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Small Arms Competition and Innovation Act of 2010

Bill: 111-hr-5181
Sponsor: Rep. Arcuri, Michael A. [D-NY-24]
Introduced: 2010-04-29 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Military procurement, research, weapons development

Summary:
action_date: 2010-04-29
text: 
Small Arms Competition and Innovation Act of 2010 - Provides that, if the Secretary of Defense (DOD) determines that the requirement to procure critical repair parts and modifications for small arms from a firm in the small arms production industrial base is not necessary to preserve such industrial base, then any such procurement shall be awarded through the use of competitive procedures that afford such industrial base a fair opportunity for such procurement.
 
Includes pistols within covered procurements for such purposes.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-05-06
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Readiness.
action_date: 2010-04-29
text: Referred to the House Committee on Armed Services.
action_date: 2010-04-29
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-04-29
text: Introduced in House
To help certain communities adversely affected by FEMA's flood mapping modernization program.

Bill: 111-hr-5182
Sponsor: Rep. Berry, Marion [D-AR-1]
Introduced: 2010-04-29 in the House
Policy area: Emergency Management
Subjects: Building construction
Disaster relief and insurance
Floods and storm protection
Government information and archives

Summary:
action_date: 2010-04-29
text: 
Prohibits the Administrator of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) from revising, updating, or publishing any flood insurance rate map under its Flood Map Modernization Program for any counties that are protected by a structure built or maintained by the Army Corps of Engineers unless the owner of, or the community protected by, such structure has been: (1) formally notified of any deficiencies in the structure; and (2) afforded seven years to rectify any deficiencies that would affect the flood insurance rate map for the area.
 
Prohibits the Administrator, until after such seven years, from: (1) requiring property owners in any such county who were not required to purchase flood insurance prior to the date of this Act's enactment to purchase such insurance; or (2) increasing the flood insurance premium for any such owners.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-04-29
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2010-04-29
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-04-29
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to extend the first-time homebuyer tax credit through December 31, 2010, and for other purposes.

Bill: 111-hr-5183
Sponsor: Rep. Bright, Bobby [D-AL-2]
Introduced: 2010-04-29 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Diplomacy, foreign officials, Americans abroad
Housing finance and home ownership
Income tax credits
Military personnel and dependents

Summary:
action_date: 2010-04-29
text: 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) extend the first-time homebuyer tax credit through December 31, 2010; (2) extend eligibility for such credit through April 30, 2011, for taxpayers who enter into a binding contract for the purchase of a principal residence by December 31, 2010; and (3) extend eligibility for such credit through April 30, 2012, for military personnel and members of the Foreign Service and the intelligence community on qualified official extended duty outside the United States.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-04-29
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2010-04-29
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-04-29
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Safe and Drug-Free Schools and Communities Act to include bullying and harassment prevention programs.

Bill: 111-hr-5184
Sponsor: Rep. Davis, Danny K. [D-IL-7]
Introduced: 2010-04-29 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Assault and harassment offenses
Crime prevention
Crimes against children
Disability and health-based discrimination
Elementary and secondary education
Performance measurement
Racial and ethnic relations
Religion
School administration
Sex, gender, sexual orientation discrimination
Violent crime

Summary:
action_date: 2010-04-29
text: 
 Amends the Safe and Drug-Free Schools and Communities Act to require: (1) states to use grants for safe and drug-free schools to collect and report information on the incidence of bullying and harassment; and (2) local educational agencies (LEAs) and schools to use subgrants to prevent and respond to incidents of bullying and harassment.
 
Requires such LEAs or schools to: (1) notify parents and students annually of conduct prohibited in their school discipline policies, that now must include bullying and harassment; and (2) establish complaint procedures for students and parents to register complaints regarding such conduct.
 
Includes bullying and harassment within the Act's definition of violence.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-05-27
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education.
action_date: 2010-04-29
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and Labor.
action_date: 2010-04-29
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-04-29
text: Introduced in House
Fair Health Care for Military Families Act

Bill: 111-hr-5185
Sponsor: Rep. DeFazio, Peter A. [D-OR-4]
Introduced: 2010-04-29 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Family relationships
Military medicine
Military personnel and dependents
Veterans' medical care

Summary:
action_date: 2010-04-29
text: 
Fair Health Care for Military Families Act - Increases to 26 the maximum age for certain children eligible for medical care under: (1) the Civilian Health and Medical Program of the Department of Veterans Affairs (CHAMPVA); and (2) TRICARE (a Department of Defense [DOD] managed health care program).


