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Strengthening Cybersecurity for Critical Infrastructure Act

Bill: 111-hr-6351
Sponsor: Rep. Langevin, James R. [D-RI-2]
Introduced: 2010-09-29 in the House
Policy area: Science, Technology, Communications
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Computer security and identity theft
Computers and information technology
Department of Homeland Security
Executive Office of the President
Executive agency funding and structure
Homeland security

Summary:
action_date: 2010-09-29
text: 
Strengthening Cybersecurity for Critical Infrastructure Act - Grants the Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) primary authority in the executive branch in the creation, verification, and enforcement of measures for the protection of critical information infrastructure, including the promulgation of risk-informed information security practices and standards applicable to critical information infrastructures that are not owned by or under the direct control of the federal government. Directs the Secretary to: (1) consult with sector specific federal regulatory agencies in exercising such authority; and (2) coordinate with such agencies, through the Executive Office of the President, in establishing enforcement mechanisms.
 
Authorizes the Secretary to: (1) conduct audits to ensure that appropriate measures are taken to secure critical information infrastructure; (2) issue subpoenas to determine compliance with federal regulatory requirements for securing such infrastructure; and (3) authorize sector specific federal regulatory agencies to undertake such audits.
 
Establishes within the Executive Office of the President a National Office for Cyberspace, headed by an Executive Cyber Director, who shall have primary authority in the executive branch in leading interagency coordination on security policies relating to the creation, verification, and enforcement of measures regarding the protection of critical information infrastructure.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-11-01
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Emerging Threats, Cybersecurity, and Science and Technology.
action_date: 2010-09-29
text: Referred to House Oversight and Government Reform
action_date: 2010-09-29
text: Referred to the Committee on Homeland Security, and in addition to the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, 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: 2010-09-29
text: Referred to House Homeland Security
action_date: 2010-09-29
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-09-29
text: Introduced in House
Patent Lawsuit Reform Act of 2010

Bill: 111-hr-6352
Sponsor: Rep. Latta, Robert E. [R-OH-5]
Introduced: 2010-09-29 in the House
Policy area: Law
Subjects: Civil actions and liability
Intellectual property

Summary:
action_date: 2010-09-29
text: 
Patent Lawsuit Reform Act of 2010 - Amends federal patent law to revise provisions concerning the fine for falsely marked articles (articles falsely labeled or advertised to deceive the public into believing such articles are patented) to specify that such fine is limited to $500, in the aggregate, for all offenses in connection with the same articles.
 
Requires a person bringing a civil action against a violator to have suffered a competitive injury and limits such person's damages to $500.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-09-29
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2010-09-29
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-09-29
text: Introduced in House
Clean Water Affordability Act of 2010

Bill: 111-hr-6353
Sponsor: Rep. Latta, Robert E. [R-OH-5]
Introduced: 2010-09-29 in the House
Policy area: Environmental Protection
Subjects: Government lending and loan guarantees
Public utilities and utility rates
State and local finance
Water quality

Summary:
action_date: 2010-09-29
text: 
Clean Water Affordability Act of 2010 - Amends the Federal Water Pollution Control Act (commonly known as the Clean Water Act) to revise requirements for capitalization grant agreements with states for establishing water pollution control revolving funds. Requires states to set aside 15% of funds for assistance to municipalities of fewer than 10,000 individuals that meet specified affordability criteria. Authorizes the fund to be used to make loans at terms not to exceed 30 years or the design life of the project to be financed with the proceeds of the loan (currently 20 years). Authorizes a state to provide additional subsidization, including forgiveness of principal and negative interest loans, to benefit a municipality that: (1) meets affordability criteria, or (2) does not meet such criteria if the recipient seeks the additional subsidization to benefit ratepayers that will experience a significant hardship from the increase in rates necessary to finance the project or activity for which assistance is sought. Establishes affordability criteria to assist in identifying municipalities that would experience a significant hardship raising the revenue necessary to finance a project or activity eligible for assistance.
 
