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Department of Energy Office of Science Authorization Act of 2010

Bill: 111-hr-4905
Sponsor: Rep. Baird, Brian [D-WA-3]
Introduced: 2010-03-22 in the House
Policy area: Energy
Subjects: Advanced technology and technological innovations
Alternative and renewable resources
Atmospheric science and weather
Computers and information technology
Energy research
Environmental assessment, monitoring, research
Infrastructure development
Nuclear power
Research administration and funding
Research and development
Technology transfer and commercialization

Summary:
action_date: 2010-03-22
text: 
Department of Energy Office of Science Authorization Act of 2010 - Directs the Secretary of Energy to carry out, through the Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science, research, development, demonstration, and commercial application activities in science in support of missions of DOE. 
 
Requires the Director of the Office of Science to: (1) carry out a basic energy sciences program to provide scientific foundations for new energy technologies; and (2) support construction of the National Synchrotron Light Source II and a Second Target Station at the Spallation Neutron Source. 
 
Requires the Director to carry out a grant program to provide awards for up to five years to multi-institutional collaborations or other appropriate entities for meeting energy research, development, demonstration, and commercial application needs identified in: (1) the Grand Challenges report; (2) energy-related Grand Challenges for Engineering; or (3) other relevant reports identified by the Director. 
 
Requires the Director to carry out a biological, climate, and environmental systems science research program to support DOE energy and environmental missions. Provides for a biological systems science subprogram and a climate and environmental sciences research subprogram. 
 
Directs the Secretary to develop a comprehensive plan of federally supported research and development activities to support energy and environmental missions of DOE and to accelerate the growth of a synthetic biology industry in the United States. 
 
Directs the Secretary to carry out an inertial fusion energy research and technology development program. 
 
Requires the Director to carry out: (1) an advanced scientific computing research program; (2) a fusion energy sciences research program; (3) a high energy physics program; (4) a nuclear physics research program; and (5) a program for improving infrastructure at Office of Science laboratories. 
 
Requires the Secretary to submit specified reports. 
 
Authorizes appropriations for FY2011-FY2015 to the Secretary for activities of the Office of Science for (1) basic science energy sciences; (2) biological and environmental research; and (3) advanced scientific computing research. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-03-29
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Environment.
action_date: 2010-03-22
text: Referred to the House Committee on Science and Technology.
action_date: 2010-03-22
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-03-22
text: Introduced in House
ARPA-E Reauthorization Act of 2010

Bill: 111-hr-4906
Sponsor: Rep. Gordon, Bart [D-TN-6]
Introduced: 2010-03-22 in the House
Policy area: Energy
Subjects: Advanced technology and technological innovations
Alternative and renewable resources
Department of Energy
Energy efficiency and conservation
Energy research
Executive agency funding and structure
Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management
Manufacturing
Public contracts and procurement
Research administration and funding
Research and development
Technology transfer and commercialization

Summary:
action_date: 2010-03-22
text: 
ARPA-E Reauthorization Act of 2010 - Amends the America COMPETES Act to instruct the Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) of the Department of Energy (DOE) to achieve the goals of ARPA-E through energy technology projects which: (1) identify and promote revolutionary advances in applied sciences; and (2) promote the commercial application of advanced energy technologies. 
 
Includes as a responsibility of the Director of ARPA-E the research and development of advanced manufacturing process and technologies for the domestic manufacturing of novel energy technologies. 
 
Requires the Director to: (1) make awards through grants, contracts, cooperative agreements, cash prizes, and other transactions to carry out ARPA-E; and (2) establish within ARPA-E a staff to enable ARPA-E to carry out its responsibilities separately and distinctly from the operations of the rest of DOE. 
 
Includes as responsibilities of program directors the identification of: (1) innovative cost-sharing arrangements for ARPA-E projects; and (2) mechanisms for commercial application of successful energy technology development projects.
 

 
Authorizes the Director to select exceptional early career and senior scientific, legal, business, and technical personnel to serve as fellows to work at ARPA-E for two-year terms. 
 
Extends the deadlines for submission of the strategic vision roadmaps to Congress. 
 
Instructs the Director to seek opportunities to partner with purchasing and procurement programs of federal agencies to demonstrate energy technologies resulting from activities funded through ARPA-E.
 
Authorizes the Director to convene events that further ARPA-E objectives, including events that facilitate discussion of the commercial application of energy technologies.
 