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-05-06
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Military Personnel.
action_date: 2010-04-30
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2010-04-29
text: Referred to House Veterans' Affairs
action_date: 2010-04-29
text: Referred to the Committee on Armed Services, and in addition to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs, 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: 2010-04-29
text: Referred to House Armed Services
action_date: 2010-04-29
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-04-29
text: Introduced in House
Continuing Chemical Facilities Antiterrorism Security Act of 2010

Bill: 111-hr-5186
Sponsor: Rep. Dent, Charles W. [R-PA-15]
Introduced: 2010-04-29 in the House
Policy area: Emergency Management
Subjects: Accidents
Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Department of Homeland Security
Emergency planning and evacuation
Hazardous wastes and toxic substances
Industrial facilities
Manufacturing
Natural disasters
Performance measurement
Terrorism

Summary:
action_date: 2010-04-29
text: 
Continuing Chemical Facilities Antiterrorism Security Act of 2010 - Amends the Department of Homeland Security Appropriations Act, 2007 to extend until October 4, 2015, the authority of the Secretary of Homeland Security (DHS) to issue interim final regulations establishing risk-based performance standards for security of chemical facilities and requiring vulnerability assessments and the development and implementation of site security plans for such facilities. 
 
Requires the Secretary, acting through the Administrator of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and in coordination with the Under Secretary for National Protection and Programs, to: (1) establish a voluntary chemical security training program to enhance the capabilities of high-risk chemical facilities to prevent, prepare for, respond to, mitigate against, and recover from acts of terrorism, natural disasters, and other man-made disasters; and (2) develop a voluntary chemical security exercise program to offer voluntary testing and evaluation of the capabilities of the federal government, state governments, commercial personnel and management, emergency response providers, and the private sector to prevent, prepare for, mitigate against, respond to, and recover from acts of terrorism, natural disasters, and other emergencies at chemical facilities.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-05-05
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Transportation Security and Infrastructure Protection.
action_date: 2010-04-29
text: Referred to House Homeland Security
action_date: 2010-04-29
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Homeland Security, 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: 2010-04-29
text: Referred to House Energy and Commerce
action_date: 2010-04-29
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-04-29
text: Introduced in House
Commission on Improving Long-Term Care and Community Services Act of 2010

Bill: 111-hr-5187
Sponsor: Rep. Hastings, Alcee L. [D-FL-23]
Introduced: 2010-04-29 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Advisory bodies
Health care costs and insurance
Health care coverage and access
Health care quality
Home and outpatient care
Long-term, rehabilitative, and terminal care

Summary:
action_date: 2010-04-29
text: 
Commission on Improving Long-Term Care and Community Services Act of 2010 - Requires the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) to establish a commission designed to construct a comprehensive national strategy on how to increase the affordability, accessibility, and effectiveness of long-term care and community services in the United States and its territories. Requires the commission's policy recommendations to address economic, geographic, cultural, social, transportation, workforce, and other factors that limit access to quality home, community, and institutional services.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-04-29
text: Referred to House Ways and Means
action_date: 2010-04-29
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: 2010-04-29
text: Referred to House Energy and Commerce
action_date: 2010-04-29
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E718)
action_date: 2010-04-29
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-04-29
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to extend the first-time homebuyer tax credit through December 31, 2010, and for other purposes.

Bill: 111-hr-5188
Sponsor: Rep. Hinchey, Maurice D. [D-NY-22]
Introduced: 2010-04-29 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Diplomacy, foreign officials, Americans abroad
Housing finance and home ownership
Income tax credits
Military personnel and dependents

Summary:
action_date: 2010-04-29
text: 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) extend the first-time homebuyer tax credit through December 31, 2010; (2) extend eligibility for such credit through April 30, 2011, for taxpayers who enter into a binding contract for the purchase of a principal residence by December 31, 2010; and (3) extend eligibility for such credit through April 30, 2012, for military personnel and members of the Foreign Service and the intelligence community on qualified official extended duty outside the United States.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-04-29
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2010-04-29
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-04-29
text: Introduced in House
Municipal Finance Improvements Act of 2010

Bill: 111-hr-5189
Sponsor: Rep. Hinchey, Maurice D. [D-NY-22]
Introduced: 2010-04-29 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Income tax credits
Income tax exclusion
Securities
State and local finance

Summary:
action_date: 2010-04-29
text: 
Municipal Finance Improvements Act of 2010 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to require the issuer of a tax-exempt state or local bond to obtain an optimal bond financing certification. Defines &quot;optimal bond financing certification&quot; as a written statement by an independent qualified financial advisor that the issuance fees and aggregate interest cost to the bond issuer are reasonable without materially increasing the risks to the issuer or bond obligors.
 
