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Unborn Child Pain Awareness Act of 2010

Bill: 111-hr-5276
Sponsor: Rep. Smith, Christopher H. [R-NJ-4]
Introduced: 2010-05-11 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Abortion
Civil actions and liability
Health information and medical records
Surgery and anesthesia

Summary:
action_date: 2010-05-11
text: 
 Unborn Child Pain Awareness Act of 2010 - Amends the Public Health Service Act to require an abortion provider who knowingly performs an abortion of a pain-capable unborn child (defined as an unborn child who has reached a probable stage of development of 20 weeks or more after fertilization), to first: (1) inform the woman of the probable age of the child; (2) provide to the woman an Unborn Child Pain Awareness Brochure (unless she waives receipt); (3) provide information that pain medicine administered to the mother may not prevent pain in the child, but in some cases anesthesia or pain-reducing drugs can be administered directly to the child; (4) give the woman the provider's best medical judgment of the risks and costs of such anesthesia or analgesic; and (5) obtain the woman's signature on the Unborn Child Pain Awareness Decision Form and her explicit request for or refusal of the administration of drugs to the child. Requires the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) to develop the Unborn Child Pain Awareness Brochure that includes a statement that there is substantial evidence that the process of being killed in an abortion will cause the unborn child pain and that the mother has the option of having pain-reducing drugs administered directly to the child. 
 
Creates an exception to save the life of the mother. 
 
Establishes civil penalties for willfully failing to comply with this Act. Authorizes: (1) the U.S. Attorney General to bring a civil action under this Act; and (2) private rights of action for violations of this Act. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-05-11
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2010-05-11
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-05-11
text: Introduced in House
Small Business Lending Incentive Program Act of 2010

Bill: 111-hr-5277
Sponsor: Rep. Wilson, Charles A. [D-OH-6]
Introduced: 2010-05-11 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Credit and credit markets
Income tax credits
Small business

Summary:
action_date: 2010-05-11
text: 
Small Business Lending Incentive Program Act of 2010 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow certain small banks a business-related tax credit for 1% of the total amount of loans made to small business concerns. Limits the amount of any such small business loan to $500,000, and limits to 20 the number of such loans a bank may include in the calculation of its credit in any taxable year. Terminates such credit two years after the enactment of this Act.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-05-11
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2010-05-11
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-05-11
text: Introduced in House
Public Safety Access to Medicare Act of 2010

Bill: 111-hr-5279
Sponsor: Rep. Green, Gene [D-TX-29]
Introduced: 2010-05-12 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Emergency medical services and trauma care
Employment taxes
Fires
Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management
Health personnel
Law enforcement officers
Medicare
State and local government operations

Summary:
action_date: 2010-05-12
text: 
Public Safety Access to Medicare Act of 2010 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow qualified public safety employees (state employees who provide police protection, firefighting services, or emergency medical services) to elect Medicare coverage under the hospital insurance tax.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-05-12
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2010-05-12
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-05-12
text: Introduced in House
Department of Defense Energy Security Act of 2010

Bill: 111-hr-5280
Sponsor: Rep. Giffords, Gabrielle [D-AZ-8]
Introduced: 2010-05-12 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Alternative and renewable resources
Congressional oversight
Electric power generation and transmission
Energy efficiency and conservation
Environmental technology
Hybrid, electric, and advanced technology vehicles
Military facilities and property
Military procurement, research, weapons development
Motor fuels
Water use and supply

Summary:
action_date: 2010-05-12
text: 
Department of Defense Energy Security Act of 2010 - Requires the Department of Defense (DOD) energy performance plan to be taken into consideration in other DOD planning, including the National Security Strategy and the Quadrennial Defense Review.
 
Provides a DOD procurement preference for goods and services produced using sustainable environmental practices.
 
Requires: (1) specified percentages of DOD electric energy to be produced from renewable energy sources; (2) consideration of certain environmentally sustainable practices under the DOD energy performance plan; and (3) application to contractors operating government-owned facilities and contract tenants and concessionaires of DOD requirements regarding the use of renewable energy and energy-efficient products.
 
Authorizes the Secretary of Defense to obligate specified funds under the Military Construction Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2011 to carry out energy conservation projects.
 
Directs the Secretary to submit to Congress an assessment of improved building efficiency (including insulation and energy and water usage) at DOD facilities.
 
Requires: (1) the conversion to electric or hybrid propulsion, by the end of FY2015, of the military and defense agency fleet of petroleum-derived non-tactical motor vehicles; and (2) a procurement preference with respect to electric or hybrid propulsion vehicles. Extends the conversion requirement to contractor-operated, government-owned vehicles.
 
