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Earmark Performance and Accountability Act of 2010

Bill: 111-hr-4560
Sponsor: Rep. Kratovil, Frank,  Jr. [D-MD-1]
Introduced: 2010-02-02 in the House
Policy area: Economics and Public Finance
Subjects: Accounting and auditing
Appropriations
Congressional oversight
Government information and archives

Summary:
action_date: 2010-02-02
text: 
Earmark Performance and Accountability Act of 2010 - Requires a state, a local government, a nonprofit organization, or a private entity (non-federal entity) to: (1) conduct an audit using an independent external auditor of any program, project, or activity it administers that is funded through an earmark; and (2) report to Congress about such audit, including whether the earmarked funds are being spent efficiently and effectively and whether the program, project, or activity is meeting any applicable stated purpose.
 
States that such program, project, or activity is funded through an earmark if it is included on: (1) a list of congressional earmarks generated under the Rules of the House of Representatives; (2) a list of congressionally directed spending generated under the Standing Rules of the Senate; or (3) both such lists.
 

 
Requires a federal agency that conducts an audit of any program, project, or activity it administers that is funded through an earmark to report to Congress on its results, including whether the earmarked funds are being spent efficiently and effectively and whether the program, project, or activity is meeting any applicable stated purpose.
 
Requires each such report to be transmitted to the Government Accountability Office (GAO) and GAO to make them publicly available on its website.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-02-02
text: Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.
action_date: 2010-02-02
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-02-02
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide a limited exclusion from gross income for the discharge of indebtedness of individuals.

Bill: 111-hr-4561
Sponsor: Rep. Lewis, John [D-GA-5]
Introduced: 2010-02-02 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Consumer credit
Housing finance and home ownership
Income tax exclusion

Summary:
action_date: 2010-02-02
text: 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow a limited exclusion from gross income for income resulting from the discharge of qualified individual indebtedness. Defines &quot;qualified individual indebtedness&quot; as any indebtedness of an individual other than indebtedness which is discharged on account of services performed for the lender or held at any time by a person related to such individual. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-02-02
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2010-02-02
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-02-02
text: Introduced in House
Cash Back Reward Act of 2010

Bill: 111-hr-4562
Sponsor: Rep. Lewis, John [D-GA-5]
Introduced: 2010-02-02 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Consumer credit
Income tax deductions
Interest, dividends, interest rates

Summary:
action_date: 2010-02-02
text: 
Cash Back Reward Act of 2010 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow a tax deduction for interest paid on an unsecured credit card in 2010. Limits the amount of such deduction to $5,000 ($10,000 for married couples filing a joint tax return). 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-02-02
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2010-02-02
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-02-02
text: Introduced in House
Cancer Screening Coverage Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-4563
Sponsor: Rep. Maloney, Carolyn B. [D-NY-14]
Introduced: 2010-02-02 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Advanced technology and technological innovations
Cancer
Consumer affairs
Disability and health-based discrimination
Employee benefits and pensions
Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management
Health care costs and insurance
Health care coverage and access
Health technology, devices, supplies
Medical tests and diagnostic methods

Summary:
action_date: 2010-02-02
text: 
Cancer Screening Coverage Act of 2009 - Amends the Public Health Service Act, the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA), and the Internal Revenue Code to require a group health plan to provide coverage for certain types of cancer screening. Includes under such coverage mammograms, clinical breast examinations, pap tests and pelvic examinations, colorectal screening procedures, and prostate screening tests, at specified intervals and through specified procedures for certain age groups in appropriate genders. 
 
Prohibits related eligibility discrimination, monetary incentives to individuals, and penalties or incentives to providers. 
Requires such plans and issuers to provide certain disclosures to participants and beneficiaries, including regarding covered benefits, cost sharing, and participating providers. 
 Applies the requirements of this Act to coverage offered in the individual market and under the federal employees health benefits plan. 
Authorizes the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) to modify coverage requirements under this Act to incorporate new scientific and technological advances, practice pattern changes, or other updated medical practices regarding cancer screening. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-02-24
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2010-02-23
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2010-02-03
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2010-02-02
text: Referred to House Oversight and Government Reform
action_date: 2010-02-02
text: Referred to House Ways and Means
action_date: 2010-02-02
text: Referred to House Education and Labor
action_date: 2010-02-02
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Education and Labor, Ways and Means, and 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: 2010-02-02
text: Referred to House Energy and Commerce
action_date: 2010-02-02
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E118-119)
action_date: 2010-02-02
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-02-02
text: Introduced in House
Emergency Jobs Program and Assistance for Families Extension Act

