010-12-17
text: Referred to House Energy and Commerce
action_date: 2010-12-17
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-12-17
text: Introduced in House
Presidential Succession Act of 2010

Bill: 111-hr-6557
Sponsor: Rep. Sherman, Brad [D-CA-27]
Introduced: 2010-12-17 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Congressional oversight
Congressional-executive branch relations
Elections, voting, political campaign regulation
Political representation
Presidents and presidential powers, Vice Presidents

Summary:
action_date: 2010-12-17
text: 
Presidential Succession Act of 2010 - Revises provisions governing presidential succession to: (1) provide that the person next in line to succeed the President after the Vice President (currently, the Speaker of the House of Representatives) shall be the individual whose name is submitted by the President to the Clerk of the House from among the Speaker of the House, the Majority Leader of the House, or the Minority Leader of the House (or the Speaker until the President submits such name); (2) provide that the person next in line (currently the President Pro Tempore of the Senate) after such designated House leader shall be the individual whose name is submitted by the President to the Secretary of the Senate from among the Majority Leader of the Senate, the President Pro Tempore of the Senate, or the Minority Leader of the Senate (or the Majority Leader of the Senate until the President submits such name); (3) include in the succession list, after the Secretary of Homeland Security, the Ambassadors to the United Nations, Great Britain, Russia, China, and France, in that order; and (4) provide that the taking of the oath of office by an individual specified in the succession list shall not require resignation from the office qualifying such individual for succession.
 
Permits the succession list to include only such officers that are: (1) eligible to the office of President under the Constitution; (2) not under impeachment by the House of Representatives; and (3) except for the designated House or Senate leader, appointed to the office involved, by and with the Senate's advice and consent, prior to succession.
 
Expresses the sense of Congress regarding: (1) to whom electors should give their votes in the event of the death or incapacity of nominees for President and Vice President; and (2) nomination by a President who will not be serving a succeeding term of individuals selected by the President-elect for offices that fall within the line of succession, confirmation of such nominees by the Senate, and the signing and delivery of commissions to all such approved nominations, before the inauguration of the President-elect, to ensure continuity of government.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-12-17
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2010-12-17
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-12-17
text: Introduced in House
For the relief of Bernard Didier Pastor.

Bill: 111-hr-6558
Sponsor: Rep. Driehaus, Steve [D-OH-1]
Introduced: 2010-12-17 in the House
Policy area: Private Legislation

Summary:
action_date: 2010-12-17
text: Provides for the relief of Bernard Didier Pastor.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-12-17
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2010-12-17
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-12-17
text: Introduced in House
For the relief of Selvin Arevalo.

Bill: 111-hr-6559
Sponsor: Rep. Pingree, Chellie [D-ME-1]
Introduced: 2010-12-17 in the House
Policy area: Private Legislation

Summary:
action_date: 2010-12-17
text: Provides for the relief of Selvin Arevalo.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-12-17
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2010-12-17
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-12-17
text: Introduced in House
History Is Learned from the Living Act

Bill: 111-hr-6561
Sponsor: Rep. Richardson, Laura [D-CA-37]
Introduced: 2010-12-21 in the House
Policy area: Social Sciences and History
Subjects: Education programs funding
U.S. history

Summary:
action_date: 2010-12-21
text: 
History Is Learned from the Living Act - Establishes the History Is Learned from the Living grant program. 
 
Requires the Secretary of the Interior to make one-year grants of $200,000 each to community groups, organizations, or institutions to carry out projects through which the community may learn about U.S. historical events in the past century through the oral histories of community members who participated in those events. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-01-05
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests and Public Lands.
action_date: 2010-12-21
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2010-12-21
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-12-21
text: Introduced in House
American Residential Housing Recovery Act of 2010

Bill: 111-hr-6562
Sponsor: Rep. Brown, Corrine [D-FL-3]
Introduced: 2010-12-21 in the House
Policy area: Housing and Community Development
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Consumer affairs
Financial services and investments
Housing finance and home ownership
Income tax credits
Securities

Summary:
action_date: 2010-12-21
text: 
American Residential Housing Recovery Act of 2010 - Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to carry out a shared equity appreciation financing pilot program to analyze the effectiveness of shared equity financing methods that stimulate the flow of private equity capital into the housing sector, while mitigating risk to borrowers. 
 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow a tax credit for private investment in shared equity appreciation contracts. 
 