 
 
Authorizes appropriations for FY2011-FY2020 to the Director to carry out the purposes of ARPA-E. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-03-29
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Environment.
action_date: 2010-03-22
text: Referred to the House Committee on Science and Technology.
action_date: 2010-03-22
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-03-22
text: Introduced in House
Energy Innovation Hubs Authorization Act of 2010

Bill: 111-hr-4907
Sponsor: Rep. Carnahan, Russ [D-MO-3]
Introduced: 2010-03-22 in the House
Policy area: Energy
Subjects: Advanced technology and technological innovations
Advisory bodies
Air quality
Alternative and renewable resources
Electric power generation and transmission
Energy efficiency and conservation
Energy research
Nuclear power
Research administration and funding
Research and development
Technology transfer and commercialization

Summary:
action_date: 2010-03-22
text: 
Energy Innovation Hubs Authorization Act of 2010 - Requires the Secretary of Energy to: (1) implement a program to enhance the nation's economic, environmental, and energy security by making grants to nonprofit consortia for establishing and operating Energy Innovation Hubs to conduct and support multidisciplinary, collaborative research, development, demonstration, and commercial application of advanced energy technologies in areas not being served by the private sector; (2) designate for each Hub a unique advanced energy technology development focus; (3) ensure the coordination of the Hub activities with those of other Department of Energy (DOE) research entities; and (4) establish and maintain within DOE an Oversight Board to oversee the progress of Hubs. 
 
Requires each Hub to establish: (1) an advisory committee to provide guidance on scientific, technical, industry, financial, and research management matters; and (2) procedures to ensure that employees and consortia designees for Hub activities who are in decision-making capacities disclose all material conflicts of interest.
 
Prohibits grant funding from being used for construction of new buildings or facilities for Hubs. Provides that construction of new buildings or facilities is not considered to be part of the non-federal share of a Hub cost-sharing agreement.
 
 Defines advanced energy technology to mean an innovative technology: (1) that produces energy from solar, wind, geothermal, biomass, tidal, wave, ocean, or other renewable energy resources; (2) that produces nuclear energy; (3) for carbon capture and sequestration; or (4) that generates, transmits, distributes, utilizes, or stores energy more efficiently than conventional technologies.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-03-29
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Environment.
action_date: 2010-03-22
text: Referred to the House Committee on Science and Technology.
action_date: 2010-03-22
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-03-22
text: Introduced in House
Campus Fire Safety Education Act of 2010

Bill: 111-hr-4908
Sponsor: Rep. Pascrell, Bill, Jr. [D-NJ-8]
Introduced: 2010-03-22 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Education programs funding
Educational facilities and institutions
Fires
Higher education

Summary:
action_date: 2010-03-22
text: 
Campus Fire Safety Education Act of 2010 - Directs the Secretary of Education to establish a program to award grants, on a competitive basis, to institutions of higher education or consortiums of such institutions for: (1) initiating, expanding, or improving fire safety education programs; and (2) increasing fire safety awareness among enrolled students. 
 
Directs the Secretary to give priority to institutions that plan to use funds to initiate, expand, or improve fire safety education programs that include educational material specifically prepared for students with physical, sensory, or cognitive disabilities. Sets forth provisions regarding grant periods, limits on awards, and matching and other requirements.
 
Requires an institution to use grant funds to initiate, expand, or improve a fire safety education program that: (1) reaches all enrolled students; (2) ensures maximum exposure to and increased awareness of, and that effectuates change in behavior regarding, fire safety by students through conducting outreach to students a minimum of twice per academic year and through measures that provide fire safety information to any student upon request; (3) includes minimum instruction regarding fire behavior, fire injury and death, ignition scenarios, fire safety systems and equipment, and the importance of means of egress; and (4) includes a mechanism for carrying out evaluations of program effectiveness. 
 
Requires the Secretary to publish a report of best practices for initiating, expanding, or improving fire safety education programs.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-04-30
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Higher Education, Lifelong Learning, and Competitiveness.
action_date: 2010-03-22
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and Labor.
action_date: 2010-03-22
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-03-22
text: Introduced in House
To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 2168 7th Avenue in Anoka, Minnesota, as the "Richard K. Sorenson Post Office Building".

Bill: 111-hr-4909
Sponsor: Rep. Bachmann, Michele [R-MN-6]
Introduced: 2010-03-22 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Congressional tributes
Government buildings, facilities, and property
Minnesota
Postal service

Summary:
action_date: 2010-03-22
text: Designates the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 2168 7th Avenue in Anoka, Minnesota, as the "Richard K. Sorenson Post Office Building."

