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Railroad Hours of Service Act of 2010

Bill: 111-hr-6519
Sponsor: Rep. Oberstar, James L. [D-MN-8]
Introduced: 2010-12-14 in the House
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Labor standards
Railroads
Transportation employees
Transportation safety and security
Worker safety and health

Summary:
action_date: 2010-12-14
text: 
Railroad Hours of Service Act of 2010 - Extends railroad hours of services requirements and limitations to cover yardmaster employees who supervise and coordinate the activities of workers engaged in railroad traffic operations, including making up or breaking up trains and switching inbound or outbound traffic.
 
Revises the prohibition against a railroad carrier's requiring or allowing a train employee to remain or go on duty unless that employee has had at least 10 consecutive hours off duty during the prior 24 hours. Prohibits requiring or allowing an employee (including a yardmaster employee) from initiating an on duty period unless the employee has had at least 10 consecutive hours off duty immediately prior to going on duty.
 
 
Directs the Secretary of Transportation (DOT) to prescribe regulations to: (1) require all deadhead transportation in excess of a specific number of hours to be counted as time on duty; and (2) reset the calendar day clock. 
 
Revises the rule that an interim period available for at least 4 hours rest at a place with suitable facilities for food and lodging is not time on duty. Repeals the current list of causes for prevention of a return to duty. Requires a train employee to be notified before going off duty whether such period off duty is an interim release.
 
Prohibits a railroad carrier from requiring or allowing an employee to exceed 2 hours in deadhead transportation per each tour of duty.
 
Revises the limitations on the duty hours of signal employees. Specifies that time on duty spent performing any service for the railroad carrier during a 24-hour period in which the employee is engaged in installing, repairing, or maintaining signal systems includes all work where there is a potential to interact or otherwise come into contact with safety-critical devices or circuits.
 
Treats as service covered by hours of duty limitations the operation by signal employees of motor vehicles requiring a commercial driver's license while on duty.
 
Extends to yardmaster employees certain limitations on the duty hours of dispatching service employees.
 
 
Declares that all commingle service involving yardmaster service and dispatcher service mixing with freight service shall be covered by the limitations on the duty hours of signal employees.
 
Extends to yardmaster employees, when an emergency exists, the same limitation (to not more than 4 additional hours during a period of 24 consecutive hours for not more than 3 days during a period of 7 consecutive days) that applies to the hours of dispatching service employees in an emergency.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-12-14
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2010-12-14
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-12-14
text: Introduced in House
Don't Ask, Don't Tell Repeal Act of 2010

Bill: 111-hr-6520
Sponsor: Rep. Murphy, Patrick J. [D-PA-8]
Introduced: 2010-12-14 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Congressional oversight
Department of Defense
Military personnel and dependents
Sex, gender, sexual orientation discrimination

Summary:
action_date: 2010-12-14
text: 
Don't Ask, Don't Tell Repeal Act of 2010 - Provides for repeal of the current Department of Defense (DOD) policy concerning homosexuality in the Armed Forces, to be effective 60 days after the Secretary of Defense has received DOD's comprehensive review on the implementation of such repeal, and the President, Secretary, and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) certify to the congressional defense committees that they have considered the report and proposed plan of action, that DOD has prepared the necessary policies and regulations to exercise the discretion provided by such repeal, and that implementation of such policies and regulations is consistent with the standards of military readiness and effectiveness, unit cohesion, and military recruiting and retention. Provides that, until such time as the above conditions are met, the current policy shall remain in effect.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-12-23
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Military Personnel.
action_date: 2010-12-14
text: Referred to the House Committee on Armed Services.
action_date: 2010-12-14
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-12-14
text: Introduced in House
International Prevention of Child Marriage Act of 2010

Bill: 111-hr-6521
Sponsor: Rep. Ros-Lehtinen, Ileana [R-FL-18]
Introduced: 2010-12-14 in the House
Policy area: International Affairs
Subjects: Child safety and welfare
Foreign aid and international relief
Human rights
Marriage and family status
Women's rights

Summary:
action_date: 2010-12-14
text: 
International Prevention of Child Marriage Act of 2010 - Directs the President, through the Secretary of State, to establish a multi-year strategy to prevent child marriage in developing countries and to promote the empowerment of girls at risk of child marriage. 
 
Amends the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 to require that Department of State country reports on human rights practices include a description of the status of child marriage for countries with specified rates of child marriage. 
 
