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Seniors Financial Fraud Prevention Act of 2010

Bill: 111-hr-5884
Sponsor: Rep. Klein, Ron [D-FL-22]
Introduced: 2010-07-27 in the House
Policy area: Commerce
Subjects: Aging
Business ethics
Consumer affairs
Criminal investigation, prosecution, interrogation
Executive agency funding and structure
Federal Trade Commission (FTC)
Fraud offenses and financial crimes
Government information and archives
Marketing and advertising

Summary:
action_date: 2010-07-27
text: 
Seniors Financial Fraud Prevention Act of 2010 - Establishes a separate office within the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) for the prevention of fraud targeting seniors and requires the office to assist the FTC in monitoring the market for mail, telemarketing, television, and Internet fraud which targets seniors. 
 
Requires the FTC through such office: (1) to disseminate to seniors and their families and caregivers information on mail, telemarketing, television, and Internet fraud targeting seniors, including on ways of referring complaints to appropriate law enforcement agencies; (2) in response to a request about a particular entity or individual, to provide publicly available information on any record of civil or criminal law enforcement action for such fraud; and (3) to maintain a website as a resource for such individuals on those kinds of fraud. 
 
Requires the FTC through such office to establish procedures to: (1) log and acknowledge complaints from individuals who certify that they believe they have been victims of mail, telemarketing, television, or Internet fraud; (2) provide certain information on those kinds of fraud; and (3) refer such complaints to appropriate entities, including state consumer protection agencies and entities and appropriate law enforcement agencies, for potential law enforcement action. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-07-27
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2010-07-27
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-07-27
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to terminate the advance payment of the earned income tax credit.

Bill: 111-hr-5885
Sponsor: Rep. Linder, John [R-GA-7]
Introduced: 2010-07-27 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Income tax credits
Poverty and welfare assistance

Summary:
action_date: 2010-07-27
text: 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to repeal provisions that provide for the advance payment of the earned income tax credit. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-07-27
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2010-07-27
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-07-27
text: Introduced in House
Investment in Quality School Leadership Act

Bill: 111-hr-5886
Sponsor: Rep. Lowey, Nita M. [D-NY-18]
Introduced: 2010-07-27 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Education of the disadvantaged
Education programs funding
Elementary and secondary education
School administration
Teaching, teachers, curricula

Summary:
action_date: 2010-07-27
text: 
Investment in Quality School Leadership Act - Establishes a program of grants to consortia for professional development of superintendents, principals, and prospective superintendents and principals.
 
Directs the Secretary of Education to award such competitive grants to consortia to establish programs that serve a state or region and provide superintendents, principals, and prospective superintendents and principals, particularly those serving, or intending to serve, in high-poverty, low-performing school districts and schools, with ongoing, intensive professional development opportunities to improve their capacity to serve as effective leaders and successfully implement standards-based reforms. 
Requires a consortium, to be eligible to apply for such a grant, to include at least: (1) one local educational agency (LEA) serving a high concentration of children living in poverty; (2) one institution of higher education; and (3) one organization that does not usually provide educational services, but has the necessary expertise to provide professional development to school administrators. Allows such consortia also to include: (1) one or more additional LEAs; (2) state educational agencies; (3) for-profit organizations with expertise; and (4) public or private nonprofit organizations with expertise. 
Gives priority for awards to those consortia in which the participating LEA serves the highest concentration of children living in poverty. 
Sets forth required program activities and additional uses of grant funds. Requires grantees to provide 50% of the project's annual costs, in cash or in kind. Authorizes the Secretary to: (1) waive such matching requirement for applicants that serve low-income areas; and (2) reserve certain funds for technical assistance, evaluation, dissemination of information on effective programs, activities to encourage the spread and adoption of successful leadership development centers, and other national activities that support the programs.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-10-13
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education.
action_date: 2010-07-27
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and Labor.
action_date: 2010-07-27
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-07-27
text: Introduced in House
Choking Hazard Awareness Act

Bill: 111-hr-5887
Sponsor: Rep. Lowey, Nita M. [D-NY-18]
Introduced: 2010-07-27 in the House
Policy area: Commerce
Subjects: Child safety and welfare
Consumer affairs
Games and hobbies
Marketing and advertising
Product safety and quality

Summary:
action_date: 2010-07-27
text: 
Choking Hazard Awareness Act - Amends the Federal Hazardous Substances Act to require: (1) any advertisement for any toy, game, balloon, small ball, or marble that requires a cautionary &quot;choking hazard&quot; statement to display such statement in its entirety on or immediately adjacent to such advertisement; and (2) the statement to be displayed in the language that is primarily used in the advertisement, catalogue, or website and in conspicuous and legible type.

