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Senior Citizens Income Security Act of 2010

Bill: 111-hr-5725
Sponsor: Rep. Posey, Bill [R-FL-15]
Introduced: 2010-07-13 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Appropriations
Capital gains tax
Employee benefits and pensions
Employment taxes
Government trust funds
Income tax exclusion
Income tax rates
Interest, dividends, interest rates
Medicare
Social security and elderly assistance

Summary:
action_date: 2010-07-13
text: 
Senior Citizens Income Security Act of 2010 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) to replace the formula for including social security benefits in gross income for income tax purposes with the formula in existence prior to the enactment of the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1993; (2) eliminate mandatory withdrawals from retirement accounts after age 70-1/2; (3) eliminate employment taxes on individuals receiving social security retirement and Medicare benefits; and (4) allow an exclusion from gross income, up to $250 ($500 for joint returns), for dividends, interest, and capital gains. Appropriates additional amounts to the Hospital Insurance Trust Fund to compensate for losses in revenue resulting from the revision of the formula for including social security benefits in gross income. 
 
Amends title II (Old-Age, Survivors, and Disability Insurance Benefits) of the Social Security Act to require the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) to establish a procedure for allowing Medicare beneficiaries to waive Medicare entitlements and be automatically enrolled in the Medicare Alternative Voucher Program established by this Act.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-07-13
text: Referred to House Energy and Commerce
action_date: 2010-07-13
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, 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: 2010-07-13
text: Referred to House Ways and Means
action_date: 2010-07-13
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-07-13
text: Introduced in House
Federal Contracting Oversight and Reform Act of 2010

Bill: 111-hr-5726
Sponsor: Rep. Quigley, Mike [D-IL-5]
Introduced: 2010-07-13 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Congressional oversight
Government information and archives
Government studies and investigations
Public contracts and procurement

Summary:
action_date: 2010-07-13
text: 
Federal Contracting Oversight and Reform Act of 2010 - Amends the Clean Contracting Act of 2008 to: (1) require the Administrator of General Services (GSA) to ensure that the information in the database of information regarding the integrity and performance of persons awarded federal contracts and grants is available to any Member of Congress (currently, limited to the Chairman and Ranking Member of the committees having jurisdiction); and (2) expand the scope of the database, including doubling the period of coverage.
 
Prohibits funds appropriated or otherwise made available by any Act from being used for any federal contract for the procurement of property or services in excess of: (1) the simplified acquisition threshold unless the contractor has first made the certifications set forth in the Federal Acquisition Regulation regarding debarment, suspension, proposed debarment, and other responsibility matters; and (2) $500,000 unless the contractor certifies that he or she has submitted to the Administrator specified required information and that such information is current as of the date of the certification, or that the contractor has cumulative active federal contracts and grants valued at less than $10 million.
 
Requires the Inspector General of each federal agency to periodically: (1) conduct an inspection or review of required contract files to determine if the agency is providing appropriate consideration of the information included in the database; and (2) report to Congress on the results of the inspection or review. Requires the Comptroller General to annually report on the extent to which suspended or debarred contractors on the Excluded Parties List System are identified as having received contracts on USAspending.gov or were granted waivers from suspension or debarment.
 
Requires: (1) the Director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) to report to Congress a plan for integrating and consolidating specified existing contracting information databases into a single searchable and linked network; and (2) the Inspector General of GSA to conduct a study on the use of identifying numbers for federal contractors.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-07-30
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Government Management, Organization, and Procurement.
action_date: 2010-07-13
text: Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.
action_date: 2010-07-13
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-07-13
text: Introduced in House
Oil Spill Cleanup Technologies Act of 2010

Bill: 111-hr-5727
Sponsor: Rep. Shuster, Bill [R-PA-9]
Introduced: 2010-07-13 in the House
Policy area: Environmental Protection
Subjects: Accidents
Environmental technology
Government information and archives
Hazardous wastes and toxic substances
Marine and coastal resources, fisheries
Marine pollution
Oil and gas
Public-private cooperation
Technology assessment
Water quality

Summary:
action_date: 2010-07-13
text: 
Oil Spill Cleanup Technologies Act of 2010 - Amends the Federal Water Pollution Control Act (commonly known as the Clean Water Act) to require the President, acting through the Secretary of the department in which the Coast Guard is operating and in coordination with the heads of other appropriate federal agencies, to: (1) establish a process for quickly and effectively soliciting, assessing, and deploying offshore oil and hazardous substance cleanup technologies, and for effectively coordinating with other appropriate agencies, industry, academia, small businesses, and others to ensure the best technology available is implemented, in the event of a discharge or substantial threat of a discharge of oil or a hazardous substance in U.S. waters; and (2) maintain a database on best available oil and hazardous substance cleanup technologies in the event of such a a discharge or threat.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-07-14
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment.
action_date: 2010-07-13
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2010-07-13
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-07-13
text: Introduced in House
To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 95 Dogwood Street in Cary, Mississippi, as the "Spencer Byrd Powers, Jr. Post Office".

