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A bill to improve and enhance the capabilities of the Department of Defense to prevent and respond to sexual assault in the Armed Forces, and for other purposes.

Bill: 111-s-3311
Sponsor: Sen. Kerry, John F. [D-MA]
Introduced: 2010-05-05 in the Senate
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Crime prevention
Crime victims
Crimes against women
Department of Defense
Evidence and witnesses
Executive agency funding and structure
Federal officials
Lawyers and legal services
Military education and training
Military law
Military personnel and dependents
Sex offenses

Summary:
action_date: 2010-05-05
text: 
Requires the officials authorized to receive a restricted reporting by a member of the Armed Forces (member) of an allegation of sexual assault without resulting in the initiation of an official investigative process to include judge advocates.
 
Directs the Secretary of Defense (DOD) to modify the Military Rules of Evidence to provide a member the privilege to refuse to disclose in a military proceeding a confidential communication between a member and a Victim Advocate, if such communication was made to facilitate victim advocacy.
 
Requires each Sexual Assault Response Coordinator to be a member on active duty or a full-time civilian DOD employee. Prohibits any contractor personnel from acting as Coordinators. Requires each military battalion to have at least one Victim Advocate who is either a member on active duty or a full-time civilian DOD employee. Directs the Secretary to carry out a training and certification program for such Coordinators.
 
Requires the DOD position of Director of the Sexual Assault Prevention and Response Office to be a position in the Senior Executive Service. Directs the Secretary to standardize and update programs and activities relating to sexual assault prevention and response across the Armed Forces and the military departments.
 
Requires the Secretary to ensure that training on sexual assault prevention and response is provided to members at each level of professional military education and is uniform across the Armed Forces.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-05-05
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Armed Services.
action_date: 2010-05-05
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S3166-3167)
action_date: 2010-05-05
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to amend the Homeland Security Act of 2002 to authorize the Securing the Cities Initiative of the Department of Homeland Security, and for other purposes.

Bill: 111-s-3312
Sponsor: Sen. Gillibrand, Kirsten E. [D-NY]
Introduced: 2010-05-05 in the Senate
Policy area: Emergency Management
Subjects: Department of Homeland Security
Homeland security
Nuclear weapons
Radioactive wastes and releases
Terrorism
Urban and suburban affairs and development

Summary:
action_date: 2010-05-05
text: 
Amends the Homeland Security Act of 2002 to authorize appropriations to the Director of the Domestic Nuclear Detection Office of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) for the Securing the Cities Initiative, including funding for: (1) each city in which the Initiative has been implemented by FY2009; and (2) additional Securing the Cities initiatives to be implemented in not fewer than two sites participating in the Urban Area Security Initiative.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-05-05
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.
action_date: 2010-05-05
text: Introduced in Senate
Sloan Hills Withdrawal Act

Bill: 111-s-3313
Sponsor: Sen. Reid, Harry [D-NV]
Introduced: 2010-05-05 in the Senate
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Land transfers
Mining
Nevada

Summary:
action_date: 2010-05-05
text: 
Sloan Hills Withdrawal Act - Withdrawls certain land located in the Sloan Hills area of Clark County, Nevada, from location, entry, and patent under the mining laws and disposition under all laws pertaining to mineral and geothermal leasing or mineral materials. 
 

action_date: 2010-09-27
text: 
Sloan Hills Withdrawal Act - Withdraws certain federal land located in the Sloan Hills area of Clark County, Nevada, from location, entry, and patent under the mining laws and disposition under all laws pertaining to mineral and geothermal leasing or mineral materials. 
 
Identifies such land as the &quot;Withdrawal Zone&quot; on the map entitled &quot;Sloan Hills Area,&quot; dated June 24, 2010.
 
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-09-27
text: Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 604.
action_date: 2010-09-27
text: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Reported by Senator Bingaman with an amendment. With written report No. 111-318.
action_date: 2010-09-27
text: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Reported by Senator Bingaman with an amendment. With written report No. 111-318.
action_date: 2010-07-21
text: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Ordered to be reported with an amendment favorably.
action_date: 2010-06-16
text: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources Subcommittee on Public Lands and Forests. Hearings held. With printed Hearing: S.Hrg. 111-730.
action_date: 2010-05-05
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. (text of measure as introduced: CR S3167-3168)
action_date: 2010-05-05
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S3167)
action_date: 2010-05-05
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to require the Secretary of Veterans Affairs and the Appalachian Regional Commission to carry out a program of outreach for veterans who reside in Appalachia, and for other purposes.

