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Flood Insurance Affordability and Risk Notification Act

Bill: 111-s-3994
Sponsor: Sen. Durbin, Richard J. [D-IL]
Introduced: 2010-12-01 in the Senate
Policy area: Emergency Management
Subjects: Disaster relief and insurance
Floods and storm protection
Government information and archives
State and local government operations

Summary:
action_date: 2010-12-01
text: 
Flood Insurance Affordability and Risk Notification Act - Amends the Flood Disaster Protection Act of 1973 to delay, for a five-year period, the effective date for the mandatory purchase of flood insurance for certain new flood hazard areas not previously designated as having special flood hazards (with &quot;100-year floodplains&quot;). Limits such delay to geographic areas whose state or local governments have developed an evacuation plan and implemented an outreach and communication plan to advise occupants of flood risks and evacuation routes.
 
Makes the preferred risk rate method premium available for flood insurance coverage for properties located in such areas during such five-year time period. 
 
Amends the National Flood Insurance Act of 1968 to set forth a five-year phase-in of flood insurance rates for newly mapped areas not previously designated as having special flood hazards. 
 
Directs the Administrator of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to: (1) work to enhance communication and outreach to states, local communities, and property owners about the effects of any potential changes or updates to National Flood Insurance Program rate maps, including their effects on flood insurance purchase requirements; (2) engage with local communities to enhance communication and outreach to their residents; and (3) make certain information available to the public on the FEMA website, including information on the availability and cost of flood insurance.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-12-01
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.
action_date: 2010-12-01
text: Introduced in Senate
Federal Wi-Net Act

Bill: 111-s-3995
Sponsor: Sen. Snowe, Olympia J. [R-ME]
Introduced: 2010-12-01 in the Senate
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Government buildings, facilities, and property
Internet and video services
Internet, web applications, social media
Public contracts and procurement
Telephone and wireless communication
User charges and fees

Summary:
action_date: 2010-12-01
text: 
Federal Wi-Net Act - Requires the Administrator of the General Services Administration (GSA) to: (1) install or retrofit wireless Internet connections in federal buildings; and (2) allow eligible carriers, upon request, to install wireless neutral host systems in all publicly accessible federal buildings. 
 
 
Authorizes the executive agency controlling a federal government building to grant an easement or rights-of-way, for the installation, construction, and maintenance of wireless transmitters and backhaul transmission, to an executive agency, state, or individual applicant.
 
 
Requires the Administrator to establish a fee for awarding such easement or rights-of-way that is based on fair market prices, subject to certain exceptions. Requires any fees collected to be used by the relevant agency for construction and maintenance of Wi-Fi hotspots and wireless neutral host systems.
 
 
Directs the Administrator to develop one or more master contracts to govern the placement of wireless transmitters on federal government buildings. 
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-12-01
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.
action_date: 2010-12-01
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S8350)
action_date: 2010-12-01
text: Introduced in Senate
Christopher's Law

Bill: 111-s-3996
Sponsor: Sen. Lautenberg, Frank R. [D-NJ]
Introduced: 2010-12-01 in the Senate
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: Consumer affairs
Consumer credit
Government information and archives
Higher education
Student aid and college costs

Summary:
action_date: 2010-12-01
text: 
Christopher Bryski Student Loan Protection Act or Christopher's Law - Amends the Truth in Lending Act to require institutions of higher education (IHEs) that provide student loan counseling to new borrowers and cosigners at the time of any student loan application, origination, or consolidation, or at the time the cosigner assumes responsibility for repayment, to include information on creating a durable power of attorney for financial decision-making.
 
Requires private educational lenders to provide borrowers and cosigners of student loans with that information at the time of loan application.
 
Requires lenders of private educational loans for which cosigners are held jointly liable to describe clearly and conspicuously, in writing, the cosigners' obligations regarding such loans, including the effect a borrower's or cosigner's death, disability, or inability to engage in any substantial gainful activity would have on such obligations.
 
Directs the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System to publish model forms for the information this Act requires to be provided regarding: (1) the creation of a durable power of attorney; and (2) a cosigner's obligation.
 
Amends the Higher Education Act of 1965 to require IHEs to provide borrowers of federal educational loans information at their entrance counseling regarding: (1) the effect their death, disability, or inability to engage in any substantial gainful activity would have on their federal and private educational loans; and (2) their state's model form, published by the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System or the Bureau of Consumer Financial Protection, for creating a durable power of attorney.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-12-01
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.
action_date: 2010-12-01
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to authorize appropriations for certain Native American programs.

