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Healthy School Meals Act of 2010

Bill: 111-hr-4870
Sponsor: Rep. Polis, Jared [D-CO-2]
Introduced: 2010-03-17 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Department of Agriculture
Elementary and secondary education
Food assistance and relief
Fruit and vegetables
Horticulture and plants
Nutrition and diet

Summary:
action_date: 2010-03-17
text: 
Healthy School Meals Act of 2010 - Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to select school food authorities to participate in a pilot program evaluating the use of plant-based alternate protein products and fluid milk substitutes under the school lunch and breakfast programs.
 
Directs the Secretary to: (1) deliver plant-based alternate protein products and fluid milk substitutes to such food authorities at no cost for the preparation of meals under the school lunch and breakfast programs; and (2) assess which of such foods would be best for more general use in the school lunch and breakfast programs, and deliver them for general use under such programs, within two years of this Acts' enactment.
 
 Requires the Secretary, within two years of this Act's enactment, to promulgate regulations that: (1) reflect specific recommendations for increased consumption of plant-based foods; and (2) provide for the distribution of supplemental commodity assistance or cash in lieu thereof to states and certain school food authorities that offer a plant-based entree on their daily lunch menus, for the purchase of entirely plant-based commodity food products or fluid milk substitutes.
 
Requires schools participating in the school lunch program to serve a nondairy beverage that is nutritionally equivalent to fluid milk and meets certain nutritional standards to students who cannot consume fluid milk because of a disability or medical or other special dietary need. (Eliminates the requirement that students who cannot consume fluid milk due to a disability provide schools with a statement from a physician that identifies such disability and specifies the fluid milk substitute.)


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-04-30
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Healthy Families and Communities.
action_date: 2010-03-17
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and Labor.
action_date: 2010-03-17
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-03-17
text: Introduced in House
Spending Reduction Act of 2010

Bill: 111-hr-4871
Sponsor: Rep. Kratovil, Frank,  Jr. [D-MD-1]
Introduced: 2010-03-17 in the House
Policy area: Economics and Public Finance
Subjects: Appropriations
Budget deficits and national debt
Budget process
Legislative rules and procedure

Summary:
action_date: 2010-03-17
text: 
Spending Reduction Act of 2010 - Amends the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 (Gramm-Rudman-Hollings Act) to establish nonsecurity discretionary category spending limits (spending caps) for FY2011-FY2015.
 
Defines &quot;nonsecurity discretionary category&quot; as all discretionary appropriations except budget accounts within major functional category (050) National Defense, (150) International Affairs, (700) Veterans Benefits and Services, and the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) within major functional category (270) Energy, and any appropriations for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS).
 
Repeals the termination date for Pay-As-You-Go (PAYGO) enforcement mechanisms under such Act (thus making them permanent).
 
Declares that, if for any fiscal year, legislation making appropriations for discretionary accounts includes a designation for emergency requirements, such measure may not be considered in either chamber as passed or agreed to unless by a vote of at least two-thirds of the Members.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-03-17
text: Referred to House Rules
action_date: 2010-03-17
text: Referred to the Committee on the Budget, and in addition to the Committee on Rules, 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: 2010-03-17
text: Referred to House Budget
action_date: 2010-03-17
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-03-17
text: Introduced in House
To exempt the natural aging process in the determination of the production period for distilled spirits under section 263A of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986.

Bill: 111-hr-4873
Sponsor: Rep. Chandler, Ben [D-KY-6]
Introduced: 2010-03-17 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Business investment and capital
Food industry and services
Income tax deductions

Summary:
action_date: 2010-03-17
text: 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to exclude from determination of the production period for distilled spirits any period allocated to the natural aging process for purposes of determining whether a taxpayer can expense, rather than capitalize, interest costs paid or incurred during the production period.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-03-17
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2010-03-17
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-03-17
text: Introduced in House
To amend title 23, United States Code, to authorize the Secretary of Transportation to waive, if in the public interest, certain requirements relating to the letting of contracts, and for other purposes.

