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Close Foreign Tax Loopholes: Make it in America Act of 2010

Bill: 111-hr-5793
Sponsor: Rep. Garamendi, John [D-CA-10]
Introduced: 2010-07-20 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Corporate finance and management
Foreign and international corporations
Income tax credits
Interest, dividends, interest rates
Tax administration and collection, taxpayers
Taxation of foreign income

Summary:
action_date: 2010-07-20
text: 
Close Foreign Tax Loopholes: Make it in America Act of 2010 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code, with respect to the taxation of foreign income and the foreign tax credit, to: (1) suspend the recognition of foreign tax credits until the related foreign income is taken into account for U.S. tax purposes; (2) deny a foreign tax credit for foreign income not subject to U.S. taxation due to a covered asset acquisition (defined as an acquisition that results in an increase in tax basis for U.S. tax purposes but not for foreign tax purposes); (3) apply a separate foreign tax credit limitation for each item of income that would be treated as derived from sources within the United States and that would be treated as arising from sources outside the United States under a treaty obligation (if the taxpayer chooses the benefits of such treaty); (4) limit the amount of foreign tax credits that may be claimed by a U.S. domestic corporation with respect to a deemed dividend paid by a foreign subsidiary; (5) prevent a reduction in earnings in profits of a foreign corporation in an acquisition if more than 50% of the dividends arising from such acquisition would not be subject to U.S. taxation or would be includible in the earnings and profits of a controlled foreign corporation; (6) treat a foreign corporation as a member of an affiliated group for interest allocation and apportionment purposes if more than 50% of its gross income is effectively connected with a U.S. trade or business and at least 80% of either the vote or value of its outstanding stock is owned directly or indirectly by members of the affiliated group; (7) repeal tax rules exempting foreign source income attributable to the active conduct of a foreign trade or business from withholding of tax requirements; (8) treat as income received in the United States amounts received from noncorporate residents or domestic corporations with respect to guarantees and amounts paid by any foreign person if such amounts are connected with income that is effectively connected with the conduct of a trade or business in the United States; and (9) provide that the statute of limitations for assessing any tax on certain foreign transactions shall apply only to items related to a failure to provide information to the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) due to reasonable cause and not willful neglect.
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-07-20
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2010-07-20
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-07-20
text: Introduced in House
Let My Absentee Ballot Count Act of 2010

Bill: 111-hr-5794
Sponsor: Rep. Baca, Joe [D-CA-43]
Introduced: 2010-07-20 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Congressional elections
Elections, voting, political campaign regulation
Government information and archives
Internet and video services
Internet, web applications, social media
Postal service
Voting rights

Summary:
action_date: 2010-07-20
text: 
Let My Absentee Ballot Count Act of 2010 - Amends the Help America Vote Act of 2002 to require state and local election officials, in designing the absentee ballot used in an election for federal office, to consult with the U.S. Postal Service so that the ballot is designed in a manner which minimizes the amount of postage required for the voter to return the ballot.
 
Requires a state to design each such absentee ballot in a manner which includes an envelope or other covering so that the contents of the ballot are not visible during transmission.
 
Requires the state or local election official responsible for the receipt of voted absentee ballots to implement procedures to track and confirm their receipt, and to make the tracking information available to the voter before election day, by means of online access using the Internet site of the official's office.
 
States that, if an individual eligible to vote is informed before election day that the individual's absentee ballot will not be counted, and the individual casts a ballot at the polling place on election day, then: (1) the vote cast on the absentee ballot shall not be counted; (2) the ballot cast at the polling place shall be treated as a regular ballot and not as a provisional ballot, and shall be counted; and (3) the individual shall not be considered to be in violation of any law which prohibits an individual from casting more than one vote in any election.
 
Prohibits a state from refusing to accept an absentee ballot in a federal election solely on the grounds that the ballot is not notarized or signed by a witness.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-07-20
text: Referred to the House Committee on House Administration.
action_date: 2010-07-20
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-07-20
text: Introduced in House
Personalize Your Care Act of 2010

Bill: 111-hr-5795
Sponsor: Rep. Blumenauer, Earl [D-OR-3]
Introduced: 2010-07-20 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Department of Health and Human Services
Health information and medical records
Health programs administration and funding
Long-term, rehabilitative, and terminal care
Medicaid
Medicare

Summary:
action_date: 2010-07-20
text: 
Personalize Your Care Act of 2010 - Amends titles XVIII (Medicare) and XIX (Medicaid), as amended by the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, to cover a Voluntary Advance Care Planning Consultation.
 
Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) to make grants to eligible entities to: (1) establish statewide programs for physician orders for life-sustaining treatment; or (2) expand or enhance existing programs for physician orders for life-sustaining treatment. 
 
Directs the Secretary to adopt, by rule, standards for a qualified electronic health record, with respect to patient communications with a health care provider about values and goals of care, to adequately display the patient's current: (1) advance directive; and/or (2) physician order for life-sustaining treatment.
 
Requires under Medicare and Medicaid that an advance directive validly executed outside the state in which the directive is presented must be given effect by a service provider or an organization to the same extent as an advance directive validly executed under the law of the state in which it is presented. Requires that, in the absence of a validly executed advance directive, any authentic expression of a person's wishes with respect to health care be honored.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-07-29
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR H6287)
action_date: 2010-07-20
text: Referred to House Ways and Means
action_date: 2010-07-20
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: 2010-07-20
text: Referred to House Energy and Commerce
action_date: 2010-07-20
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E1375-1376)
action_date: 2010-07-20
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-07-20
text: Introduced in House
Putting an End to Sanctuary Cities Act

Bill: 111-hr-5796
Sponsor: Rep. Burton, Dan [R-IN-5]
Introduced: 2010-07-20 in the House
Policy area: Immigration
Subjects: Border security and unlawful immigration
Intergovernmental relations
State and local finance
State and local government operations

Summary:
action_date: 2010-07-20
text: 
Putting an End to Sanctuary Cities Act - Prohibits the distribution of federal funds to a state or a political subdivision of a state that is determined by the Secretary of Homeland Security (DHS) to be interfering with federal immigration law enforcement. 
 
Terminates such prohibition when the Secretary certifies that the state or political subdivision has entered into an agreement with the Secretary to cease such interference.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-07-26
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration, Citizenship, Refugees, Border Security, and International Law.
action_date: 2010-07-20
text: Referred to House Oversight and Government Reform
action_date: 2010-07-20
text: Referred to House Judiciary
action_date: 2010-07-20
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2010-07-20
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-07-20
text: Introduced in House
Small Manufacturers Export Initiative Act

Bill: 111-hr-5797
Sponsor: Rep. Larsen, Rick [D-WA-2]
Introduced: 2010-07-20 in the House
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Competitiveness, trade promotion, trade deficits
Department of Commerce
Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management
Intergovernmental relations
Manufacturing
Small business
State and local government operations

Summary:
action_date: 2010-07-20
text: 
Small Manufacturers Export Initiative Act - Directs the Secretary of Commerce to increase by at least 80 the number of full-time Department of Commerce employees, including those overseas, whose primary responsibilities involve promoting the entry and participation of U.S. businesses, especially small- and medium-sized U.S. manufacturers, in the global marketplace.
 
Authorizes appropriations to the Secretary: (1) for such activities; and (2) to expand the ExporTech program, requiring preference for activities that assist small- and medium-sized U.S. manufacturers, create or sustain the greatest number of jobs in the United States, and obtain the maximum return on investment.
 
Expresses the sense of Congress that the Secretary should enhance federal collaboration with states on export promotion issues by: (1) training state international trade agency staff to assist the United States and Foreign Commercial Service in providing export services to businesses in their communities; and (2) entering into agreements with such state agencies to deliver export promotion services in their local communities to extend the outreach of Service programs.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-07-23
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Technology and Innovation.
action_date: 2010-07-22
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR H5925)
action_date: 2010-07-20
text: Referred to House Science and Technology
action_date: 2010-07-20
text: Referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, and in addition to the Committee on Science and Technology, 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: 2010-07-20
text: Referred to House Foreign Affairs
action_date: 2010-07-20
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-07-20
text: Introduced in House
To name the Department of Veterans Affairs telehealth clinic in Craig, Colorado, as the "Major William Edward Adams Department of Veterans Affairs Clinic".