Bill: 111-s-3997
Sponsor: Sen. Dorgan, Byron L. [D-ND]
Introduced: 2010-12-01 in the Senate
Policy area: Native Americans
Subjects: Environmental regulatory procedures
Foreign language and bilingual programs
Indian social and development programs

Summary:
action_date: 2010-12-01
text: 
Amends the Native American Programs Act of 1974 to reauthorize appropriations, through FY2016, for programs that: (1) promote the economic and social self-sufficiency of Native Americans; (2) improve the capability of their governing bodies to regulate environmental quality pursuant to federal and tribal environmental laws; and (3) assist Native Americans in ensuring the survival and continuing vitality of their languages.
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-12-01
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs.
action_date: 2010-12-01
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to provide for reductions in the number of employees in Federal departments and agencies, freeze Federal employee compensation, reduce funding to the White House and Congress, and for other purposes.

Bill: 111-s-3999
Sponsor: Sen. Vitter, David [R-LA]
Introduced: 2010-12-01 in the Senate
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Appropriations
Congressional operations and organization
Executive Office of the President
Executive agency funding and structure
Government buildings, facilities, and property
Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management
Motor vehicles
Public contracts and procurement

Summary:
action_date: 2010-12-01
text: 
Requires the Director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) to determine the number of full-time employees in each executive agency with the cooperation of each agency head. Excludes the Department of Defense (DOD) from the definition of &quot;agency&quot; for purpose of this Act.
 
Requires each agency head to take such actions as necessary to reduce the number of full-time employees as determined by OMB by 20% within one year of this Act's enactment. Provides for two 180-day extensions if an agency submits a justification and a plan for completing the reductions. 
 
Requires each agency head, in making such reductions, to: (1) minimize the duplication of functions by employees within the agency; (2) restructure employee responsibilities to carry out all essential agency tasks; and (3) report to Congress on actions taken, the restructuring, and resulting savings to the government.
 
Prohibits any adjustment in rates of basic pay or in comparability payments with respect to any employee during FY2011-FY2013. Limits bonuses and cash awards paid by an agency during each such fiscal year to the amount paid during FY2010.
 
Limits the total amount of funds appropriated for FY2011: (1) to the White House and Congress to 85% of the total amount of funds appropriated to them during FY2010; and (2) for acquisition and maintenance of all motor vehicles owned or operated by all agencies to 80% of the total appropriated for that purpose during FY2010.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-12-01
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.
action_date: 2010-12-01
text: Introduced in Senate
Marine Corps Aviation Centennial Commemorative Coin Act

Bill: 111-s-4001
Sponsor: Sen. Webb, Jim [D-VA]
Introduced: 2010-12-02 in the Senate
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: Aviation and airports
Commemorative events and holidays
Currency
Military history
Museums, exhibitions, cultural centers

Summary:
action_date: 2010-12-02
text: 
Marine Corps Aviation Centennial Commemorative Coin Act - Directs the Secretary of the Treasury, during the one-year period beginning on January 1, 2013, to mint and issue up to 100,000 $10 coins emblematic of the warrior ethos of the U.S. Marine Corps.
 
Requires all coin sales to include a $35 surcharge, and all surcharges received to be paid promptly to the Marine Corps Heritage Foundation for construction of the Marine Corps Heritage Center.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-12-02
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.
action_date: 2010-12-02
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to require the Secretary of Agriculture to issue expeditiously special use permits regarding the use of houseboats on Laurel Lake in the Daniel Boone National Forest in the State of Kentucky, and for other purposes.

Bill: 111-s-4002
Sponsor: Sen. Bunning, Jim [R-KY]
Introduced: 2010-12-02 in the Senate
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Forests, forestry, trees
Kentucky
Lakes and rivers
Land use and conservation
Licensing and registrations
Outdoor recreation

Summary:
action_date: 2010-12-02
text: 
Directs the Secretary of Agriculture (USDA) to approve and issue a special use permit to a covered owner of a houseboat on Laurel Lake in the Daniel Boone National Forest in Kentucky that provides authorization to use a houseboat of a covered owner as a landing pad for one or more approved helicopters that are owned by an approved medical evacuation company or the covered owner. Defines a &quot;covered owner&quot; as an owner of a houseboat located on such lake and on which is attached a helicopter landing pad that meets each applicable helicopter manufacturer requirement.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-12-02
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry.
action_date: 2010-12-02
text: Introduced in Senate
Duty Suspension Facilitation Act of 2010

Bill: 111-s-4003
Sponsor: Sen. DeMint, Jim [R-SC]
Introduced: 2010-12-02 in the Senate
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Congressional oversight
Inflation and prices
Public participation and lobbying
Tariffs
U.S. International Trade Commission

Summary:
action_date: 2010-12-02
text: 
Duty Suspension Facilitation Act of 2010 - Directs the International Trade Commission (ITC) to propose to Congress temporary duty suspensions or duty reductions under the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States (HTS).
 
