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To amend the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1993 to require the Bureau of Land Management to provide a claimant of a small miner waiver from claim maintenance fees with a period of 60 days after written receipt of 1 or more defects is provided to the claimant by registered mail to cure the 1 or more defects or pay the claim maintenance fee, and for other purposes.

Bill: 111-hr-4991
Sponsor: Rep. Young, Don [R-AK-At Large]
Introduced: 2010-03-25 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Administrative remedies
Department of the Interior
Mining
User charges and fees

Summary:
action_date: 2010-03-25
text: 
Amends the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1993 regarding waivers of small miner claim maintenance fees to extend the allowance of a certain period to cure a defect in the waiver application to a failure to timely file either a waiver application or an affidavit of annual labor associated with the application and the required application fees.
 
Considers specified claimholder claims as: (1) having received a first half final certificate for application before September 30, 1994; and/or (2) qualifying for specified relief under the Act, including opportunity to cure.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-03-31
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources.
action_date: 2010-03-25
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2010-03-25
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-03-25
text: Introduced in House
First Responders Protection Act of 2010

Bill: 111-hr-4992
Sponsor: Rep. Wamp, Zach [R-TN-3]
Introduced: 2010-04-13 in the House
Policy area: Emergency Management
Subjects: Civil actions and liability
Emergency medical services and trauma care
Fires
Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management
Government liability
Health personnel
Law enforcement officers

Summary:
action_date: 2010-04-13
text: 
First Responders Protection Act of 2010 - Requires each employer of a law enforcement officer, firefighter, or emergency medical services provider to pay for any liability (including litigation costs related to a claim of such liability) of such first responder arising from conduct in the course of official duty, unless the first responder intended to engage in the conduct or cause the result that is the basis of the liability.
 

 
Provides that nothing in this Act affects any state or local law that provides a comparable or greater amount of payment of the liability of first responders.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-04-30
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Workforce Protections.
action_date: 2010-04-13
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and Labor.
action_date: 2010-04-13
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E532)
action_date: 2010-04-13
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-04-13
text: Introduced in House
Home Health Care Planning Improvement Act of 2010

Bill: 111-hr-4993
Sponsor: Rep. Schwartz, Allyson Y. [D-PA-13]
Introduced: 2010-04-13 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Home and outpatient care
Medicare
Nursing

Summary:
action_date: 2010-04-13
text: 
Home Health Care Planning Improvement Act of 2010 - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to revise conditions of and limitations on payment for home health care services.
 
Allows payment for home health services to Medicare beneficiaries by: (1) a nurse practitioner; (2) a clinical nurse specialist working in collaboration with a physician in accordance with state law; (3) a certified nurse-midwife; or (4) a physician assistant under a physician's supervision.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-04-21
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR H2699-2700)
action_date: 2010-04-19
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2010-04-13
text: Referred to House Energy and Commerce
action_date: 2010-04-13
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: 2010-04-13
text: Referred to House Ways and Means
action_date: 2010-04-13
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-04-13
text: Introduced in House
End the Mandate Act of 2010

Bill: 111-hr-4995
Sponsor: Rep. Paul, Ron [R-TX-14]
Introduced: 2010-04-13 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Employee benefits and pensions
Health care costs and insurance
Health care coverage and access

Summary:
action_date: 2010-04-13
text: 
End the Mandate Act of 2010 - Repeals provisions of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) and the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010 that require individuals to maintain minimum essential health care coverage and require large employers to offer their full-time employees the opportunity to enroll in minimum essential coverage. 
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-04-30
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2010-04-19
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2010-04-13
text: Referred to House Education and Labor
action_date: 2010-04-13
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Education and Labor, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2010-04-13
text: Referred to House Ways and Means
action_date: 2010-04-13
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E529)
action_date: 2010-04-13
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-04-13
text: Introduced in House
Preserve Land Freedom For Americans Act of 2010

Bill: 111-hr-4996
Sponsor: Rep. Foxx, Virginia [R-NC-5]
Introduced: 2010-04-13 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Congressional oversight
Department of the Interior
Environmental assessment, monitoring, research
Monuments and memorials
Presidents and presidential powers, Vice Presidents

Summary:
action_date: 2010-04-13
text: 
 Preserve Land Freedom For Americans Act of 2010 - Requires the President to obtain congressional approval of proposed national monuments situated upon land owned or controlled by the federal government and certify compliance with the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 prior to declaring national monuments. 
 
