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Prevention of Unreasonable Fees Act

Bill: 111-hr-6301
Sponsor: Rep. Richardson, Laura [D-CA-37]
Introduced: 2010-09-29 in the House
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Aviation and airports
Marine and inland water transportation
Railroads
Transportation costs
Transportation programs funding

Summary:
action_date: 2010-09-29
text: 
Prevention of Unreasonable Fees Act - Prohibits an operator of a transportation terminal that uses federal funds for terminal construction, or for the purchase or lease of equipment installed there, from charging a fee to a provider of pre-arranged ground transportation service that meets state vehicle and intrastate passenger licensing requirements. Exempts from such prohibition: (1) fees charged to the general public for access to, or use of, the terminal; (2) any fee for the availability of ancillary facilities located there; or (3) any fee for such access or use that the Secretary has approved in advance as reasonable, nonburdensome, nondiscriminatory, and necessary to the provision of prearranged ground transportation service.
 
Declares that nothing in this Act shall be construed to: (1) prohibit or restrict a transportation terminal operator from requiring vehicles that cannot safely use public parking facilities to use segregated facilities provided the fee for segregated facilities is no more than that charged to the public for similar facilities; or (2) restrict the right of a state or its political subdivisions to require a license or fee (other than a prohibited transportation terminal fee) for a motor vehicle providing certain other prearranged ground transportation.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-09-30
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Highways and Transit.
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
Early Learning Alignment Act

Bill: 111-hr-6302
Sponsor: Rep. Altmire, Jason [D-PA-4]
Introduced: 2010-09-29 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Advisory bodies
Child care and development
Education programs funding
Elementary and secondary education
Performance measurement
Preschool education
School administration
Teaching, teachers, curricula

Summary:
action_date: 2010-09-29
text: 
Early Learning Alignment Act - Amends the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to authorize the Secretary of Education to award competitive grants to partnerships to: (1) provide professional development to elementary school principals in early childhood education and development; (2) gain a knowledge base and capacity to provide high quality early childhood education; and (3) collaborate with early childhood education providers, services providers, and families in creating a continuum of high quality development and learning for children in the community and school settings.
 
Requires each partnership to consist of: (1) a public or private entity experienced in training elementary school principals; (2) at least one public agency; and (3) at least one early childhood education organization that trains early childhood education providers.
 
Requires grantees to conduct an ongoing evaluation of the effectiveness of their grant-funded programs and activities.
 
Directs the Secretary to establish a panel of leading experts in elementary and early childhood education to: (1) identify the best practices in professional development for elementary school principals in early childhood education; (2) review the effective coordination of such training among this Act's grantees; and (3) disseminate the latest research and findings regarding such training.


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
Medicare Beneficiary Choice Preservation Act of 2010

Bill: 111-hr-6303
Sponsor: Rep. Arcuri, Michael A. [D-NY-24]
Introduced: 2010-09-29 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Health care costs and insurance
Health care coverage and access
Medicare
Prescription drugs

Summary:
action_date: 2010-09-29
text: 
Medicare Beneficiary Choice Preservation Act of 2010 - Amends the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act with respect to disenrollment of MedicareAdvantage (MA) eligible individuals from an MA plan.
 
Repeals the provision that an individual enrolled in an MA plan may during the first 45 days of a year (beginning with 2011): (1) change his or her plan election at any time, but only to elect to receive benefits under the original Medicare fee-for-service program under parts A and B of title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act; and (2) elect qualified prescription drug coverage under part D (Voluntary Prescription Drug Benefit Program).
 
Restores as if the repealed provision had never been enacted the previous provision which allowed an MA eligible individual continuous open enrollment and disenrollment during first three months of any year after 2006.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-09-29
text: Referred to House Energy and Commerce
action_date: 2010-09-29
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: 2010-09-29
text: Referred to House Ways and Means
action_date: 2010-09-29
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-09-29
text: Introduced in House
Office of the Homeowner Advocate Act of 2010

Bill: 111-hr-6304
Sponsor: Rep. Baca, Joe [D-CA-43]
Introduced: 2010-09-29 in the House
Policy area: Housing and Community Development
Subjects: Congressional oversight
Department of Housing and Urban Development
Executive agency funding and structure
Government information and archives
Housing finance and home ownership

