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Veteran Employment Transition Act of 2010

Bill: 111-s-3398
Sponsor: Sen. Baucus, Max [D-MT]
Introduced: 2010-05-24 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Disability and paralysis
Income tax credits
National Guard and reserves
Veterans' education, employment, rehabilitation
Veterans' pensions and compensation

Summary:
action_date: 2010-05-24
text: 
Veteran Employment Transition Act of 2010 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to revise the definition of &quot;qualified veteran&quot; for purposes of the work opportunity tax credit to mean recently discharged veterans and disadvantaged veterans. 
 
Defines &quot;recently discharged veteran&quot; to mean: (1) any individual who has served on active duty (other than active duty for training) in the Armed Forces for more than 180 total days (whether consecutive or not); (2) any individual who has been discharged or released from active duty for a service-connected disability; and (3) any member of the National Guard who has served for more than 180 total days (whether consecutive or not) in active duty, full-time National Guard duty, or duty in state status. 
 
Defines &quot;disadvantaged veteran&quot; as any veteran who is certified as being a member of a family receiving assistance under a supplemental nutrition assistance program and is entitled to compensation for a service-connected disability.
 
Requires the Department of Defense (DOD) and the National Guard to inform military personnel who are discharged or released from active duty of the work opportunity tax credit and provide them with documentation relating to eligibility for and use of such credit. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-05-24
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2010-05-24
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S4146-4147)
action_date: 2010-05-24
text: Introduced in Senate
Fairness in Women-Owned Small Business Contracting Act of 2010

Bill: 111-s-3399
Sponsor: Sen. Snowe, Olympia J. [R-ME]
Introduced: 2010-05-24 in the Senate
Policy area: Commerce
Subjects: Government studies and investigations
Public contracts and procurement
Small business
Women in business

Summary:
action_date: 2010-05-24
text: 
Fairness in Women-Owned Small Business Contracting Act of 2010 - Amends the Small Business Act with respect to the procurement program for women-owned small businesses (providing a federal procurement contracting preference to such businesses) to: (1) remove the requirement that the woman or women owning such business be economically disadvantaged; (2) remove contract award price limits; and (3) allow a contracting officer to award a sole source contract to such a business under the same conditions as such a contract may be awarded to a qualified HUBZone (historically underutilized business zone) small business.
 
Directs the Administrator of the Small Business Administration (SBA) to: (1) periodically conduct a study to identify any U.S. industry in which women are underrepresented; and (2) every five years, report study results to the congressional small business committees.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-05-24
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship. (text of measure as introduced: CR S4147)
action_date: 2010-05-24
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S4147)
action_date: 2010-05-24
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to ban the sale, manufacture, distribution, and use in public facilities of drop-side cribs in the United States, and for other purposes.

Bill: 111-s-3400
Sponsor: Sen. Gillibrand, Kirsten E. [D-NY]
Introduced: 2010-05-24 in the Senate
Policy area: Commerce
Subjects: Child safety and welfare
Product safety and quality

Summary:
action_date: 2010-05-24
text: 
Bans as a hazardous product any drop-side crib that is sold, offered for sale, manufactured for sale, distributed in commerce, used in public facilities such as hotels or day care centers, or imported into the United States. 
 
Defines &quot;drop-side crib&quot; as any infant crib that has at least one side that moves up and down but does not include a drop-gate crib or any other crib that has immovable sides with a portion of one side capable of being folded down.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-05-24
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
action_date: 2010-05-24
text: Introduced in Senate
Addressing Cost Containment Measures To Ensure the Sustainability and Success of ADAP Act

Bill: 111-s-3401
Sponsor: Sen. Burr, Richard [R-NC]
Introduced: 2010-05-24 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Appropriations
Drug therapy
HIV/AIDS
Health care costs and insurance
Health programs administration and funding
Prescription drugs

Summary:
action_date: 2010-05-24
text: 
Addressing Cost Containment Measures To Ensure the Sustainability and Success of ADAP Act or the ACCESS ADAP Act - Transfers funds from discretionary amounts appropriated under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act that remain unobligated to the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) to be used in FY2010 to provide assistance in reducing AIDS Drug Assistance Program waiting lists and to address other cost containment measures that state AIDS Drug Assistance Programs implement after January 1, 2009. Requires amounts transferred under this Act to be used by states in a manner consistent with their state programs.
 
