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Families and Communities Involved in Improving Our Schools Act

Bill: 111-s-3769
Sponsor: Sen. Feingold, Russell D. [D-WI]
Introduced: 2010-09-13 in the Senate
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Community life and organization
Department of Education
Education of the disadvantaged
Education programs funding
Elementary and secondary education
Family relationships
School administration

Summary:
action_date: 2010-09-13
text: 
Families and Communities Involved in Improving Our Schools Act - Amends title I (Improving the Academic Achievement of the Disadvantaged) of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to require local educational agencies (LEAs) receiving school improvement funds to engage families and community members in the selection, development, and implementation of measures to improve the performance of schools identified as needing improvement, corrective action, or restructuring due to their failure to make adequate yearly progress (AYP) toward state academic performance standards.
 
Directs the Secretary of Education to issue regulations that detail research-based family and community engagement strategies that LEAs and schools may utilize with school improvement funds.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-09-13
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2010-09-13
text: Introduced in Senate
Flexibility and Innovation in Education Act

Bill: 111-s-3770
Sponsor: Sen. Feingold, Russell D. [D-WI]
Introduced: 2010-09-13 in the Senate
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Academic performance and assessments
Education of the disadvantaged
Education programs funding
Elementary and secondary education
Government information and archives
Right of privacy

Summary:
action_date: 2010-09-13
text: 
Flexibility and Innovation in Education Act - Amends the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to allow states, with the Secretary of Education's approval, to use academic indicators, in addition to annual student academic assessments, to determine which schools and local educational agencies need improvement, corrective action, or restructuring due to their failure to make adequate yearly progress (AYP) toward state academic performance standards. (Currently, the use of such indicators may not result in a reduction in the number of schools identified as needing improvement, corrective action, or restructuring.)
 
Requires the academic assessments to represent at least 50% of the factors used in measuring AYP.
 
Allows states to: (1) measure AYP in terms of adequate yearly growth, thereby requiring students to meet academic growth rather than proficiency standards; (2) use assessments that are in addition to the required academic assessments; and (3) conduct their academic assessments once during grades 3 through 5, grades 6 through 8, and grades 9 through 12.
 
Requires each state that measures AYP in terms of student academic growth to have a statewide privacy-protected data system capable of tracking individual students' growth.
 
 Authorizes the Secretary to provide grants to states to take specified measures to protect the privacy of information in their statewide education data systems.
 
Revises state educational improvement plan peer review provisions to: (1) require each peer review panel to include representatives of specified education stakeholders; (2) ensure the consistency of peer review decisions from state to state; and (3) provide states with feedback, and the public with information, regarding such decisions.
 
Requires states to disaggregate graduation rate data on their annual report cards by student subgroups. 
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-09-13
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2010-09-13
text: Introduced in Senate
Improving Student Testing Act of 2010

Bill: 111-s-3771
Sponsor: Sen. Feingold, Russell D. [D-WI]
Introduced: 2010-09-13 in the Senate
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Academic performance and assessments
Competitiveness, trade promotion, trade deficits
Education programs funding
Elementary and secondary education
Teaching, teachers, curricula
User charges and fees

Summary:
action_date: 2010-09-13
text: 
Improving Student Testing Act of 2010 - Amends the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to allow states to use a formula grant for the development and administration of the student academic achievement assessments, used in determining whether local educational agencies (LEAs) and schools are making adequate yearly progress (AYP) toward student proficiency, to design and implement additional high-quality and innovative assessments. 
 
Replaces the program providing competitive grants to states for enhanced assessment instruments with a program awarding competitive grants to states and LEAs to design and implement high-quality and innovative assessments that measure higher-order thinking skills, align with academic content and achievement standards, and create multiple measures that: (1) serve federal and state accountability purposes; (2) improve classroom instruction; and (3) provide timely and meaningful feedback to students, teachers, principals, and parents.
 
Includes as innovative assessments that may be funded under both programs: (1) performance assessments, measuring students' ability to apply knowledge and skills; (2) technology-based assessments, using technology to develop, administer, and score the assessment; (3) through-course assessments, testing students throughout the school year and resulting in a summative score for the year; (4) adaptive assessments, administering questions to students based on their previous answers; (5) formative assessments, integrated into classroom instruction; (6) interim assessments, given at regular and specified intervals throughout the school year; and (7) alternative assessments for students with disabilities and English language learners.
 