Amends the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act to: (1) treat shared equity appreciation contracts as a consumer financial product; and (2) provide for regulatory oversight of shared equity appreciation contracts by the Bureau of Consumer Financial Protection.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-12-21
text: Referred to House Ways and Means
action_date: 2010-12-21
text: Referred to the Committee on Financial Services, 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: 2010-12-21
text: Referred to House Financial Services
action_date: 2010-12-21
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-12-21
text: Introduced in House
Knowledge and Innovation for the Next Generation of Learning Act of 2010

Bill: 111-hr-6563
Sponsor: Rep. Holt, Rush [D-NJ-12]
Introduced: 2010-12-21 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Department of Education
Education of the disadvantaged
Education programs funding
Educational technology and distance education
Elementary and secondary education
Executive agency funding and structure
Research administration and funding
Research and development
Teaching, teachers, curricula

Summary:
action_date: 2010-12-21
text: 
Knowledge and Innovation for the Next Generation of Learning Act of 2010 - Directs the Secretary of Education to establish the National Center for Knowledge Use (Center) within the Institute of Education Sciences to foster and support the use of scientifically valid education research to improve academic instruction and lifelong learning.
 
Requires the Center to establish a Developing What Works Venture Fund program that awards competitive grants to entities that develop, bring to scale, and disseminate educational innovations based on scientifically valid research.
 
 
Directs the Center to provide grants to states to employ corps of Chief Knowledge Officers that connect educators and administrators with research-based solutions to the most critical problems of practice in local educational agencies and chronically low-performing schools. Makes each state's share of the grant funds equivalent to its share of school improvement funds under part A of title I of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965.
 
Establishes the National Leadership Office for Research to Innovation in the Department of Education to: (1) ensure that educational practices, policies, and investments based on scientifically valid research are brought to scale and fully coordinated across the federal government; (2) encourage the use of new technologies in appropriate research-based educational efforts; (3) support the effective coordination of federally supported education research programs; and (4) promote the coordinated administration of research-based education programs and services by means of an interagency task force.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-12-21
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and Labor.
action_date: 2010-12-21
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-12-21
text: Introduced in House
Global Water Access and Equity Act

Bill: 111-hr-6565
Sponsor: Rep. Jackson Lee, Sheila [D-TX-18]
Introduced: 2010-12-21 in the House
Policy area: International Affairs
Subjects: Department of State
Diplomacy, foreign officials, Americans abroad
Executive agency funding and structure
Federal officials
Foreign aid and international relief
Solid waste and recycling
U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID)
Water quality
Water use and supply

Summary:
action_date: 2010-12-21
text: 
Global Water Access and Equity Act - Amends the State Department Basic Authorities Act of 1956 to establish within the Department of State a Coordinator of United States Government Diplomatic Initiatives to Provide Safe Water and Sanitation Globally, who shall be appointed by the President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate.
 
Directs the Coordinator to: (1) be the Secretary of State's principal advisor on efforts to ensure that developing countries have affordable and equitable access to safe water and sanitation; and (2) monitor U.S. diplomatic policy and formulate ways in which such policy may be used to further the goal of ensuring that developing countries have access to safe water and sanitation, including the objectives expressed in the Senator Paul Simon Water for the Poor Act of 2005.
 
Amends the Senator Paul Simon Water for the Poor Act of 2005 to establish within the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) a Bureau for Global Water Aid which shall be responsible for the oversight and coordination of all activities to provide safe water and sanitation to developing countries.
 
Expresses the sense of Congress that U.S. policy should promote more efficient use of existing water supplies in developing countries, as well as the development of additional reliable water supplies.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-12-21
text: Referred to the House Committee on Foreign Affairs.
action_date: 2010-12-21
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-12-21
text: Introduced in House
Preventing Sex Offenders Access to Children in Our Communities Act of 2010

Bill: 111-hr-6566
Sponsor: Rep. King, Peter T. [R-NY-3]
Introduced: 2010-12-21 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Child safety and welfare
Crimes against children
Criminal justice information and records
Department of Justice
Government information and archives
Internet and video services
Internet, web applications, social media
Law enforcement administration and funding
Sex offenses
Social work, volunteer service, charitable organizations

Summary:
action_date: 2010-12-21
text: 
Preventing Sex Offenders Access to Children in Our Communities Act of 2010 - Amends the Sex Offender Notification and Registration Act to require jurisdictions subject to such Act (i.e., states, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, Guam, American Samoa, the Northern Mariana Islands, the U.S. Virgin Islands, and certain Indian tribes) to prohibit registered sex offenders from: (1) accepting a position of employment, including a volunteer position, which by the inherent nature of the position places such sex offender in direct and substantial contact with minors; or (2) obtaining a permit or permission to carry out an activity or performance that would present direct and substantial contact with minors. 
 