 Requires the Secretary, in allocating such funds, to: (1) give special consideration to the total scope and the basis of a state's needs, including the total number of patients on a waiting list, eligibility requirements, and other cost containment measures; and (2) ensure that funds be used only to provide treatments to individuals who were eligible to participate in the state program on the date of enactment of this Act.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-05-24
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2010-05-24
text: Introduced in Senate
REAL Act of 2010

Bill: 111-s-3402
Sponsor: Sen. LeMieux, George S. [R-FL]
Introduced: 2010-05-24 in the Senate
Policy area: Housing and Community Development
Subjects: Alternative and renewable resources
Energy efficiency and conservation
Government lending and loan guarantees
Government trust funds
Housing finance and home ownership
Residential rehabilitation and home repair

Summary:
action_date: 2010-05-24
text: 
Renewable Energy Access Through Leasing Act of 2010 or the REAL Act of 2010- Authorizes the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) to make loan guarantees for the financing of renewable energy systems leased for residential use. Prohibits the Secretary from insuring a loan unless the renewable energy system owner certifies that the systems financed will be leased only to homeowners that grant easements to install, maintain, use and otherwise access the system that include the right to sell electricity produced during the life of the renewable energy system to a wholesale or retail electrical power grid. 
 
Requires the Secretary to: (1) ensure that a discount given under this Act does not adversely affect the homeowner's mortgage requirements; and (2) fix and collect premiums for insurance of loans under this Act that shall be paid for by the renewable energy system owner and that shall be adequate to cover the expenses and probable losses of administering the program. Prohibits the Secretary from assessing any other fee, premium, or charge in connection with such loan insurance.
 
Establishes the Renewable Energy Lease Insurance Fund, into which the Secretary shall deposit any such premiums.
 
Terminates the Secretary's authority to insure and make commitments to insure new loans under this Act ten years after its enactment.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-05-24
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.
action_date: 2010-05-24
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to amend the Fish and Wildlife Improvement Act of 1978 to exempt subsistence users in the State of Alaska from the prohibition on taking.

Bill: 111-s-3403
Sponsor: Sen. Murkowski, Lisa [R-AK]
Introduced: 2010-05-24 in the Senate
Policy area: Animals
Subjects: Alaska
Birds
International law and treaties
Wildlife conservation and habitat protection

Summary:
action_date: 2010-05-24
text: 
Amends the Fish and Wildlife Improvement Act of 1978 to exempt the taking of migratory birds by indigenous inhabitants of Alaska for their own nutritional and other essential needs, as authorized by such Act, from the prohibition on taking migratory waterfowl under the Migratory Bird Hunting and Conservation Stamp Act.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-05-24
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.
action_date: 2010-05-24
text: Introduced in Senate
Close Big Oil Tax Loopholes Act

Bill: 111-s-3405
Sponsor: Sen. Menendez, Robert [D-NJ]
Introduced: 2010-05-24 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Earth sciences
Energy prices
Gulf of Mexico
Income tax credits
Income tax deductions
Marine and coastal resources, fisheries
Oil and gas
Sales and excise taxes
Taxation of foreign income

Summary:
action_date: 2010-05-24
text: 
Close Big Oil Tax Loopholes Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to deny to taxpayers with gross revenues in excess of $100 million in a taxable year (applicable large taxpayers): (1) the tax deduction for intangible drilling and development costs; (2) the tax deduction for qualified tertiary injectant expenses; (3) the exemption from restrictions on the deductibility of passive losses; (4) the percentage depletion allowance for oil and gas wells; and (5) the tax deduction for income attributable to domestic production of oil, natural gas, or primary products thereof.
 
Requires applicable large taxpayers to amortize their geological and geophysical expenditures over a seven-year period.
 
Imposes on producers of taxable crude oil or natural gas a 13% excise tax on the removal price of such oil and natural gas produced from lands on the Outer Continental Shelf in the Gulf of Mexico. Allows a nonrefundable credit against such tax for royalties paid under federal law with respect to the production of such crude oil and natural gas.
 
Denies a foreign tax credit to any large integrated oil company that is subject to a levy of a foreign country or possession of the United States and receives an economic benefit from such country or possession (dual capacity taxpayer) if such country or possession does not impose a generally applicable income tax.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-05-24
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2010-05-24
text: Introduced in Senate
Reserve Retirement Deployment Credit Correction Act

Bill: 111-s-3406
Sponsor: Sen. Hagan, Kay R. [D-NC]
Introduced: 2010-05-24 in the Senate
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: National Guard and reserves

Summary:
action_date: 2010-05-24
text: 
Reserve Retirement Deployment Credit Correction Act - Removes the requirement that days of active duty or active service used to reduce the minimum age at which a member of the reserves may retire for non-regular (reserve) service must occur in the same fiscal year.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-05-24
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Armed Services.
action_date: 2010-05-24
text: Introduced in Senate
Improving the Quality of Care in Nursing Homes Act of 2010

Bill: 111-s-3407
Sponsor: Sen. Feingold, Russell D. [D-WI]
Introduced: 2010-05-25 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Congressional oversight
Government studies and investigations
Health care quality
Health facilities and institutions
Long-term, rehabilitative, and terminal care
State and local government operations