Bill: 111-hr-5728
Sponsor: Rep. Thompson, Bennie G. [D-MS-2]
Introduced: 2010-07-13 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Congressional tributes
Government buildings, facilities, and property
Mississippi
Postal service

Summary:
action_date: 2010-07-13
text: Designates the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 95 Dogwood Street in Cary, Mississippi, as the "Spencer Byrd Powers, Jr. Post Office."

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-07-13
text: Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.
action_date: 2010-07-13
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-07-13
text: Introduced in House
Smith-Mundt Modernization Act of 2010

Bill: 111-hr-5729
Sponsor: Rep. Thornberry, Mac [R-TX-13]
Introduced: 2010-07-13 in the House
Policy area: International Affairs
Subjects: Cultural exchanges and relations
International exchange and broadcasting
U.S. history

Summary:
action_date: 2010-07-13
text: 
Smith-Mundt Modernization Act of 2010 - Amends the United States Information and Educational Exchange Act of 1948 to authorize the Secretary of State to provide for the preparation and dissemination of information intended primarily for foreign audiences abroad about the United States, including about its people, its history, and the federal government's policies, through press, publications, radio, motion pictures, the internet, and other information media, and through information centers and instructors. (Under current law such authority is restricted to information disseminated abroad, with a limited domestic exception.)
 
Amends the Foreign Relations Authorization Act, Fiscal Years 1986 and 1987 to prohibit Department of State funds from being used to influence public opinion or propagandizing in the United States. (Under current law such provision applies to the United States Information Agency [USIA].)
 
States that such provision shall: (1) not prohibit the Department from responding to inquiries about its operations, policies, programs, or program material, or making such information available to members of the media, public, or Congress; (2) not be construed to prohibit the Department from engaging in any medium of information on a presumption that a U.S. domestic audience may be exposed to program material; and (3) apply only to the Department and to no other federal department or agency.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-07-13
text: Referred to the House Committee on Foreign Affairs.
action_date: 2010-07-13
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-07-13
text: Introduced in House
Veterans Mental Health Professionals Oversight Act of 2010

Bill: 111-hr-5731
Sponsor: Rep. Kirkpatrick, Ann [D-AZ-1]
Introduced: 2010-07-14 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Advisory bodies
Afghanistan
Asia
Congressional oversight
Department of Veterans Affairs
Drug, alcohol, tobacco use
Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management
Government information and archives
Government studies and investigations
Health care quality
Health information and medical records
Health personnel
Iraq
Long-term, rehabilitative, and terminal care
Mental health
Middle East
Military operations and strategy
Veterans' medical care

Summary:
action_date: 2010-07-14
text: 
Veterans Mental Health Professionals Oversight Act of 2010 - Directs the Inspector General of the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to: (1) conduct an annual review of mental health professionals employed by the VA's Veterans Health Administration (VHA); (2) report each review's results to the congressional veterans committees and the Advisory Committee on Veterans with Psychological and Mental Health Needs (Advisory Committee); and (3) submit a one-time report thereto concerning review results for FY2004-FY2009.
 
Establishes the Advisory Committee. Requires the Advisory Committee to report annually to the Secretary of Veterans Affairs on VA programs and activities that pertain to veterans with psychological and mental health needs.
 
Directs the Secretary to report to the veterans committees on chronic mental health conditions of veterans.
 
Requires the Secretary to: (1) study substance-use disorders among veterans; and (2) report study results to the veterans committees.
 