Allows a tax credit for small issuers of tax-exempt bonds. Defines a &quot;small issuer&quot; as any issuer of tax-exempt bonds with an aggregate face value not exceeding $50 million in a calendar year.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-04-29
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2010-04-29
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-04-29
text: Introduced in House
Global Resources and Opportunities for Women to Thrive Act of 2010

Bill: 111-hr-5191
Sponsor: Rep. Lowey, Nita M. [D-NY-18]
Introduced: 2010-04-29 in the House
Policy area: International Affairs
Subjects: Business investment and capital
Employment discrimination and employee rights
Financial services and investments
Foreign aid and international relief
Government trust funds
Human rights
Property rights
Small business
Women in business
Women's employment
Women's rights

Summary:
action_date: 2010-04-29
text: 
Global Resources and Opportunities for Women to Thrive Act of 2010 or GROWTH Act of 2010 - Targets assistance for women in developing countries with respect to: (1) microenterprises; (2) small and medium enterprises; (3) private property rights and land tenure security; (4) employment access; (5) trade benefits; (6) exchanges with U.S. entrepreneurs; (7) Millennium Challenge Account assistance; and (8) indigenous women's organizations.
 
Directs the Secretary of State to establish the Global Resources and Opportunities for Women to Thrive (GROWTH) Fund to enhance economic opportunities for very poor, poor, and low-income women in developing countries with a focus on: (1) increasing women-owned enterprise development; (2) increasing property rights for women; (3) increasing women's access to financial services; (4) increasing women in leadership in implementing organizations, such as indigenous nongovernmental organizations, community-based organizations, and regulated financial intermediaries; (5) improving women's employment benefits and conditions; and (6) increasing women's ability to benefit from global trade.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-04-29
text: Referred to the House Committee on Foreign Affairs.
action_date: 2010-04-29
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-04-29
text: Introduced in House
Forest Ecosystem Recovery and Protection Act

Bill: 111-hr-5192
Sponsor: Rep. Lummis, Cynthia M. [R-WY-At Large]
Introduced: 2010-04-29 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Agricultural prices, subsidies, credit
Alternative and renewable resources
Arizona
California
Colorado
Electric power generation and transmission
Environmental assessment, monitoring, research
Forests, forestry, trees
General public lands matters
Government trust funds
Idaho
Montana
Nevada
New Mexico
Oregon
Pest management
Public contracts and procurement
South Dakota
Transportation safety and security
Utah
Washington State
Watersheds
Wyoming

Summary:
action_date: 2010-04-29
text: 
Forest Ecosystem Recovery and Protection Act - Directs the Secretaries of Agriculture (USDA) and of the Interior to designate 25 demonstration project forests in the states of Arizona, California, Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon, South Dakota, Utah, Washington, and Wyoming. 
 
Requires the Secretaries to identify specific project sites within the project forests and to develop pine beetle prevention, mitigation, or forest restoration projects for those sites. Directs the Secretaries to enter into stewardship contracts that meet the needs of each project site. 
 
Authorizes grants to support the forest products industry: (1) participation in pine beetle prevention and mitigation and forest restoration activities at the sites, as specified; or (2) use of forest materials derived from those activities. 
 
Makes permanent the stewardship end result contracting authorities available to the Forest Service for the performance of services to achieve land management goals for the national forests that meet local and rural communities needs. 
 
Authorizes on National Forest System or public land the: (1) designation of insect or disease emergency areas from which dead and dying trees may be removed in response to threats to human health and safety; (2) use of state foresters to provide forest, rangeland, and watershed restoration and protection services; and (3) removal of dead and dying trees from rights-of-way held by a state department of transportation, state or federal public utility commission, or private utility company. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-06-24
text: Subcommittee Hearings Held.
action_date: 2010-06-18
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Department Operations, Oversight, Nutrition and Forestry.
action_date: 2010-05-04
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests and Public Lands.
action_date: 2010-04-29
text: Referred to House Natural Resources
action_date: 2010-04-29
text: Referred to the Committee on Agriculture, and in addition to the Committee on Natural Resources, 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: 2010-04-29
text: Referred to House Agriculture
action_date: 2010-04-29
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-04-29
text: Introduced in House
StartUp Visa Act of 2010

Bill: 111-hr-5193
Sponsor: Rep. Maloney, Carolyn B. [D-NY-14]
Introduced: 2010-04-29 in the House
Policy area: Immigration
Subjects: Business investment and capital
Foreign labor
Immigration status and procedures
U.S. and foreign investments
Visas and passports

Summary:
action_date: 2010-04-29
text: 
StartUp Visa Act of 2010 - Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to establish an employment-based, conditional immigrant visa (StartUp visa) for a sponsored alien entrepreneur: (1) with required amounts of financial backing from a qualifying investor or venture capitalist; and (2) whose commercial activities will generate required levels of employment, revenue, or capital investment.
 
