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Business Disaster Recovery Assistance Act of 2010

Bill: 111-hr-5242
Sponsor: Rep. Courtney, Joe [D-CT-2]
Introduced: 2010-05-06 in the House
Policy area: Emergency Management
Subjects: Disaster relief and insurance
General business and commerce matters

Summary:
action_date: 2010-05-06
text: 
Business Disaster Recovery Assistance Act of 2010 - Directs the Administrator of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to establish a program to assist a covered entity affected by a major disaster. (Defines &quot;covered entity&quot; to mean a business or private nonprofit organization operating in an area with respect to which the President declared, during the 60-day period preceding the date the entity submitted a grant application, a major disaster under the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act.)
 
Authorizes the Administrator to make a grant to a covered entity to assist in: (1) the repair or replacement of the entity's property that was damaged as a direct result of a major disaster; and (2) meeting the entity's ordinary and necessary financial obligations that might not otherwise be met as a direct result of a major disaster.
 
Limits each grant to $28,000. Directs the Administrator to adjust the limit annually to reflect changes in the Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers published by the Department of Labor.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-05-07
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Economic Development, Public Buildings and Emergency Management.
action_date: 2010-05-06
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2010-05-06
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-05-06
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act to clarify that the Act does not affect standards or procedures in medical malpractice actions.

Bill: 111-hr-5243
Sponsor: Rep. Cuellar, Henry [D-TX-28]
Introduced: 2010-05-06 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Civil actions and liability
Health care quality
State and local government operations

Summary:
action_date: 2010-05-06
text: 
Amends the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) to prohibit the development, recognition, or implementation of any guideline or other standard under any provision of PPACA from being construed to establish the standard of care or duty of care owed by health care providers to their patients in any medical malpractice action or claim.
 
Declares that nothing in PPACA shall be construed to modify or impair state law governing legal standards or procedures used in medical malpractice cases, including the authority of a state to make or implement such law.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-05-06
text: Referred to House Judiciary
action_date: 2010-05-06
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on the Judiciary, 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: 2010-05-06
text: Referred to House Energy and Commerce
action_date: 2010-05-06
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-05-06
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to exclude from gross income amounts received for services by a student at a work-college.

Bill: 111-hr-5244
Sponsor: Rep. Davis, Danny K. [D-IL-7]
Introduced: 2010-05-06 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Higher education
Income tax exclusion
Student aid and college costs
Wages and earnings
Youth employment and child labor

Summary:
action_date: 2010-05-06
text: 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to exclude from gross income payments received by a student under a comprehensive student work-learning-service program operated by a work college. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-05-06
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2010-05-06
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-05-06
text: Introduced in House
Safe Highway Markings Act of 2010

Bill: 111-hr-5245
Sponsor: Rep. Holden, Tim [D-PA-17]
Introduced: 2010-05-06 in the House
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Department of Transportation
Hazardous wastes and toxic substances
Roads and highways
Transportation programs funding
Transportation safety and security

Summary:
action_date: 2010-05-06
text: 
Safe Highway Markings Act of 2010 - Prescribes minimum standards for engineered glass beads used in reflective markings, limiting the arsenic content to 200 parts per million.
 
Requires states that receive certain federal-aid highway funds to ensure that any new application of reflective markings on or along federal-aid highway roads or highways be made from a binder that has been mixed, in whole or in part, with engineered glass beads.
 
Requires the Secretary of Transportation, acting through the Administrator of the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA), to withhold up to 5% of the apportionment of funds for any state that does not comply with such standards.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-05-07
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Highways and Transit.
action_date: 2010-05-06
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2010-05-06
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-05-06
text: Introduced in House
Child Welfare Workforce Study Act

Bill: 111-hr-5246
Sponsor: Rep. Kennedy, Patrick J. [D-RI-1]
Introduced: 2010-05-06 in the House
Policy area: Social Welfare
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Child safety and welfare
Congressional oversight
Department of Health and Human Services
Government information and archives
Social work, volunteer service, charitable organizations

Summary:
action_date: 2010-05-06
text: 
Child Welfare Workforce Study Act - Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) to enter into an agreement with the National Academy of Sciences to study and report to the Secretary and Congress on child welfare staff.
 