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-03-22
text: Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.
action_date: 2010-03-22
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-03-22
text: Introduced in House
To repeal the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and enact the Empowering Patients First Act in order to provide incentives to encourage health insurance coverage.

Bill: 111-hr-4910
Sponsor: Rep. Burton, Dan [R-IN-5]
Introduced: 2010-03-22 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Abortion
Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Administrative remedies
Alternative dispute resolution, mediation, arbitration
Budget deficits and national debt
Child health
Civil actions and liability
Congressional oversight
Consumer affairs
Department of Health and Human Services
Disability and health-based discrimination
Drug safety, medical device, and laboratory regulation
Education programs funding
Emergency medical services and trauma care
Employee benefits and pensions
Evidence and witnesses
Government information and archives
Government lending and loan guarantees
Government studies and investigations
Health care costs and insurance
Health care coverage and access
Health care quality
Health information and medical records
Health personnel
Health programs administration and funding
Health promotion and preventive care
Income tax credits
Income tax deductions
Intergovernmental relations
Medicaid
Medical education
Medical research
Medicare
Poverty and welfare assistance
Right of privacy
Small business
Social work, volunteer service, charitable organizations
State and local government operations
Student aid and college costs

Summary:
action_date: 2010-03-22
text: 
Repeals the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA), effective as of enactment of such Act. Restores provisions of law amended by such Act.
 
Enacts the Empowering Patients First Act (H.R. 3400), as introduced in the House of Representatives on July 30, 2009.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-04-30
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2010-03-29
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2010-03-22
text: Referred to House Oversight and Government Reform
action_date: 2010-03-22
text: Referred to House Administration
action_date: 2010-03-22
text: Referred to House Appropriations
action_date: 2010-03-22
text: Referred to House Budget
action_date: 2010-03-22
text: Referred to House Rules
action_date: 2010-03-22
text: Referred to House Judiciary
action_date: 2010-03-22
text: Referred to House Ways and Means
action_date: 2010-03-22
text: Referred to House Education and Labor
action_date: 2010-03-22
text: Referred to House Natural Resources
action_date: 2010-03-22
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Natural Resources, Education and Labor, Ways and Means, the Judiciary, Rules, the Budget, Appropriations, House Administration, and 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: 2010-03-22
text: Referred to House Energy and Commerce
action_date: 2010-03-22
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-03-22
text: Introduced in House
Removing Deals for Deficit Reduction Act

Bill: 111-hr-4911
Sponsor: Rep. Cooper, Jim [D-TN-5]
Introduced: 2010-03-22 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Budget deficits and national debt
Disaster relief and insurance
Environmental health
Health care costs and insurance
Health care coverage and access
Health facilities and institutions
Infrastructure development
Intergovernmental relations
Medicare
State and local finance
Tax-exempt organizations
User charges and fees

Summary:
action_date: 2010-03-22
text: 
Removing Deals for Deficit Reduction Act - Repeals specified provisions of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA), and restores or revives provisions amended or repealed by such provisions, related to: (1) an adjustment to the federal medical assistance percentage for qualifying disaster-recovery states; (2) special rules for Medicare Advantage plans in certain areas allowing the provision of supplemental health care benefits; (3) an adjustment to Medicaid payments for Hawaii for inpatient hospital services provided by a disproportionate share hospital; (4) Medicare coverage eligibility for certain individuals exposed to environmental health hazards; (5) the establishment of a floor on the area wage index for a frontier state for purposes of a geographic adjustment to Medicare payments to hospitals for inpatient services; (6) the appropriation of funds for debt service on, or direct construction or renovation of, a health care facility that provides research, inpatient, tertiary care, or outpatient clinical service; and (7) exemptions for certain health insurers and certain types of insurance from the annual fee for health insurance providers.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-03-29
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2010-03-22
text: Referred to House Ways and Means
action_date: 2010-03-22
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: 2010-03-22
text: Referred to House Energy and Commerce
action_date: 2010-03-22
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-03-22
text: Introduced in House
To amend title 10, United States Code, to eliminate the required reduction in the amount of combat-related special compensation paid to disabled combat-related uniformed services retirees retired under chapter 61 of such title whose disability is attributable to an injury for which the members were awarded the Purple Heart.