Directs the Secretary of Commerce to cover the costs of the International Trade Administration's trade promotion activities by imposing fees on the businesses that benefit from such activities.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-09-13
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2010-09-13
text: Introduced in Senate
Tax Hike Prevention Act of 2010

Bill: 111-s-3773
Sponsor: Sen. McConnell, Mitch [R-KY]
Introduced: 2010-09-13 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Alternative and renewable resources
District of Columbia
Energy efficiency and conservation
Housing finance and home ownership
Hybrid, electric, and advanced technology vehicles
Income tax credits
Income tax rates
Residential rehabilitation and home repair
Transfer and inheritance taxes

Summary:
action_date: 2010-09-13
text: 
Tax Hike Prevention Act of 2010 - Repeals the general terminating date (i.e., December 31, 2010) applicable to tax relief provisions of the Economic Growth and Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2001 (EGTRRA), thus making such provisions permanent.
 
Repeals the provision of the Jobs and Growth Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2003 terminating the reductions in tax rates for capital gains and dividends, thus making such reductions permanent.
 
Repeals provisions of EGTRRA repealing the estate and generation-skipping transfer taxes after 2009, thus restoring such taxes, subject to the amendments made by this Act. Restores the step-up in basis tax treatment of inherited estate assets.
 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) provide for annual increases in the alternative minimum tax (AMT) exemption amount during the period of 2010 through 2020; (2) expand offsets against the AMT for certain nonrefundable tax credits; (3) retain marriage penalty relief provisions and the increased child tax credit; (4) revise the estate tax by imposing a permanent maximum estate tax rate of 35% and allowing a permanent estate tax exclusion amount of $5 million (adjusted annually for inflation) after 2009; and (5) allow a surviving spouse to increase the estate tax exclusion amount by the unused exclusion amount of his or her deceased spouse.
 
Allows the executor of any estate of a decedent dying in 2010 to elect to apply existing provisions of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 without regard to specified provisions of this Act. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-09-14
text: Read the second time. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 562.
action_date: 2010-09-13
text: Introduced in the Senate. Read the first time. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under Read the First Time. (text of measure as introduced: CR S7042-7044)
action_date: 2010-09-13
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S7004-7005)
action_date: 2010-09-13
text: Introduced in Senate
Families First Immigration Enforcement Act

Bill: 111-s-3776
Sponsor: Sen. Kerry, John F. [D-MA]
Introduced: 2010-09-14 in the Senate
Policy area: Immigration
Subjects: Border security and unlawful immigration
Detention of persons
Foreign labor
Foreign language and bilingual programs
Immigrant health and welfare
Immigration status and procedures
Lawyers and legal services
Social work, volunteer service, charitable organizations

Summary:
action_date: 2010-09-14
text: 
Families First Immigration Enforcement Act - Requires the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), in a workplace enforcement operation that is calculated to apprehend or does apprehend at least 50 aliens, to do the following: (1) give state agencies sufficient notice to arrange for representatives who speak the detainees' language and to provide for any special needs; (2) afford access to state social service agencies to screen and interview detainees to determine if medical risks or risks to relatives exist; (3) consider, upon recommendation, the release of detainees on age, medical, or family related humanitarian grounds; and (4) provide a toll-free number for families of detainees to report their relationship to DHS or state social services. 
 
Requires that such aliens have access to legal orientation presentations through the Executive Office for Immigration Review's legal orientation program. 
 
States that detainees should be held within the jurisdiction of the local U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement field office to the extent that space allows.
 
 Requires a detainee's release within 72 hours of apprehension if such alien is not subject to mandatory detention, does not pose a flight risk, or is subject to humanitarian release. States that such alien shall be released: (1) on his or her own recognizance; (2) by posting a minimum bond; (3) on parole under the Immigration and Nationality Act; or (4) through the intensive supervision appearance or similar program.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-09-14
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2010-09-14
text: Introduced in Senate
Information Reporting Modernization Act of 2010

Bill: 111-s-3777
Sponsor: Sen. Landrieu, Mary L. [D-LA]
Introduced: 2010-09-14 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Business records
Inflation and prices
Internet and video services
Internet, web applications, social media
Tax administration and collection, taxpayers
Wages and earnings

Summary:
action_date: 2010-09-14
text: 
Information Reporting Modernization Act of 2010 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to increase from $600 to $5,000 the threshold amount for reporting to the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) payments made to corporations. Adjusts such increased amount for inflation, beginning after 2012.
 