Bars the Secretary of the Interior from implementing any restrictions on the public use of a national monument until the expiration of an appropriate review period providing for public output and congressional approval. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-04-15
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests and Public Lands.
action_date: 2010-04-13
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2010-04-13
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-04-13
text: Introduced in House
National Science Foundation Authorization Act of 2010

Bill: 111-hr-4997
Sponsor: Rep. Lipinski, Daniel [D-IL-3]
Introduced: 2010-04-13 in the House
Policy area: Science, Technology, Communications
Subjects: Advanced technology and technological innovations
Competitiveness, trade promotion, trade deficits
Education programs funding
Elementary and secondary education
Executive agency funding and structure
Government studies and investigations
Higher education
Manufacturing
National Science Foundation
Public participation and lobbying
Research administration and funding
Science and engineering education
Student aid and college costs
Teaching, teachers, curricula

Summary:
action_date: 2010-04-13
text: 
National Science Foundation Authorization Act of 2010 - Authorizes appropriations for FY2011-FY2015 to the National Science Foundation (NSF) for: (1) research and related activities; (2) education and human resources; (3) major research equipment and facilities construction; (4) agency operations and award management; (5) the Office of the National Science Board; and (6) the Office of Inspector General.
 
Limits National Science Board reports to the President and Congress related to science and engineering and education in science and engineering to matters within NSF authority (or otherwise as requested by the Congress or the President).
 
Repeals the requirement that the Inspector General of NSF conduct an audit every three years on the Board's compliance with open meetings subject to the Government in the Sunshine Act. 
 
Directs NSF to implement a policy for a specified broader impacts review criterion, including goals to achieve increased U.S. economic competitiveness, development of a globally competitive STEM workforce, and increased national security. 
 
Requires NSF to: (1) use at least 5% of its research budget to fund basic, high-risk, high-reward (transformative) research proposals; (2) make awards of not exceeding $5 million over a period of up to five years to interdisciplinary research collaborations likely to assist in addressing critical challenges to national security, competitiveness, and societal well-being; and (3) carry out a program to support research leading to advances in manufacturing, including nanomanufacturing.
 

 
Directs the National Science Board to evaluate mid-scale research instrumentation needs at NSF.
 
Sets forth provisions concerning funding for related education and workforce training, including STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) education.
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 



Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-04-13
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Research and Science Education.
action_date: 2010-04-13
text: Referred to the House Committee on Science and Technology.
action_date: 2010-04-13
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-04-13
text: Introduced in House
To establish and to expand partnerships that promote innovation and increase the economic and social impact of research by developing tools and resources to connect new scientific discoveries to practical uses.

Bill: 111-hr-4998
Sponsor: Rep. Hill, Baron P. [D-IN-9]
Introduced: 2010-04-13 in the House
Policy area: Science, Technology, Communications
Subjects: Education programs funding
Higher education
Research administration and funding
Research and development
Science and engineering education
Technology transfer and commercialization

Summary:
action_date: 2010-04-13
text: 
Requires the Director of the National Science Foundation (NSF) to carry out a program to award merit-reviewed, competitive grants to institutions of higher education for the establishment and expansion of partnerships that promote innovation and increase the economic and social impact of research by developing the tools and resources to connect new scientific discoveries to practical uses. 
 
Prohibits the use of funds under this Act for the construction or renovation of buildings and structures. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-04-13
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Research and Science Education.
action_date: 2010-04-13
text: Referred to the House Committee on Science and Technology.
action_date: 2010-04-13
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-04-13
text: Introduced in House
Reclaiming Individual Liberty Act

Bill: 111-hr-4999
Sponsor: Rep. Garrett, Scott [R-NJ-5]
Introduced: 2010-04-13 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Health care costs and insurance
Health care coverage and access
Sales and excise taxes

Summary:
action_date: 2010-04-13
text: 
Reclaiming Individual Liberty Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to repeal provisions added by the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) requiring individuals to purchase and maintain minimum essential health care coverage.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-04-19
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2010-04-13
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2010-04-13
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-04-13
text: Introduced in House
Dental Coverage Value and Transparency Act of 2010