Defines &quot;child marriage&quot; as the marriage of a girl or boy not yet the minimum age for marriage stipulated in law in the country in which the girl or boy is a resident, or where there is no such law, under the age of 18.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-12-14
text: Referred to the House Committee on Foreign Affairs.
action_date: 2010-12-14
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-12-14
text: Introduced in House
End Tax Uncertainty Act of 2010

Bill: 111-hr-6522
Sponsor: Rep. Bachmann, Michele [R-MN-6]
Introduced: 2010-12-15 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Capital gains tax
Corporate finance and management
Income tax credits
Income tax exclusion
Income tax rates
Transfer and inheritance taxes

Summary:
action_date: 2010-12-15
text: 
End Tax Uncertainty Act of 2010 - Makes permanent: (1) the Economic Growth and Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2001; (2) provisions of the Jobs and Growth Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2003 that reduce income tax rates on dividend and capital gains income; and (3) the repeal, after December 31, 2010, of the estate, gift, and generation-skipping transfer tax. 
 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) provide for annual increases, between 2010 and 2020, in the amount of the alternative minimum tax (AMT) exemption amount for single and married taxpayers; (2) allow a permanent offset against the AMT for certain nonrefundable tax credits; and (3) reduce to 25% the maximum income tax rate for corporations, including personal service corporations. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-12-15
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2010-12-15
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-12-15
text: Introduced in House
To authorize issuance of certificates of documentation authorizing certain vessels to engage in coastwise trade in the carriage of natural gas, and for other purposes.

Bill: 111-hr-6524
Sponsor: Rep. Brady, Robert A. [D-PA-1]
Introduced: 2010-12-15 in the House
Policy area: Private Legislation

Summary:
action_date: 2010-12-15
text: 
Authorizes the Secretary of the department in which the Coast Guard is operating to issue a certificate of documentation with a coastwise endorsement for the vessels LNG GEMINI, LNG LEO, and LNG VIRGO. Limits authorized coastwise trade for each vessel to the carriage of natural gas, as defined in the Deepwater Port Act of 1974.
 
Prohibits a vessel transported in Dry Dock #2 (if, during such transportation, such dock remains connected by a utility or other connecting line to pierside moorage in Ketchikan, Alaska) from being considered merchandise for the purposes of certain coastwise trade requirements a vessel must otherwise meet before engaging in merchandise transportation.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-12-15
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2010-12-15
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-12-15
text: Introduced in House
To prohibit the payment of death gratuities to the surviving heirs of deceased Members of Congress.

Bill: 111-hr-6526
Sponsor: Rep. Posey, Bill [R-FL-15]
Introduced: 2010-12-15 in the House
Policy area: Congress
Subjects: Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management
Members of Congress

Summary:
action_date: 2010-12-15
text: 
Prohibits payments from the applicable accounts of the House of Representatives, the contingent fund of the Senate, or any other appropriated funds for a death gratuity payment to the widow, widower, or heirs-at-law of any Member of Congress who dies after the commencement of a Congress to which the Member has been elected.
 
States that nothing in this Act shall be construed to prohibit or affect the payment to any individual of any unpaid balance or salary or other sums due to such a Member. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-12-15
text: Referred to the House Committee on House Administration.
action_date: 2010-12-15
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-12-15
text: Introduced in House
To provide the Quileute Indian Tribe Tsunami and Flood Protection, and for other purposes.

Bill: 111-hr-6527
Sponsor: Rep. Dicks, Norman D. [D-WA-6]
Introduced: 2010-12-16 in the House
Policy area: Native Americans
Subjects: Federal-Indian relations
Floods and storm protection
Indian lands and resources rights
Land transfers
Land use and conservation
Parks, recreation areas, trails
Washington State
Wilderness and natural areas, wildlife refuges, wild rivers, habitats

Summary:
action_date: 2010-12-16
text: 
Designates specified federal land within Olympic National Park, Washington, as wilderness or potential wilderness. Incorporates them within the Olympic Wilderness.
 
Removes certain federal land within the Park's Olympic Wilderness from inclusion in the National Wilderness Preservation System.
 
Places specified federal land within the Park and specified nonfederal land owned by the Quileute Indian Tribe in trust for the Tribe. Includes those lands in the Quileute Indian Reservation. 
 
Subjects portions of the federal land conveyed to the Tribe to easements and conditions that preserve the natural condition of the land and provide the public with recreational access to the land and Park. 
 
Exempts land conveyed to the Tribe along the southern boundary of the Reservation from any easements or conditions. Allows that land to be altered to allow for the relocation of Tribe members and structures outside the tsunami and Quillayute River flood zones.
 
