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Seniors Medicare Protection Act of 2010

Bill: 111-hr-4473
Sponsor: Rep. Schrader, Kurt [D-OR-5]
Introduced: 2010-01-20 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Health care costs and insurance
Health care coverage and access
Medicare

Summary:
action_date: 2010-01-20
text: 
Seniors Medicare Protection Act of 2010 - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to establish a 24-month extended special enrollment period for certain individuals to enroll under Medicare part B (Supplementary Medical Insurance).
 
(The special enrollment period is the eight consecutive months after an individual ceases to be enrolled in a group health plan by reason of current employment status.)
 
Requires individuals enrolled in part B during the extended special enrollment period to pay a monthly premium increased by 25% for a specified number of months. Allows the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS), however, to reduce or waive the premium increase for an individual who demonstrates that he or she made a good faith effort to enroll during the special enrollment period.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-01-27
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2010-01-21
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2010-01-20
text: Referred to House Ways and Means
action_date: 2010-01-20
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: 2010-01-20
text: Referred to House Energy and Commerce
action_date: 2010-01-20
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-01-20
text: Introduced in House
To amend sections 14006 and 14007 of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 to reserve funds under the programs established under such sections for payments to the Bureau of Indian Education of the Department of the Interior for Indian children.

Bill: 111-hr-4475
Sponsor: Rep. McCollum, Betty [D-MN-4]
Introduced: 2010-01-20 in the House
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
Indian social and development programs
Minority education
School administration
Teaching, teachers, curricula

Summary:
action_date: 2010-01-20
text: 
Amends the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 to direct the Secretary of Education to reserve 1% to 5% of the amount reserved from the State Fiscal Stabilization Fund for the State Incentive Grant program for a FY2010 grant to the Bureau of Indian Education of the Department of the Interior to carry out activities for Indian children that are consistent with that program. (That program makes incentive grants to states that make significant progress in addressing inequities in teacher distribution, establishing longitudinal education data systems, improving educational standards and assessments, and ensuring the improvement of failing schools.)
 
Requires the Secretary to reserve 1% to 5% of the amount reserved from the State Fiscal Stabilization Fund for the creation of an Innovation Fund for an award to the Bureau of Indian Education to carry out activities for Indian children that are consistent with the objectives of the Innovation Fund. (The Innovation Fund rewards certain educational entities that make significant progress in closing student achievement gaps.)


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-02-23
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education.
action_date: 2010-01-20
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and Labor.
action_date: 2010-01-20
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-01-20
text: Introduced in House
Equity in Government Compensation Act of 2010

Bill: 111-hr-4476
Sponsor: Rep. Bachus, Spencer [R-AL-6]
Introduced: 2010-01-20 in the House
Policy area: Housing and Community Development
Subjects: Banking and financial institutions regulation
Budget deficits and national debt
Corporate finance and management
Federal officials
Government corporations and government-sponsored enterprises
Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management
Housing finance and home ownership
Wages and earnings

Summary:
action_date: 2010-01-20
text: 
Equity in Government Compensation Act of 2010 - Requires the Director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency to: (1) suspend immediately the compensation packages approved for 2010 for the executive officers of the Federal National Mortgage Association (Fannie Mae) and the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation (Freddie Mac); and (2) establish, in lieu of such packages, a compensation system for such officers in accordance with the rates of pay for positions in the Executive Schedule and the Senior Executive Service of the federal government.
 
Expresses the sense of Congress that each executive officer of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac should return to the Secretary of the Treasury (clawback) any compensation earned in 2009 that was in excess of the maximum annual rate of basic pay authorized for a position in level I of the Executive Schedule.
 
Instructs the Secretary of the Treasury to transfer any such amounts returned to the Secretary to a specified account in the Treasury for receiving gifts and proceeds from their sale or redemption, and dedicated to reducing the public debt.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-01-20
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2010-01-20
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-01-20
text: Introduced in House
Military Personnel Toxic Exposure Registry Act

Bill: 111-hr-4477
Sponsor: Rep. Bishop, Timothy H. [D-NY-1]
Introduced: 2010-01-20 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Hazardous wastes and toxic substances
Health information and medical records
Medical research
Medical tests and diagnostic methods
Military medicine
Military personnel and dependents

Summary:
action_date: 2010-01-20
text: 
Military Personnel Toxic Exposure Registry Act - Directs the Secretary of Defense (DOD) to establish and administer a system to identify members of the Armed Forces who were potentially exposed to a hazardous disposal site, as well as any negative health effects that may be related to such exposure.
 
