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Columbia River Restoration Act of 2010

Bill: 111-s-3025
Sponsor: Sen. Merkley, Jeff [D-OR]
Introduced: 2010-02-23 in the Senate
Policy area: Environmental Protection
Subjects: Endangered and threatened species
Environmental assessment, monitoring, research
Hazardous wastes and toxic substances
Lakes and rivers
Oregon
Washington State
Water quality
Watersheds
Wetlands

Summary:
action_date: 2010-02-23
text: 
Columbia River Restoration Act of 2010 - Amends the Federal Water Pollution Control Act to direct the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to: (1) establish within EPA a Columbia River Program Team, located within the Oregon Operations Office for EPA's Region 10; and (2) appoint a Team Leader who shall be highly qualified to support the development and implementation of projects, programs, and studies necessary to implement the Columbia River Basin Toxics Reduction Action Plan developed by EPA and the Columbia River Toxics Reduction Working Group in 2010.
 
Directs the Administrator, acting through the Team Leader, to: (1) assist and support the implementation of the Action Plan and the Estuary Partnership Comprehensive Conservation and Management Plan adopted by EPA and the Governors of Oregon and Washington on October 20, 1999; (2) coordinate the implementation of, and the development of any updates to, those Plans, with programs and projects in the Middle and Upper Columbia River Basin; (3) make other appropriate updates; (4) provide funding and make grants for implementation consistent with Plan priorities; (5) promote innovative methodologies and technologies that are cost effective and consistent with Plan goals and objectives and EPA's permitting processes; (6) coordinate the major functions of the federal government related to Plan implementation; (7) coordinate authorized research and planning projects; (8) track progress toward meeting Plan goals and objectives; and (9) collect and make available to the public information regarding the environmental quality of the Lower Columbia River and Estuary.
 
Requires the Administrator, through the Team Leader, to carry out projects, programs, and studies to implement the Plans. Authorizes the Administrator to give special emphasis to those projects, programs, and studies identified as priorities by the Estuary Partnership in the Plans. Authorizes the Administrator, through the Team Leader, to make grants to implement the Plans. Sets forth requirements regarding grant allocations and the federal share of costs.
 
Directs the President, as part of his annual budget submission to Congress, to submit information regarding each federal agency involved in protection and restoration of the Columbia River Basin.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-02-23
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works. (text of measure as introduced: CR S707-709)
action_date: 2010-02-23
text: Introduced in Senate
P2P Cyber Protection and Informed User Act

Bill: 111-s-3027
Sponsor: Sen. Klobuchar, Amy [D-MN]
Introduced: 2010-02-23 in the Senate
Policy area: Commerce
Subjects: Computers and information technology
Consumer affairs
Right of privacy

Summary:
action_date: 2010-02-23
text: 
 P2P Cyber Protection and Informed User Act - Makes it unlawful for any commercial entity that developed a file sharing program or distributed such a program (if the distributor is owned by the developing entity) to install, make available for installation, or download a file sharing program without: (1) immediately before program installation or downloading, providing conspicuous notice that the program allows files to be searched and copied by one or more other computers and obtaining informed consent to the installation; and (2) immediately before initial activation of a file sharing function of the program, providing conspicuous notice of which files will be made available and obtaining informed consent. 
 
Exempts: (1) modifications or upgrades of a program that was originally installed in compliance with this Act, provided certain requirements are met; and (2) pre-installed software.
 
Makes it unlawful for such an entity to prevent the reasonable efforts of an owner or authorized user to block the installation of such a program or to prevent such a user from having a reasonable way to disable or remove the program. 
 
Makes this Act non-applicable to lawfully authorized investigative, protective, and intelligence activities of U.S. intelligence agencies or of U.S. and state law enforcement agencies. 
 
 Treats a violation of this Act as a violation of a rule defining an unfair or deceptive act or practice prescribed under the Federal Trade Commission Act. Prohibits construing this Act to limit or supersede any other federal or state law.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-02-23
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
action_date: 2010-02-23
text: Introduced in Senate
Medicare Mental Health Inpatient Equity Act

Bill: 111-s-3028
Sponsor: Sen. Kerry, John F. [D-MA]
Introduced: 2010-02-24 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Health care coverage and access
Hospital care
Medicare
Mental health

Summary:
action_date: 2010-02-24
text: 
Medicare Mental Health Inpatient Equity Act - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to eliminate the 190-day lifetime limit on inpatient psychiatric hospital services. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-02-24
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2010-02-24
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S744)
action_date: 2010-02-24
text: Introduced in Senate
StartUp Visa Act of 2010

