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Student Debt Reduction Act

Bill: 111-hr-4834
Sponsor: Rep. Schauer, Mark H. [D-MI-7]
Introduced: 2010-03-11 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Education programs funding
Government lending and loan guarantees
Higher education
Student aid and college costs

Summary:
action_date: 2010-03-11
text: 
Student Debt Reduction Act - Amends the Higher Education Act of 1965 to cap annual, income-based, student loan repayments under the Federal Family Education Loan and Direct Loan programs at 10% (currently, 15%) of the amount by which a borrower's and the borrower's spouse's adjusted gross income exceeds 150% of the poverty line.
 
Requires the Secretary of Education to cancel or repay such loans after 20 (currently, 25) years.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-04-30
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Higher Education, Lifelong Learning, and Competitiveness.
action_date: 2010-03-11
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and Labor.
action_date: 2010-03-11
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-03-11
text: Introduced in House
To allow an employer to pay an H-2A worker the Federal minimum wage or the prevailing wage in a case where the employer pays either wage to United States citizens similarly employed.

Bill: 111-hr-4835
Sponsor: Rep. Whitfield, Ed [R-KY-1]
Introduced: 2010-03-12 in the House
Policy area: Immigration
Subjects: Foreign labor
Migrant, seasonal, agricultural labor
Temporary and part-time employment
Visas and passports
Wages and earnings

Summary:
action_date: 2010-03-12
text: 
Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to state that an employer who pays a U.S. worker the federal minimum wage or the prevailing wage shall not be required to pay an H-2A visa worker (temporary agricultural worker) similarly employed more than such wage.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-04-26
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration, Citizenship, Refugees, Border Security, and International Law.
action_date: 2010-03-12
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2010-03-12
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-03-12
text: Introduced in House
Asthma Management Plans in School Act

Bill: 111-hr-4836
Sponsor: Rep. Shea-Porter, Carol [D-NH-1]
Introduced: 2010-03-12 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Cardiovascular and respiratory health
Child health
Education programs funding
Elementary and secondary education
Emergency communications systems
Emergency medical services and trauma care
Health care coverage and access
Health personnel
Health programs administration and funding
Health technology, devices, supplies

Summary:
action_date: 2010-03-12
text: 
Asthma Management Plans in School Act - Amends the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to authorize the Secretary of Education to award grants to schools that are receiving school improvement funds under part A of title I of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 and are located in areas that have a high prevalence of asthma so they can: (1) develop and implement an asthma management plan; and (2) purchase the asthma inhalers, spacers, and other supplies necessary for the relief and treatment of affected students. 
 
Authorizes the Secretary to award grants to local health or education departments to carry out such activities if they are the entities that would routinely carry out such activities in an area.
 
 Requires grantees to: (1) find innovative ways to encourage rapid bidirectional communication between schools and students' physicians and students' adherence to asthma treatment; and (2) ensure that they have on staff a nurse or individual who is trained to administer emergency asthma care.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-03-22
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education.
action_date: 2010-03-12
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and Labor.
action_date: 2010-03-12
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-03-12
text: Introduced in House
Northeast Corridor High-Speed Rail Act

Bill: 111-hr-4838
Sponsor: Rep. Castle, Michael N. [R-DE-At Large]
Introduced: 2010-03-12 in the House
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Railroads
Transportation programs funding

Summary:
action_date: 2010-03-12
text: 
Northeast Corridor High-Speed Rail Act - Designates the Northeast Corridor as a high-speed rail corridor eligible for grants for high-speed rail capital projects.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-03-15
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Railroads, Pipelines, and Hazardous Materials.
action_date: 2010-03-12
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2010-03-12
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-03-12
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to exclude from gross income contributions to the capital of a partnership, and for other purposes.

Bill: 111-hr-4839
Sponsor: Rep. Davis, Danny K. [D-IL-7]
Introduced: 2010-03-12 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Accounting and auditing
Business investment and capital
Income tax exclusion

Summary:
action_date: 2010-03-12
text: 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) exclude from gross income contributions to the capital of a partnership; and (2) set forth rules for determining the basis of property and money contributed to the capital of a partnership.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-03-12
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2010-03-12
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-03-12
text: Introduced in House
Small Business Tax Relief and Job Growth Act of 2010

Bill: 111-hr-4841
Sponsor: Rep. Velazquez, Nydia M. [D-NY-12]
Introduced: 2010-03-12 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Building construction
Business investment and capital
Capital gains tax
Income tax deductions
Income tax rates
Industrial facilities