 
Requires the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to update the guidance entitled &quot;Combined Sewer Overflows--Guidance for Financial Capability Assessment and Schedule Development,&quot; dated February 1997, to ensure that the evaluations by the Administrator of financial capability assessment and schedule development meet specified criteria, including criteria used in: (1) assessing financial capability of a community to make investments necessary to make water quality-related improvements, and (2) implementing water quality-related improvements.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-09-30
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment.
action_date: 2010-09-29
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2010-09-29
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-09-29
text: Introduced in House
STAT Act of 2010

Bill: 111-hr-6355
Sponsor: Rep. Loebsack, David [D-IA-2]
Introduced: 2010-09-29 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Academic performance and assessments
Advisory bodies
Education programs funding
Elementary and secondary education
Higher education
Teaching, teachers, curricula

Summary:
action_date: 2010-09-29
text: 
Statistical Teaching, Aptitude, and Training Act of 2010 or STAT Act of 2010 - Amends the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to award formula grants to states and, through them, competitive subgrants to eligible partnerships to: (1) establish or enhance teacher training in statistics education; and (2) develop more rigorous statistics education curricula that are aligned with challenging state academic content and achievement standards in statistics, and integrate statistics in the teaching of other courses. 
 
Defines an &quot;eligible partnership&quot; as a partnership between a local educational agency (LEA) and one or more of the following: (1) an institution of higher education (IHE); (2) another LEA; (3) a public elementary or secondary school or schools; or (4) a government statistical agency experienced in improving the quality of statistics teachers.
 
Requires partnership activities to be consistent with a statistical literacy plan that each state is required to develop and have approved by the Secretary of Education before receiving its formula grant. Authorizes the Secretary to award competitive grants to states that lack the resources to develop an adequate plan so that they can do so.
 
Authorizes the Secretary to award competitive grants to IHEs, governmental statistical agencies, or nonprofit organizations to: (1) develop model state standards and curriculum frameworks for statistics education; (2) disseminate information about proven and tested model statistics education programs that integrate statistics in other studies; (3) develop and implement new policy approaches to advancing statistics education; (4) conduct national statistics education studies; and (5) advance the widespread adoption by states and LEAs of statistics education content standards.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-11-18
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education.
action_date: 2010-09-29
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and Labor.
action_date: 2010-09-29
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-09-29
text: Introduced in House
WE CARE Act

Bill: 111-hr-6356
Sponsor: Rep. Loebsack, David [D-IA-2]
Introduced: 2010-09-29 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Academic performance and assessments
Community life and organization
Education programs funding
Elementary and secondary education
Family relationships
Public-private cooperation
Social work, volunteer service, charitable organizations

Summary:
action_date: 2010-09-29
text: 
Working to Encourage Community Action and Responsibility in Education Act or WE CARE Act - Amends title I (Improving the Academic Achievement of the Disadvantaged) of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to require states and local educational agencies (LEAs) to assess the nonacademic factors affecting student academic performance and work with other public, private, nonprofit, and community-based entities to address those factors. 
 
Requires the annual report cards issued by states and LEAs to include additional performance data, including information on their efforts to increase community and parental involvement in students' education.
 
Establishes a new program requiring the Secretary of Education to award matching grants to LEAs for the development and implementation of community involvement policies that leverage the resources, services, and opportunities available from public, private, nonprofit, and community-based partners to address students' academic and nonacademic needs and thereby support their attainment of state academic performance standards.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-11-18
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Healthy Families and Communities.
action_date: 2010-11-18
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education.
action_date: 2010-09-29
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and Labor.
action_date: 2010-09-29
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-09-29
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to exclude from gross income discharge of indebtedness incurred for purposes of paying long-term care expenses.

Bill: 111-hr-6357
Sponsor: Rep. Lofgren, Zoe [D-CA-16]
Introduced: 2010-09-29 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Housing finance and home ownership
Income tax exclusion
Long-term, rehabilitative, and terminal care

Summary:
action_date: 2010-09-29
text: 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to exclude from gross income a discharge of indebtedness incurred to pay for certain long-term care expenses. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-09-29
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2010-09-29
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-09-29
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide for a zero percent capital gains rate for individuals and corporations.

Bill: 111-hr-6358
Sponsor: Rep. Mack, Connie [R-FL-14]
Introduced: 2010-09-29 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Capital gains tax
Income tax exclusion
Income tax rates

Summary:
action_date: 2010-09-29
text: 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to establish, on a permanent basis, a zero percent tax rate for the net capital gains of individuals and corporations for purposes of the regular and alternative minimum tax. Eliminates the terminating date in the Jobs and Growth Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2003 (i.e., December 31, 2008) for provisions that reduce the capital gains tax rate for individuals.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-09-29
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2010-09-29
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-09-29
text: Introduced in House
To amend title IV of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 to provide for a guarantee by the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation for qualified preretirement survivor annuities under insolvent or terminated multiemployer pension plans.

