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A bill to amend section 1004 of title 39, United States Code, to include that it is a policy of the Postal Service to ensure reasonable and sustainable workloads and schedules for supervisory and management employees and to clarify provisions relating to consultation and changes or terminations in certain proposals.

Bill: 111-s-3145
Sponsor: Sen. Akaka, Daniel K. [D-HI]
Introduced: 2010-03-19 in the Senate
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Employee benefits and pensions
Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management
Labor-management relations
Postal service
U.S. Postal Service

Summary:
action_date: 2010-03-19
text: 
Makes it the policy of the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) to ensure reasonable and sustainable workloads and schedules for supervisory and management employees.
 
States that any changes in, or termination of, pay policies and schedules and fringe benefit programs for members of the recognized supervisors' organization shall be done in accordance with a specified consultation process.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-04-06
text: Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs referred to Subcommittee on Federal Financial Management, Government Information, Federal Services, and International Security.
action_date: 2010-03-19
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. (text of measure as introduced: CR S1778)
action_date: 2010-03-19
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S1778)
action_date: 2010-03-19
text: Introduced in Senate
Endangered Species Recovery Act of 2010

Bill: 111-s-3146
Sponsor: Sen. Crapo, Mike [R-ID]
Introduced: 2010-03-22 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Congressional oversight
Endangered and threatened species
Income tax credits
Land use and conservation
Wildlife conservation and habitat protection

Summary:
action_date: 2010-03-22
text: 
Endangered Species Recovery Act of 2010 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow certain landowners whose property contains the habitat of an endangered or threatened species and who enter into a habitat protection agreement a tax credit for costs relating to habitat protection easements and restoration. Places limits on the amount of such credit for calendar years 2011 through 2015. Directs the Comptroller General to study and report to Congress on the effectiveness of such credit.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-03-22
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2010-03-22
text: Introduced in Senate
Patient Choice Restoration Act

Bill: 111-s-3147
Sponsor: Sen. Vitter, David [R-LA]
Introduced: 2010-03-22 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Comprehensive health care
Health care costs and insurance
Health care coverage and access

Summary:
action_date: 2010-03-22
text: 
Patient Choice Restoration Act - Repeals the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and the amendments made by that Act.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-03-22
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2010-03-22
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide for the treatment of Department of Defense health coverage as minimal essential coverage.

Bill: 111-s-3148
Sponsor: Sen. Webb, Jim [D-VA]
Introduced: 2010-03-22 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Health care costs and insurance
Health care coverage and access
Military personnel and dependents
Sales and excise taxes

Summary:
action_date: 2010-03-22
text: 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to provide that health care coverage provided by the TRICARE program and the Nonappropriated Fund Health Benefits Program of the Department of Defense (DOD) shall constitute minimal essential health care coverage as required by the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-03-22
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2010-03-22
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S1814)
action_date: 2010-03-22
text: Introduced in Senate
Wall Street Compensation Reform Act of 2010

Bill: 111-s-3149
Sponsor: Sen. Nelson, Bill [D-FL]
Introduced: 2010-03-22 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Banking and financial institutions regulation
Business records
Department of the Treasury
Financial crises and stabilization
Government information and archives
Income tax deductions
Securities
Tax administration and collection, taxpayers
Wages and earnings

Summary:
action_date: 2010-03-22
text: 
Wall Street Compensation Reform Act of 2010 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to restrict the tax deduction for compensation paid to highly-paid employees of systemically significant financial institutions. Requires such compensation to be performance-based, to vest no earlier than five years after the date of payment, and to consist of 50% employer stock. Prohibits such highly-paid employees from using personal hedging strategies and remuneration or liability-related insurance and requires forfeiture of compensation paid to a chief executive or financial officer of such an institution if an accounting restatement is required due to material noncompliance, as a result of misconduct, with any federal financial reporting requirement.
 
Defines a &quot;systemically significant financial institution&quot; as an entity which engages primarily in financial activities (as determined under the Bank Holding Company Act of 1956) and which: (1) owns or controls assets greater than $25 billion; or (2) owns or controls assets greater than $10 billion and maintains a ratio of debt to equity greater than 20 to 1.
 