Directs: (1) the Secretary of each military department to report to Congress identifying hybrid-drive technologies suitable for incorporation into the next reset and recap of tactical-fleet military ground vehicles; and (2) the Secretary to submit to Congress a testing and certification plan for the development, and use by the end of FY2016, of biofuel derived from materials that do not compete with food stocks and is suitable for use as military aviation fuel.
 
Authorizes the Secretary to waive the implementation or operation of any provision of this Act after certifying to Congress that such implementation or operation would adversely impact U.S. national security.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-06-18
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Readiness.
action_date: 2010-05-12
text: Referred to the House Committee on Armed Services.
action_date: 2010-05-12
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-05-12
text: Introduced in House
Sikes Act Amendments Act of 2010

Bill: 111-hr-5284
Sponsor: Del. Bordallo, Madeleine Z. [D-GU-At Large]
Introduced: 2010-05-12 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Land use and conservation
Military facilities and property
National Guard and reserves
Wildlife conservation and habitat protection

Summary:
action_date: 2010-05-12
text: 
Sikes Act Amendments Act of 2010 - Amends the Sikes Act (conservation programs on military installations and facilities) to include under such Act's coverage state-owned facilities used for National Guard training.
 
Authorizes the Secretary of a military department to develop and implement an integrated natural resources management plan for a state-owned National Guard installation. Outlines plan elements and requires such plans to be reviewed at least every five years.
 
Makes permanent and expands (under current law, a pilot program for FY2009-FY2014 limited to Guam) the program for invasive species management for military installations.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-06-18
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Readiness.
action_date: 2010-05-25
text: Subcommittee Hearings Held.
action_date: 2010-05-14
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Insular Affairs, Oceans and Wildlife.
action_date: 2010-05-12
text: Referred to House Armed Services
action_date: 2010-05-12
text: Referred to the Committee on Natural Resources, and in addition to the Committee on Armed 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: 2010-05-12
text: Referred to House Natural Resources
action_date: 2010-05-12
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E834)
action_date: 2010-05-12
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-05-12
text: Introduced in House
Universal College Credit Act

Bill: 111-hr-5286
Sponsor: Rep. Boswell, Leonard L. [D-IA-3]
Introduced: 2010-05-12 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Higher education
Income tax credits
Student aid and college costs

Summary:
action_date: 2010-05-12
text: 
Universal College Credit Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow a tax credit up to $5,000 annually for the qualified tuition and related expenses of an individual taxpayer, a taxpayer's spouse, or dependents for instruction at an institution of higher education. Allows such credit for four years of undergraduate education expenses and six years of graduate or professional education expenses. Excludes expenses for courses involving sports, games, or hobbies (unless part of a degree program) and expenses unrelated to an academic program (e.g., student activity fees, athletic fees, or insurance expenses).


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-05-12
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2010-05-12
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-05-12
text: Introduced in House
East Coast and Gulf Coast Ocean Protection Act of 2010

Bill: 111-hr-5287
Sponsor: Rep. Brown, Corrine [D-FL-3]
Introduced: 2010-05-12 in the House
Policy area: Energy
Subjects: Atlantic Ocean
Gulf of Mexico
Marine and coastal resources, fisheries
Oil and gas

Summary:
action_date: 2010-05-12
text: 
East Coast and Gulf Coast Ocean Protection Act of 2010 - Amends the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act to prohibit the Secretary of the Interior from issuing a lease for the exploration, development, or production of oil or natural gas in any area on the outer Continental Shelf of the Atlantic Ocean or the Gulf of Mexico.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-05-14
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources.
action_date: 2010-05-12
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2010-05-12
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-05-12
text: Introduced in House
Dairy Price Stabilization Program Act of 2010

Bill: 111-hr-5288
Sponsor: Rep. Costa, Jim [D-CA-20]
Introduced: 2010-05-12 in the House
Policy area: Agriculture and Food
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Agricultural marketing and promotion
Agricultural prices, subsidies, credit
Department of Agriculture
Food industry and services
Government information and archives

Summary:
action_date: 2010-05-12
text: 
Dairy Price Stabilization Program Act of 2010 - Amends the Dairy Production Stabilization Act of 1983 to direct the Secretary of Agriculture (USDA) to publish in the Federal Register a proposed order to establish the dairy price stabilization program that shall apply to all dairy facilities within the contiguous United States that produce milk for sale commercially.
 