Requires the Secretary to: (1) administer the system using existing medical surveillance systems; (2) notify a member and his or her commanding officer of a potential exposure; (3) for each member notified, collect information for purposes of the system; (4) for each member notified, annually provide a complete physical examination and related consultation and counseling; and (5) report annually to the congressional defense committees on the status of system implementation and incidences of illnesses which may have been caused by such exposure.
 
Amends the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2010 to: (1) include solid waste containing plastics within the definition of &quot;covered waste&quot; for purposes of a prohibition against the disposal by the Armed Forces of covered waste in open-air burn pits during contingency operations; and (2) include in a required report concerning the use of such pits those situations in which such pits were used to dispose of waste during military exercises and operations worldwide during the period beginning on September 11, 2001, and ending on the date of enactment of this Act.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-02-18
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Military Personnel.
action_date: 2010-01-20
text: Referred to the House Committee on Armed Services.
action_date: 2010-01-20
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-01-20
text: Introduced in House
Kids Wish II Act

Bill: 111-hr-4478
Sponsor: Rep. Brown, Corrine [D-FL-3]
Introduced: 2010-01-20 in the House
Policy area: Emergency Management
Subjects: Child care and development
Child safety and welfare
Disaster relief and insurance
Emergency planning and evacuation
Government information and archives
Homelessness and emergency shelter

Summary:
action_date: 2010-01-20
text: 
Kids Wish II Act - Amends the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act to: (1) include child care facilities among public or private nonprofit facilities covered by such Act; (2) make a private for-profit child care facility eligible for assistance under the Act to the same extent as a private nonprofit child care facility; and (3) include child care within provisions regarding essential services, critical services, and federal assistance to individuals and households to address necessary expenses from a major disaster.
 
Directs the President to: (1) encourage states and localities to include consideration of services and facilities for children within all phases of their disaster planning, training, and exercises; (2) take necessary actions to include the provision of services and facilities for children within national planning activities; (3) ensure that disaster plans for services and facilities for children incorporate specific measurable capabilities for shelter-in-place, evacuation, relocation, family reunification, temporary operating standards, and accommodation of children with disabilities and chronic health needs and other special needs child populations; and (4) establish a single federal disaster case management program with an emphasis on achieving tangible, positive outcomes for all children and families who are victims of a major disaster.
 
Authorizes the President to: (1) provide mass care shelters for victims of major disasters, which shall provide a safe and secure mass care shelter environment for children; and (2) provide financial and other assistance for victims of a major disaster to ensure an expedited transition into permanent housing, especially for families with children who have disabilities or other special health, mental health, or educational needs.
 
 
Directs the President to: (1) give priority to families with children in providing disaster housing assistance; and (2) develop a standardized, interoperable national evacuee tracking and family reunification system that ensures the safety and well-being of children.
 
Requires disaster related information to be made available to individuals affected by a major disaster or emergency in formats that can be understood by children.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-01-21
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Economic Development, Public Buildings and Emergency Management.
action_date: 2010-01-20
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2010-01-20
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-01-20
text: Introduced in House
Tighten Washington's Belt Act of 2010

Bill: 111-hr-4479
Sponsor: Rep. Forbes, J. Randy [R-VA-4]
Introduced: 2010-01-20 in the House
Policy area: Economics and Public Finance
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Appropriations
Budget deficits and national debt
Budget process
Congressional oversight

Summary:
action_date: 2010-01-20
text: 
Tighten Washington's Belt Act of 2010 - Requires the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), within 15 days after the end of a session, to issue a Discretionary Sequestration Report and, if in such report OMB estimates that any sequestration is required, the President to issue an order (effective on issuance) fully implementing without change all such sequestrations. 
 
Requires the Congressional Budget Office (CBO), within 10 days after the end of session, also to issue a Discretionary Sequestration Report.
 
Subjects to permanent cancellation any budgetary resources sequestered from any account, except those in special fund accounts or offsetting collections sequestered in appropriation accounts. Applies the same percentage sequestration to all programs, projects, and activities within a budget account.
 
Requires the Comptroller General, upon request of the congressional budget committees, to report to Congress and the President on the extent to which each such issued presidential order or OMB or CBO report complies with all of the requirements contained in this Act, either certifying that the order fully and accurately complies with such requirements or indicating the respects in which it does not.
 