Requires each systemically significant financial institution which is a publicly held corporation to make an annual report on its compensation policies and practices to the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and make such report publicly available.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-03-22
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2010-03-22
text: Introduced in Senate
Service Members Permanent Change of Station Relief Act

Bill: 111-s-3150
Sponsor: Sen. Begich, Mark [D-AK]
Introduced: 2010-03-22 in the Senate
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Military personnel and dependents
Motor vehicles
Transportation costs

Summary:
action_date: 2010-03-22
text: 
Service Members Permanent Change of Station Relief Act - Sets at the business standard mileage rate of the Internal Revenue Service the monetary allowance for a member of the Armed Forces for travel by privately owned vehicles in lieu of government transportation in the case of: (1) a change of permanent station; (2) travel to the first station upon call to active duty; and (3) travel from a last duty station upon separation from service. Sets the monetary allowance for authorized travel by a member's dependent at the rate per mile established by the Administrator of General Services instead of the actual expenses for such transportation.
 
Revises requirements allowing the transport at government expense of one motor vehicle owned or leased by a member (or member's dependent) to the new station of the member who has been ordered to make a change of permanent station. 
 
Authorizes the transport at government expense of one additional motor vehicle of a member (or member's dependent) if: (1) the member is ordered to make a change of permanent station to or from a nonforeign area outside the continental United States and the member has at least one dependent of driving age who will use the motor vehicle; or (2) the Secretary of the military department concerned determines that a replacement for the transported motor vehicle is necessary for reasons beyond the member's control and is in the interest of the United States.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-03-22
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Armed Services.
action_date: 2010-03-22
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S1814)
action_date: 2010-03-22
text: Introduced in Senate
Enhancing Quality Assistance and Leadership and Improving Transparency for Women Act

Bill: 111-s-3151
Sponsor: Sen. Kerry, John F. [D-MA]
Introduced: 2010-03-22 in the Senate
Policy area: International Affairs
Subjects: Congressional oversight
Crime prevention
Crime victims
Crimes against women
Department of State
Diplomacy, foreign officials, Americans abroad
Executive agency funding and structure
Federal officials
Foreign aid and international relief
Human rights
Marriage and family status
Sex, gender, sexual orientation discrimination
U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID)
Women's education
Women's health
Women's rights

Summary:
action_date: 2010-03-22
text: 
Enhancing Quality Assistance and Leadership and Improving Transparency for Women Act or the EQUALITY Act - Establishes in the Office of the Secretary of State the Office for Global Women's Issues which shall be headed by an Ambassador-at-Large for Global Women's Issues.
 
Establishes in the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) the Women's Development Advisor who shall coordinate USAID efforts to integrate gender in foreign assistance design, strategy, and programs.
 
Directs the Comptroller General of the United States to report to Congress regarding U.S. government financial assistance to further international economic, social, and legal development for women and girls.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-03-22
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations.
action_date: 2010-03-22
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to repeal the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.

Bill: 111-s-3152
Sponsor: Sen. DeMint, Jim [R-SC]
Introduced: 2010-03-23 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Comprehensive health care
Health care costs and insurance
Health care coverage and access

Summary:
action_date: 2010-03-23
text: 
Repeals the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and the amendments made by that Act.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-03-23
text: Read the second time. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 332.
action_date: 2010-03-23
text: Introduced in the Senate. Read the first time. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under Read the First Time.
action_date: 2010-03-23
text: Introduced in Senate
Advancing FASD Research, Prevention, and Services Act

Bill: 111-s-3154
Sponsor: Sen. Murkowski, Lisa [R-AK]
Introduced: 2010-03-23 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Child health
Child safety and welfare
Congressional oversight
Drug, alcohol, tobacco use
Elementary and secondary education
Government information and archives
Government studies and investigations
Health facilities and institutions
Health programs administration and funding
Health promotion and preventive care
Hereditary and development disorders
Indian social and development programs
Judicial procedure and administration
Juvenile crime and gang violence
Lawyers and legal services
Medical research
Medical tests and diagnostic methods
Minority health
Teaching, teachers, curricula
Women's health

Summary:
action_date: 2010-03-23
text: 
Advancing FASD Research, Prevention, and Services Act - Amends the Public Health Service Act to revise and extend the Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders (FASD) programs (as renamed under this Act, previously the Fetal Alcohol Syndrome and Fetal Alcohol Effect programs). Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) to: (1) establish and carry out a research agenda for FASD; (2) facilitate surveillance, public health research, and prevention of FASD; and (3) continue the Interagency Coordinating Committee on Fetal Alcohol Syndrome.
 