Summary:
action_date: 2010-09-29
text: 
Office of the Homeowner Advocate Act of 2010 - Establishes in the Department of the Treasury the Office of the Homeowner Advocate to assist homeowners, housing counselors, and housing lawyers in resolving problems with the Home Affordable Modification Program of the Making Home Affordable initiative of the Secretary of the Treasury, authorized under the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-09-29
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2010-09-29
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-09-29
text: Introduced in House
Preventing Affinity Scams for Seniors Act of 2010

Bill: 111-hr-6305
Sponsor: Rep. Baca, Joe [D-CA-43]
Introduced: 2010-09-29 in the House
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Aging
Bank accounts, deposits, capital
Banking and financial institutions regulation
Civil actions and liability
Consumer affairs
Federal Reserve System
Fraud offenses and financial crimes
Income tax deductions

Summary:
action_date: 2010-09-29
text: 
Preventing Affinity Scams for Seniors Act of 2010 or PASS Act of 2010 - Defines &quot;affinity scam&quot; as a transaction in which a person trusted by a senior, such as a caregiver, relative, guardian, &quot;new friend,&quot; or service provider, claims to share similar interests or values and establishes a relationship with the senior, then uses the relationship to defraud the senior.
 
Requires each financial institution to: (1) educate its staff about affinity scams and how to identify transactions that may be part of an affinity scam; (2) train staff members on educating seniors about affinity scams; (3) provide senior depositors with educational materials on how to identify affinity scams; and (4) offer seniors a &quot;senior protection (checking) account.&quot;
 
Directs the Bureau of Consumer Financial Protection to: (1) issue implementing regulations; and (2) audit financial institutions periodically to ensure compliance with them.
 
Sets forth senior protection account requirements, including protective measures to block and investigate transactions suspected of being an affinity scam.
 
Instructs the Secretary of the Treasury to establish an income tax deduction of .77% of the average of the amount of deposits held by a financial institution in senior protection accounts.
 
 
Subjects a noncompliant financial institution to a civil liability with respect to a senior who has sustained actual damage as a result of the institution's failure to comply with this Act.
 
Directs the Secretary to require each financial institution, and each of its directors, officers, employees, or agents, to report any suspicious transaction relevant to a possible affinity scam.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-09-29
text: Referred to House Ways and Means
action_date: 2010-09-29
text: Referred to the Committee on Financial Services, and in addition to the Committee on Ways and Means, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2010-09-29
text: Referred to House Financial Services
action_date: 2010-09-29
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-09-29
text: Introduced in House
Critical Care Assessment and Improvement Act of 2010

Bill: 111-hr-6306
Sponsor: Rep. Baldwin, Tammy [D-WI-2]
Introduced: 2010-09-29 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Advisory bodies
Emergency medical services and trauma care
Emergency planning and evacuation
Government information and archives
Government studies and investigations
Health care costs and insurance
Health personnel
Health programs administration and funding
Infectious and parasitic diseases
Medical research
Natural disasters
Research administration and funding

Summary:
action_date: 2010-09-29
text: 
Critical Care Assessment and Improvement Act of 2010 - Requires studies on critical care in the United States by the Institute of Medicine and the Comptroller General. 

 
Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS), acting through the Director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), to establish the Critical Care Coordinating Council to coordinate the collection and analysis of information on current NIH research relating to the care of the critically ill and injured, identify gaps in such research, and make recommendations to the Director of NIH on how to improve such research.
 
Requires the Secretary to report to Congress on the adequacy of the number of critical care practitioners in disaster medical assistance teams, the Medical Reserve Corps, and the Public Health Service Commissioned Corps.
 
Requires the Secretary, acting through the Director of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, to develop guidelines or best practices for the evacuation of intensive care units during a national health emergency, including a pandemic or natural disaster.
 