Bill: 111-s-3314
Sponsor: Sen. Brown, Sherrod [D-OH]
Introduced: 2010-05-05 in the Senate
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Appalachian Regional Commission
Higher education
Minority and disadvantaged businesses
Rural conditions and development
Social work, volunteer service, charitable organizations
Veterans' education, employment, rehabilitation
Veterans' organizations and recognition

Summary:
action_date: 2010-05-05
text: 
 Directs the Secretary of Veterans Affairs (VA) and the Appalachian Regional Commission to carry out a program of outreach to veterans who reside in the Appalachian region in order to increase their awareness, access, and use of federal, state, and local programs providing compensation and other benefits available as a result of service in the Armed Forces.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-05-19
text: Committee on Veterans' Affairs. Hearings held. Hearings printed: S.Hrg. 111-623.
action_date: 2010-05-05
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2010-05-05
text: Introduced in Senate
Home Health Care Access Protection Act of 2010

Bill: 111-s-3315
Sponsor: Sen. Collins, Susan M. [R-ME]
Introduced: 2010-05-05 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Advisory bodies
Home and outpatient care
Medicare

Summary:
action_date: 2010-05-05
text: 
Home Health Care Access Protection Act of 2010 - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act, as amended by the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, with respect to the prospective payment system (PPS) for home health services and adjustments to it for case mix changes.
 
Requires for 2011 and each subsequent year that any evaluation of case mix changes and any such adjustment be made using standards developed consistent with specified processes, taking certain criteria into account.
 
Directs the Secretary to convene a Technical Advisory Group to advise on the development of such standards.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-05-05
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2010-05-05
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S3168)
action_date: 2010-05-05
text: Introduced in Senate
No Child Left Behind Flexibility and Improvements Act

Bill: 111-s-3316
Sponsor: Sen. Collins, Susan M. [R-ME]
Introduced: 2010-05-05 in the Senate
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Academic performance and assessments
Education of the disadvantaged
Education programs funding
Elementary and secondary education
Language arts
Special education
Teaching, teachers, curricula

Summary:
action_date: 2010-05-05
text: 
No Child Left Behind Flexibility and Improvements Act - Amends the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (ESEA) to revise requirements relating to annual yearly progress (AYP) of students and schools, statewide and local accountability systems, special education, limited English proficiency students, funding levels and academic assessment deferrals, highly qualified teachers, and reading activities.
 
Authorizes the Secretary of Education to modify an AYP timeline.
 
Allows states to use: (1) additional types of statewide models and systems for measuring all students' progress; and (2) alternative assessments, designated by their individualized education program plan teams, for students with disabilities.
 
Gives states an option to include as limited English proficiency students, until they complete secondary school, those formerly in such subgroup who have subsequently acquired English proficiency.
 
Permits use of local assessments in measuring AYP.

Increases the levels of ESEA funding which must be reached before states are not allowed certain deferrals of academic assessments.
 
Revises requirements relating to AYP by group and subgroup.
 
Adds options for deeming teachers of multiple academic subjects as highly qualified, and for general social studies certification.
 
Reauthorizes the Reading First and Early Reading First programs through FY2015.
 
Authorizes use of reading activities subgrants for individual or small-group instruction, as well as for class-wide instruction.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-05-05
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2010-05-05
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S3168-3169)
action_date: 2010-05-05
text: Introduced in Senate
Eliminating Disparities in Breast Cancer Treatment Act of 2010

Bill: 111-s-3318
Sponsor: Sen. Gillibrand, Kirsten E. [D-NY]
Introduced: 2010-05-05 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Cancer
Health care quality
Health information and medical records
Medicare
Performance measurement
Women's health

Summary:
action_date: 2010-05-05
text: 
Eliminating Disparities in Breast Cancer Treatment Act of 2010 - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to direct the Secretary of Health and Human Services to establish a breast cancer treatment quality performance system to: (1) assess and disclose publicly, through the use of quality measures, the quality of care provided for the treatment of breast cancer by specified health care providers; and (2) base payment to such providers for such treatment on their performance with respect to such measures.
 