Treats such requirements as consumer product safety standards, and the publication or distribution of any advertisement that is not in compliance with such requirements as a prohibited act, under the Consumer Product Safety Act.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-07-27
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2010-07-27
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-07-27
text: Introduced in House
America Rx Act of 2010

Bill: 111-hr-5888
Sponsor: Rep. Michaud, Michael H. [D-ME-2]
Introduced: 2010-07-27 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Health care costs and insurance
Prescription drugs
Public contracts and procurement
Retail and wholesale trades

Summary:
action_date: 2010-07-27
text: 
America Rx Act of 2010 - Requires the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) to establish the America Rx program to provide qualified residents with access to discounted prices for outpatient prescription drugs through rebate agreements that the Secretary negotiates with prescription drug manufacturers. Makes eligible only those residents that are not covered under any public or private program that provides substantial benefits towards the purchase of outpatient prescription drugs.
 
Requires rebates to be payable to the Secretary at least quarterly and to be paid, directly or through states, to participating pharmacies that provide discounts to qualified residents.
 
Denies manufacturers who do not participate in the rebate program a tax deduction for advertising and marketing expenses of drugs.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-07-27
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2010-07-27
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-07-27
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Public Health Service Act and title XVIII of the Social Security Act to increase the number of primary care physicians and medical residents serving health professional shortage areas, and for other purposes.

Bill: 111-hr-5889
Sponsor: Rep. Young, Don [R-AK-At Large]
Introduced: 2010-07-27 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Education programs funding
Health facilities and institutions
Health programs administration and funding
Medical education
Medicare
Rural conditions and development
Student aid and college costs

Summary:
action_date: 2010-07-27
text: 
Amends the Public Health Service Act to require the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) to obligate, for scholarships for individuals who are accepted or enrolled in a course of study or program that leads to a degree in medicine or osteopathic medicine, the greater of : (1) 10% of amounts appropriated for the National Health Service Corps; or (2) the amount necessary to fund such scholarships activities.
 
Amends title XVIIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to require nonrural hospitals operating training programs in rural areas to include rural and emergency medicine rotations and obstetrical and pediatric training in such programs for purposes of payments for direct graduate medical education costs.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-07-27
text: Referred to House Ways and Means
action_date: 2010-07-27
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, 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: 2010-07-27
text: Referred to House Energy and Commerce
action_date: 2010-07-27
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-07-27
text: Introduced in House
Poverty Measurement Improvement Act

Bill: 111-hr-5891
Sponsor: Rep. Linder, John [R-GA-7]
Introduced: 2010-07-28 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Census and government statistics
Poverty and welfare assistance

Summary:
action_date: 2010-07-28
text: 
Poverty Measurement Improvement Act - Amends the Social Security Act to require the Bureau of the Census, annually, to publish statistics on levels of family income in the United States that take into account the full benefits poverty income measure and the partial benefits poverty income measure.
 
Defines: (1) &quot;partial benefits poverty income measure&quot; to mean money income as defined by the Bureau for purposes of any survey relating to income or poverty in the United States; and (2) &quot;full benefits poverty income measure&quot; to mean the sum of the partial benefits poverty income measure and other non-cash benefits (including supplemental nutrition assistance benefits, housing subsidies, the actuarial value of health insurance coverage, and any other state or federal means-tested benefits) attributable to the members of the household involved, including non-related members, as calculated by the Bureau by applying its current disposable income methodology.
 
Requires the Bureau to produce corresponding tables and graphs showing for each year the poverty rates (and related data) determined by using each such measure.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-07-28
text: Referred to House Oversight and Government Reform
action_date: 2010-07-28
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, 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: 2010-07-28
text: Referred to House Ways and Means
action_date: 2010-07-28
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-07-28
text: Introduced in House
Pregnant and Parenting Students Access to Education Act of 2010

Bill: 111-hr-5894
Sponsor: Rep. Polis, Jared [D-CO-2]
Introduced: 2010-07-28 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Child care and development
Education programs funding
Elementary and secondary education
Minority education
Performance measurement
Preschool education
School administration
State and local government operations
Teaching, teachers, curricula
Teenage pregnancy
Transportation costs
Women's education

Summary:
action_date: 2010-07-28
text: 
Pregnant and Parenting Students Access to Education Act of 2010 - Authorizes the Secretary of Education to make formula grants to states and, through them, competitive subgrants to local educational agencies (LEAs) to establish or enhance educational programs and related services that enable pregnant and parenting students to enroll in, attend, and succeed in school. 
 