Summary:
action_date: 2010-05-25
text: 
Improving the Quality of Care in Nursing Homes Act of 2010 - Requires the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) to enter into an agreement with the Institute of Medicine to conduct a study on nursing homes, including: (1) the current structure and methods for surveying and evaluating nursing homes; (2) the nature of the relationship between the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) and nursing homes and how it affects efforts to improve quality; (3) the relationship between CMS and state agencies; (4) the methodology used by CMS to survey and evaluate nursing homes; (5) an evaluation of how the states and the District of Columbia implement federal requirements and the resulting variations and differences; (6) the objectivity and accuracy of the survey process and criteria used to assess nursing homes; (7) the effectiveness of the current enforcement system in promoting and encouraging systemic organizational change leading to measurable and sustained quality improvement within the nursing home; and (8) alternatives to the current system. Requires the Institute to report to the Secretary and Congress on the study results and recommendations regarding changes in regulatory policies and procedures to enhance the ability of the regulatory system to assure that nursing home residents receive quality care.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-05-25
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2010-05-25
text: Introduced in Senate
Nevada Mining Townsite Conveyance Act

Bill: 111-s-3408
Sponsor: Sen. Reid, Harry [D-NV]
Introduced: 2010-05-25 in the Senate
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Land transfers
Mining
Nevada

Summary:
action_date: 2010-05-25
text: 
Nevada Mining Townsite Conveyance Act - Directs the Secretary of the Interior, acting through the Bureau of Land Management (BLM), to carry out an expedited program to examine and determine the validity of each unpatented mining claim (including each claim for which a patent application has been filed) within specified mining townsites (federally owned real property in the Gold Point and Ione townsites within Esmeralda and Nye Counties, Nevada, on which improvements were constructed based on the belief that: (1) the property had been or would be acquired from the federal government by the entity that operated the mine; or (2) the individual or entity that made the improvement had a valid claim for acquiring the property from the federal government).
 
Directs the Secretary of the Interior, after completing the validity review, to convey to the appropriate county, without consideration, all right, title, and interest of the United States in and to any such mining townsites (including improvements) which are not subject to valid mining claims. Requires the Secretary to reserve the mineral rights in each parcel of land subject to a valid mining claim, but convey, without consideration, the remaining U.S. right, title, and interest.
 
Requires the county receiving such a site, if one or more individuals (occupants, for instance) prove a valid interest under Nevada law, to reconvey the property to such individual or individuals. 
 
Withdraws the mining townsites from: (1) all forms of entry, appropriation, or disposal under the public land laws; (2) location, entry, and patent under the mining laws; and (3) disposition under all laws pertaining to mineral and geothermal leasing or mineral materials.
 
Requires withdrawal and conveyance to the owner of the surface rights of any mining claim determined valid which is abandoned, invalidated, or otherwise returned to the BLM.
 

 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-05-25
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. (text of measure as introduced: CR S4214)
action_date: 2010-05-25
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S4213-4214)
action_date: 2010-05-25
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to make certain adjustments to the price analysis of propane prepared by the Secretary of Commerce.

Bill: 111-s-3409
Sponsor: Sen. Landrieu, Mary L. [D-LA]
Introduced: 2010-05-25 in the Senate
Policy area: Energy
Subjects: Energy prices
Government information and archives
Government studies and investigations
Oil and gas

Summary:
action_date: 2010-05-25
text: 
Amends the Propane Education and Research Act of 1996 to revise requirements for the annual report by the Secretary of Commerce to the Propane Education and Research Council, the Secretary of Energy, and the public analyzing changes in the price of propane relative to other energy sources.
 
Requires the analysis to compare indexed changes in the average price of consumer grade propane to all end users to an equally weighted composite of indexed changes in the price of residential electricity, residential natural gas, and refiner price to end users of No. 2 fuel oil on an annual national average basis. (Currently, the comparison is to be made of indexed changes in the price of consumer grade propane to a composite of indexed changes in the price of residential electricity, residential natural gas, and refiner price.)
 
Directs the Secretary of Commerce, within 60 days after enactment of this Act, to prepare and make available to the public an updated propane price analysis reflecting the amendment made by this Act.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-05-25
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
action_date: 2010-05-25
text: Introduced in Senate
Acceptance of Liability and Expedited Claims at Mississippi Canyon 252 Act

Bill: 111-s-3410
Sponsor: Sen. Vitter, David [R-LA]
Introduced: 2010-05-25 in the Senate
Policy area: Energy
Subjects: Accidents
Administrative remedies
Advisory bodies
Civil actions and liability
Department of the Interior
Executive agency funding and structure
Gulf of Mexico
Judicial review and appeals
Marine and coastal resources, fisheries
Marine pollution
Oil and gas
Pollution liability

Summary:
action_date: 2010-05-26
text: 
Acceptance of Liability and Expedited Claims at Mississippi Canyon 252 Act - Establishes within the Department of the Interior the Office of Deepwater Horizon Claims Compensation (Office) to compensate, on a no-fault basis and in a nonadversarial manner, persons and governmental entities that have incurred damages as a result of the Deepwater Horizon incident.
 