Requires reduced payments to providers that either do not submit data in accordance with the reporting process in the system, or furnish low quality care for treatment of breast cancer.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-05-05
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2010-05-05
text: Introduced in Senate
Volunteer Emergency Services Recruitment and Retention Act of 2010

Bill: 111-s-3319
Sponsor: Sen. Collins, Susan M. [R-ME]
Introduced: 2010-05-05 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Department of Labor
Emergency medical services and trauma care
Employee benefits and pensions
Fires
Health personnel
Income tax deferral
Social work, volunteer service, charitable organizations

Summary:
action_date: 2010-05-05
text: 
Volunteer Emergency Services Recruitment and Retention Act of 2010 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow sponsors of certain deferred compensation plans to elect to include length of service award plans for bona fide volunteers providing firefighting and fire prevention services, emergency medical services, ambulance services, and emergency rescue services.
 
Directs the Secretary of Labor to issue regulations exempting a length of service award program from treatment as an employee pension benefit plan under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA). 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-05-05
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2010-05-05
text: Introduced in Senate
Pancreatic Cancer Research and Education Act

Bill: 111-s-3320
Sponsor: Sen. Whitehouse, Sheldon [D-RI]
Introduced: 2010-01-06 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Advisory bodies
Cancer
Digestive and metabolic diseases
Drug therapy
Health information and medical records
Health programs administration and funding
Health promotion and preventive care
Health technology, devices, supplies
Medical education
Medical research
Medical tests and diagnostic methods
Research administration and funding
Research and development

Summary:
action_date: 2010-05-06
text: 
Pancreatic Cancer Research and Education Act - Amends the Public Health Service Act to require the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) to establish and implement a Pancreatic Cancer Initiative to assist in coordinating activities to address the high mortality rate associated with pancreatic cancer.
 
Requires the Secretary to establish the Interdisciplinary Pancreatic Cancer Coordinating Committee to: (1) provide advice on overall research objectives and benchmarks for pancreatic cancer research; (2) develop and annually update a strategic plan for pancreatic cancer research awareness; and (3) conduct evaluations and make recommendations to the Secretary, the Director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), and the Director of the National Cancer Institute regarding the prioritization and award of NIH research grants relating to pancreatic cancer.

Requires the Secretary to develop a primary care provider education program on pancreatic cancer.

Requires the Director of NIH and the Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to develop a communication tool kit for patients and their families that focuses on specific pancreatic cancer issues relating to patient choices and patient care.

Allows the Secretary to award grants to research institutions for use in developing innovative compounds or technologies for the prevention, early detection, or treatment of those cancers with five-year survival rates of less than 50%. Requires the Secretary to focus on pancreatic cancer during the initial five fiscal years of awarding such grants.

Allows the Secretary to designate two additional Specialized Programs of Research Excellence focusing solely on pancreatic cancer research.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-05-06
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2010-01-06
text: Introduced in Senate
Public Online Information Act of 2010

Bill: 111-s-3321
Sponsor: Sen. Tester, Jon [D-MT]
Introduced: 2010-05-06 in the Senate
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Advisory bodies
Civil actions and liability
Freedom of information
Government information and archives
Government studies and investigations
Internet and video services
Internet, web applications, social media
Legal fees and court costs
Office of Management and Budget (OMB)

Summary:
action_date: 2010-05-06
text: 
Public Online Information Act of 2010 - Establishes a Public Online Information Advisory Committee to: (1) coordinate and encourage the government's efforts to make information from all three branches of government available on the Internet; and (2) issue and update nonbinding guidelines on how the government should make public information available.
 
Directs the government to make public records available on the Internet at no charge, except as imposed by federal law before this Act's enactment. Requires: (1) public records to be permanently available on the Internet; (2) current information technology capabilities to be applied to the means by which records are made available and to the formats in which they are available; (3) public records to be made accessible through programs and equipment that are readily available to the general public; and (4) each agency to publish on the Internet a comprehensive, searchable, machine processable list of all records it makes publicly available.
 
Delineates the roles of the Director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), the Administrator of the Office of Electronic Government, and the chief information officers of independent regulatory agencies, including granting narrow case-by-case exceptions to the Internet publication requirement if an agency requests an exception and demonstrates that: (1) there is clear and convincing evidence that the record should not be made available on the Internet; and (2) on balance the harm caused by disclosure significantly outweighs the public's interest in having the record available on the Internet.
 
 
Directs the Inspector General of each agency to conduct periodic reviews regarding agency compliance with Internet publication requirements. Sets forth provisions regarding enforcement of public access by private individuals or organizations.
 