Directs the Comptroller General to: (1) assess VA progress in implementing the VHA's Mental Health Strategic Plan, as well as the status of the VHA's Uniform Mental Health Services handbook; and (2) report assessment results and any modifications to the Veterans' Equitable Resource Allocation system necessitated by the mental health needs of veterans to the Secretary and the veterans committees.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-07-16
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2010-07-14
text: Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2010-07-14
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-07-14
text: Introduced in House
Part D Off-Label Prescription Parity Act

Bill: 111-hr-5732
Sponsor: Rep. Kilroy, Mary Jo [D-OH-15]
Introduced: 2010-07-14 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Medicare
Prescription drugs

Summary:
action_date: 2010-07-14
text: 
Part D Off-Label Prescription Parity Act - Amends part D (Voluntary Prescription Drug Benefit Program) of title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to permit a prescription drug plan (PDP) sponsor offering a PDP or a MedicareAdvantage (MA) organization offering an MA-PD plan to offer coverage of covered part D drugs for uses that are determined to be for medically accepted indications based upon: (1) guidance provided by the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) for determining accepted uses of covered part D drugs; and (2) supportive clinical evidence in peer reviewed medical literature.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-07-14
text: Referred to House Ways and Means
action_date: 2010-07-14
text: Referred to House Energy and Commerce
action_date: 2010-07-14
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: 2010-07-14
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-07-14
text: Introduced in House
Ed Thomas Act of 2010

Bill: 111-hr-5733
Sponsor: Rep. Braley, Bruce L. [D-IA-1]
Introduced: 2010-07-14 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Criminal justice information and records
Health information and medical records

Summary:
action_date: 2010-07-14
text: 
Ed Thomas Act of 2010 - Allows a covered entity to disclose protected health information, including the date of discharge, to a law enforcement agency if: (1) an individual is accompanied by a law enforcement official at the time such individual seeks care from the covered entity; (2) such official requests, in writing, that the entity disclose to the official protected health information relating to such individual; and (3) such written request is made during the period that begins when such individual seeks such care and ends 24 hours after such individual is discharged from such care or otherwise stops receiving such care. 
 
Applies provisions applicable to a covered entity in response to administrative requests to the disclosure of information under this Act, including provisions requiring that: (1) the information sought is relevant and material to a legitimate law enforcement inquiry; and (2) the request is specific and limited in scope to the extent reasonably practicable in light of the purpose for which the information is sought.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-07-14
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2010-07-14
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-07-14
text: Introduced in House
Dealer Floor Plan Program Extension and Improvement Act of 2010

Bill: 111-hr-5734
Sponsor: Rep. Donnelly, Joe [D-IN-2]
Introduced: 2010-07-14 in the House
Policy area: Commerce
Subjects: Government lending and loan guarantees
Motor vehicles
Retail and wholesale trades
Small business

Summary:
action_date: 2010-07-14
text: 
Dealer Floor Plan Program Extension and Improvement Act of 2010 - Directs the Administrator of the Small Business Administration (SBA) to: (1) carry out a program to make SBA loan guarantees to assist dealers of titleable assets to finance inventory; (2) carry out such program in the same manner as the SBA's dealer floor plan pilot initiative; and (3) issue regulations revising the program to address barriers to program participation experienced by lending institutions and dealers of titleable assets.
 
Authorizes the Administrator to guarantee up to 90% of a loan under the program.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-07-14
text: Referred to the House Committee on Small Business.
action_date: 2010-07-14
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-07-14
text: Introduced in House
Firearm Owners Responsibility Act

Bill: 111-hr-5736
Sponsor: Rep. McCarthy, Carolyn [D-NY-4]
Introduced: 2010-07-14 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Crimes against property
Criminal justice information and records
Firearms and explosives

Summary:
action_date: 2010-07-14
text: 
Firearm Owners Responsibility Act - Amends the federal criminal code to make it unlawful for any person who lawfully possesses or owns a firearm to fail to report the theft or loss of such firearm within 72 hours after discovering its theft or loss.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-07-14
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2010-07-14
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-07-14
text: Introduced in House
Post-9/11 G.I. Bill Dependent Coverage Improvement Act

Bill: 111-hr-5737
Sponsor: Rep. Moore, Gwen [D-WI-4]
Introduced: 2010-07-14 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Family relationships
Veterans' education, employment, rehabilitation

Summary:
action_date: 2010-07-14
text: 
Post-9/11 G.I. Bill Dependent Coverage Improvement Act - Amends the veterans' post-9/11 educational assistance program to extend the age of eligibility of dependent children for receipt of transferred educational assistance under the program to such children under the age of 26 (under current law, under the age of 23).


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-07-16
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Economic Opportunity.
action_date: 2010-07-14
text: Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2010-07-14
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E1319-1320)
action_date: 2010-07-14
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-07-14
text: Introduced in House
School Enhancement of Talented Students Act

Bill: 111-hr-5738
Sponsor: Rep. Rahall, Nick J., II [D-WV-3]
Introduced: 2010-07-14 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Education programs funding
Elementary and secondary education
Food assistance and relief
Nutrition and diet
Poverty and welfare assistance

Summary:
action_date: 2010-07-14
text: 
School Enhancement of Talented Students Act or School EATS Act - Amends the Richard B. Russell National School Lunch Act to direct the Secretary of Agriculture to award competitive grants to states, local educational agencies, or school food authorities to reduce the amount of processed food served each day under the school lunch and breakfast programs.
 