Bill: 111-hr-4564
Sponsor: Rep. McDermott, Jim [D-WA-7]
Introduced: 2010-02-02 in the House
Policy area: Social Welfare
Subjects: Employment and training programs
Government trust funds
Poverty and welfare assistance

Summary:
action_date: 2010-02-02
text: 
Emergency Jobs Program and Assistance for Families Extension Act - Amends part A (Temporary Assistance for Needy Families) (TANF) of title IV of the Social Security Act to extend for one year the Emergency Contingency Fund for State Temporary Assistance for Needy Families Programs. 
 
Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) to make a grant from the Fund for each calendar quarter in FY2010 or FY2011 to each requesting state whose total expenditures for work support services in the quarter, whether under the state program funded under TANF or as qualified state expenditures, exceeds the state's total such expenditures in the corresponding quarter in its emergency fund base year. Requires a grant to equal 80% of such excess.
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-02-24
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Income Security and Family Support.
action_date: 2010-02-02
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2010-02-02
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-02-02
text: Introduced in House
Rural Jobs Tax Credit Act of 2010

Bill: 111-hr-4565
Sponsor: Rep. Owens, William L. [D-NY-23]
Introduced: 2010-02-02 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Government information and archives
Income tax credits
Rural conditions and development
Wages and earnings

Summary:
action_date: 2010-02-02
text: 
Rural Jobs Tax Credit Act of 2010 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow eligible employers, including tax-exempt employers, a refundable tax credit for increases in wages paid during 2010 and 2011. 
 
Defines an &quot;eligible employer&quot; as any employer that conducts an active trade or business in an area other than: (1) a city or town of more than 50,000 inhabitants; or (2) any urbanized area contiguous and adjacent to such a city or town.
 
 
Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to work with state employment agencies to inform businesses of the availability of the tax credit allowed by this Act.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-02-02
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2010-02-02
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-02-02
text: Introduced in House
Erasing our National Debt Through Accountability and Responsibility Plan Act of 2010

Bill: 111-hr-4566
Sponsor: Rep. Paulsen, Erik [R-MN-3]
Introduced: 2010-02-02 in the House
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: Budget deficits and national debt
Financial crises and stabilization

Summary:
action_date: 2010-02-02
text: 
Erasing our National Debt Through Accountability and Responsibility Plan Act of 2010 - Terminates the authorities granted the Secretary of the Treasury under the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) of the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008 (EESA) to purchase troubled assets from financial institutions.
 
Lowers the public debt limit by the amount of all TARP assistance repaid by recipients on or after the enactment of this Act, along with dividends, profits, or other funds paid to the Government based on such assistance.
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-02-02
text: Referred to House Ways and Means
action_date: 2010-02-02
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: 2010-02-02
text: Referred to House Financial Services
action_date: 2010-02-02
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-02-02
text: Introduced in House
Civilian Extraterritorial Jurisdiction Act (CEJA) of 2010

Bill: 111-hr-4567
Sponsor: Rep. Price, David E. [D-NC-4]
Introduced: 2010-02-02 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Congressional oversight
Criminal investigation, prosecution, interrogation
Department of Justice
Detention of persons
Diplomacy, foreign officials, Americans abroad
Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management
Jurisdiction and venue
Public contracts and procurement

Summary:
action_date: 2010-02-02
text: 
Civilian Extraterritorial Jurisdiction Act (CEJA) of 2010 - Amends the federal criminal code to grant jurisdiction over and impose penalties on federal contractors and employees who commit certain crimes outside of the United States while employed by or accompanying any agency of the United States other than the Armed Forces. Sets forth the crimes under federal law that are covered by this Act.
 