Bill: 111-hr-5798
Sponsor: Rep. Salazar, John T. [D-CO-3]
Introduced: 2010-07-20 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Colorado
Congressional tributes
Health facilities and institutions
Military personnel and dependents
Veterans' medical care

Summary:
action_date: 2010-07-20
text: 
Designates the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) telehealth clinic in Craig, Colorado, as the &quot;Major William Edward Adams Department of Veterans Affairs Clinic.&quot;


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-07-20
text: Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2010-07-20
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-07-20
text: Introduced in House
Transportation Efficiency Act

Bill: 111-hr-5799
Sponsor: Rep. Sestak, Joe [D-PA-7]
Introduced: 2010-07-20 in the House
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Advisory bodies
Aviation and airports
Government studies and investigations
Marine and inland water transportation
Navigation, waterways, harbors
Pedestrians and bicycling
Public transit
Railroads
Roads and highways

Summary:
action_date: 2010-07-20
text: 
Transportation Efficiency Act - Directs the President to create a National Intermodal Transportation Planning Task Force to: (1) study the nation's transportation needs and priorities for the next 30 years; (2) convene a conference on National Transportation Planning; and (3) draft a National Intermodal Transportation plan that includes short- and long-term goals for meeting those priorities and improving intermodal transportation planning for all modes of the national transportation system.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-07-21
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment.
action_date: 2010-07-21
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Railroads, Pipelines, and Hazardous Materials.
action_date: 2010-07-21
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Highways and Transit.
action_date: 2010-07-21
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Coast Guard and Maritime Transportation.
action_date: 2010-07-21
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Aviation.
action_date: 2010-07-20
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2010-07-20
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-07-20
text: Introduced in House
Federal Law Enforcement Training Center Protection Act of 2010

Bill: 111-hr-5800
Sponsor: Rep. Teague, Harry [D-NM-2]
Introduced: 2010-07-20 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Government buildings, facilities, and property
Land use and conservation
Law enforcement administration and funding
New Mexico

Summary:
action_date: 2010-07-20
text: 
Federal Law Enforcement Training Center Protection Act of 2010 - Reserves for 20 years certain federal land for use by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) for the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center in Eddy County, New Mexico.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-07-22
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests and Public Lands.
action_date: 2010-07-20
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2010-07-20
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-07-20
text: Introduced in House
To prohibit the use of Federal funds for the subsidization of Amtrak sleeper class service, and for other purposes.

Bill: 111-hr-5801
Sponsor: Rep. Thornberry, Mac [R-TX-13]
Introduced: 2010-07-20 in the House
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Government corporations and government-sponsored enterprises
National Railroad Passenger Corporation (Amtrak)
Railroads
Transportation costs

Summary:
action_date: 2010-07-20
text: 
Directs Amtrak to ensure that fares charged for sleeper class service on all Amtrak long-distance routes are priced to equal all of the operating costs for providing such service.
 
Requires Amtrak to discontinue such service in cases where total service costs exceed total revenues for the service for the first full fiscal year beginning after enactment of this Act.
 
Prohibits Amtrak from using federal funds to subsidize sleeper class service.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-07-21
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Railroads, Pipelines, and Hazardous Materials.
action_date: 2010-07-20
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2010-07-20
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-07-20
text: Introduced in House
To repeal a provision of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act providing for funds to a health care facility and rescind funds made available under such section.

Bill: 111-hr-5802
Sponsor: Rep. Upton, Fred [R-MI-6]
Introduced: 2010-07-20 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Appropriations
Building construction
Health care coverage and access
Health facilities and institutions
Health programs administration and funding
Home and outpatient care
Hospital care
Medical research

Summary:
action_date: 2010-07-20
text: 
Amends the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act to repeal provisions authorizing appropriations to the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) for debt service on, or direct construction or renovation of, a health care facility that provides research, inpatient tertiary care, or outpatient clinical services and that meets certain requirements, including a requirement that it is critical for the provision of greater access to health care within the state. Rescinds any unobligated balances available on the date of enactment of this Act of funds appropriated to HHS for such provisions and requires all amounts made available under such section before such date to be returned to the Treasury.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-07-20
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2010-07-20
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-07-20
text: Introduced in House
Home Health Care Access Protection Act of 2010

Bill: 111-hr-5803
Sponsor: Rep. McGovern, James P. [D-MA-3]
Introduced: 2010-07-21 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Advisory bodies
Home and outpatient care
Medicare

Summary:
action_date: 2010-07-21
text: 
Home Health Care Access Protection Act of 2010 - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act, as amended by the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, with respect to the prospective payment system (PPS) for home health services and adjustments to it for case mix changes.
 