Requires the Secretary, based on recommendations in the report, to issue regulations that require states to collect and report data on child welfare staff regularly and in a manner that enables the data to be linked to the outcomes achieved for individual children served by the state or local child welfare agency involved.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-05-27
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Healthy Families and Communities.
action_date: 2010-05-06
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and Labor.
action_date: 2010-05-06
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-05-06
text: Introduced in House
Executive Cyberspace Authorities Act of 2010

Bill: 111-hr-5247
Sponsor: Rep. Langevin, James R. [D-RI-2]
Introduced: 2010-05-06 in the House
Policy area: Science, Technology, Communications
Subjects: Computer security and identity theft
Computers and information technology
Executive Office of the President
Executive agency funding and structure
Government information and archives

Summary:
action_date: 2010-05-06
text: 
Executive Cyberspace Authorities Act of 2010 - Establishes within the Executive Office of the President the National Cyberspace Office, headed by a Director, to coordinate issues relating to achieving an assured, reliable, secure, and survivable information infrastructure and related capabilities of the federal government. Outlines Director duties, including overseeing executive agency information security policies and practices.
 
Requires the inclusion of the Director on the National Security Council. Requires annual Director approval of that part of agency budgets relating to the protection of information technology.
 
Makes the authorities of the Director inapplicable to national security systems. Requires delegation of Director authority, to the Secretary of Defense (DOD) and the Director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), respectively, of those systems of DOD and the CIA that process information the unauthorized access, use, or disclosure of which would have a debilitating effect on either agency's mission.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-06-18
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Strategic Forces.
action_date: 2010-06-16
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Terrorism, Unconventional Threats and Capabilities.
action_date: 2010-05-06
text: Referred to House Intelligence (Permanent)
action_date: 2010-05-06
text: Referred to House Armed Services
action_date: 2010-05-06
text: Referred to the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, and in addition to the Committees on Armed Services, and Intelligence (Permanent Select), 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: 2010-05-06
text: Referred to House Oversight and Government Reform
action_date: 2010-05-06
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-05-06
text: Introduced in House
No New Drilling Act of 2010

Bill: 111-hr-5248
Sponsor: Rep. Pallone, Frank, Jr. [D-NJ-6]
Introduced: 2010-05-06 in the House
Policy area: Energy
Subjects: Marine and coastal resources, fisheries
Mining
Oil and gas

Summary:
action_date: 2010-05-06
text: 
No New Drilling Act of 2010 - Amends the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act to prohibit the issuance of any lease for the exploration, development, or production of oil, gas, or any other mineral on the outer Continental Shelf. 
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-05-10
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources.
action_date: 2010-05-06
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2010-05-06
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-05-06
text: Introduced in House
Capital Access for Main Street Act of 2010

Bill: 111-hr-5249
Sponsor: Rep. Perlmutter, Ed [D-CO-7]
Introduced: 2010-05-06 in the House
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: Accounting and auditing
Bank accounts, deposits, capital
Housing finance and home ownership

Summary:
action_date: 2010-05-06
text: 
Capital Access for Main Street Act of 2010 - Authorizes an insured depository institution with assets of less than $10 billion, for purposes of capital calculation under the Financial Institutions Examination Council's Consolidated Reports of Condition and Income, to choose to amortize any loss or write-down, on a quarterly straight-line basis over a seven-year period, which it has incurred with respect to: (1) a loan secured by commercial real estate; or (2) other real estate owned.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-05-06
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2010-05-06
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-05-06
text: Introduced in House
To direct the Election Assistance Commission to make an election administration improvement payment to the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands under title I of the Help America Vote Act of 2002, to treat the Commonwealth as a State for the other purposes of such Act, and for other purposes.

Bill: 111-hr-5250
Sponsor: Del. Sablan, Gregorio Kilili Camacho [D-MP-At Large]
Introduced: 2010-05-06 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Elections, voting, political campaign regulation
Northern Mariana Islands
U.S. territories and protectorates

Summary:
action_date: 2010-05-06
text: 
Directs the Election Assistance Commission to make a single payment to the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands in an amount equal to the aggregate amount of the payments which would have been made to the Commonwealth under title I of the Help America Vote Act of 2002 for election administration improvement activities if: (1) the Commonwealth had been treated as a state at the time payments were made under such title to other states; and (2) the Commonwealth had been subject to the same minimum payment amounts applicable to the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, Guam, American Samoa, and the United States Virgin Islands.
 
Directs the Commonwealth to use such payment to carry out the same election administration improvement activities for which states received similar payments under the Help America Vote Act of 2002.
 