Requires state grantees to: (1) designate a Coordinator for Education of Pregnant and Parenting Students who is to develop and implement a state plan for educating pregnant and parenting students; and (2) develop and implement high-quality professional development programs for LEAs and school personnel.
 
Requires subgrantees to: (1) provide academic support services to pregnant and parenting students; (2) assist such students in accessing quality, affordable child care and early childhood education services; (3) provide transportation services or assistance to such students and their children; (4) educate students, parents and community members regarding the educational rights of such students; (5) train school personnel regarding the challenges facing pregnant and parenting students and their educational rights; and (6) revise school policies and practices that hinder or discourage such students from continuing their education.
 
Gives subgrant priority to LEAs in geographic areas with teen pregnancy rates that: (1) exceed the state average; or (2) are below the state average, but higher than the state average for one or more racial or ethnic groups.
 
Directs the Secretary to conduct national activities that include: (1) providing technical assistance to states and reviewing their plans for educating pregnant and parenting students; (2) evaluating subgrantees' programs and education program service delivery models for such students; and (3) gathering and disseminating information regarding the education of such students and best practices in facilitating it.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-07-28
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and Labor.
action_date: 2010-07-28
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-07-28
text: Introduced in House
Gulf Coast Oil Spill Legal Liabilities and Claims Act of 2010

Bill: 111-hr-5895
Sponsor: Rep. Waters, Maxine [D-CA-35]
Introduced: 2010-07-28 in the House
Policy area: Law
Subjects: Civil actions and liability
Contracts and agency
Marine and coastal resources, fisheries
Marine pollution
Oil and gas
Pollution liability

Summary:
action_date: 2010-07-28
text: 
Gulf Coast Oil Spill Legal Liabilities and Claims Act of 2010 - Prohibits settlement, legal release, or other agreement from extinguishing or limiting liability in a civil action for significant harm arising from a discharge into waters off the shore of the United States of a substance that contaminates a marine or coastal environment or endangers public health, if such settlement, legal release, or agreement is entered into under coercion or duress or is entered into in exchange for any benefit other than a settlement of claims pending.
 
Amends the Class Action Fairness Act of 2005 to exclude from class actions under such Act any action brought by a state or one of its subdivisions on behalf of its citizens. 
 
Amends the federal judicial code to exclude an action brought by a state or one of its subdivisions on behalf of its citizens from the meaning of a class action or mass action.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-12-20
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Courts and Competition Policy.
action_date: 2010-07-28
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2010-07-28
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-07-28
text: Introduced in House
To authorize an additional district judgeship for the district of Idaho.

Bill: 111-hr-5896
Sponsor: Rep. Minnick, Walter [D-ID-1]
Introduced: 2010-07-28 in the House
Policy area: Law
Subjects: Federal district courts
Idaho
Judges

Summary:
action_date: 2010-07-28
text: 
Requires the President to appoint, with the advice and consent of the Senate, one additional district judge for the district of Idaho. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-09-20
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Courts and Competition Policy.
action_date: 2010-07-28
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2010-07-28
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-07-28
text: Introduced in House
Buy America Accountability Act of 2010

Bill: 111-hr-5898
Sponsor: Rep. Shea-Porter, Carol [D-NH-1]
Introduced: 2010-07-28 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Buy American requirements
Government information and archives
Performance measurement
Public contracts and procurement

Summary:
action_date: 2010-07-28
text: 
Buy America Accountability Act of 2010 - Amends the Buy American Act to require each federal department or independent establishment to submit to Congress a report that contains an evaluation of contractor compliance with the provisions of that Act for at least 10% of the contracts awarded during the fiscal year for the procurement of articles, materials, or supplies.
 
Requires the report to be publicly available. 
 