Directs the Attorney General to: (1) assign personnel and resources through Investigative Units for Contractor and Employee Oversight to investigate allegations of criminal offenses by federal contractors and employees; and (2) report to Congress annually on the number of criminal cases received, investigated, and referred for prosecution. Grants the Attorney General principal authority for the enforcement of this Act. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-04-26
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.
action_date: 2010-02-02
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2010-02-02
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-02-02
text: Introduced in House
TBI Treatment Act

Bill: 111-hr-4568
Sponsor: Rep. Sessions, Pete [R-TX-32]
Introduced: 2010-02-02 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Government information and archives
Health information and medical records
Health programs administration and funding
Hospital care
Mental health
Military medicine
Neurological disorders
Veterans' medical care

Summary:
action_date: 2010-02-02
text: 
TBI Treatment Act - Directs the Secretaries of Defense (DOD) and Veterans Affairs (Secretaries) to carry out a five-year pilot program under which each Secretary establishes a process for providing payments to facilities for treatments of traumatic brain injury (TBI) or post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) received by members of the Armed Forces and veterans in facilities other than military treatment facilities or Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) medical facilities. Subjects such payments to specified conditions, including approved treatment or study protocols. Requires the VA Secretary to notify each veteran with a service-connected injury or disability of the opportunity to receive such treatment or study protocol.
 
Requires the Secretaries to jointly: (1) develop and maintain a database containing data from each patient case involving the use of such treatments; and (2) report annually to Congress on the implementation of this Act.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-02-25
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Military Personnel.
action_date: 2010-02-05
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2010-02-02
text: Referred to House Veterans' Affairs
action_date: 2010-02-02
text: Referred to the Committee on Armed Services, and in addition to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs, 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: 2010-02-02
text: Referred to House Armed Services
action_date: 2010-02-02
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-02-02
text: Introduced in House
Expanded Housing for America's Veterans Act

Bill: 111-hr-4569
Sponsor: Rep. Sestak, Joe [D-PA-7]
Introduced: 2010-02-02 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Drug, alcohol, tobacco use
Homelessness and emergency shelter
Low- and moderate-income housing
Mental health
Public housing
Veterans' loans, housing, homeless programs

Summary:
action_date: 2010-02-02
text: 
Expanded Housing for America's Veterans Act - Amends the United States Housing Act of 1937 with respect to the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) rental assistance vouchers for the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) supported housing program on behalf of homeless veterans who have chronic mental illnesses or chronic substance use disorders.
 
Revises the formula for determining the amount of the monthly tenant-based assistance payment for a family to reduce from 30% to 25% of the family's monthly adjusted income the higher threshold measurement (and thus increase the amount of such payment).


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-02-02
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2010-02-02
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-02-02
text: Introduced in House
United States Commission on Civil Rights Reauthorization Act of 2010

Bill: 111-hr-4570
Sponsor: Rep. Sestak, Joe [D-PA-7]
Introduced: 2010-02-02 in the House
Policy area: Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Subjects: Commission on Civil Rights
Executive agency funding and structure

Summary:
action_date: 2010-02-02
text: 
United States Commission on Civil Rights Reauthorization Act of 2010 - Amends the Civil Rights Commission Act of 1983 to authorize appropriations for FY2010-FY2014 to carry out the Act.
 
Revises provisions for the filling of vacancies on the Commission to require that vacancies on the Commission be filled by the President by and with the advice and consent of the Senate. Maintains the current requirement that no more than four of the eight members may be of the same political party.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-02-02
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2010-02-02
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-02-02
text: Introduced in House
GI Bill Enhancement Act of 2010

Bill: 111-hr-4571
Sponsor: Rep. Sestak, Joe [D-PA-7]
Introduced: 2010-02-02 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Education programs funding
Inflation and prices
Veterans' education, employment, rehabilitation

Summary:
action_date: 2010-02-02
text: 
GI Bill Enhancement Act of 2010 - Increases from $19 million to $24 million the annual amount available to the Secretary of Veterans Affairs (VA) to reimburse state agencies for expenses incurred in approving courses of education for participation in the veterans' educational assistance program.
 
Directs the Secretary, for each fiscal year, to adjust such amount to account for changes in the cost of living.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-02-05
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Economic Opportunity.
action_date: 2010-02-02
text: Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2010-02-02
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-02-02
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Clean Air Act relating to greenhouse gases, and for other purposes.

Bill: 111-hr-4572
Sponsor: Rep. Skelton, Ike [D-MO-4]
Introduced: 2010-02-02 in the House
Policy area: Environmental Protection
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Agricultural conservation and pollution
Air quality
Alternative and renewable resources
Climate change and greenhouse gases
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
Forests, forestry, trees
Land use and conservation
Solid waste and recycling

Summary:
action_date: 2010-02-02
text: 
Amends the Clean Air Act to exclude from the definition of &quot;air pollutant&quot; any of the following solely on the basis of its effect on global climate change: carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, hydrofluorocarbons, perfluorocarbons, and sulfur hexafluoride.
 