Bill: 111-s-3029
Sponsor: Sen. Kerry, John F. [D-MA]
Introduced: 2010-02-24 in the Senate
Policy area: Immigration
Subjects: Business investment and capital
Foreign labor
Immigration status and procedures
U.S. and foreign investments
Visas and passports

Summary:
action_date: 2010-02-24
text: 
StartUp Visa Act of 2010 - Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to establish an employment-based, conditional immigrant visa (StartUp visa) for a sponsored alien entrepreneur: (1) with required amounts of financial backing from a qualifying investor or venture capitalist; and (2) whose commercial activities will generate required levels of employment, revenue, or capital investment.
 
Directs the Secretary of Homeland Security (DHS) to terminate the status of a sponsored entrepreneur (and the alien spouse and children of such entrepreneur) if not later than three years after the date on which such permanent resident status was conferred: (1) the sponsoring venture capitalist or investor fails to meet investment requirements; or (2) the entrepreneur fails to meet job creation, capital investment, or revenue requirements.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-02-24
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2010-02-24
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to amend the Public Works and Economic Development Act of 1965 to eliminate cost-sharing requirements in connection with economic adjustment grants made to assist communities that have suffered economic injury as a result of military base closures and realignments, defense contactor reductions in force, and Department of Energy defense-related funding reductions.

Bill: 111-s-3030
Sponsor: Sen. Gillibrand, Kirsten E. [D-NY]
Introduced: 2010-02-24 in the Senate
Policy area: Housing and Community Development
Subjects: Defense spending
Housing and community development funding
Intergovernmental relations
Military facilities and property
Military procurement, research, weapons development
State and local finance

Summary:
action_date: 2010-02-24
text: 
Amends the Public Works and Economic Development Act of 1965 to provide that the federal share of the cost of projects assisted by economic adjustment grants made to communities that have suffered economic injury as a result of a military base closure or realignment, defense contractor reduction in force, or Department of Energy (DOE) defense-related funding reduction shall be 100%.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-02-24
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.
action_date: 2010-02-24
text: Introduced in Senate
Maintaining Agency Direction on Financial Fraud Act

Bill: 111-s-3032
Sponsor: Sen. Barrasso, John [R-WY]
Introduced: 2010-02-24 in the Senate
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Climate change and greenhouse gases
Securities
Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)

Summary:
action_date: 2010-02-24
text: 
Maintaining Agency Direction on Financial Fraud Act - Prohibits any interpretive guidance issued by the Securities and Exchange Commission which relates to &quot;Commission Guidance Regarding Disclosure Related to Climate Change&quot; from taking effect with respect to any person on or after February 2, 2010.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-02-24
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.
action_date: 2010-02-24
text: Introduced in Senate
National September 11 Memorial & Museum Commemorative Medal Act of 2010

Bill: 111-s-3034
Sponsor: Sen. Schumer, Charles E. [D-NY]
Introduced: 2010-02-24 in the Senate
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Commemorative events and holidays
Crime victims
Museums, exhibitions, cultural centers
New York City
Terrorism

Summary:
action_date: 2010-02-24
text: 
National September 11 Memorial & Museum Commemorative Medal Act of 2010 - Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to strike and make available for sale not more than 2 million silver national medals, containing one ounce of silver each, in commemoration of the 10th anniversary of the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on the United States and the establishment of the National September 11 Memorial & Museum at the World Trade Center.
 
Declares that all sales of medals under this Act shall include a surcharge of $10 per medal, which shall be paid to the National September 11 Memorial & Museum at the World Trade Center to support its operations and maintenance.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-02-24
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.
action_date: 2010-02-24
text: Introduced in Senate
Veterans Traumatic Brain Injury Care Improvement Act of 2010

Bill: 111-s-3035
Sponsor: Sen. Baucus, Max [D-MT]
Introduced: 2010-02-24 in the Senate
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Congressional oversight
Emergency medical services and trauma care
Health facilities and institutions
Idaho
Long-term, rehabilitative, and terminal care
Montana
Neurological disorders
North Dakota
Rural conditions and development
South Dakota
Veterans' medical care
Washington State
Wyoming

Summary:
action_date: 2010-02-24
text: 
Veterans Traumatic Brain Injury Care Improvement Act of 2010 - Directs the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to report to Congress on the feasibility and advisability of establishing a Polytrauma Rehabilitation Center or Polytrauma Network Site for the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) in the northern Rockies or the Dakotas.
 