Requires the Secretary to provide financial assistance to: (1) establish or expand state FASD programs; (2) implement best practices to educate children with FASD, educate members of the criminal justice system on FASD, and educate adoption or foster care agency officials about services for children with FASD; (3) provide transitional services for those affected by prenatal alcohol exposure; (4) develop public service announcements to raise awareness of the risks associated with alcohol consumption during pregnancy; (5) increase awareness and identification of FASD in federally qualified health centers; and (6) provide respite care for caretakers, recruit mentors, and provide educational and supportive services to families of individuals with FASD.
 
Directs the Comptroller General to make recommendations regarding the appropriate roles and responsibilities of federal entities with respect to programs and activities related to FASD.
 
Requires the Secretary of Education to direct the Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services to conduct training on FASD surveillance and disseminate best practices in the education and support of children with FASD.
 
Requires the Attorney General to direct the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention to: (1) implement FASD screening procedures; (2) conduct training on surveillance and on identification and support of individuals with FASD; and (3) study the inadequacies of the current system.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-03-23
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2010-03-23
text: Introduced in Senate
International Cybercrime Reporting and Cooperation Act

Bill: 111-s-3155
Sponsor: Sen. Gillibrand, Kirsten E. [D-NY]
Introduced: 2010-03-23 in the Senate
Policy area: International Affairs
Subjects: Competitiveness, trade promotion, trade deficits
Computer security and identity theft
Congressional oversight
Criminal investigation, prosecution, interrogation
Department of State
Diplomacy, foreign officials, Americans abroad
Executive agency funding and structure
Foreign aid and international relief
International organizations and cooperation
Judicial procedure and administration
Multilateral development programs
Technology assessment
U.S. and foreign investments

Summary:
action_date: 2010-03-23
text: 
International Cybercrime Reporting and Cooperation Act - Directs the President to report annually to Congress regarding: (1) foreign countries&#146; use of information and communications technologies (ICT) in critical infrastructure, cybercrime based in each country, the adequacy of each country&#146;s legal and law enforcement systems addressing cybercrime, and online protection of consumers and commerce; (2) multilateral efforts to prevent and investigate cybercrime, including U.S. actions to promote such multilateral efforts; and (3) countries for which action plans have been developed. 
 
Directs the President to give priority for assistance to improve legal, judicial, and enforcement capabilities with respect to cybercrime to countries with low ICT levels of development or utilization in their critical infrastructure, telecommunications systems, and financial industries. 
 
Directs the President to develop an action plan (with legislative, institutional, or enforcement benchmarks) and annual compliance assessment for each country determined to be a country of cyber concern: (1) from which there is a pattern of cybercrime incidents against the U.S. government, private U.S. entities, or other U.S. persons; and (2) whose government is uncooperative with efforts to combat cybercrime. 
 
Urges the President to take restrictive actions against a country that has not complied with the appropriate benchmarks with respect to: (1) the Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC); (2) the Export-Import Bank of the United States; (3) multilateral development financing; (4) the Trade and Development Agency; (5) preferential trade programs; and (6) foreign assistance.
 
Authorizes the President to waive the requirements to develop an action plan or make a determination of cyber concern if in U.S. national interest.
 
Directs the Secretary of State to: (1) designate a high-level Department of State employee to coordinate anti-cybercrime activities; and (2) assign an employee to have primary responsibility for cybercrime policy in each country or region significant to U.S. anti-cybercrime efforts.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-03-23
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations.
action_date: 2010-03-23
text: Introduced in Senate
North Korean Refugee Adoption Act of 2010

Bill: 111-s-3156
Sponsor: Sen. Brownback, Sam [R-KS]
Introduced: 2010-03-23 in the Senate
Policy area: International Affairs
Subjects: Adoption and foster care
Asia
Child safety and welfare
China
North Korea
Refugees, asylum, displaced persons
South Korea

Summary:
action_date: 2010-03-23
text: 
North Korean Refugee Adoption Act of 2010 - Directs the Secretary of State to develop a comprehensive strategy for facilitating the adoption of North Korean children by U.S. citizens.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-03-23
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations.
action_date: 2010-03-23
text: Introduced in Senate
Create Jobs and Save Benefits Act of 2010

Bill: 111-s-3157
Sponsor: Sen. Casey, Robert P., Jr. [D-PA]
Introduced: 2010-03-23 in the Senate
Policy area: Labor and Employment
Subjects: Congressional oversight
Employee benefits and pensions

Summary:
action_date: 2010-03-23
text: 
Create Jobs and Save Benefits Act of 2010 - Amends the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA) and the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) permit multiemployer pension plans to merge or form alliances with other plans; (2) increase Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC) guarantees for insolvent plans to increase participant benefits; and (3) increase from $8.00 to $16.00 the annual premium rate payable to the PBGC for each individual who is a participant of a multiemployer plan after December 31, 2010. 
 