Requires the Secretary to establish the Panel on Emergency Preparedness Databases to: (1) assess the adequacy of existing national preparedness databases in facilitating effective and coordinated medical responses during a national health emergency; (2) identify gaps in existing information networks; and (3) recommend specific ways to improve awareness of the availability of resources before, during, and after an incident.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-09-29
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2010-09-29
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-09-29
text: Introduced in House
Public Radio Music Enhancement Act of 2010

Bill: 111-hr-6307
Sponsor: Rep. Baldwin, Tammy [D-WI-2]
Introduced: 2010-09-29 in the House
Policy area: Law
Subjects: Broadcasting, cable, digital technologies
Intellectual property
Music
Sound recording

Summary:
action_date: 2010-09-29
text: 
Public Radio Music Enhancement Act of 2010 - Amends federal copyright law to remove, for certain public broadcasting entities, the limit on the number of selections an online broadcaster is permitted to transmit from a recording or an artist in a three-hour period, unless, on a weekly basis, a substantial portion of the selections transmitted on the channel are by the same featured recording artist or are of the same musical work.


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
SMART Research and Development Compact

Bill: 111-hr-6308
Sponsor: Rep. Bartlett, Roscoe G. [R-MD-6]
Introduced: 2010-09-29 in the House
Policy area: Science, Technology, Communications
Subjects: Congressional oversight
Delaware
Intergovernmental relations
Maryland
New Jersey
Pennsylvania
Research administration and funding
Research and development
State and local government operations

Summary:
action_date: 2010-09-29
text: 
SMART Research and Development Compact - Grants the consent of the Congress to the SMART (Strengthening the Mid-Atlantic Region for Tomorrow) Research and Development Compact if such compact is entered into by at least two of the following states: Delaware, Maryland, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-12-20
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Commercial and Administrative Law.
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
NOTICE Act of 2010

Bill: 111-hr-6309
Sponsor: Rep. Bishop, Timothy H. [D-NY-1]
Introduced: 2010-09-29 in the House
Policy area: Commerce
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Consumer affairs
Federal Trade Commission (FTC)
Government information and archives

Summary:
action_date: 2010-09-29
text: 
Notification of Origin of Telecommunications and Internet Consumer Exchanges Act of 2010 or NOTICE Act of 2010 - Requires business entities that initiate or receive certain customer service communications to disclose their physical location if located outside the United States. Directs each such business entity to annually certify to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) that it has complied or failed to comply with the disclosure. Treats such a business entity's failure to comply as a regulatory violation under the Federal Trade Commission Act (FTCA) regarding unfair or deceptive acts or practices. Requires FTC enforcement and subjects violators to penalties under the FTCA.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-09-29
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2010-09-29
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-09-29
text: Introduced in House
Accountability for Defense Contractors Act

Bill: 111-hr-6310
Sponsor: Rep. Blumenauer, Earl [D-OR-3]
Introduced: 2010-09-29 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Congressional oversight
Government liability
Military procurement, research, weapons development
Public contracts and procurement

Summary:
action_date: 2010-09-29
text: 
Accountability for Defense Contractors Act - Amends the Act authorizing the making, amending, or modification of federal contracts in order to facilitate the national defense (P.L. 85-804) to direct the Secretary of Defense, if the Department of Defense (DOD) takes any action under the authority of such Act during any year, to report to Congress on all such actions taken by DOD during the preceding year. Requires additional report information with respect to an action taken that involves actual or potential costs to the United States in excess of $1 million.
 
Prohibits a DOD contractor from being indemnified for: (1) government claims against the contractor; (2) a claim, loss, or damage caused by gross negligence, willful misconduct, or lack of good faith on the part of any of the contractor's principal officials; or (3) a claim, loss, or damage resulting from an unusually hazardous or nuclear risk not specified in the contract terms and discovered on the site where the contract is performed, or that reasonably should have been discovered there.
 
Allows a DOD contract to provide for contractor indemnification as the Secretary determines necessary only if the contract complies with: (1) the congressional notification requirements of this Act; and (2) the prohibitions on indemnifications described above.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-09-29
text: Referred to the House Committee on Armed Services.
action_date: 2010-09-29
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR H7217,  E1815)
action_date: 2010-09-29
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-09-29
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Trade Act of 1974 to authorize the United States Trade Representative to take discretionary action if a foreign country is engaging in unreasonable acts, policies, or practices relating to the environment, and for other purposes.