 
Extinguishes the Tribe's claims against the United States relating to the Park's past or present ownership, entry, use, surveys, or other activities upon the conveyance of the land to the Tribe and a formal Tribal Council resolution.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-12-16
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2010-12-16
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E2158)
action_date: 2010-12-16
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-12-16
text: Introduced in House
Federal License for Reinsurers Act of 2010

Bill: 111-hr-6529
Sponsor: Rep. Moore, Dennis [D-KS-3]
Introduced: 2010-12-16 in the House
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Consumer affairs
Department of the Treasury
Federal preemption
Foreign and international corporations
Insurance industry and regulation
Licensing and registrations
Trade agreements and negotiations

Summary:
action_date: 2010-12-16
text: 
Federal License for Reinsurers Act of 2010 - Requires the Director of the Federal Insurance Office, in the Department of the Treasury, to fix the number of employees of the Office and their compensation. Authorizes the Director to provide additional compensation and benefits if the same types are then being provided or, if not, could be provided by any federal banking agency.
 
 
Grants the Office general licensure and regulatory oversight over the business of national reinsurance.
 
Requires the Director to establish criteria necessary for the licensing and operation of a national reinsurer. Makes both U.S. and non-U.S. entities with U.S. branches eligible to obtain a federal license.
 
Authorizes a national reinsurer to convert to a state-licensed reinsurer, subject to the Director's approval.
 
Authorizes the Secretary of the Treasury and the United States Trade Representative (USTR), jointly, to enter into supervisory arrangements for the recognition of qualified reinsurance supervisory authorities of non-U.S. jurisdictions that provide a level of protection for U.S. reinsurance consumers that is substantially equivalent to the level of protection achieved under federal regulation.
 
Amends the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act to reflect the provisions of this Act.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-12-16
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2010-12-16
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-12-16
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Communications Act of 1934 to establish a position for a representative of Indian Tribes on the Joint Board overseeing the implementation of universal service, and for other purposes.

Bill: 111-hr-6530
Sponsor: Rep. Inslee, Jay [D-WA-1]
Introduced: 2010-12-16 in the House
Policy area: Science, Technology, Communications
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Advisory bodies
Broadcasting, cable, digital technologies
Federal Communications Commission (FCC)
Indian social and development programs
Intergovernmental relations
Telecommunication rates and fees

Summary:
action_date: 2010-12-16
text: 
Amends the Communications Act of 1934 to require one member of the Federal-State Joint Board on universal service (recommends changes to universal service implementation regulations) to be a Tribal representative who is nominated by the Federal Communication Commission's (FCC) Office of Native Affairs and Policy and appointed by the FCC.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-12-16
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2010-12-16
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-12-16
text: Introduced in House
Equitable Treatment of Investors Act

Bill: 111-hr-6531
Sponsor: Rep. Garrett, Scott [R-NJ-5]
Introduced: 2010-12-16 in the House
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: Bankruptcy
Consumer affairs
Financial services and investments
Securities

Summary:
action_date: 2010-12-16
text: 
Equitable Treatment of Investors Act - Amends the Securities Investor Protection Act of 1970 to revise the definition of &quot;net equity.&quot;
 
Declares also that, in determining net equity, the positions, options, and contracts of a customer held by the debtor, and any indebtedness of the customer to the debtor, shall be determined based on: (1) the information contained in the last statement received by the customer from the debtor before the filing date; and (2) any additional specific confirmations of the customer's positions, options, contracts, or indebtedness received after such last statement but before the filing date.
 
Prohibits reliance on the final statement of the debtor to customer, however, if the customer: (1) knew the debtor was involved in fraudulent activity with respect to any of its customers; or (2) as a registrant under the securities laws, or a person required to be so registered, knew, or should have known, that the debtor was involved in such a fraudulent activity and did not notify the Securities Investor Protection Corporation (SIPC), the Securities Exchange Commission (SEC), or law enforcement personnel that the debtor was so involved.
 
Prohibits a trustee in a liquidation proceeding from recovering any property transferred by the debtor to a customer before the filing date unless, at the time of such transfer, the customer meets the same critieria.
 
Transfers from SIPC to the SEC authority to nominate to a court persons for appointment as trustee for the liquidation of a debtor's business and as attorney for the trustee.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-12-16
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2010-12-16
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-12-16
text: Introduced in House
Procedures for Sanctions Against Charities Act

Bill: 111-hr-6532
Sponsor: Rep. Ellison, Keith [D-MN-5]
Introduced: 2010-12-16 in the House
Policy area: International Affairs
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Administrative remedies
Criminal procedure and sentencing
Evidence and witnesses
Executive Office of the President
Judicial review and appeals
Sanctions
Social work, volunteer service, charitable organizations
Tax-exempt organizations
War and emergency powers

Summary:
action_date: 2010-12-16
text: 
Procedures for Sanctions Against Charities Act - Amends the International Emergency Economic Powers Act to allow a sanction to be imposed that blocks the property of a charity only pursuant to a warrant obtained in the same manner as provided for a search warrant under the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure. Permits a court to issue such warrant if the United States demonstrates that there is probable cause to believe that: (1) the property with respect to which the warrant is sought is subject to the sanction; and (2) the property may be moved outside the jurisdiction of the United States.
 