Requires the Secretary of the Treasury, with respect to tax returns filed in calendar years after 2011, to: (1) upgrade IRS scanning technology to allow for the submission of generic 1099-MISC forms downloaded from the IRS website; and (2) establish a free online entry and submission mechanism.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-09-14
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2010-09-14
text: Introduced in Senate
Fort Pulaski National Monument Lease Authorization Act

Bill: 111-s-3778
Sponsor: Sen. Isakson, Johnny [R-GA]
Introduced: 2010-09-14 in the Senate
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Georgia
Land transfers
Monuments and memorials

Summary:
action_date: 2010-09-14
text: 
Fort Pulaski National Monument Lease Authorization Act - Authorizes the Secretary of the Interior to lease to the Savannah Bar Pilots Association or a successor organization up to 30,000 square feet of land and improvements in Fort Pulaski National Monument in Georgia at the location on Cockspur Island that has been used continuously by the Association since 1940. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-09-29
text: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources Subcommittee on Public Lands and Forests. Hearings held.
action_date: 2010-09-29
text: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources Subcommittee on National Parks. Hearings held.
action_date: 2010-09-14
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
action_date: 2010-09-14
text: Introduced in Senate
Recovery Through Building Renovation Act of 2010

Bill: 111-s-3780
Sponsor: Sen. Shaheen, Jeanne [D-NH]
Introduced: 2010-09-14 in the Senate
Policy area: Energy
Subjects: Building construction
Educational facilities and institutions
Elementary and secondary education
Energy efficiency and conservation
Government lending and loan guarantees
Health facilities and institutions
Higher education
Securities
State and local finance
State and local taxation

Summary:
action_date: 2010-09-14
text: 
Recovery Through Building Renovation Act of 2010 - Amends the Energy Policy Act of 2005 to authorize the Secretary of Energy (DOE) to provide credit support for debt or repayment obligations incurred in connection with financing the installation of efficiency or renewable energy measures (efficiency obligations) in commercial, industrial, municipal, university, school, and hospital facilities. 
 
Directs the Secretary to establish guidelines for such credit support, including: (1) standards for assessing, and threshold levels for, the expected energy savings; (2) examples of financing mechanisms that qualify as efficiency obligations; (3) eligibility criteria; and (4) lien priority requirements. Requires the Secretary to prioritize: (1) the maximization of energy savings with the available credit support funding; (2) the establishment of a clear application and approval process; and (3) the distribution of projects receiving credit support across states or geographical regions.
 
Directs the Secretary to: (1) establish an initial minimum energy savings requirement for eligible projects that results in the greatest amount of energy savings on a per project basis; and (2) annually adjust that requirement and any other credit support terms deemed necessary taking into account market conditions and available funding. Limits credit support to 90% of the principal amount of the efficiency obligation or $10 million for any single project. Authorizes the Secretary to charge reasonable fees for such credit support. 
 
Directs the Secretary to establish: (1) the MUSH Building Efficiency Program to provide grants to state revolving funds to finance energy efficiency retrofit projects for buildings that are owned or controlled by a municipality, a state or public university, a school or school district, or a publicly owned hospital; and (2) a program that provides grants to state or tribal governments to support property assessed clean energy bonds and other tax assessment-based financing mechanisms to support building retrofit projects expected to produce significant energy efficiency gains.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-09-14
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. (text of measure as introduced: CR S7091-7093)
action_date: 2010-09-14
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S7091)
action_date: 2010-09-14
text: Introduced in Senate
McKinney Lake National Fish Hatchery Conveyance Act

Bill: 111-s-3781
Sponsor: Sen. Hagan, Kay R. [D-NC]
Introduced: 2010-09-14 in the Senate
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Fishes
Land transfers
North Carolina
Wildlife conservation and habitat protection

Summary:
action_date: 2010-09-14
text: 
McKinney Lake National Fish Hatchery Conveyance Act - Directs the Secretary of the Interior to convey the McKinney Lake National Fish Hatchery in Richmond County, North Carolina, to the state of North Carolina to be used by the North Carolina Wildlife Resources Commission as a component of the fish culture program of the state. 
 