Prohibits the ITC from recommending any suspension or reduction in duty if: (1) an interested federal agency determines it is not in the U.S. interest and that determination is included in the agency public hearing record; (2) a domestic producer objects to the suspension or reduction, demonstrating that there is domestic production of the article concerned in commercially available quantities; (3) the loss in revenue to the United States from the duty suspension or reduction exceeds $500,000 annually (adjusted for inflation); or (4) the duty suspension or reduction is for more than three years.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-12-02
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2010-12-02
text: Introduced in Senate
SHIELD Act

Bill: 111-s-4004
Sponsor: Sen. Ensign, John [R-NV]
Introduced: 2010-12-02 in the Senate
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Arms control and nonproliferation
Criminal investigation, prosecution, interrogation
Drug trafficking and controlled substances
Intelligence activities, surveillance, classified information
Organized crime
Terrorism

Summary:
action_date: 2010-12-02
text: 
Securing Human Intelligence and Enforcing Lawful Dissemination Act or the SHIELD Act - Amends the federal criminal code to expand the prohibition against disclosure of classified information to include: (1) disclosures of classified information that benefit a transnational threat; and (2) any classified information concerning the human intelligence activities of the United States or any foreign government or concerning the identity of a classified source or informant of an element of the U.S. intelligence community. 
 
Defines &quot;transnational threat&quot; as: (1) any activity, including international terrorism, narcotics trafficking, the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction and the delivery systems for such weapons, or organized crime, that threatens the national security of the United States; or (2) any individual or group that engages such activity.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-12-02
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2010-12-02
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S8399-8400)
action_date: 2010-12-02
text: Introduced in Senate
ACCESS ADAP Act

Bill: 111-s-4006
Sponsor: Sen. Burr, Richard [R-NC]
Introduced: 2010-12-03 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Appropriations
Drug therapy
HIV/AIDS
Health care costs and insurance
Health programs administration and funding
Prescription drugs

Summary:
action_date: 2010-12-03
text: 
Addressing Cost Containment Measures To Ensure the Sustainability and Success of ADAP Act or the ACCESS ADAP Act - Requires specified funds to be transferred to the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) from discretionary amounts appropriated under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act that remain unobligated, to be obligated during the FY2010 grant period under the AIDS Drug Assistance Program to provide assistance in reducing waiting lists and to address other cost containment measures that state AIDS Drug Assistance Programs implement after January 1, 2009. Requires amounts transferred under this Act to be used by states in a manner consistent with their state programs.
 
 Requires the Secretary, in allocating such funds, to: (1) give special consideration to the total scope and the basis of a state's needs, including the total number of patients on a waiting list, eligibility requirements, and other cost containment measures; and (2) ensure that funds be used only to provide treatments to individuals who were eligible to participate in the state program on the date of enactment of this Act or who would have been eligible to participate in the state program but were not so eligible because of the implementation of cost-containment measures after January 1, 2009.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-12-04
text: Read the second time. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 672.
action_date: 2010-12-03
text: Read the first time. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under Read the First Time.
action_date: 2010-12-03
text: Introduced in Senate
Downed Animal and Food Safety Protection Act of 2010

Bill: 111-s-4007
Sponsor: Sen. Akaka, Daniel K. [D-HI]
Introduced: 2010-12-03 in the Senate
Policy area: Agriculture and Food
Subjects: Animal and plant health
Animal protection and human-animal relationships
Food supply, safety, and labeling
Livestock

Summary:
action_date: 2010-12-03
text: 
Downed Animal and Food Safety Protection Act of 2010 - States that it is U.S. policy that all nonambulatory livestock in interstate and foreign commerce be immediately and humanely euthanized when such livestock become nonambulatory. 
 
Amends the Humane Methods of Slaughter Act of 1958 to direct the Secretary of Agriculture (USDA) to promulgate regulations providing for the humane treatment, handling, and disposition of nonambulatory livestock by a covered entity, including a requirement that nonambulatory livestock be humanely euthanized. 
 