Bill: 111-hr-6311
Sponsor: Rep. Blumenauer, Earl [D-OR-3]
Introduced: 2010-09-29 in the House
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Environmental health
Tariffs
Trade restrictions

Summary:
action_date: 2010-09-29
text: 
Amends the Trade Act of 1974 to authorize the United State Trade Representative (USTR) to take certain discretionary trade action against foreign countries that engage in unreasonable acts, policies, or practices that fail to enforce their environmental laws effectively.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-09-29
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2010-09-29
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E1847)
action_date: 2010-09-29
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-09-29
text: Introduced in House
Heavy Truck Tax Fairness Act of 2010

Bill: 111-hr-6312
Sponsor: Rep. Blumenauer, Earl [D-OR-3]
Introduced: 2010-09-29 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Motor carriers
Motor fuels
Retail and wholesale trades
Sales and excise taxes

Summary:
action_date: 2010-09-29
text: 
Heavy Truck Tax Fairness Act of 2010 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) repeal the excise tax on heavy trucks and trailers sold at retail; (2) increase the rate of tax on diesel fuel or kerosene to 31.6 cents per gallon; and (3) impose a floor stocks tax with respect to certain taxable fuels.. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-09-29
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2010-09-29
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E1839)
action_date: 2010-09-29
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-09-29
text: Introduced in House
Transportation Finance Innovation Demonstration Act of 2010

Bill: 111-hr-6313
Sponsor: Rep. Blumenauer, Earl [D-OR-3]
Introduced: 2010-09-29 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Government trust funds
Motor carriers
Motor vehicles
Roads and highways
Sales and excise taxes
Transportation costs
Transportation programs funding

Summary:
action_date: 2010-09-29
text: 
Transportation Finance Innovation Demonstration Act of 2010 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to impose a vehicle mileage tax on mobile mounted concrete boom pump vehicles. Defines &quot;mobile mounted concrete boom pump vehicle&quot; as a vehicle which is mobile machinery and on which the mounted machinery consists of a concrete boom pump and related subordinate parts.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-09-29
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2010-09-29
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E1845)
action_date: 2010-09-29
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-09-29
text: Introduced in House
Homeland Defense Operations Pay Equity Act

Bill: 111-hr-6314
Sponsor: Del. Bordallo, Madeleine Z. [D-GU-At Large]
Introduced: 2010-09-29 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management
National Guard and reserves

Summary:
action_date: 2010-09-29
text: 
Homeland Defense Operations Pay Equity Act - Revises the Omnibus Appropriations Act of 2009 to extend to federal government employees who are members of the Coast Guard Reserve or National Guard an entitlement to receive the basic pay which would have been payable for their civilian employment when absent while serving on active duty or training in certain domestic operations and emergencies.


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 E1869)
action_date: 2010-09-29
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-09-29
text: Introduced in House
Fishery Conservation Transition Act

Bill: 111-hr-6316
Sponsor: Rep. Boren, Dan [D-OK-2]
Introduced: 2010-09-29 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Department of Commerce
Economic development
Marine and coastal resources, fisheries

Summary:
action_date: 2010-09-29
text: 
Fishery Conservation Transition Act - Directs the Secretary of Commerce, for certain fisheries for which a fishery management plan is in effect that contains a complete prohibition on the retention of stocks subject to overfishing within the fishery for the entire fishing season, to determine whether such prohibition is sufficient to prevent or end overfishing for the stocks, or stocks being overfished. 
 
Sets forth provisions for specified remedial and other actions to be taken by the Secretary if the prohibition contained in such a plan is insufficient to prevent or end overfishing for the stocks to which it applies. 
 
Establishes an economic assistance program to assist recreational and commercial fishery participants, fishing industries, and fishing communities significantly affected by a prohibition on the retention of stocks to end or prevent overfishing or rebuild overfished stocks. Limits the federal share of assistance provided under the program to 75% and requires the provision of state matching funds. 
 
Provides criteria for determining the existence of an overfishing situation requiring emergency action. 
 
Requires the consideration of specified fishery studies and management measures in the review of any fishery management plan, plan amendment, or regulations relating to the rebuilding of overfished fisheries. 
 
Requires the Secretary to assess current management measures for stocks in multispecies fisheries.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-10-13
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Insular Affairs, Oceans and Wildlife.
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