Bill: 111-hr-6359
Sponsor: Rep. Maffei, Daniel B. [D-NY-25]
Introduced: 2010-09-29 in the House
Policy area: Labor and Employment
Subjects: Employee benefits and pensions

Summary:
action_date: 2010-09-29
text: 
Amends the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA) to declare that a qualified preretirement survivor annuity with respect to a participant under a multiemployer plan which becomes insolvent or is terminated shall not be treated as forfeitable solely because the participant has not died as of the date on which the plan became so insolvent or the termination date. (Thus guarantees, in the absence of other disqualifying factors, the payment by the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC) of a qualified preretirement survivor annuity to a participant of a multiemployer pension plan which becomes insolvent or is terminated.)


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-11-18
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2010-09-29
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and Labor.
action_date: 2010-09-29
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-09-29
text: Introduced in House
Family Justice Act of 2010

Bill: 111-hr-6361
Sponsor: Rep. McCarthy, Carolyn [D-NY-4]
Introduced: 2010-09-29 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Advisory bodies
Correctional facilities and imprisonment
Family relationships
Juvenile crime and gang violence
Law enforcement administration and funding

Summary:
action_date: 2010-09-29
text: 
Family Justice Act of 2010 - Amends the Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act of 1974 to authorize the Administrator of the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention to award grants to family-oriented nonprofit organizations to establish panels to monitor juvenile detention and correction facilities to provide detained youth and their family members an opportunity to participate in the development of policies, procedures, and practices that will improve outcomes for youth and promote rehabilitation and transition back into the community. Sets forth requirements for grant applications and for uses of grant funds.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-11-18
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Healthy Families and Communities.
action_date: 2010-09-29
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and Labor.
action_date: 2010-09-29
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-09-29
text: Introduced in House
SAVE Act

Bill: 111-hr-6362
Sponsor: Rep. McCarthy, Carolyn [D-NY-4]
Introduced: 2010-09-29 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Computer security and identity theft
Crime prevention
Crime victims
Crimes against children
Criminal justice information and records
Education programs funding
Elementary and secondary education
Firearms and explosives
Government information and archives
Juvenile crime and gang violence
School administration
Violent crime

Summary:
action_date: 2010-09-29
text: 
Safe Schools Against Violence in Education Act or the SAVE Act - Amends the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to require states to allow a student who is attending a public school that does not have a safe climate for academic achievement, or who becomes a victim of a violent criminal offense while on school grounds, at a school event, or on a school bus to transfer to a safe public school within the school district. (Currently, the school must be persistently dangerous and the offense must occur on school grounds.)
 
Requires states to: (1) permit schools to provide counseling and educational services to violent offenders in alternative settings; (2) require schools that know a violent offender is returning to school to notify the victim's parents that the offender is returning; and (3) provide school students, families, and staff with an annual report containing certain school crime statistics.
 
Requires a state's determination that a school is unsafe to: (1) be based on those school crime statistics and certain other school data that the state is to collect; (2) be relayed to local educational agencies (LEAs) so that LEAs can relay such information to parents in a timely manner; and (3) result in ameliorative efforts by unsafe schools.
 
Directs the Secretary of Education to: (1) make school crime statistics publicly available; and (2) publish a handbook to assist states and LEAs in meeting this Act's school crime, offense, and incident disclosure requirements.
 
Amends the Safe and Drug-Free Schools and Communities program to augment the information LEAs must provide to states concerning students with guns to include incidents that do not involve a student's expulsion and school-related off-campus incidents, including those involving non-students.
 
Includes bullying and cyberbullying prevention, and emergency preparedness in the federal activities required under the program.
 
Directs the Secretary to fund schoolwide climate surveys of students, parents, and school personnel for use in creating collaborative plans for school improvement.
 