Requires the PBGC, upon the plan sponsor's written notice of election to partition an eligible multiemployer plan in critical status and likely to become insolvent, to order the interim partition of such plan if it would significantly reduce the likelihood that the plan will become insolvent. Requires the PBGC, similarly, to order an interim partition of an eligible multiemployer plan in endangered status because it has suffered a substantial reduction in the amount of contribution base units as a result of declining employment within the industry of employers covered by the plan.
 
Requires a partition order to provide for transfer to a successor plan created by the partition of nonforfeitable benefits directly attributable to service with eligible partition employers as well as specified assets of the mutliemployer plan in critical or endangered status.
 
Prescribes requirements for payment of the withdrawal liability of an employer that completely withdraws from a plan within 60 months after a partition order.
 
Prohibits a plan that elects a partition from adopting, within five years after the partition order, any plan amendment that would increase liabilities by reason of any increase in benefits.
 
Waives certain rehabilitation plan requirements for an eligible multiemployer plan in critical status that elects a partition to the extent that any required action, option, or measure under the rehabilitation plan would adversely affect the future level of covered employment under the plan.
 
Establishes a fifth revolving fund to finance obligations undertaken by the PBGC to protect the assets of multiemployer plans the PBGC has partitioned.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-03-23
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2010-03-23
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to require Congress to lead by example and freeze its own pay and fully offset the cost of the extension of unemployment benefits and other Federal aid.

Bill: 111-s-3158
Sponsor: Sen. Coburn, Tom [R-OK]
Introduced: 2010-03-23 in the Senate
Policy area: Economics and Public Finance
Subjects: Appropriations
Budget deficits and national debt
Congressional operations and organization
Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management
Inflation and prices
Members of Congress
Postal service
Unemployment

Summary:
action_date: 2010-03-23
text: 
No Pay Raise for Congress Until the Budget is Balanced Act - Eliminates automatic cost of living adjustments (COLAs) for Members of Congress during FY2011 or any succeeding fiscal year, until the fiscal year following the first fiscal year that the annual federal budget deficit is $0.
 
 Requires the Secretary of the Treasury to: (1) determine whether or not the annual federal budget deficit was $0 for that fiscal year, and if so, report that determination to Congress; and (2) report that determination also to the Secretary of the Senate and the Chief Administrative Officer of the House of Representatives, as well as whether or not such COLA restriction shall apply to the succeeding fiscal year.
 
Rescinds $100 million in unobligated balances of funds made available under the Legislative Branch Appropriations Act, 2010, except for any Capitol Police account. Prohibits the availability of such funds for any pilot program for mailings of postal patron postcards by Senators to provide notice of a town meeting by a Senator in a county or local government at which he or she will personally attend. 
 
Rescinds $9.2 billion in discretionary, unexpired funds out of all available unobligated federal funds.
 
Requires the Director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) to: (1) identify the accounts and amounts rescinded to implement this Act; and (2) report to the Secretary of the Treasury and Congress on them.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-03-24
text: Read the second time. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 334.
action_date: 2010-03-23
text: Introduced in the Senate. Read the first time. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under Read the First Time.
action_date: 2010-03-23
text: Introduced in Senate
Gettysburg National Military Park Expansion Act of 2010

Bill: 111-s-3159
Sponsor: Sen. Specter, Arlen [D-PA]
Introduced: 2010-03-24 in the Senate
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Conflicts and wars
Historic sites and heritage areas
Land transfers
Military history
Parks, recreation areas, trails
Pennsylvania
Property rights
Railroads

Summary:
action_date: 2010-03-24
text: 
Gettysburg National Military Park Expansion Act of 2010 - Requires the inclusion of the Gettysburg Train Station in Gettysburg National Military Park, including land located in close proximity to the Train Station that is in the Borough of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, and the property that is adjacent to Plum Run in Cumberland Township, Pennsylvania. 
 
Authorizes the Secretary of the Interior to acquire only by purchase from a willing seller publicly owned property that is within the area of the Train Station, if efforts to acquire such property without cost have been exhausted. Prohibits the acquisition by eminent domain of property that is within such area.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-05-19
text: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources Senate Subcommittee on National Parks. Hearings held. With printed Hearing: S.Hrg. 111-645.
action_date: 2010-03-24
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
action_date: 2010-03-24
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S2020-2021)
action_date: 2010-03-24
text: Introduced in Senate