Requires Discretionary Sequestration Reports for each of FY2011-FY2015 to set forth estimates for: (1) the applicable discretionary spending limits; (2) the new budget authority and the breach, if any; (3) the sequestration percentages necessary to eliminate the breach; and (4) the level of enacted sequesterable budget authority, and resulting estimated outlays to be sequestered for each account. 
 
Requires the OMB report to explain: (1) any differences between OMB and CBO estimates for any breach and any required discretionary sequestration percentages; and (2) differences in the amount of sequesterable resources for any budget account to be reduced if such difference is greater than $5 million.
 
Establishes discretionary spending limits for FY2011-FY2015.
 
 Sets forth sequestration enforcement mechanisms.
 
Subjects all discretionary budget authority to such sequestration procedures, except: (1) benefits and compensation provided to active duty military and to veterans defined as discretionary spending; (2) provisions of discretionary spending legislation the President and Congress designate as emergency requirements; and (3) salaries or other expenditures that may not be reduced on account of constitutional requirements.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-01-20
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Budget.
action_date: 2010-01-20
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-01-20
text: Introduced in House
National Youth Sports Program Revitalization Act of 2010

Bill: 111-hr-4480
Sponsor: Rep. Fudge, Marcia L. [D-OH-11]
Introduced: 2010-01-20 in the House
Policy area: Housing and Community Development
Subjects: Education of the disadvantaged
Housing and community development funding
School athletics

Summary:
action_date: 2010-01-20
text: 
National Youth Sports Program Revitalization Act of 2010 - Amends the Community Services Block Grant Act to authorize appropriations for FY2011-FY2021 for national or regional instructional programs for low-income youth.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-02-23
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Healthy Families and Communities.
action_date: 2010-01-20
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and Labor.
action_date: 2010-01-20
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-01-20
text: Introduced in House
Deficit Reduction Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-4481
Sponsor: Rep. Lance, Leonard [R-NJ-7]
Introduced: 2010-01-20 in the House
Policy area: Economics and Public Finance
Subjects: Adoption and foster care
Afghanistan
Asia
Budget deficits and national debt
Budget process
Congressional oversight
Defense spending
Disability assistance
Foreign loans and debt
Income tax credits
International monetary system and foreign exchange
Iraq
Legislative rules and procedure
Middle East
Military operations and strategy
Poverty and welfare assistance
Roads and highways

Summary:
action_date: 2010-01-20
text: 
Deficit Reduction Act of 2009 - Amends the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 (Gramm-Rudman-Hollings Act) to redefine, for FY2011-FY2019, discretionary spending limits (spending caps) for new budget authority and outlays to mean the baseline, minus any emergency spending, for the preceding fiscal year as adjusted for inflation and (as under current law) as adjusted in strict conformance with such Act.
 
Revises sequestration requirements for enforcement of discretionary spending limits. Requires the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) to conduct such a sequestration to eliminate a budget year breach.
 
Eliminates specific formula requirements for adjustments to discretionary spending limits for: (1) highways; (2) continuing disability reviews for the Social Security Administration (SSA); (3) allowances for the International Monetary Fund (IMF); (4) specified allowances for international arrearages; (5) the earned income tax credit (EITC) compliance initiative; (6) Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) adoption incentive payments; and (7) conservation.
 
Prescribes an adjustment to discretionary spending limits for overseas contingency operations related to the global war on terrorism, including Iraq and Afghanistan.
 
Redefines low-growth, for purposes of OMB's required low-growth notification to Congress, from less than zero to less than 1%.
 
Extends Pay-As-You-Go requirements and enforcement mechanisms through FY2019.
 
Establishes sequestration enforcement mechanisms to eliminate deficit limits for FY2012-FY2019.
 
Specifies additional Social Security, veterans, Tier I Railroad Retirement benefits and other programs and activities exempt from a sequestration order as well as certain economic recovery programs.
 