Gives grant priority to applicants: (1) in which at least 50% of the students enrolled in schools under their jurisdictions are eligible for free or reduced price meals; and (2) located in states where the adult obesity rate is not less that 30% and the child obesity rate is more than 30%, as determined by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
 
Requires grant funds to be used to: (1) procure unprocessed foods; (2) train food service staff to prepare such foods; and (3) purchase the equipment needed to prepare such foods.
 
Requires the Secretary to provide technical assistance to grantees on the procurement of healthy, unprocessed foods.
 
Makes food weight and quantity requirements under the school lunch and breakfast programs inapplicable to food served under this Act's grant program.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-10-13
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Healthy Families and Communities.
action_date: 2010-07-14
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and Labor.
action_date: 2010-07-14
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E1322-1323)
action_date: 2010-07-14
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-07-14
text: Introduced in House
To amend title 36, United States Code, to grant a Federal charter to the American Military Retirees Association, and for other purposes.

Bill: 111-hr-5739
Sponsor: Rep. Rooney, Thomas J. [R-FL-16]
Introduced: 2010-07-14 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Federally chartered organizations
Veterans' organizations and recognition

Summary:
action_date: 2010-07-14
text: 
Grants a federal charter to the American Military Retirees Association.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-07-14
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2010-07-14
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-07-14
text: Introduced in House
To provide for the mandatory recall of adulterated or misbranded drugs.

Bill: 111-hr-5740
Sponsor: Rep. Towns, Edolphus [D-NY-10]
Introduced: 2010-07-14 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Administrative remedies
Consumer affairs
Department of Health and Human Services
Drug safety, medical device, and laboratory regulation
Government information and archives

Summary:
action_date: 2010-07-14
text: 
Amends the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to require any registered producer of a drug or device to notify the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS), as soon as practicable, of the identity and location of a drug, if such person has reason to believe: (1) that such drug is adulterated or misbranded; and (2) there is a reasonable probability that the use or consumption of, or exposure to, the drug will cause a threat of serious adverse health consequences or death to humans or animals.
 
Authorizes the Secretary to: (1) request that any person who distributes a drug that the Secretary has reason to believe is adulterated, misbranded, or otherwise in violation of the FFDCA voluntarily recall such drug; (2) issue an order requiring any person who distributes a drug that may cause serious adverse health consequences or death to humans or animals to immediately cease distribution of such drug; (3) amend the order to cease distribution to include a recall of the drug after an opportunity for an informal hearing; and (4) issue an order requiring an immediate recall of a drug if the Secretary has credible evidence or information that a drug subject to a cease distribution or recall order presents an imminent threat of serious adverse health consequences or death to humans or animals. Provides for notice to affected persons.
 
Prohibits the failure to comply with the notification requirements of, or orders issued pursuant to, this Act.
 
Requires the Secretary to provide notice of a recall order to consumers to whom the drug was, or may have been, distributed and to appropriate state and local health officials, as necessary.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-07-14
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2010-07-14
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-07-14
text: Introduced in House
Universal National Service Act

Bill: 111-hr-5741
Sponsor: Rep. Rangel, Charles B. [D-NY-15]
Introduced: 2010-07-15 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Congressional oversight
Executive Office of the President
Homeland security
Medical tests and diagnostic methods
Mental health
Military operations and strategy
Military personnel and dependents
National and community service
War and emergency powers

Summary:
action_date: 2010-07-15
text: 
Universal National Service Act - Declares that it is the obligation of every U.S. citizen, and every other person residing in the United States, between the ages of 18 and 42 to perform a two-year period of national service, unless exempted, either as a member of an active or reserve component of the Armed Forces or in a civilian capacity that promotes national defense. Requires induction into national service by the President. Allows persons to be inducted only: (1) under a declaration of war or national emergency; or (2) when members of the Armed Forces are engaged in a contingency operation. Requires each person, before induction, to be examined physically and mentally for classification for fitness to perform. Sets forth provisions governing: (1) induction deferments, postponements, and exemptions, including exemption of a conscientious objector from combatant training and military service; and (2) discharge following national service.
 
Amends the Military Selective Service Act to authorize the military registration of females.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-07-23
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Military Personnel.
action_date: 2010-07-15
text: Referred to the House Committee on Armed Services.
action_date: 2010-07-15
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-07-15
text: Introduced in House