Prohibits the report from covering acquisitions made by an agency or component thereof that is an element of the intelligence community.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-07-28
text: Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.
action_date: 2010-07-28
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-07-28
text: Introduced in House
Direct Care Workforce Empowerment Act

Bill: 111-hr-5902
Sponsor: Rep. Sánchez, Linda T. [D-CA-39]
Introduced: 2010-07-28 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Allied health services
Employee benefits and pensions
Employment and training programs
Government information and archives
Health personnel
Health programs administration and funding
Labor standards
Long-term, rehabilitative, and terminal care
Personnel records
Wages and earnings

Summary:
action_date: 2010-07-28
text: 
Direct Care Workforce Empowerment Act - Amends the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 to exempt from minimum wage and maximum hour requirements any employee employed on a casual basis in domestic service employment to provide companionship services for individuals who because of disability (or because of age or infirmity, as under current law) are unable to care for themselves.
 
 Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) to establish: (1) a direct care workforce monitoring program; and (2) a National Advisory Council on the Direct Care Workforce.
 
Directs the Secretary to award three-year grants to states and other eligible entities to improve the recruitment, retention, and education of the direct care workforce.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-10-13
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Workforce Protections.
action_date: 2010-07-28
text: Referred to House Energy and Commerce
action_date: 2010-07-28
text: Referred to the Committee on Education and Labor, 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: 2010-07-28
text: Referred to House Education and Labor
action_date: 2010-07-28
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E1458)
action_date: 2010-07-28
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-07-28
text: Introduced in House
Restoration of State Sovereignty Act of 2010

Bill: 111-hr-5903
Sponsor: Rep. Culberson, John Abney [R-TX-7]
Introduced: 2010-07-28 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Appropriations
Budget deficits and national debt
Government information and archives
Intergovernmental relations
State and local government operations

Summary:
action_date: 2010-07-28
text: 
Restoration of State Sovereignty Act of 2010 - Provides that no federal authority shall enforce against any state authority, nor shall any state authority have any obligation to obey, any requirement imposed as a condition of receiving federal financial assistance under a federal grant program, nor shall such program operate within a state, unless the legislature of that state has expressly approved that program and, in doing so, waived the state's rights and authorities to act inconsistently with any requirement that might be imposed by the federal government as a condition of receiving that assistance. Authorizes a federal authority to release financial assistance under a federal grant program to a state only after the state's legislature has expressly approved the program or amended the requirements imposed by the federal government as conditions of receiving such assistance, provided such amendments are consistent with the federal law under which the assistance is provided. Excepts any grant program under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act or Title 38 of the United States Code. 
 
Requires a federal authority, upon determining that assistance under a federal grant program may not be released to a state for a fiscal year, to: (1) prepare a statement of the determination and the amount of excess grant funds involved; (2) provide the statement to the Director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB); and (3) include the statement on the official public website of the federal agency involved. Requires that such amount be rescinded from funds made available for the grant program and used only for reducing the deficit. Requires the Director to report on the total amount of such rescissions made each fiscal year, delineated by appropriation Acts, accounts, and programs, projects, and activities.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-07-28
text: Referred to House Appropriations
action_date: 2010-07-28
text: Referred to the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, 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: 2010-07-28
text: Referred to House Oversight and Government Reform
action_date: 2010-07-28
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-07-28
text: Introduced in House
To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 204 South Main Street in Seaboard, North Carolina, as the "Louise Lassiter Post Office".

Bill: 111-hr-5904
Sponsor: Rep. Butterfield, G. K. [D-NC-1]
Introduced: 2010-07-28 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Congressional tributes
Government buildings, facilities, and property
North Carolina
Postal service

Summary:
action_date: 2010-07-28
text: Designates the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 204 South Main Street in Seaboard, North Carolina, as the "Louise Lassiter Post Office."

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-07-28
text: Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.
action_date: 2010-07-28
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-07-28
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to deny a deduction for removal costs and damages for which taxpayers are liable under the Oil Pollution Act of 1990.

Bill: 111-hr-5905
Sponsor: Rep. Connolly, Gerald E. [D-VA-11]
Introduced: 2010-07-28 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Income tax deductions
Marine pollution
Oil and gas
Pollution liability
Water quality

Summary:
action_date: 2010-07-28
text: 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to deny a tax deduction for the removal costs and damages assessed for a discharge of oil under the Oil Pollution Act of 1990.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-07-28
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2010-07-28
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-07-28
text: Introduced in House