Sets forth program provisions.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-06-18
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Livestock, Dairy, and Poultry.
action_date: 2010-05-12
text: Referred to the House Committee on Agriculture.
action_date: 2010-05-12
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR H3316)
action_date: 2010-05-12
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-05-12
text: Introduced in House
Get the Lead Out Act

Bill: 111-hr-5289
Sponsor: Rep. Eshoo, Anna G. [D-CA-14]
Introduced: 2010-05-12 in the House
Policy area: Environmental Protection
Subjects: Hazardous wastes and toxic substances
Water quality

Summary:
action_date: 2010-05-12
text: 
Get the Lead Out Act - Amends the Safe Drinking Water Act to exempt from prohibitions on the use or sale of lead pipes, solder, and flux: (1) pipes or pipe or plumbing fittings or fixtures, including backflow preventers, that are used exclusively for nonpotable services such as manufacturing, industrial processing, irrigation, outdoor watering or any other uses where the water is not anticipated to be used for human consumption; or (2) toilets, bidets, urinals, fill valves, flushometer valves, tub fillers, shower valves, service saddles, or water distribution main gate valves that are two inches in diameter or larger.
 
 Redefines &quot;lead free&quot; under such Act to mean: (1) not containing more than 0.2% lead when used with respect to solder and flux (current law); and (2) not more than a weighted average of 0.25% when used with respect to the wetted surfaces of pipes and pipe and plumbing fittings and fixtures. Establishes a formula to calculate the weighted average lead content of a pipe or pipe or plumbing fitting or fixture.
 



Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-05-12
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2010-05-12
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-05-12
text: Introduced in House
More Doctors, More Choices Act of 2010

Bill: 111-hr-5290
Sponsor: Rep. Giffords, Gabrielle [D-AZ-8]
Introduced: 2010-05-12 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Health personnel
Medicare

Summary:
action_date: 2010-05-12
text: 
More Doctors, More Choices Act 0f 2010 - Requires the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS), if a Medicare SGR extension law is enacted during the 111th Congress, to permit a non-participating physician or supplier who furnishes (or may furnish) services for which payment is made under the Medicare physician fee schedule (or would be so made but for a private contract with a Medicare beneficiary) to elect during a certain period to become a Medicare participating physician or supplier.
 
Defines Medicare SGR extension law as one that extends or revises for at least one year the amount of the conversion factor used in updating payments under the physicians fee schedule so that it is not lower than the conversion factor for May 2010.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-05-17
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2010-05-12
text: Referred to House Ways and Means
action_date: 2010-05-12
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: 2010-05-12
text: Referred to House Energy and Commerce
action_date: 2010-05-12
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-05-12
text: Introduced in House
Tax Information for New Fiscal Oversight Act of 2010

Bill: 111-hr-5291
Sponsor: Rep. Murphy, Scott [D-NY-20]
Introduced: 2010-05-12 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Government information and archives
Government studies and investigations
Income tax credits
Income tax deductions
Income tax exclusion

Summary:
action_date: 2010-05-12
text: 
Tax Information for New Fiscal Oversight Act of 2010 - Directs the Joint Committee on Taxation, beginning with its 2011 annual tax expenditure report, to: (1) analyze each tax expenditure identified in such report for its equity, efficiency, and ease of administration; and (2) reflect in such report the aggregate annual revenue lost due to such tax expenditures. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-05-12
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2010-05-12
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-05-12
text: Introduced in House
To require the continuation of full-service operations at the commissary and exchange stores serving Naval Air Station, Brunswick, Maine.

Bill: 111-hr-5292
Sponsor: Rep. Pingree, Chellie [D-ME-1]
Introduced: 2010-05-12 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Congressional oversight
Government information and archives
Maine
Military facilities and property
Retail and wholesale trades

Summary:
action_date: 2010-05-12
text: 
Directs the Secretary of the Navy to operate the Navy Exchange Service Command store in Brunswick, Maine, through FY2011, and to take no action to reduce or terminate the sale of goods there during FY2011.
 
Requires the Secretary to: (1) operate such store for at least one year to determine the store's profitability; and (2) report to the congressional defense committees and the Comptroller General (CG) on the store's management. Directs the CG to submit to such committees an audit of the Secretary's report.
 