Bill: 111-hr-5000
Sponsor: Rep. Andrews, Robert E. [D-NJ-1]
Introduced: 2010-04-13 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Dental care
Employee benefits and pensions
Health care costs and insurance
Health care coverage and access

Summary:
action_date: 2010-04-13
text: 
Dental Coverage Value and Transparency Act of 2010 - Amends the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA) to prescribe certain health care coverage value and transparency requirements for dental benefits under group health plans.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-04-30
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2010-04-13
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and Labor.
action_date: 2010-04-13
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-04-13
text: Introduced in House
Benefit Adjustment of Social Security Income Compensation Act of 2010

Bill: 111-hr-5001
Sponsor: Rep. Baca, Joe [D-CA-43]
Introduced: 2010-04-13 in the House
Policy area: Social Welfare
Subjects: Social security and elderly assistance

Summary:
action_date: 2010-04-13
text: 
Benefit Adjustment of Social Security Income Compensation Act of 2010 or the BASIC Act - Amends title II (Old Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance) (OASDI) of the Social Security Act to provide that: (1) an individual's entitlement to any OASDI benefit shall continue through the month of his or her death (without affecting any other person's entitlement to benefits for that month); and (2) the benefit shall be payable for such month only to the extent proportionate to the number of days in the month preceding the date of death.
 
Revises the formula for computation of a lump-sum death payment to the widow or widower of a fully or currently insured individual.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-04-19
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Social Security.
action_date: 2010-04-13
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2010-04-13
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-04-13
text: Introduced in House
Rural Housing Improvement Act of 2010

Bill: 111-hr-5003
Sponsor: Rep. Capito, Shelley Moore [R-WV-2]
Introduced: 2010-04-13 in the House
Policy area: Housing and Community Development
Subjects: Government lending and loan guarantees
Housing finance and home ownership
Rural conditions and development
User charges and fees

Summary:
action_date: 2010-04-13
text: 
Rural Housing Improvement Act of 2010 - Amends the Housing Act of 1949 and the Doug Bereuter Section 502 Single Family Housing Loan Guarantee Act to increase from up to 1% to at least 3% but not more than 4% the guarantee fee on loans for housing and buildings on adequate farms, as determined sufficient by the Secretary of Agriculture to cover the costs of such guaranteed loans.
 
Amends the Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration and Related Agencies Appropriation Act, 2001 to repeal the maximum limit on the loan guarantee fee of 2%.
 
Amends the Housing Act of 1949 to authorize the Secretary to guarantee such loans in aggregate amounts of up to $8 billion for FY2010, in addition to such guaranteed loans authorized in other Acts for FY2010.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-04-13
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2010-04-13
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-04-13
text: Introduced in House
To amend section 1004 of title 39, United States Code, to include that it is a policy of the Postal Service to ensure reasonable and sustainable workloads and schedules for supervisory and management employees and to clarify provisions relating to consultation and changes or terminations in certain proposals.

Bill: 111-hr-5004
Sponsor: Rep. Connolly, Gerald E. [D-VA-11]
Introduced: 2010-04-13 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Employee benefits and pensions
Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management
Labor-management relations
Postal service
U.S. Postal Service

Summary:
action_date: 2010-04-13
text: 
Makes it the policy of the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) to ensure reasonable and sustainable workloads and schedules for supervisory and management employees.
 
States that any changes in, or termination of, pay policies and schedules and fringe benefit programs for members of the recognized supervisors' organization shall be done in accordance with a specified consultation process.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-05-25
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Federal Workforce, Post Office, and the District of Columbia.
action_date: 2010-04-13
text: Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.
action_date: 2010-04-13
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-04-13
text: Introduced in House
To repeal the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.