Urges: (1) judicial and legislative agencies to adopt or adapt the Advisory Committee's recommendations; and (2) the Government Printing Office (GPO) to make all of its publications permanently available on the Internet in a multiplicity of formats.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-05-06
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.
action_date: 2010-05-06
text: Introduced in Senate
United States Nuclear Fuel Management Corporation Establishment Act of 2010

Bill: 111-s-3322
Sponsor: Sen. Voinovich, George V. [R-OH]
Introduced: 2010-05-06 in the Senate
Policy area: Energy
Subjects: Executive agency funding and structure
Forests, forestry, trees
Government corporations and government-sponsored enterprises
Government trust funds
Land use and conservation
Nuclear power
Parks, recreation areas, trails
Radioactive wastes and releases
Wilderness and natural areas, wildlife refuges, wild rivers, habitats

Summary:
action_date: 2010-05-06
text: 
United States Nuclear Fuel Management Corporation Establishment Act of 2010 - Amends the Atomic Energy Act of 1954 to establish the United States Nuclear Fuel Management Corporation.
 
Authorizes the Corporation to: (1) implement integrated spent nuclear fuel management consistent with federal policy on a self-sustaining basis through the use of a spent nuclear fuel management enterprise that will eliminate the need for federal funding; and (2) assume responsibility for the activities, obligations, and use of resources of the federal government with respect to spent nuclear fuel management.
 
Establishes in the Treasury the United States Nuclear Fuel Management Corporation Fund.
 
Directs the President to appoint a Transition Manager to transfer spent nuclear fuel management obligations, functions, personnel, and funds from the Secretary of Energy to the Corporation.
 
Designates the Corporation the exclusive marketing agent on behalf of the United States for entering into contracts to provide spent nuclear fuel management and related products and services.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-05-06
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.
action_date: 2010-05-06
text: Introduced in Senate
Federal Contracting Oversight and Reform Act of 2010

Bill: 111-s-3323
Sponsor: Sen. Feingold, Russell D. [D-WI]
Introduced: 2010-05-06 in the Senate
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Congressional oversight
Government information and archives
Government studies and investigations
Public contracts and procurement

Summary:
action_date: 2010-05-06
text: 
Federal Contracting Oversight and Reform Act of 2010 - Amends the Clean Contracting Act of 2008 to: (1) require the Administrator of General Services (GSA) to ensure that the information in the database of information regarding the integrity and performance of persons awarded federal contracts and grants is available to any Member of Congress (currently, limited to the Chairman and Ranking Member of the committees having jurisdiction); and (2) expand the scope of the database, including doubling the period of coverage.
 
Prohibits funds appropriated or otherwise made available by any Act from being used for any federal contract for the procurement of property or services in excess of: (1) the simplified acquisition threshold unless the contractor has first made the certifications set forth in the Federal Acquisition Regulation regarding debarment, suspension, proposed debarment, and other responsibility matters; and (2) $500,000 unless the contractor certifies that he or she has submitted to the Administrator specified required information and that such information is current as of the date of the certification, or that the contractor has cumulative active federal contracts and grants valued at less than $10 million.
 
Requires the Inspector General of each federal agency to periodically: (1) conduct an inspection or review of required contract files to determine if the agency is providing appropriate consideration of the information included in the database; and (2) report to Congress on the results of the inspection or review. Requires the Comptroller General to annually report on the extent to which suspended or debarred contractors on the Excluded Parties List System are identified as having received contracts on USAspending.gov or were granted waivers from suspension or debarment.
 
Requires: (1) the Director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) to report to Congress a plan for integrating and consolidating specified existing contracting information databases into a single searchable and linked network; and (2) the Inspector General of GSA to conduct a study on the use of identifying numbers for federal contractors.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-05-06
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.
action_date: 2010-05-06
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S3362-3363)
action_date: 2010-05-06
text: Introduced in Senate
SEAM Act of 2010

Bill: 111-s-3324
Sponsor: Sen. Brown, Sherrod [D-OH]
Introduced: 2010-05-06 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Alternative and renewable resources
Income tax credits
Manufacturing
Unemployment

Summary:
action_date: 2010-05-06
text: 
Security in Energy and Manufacturing Act of 2010 or the SEAM Act of 2010 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to expand the qualifying advanced energy project credit by allocating in 2010 $5 billion of grants or tax credit amounts to manufacturers of goods and components (other than for assembly of components) in the United States that are used in alternative energy projects.
 

 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-05-06
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2010-05-06
text: Introduced in Senate