Directs the Secretary to maintain operations at the Defense Commissary Agency store in Topsham, Maine, at a level of full-service operations until the end of FY2011. Prohibits any funds from being used to reduce the level of, terminate, or otherwise disestablish such store during FY2011.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-06-18
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Readiness.
action_date: 2010-05-12
text: Referred to the House Committee on Armed Services.
action_date: 2010-05-12
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E832-833)
action_date: 2010-05-12
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-05-12
text: Introduced in House
To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 3270 Firestone Boulevard in South Gate, California, as the "Henry C. Gonzalez Post Office Building".

Bill: 111-hr-5293
Sponsor: Rep. Sánchez, Linda T. [D-CA-39]
Introduced: 2010-05-12 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: California
Congressional tributes
Government buildings, facilities, and property
House of Representatives
Members of Congress
Postal service

Summary:
action_date: 2010-05-12
text: Designates the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 3270 Firestone Boulevard in South Gate, California, as the "Henry C. Gonzalez Post Office Building."

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-05-12
text: Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.
action_date: 2010-05-12
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E831)
action_date: 2010-05-12
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-05-12
text: Introduced in House
LEASE Act of 2010

Bill: 111-hr-5294
Sponsor: Rep. Rehberg, Denny [R-MT-At Large]
Introduced: 2010-05-13 in the House
Policy area: Environmental Protection
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Air quality
Climate change and greenhouse gases
Congressional-executive branch relations

Summary:
action_date: 2010-05-13
text: 
Limit Executive Actions Suspending Energy Act of 2010 or the LEASE Act of 2010 - Prohibits the head of any federal agency from taking any administrative action to regulate greenhouse gas emissions (including by issuing orders, promulgating regulations, or otherwise regulating, monitoring, mitigating, predicting, or documenting such emissions) for purposes of addressing climate change unless a federal statute expressly and specifically authorizes such action.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-05-13
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2010-05-13
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-05-13
text: Introduced in House
Healthcare Truth and Transparency Act of 2010

Bill: 111-hr-5295
Sponsor: Rep. Sullivan, John [R-OK-1]
Introduced: 2010-05-13 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Consumer affairs
Fraud offenses and financial crimes
Government studies and investigations
Health information and medical records
Health personnel
Licensing and registrations
Marketing and advertising
Medical ethics

Summary:
action_date: 2010-05-13
text: 
Healthcare Truth and Transparency Act of 2010 - Prohibits any person from making any deceptive or misleading statement, or engaging in any deceptive or misleading act, that: (1) misrepresents whether such person holds a state health care license; or (2) misrepresents such person's education, training, degree, license, or clinical expertise. 
 
Requires any person who is advertising health care services provided by such person to disclose the applicable license under which such person is authorized to provide those services. 
 
Deems a violation of this Act to be an unfair or deceptive act or practice under the Federal Trade Commission Act.
 
Directs the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to study and report to Congress on health care professionals' misrepresentations under this Act.
 
Declares that nothing in this Act shall be construed or have the effect of changing state scope of practice for any health care professional.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-05-13
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2010-05-13
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-05-13
text: Introduced in House
Air and Health Quality Empowerment Zone Designation Act of 2010

Bill: 111-hr-5296
Sponsor: Rep. McNerney, Jerry [D-CA-11]
Introduced: 2010-05-13 in the House
Policy area: Environmental Protection
Subjects: Agricultural conservation and pollution
Air quality
California
Cardiovascular and respiratory health
Environmental health
Hazardous wastes and toxic substances

Summary:
action_date: 2010-05-13
text: 
Air and Health Quality Empowerment Zone Designation Act of 2010 - Authorizes the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to designate areas nominated by local air pollution control districts as air and health quality empowerment zones, which shall be eligible for grants for replacing or retrofitting polluting vehicles and/or engines to improve the health of the population living in the zones.
 
Sets forth area eligibility requirements, including: (1) being in extreme nonattainment of the 8-hour ozone national ambient air quality standard and in nonattainment of the national ambient air quality standard for PM2.5 (particulate matter with a diameter that does not exceed 2.5 micrometers) promulgated by the Administrator under the Clean Air Act; (2) having specified emission levels of oxides of nitrogen from farm equipment or of volatile organic compounds from farming operations; (3) meeting or exceeding national averages for asthma; (4) exceeding national averages for unemployment; and (5) being eligible for state or local matching funds.
 
Prohibits an area from being designated unless the relevant district provides satisfactory assurances that the strategic plan (to be contained in its application) will be implemented. Authorizes the Administrator to revoke the designation if the relevant district: (1) has been designated as being in attainment with the air quality standards; or (2) is failing to comply with, or make progress in achieving the goals of, its strategic plan.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-05-13
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2010-05-13
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-05-13
text: Introduced in House