Bill: 111-hr-4912
Sponsor: Rep. Halvorson, Deborah L. [D-IL-11]
Introduced: 2010-03-22 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Disability assistance
Veterans' pensions and compensation

Summary:
action_date: 2010-03-22
text: 
Eliminates a required reduction in the amount of combat-related special compensation paid to members of the Armed Forces retired or separated due to physical disability and receiving combat-related retirement pay when the combat-related disability is attributable to an injury for which the member was awarded the Purple Heart.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-04-08
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Military Personnel.
action_date: 2010-03-22
text: Referred to the House Committee on Armed Services.
action_date: 2010-03-22
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-03-22
text: Introduced in House
Free Speech About Science Act of 2010

Bill: 111-hr-4913
Sponsor: Rep. Chaffetz, Jason [R-UT-3]
Introduced: 2010-03-23 in the House
Policy area: Agriculture and Food
Subjects: Food industry and services
Health promotion and preventive care
Marketing and advertising
Medical research
Nutrition and diet

Summary:
action_date: 2010-03-23
text: 
Free Speech About Science Act of 2010 - Amends the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to allow food producers to make a disease or health-related claim about a food if such claim is based on legitimate scientific research. Requires such a claim to: (1) be stated so that it is an accurate, balanced summary of such research and enables the public to comprehend the information provided in the claim and the relative significance of such information in the context of a total daily diet; and (2) identify each party that funded research to support the claim. 
 
Allows a disease or health-related statement for a dietary supplement if: (1) the statement claims to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent a specific disease or class of diseases, based on legitimate scientific research; (2) the manufacturer of the supplement has substantiation that such statement is truthful and not misleading; and (3) the health claim includes a citation to the research supporting such claim and identifies each party that funded such research.
 
Prohibits the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) from restricting the distribution of information that is not false or misleading and that is based on legitimate scientific research in connection with the sale of food. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-03-23
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2010-03-23
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-03-23
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Act of August 9, 1955, to authorize the Coquille Indian Tribe, the Confederated Tribes of Siletz Indians, the Confederated Tribes of the Coos, Lower Umpqua, and Siuslaw, the Klamath Tribes, and the Burns Paiute Tribe to obtain 99-year lease authority for trust land.

Bill: 111-hr-4916
Sponsor: Rep. DeFazio, Peter A. [D-OR-4]
Introduced: 2010-03-23 in the House
Policy area: Native Americans
Subjects: Indian lands and resources rights
Oregon

Summary:
action_date: 2010-03-23
text: 
Authorizes the Coquille Indian Tribe, the Confederated Tribes of the Siletz Indians, the Confederated Tribes of the Coos, Lower Umpqua, and Siuslaw Indians, the Klamath Tribes, and the Burns Paiute Tribe to obtain 99-year lease authority for trust land. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-03-23
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2010-03-23
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-03-23
text: Introduced in House
To amend part D of title XVIII of the Social Security Act to prohibit mid-year changes in the formularies of Medicare Part D plans.

Bill: 111-hr-4917
Sponsor: Rep. Schauer, Mark H. [D-MI-7]
Introduced: 2010-03-23 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Health care costs and insurance
Health care coverage and access
Medicare
Prescription drugs

Summary:
action_date: 2010-03-23
text: 
Amends part D (Voluntary Prescription Drug Benefit Program) of title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to require changes in formularies of Medicare part D prescription drug plans to be effective only at the beginning of a plan year. (Thus prohibits mid-year changes.)


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-03-29
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2010-03-23
text: Referred to House Ways and Means
action_date: 2010-03-23
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: 2010-03-23
text: Referred to House Energy and Commerce
action_date: 2010-03-23
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-03-23
text: Introduced in House
Redistricting Transparency Act of 2010

Bill: 111-hr-4918
Sponsor: Rep. Tanner, John S. [D-TN-8]
Introduced: 2010-03-23 in the House
Policy area: Congress
Subjects: Congressional elections
Congressional operations and organization
Internet and video services
Internet, web applications, social media
Public participation and lobbying
State and local government operations

Summary:
action_date: 2010-03-23
text: 
Redistricting Transparency Act of 2010 - Requires states to carry out congressional redistricting in accordance with a process under which members of the public are informed of redistricting proposals via the Internet and have the opportunity to participate in the development of such proposals prior to their adoption.
 
Requires each state redistricting entity to establish and maintain a public Internet site meeting specified requirements.
 
Requires the state redistricting entity to: (1) solicit the input of members of the public in its work to develop initial congressional redistricting plans for the state; and (2) post the proposed final plan on the Internet site 10 days before its adoption, as well as 7 days after its adoption, together with a map, the reasons for adoption, dissenting opinions, and certain other information.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-06-15
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights, and Civil Liberties.
action_date: 2010-03-23
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2010-03-23
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-03-23
text: Introduced in House