Amends the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 (CBA) to make it out of order in both chambers to consider any legislation causing the discretionary limits in the Gramm-Rudman-Hollings Act to be exceeded.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-01-20
text: Referred to House Rules
action_date: 2010-01-20
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: 2010-01-20
text: Referred to House Budget
action_date: 2010-01-20
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-01-20
text: Introduced in House
Protecting Taxpayers from Excessive Compensation Act of 2010

Bill: 111-hr-4483
Sponsor: Rep. Roskam, Peter J. [R-IL-6]
Introduced: 2010-01-20 in the House
Policy area: Housing and Community Development
Subjects: Banking and financial institutions regulation
Bankruptcy
Corporate finance and management
Government corporations and government-sponsored enterprises
Housing finance and home ownership
Wages and earnings

Summary:
action_date: 2010-01-20
text: 
Protecting Taxpayers from Excessive Compensation Act of 2010 - Amends the Federal Housing Enterprises Financial Safety and Soundness Act of 1992 to direct the Federal Housing Finance Agency, in its capacity as conservator or receiver of a government-sponsored enterprise (Federal National Mortgage Association [Fannie Mae] or the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation [Freddie Mac]), to prohibit the provision of compensation to any employee, officer, or executive officer of such enterprise, for any period during such conservatorship or receivership, in an amount exceeding the rate of basic pay at such time for the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff of the Armed Forces.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-01-20
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2010-01-20
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-01-20
text: Introduced in House
To preclude individuals who have a pending charge or have been convicted of a crime from serving as enumerators for the collection of census data.

Bill: 111-hr-4484
Sponsor: Rep. Chaffetz, Jason [R-UT-3]
Introduced: 2010-01-21 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Census and government statistics
Government ethics and transparency, public corruption

Summary:
action_date: 2010-01-21
text: 
Prohibits an individual who has a pending charge or has been convicted of a crime (other than a minor traffic offense) from serving as an enumerator for the collection of census data. Exempts any individual who holds an enumerator position as of the date of this Act's enactment.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-02-12
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Information Policy, Census, and National Archives.
action_date: 2010-01-21
text: Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.
action_date: 2010-01-21
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-01-21
text: Introduced in House
New Resources for Domestic Consumption Act of 2010

Bill: 111-hr-4485
Sponsor: Rep. Hall, Ralph M. [R-TX-4]
Introduced: 2010-01-21 in the House
Policy area: Energy
Subjects: Alaska
Energy revenues and royalties
Land transfers
Oil and gas
Trade restrictions
Wilderness and natural areas, wildlife refuges, wild rivers, habitats

Summary:
action_date: 2010-01-21
text: 
New Resources for Domestic Consumption Act of 2010 - Directs the Secretary of the Interior to transfer to the state of Alaska all right, title, and interest of the United States in and to the 1002 Area of Alaska (Coastal Plain of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge). 
 
Requires the Secretary, as a condition of any such transfer, to require Alaska to pay to the United States 50% of all amounts the state receives as a result of developing oil, natural gas, and other natural resources of the Area.
 
Prohibits export from the United States of any oil produced in the 1002 Area after the date of transfer. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-01-25
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Insular Affairs, Oceans and Wildlife.
action_date: 2010-01-25
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources.
action_date: 2010-01-21
text: Referred to House Foreign Affairs
action_date: 2010-01-21
text: Referred to the Committee on Natural Resources, and in addition to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, 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: 2010-01-21
text: Referred to House Natural Resources
action_date: 2010-01-21
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-01-21
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to treat distributions of debt securities in a tax free spin-off transaction in the same manner as distributions of cash or other property.

Bill: 111-hr-4486
Sponsor: Rep. Hodes, Paul W. [D-NH-2]
Introduced: 2010-01-21 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Capital gains tax
Corporate finance and management
Securities
Tax administration and collection, taxpayers

Summary:
action_date: 2010-01-21
text: 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to treat securities and nonqualified preferred stock paid to a parent corporation by a subsidiary in a corporate reorganization as cash payments, thus subjecting the gain attributable to such payments to tax.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-01-21
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2010-01-21
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-01-21
text: Introduced in House
End the Hijacking of Shareholder Funds Act

Bill: 111-hr-4487
Sponsor: Rep. Grayson, Alan [D-FL-8]
Introduced: 2010-01-21 in the House
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: Business ethics
Civil actions and liability
Corporate finance and management
Elections, voting, political campaign regulation
Financial services and investments
Political advertising
Public participation and lobbying
Securities

Summary:
action_date: 2010-01-21
text: 
End the Hijacking of Shareholder Funds Act - Deems expenditure to influence public opinion by the officers and directors of a public company on matters not related to company products or services to be a breach of fiduciary duty if such expenditure has not been approved by a prior majority shareholder vote.
 
Subjects such officers and directors to joint and several liability to any shareholder or class of shareholders for the amount of such an expenditure.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-01-21
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2010-01-21
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-01-21
text: Introduced in House