Requires the Fort Harrison Department of Veterans Affairs Hospital in Lewis and Clark County, Montana, to be evaluated as a potential location for such a Center or Site.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-05-19
text: Committee on Veterans' Affairs. Hearings held. Hearings printed: S.Hrg. 111-623.
action_date: 2010-02-24
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2010-02-24
text: Introduced in Senate
Enhancing Oversight and Security at United States Missions Act of 2010

Bill: 111-s-3037
Sponsor: Sen. McCaskill, Claire [D-MO]
Introduced: 2010-02-24 in the Senate
Policy area: International Affairs
Subjects: Congressional oversight
Diplomacy, foreign officials, Americans abroad
Military operations and strategy
Military procurement, research, weapons development
Performance measurement
Public contracts and procurement

Summary:
action_date: 2010-02-24
text: 
Enhancing Oversight and Security at United States Missions Act of 2010 - Directs the Secretary of State to submit a plan to Congress to increase oversight of private security contractors by U.S. government personnel at U.S. missions where the Armed Forces are engaged in combat operations in order to ensure that security functions are appropriately performed. Requires such plan to be implemented within 180 days after the enactment of this Act.
 
Requires the Secretary to: (1) periodically review the performance of such contractors to ensure that security functions are performed in a manner that is consistent with plan requirements; and (2) report annually to Congress, in each of 2011 through 2015, on the results of the most recent performance review.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-02-24
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations.
action_date: 2010-02-24
text: Introduced in Senate
Small System Safe Drinking Water Act of 2010

Bill: 111-s-3038
Sponsor: Sen. Inhofe, James M. [R-OK]
Introduced: 2010-02-25 in the Senate
Policy area: Environmental Protection
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
Environmental assessment, monitoring, research
Environmental regulatory procedures
Environmental technology
Government lending and loan guarantees
Hazardous wastes and toxic substances
State and local finance
Technology transfer and commercialization
Water quality
Water use and supply

Summary:
action_date: 2010-02-25
text: 
Small System Safe Drinking Water Act of 2010 - Amends the Safe Drinking Water Act to require the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA): (1) to convene a working group to study barriers to using specified treatments; (2) to develop model guidance to assist states in regulating and promoting such treatment options; and (3) when establishing affordability criteria for variance technology, to consider specified cost factors, to give extra weight to households below the poverty level and to communities that meet state affordability criteria, and to ensure that the criteria are not more costly, on a per-capita basis, to a small public water system than the per capita cost to a large water system of acquiring feasible technology.
 
 Requires the Administrator or a state, before initiating any enforcement action, to ensure that sufficient funds have been made available to assist each public water system that serves fewer than 10,000 individuals in meeting regulation requirements.

Revises provisions allowing an exemption of a system from maximum containment level and treatment technique requirements to: (1) increase the population threshold; and (2) allow state determinations of a renewal period.

Revises technical assistance provisions to require water systems serving fewer than 10,000 individuals to receive adequate technical assistance and training to meet requirements of final rules. Gives priority to systems not in compliance with specified rules concerning: (1) disinfectants and disinfection byproducts; (2) arsenic and compliance and new source monitoring; and (3) groundwater. 

Establishes pilot programs to: (1) explore new technologies or approaches to comply with a drinking water standard; and (2) research technology transfer issues and disinfection strategies relating to drinking water.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-02-25
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.
action_date: 2010-02-25
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S797)
action_date: 2010-02-25
text: Introduced in Senate
Research of Alcohol Detection Systems for Stopping Alcohol-related Fatalities Everywhere Act of 2010

Bill: 111-s-3039
Sponsor: Sen. Udall, Tom [D-NM]
Introduced: 2010-02-25 in the Senate
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Drug, alcohol, tobacco use
Government trust funds
Motor vehicles
Roads and highways
Transportation programs funding
Transportation safety and security

Summary:
action_date: 2010-02-25
text: 
Research of Alcohol Detection Systems for Stopping Alcohol-related Fatalities Everywhere Act of 2010 or the ROADS SAFE Act of 2010 - Directs the Administrator of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) to carry out a collaborative research effort to continue to explore, and report to specified congressional committees on, the feasibility and the potential benefits of, and the public policy challenges associated with, more widespread deployment of in-vehicle technology to prevent alcohol-impaired driving.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-02-25
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
action_date: 2010-02-25
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S797-798)
action_date: 2010-02-25
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to amend the Richard B. Russell National School Lunch Act to provide children from rural areas with better access to meals served through the summer food service program for children and certain child care programs.