Directs the Secretary of Homeland Security (DHS) to terminate the status of a sponsored entrepreneur (and the alien spouse and children of such entrepreneur) if, not later than three years after the date on which such permanent resident status was conferred: (1) the sponsoring venture capitalist or investor failed to meet investment requirements; or (2) the entrepreneur failed to meet job creation, capital investment, or revenue requirements.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-06-15
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration, Citizenship, Refugees, Border Security, and International Law.
action_date: 2010-04-29
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2010-04-29
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E709)
action_date: 2010-04-29
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-04-29
text: Introduced in House
Mt. Andrea Lawrence Designation Act of 2010

Bill: 111-hr-5194
Sponsor: Rep. McKeon, Howard P. "Buck" [R-CA-25]
Introduced: 2010-04-29 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: California
Parks, recreation areas, trails

Summary:
action_date: 2010-04-29
text: 
Mt. Andrea Lawrence Designation Act of 2010 - Designates peak 12,240 located 0.6 miles northeast of Donahue Peak on the northern border of the Ansel Adams Wilderness and Yosemite National Park in California as Mt. Andrea Lawrence. 

action_date: 2010-09-16
text: 

(This measure has not been amended since it was introduced. The summary of that version is repeated here.)

 
Mt. Andrea Lawrence Designation Act of 2010 - Designates peak 12,240 located 0.6 miles northeast of Donahue Peak on the northern border of the Ansel Adams Wilderness and Yosemite National Park in California as Mt. Andrea Lawrence. 

action_date: 2010-09-22
text: 

(This measure has not been amended since it was introduced. The summary of that version is repeated here.)

 
Mt. Andrea Lawrence Designation Act of 2010 - Designates peak 12,240 located 0.6 miles northeast of Donahue Peak on the northern border of the Ansel Adams Wilderness and Yosemite National Park in California as Mt. Andrea Lawrence. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-09-23
text: Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
action_date: 2010-09-22
text: Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
action_date: 2010-09-22
text: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill Agreed to by voice vote. (text: CR H6829)
action_date: 2010-09-22
text: Passed/agreed to in House: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill Agreed to by voice vote.(text: CR H6829)
action_date: 2010-09-22
text: DEBATE - The House proceeded with forty minutes of debate on H.R. 5194.
action_date: 2010-09-22
text: Considered under suspension of the rules. (consideration: CR H6828-6829)
action_date: 2010-09-22
text: Mrs. Christensen moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill.
action_date: 2010-09-16
text: Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 340.
action_date: 2010-09-16
text: Reported by the Committee on Natural Resources. H. Rept. 111-595.
action_date: 2010-09-16
text: Reported by the Committee on Natural Resources. H. Rept. 111-595.
action_date: 2010-07-22
text: Ordered to be Reported by Unanimous Consent.
action_date: 2010-07-22
text: Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
action_date: 2010-07-22
text: Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests and Public Lands Discharged.
action_date: 2010-06-10
text: Subcommittee Hearings Held.
action_date: 2010-05-04
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests and Public Lands.
action_date: 2010-04-29
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2010-04-29
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-04-29
text: Introduced in House
To establish a director of anti-trafficking policies in the Department of Defense.

Bill: 111-hr-5195
Sponsor: Rep. Smith, Christopher H. [R-NJ-4]
Introduced: 2010-04-29 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Department of Defense
Executive agency funding and structure
Federal officials
Human trafficking

Summary:
action_date: 2010-04-29
text: 
Directs the Secretary of Defense (DOD) to designate a director of anti-trafficking policies, to oversee the implementation within DOD of policies relating to trafficking in persons. Outlines related director duties.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-05-06
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Military Personnel.
action_date: 2010-04-29
text: Referred to the House Committee on Armed Services.
action_date: 2010-04-29
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-04-29
text: Introduced in House