Bill: 111-hr-4874
Sponsor: Rep. Ellison, Keith [D-MN-5]
Introduced: 2010-03-17 in the House
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Public contracts and procurement
Roads and highways

Summary:
action_date: 2010-03-17
text: 
Authorizes the Secretary of Transportation to waive competitive bidding requirements in the award of federal-aid highway construction projects performed by state transportation departments if such waiver is determined to be in the public interest.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-03-18
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Highways and Transit.
action_date: 2010-03-17
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2010-03-17
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-03-17
text: Introduced in House
Medical School Construction Grant Act

Bill: 111-hr-4875
Sponsor: Rep. Kanjorski, Paul E. [D-PA-11]
Introduced: 2010-03-17 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Education programs funding
Educational facilities and institutions
Health programs administration and funding
Medical education

Summary:
action_date: 2010-03-17
text: 
Medical School Construction Grant Act - Requires the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) to establish a program to award grants to eligible medical schools for the purpose of constructing, renovating, or improving medical school facilities to increase the supply of physicians. Sets forth the allocation of such awards with first priority given to new medical schools.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-03-17
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2010-03-17
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-03-17
text: Introduced in House
Great Lakes Restoration Semipostal Stamp Act of 2010

Bill: 111-hr-4876
Sponsor: Rep. Dahlkemper, Kathleen A. [D-PA-3]
Introduced: 2010-03-18 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Aquatic ecology
Great Lakes
Lakes and rivers
Postal service
Water quality

Summary:
action_date: 2010-03-18
text: 
Great Lakes Restoration Semipostal Stamp Act of 2010 - Requires the United States Postal Service to issue and sell, at a premium, a Great Lakes Restoration Semipostal Stamp. 
 
 
Requires proceeds from the sale of such stamp to be transferred to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) for the operations of the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative. Prohibits such proceeds from being taken into account in any decision relating to the level of appropriations or other federal funding to be furnished to the EPA or such Initiative. 
 
 
Requires the stamp to: (1) be made available to the public for at least five years; and (2) depict images of the five Great Lakes.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-05-25
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Federal Workforce, Post Office, and the District of Columbia.
action_date: 2010-03-22
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Insular Affairs, Oceans and Wildlife.
action_date: 2010-03-19
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment.
action_date: 2010-03-18
text: Referred to House Natural Resources
action_date: 2010-03-18
text: Referred to House Transportation and Infrastructure
action_date: 2010-03-18
text: Referred to the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, and in addition to the Committees on Transportation and Infrastructure, and 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: 2010-03-18
text: Referred to House Oversight and Government Reform
action_date: 2010-03-18
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-03-18
text: Introduced in House
Community Bank and Automotive Industry Recapitalization Act of 2010

Bill: 111-hr-4877
Sponsor: Rep. Polis, Jared [D-CO-2]
Introduced: 2010-03-18 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Bank accounts, deposits, capital
Capital gains tax
Financial services and investments
Income tax exclusion
Manufacturing
Motor vehicles
Securities

Summary:
action_date: 2010-03-18
text: 
Community Bank and Automotive Industry Recapitalization Act of 2010 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to exclude from gross income gain from the sale of qualified investment property acquired within 18 months after the enactment of this Act and held for more than five years. Defines &quot;qualified investment property&quot; as original issue stock in a community bank with less than $10 billion in assets or an automotive company.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-03-18
text: Referred to House Financial Services
action_date: 2010-03-18
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Financial Services, 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: 2010-03-18
text: Referred to House Ways and Means
action_date: 2010-03-18
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-03-18
text: Introduced in House
Tax Cut Job Creation Act of 2010

Bill: 111-hr-4878
Sponsor: Rep. Young, Don [R-AK-At Large]
Introduced: 2010-03-18 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Educational facilities and institutions
Income tax rates
Social work, volunteer service, charitable organizations
Tax-exempt organizations
Vocational and technical education
Wages and earnings

Summary:
action_date: 2010-03-18
text: 
Tax Cut Job Creation Act of 2010 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to reduce the income tax rate on certain corporations that make charitable contributions to tax-exempt educational organizations. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-03-18
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2010-03-18
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-03-18
text: Introduced in House
Global Democracy Promotion Act

Bill: 111-hr-4879
Sponsor: Rep. Lowey, Nita M. [D-NY-18]
Introduced: 2010-03-18 in the House
Policy area: International Affairs
Subjects: Foreign aid and international relief
Health promotion and preventive care
International organizations and cooperation
Public participation and lobbying
World health

Summary:
action_date: 2010-03-18
text: 
Global Democracy Promotion Act - States that in determining eligibility for assistance under part I of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 foreign nongovernmental organizations shall not: (1) be ineligible for such assistance solely on the basis of health or medical services provided by such organizations with non-U.S. government funds if such services do not violate the laws of the country in which they are being provided and would not violate U.S. federal law if provided in the United States; and (2) be subject to requirements relating to the use of non-U.S. government funds for advocacy and lobbying activities other than those that apply to U.S. nongovernmental organizations receiving assistance under part I of such Act.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-03-18
text: Referred to the House Committee on Foreign Affairs.
action_date: 2010-03-18
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-03-18
text: Introduced in House
Copper Basin Jobs Act