Bill: 111-s-3040
Sponsor: Sen. Lugar, Richard G. [R-IN]
Introduced: 2010-02-25 in the Senate
Policy area: Agriculture and Food
Subjects: Child care and development
Elementary and secondary education
Food assistance and relief
Poverty and welfare assistance
Rural conditions and development
Transportation costs
Transportation programs funding

Summary:
action_date: 2010-02-25
text: 
Amends the Richard B. Russell National School Lunch Act to reimburse summer food service programs for children in service institutions and food programs for children in afterschool care for free meals or snacks served to children in areas where at least 40% (currently, 50%) of the children meet the income eligibility criteria for free or reduced price meals under the school lunch and breakfast programs. 
 
Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to award competitive grants to service institutions to increase participation at congregate feeding sites in summer food service programs for children through innovative approaches to limited rural transportation.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-02-25
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry.
action_date: 2010-02-25
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to prohibit the further extension or establishment of national monuments in Nevada except by express authorization of Congress.

Bill: 111-s-3041
Sponsor: Sen. Ensign, John [R-NV]
Introduced: 2010-02-25 in the Senate
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Congressional oversight
Monuments and memorials
Nevada
Parks, recreation areas, trails

Summary:
action_date: 2010-02-25
text: 
Prohibits any further extension or establishment of national parks and monuments in Nevada from being undertaken except by express authorization of Congress. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-02-25
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
action_date: 2010-02-25
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to provide for a study by the National Academy of Sciences on the technical policy decisions and technical personnel at the Federal Communications Commission.

Bill: 111-s-3042
Sponsor: Sen. Snowe, Olympia J. [R-ME]
Introduced: 2010-02-25 in the Senate
Policy area: Science, Technology, Communications
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Federal Communications Commission (FCC)
Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management
Government studies and investigations
Policy sciences
Science and engineering education

Summary:
action_date: 2010-02-25
text: 
Directs the Chairman of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to enter into an arrangement with the National Academy of Sciences to complete a study of the technical policy decisionmaking and technical personnel at the FCC.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-02-25
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
action_date: 2010-02-25
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S798-799)
action_date: 2010-02-25
text: Introduced in Senate
Engineering Education for Innovation Act

Bill: 111-s-3043
Sponsor: Sen. Gillibrand, Kirsten E. [D-NY]
Introduced: 2010-02-25 in the Senate
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Academic performance and assessments
Education of the disadvantaged
Education programs funding
Educational technology and distance education
Elementary and secondary education
Government information and archives
Science and engineering education
Teaching, teachers, curricula

Summary:
action_date: 2010-02-25
text: 
Engineering Education for Innovation Act or E 2 for Innovation Act - Authorizes the Secretary of Education to award planning grants and matching implementation grants to states to integrate engineering education into kindergarten through grade 12 (K-12) instruction and curricula.
 
Requires each state that desires an implementation grant to develop quantifiable benchmarks for activities supported by such grants and submit them to the Secretary for approval.
 
Requires states to use implementation grants to: (1) establish assessment tools and challenging academic content and achievement standards for engineering education; (2) develop or obtain effective engineering education curricula; (3) develop or improve engineering teacher training programs; (4) recruit qualified engineering teachers for needy schools; (5) facilitate distance learning and online education in engineering; and (6) invest in after-school engineering education programs.
 
Directs the Institute of Education Sciences to support engineering education research and an evaluation of this Act's grant programs. 
 
Requires the Secretary to use the evaluation's findings to provide information to the public and technical assistance to states on best practices and promising innovations in K-12 engineering education.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-02-25
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2010-02-25
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S799-800)
action_date: 2010-02-25
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to extend the deduction for qualified motor vehicle taxes for motor homes.

Bill: 111-s-3044
Sponsor: Sen. Bayh, Evan [D-IN]
Introduced: 2010-02-25 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Housing finance and home ownership
Income tax deductions
Motor vehicles
Sales and excise taxes

Summary:
action_date: 2010-02-25
text: 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) extend through 2011 the tax deduction for state and local sales or excise taxes imposed on the purchase of a motor home; and (2) revise the definition of &quot;motor home&quot; for purposes of this tax deduction to include a recreation vehicle trailer and a slide-in camper.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-02-25
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2010-02-25
text: Introduced in Senate