Amends the Help America Vote Act of 2002 to treat the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands as a state.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-05-06
text: Referred to the House Committee on House Administration.
action_date: 2010-05-06
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-05-06
text: Introduced in House
Motherhood Fairness Act of 2010

Bill: 111-hr-5251
Sponsor: Rep. Schmidt, Jean [R-OH-2]
Introduced: 2010-05-06 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Adoption and foster care
Income tax credits

Summary:
action_date: 2010-05-06
text: 
Motherhood Fairness Act of 2010 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow a child tax credit to the birth mother of a child who is formally placed for adoption and to the taxpayer who adopts such child.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-05-06
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2010-05-06
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-05-06
text: Introduced in House
Renewable Energy Tax Incentives Extension Act

Bill: 111-hr-5252
Sponsor: Rep. Spratt, John M., Jr. [D-SC-5]
Introduced: 2010-05-06 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Alternative and renewable resources
Business investment and capital
Income tax credits
Public utilities and utility rates
Tax administration and collection, taxpayers

Summary:
action_date: 2010-05-06
text: 
Renewable Energy Tax Incentives Extension Act - Amends the American Recovery and Reinvestment Tax Act of 2009 to: (1) extend the grant program for investment in renewable energy property, including renewable resources used to produce electricity and fuel cell, solar, wind, geothermal, and microturbine property, in lieu of tax credits, by extending the placed-in-service deadline for such property through 2012; and (2) expand eligibility for such grants to public power utilities.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-05-06
text: Referred to House Energy and Commerce
action_date: 2010-05-06
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2010-05-06
text: Referred to House Ways and Means
action_date: 2010-05-06
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-05-06
text: Introduced in House
Federal Research Public Access Act of 2010

Bill: 111-hr-5253
Sponsor: Rep. Tiahrt, Todd [R-KS-4]
Introduced: 2010-05-06 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Congressional oversight
Executive agency funding and structure
Research administration and funding

Summary:
action_date: 2010-05-06
text: 
Federal Research Public Access Act of 2010 - Requires each federal agency with extramural research expenditures of over $100 million to develop a specified federal research public access policy that is consistent with and advances the purposes of the agency. 

Makes each federal research public access policy applicable to: (1) researchers employed by the federal agency whose works remain in the public domain; and (2) researchers funded by the agency. Specifies exclusions.

Requires the submission of annual reports by each federal agency on its federal research public access policy. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-05-06
text: Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.
action_date: 2010-05-06
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-05-06
text: Introduced in House
For the relief of Simaya T. K. Eversley.

Bill: 111-hr-5254
Sponsor: Rep. Davis, Danny K. [D-IL-7]
Introduced: 2010-05-06 in the House
Policy area: Private Legislation

Summary:
action_date: 2010-05-06
text: Provides for the relief of Simaya T. K. Eversley.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-06-03
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration, Citizenship, Refugees, Border Security, and International Law.
action_date: 2010-05-06
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2010-05-06
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-05-06
text: Introduced in House
Stable Flood Insurance Authorization Act of 2010

Bill: 111-hr-5255
Sponsor: Rep. Frank, Barney [D-MA-4]
Introduced: 2010-05-07 in the House
Policy area: Emergency Management
Subjects: Disaster relief and insurance
Floods and storm protection
Government information and archives

Summary:
action_date: 2010-05-07
text: 
Stable Flood Insurance Authorization Act of 2010 - Amends the National Flood Insurance Act of 1968 to extend through FY2010 both the National Flood Insurance Program and the Pilot Program for Mitigation of Severe Repetitive Loss Properties. 
 
Repeals the September 30, 2009, termination date for, and thus makes permanent, the authority of the Administrator of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to provide assistance to any state or community.
 

 

 
Extends eligibility for flood insurance at specified maximum premium rates to any community that has made adequate progress on construction (as under current law), reconstruction, or improvement of a flood protection system which will afford flood protection for the one-hundred year frequency flood (without respect to the level of federal investment or participation).
 
Revises the requirement that a revised Flood Insurance Rate Map be prepared for the community to delineate as Zone AR the areas of special flood hazard that result from the disaccreditation of the flood protection system. Specifies that the areas of special flood hazard may be either coastal or riverine.
 
Revises the requirement that a community will be considered to be in the process of restoration if its flood protection system has been deemed restorable by a federal agency in consultation with the local project sponsor. Replaces a federal agency as the deeming authority with the entity or entities that own, operate, maintain, or repair the system.
 