Bill: 111-hr-4880
Sponsor: Rep. Kirkpatrick, Ann [D-AZ-1]
Introduced: 2010-03-18 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Archaeology and anthropology
Arizona
Forests, forestry, trees
Historical and cultural resources
Land transfers
Land use and conservation
Licensing and registrations
Mining
Wilderness and natural areas, wildlife refuges, wild rivers, habitats

Summary:
action_date: 2010-03-18
text: 
 Copper Basin Jobs Act - Directs the Secretary of Agriculture (the Secretary), if Resolution Copper Mining, LLC offers to convey specified parcels of non-federal land in Gila, Yavapi, Maricopa, Coconino, Pinal, or Santa Cruz Counties, Arizona to the Secretary and the Secretary of the Interior, and if the public interest would be well served, to convey certain federal land in Pinal County, Arizona to Resolution Copper. 
 
Allows the Secretary to authorize Resolution Copper to carry out mineral exploration activities: (1) under the Oak Flat Withdrawal Area; and (2) on the Withdrawal Area (with the exception of within the Oak Flat Campground) so long as they are conducted from a single exploratory drill pad. 
 
Makes lands acquired by the Secretary under this Act part of the National Forest within which the land is located. 
 
Adds certain of the non-federal land acquired by the Secretary of the Interior in Pinal and Santa Cruz counties to the San Pedro Riparian National Conservation Area and the Las Cienegas National Conservation Area, respectively. 
 
Instructs Resolution Copper to surrender its rights under mining and other U.S. laws to commercially extract minerals under Apache Leap and certain of the non-federal land in Pinal County (the Pond). 
 
 Requires Resolution Copper to make value adjustment payments to the United States based upon locatable minerals produced from such land.
 
Withdraws Apache Leap, and any land acquired by the United States under this Act, from all forms of: (1) entry, appropriation, or disposal under the public land laws; (2) location, entry, and patent under the mining laws; and (3) disposition under the mineral leasing, mineral materials, and geothermal leasing laws.
 
 
 Directs the Secretary to manage Apache Leap so as to preserve its natural character and to protect the archaeological and cultural resources located on it. 
 
Authorizes the Secretary to issue to Resolution Copper special use permits that allow it to carry out underground activities (other than the commercial extraction of minerals) under the surface of Apache Leap that would not disturb the surface.
 
Requires preparation of a management plan for Apache Leap.
 
 Directs the Secretary to convey specified lands in Pinal County to the town of Superior, Arizona. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-03-22
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests and Public Lands.
action_date: 2010-03-18
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2010-03-18
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-03-18
text: Introduced in House
Toxic Drywall Homeowner Relief Act of 2010

Bill: 111-hr-4881
Sponsor: Rep. Wittman, Robert J. [R-VA-1]
Introduced: 2010-03-18 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: China
Hazardous wastes and toxic substances
Homelessness and emergency shelter
Housing finance and home ownership
Income tax credits
Income tax deductions
Residential rehabilitation and home repair

Summary:
action_date: 2010-03-18
text: 
Toxic Drywall Homeowner Relief Act of 2010 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow a deduction from gross income for the cost of removing and remediating drywall installed in a principal residence between 2004 and 2009 which is reasonably believed to have been manufactured in China and which contains elevated levels of sulphur or strontium. 
 
Allows an additional deduction for the taxpayer's alternative living costs, and a tax credit of up to $1,000 for the cost of moving from a principal residence to temporary lodging, while drywall in such residence is being evaluated, removed, and replaced. 
 
Terminates the tax deductions and credit allowed by this Act after 2011.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-03-18
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2010-03-18
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-03-18
text: Introduced in House
To direct the Secretary of the Army to conduct a study to determine the feasibility of carrying out a project to address the water resource development and management needs of the Soboba Band of Luiseno Indians Reservation, California.

Bill: 111-hr-4882
Sponsor: Rep. Baca, Joe [D-CA-43]
Introduced: 2010-03-18 in the House
Policy area: Water Resources Development
Subjects: California
Government studies and investigations
Indian lands and resources rights
Water resources funding

Summary:
action_date: 2010-03-18
text: 
Directs the Secretary of the Army to conduct, at federal expense, a study to determine the feasibility of carrying out a project to address the water resource development and management needs of the Soboba Band of Luiseno Indians Reservation, California. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-03-19
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment.
action_date: 2010-03-18
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2010-03-18
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-03-18
text: Introduced in House
STRONG Budget Act of 2010

Bill: 111-hr-4883
Sponsor: Rep. Barton, Joe [R-TX-6]
Introduced: 2010-03-18 in the House
Policy area: Economics and Public Finance
Subjects: Budget deficits and national debt
Budget process
House of Representatives
Legislative rules and procedure

Summary:
action_date: 2010-03-18
text: 
STRONG Budget Act of 2010 - Amends the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 (Gramm-Rudman-Hollings Act) to require a second, general sequestration within 15 days after the end of any session of Congress if, first, a particular sequestration occurs at that time under the Statutory Pay-As-You-Go Act of 2010. Requires the general sequestration to equal 2% of the budget baseline for the fiscal year beginning on October 1 of the calendar year during which such sequestration occurs.
 