Summary:
action_date: 2010-03-12
text: 
Small Business Tax Relief and Job Growth Act of 2010 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) increase the tax deduction for business start-up expenditures; (2) allow expensing in 2010 and 2011 of improvements to real property and structural improvements to buildings used in a trade or business; and (3) reduce from 35% to 15% the alternative tax on the net capital gains of C corporations with annual gross receipts of not more than $15 million.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-03-12
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2010-03-12
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-03-12
text: Introduced in House
National Guard Youth Challenge Enhancement Act

Bill: 111-hr-4843
Sponsor: Rep. Minnick, Walter [D-ID-1]
Introduced: 2010-03-15 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Defense spending
Department of Defense
Education of the disadvantaged
Elementary and secondary education
Executive agency funding and structure
Intergovernmental relations
National Guard and reserves
National and community service
Vocational and technical education

Summary:
action_date: 2010-03-15
text: 
National Guard Youth Challenge Enhancement Act - Amends the National Guard Youth Challenge Program (a training program to improve life skills and employment potential of civilian youth participants) to increase the authorized Department of Defense (DOD) share of expenses to 100% of operating costs for the first three years of a state program of the Program.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-04-23
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Military Personnel.
action_date: 2010-03-15
text: Referred to the House Committee on Armed Services.
action_date: 2010-03-15
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-03-15
text: Introduced in House
To ensure that amounts credited to the Harbor Maintenance Trust Fund are used for harbor maintenance.

Bill: 111-hr-4844
Sponsor: Rep. Boustany, Charles W., Jr. [R-LA-7]
Introduced: 2010-03-15 in the House
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Appropriations
Government trust funds
Navigation, waterways, harbors
Sales and excise taxes
Transportation programs funding

Summary:
action_date: 2010-03-15
text: 
Requires the total budget resources for expenditures from the Harbor Maintenance Trust Fund for harbor maintenance programs to equal the level of receipts plus interest credited to such Fund for that fiscal year. Limits the use of such resources to such programs only.
 
Declares that it shall be out of order in the House of Representatives or the Senate to consider any bill, joint resolution, amendment, motion, or conference report that would cause total budget resources for the Fund in a fiscal year for harbor maintenance programs to be less than the level of receipts plus interest credited to the Fund for that fiscal year.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-03-16
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment.
action_date: 2010-03-16
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Coast Guard and Maritime Transportation.
action_date: 2010-03-15
text: Referred to House Rules
action_date: 2010-03-15
text: Referred to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, and in addition to the Committee on 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: 2010-03-15
text: Referred to House Transportation and Infrastructure
action_date: 2010-03-15
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-03-15
text: Introduced in House
To amend title 38, United States Code, to direct the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to provide housing loan benefits for children of members of the Armed Forces and veterans who die from service-connected disabilities.

Bill: 111-hr-4845
Sponsor: Rep. Crowley, Joseph [D-NY-7]
Introduced: 2010-03-15 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Housing finance and home ownership
Military personnel and dependents
Veterans' loans, housing, homeless programs
Veterans' pensions and compensation

Summary:
action_date: 2010-03-15
text: 
Makes eligible for housing loan benefits provided through the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) the child of a member of the Armed Forces or veteran who died from a service-connected disability.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-03-18
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Economic Opportunity.
action_date: 2010-03-15
text: Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2010-03-15
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-03-15
text: Introduced in House
Bleeding Disorder Screening, Awareness, and Further Education (SAFE) Act of 2010

Bill: 111-hr-4846
Sponsor: Rep. McCarthy, Carolyn [D-NY-4]
Introduced: 2010-03-15 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Blood and blood diseases
Child health
Government information and archives
Health information and medical records
Health programs administration and funding
Health promotion and preventive care
Medical research
Medical tests and diagnostic methods
Research administration and funding
Women's health

Summary:
action_date: 2010-03-15
text: 
Bleeding Disorder Screening, Awareness, and Further Education (SAFE) Act of 2010 - Requires the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) to carry out the following activities: (1) development of a new, or identification of an existing, screening questionnaire that is evidence-based and in accordance with clinical guidelines for use in the diagnosis of bleeding disorders in adolescents and young adults; and (2) as widely as possible in adolescent populations, dissemination and implementation of the screening questionnaire and other screening tools relevant to the diagnosis of bleeding disorders, ensuring referrals as specified. Directs the Secretary to give priority to grant or contract applicants proposing to provide screening to high school or higher education students. 
 
Requires the Secretary to conduct an education campaign to increase awareness about bleeding disorders among health professionals. 