Gives funding priority to unsafe schools.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-11-18
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Healthy Families and Communities.
action_date: 2010-11-18
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education.
action_date: 2010-09-29
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and Labor.
action_date: 2010-09-29
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-09-29
text: Introduced in House
Supporting Law Enforcement through Lessons of the Holocaust Act

Bill: 111-hr-6363
Sponsor: Rep. McCarthy, Carolyn [D-NY-4]
Introduced: 2010-09-29 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Constitution and constitutional amendments
Europe
Germany
Human rights
Law enforcement administration and funding
Law enforcement officers
War crimes, genocide, crimes against humanity
World history

Summary:
action_date: 2010-09-29
text: 
Supporting Law Enforcement through Lessons of the Holocaust Act - Directs the Attorney General to establish a competitive grant program for state and local law enforcement agencies to carry out training programs on the implications of the Holocaust for modern day law enforcement professionals. Requires any training program funded by this Act to examine: (1) the implications of the history of the Holocaust for individuals who are active law enforcement professionals on or after the enactment of this Act; (2) the relationship of law enforcement professionals to their communities; (3) the role and responsibility of law enforcement officials as protectors of the Constitution and civil liberties; (4) the procedures and practices that prevent abuse of the roles of law enforcement professionals; and (5) the core values of law enforcement and the connection of those values to Constitutional principles. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-09-29
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2010-09-29
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-09-29
text: Introduced in House
Noise Reduction Act of 2010

Bill: 111-hr-6364
Sponsor: Rep. McCarthy, Carolyn [D-NY-4]
Introduced: 2010-09-29 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Aviation and airports
Environmental technology
Income tax credits
Noise pollution
Railroads
Residential rehabilitation and home repair

Summary:
action_date: 2010-09-29
text: 
Noise Reduction Act of 2010 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow a 30% nonbusiness energy tax credit for the cost of installing noise abatement property in a taxpayer's principal residence that is located in an area of the United States which is determined by the Secretary of Transportation to be impacted by noise from trains or airplanes.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-09-29
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2010-09-29
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-09-29
text: Introduced in House
Shawnee Cattle Trail Study Act

Bill: 111-hr-6366
Sponsor: Rep. Moran, Jerry [R-KS-1]
Introduced: 2010-09-29 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Government studies and investigations
Kansas
Missouri
Parks, recreation areas, trails
Property rights
Texas

Summary:
action_date: 2010-09-29
text: 
Shawnee Cattle Trail Study Act - Amends the National Trails System Act to require the study of the Shawnee Cattle Trail, consisting of three main branches and several smaller connecting trails extending from Texas to Missouri, and later Kansas, which is considered the oldest of the major Texas Cattle Trails, for potential addition to the National Trails System. 
 
Specifies certain private property protections. 
 
Requires all private property owners whose land will be studied to be notified that such study will be conducted. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-10-15
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests and Public Lands.
action_date: 2010-09-29
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2010-09-29
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-09-29
text: Introduced in House
Federal Employee Disability Insurance Act of 2010

Bill: 111-hr-6368
Sponsor: Del. Norton, Eleanor Holmes [D-DC-At Large]
Introduced: 2010-09-29 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Disability assistance
Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management

Summary:
action_date: 2010-09-29
text: 
Federal Employee Disability Insurance Act of 2010 - Requires the Director of the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) to establish and administer a program to make available insurance coverage for an injury occurring outside the workplace or for other disability otherwise not covered under federal employee worker's compensation provisions. Makes such insurance unavailable if the injury is caused by the employee's intention to bring about the injury to himself or to another individual. Requires an insurance contract under this provision to be fully insured.
 
Requires the Director to contract with one or more carriers for such disability insurance policies. Authorizes the Director to prescribe reasonable minimum standards for benefit plans offered. Prohibits such a contract from providing for a preexisting condition exclusion.
 
 Allows an eligible employee to receive: (1) during the first 12 months that he or she qualifies, benefits equal to the lesser of 70% of his or her monthly pay at the time the injury or sickness occurs or 70% of the maximum rate of basic pay provided for grade GS-15 of the general schedule, beginning after expiration of the waiting period elected by the employee; and (2) after such 12-month period, benefits equal to 50% of monthly pay until age 67, only if such employee is totally disabled.
 
Requires each eligible individual obtaining insurance coverage under this Act to be responsible for 100% of the premiums, which shall be higher for employees who elect a shorter waiting period. 
 
Establishes in the Employees' Life Insurance Fund a Non-Work Related Disability Insurance Administrative Account, which shall be available to OPM to defray reasonable expenses incurred in administering this Act and to which contracted carriers shall make contributions necessary to cover such expenses.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-09-29
text: Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.
action_date: 2010-09-29
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E1857)
action_date: 2010-09-29
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-09-29
text: Introduced in House