Prohibits the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) from implementing activities relating to the inclusion of international indirect land use change in the implementation of the renewable fuel program.
 
Excludes indirect emissions from international land use changes from the definition of lifecycle greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. Requires the Administrator and the Secretary of Agriculture (currently, the Administrator) to determine the aggregate quantity of GHG emissions in liefecycyle GHG emissions related to the full fuel lifecycle.
 
Amends the Clean Air Act to redefine &quot;renewable biomass&quot; as: (1) materials, pre-commercial thinnings, or invasive species from certain National Forest System land and public lands that are byproducts of preventive treatments that are removed to reduce hazardous fuels, reduce or contain disease or insect infestation, or restore ecosystem health, that would not otherwise be used for higher-value products, and that are harvested in accordance with specified requirements for old-growth forests and large tree retention; or (2) any organic matter that is available on a renewable or recurring basis from nonfederal land or land belonging to an Indian or Indian tribe that is held in trust by the United States or subject to a restriction against alienation imposed by the United States, including specified renewable plant material and waste material.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-02-03
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Environment.
action_date: 2010-02-03
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR  E144-145)
action_date: 2010-02-02
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2010-02-02
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-02-02
text: Introduced in House
Student Loan Interest Full Deductibility Act

Bill: 111-hr-4574
Sponsor: Rep. Wu, David [D-OR-1]
Introduced: 2010-02-02 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Higher education
Income tax deductions
Interest, dividends, interest rates
Student aid and college costs

Summary:
action_date: 2010-02-02
text: 
Student Loan Interest Full Deductibility Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to repeal the current dollar limitations on the tax deduction of interest on education loans.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-02-02
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2010-02-02
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-02-02
text: Introduced in House
Open College Textbook Act of 2010

Bill: 111-hr-4575
Sponsor: Rep. Wu, David [D-OR-1]
Introduced: 2010-02-02 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Books and print media
Education programs funding
Educational technology and distance education
Elementary and secondary education
Higher education
Intellectual property
Internet and video services
Internet, web applications, social media
Teaching, teachers, curricula

Summary:
action_date: 2010-02-02
text: 
Open College Textbook Act of 2010 - Authorizes the Secretary of Education to award competitive one-year grants to institutions of higher education (IHEs), professors from IHEs, and producers of open textbooks to create or update open textbooks, or adapt textbooks into open formats, for postsecondary coursework. (Open textbooks are defined as college textbooks or course materials in electronic format that are licensed under an open license, which is an irrevocable intellectual property license that grants the public the right to access, customize, and distribute copyrighted material.) 
 
Requires such textbooks to be posted on an easily accessible and interoperable website and made available to the public free of charge.
 
Directs the Secretary to develop a peer review and evaluation process to ensure that these textbooks are of the highest quality, accurate in content, and meet or exceed market quality and accessibility standards.
 
Requires all elementary, secondary, and postsecondary educational materials created through federal grants to be licensed under an open license, posted on an easily accessible and interoperable website, and made available to the public free of charge. 
 
Expresses the sense of Congress that IHEs should encourage professors to consider open textbooks within the generally accepted principles of academic freedom which give faculty the right and responsibility to select pedagogically appropriate coursework.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-02-23
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Higher Education, Lifelong Learning, and Competitiveness.
action_date: 2010-02-02
text: Referred to House Judiciary
action_date: 2010-02-02
text: Referred to the Committee on Education and Labor, 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: 2010-02-02
text: Referred to House Education and Labor
action_date: 2010-02-02
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-02-02
text: Introduced in House
Arctic Deep Water Sea Port Act of 2010

Bill: 111-hr-4576
Sponsor: Rep. Young, Don [R-AK-At Large]
Introduced: 2010-02-02 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Alaska
Arctic Ocean
Arctic and polar regions
Congressional oversight
Government studies and investigations
Marine and inland water transportation
Navigation, waterways, harbors
Transportation safety and security

Summary:
action_date: 2010-02-02
text: 
Arctic Deep Water Sea Port Act of 2010 - Directs the Secretary of Defense (DOD) to conduct a study of, and report to Congress on, the feasibility and potential of establishing a deep water sea port in the Arctic to protect and advance U.S. strategic interests within the Arctic region.
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-02-25
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Readiness.
action_date: 2010-02-02
text: Referred to the House Committee on Armed Services.
action_date: 2010-02-02
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-02-02
text: Introduced in House