Authorizes the Attorney General to award grants and enter into contracts with public agencies or nonprofit private organizations to establish a community accessible sex offender tips and support program to provide for anonymous or confidential tips regarding sex offenders who are not complying with registration or other applicable requirements.
 
Requires the Director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) to: (1) coordinate with the head of each executive agency to determine which government publications could be made available on government web sites and no longer printed; (2) devise a strategy to reduce overall government printing costs by not less than $15 million over a five-year period beginning with FY2011; and (3) ensure that essential printed documents continue to be made available to Social Security and Medicare beneficiaries and individuals living in areas with limited Internet access or use.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-12-21
text: Referred to House Oversight and Government Reform
action_date: 2010-12-21
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, 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: 2010-12-21
text: Referred to House Judiciary
action_date: 2010-12-21
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-12-21
text: Introduced in House
To amend title 38, United States Code, to improve and make permanent the Department of Veterans Affairs loan guarantee for the purchase of residential cooperative housing units, and for other purposes.

Bill: 111-hr-6567
Sponsor: Rep. Maloney, Carolyn B. [D-NY-14]
Introduced: 2010-12-21 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Cooperative and condominium housing
Department of Veterans Affairs
Government lending and loan guarantees
Housing finance and home ownership
Veterans' loans, housing, homeless programs

Summary:
action_date: 2010-12-21
text: 
Revises the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) program which guarantees veterans' loans for the purchase of residential cooperative housing to remove a provision which limits to five years after a loan is guaranteed the use of loan proceeds to purchase stock or membership in a cooperative housing corporation.
 
Directs the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to ensure that a loan used for such purchase in a corporation that has been reviewed and approved by a lender approved by the Federal National Mortgage Association (FNMA, a/k/a Fannie Mae) is not denied solely because such corporation: (1) is not preapproved by FNMA; or (2) is an affordable limited equity cooperative.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-12-21
text: Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2010-12-21
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (E2224)
action_date: 2010-12-21
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-12-21
text: Introduced in House
Oil Spill Victims Redress Act

Bill: 111-hr-6568
Sponsor: Rep. Markey, Edward J. [D-MA-7]
Introduced: 2010-12-21 in the House
Policy area: Environmental Protection
Subjects: Federal preemption
Jurisdiction and venue
Marine pollution
Oil and gas
Pollution liability
State and local courts

Summary:
action_date: 2010-12-21
text: 
Oil Spill Victims Redress Act - Amends the Oil Pollution Act of 1990 to: (1) require all claims against each responsible party for removal costs or damages under such Act to be presented first to the responsible party or guarantor of the source of the discharge or threat; (2) authorize a state court to award damages or other relief to any person for claims under state law against any responsible party or other person; (3) provide that a civil action brought in state court is not within the original jurisdiction of the U.S. district courts, and is therefore not removable, unless a federal claim is pleaded in addition to claims arising under state law or otherwise removable based on diversity of citizenship; and (4) provide that nothing in such Act shall affect or preempt the authority of any state from imposing on any responsible party or other person any additional liability or requirement with respect to the discharge of oil or other pollution by oil within such state or any removal activities in connection with such discharge.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-12-21
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2010-12-21
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E2220)
action_date: 2010-12-21
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-12-21
text: Introduced in House
Equity in Social Security Act of 2010

Bill: 111-hr-6569
Sponsor: Rep. Sánchez, Linda T. [D-CA-39]
Introduced: 2010-12-21 in the House
Policy area: Social Welfare
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Department of Health and Human Services
Marriage and family status
Social Security Administration
Social security and elderly assistance

Summary:
action_date: 2010-12-21
text: 
Equity in Social Security Act of 2010 - Amends title II (Old Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance) (OASDI) of the Social Security Act to authorize the treatment of permanent partnerships between individuals of the same gender as marriage for purposes of determining entitlement to OASDI benefits.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-12-21
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2010-12-21
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E2224)
action_date: 2010-12-21
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-12-21
text: Introduced in House