Permits imposing a sanction prior to applying to the court for a warrant if there is reason to believe that delay may have an adverse result, including: (1) endangering the life or physical safety of an individual; (2) flight from prosecution; (3) destruction of or tampering with evidence; (4) intimidation of potential witnesses; or (5) otherwise seriously jeopardizing an investigation.
 
Directs the President to establish specified procedures with respect to the imposition of a sanction that blocks the property of a charity.
 
Sets forth appeal procedures for affected charities.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-12-16
text: Referred to the House Committee on Foreign Affairs.
action_date: 2010-12-16
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-12-16
text: Introduced in House
National Baseball Hall of Fame Commemorative Coin Act

Bill: 111-hr-6534
Sponsor: Rep. Doyle, Michael F. [D-PA-14]
Introduced: 2010-12-16 in the House
Policy area: Sports and Recreation
Subjects: Currency
Professional sports

Summary:
action_date: 2010-12-16
text: 
National Baseball Hall of Fame Commemorative Coin Act - Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to mint and issue not more than 50,000 $5 gold coins, 400,000 $1 silver coins, and 750,000 half dollar coins in recognition of the National Baseball Hall of Fame during the one-year period beginning on January 1, 2015. 
 
Directs the Secretary to hold a competition to design the obverse of the coins. Requires the design on the reverse side to depict a baseball similar to those used by Major League Baseball.
 
Requires all sales of such coins to include specified surcharges, which shall be paid by the Secretary to the National Baseball Hall of Fame to help finance its operations.
 
Requires the budgetary effects of this Act to be determined by reference to the latest statement titled &quot;Budgetary Effects of PAYGO Legislation&quot; for this Act, provided that such statement has been submitted prior to the vote on passage.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-12-16
text: Referred to House Budget
action_date: 2010-12-16
text: Referred to the Committee on Financial Services, 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: 2010-12-16
text: Referred to House Financial Services
action_date: 2010-12-16
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-12-16
text: Introduced in House
United States-Africa Trade, Development, and Diaspora Relations Promotion Act

Bill: 111-hr-6535
Sponsor: Rep. Rush, Bobby L. [D-IL-1]
Introduced: 2010-12-16 in the House
Policy area: International Affairs
Subjects: Africa
Competitiveness, trade promotion, trade deficits
Department of State
Diplomacy, foreign officials, Americans abroad
Economic development
Executive agency funding and structure
Federal officials
Foreign aid and international relief
International exchange and broadcasting
Public-private cooperation
U.S. and foreign investments

Summary:
action_date: 2010-12-16
text: 
United States-Africa Trade, Development, and Diaspora Relations Promotion Act - Directs the President to appoint a Special Representative for United States-Africa Trade, Development, and Diaspora Affairs within the Department of State. States that the Special Representative should be a person of distinction, culturally sensitive to the underserved African Diaspora in the United States, with substantial experience in matters of trade or economic development and in matters relating to African Diaspora relations with Africa.
 
 
Directs the Secretary of State to establish, within the Department of State, the Office of United States-Africa Trade, Development, and Diaspora Affairs, with the Special Representative as its head.
 
Directs the Special Representative to establish five regional United States-Africa Trade, Development, and Diaspora Affairs public outreach, education, and liaison centers.
 
Requires the Special Representative and the Office to: (1) promote U.S.-African trade and investment relations and foster socioeconomic development and economic growth; (2) design and implement public outreach, education, and liaison programs and activities intended to foster U.S.-African economic, technical, social, and cultural ties; (3) facilitate and increase the number of international learning exchange, professional, training, and educational programs between Africa and the United States; (4) establish a publicly accessible database through which U.S. and African businesses, academics, and organizations can communicate and establish ties; and (5) consult with African governments, the African Union, African intergovernmental subregional organizations, public-private partnership entities, private businesses and foundations, nongovernmental organizations, and United Nations (U.N.) agencies with respect to matters of Africa-related trade, economic development, and African-African Diaspora relations.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-12-16
text: Referred to the House Committee on Foreign Affairs.
action_date: 2010-12-16
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-12-16
text: Introduced in House