Requires an entity to: (1) humanely euthanize nonambulatory livestock (while not limiting the Secretary's ability to test nonambulatory livestock for disease, such as bovine spongiform encephalopathy); and (2) not move nonambulatory livestock while such livestock is conscious, and ensure that such livestock remains unconscious until death.
 
Prohibits an inspector at an establishment covered by the Federal Meat Inspection Act to pass nonambulatory livestock, carcass, or carcass parts through inspection. Requires an inspector or other employee at such establishment to label such material as &quot;inspected and condemned.&quot;


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-12-03
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry.
action_date: 2010-12-03
text: Introduced in Senate
Fairness for Texas Schools Act of 2010

Bill: 111-s-4009
Sponsor: Sen. Hutchison, Kay Bailey [R-TX]
Introduced: 2010-12-04 in the Senate
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Education programs funding
Elementary and secondary education
Intergovernmental relations
State and local finance
Texas

Summary:
action_date: 2010-12-04
text: 
Fairness for Texas Schools Act of 2010 - Allows the Secretary of Education to allocate funds from the Education Jobs Fund to entities in Texas other than the state government if the Secretary cannot provide such funds to the state government because of its failure to provide certain assurances regarding the distribution of such funds and the level of state support for elementary and secondary education.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-12-04
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2010-12-04
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill for the relief of Shigeru Yamada.

Bill: 111-s-4010
Sponsor: Sen. Feinstein, Dianne [D-CA]
Introduced: 2010-12-06 in the Senate
Policy area: Private Legislation

Summary:
action_date: 2010-12-06
text: Provides for the relief of Shigeru Yamada.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-12-22
text: Became Private Law No: 111-1.
action_date: 2010-12-22
text: Became Private Law No: 111-1.
action_date: 2010-12-22
text: Signed by President.
action_date: 2010-12-22
text: Signed by President.
action_date: 2010-12-17
text: Presented to President.
action_date: 2010-12-17
text: Presented to President.
action_date: 2010-12-15
text: Cleared for White House.
action_date: 2010-12-15
text: Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
action_date: 2010-12-15
text: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill Agreed to by voice vote. (text: CR H8363-8364)
action_date: 2010-12-15
text: Passed/agreed to in House: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill Agreed to by voice vote.(text: CR H8363-8364)
action_date: 2010-12-15
text: DEBATE - The House proceeded with forty minutes of debate on S. 4010.
action_date: 2010-12-15
text: Considered under suspension of the rules. (consideration: CR H8363-8365)
action_date: 2010-12-15
text: Ms. Chu moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill.
action_date: 2010-12-07
text: Held at the desk.
action_date: 2010-12-07
text: Received in the House.
action_date: 2010-12-07
text: Message on Senate action sent to the House.
action_date: 2010-12-06
text: Introduced in the Senate, read twice, considered, read the third time, and passed without amendment by Unanimous Consent. (consideration: CR S8556-8557; text as passed Senate: CR S8556-8557)
action_date: 2010-12-06
text: Passed/agreed to in Senate: Introduced in the Senate, read twice, considered, read the third time, and passed without amendment by Unanimous Consent.(consideration: CR S8556-8557; text as passed Senate: CR S8556-8557)
action_date: 2010-12-06
text: Introduced in Senate

Enacted as: number: 111-1
Western Hemisphere Drug Policy Commission Act of 2010

Bill: 111-s-4011
Sponsor: Sen. Menendez, Robert [D-NJ]
Introduced: 2010-12-07 in the Senate
Policy area: International Affairs
Subjects: Advisory bodies
Caribbean area
Drug trafficking and controlled substances
Drug, alcohol, tobacco use
Foreign aid and international relief
HIV/AIDS
International organizations and cooperation
Latin America
Military assistance, sales, and agreements
Western Hemisphere

Summary:
action_date: 2010-12-07
text: 
Western Hemisphere Drug Policy Commission Act of 2010 - Establishes the Western Hemisphere Drug Policy Commission, which shall: (1) review the effectiveness of U.S. policies and programs regarding illicit drug supply reduction and interdiction with an emphasis on the countries of the Western Hemisphere, as well as foreign and domestic demand reduction policies and programs; and (2) recommend a multi-year interagency counternarcotics strategy for the Western Hemisphere describing the diplomatic, criminal justice, civil society, economic development, demand reduction, military, and other assistance required to achieve regional counternarcotics goals.
 
Terminates the Commission 60 days after submission of the report required under this Act.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-12-07
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations.
action_date: 2010-12-07
text: Introduced in Senate