Requires the state to allow the United States Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) to use such property for the propagation of any critically important aquatic resource held in public trust to address the specific restoration or recovery needs of such resource. Requires the Secretary to reimburse the Commission for any costs incurred for the use of such property. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-09-14
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.
action_date: 2010-09-14
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to amend the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2010 to extend the authority of the Secretary of the Navy to enter into multiyear contracts for F/A-18E, F/A-18F, and EA-18G aircraft.

Bill: 111-s-3782
Sponsor: Sen. McCaskill, Claire [D-MO]
Introduced: 2010-09-14 in the Senate
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Aviation and airports
Military procurement, research, weapons development

Summary:
action_date: 2010-09-14
text: 
Amends the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2010 relating to the authority of the Secretary of the Navy to enter into multiyear contracts for the procurement of F/A-18E, F/A-18F, and EA-18G aircraft to: (1) extend from March 1, 2010, to September 1, 2010, the required date of a certification by the Secretary of Defense that certain contract conditions have been met; and (2) provide that such contract authority shall be deemed to meet the requirement that a multiyear contract equal to or greater than $500 million may not be entered into unless the contract is specifically authorized by law and provided for in an appropriations Act. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-09-14
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Armed Services.
action_date: 2010-09-14
text: Introduced in Senate
Information Reporting Modernization Act of 2010

Bill: 111-s-3783
Sponsor: Sen. Landrieu, Mary L. [D-LA]
Introduced: 2010-09-14 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Business records
Inflation and prices
Internet and video services
Internet, web applications, social media
Tax administration and collection, taxpayers
Wages and earnings

Summary:
action_date: 2010-09-14
text: 
Information Reporting Modernization Act of 2010 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to increase from $600 to $5,000 the threshold amount for reporting to the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) payments made to corporations. Adjusts such increased amount for inflation, beginning after 2012.
 
Requires the Secretary of the Treasury, with respect to tax returns filed in calendar years after 2011, to: (1) upgrade IRS scanning technology to allow for the submission of generic 1099-MISC forms downloaded from the IRS website; and (2) establish a free online entry and submission mechanism.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-09-14
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2010-09-14
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 4865 Tallmadge Road in Rootstown, Ohio, as the "Marine Sgt. Jeremy E. Murray Post Office".

Bill: 111-s-3784
Sponsor: Sen. Brown, Sherrod [D-OH]
Introduced: 2010-09-15 in the Senate
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Congressional tributes
Government buildings, facilities, and property
Military personnel and dependents
Ohio
Postal service

Summary:
action_date: 2010-09-15
text: Designates the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 4865 Tallmadge Road in Rootstown, Ohio, as the "Marine Sgt. Jeremy E. Murray Post Office."

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-12-03
text: Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.
action_date: 2010-12-03
text: Received in the House.
action_date: 2010-12-03
text: Message on Senate action sent to the House.
action_date: 2010-12-02
text: Passed Senate without amendment by Unanimous Consent. (consideration: CR S8443; text as passed Senate: CR S8443)
action_date: 2010-12-02
text: Passed/agreed to in Senate: Passed Senate without amendment by Unanimous Consent.(consideration: CR S8443; text as passed Senate: CR S8443)
action_date: 2010-12-01
text: Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 665.
action_date: 2010-12-01
text: Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. Reported by Senator Lieberman without amendment. Without written report.
action_date: 2010-12-01
text: Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. Reported by Senator Lieberman without amendment. Without written report.
action_date: 2010-11-30
text: Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. Ordered to be reported without amendment favorably.
action_date: 2010-09-15
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.
action_date: 2010-09-15
text: Introduced in Senate
Commercial Space Jobs and Investment Act of 2010

Bill: 111-s-3785
Sponsor: Sen. Nelson, Bill [D-FL]
Introduced: 2010-09-15 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Business investment and capital
Employment and training programs
Income tax credits
Income tax deductions
Research and development
Space flight and exploration
Spacecraft and satellites
Student aid and college costs

Summary:
action_date: 2010-09-15
text: 
Commercial Space Jobs and Investment Act of 2010 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow: (1) a tax credit for 20% of the equity investment in a domestic corporation or partnership the principal trade or business of which is the commercial development of space and which is located in a Commercial Space Enterprise Zone; (2) an increased tax credit for commercial space research expenses; (3) an additional depreciation allowance for qualified commercial space property; and (4) a business-related tax credit for commercial space education and job training expenses. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-09-15
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2010-09-15
text: Introduced in Senate