Prohibits such sequestration order from reducing: (1) benefits payable under title II (Old Age, Survivors, and Disability Insurance) (OASDI) of the Social Security Act (SSA); (2) annuities payable to certain employees under the Railroad Retirement Act of 1974; (3) benefits payable under any program administered by the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) or Special Benefits for Certain World War II Veterans (28-0401-0-1-701); (4) benefits payable under SSA title IV part A (Temporary Assistance for Needy Families) (TANF) relating to hospital insurance benefits for the aged and disabled; (5) payments for net interest (all of major functional category 900); and (6) other specified federal retirement and disability accounts.
 
Requires the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), within 14 days after the end of a session, to issue an annual deficit reduction report and, if the report requires a sequestration, to prepare and the President to issue a sequestration order reducing nonexempt accounts by enough to eliminate the deficit. Prohibits such reduction, however, from exceeding 2% of the total amount of such nonexempt accounts.
 
Provides for: (1) suspension of such sequestration procedures if OMB determines that the federal budget is not in deficit; and (2) restoration of such procedures in the first fiscal year after OMB determines there is a deficit.
 

 
Amends Rule XXI (Restrictions on Certain Bills) of the Rules of the House of Representatives to prohibit legislation carrying an additional exemption to sequestrations under the Gramm-Rudman-Hollings Act (and this Act) from being considered as passed or agreed to unless by a vote of at least three-fifths of the Members.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-03-18
text: Referred to House Rules
action_date: 2010-03-18
text: Referred to the Committee on the Budget, and in addition to the Committee on Rules, 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: 2010-03-18
text: Referred to House Budget
action_date: 2010-03-18
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-03-18
text: Introduced in House
United States Covered Bond Act of 2010

Bill: 111-hr-4884
Sponsor: Rep. Garrett, Scott [R-NJ-5]
Introduced: 2010-03-18 in the House
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Banking and financial institutions regulation
Bankruptcy
Department of the Treasury
Financial services and investments
Fraud offenses and financial crimes
Government information and archives
Housing finance and home ownership
Securities

Summary:
action_date: 2010-03-18
text: 
United States Covered Bond Act of 2010 - Directs the Secretary of the Treasury or a designee (covered bond regulator) to establish a regulatory oversight program for specified senior recourse debt obligations of an eligible issuer (covered bonds). Requires the covered bond regulator to: (1) consult with the primary federal regulator of an eligible issuer before approving any covered bond program; and (2) maintain a registry on a website available to the public containing the name of each approved covered bond program and information on all outstanding covered bonds issued under it.
 
Requires the covered bond regulator from time to time to establish minimum over-collateralization requirements for covered bonds backed by each eligible asset classes (including residential mortgage, home equity, commercial mortgage, public sector, auto, student loan, credit or charge card, small business, and other asset classes) based on the credit, collection, and interest-rate risks, but not the liquidity risks, associated with such eligible asset class.
 
Requires each dynamic pool of such assets (cover pool) securing covered bonds at all times to satisfy an asset-coverage test.
 
Prescribes: (1) covered bond eligibility requirements; and (2) procedures governing default and insolvency of a covered bond both prior and subsequent to conservatorship, receivership, liquidation, or bankruptcy of the issuer.
 
Subjects covered bonds that are offered and sold to the public by a bank (or its subsidiary) to: (1) securities regulations issued by the primary federal regulator of such bank; and (2) antifraud rules. Exempts such bonds from all other federal securities laws.
 
Subjects issuers of covered bonds to disclosure and reporting requirements.
 
Amends the Secondary Mortgage Market Enhancement Act of 1984 and the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 governing Real Estate Mortgage Investment Conduits to include within their purview covered bonds under this Act.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-03-18
text: Referred to House Ways and Means
action_date: 2010-03-18
text: Referred to the Committee on Financial Services, 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: 2010-03-18
text: Referred to House Financial Services
action_date: 2010-03-18
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-03-18
text: Introduced in House