Bill: 111-hr-5005
Sponsor: Rep. Griffith, Parker [R-AL-5]
Introduced: 2010-04-13 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Comprehensive health care
Health care costs and insurance
Health care coverage and access

Summary:
action_date: 2010-04-13
text: 
Repeals the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, effective as of its enactment. Restores provisions of law amended by such Act.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-04-30
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2010-04-19
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2010-04-13
text: Referred to House Rules
action_date: 2010-04-13
text: Referred to House Appropriations
action_date: 2010-04-13
text: Referred to House Administration
action_date: 2010-04-13
text: Referred to House Natural Resources
action_date: 2010-04-13
text: Referred to House Judiciary
action_date: 2010-04-13
text: Referred to House Education and Labor
action_date: 2010-04-13
text: Referred to House Ways and Means
action_date: 2010-04-13
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Ways and Means, Education and Labor, the Judiciary, Natural Resources, House Administration, Appropriations, and 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: 2010-04-13
text: Referred to House Energy and Commerce
action_date: 2010-04-13
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-04-13
text: Introduced in House
White House Conference on Haiti Act of 2010

Bill: 111-hr-5006
Sponsor: Rep. Hastings, Alcee L. [D-FL-23]
Introduced: 2010-04-13 in the House
Policy area: International Affairs
Subjects: Advisory bodies
Caribbean area
Congressional oversight
Economic development
Foreign aid and international relief
Haiti
Latin America
Natural disasters

Summary:
action_date: 2010-04-13
text: 
White House Conference on Haiti Act of 2010 - Directs: (1) the President to call the White House Conference on Haiti, to be convened not later than six months after the selection of the Policy Committee, in order to make fundamental policy recommendations on ways to assist in Haiti's recovery and long-term development; and (2) the Secretary of State and the Secretary of Homeland Security (DHS) to plan and conduct the Conference.
 
Establishes the Policy Committee not later than June 30, 2010, and requires a preliminary and final report from the Committee.
 
Requires, within one year after the Conference adjourns, an initial status report from the Under Secretary of State for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs on the implementation of the recommendations, as well as subsequent status reports every five years thereafter from the Comptroller General until all final report recommendations are achieved.
 
Requires specified congressional committee hearings on the recommendations, status reports, and recovery and long-term development of Haiti.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-04-13
text: Referred to House Rules
action_date: 2010-04-13
text: Referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, 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: 2010-04-13
text: Referred to House Foreign Affairs
action_date: 2010-04-13
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E522-523)
action_date: 2010-04-13
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-04-13
text: Introduced in House
Small Business Disaster Assistance Grant Program Act of 2010

Bill: 111-hr-5007
Sponsor: Rep. Langevin, James R. [D-RI-2]
Introduced: 2010-04-13 in the House
Policy area: Commerce
Subjects: Disaster relief and insurance
Small business
Unemployment

Summary:
action_date: 2010-04-13
text: 
Small Business Disaster Assistance Grant Program Act of 2010 - Authorizes the Administrator of the Small Business Administration (SBA) to make grants of up to $25,000 each to small businesses located: (1) in a state with an unemployment rate that exceeds the rate of at least 75% of all other states; and (2) in an area for which the President has declared a major disaster during the two-year period preceding the enactment of this Act.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-04-13
text: Referred to the House Committee on Small Business.
action_date: 2010-04-13
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-04-13
text: Introduced in House
Targeted Deficit Reduction Act of 2010

Bill: 111-hr-5008
Sponsor: Rep. Markey, Betsy [D-CO-4]
Introduced: 2010-04-13 in the House
Policy area: Economics and Public Finance
Subjects: Budget deficits and national debt
Budget process

Summary:
action_date: 2010-04-13
text: 
Targeted Deficit Reduction Act of 2010 - Amends the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 to require each budget resolution for FY2011-FY2020 to include reconciliation directives to reduce the deficit to achieve the following goals: (1) primary budget balance by FY2015; (2) full budget balance by FY2020; and (3) a debt-to-gross domestic product (GDP) ratio of 60% by FY2020.
 
Requires any committee that receives such reconciliation directives to be ordered to report a reconciliation bill within 45 calendar days after adoption of such budget resolution.
 
Requires the Director of the Congressional Budget Office (CBO), on or before February 15 of each year through 2019, to report to the congressional budget committees a target deficit reduction, for the fiscal year commencing on October 1 of that year, necessary to achieve the applicable goals and the anticipated glide path for each such fiscal year until FY2020.
 
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-04-13
text: Referred to House Budget
action_date: 2010-04-13
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: 2010-04-13
text: Referred to House Rules
action_date: 2010-04-13
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-04-13
text: Introduced in House