Requires for years beginning with 2011 that any evaluation of case mix changes and any such adjustment be made using standards developed consistent with specified processes, taking certain criteria into account.
 
Directs the Secretary to convene a Technical Advisory Group to advise on the development of such standards.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-07-21
text: Referred to House Energy and Commerce
action_date: 2010-07-21
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: 2010-07-21
text: Referred to House Ways and Means
action_date: 2010-07-21
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-07-21
text: Introduced in House
Billfish Conservation Act of 2010

Bill: 111-hr-5804
Sponsor: Rep. Shadegg, John B. [R-AZ-3]
Introduced: 2010-07-21 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Fishes
Marine and coastal resources, fisheries
Trade restrictions

Summary:
action_date: 2010-07-21
text: 
Billfish Conservation Act of 2010 - Prohibits any person from offering billfish (except swordfish) or billfish products for sale, selling, importing, or exporting them, or having custody, control, or possession of them for purposes of offering them for sale, selling, importing, or exporting them.
 
Treats a violation of this Act as an act prohibited by the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act. Subjects a person to a maximum civil penalty of $100,000 for each violation.
 
Defines &quot;billfish&quot; as any of the following: (1) blue marlin; (2) striped marlin; (3) black marlin; (4) sailfish: (5) shortbill spearfish; (6) white marlin; (7) roundscale spearfish; (8) Mediterranean spearfish; or (9) longbill spearfish.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-07-23
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Insular Affairs, Oceans and Wildlife.
action_date: 2010-07-21
text: Referred to House Ways and Means
action_date: 2010-07-21
text: Referred to House Foreign Affairs
action_date: 2010-07-21
text: Referred to the Committee on Natural Resources, and in addition to the Committees on Foreign Affairs, and 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: 2010-07-21
text: Referred to House Natural Resources
action_date: 2010-07-21
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-07-21
text: Introduced in House
Thermal Renewable Energy and Efficiency Act of 2010

Bill: 111-hr-5805
Sponsor: Rep. McCollum, Betty [D-MN-4]
Introduced: 2010-07-21 in the House
Policy area: Energy
Subjects: Alternative and renewable resources
Electric power generation and transmission
Energy efficiency and conservation
Forests, forestry, trees
Income tax credits
Income tax exclusion
Land use and conservation
Lighting and heating
Lighting, heating, cooling
Public contracts and procurement
Securities

Summary:
action_date: 2010-07-21
text: 
Thermal Renewable Energy and Efficiency Act of 2010 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to extend the tax credit for the production of electricity from renewable resources to the production of thermal energy and to include a naturally occurring cold water source as a qualified energy resource and a natural air conditioning system facility as a qualified facility for purposes of such credit. 
 
Modifies the definition of: (1) &quot;local heating and cooling facilities&quot; for purposes of tax-exempt facility bonds to include equipment for producing thermal energy in the form of hot water, chilled water, or steam, distributing that thermal energy in pipelines, and transferring the thermal energy; and (2) &quot;open-loop biomass&quot; for purposes of thermal energy facilities. Defines &quot;thermal energy&quot; as heat (in the form of hot water or steam) or cooling (in the form of chilled water or ice). 
 
Amends the Energy Policy Act of 2005, with respect to federal requirements for the purchase of renewable energy, to expand the definition of &quot;biomass&quot; and provide a definition of &quot;federal land&quot; and &quot;Indian land.&quot; 
 
Amends the Energy Policy and Conservation Act, with respect to the energy sustainability and efficiency grant and loan program for institutions, to: (1) include a not-for-profit district energy system as an institutional entity for purposes of such grant program; (2) increase the amounts of technical assistance grants and grants for efficiency improvement and energy sustainability; and (3) extend the authorization of appropriations for such grant program through FY2015.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-07-21
text: Referred to House Oversight and Government Reform
action_date: 2010-07-21
text: Referred to House Ways and Means
action_date: 2010-07-21
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Ways and Means, 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: 2010-07-21
text: Referred to House Energy and Commerce
action_date: 2010-07-21
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-07-21
text: Introduced in House