Directs the Administrator to implement this Act so as not to materially weaken the financial position of the national flood insurance program, or increase the risk of financial liability to federal taxpayers.
 
Authorizes the Administrator to establish floor insurance premium rates, and related terms and conditions, by notice.
 
Amends the Flood Disaster Protection Act of 1973 to delay the effective date of the mandatory purchase requirement for newly designated special flood hazard areas until expiration of the three-year period beginning upon the date that certain flood insurance maps are either issued, revised, or updated.
 
Requires the Administrator to notify residents of special flood hazard areas annually that: (1) they reside in such an area; and (2) it is mandatory to purchase flood insurance coverage for their properties. Requires such notice to contain a general estimate of what similar homeowners in similar areas typically pay for such coverage.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-05-07
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2010-05-07
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-05-07
text: Introduced in House
Southern Border Security Act of 2010

Bill: 111-hr-5256
Sponsor: Rep. Kirkpatrick, Ann [D-AZ-1]
Introduced: 2010-05-11 in the House
Policy area: Immigration
Subjects: Arizona
Border security and unlawful immigration
California
Department of Homeland Security
Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management
Law enforcement officers
Mexico
New Mexico
Texas

Summary:
action_date: 2010-05-11
text: 
Southern Border Security Act of 2010 - Directs the Secretary of Homeland Security (DHS) to hire, train, and deploy 2,000 additional Border Patrol agents along the southwest border of the United States by September 30, 2010, and another 1,500 agents by September 30, 2011.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-05-13
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Border, Maritime, and Global Counterterrorism.
action_date: 2010-05-11
text: Referred to the House Committee on Homeland Security.
action_date: 2010-05-11
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-05-11
text: Introduced in House
Internet Investment, Innovation, and Competition Preservation Act

Bill: 111-hr-5257
Sponsor: Rep. Stearns, Cliff [R-FL-6]
Introduced: 2010-05-11 in the House
Policy area: Science, Technology, Communications
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Congressional oversight
Federal Communications Commission (FCC)
Intellectual property
Internet and video services
Internet, web applications, social media
Telecommunication rates and fees

Summary:
action_date: 2010-05-11
text: 
Internet Investment, Innovation, and Competition Preservation Act - Amends the Communications Act of 1934 to prohibit the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) from regulating the rates, terms, conditions, provisioning, or use of an information service or an Internet access service unless: (1) there is a market failure in the provision of such service; (2) there is substantial evidence such failure is preventing a substantial number of consumers nationwide from accessing a substantial amount of lawful Internet content, applications, and services of their choice on a continuing basis; (3) regulations are necessary to ameliorate such consumer harm; and (4) the FCC has performed a cost-benefit analysis determining that the benefit of such regulation exceeds its costs. 
 
Requires any FCC regulation to: (1) be the least restrictive necessary to address market failure and consumer harm; and (2) not prohibit network management from addressing quality of service or measures to prevent unauthorized or illegal activity, including copyright infringement.
 
Requires the FCC to enforce any such regulation on a nondiscriminatory basis between and among broadband network providers, service providers, application providers, and content providers.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-05-11
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2010-05-11
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR H3279-3280)
action_date: 2010-05-11
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-05-11
text: Introduced in House
Earmark Transparency Act of 2010

Bill: 111-hr-5258
Sponsor: Rep. Cassidy, Bill [R-LA-6]
Introduced: 2010-05-11 in the House
Policy area: Economics and Public Finance
Subjects: Appropriations
Government information and archives
Internet and video services
Internet, web applications, social media
Legislative rules and procedure

Summary:
action_date: 2010-05-11
text: 
Earmark Transparency Act of 2010 - Amends the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 to require the Clerk of the House of Representatives and the Secretary of the Senate to establish jointly a free public searchable website, listing all requests by Members of Congress for congressionally directed spending items (congressional earmarks).
 
 
 
Requires each congressional committee, within five calendar days of receipt of a request for a congressional earmark from a Member of Congress, to provide to the Clerk and the Secretary, as applicable, the initial required information regarding that request that is required to be placed on the website.
 
Makes it out of order to consider any legislation unless it meets the requirements of this Act.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-05-11
text: Referred to House Budget
action_date: 2010-05-11
text: Referred to the Committee on Rules, and in addition to the Committee on the Budget, 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: 2010-05-11
text: Referred to House Rules
action_date: 2010-05-11
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-05-11
text: Introduced in House