Directs the Secretary, acting through the Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), to award grants or contracts to public or nonprofit private entities to: (1) augment existing research efforts to evaluate, improve, and standardize methods for diagnosing bleeding disorders; and (2) expand ongoing efforts to determine the prevalence of bleeding disorders in the general population, identify symptoms, risk factors, and co-morbidities associated with bleeding disorders, and implement female-specific surveillance systems and conduct related research to improve bleeding symptoms and quality of life among adolescent and adult women with bleeding disorders.

Authorizes the Secretary to provide technical assistance. Directs the Secretary to report to Congress on the results of activities under this Act.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-03-15
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2010-03-15
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-03-15
text: Introduced in House
National Volcano Early Warning and Monitoring System Act

Bill: 111-hr-4847
Sponsor: Rep. Young, Don [R-AK-At Large]
Introduced: 2010-03-15 in the House
Policy area: Emergency Management
Subjects: Advisory bodies
Earth sciences
Government information and archives
Natural disasters
Research administration and funding

Summary:
action_date: 2010-03-15
text: 
National Volcano Early Warning and Monitoring System Act - Directs the Secretary of the Interior, acting through the Director of the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), to establish within USGS a National Volcano Early Warning and Monitoring System program to monitor volcanic activity and to warn and protect U.S. citizens from harm. 
 
Sets forth as System purposes to organize, modernize, standardize, and stabilize monitoring systems of U.S. volcano observatories and to unify monitoring systems into a single interoperative system. Sets forth as System objectives to monitor all U.S. volcanoes at a level commensurate with the threat they pose by upgrading existing networks on monitored volcanoes and installing new networks on unmonitored volcanoes.
 
Requires the System to include: (1) a national volcano watch office that is operational 24 hours a day, seven days a week; (2) a national volcano data center; and (3) an external grants program to support research in volcano monitoring science and technology.
 
Directs the Secretary to: (1) submit to Congress a five-year management plan for establishing and operating the System and an annual report; (2) establish an advisory committee; and (3) coordinate activities under this Act with the heads of relevant federal agencies. Authorizes the Secretary to enter into cooperative agreements with universities and state agencies as volcano observatory partners.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-03-16
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources.
action_date: 2010-03-15
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2010-03-15
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-03-15
text: Introduced in House
Tax Cut Job Creation Act of 2010

Bill: 111-hr-4848
Sponsor: Rep. Young, Don [R-AK-At Large]
Introduced: 2010-03-15 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Educational facilities and institutions
Income tax rates
Social work, volunteer service, charitable organizations
Tax-exempt organizations
Vocational and technical education
Wages and earnings

Summary:
action_date: 2010-03-15
text: 
Tax Cut Job Creation Act of 2010 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to reduce the income tax rate for corporations that make charitable contributions to certain tax-exempt educational organizations. Terminates such tax reduction after 2014.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-03-15
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2010-03-15
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-03-15
text: Introduced in House
American Job Creation and Investment Act

Bill: 111-hr-4850
Sponsor: Rep. Peters, Gary C. [D-MI-9]
Introduced: 2010-03-16 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Business investment and capital
Income tax credits
Income tax rates
Wages and earnings

Summary:
action_date: 2010-03-16
text: 
American Job Creation and Investment Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow a corporation to elect in 2010 and 2011 to increase its alternative minimum tax (AMT) credits by a specified credit adjustment amount for purposes of increasing its U.S. workforce and making investments in business equipment. Allows a similar election for a taxable year which includes December 31, 2009, with certain restrictions. Terminates such additional credit allowance after December 31, 2011. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-03-16
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2010-03-16
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-03-16
text: Introduced in House
Critical Infrastructure Earthquake Preparedness Act of 2010

Bill: 111-hr-4852
Sponsor: Rep. Cohen, Steve [D-TN-9]
Introduced: 2010-03-16 in the House
Policy area: Emergency Management
Subjects: Aviation and airports
Building construction
Emergency planning and evacuation
Health facilities and institutions
Health programs administration and funding
Natural disasters
Transportation programs funding

Summary:
action_date: 2010-03-16
text: 
Critical Infrastructure Earthquake Preparedness Act of 2010 - Directs the Administrator of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to establish a program to make grants to state and local governments to assist them in projects that improve the ability of trauma center hospitals and/or airports in hazardous seismic zones to withstand an earthquake.
 