Makes the Office Administrator responsible for processing claims for compensation for damages.
 
Requires the Administrator to: (1) establish comprehensive claimant assistance and resource centers in areas with large concentrations of potential claimants; and (2) designate categories of claims to be handled on an expedited basis as a result of extreme financial hardship.
 
Imposes a stay upon any claim for monetary damages pending in federal or state court related to the Deepwater Horizon incident. Makes any such claim eligible for disposition only if the claimant elects to pursue it under this Act.
 
Requires the Administrator to establish an Advisory Committee on Deepwater Horizon Compensation.
 
Sets forth the essential elements of an eligible claim for damages, including proof, by a preponderance of the evidence, that the claimant suffered damages as a result of the Deepwater Horizon incident. Declares that a claimant shall not be required to demonstrate that such damages resulted from the negligence or other fault of any other person. 
 
Sets forth claims procedures. Covers damages for losses to real or personal property, subsistence use, revenues, profits and earning capacity, and the costs of public services.
 
Confers on the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia exclusive jurisdiction over any action for declaratory or injunctive relief challenging any provision of this Act.
 
Directs the Secretary of the Interior to renegotiate the terms of the &quot;Mississippi Canyon 252&quot; lease to reflect statements made in a certain letter from the Group Chief Executive of British Petroleum Exploration & Production, Incorporated (BP) to the Secretaries of Homeland Security and of the Interior that BP is &quot;prepared to pay above $75 million&quot; on &quot;all legitimate claims&quot; relating to that explosion and oil spill. Requires BP, as a condition of such renegotiated lease, to pay all damages awarded pursuant to this Act.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-05-26
text: Read the second time. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 410.
action_date: 2010-05-25
text: Introduced in the Senate. Read the first time. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under Read the First Time.
action_date: 2010-05-25
text: Introduced in Senate
Help HAITI Act of 2010

Bill: 111-s-3411
Sponsor: Sen. Gillibrand, Kirsten E. [D-NY]
Introduced: 2010-05-25 in the Senate
Policy area: Immigration
Subjects: Adoption and foster care
Caribbean area
Haiti
Immigration status and procedures
Latin America

Summary:
action_date: 2010-05-25
text: 
Help Haitian Adoptees Immediately to Integrate Act of 2010 or the Help HAITI Act of 2010 - Authorizes the Secretary of Homeland Security (DHS) to adjust to permanent resident status an alien who was granted parole admission into the United States pursuant to the humanitarian parole policy for certain Haitian orphans announced on January 18, 2010, and suspended as to new applications on April 15, 2010, if such alien: (1) applies for adjustment; (2) is physically present in the United States when the adjustment application is filed; and (3) is admissible as an immigrant.
 
Deems such an alien to satisfy the requirements applicable to adopted children if, before the alien is 18 years of age, he or she adjusts to permanent resident status and is adopted by a U.S. citizen (which may occur before, on, or after status adjustment). 
 
Permits a parent or legal guardian to apply on behalf of a minor.
 
Prohibits any derivative immigration benefits for the birth parent of an alien adjusted under this Act.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-05-25
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2010-05-25
text: Introduced in Senate
Public Transportation Preservation Act of 2010

Bill: 111-s-3412
Sponsor: Sen. Dodd, Christopher J. [D-CT]
Introduced: 2010-05-25 in the Senate
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Public transit
Transportation costs
Transportation employees
Transportation programs funding

Summary:
action_date: 2010-05-25
text: 
Public Transportation Preservation Act of 2010 - Authorizes the Secretary of Transportation to make emergency grants to states and designated recipients (urbanized areas) for the operating costs of equipment and facilities for use in public transportation projects. Prescribes a formula for the apportionment of grant funds.
 
Requires amounts apportioned to a state or urbanized area, with a specified exception, to be used for operating expenses necessary to restore or prevent a reduction in public transportation service and related workforce reductions, or to rescind all or a portion of a fare increase, that: (1) occurs between January 1, 2009, and September 30, 2011; and (2) is due to decreased state or local funding or farebox revenue.
 
Authorizes a recipient which certifies that it has not had a major reduction in public transportation service, or a fare increase as a result of decreased state or local operating funding, and will be able to avoid such reductions or increases through FY2011 without the funds made available by this Act, to use such funds to replace, rehabilitate, or repair existing transit capital assets used in public transportation.
 
Sets the amount of a grant, at the option of the recipient, at up to 100% of the net cost of a project.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-05-25
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.
action_date: 2010-05-25
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S4214-4215)
action_date: 2010-05-25
text: Introduced in Senate