Directs the Administrator to require each state and local government, as a condition for receiving a grant, to submit to the Administrator: (1) a comprehensive strategic earthquake response plan for such facility; and (2) a list of grant activities that analyzes their impact.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-03-17
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Economic Development, Public Buildings and Emergency Management.
action_date: 2010-03-16
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2010-03-16
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-03-16
text: Introduced in House
Home Inspection Act of 2010

Bill: 111-hr-4854
Sponsor: Rep. Clay, Wm. Lacy [D-MO-1]
Introduced: 2010-03-16 in the House
Policy area: Housing and Community Development
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Department of the Treasury
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC)
Federal Reserve System
Government information and archives
Housing finance and home ownership
Licensing and registrations
Real estate business
State and local government operations

Summary:
action_date: 2010-03-16
text: 
Home Inspection Act of 2010 - Requires the federal banking agencies to prescribe joint regulations to prohibit any lender from making any federally related mortgage loan, under which a home inspection is conducted in connection with settlement of such loan, unless such inspection is conducted by a home inspector who is licensed, certified, approved, or otherwise regulated by the inspector's home state or the state in which the real property is located.
 

 
 Amends the Real Estate Settlement Procedures Act of 1974 (RESPA) to require the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) to include in the HUD-1 settlement form: (1) an item for identifying any home inspection conducted in connection with the settlement; (2) when such inspection was or is to be completed; (3) the inspection's cost; (4) whether the charge for such inspection is imposed on the borrower or the seller; and (5) whether such charge has been paid before settlement and a copy of such receipt is included with the settlement documents. 
 



Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-03-16
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2010-03-16
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-03-16
text: Introduced in House
Work-Life Balance Award Act

Bill: 111-hr-4855
Sponsor: Rep. Woolsey, Lynn C. [D-CA-6]
Introduced: 2010-03-16 in the House
Policy area: Labor and Employment
Subjects: Advisory bodies
Commemorative events and holidays
Employee benefits and pensions
Employee leave
Labor standards

Summary:
action_date: 2010-03-16
text: 
Work-Life Balance Award Act - Establishes in the Department of Labor an annual Work-Life Balance Award for employers that have developed and implemented work-life balance policies.
 
Establishes a Work-Life Balance Advisory Board to develop criteria to determine recipients of the Award.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-06-15
text: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended Failed by the Yeas and Nays: (2/3 required): 249 - 163 (Roll no. 360).
action_date: 2010-06-15
text: Failed of passage/not agreed to in House: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended Failed by the Yeas and Nays: (2/3 required): 249 - 163 (Roll no. 360).
action_date: 2010-06-15
text: Considered as unfinished business. (consideration: CR H4468-4469)
action_date: 2010-06-15
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: 2010-06-15
text: DEBATE - The House proceeded with forty minutes of debate on H.R. 4855.
action_date: 2010-06-15
text: Considered under suspension of the rules. (consideration: CR H4463-4466; text of measure as introduced: CR H4463-4464)
action_date: 2010-06-15
text: Ms. Woolsey moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended.
action_date: 2010-04-22
text: Subcommittee Hearings Held.
action_date: 2010-03-22
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Workforce Protections.
action_date: 2010-03-16
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and Labor.
action_date: 2010-03-16
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-03-16
text: Introduced in House
Forecast for the Future Act of 2010

Bill: 111-hr-4856
Sponsor: Rep. Donnelly, Joe [D-IN-2]
Introduced: 2010-03-16 in the House
Policy area: Economics and Public Finance
Subjects: Accounting and auditing
Budget deficits and national debt
Budget process
Congressional oversight

Summary:
action_date: 2010-03-16
text: 
Forecast for the Future Act of 2010 - Requires the President's budget to Congress to include a detailed, separate analysis and display, by budget function, agency, and program, of the net present value of future costs of each entitlement program for the fiscal year for which the budget is submitted and each of the four ensuing fiscal years.
 
Amends the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 (CBA) to require concurrent budget resolutions to include, for display purposes only and for each entitlement program, the net present value of the future costs of the program over a 75-year time frame.
 
Directs the congressional budget committees to hold hearings in each Congress with a goal of developing a plan to restore the government to a sustainable long-term fiscal path.
 
Requires the Director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) to submit to the President and Congress a report listing: (1) the fiscal exposures of the government; and (2) the net present value of the future costs of the program over a 75-year time frame.
 
Amends the CBA to require the Director of the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) to submit a similar report to Congress.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-03-16
text: Referred to House Rules
action_date: 2010-03-16
text: Referred to the Committee on the Budget, and in addition to the Committee on 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: 2010-03-16
text: Referred to House Budget
action_date: 2010-03-16
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-03-16
text: Introduced in House