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To amend the SAFE Port Act to provide for the eligibility of certain third party logistics providers for participation in the Customs-Trade Partnership Against Terrorism program.

Bill: 111-hr-5619
Sponsor: Rep. Owens, William L. [D-NY-23]
Introduced: 2010-06-28 in the House
Policy area: Emergency Management
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Department of Homeland Security
Free trade and trade barriers
Homeland security
Motor carriers
Terrorism

Summary:
action_date: 2010-06-28
text: 
Amends the SAFE Port Act to make non-asset based third party logistics providers who arrange international transportation of freight (including motor carrier brokers of property licensed by the Department of Transportation [DOT] ) eligible to enter into partnership with DOT under the Customs-Trade Partnership Against Terrorism (C-TPAT) program to strengthen overall security of the international supply chain and U.S. border.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-07-06
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Border, Maritime, and Global Counterterrorism.
action_date: 2010-06-28
text: Referred to the House Committee on Homeland Security.
action_date: 2010-06-28
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-06-28
text: Introduced in House
Harbor Maintenance Trust Fund Improvement Act of 2010

Bill: 111-hr-5621
Sponsor: Rep. Sánchez, Linda T. [D-CA-39]
Introduced: 2010-06-28 in the House
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Environmental assessment, monitoring, research
Government trust funds
Navigation, waterways, harbors

Summary:
action_date: 2010-06-28
text: 
Harbor Maintenance Trust Fund Improvement Act of 2010 - Amends the Water Resources Development Act of 1986 to authorize to be appropriated out of the Harbor Maintenance Trust Fund such sums as may be necessary to pay up to 100% of the eligible costs of preparing a federal environmental impact statement for a navigation project for a harbor or an inland harbor or any separable element thereof. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-06-29
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Coast Guard and Maritime Transportation.
action_date: 2010-06-28
text: Referred to House Ways and Means
action_date: 2010-06-28
text: Referred to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, and in addition to the Committee on Ways and Means, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2010-06-28
text: Referred to House Transportation and Infrastructure
action_date: 2010-06-28
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E1220)
action_date: 2010-06-28
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-06-28
text: Introduced in House
Stop Outsourcing and Create American Jobs Act of 2010

Bill: 111-hr-5622
Sponsor: Rep. McNerney, Jerry [D-CA-11]
Introduced: 2010-06-29 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Budget deficits and national debt
Corporate finance and management
Fraud offenses and financial crimes
Public contracts and procurement
Tax administration and collection, taxpayers
Taxation of foreign income
U.S. and foreign investments
Unemployment

Summary:
action_date: 2010-06-29
text: 
Stop Outsourcing and Create American Jobs Act of 2010 - Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to develop and publish a list of countries that are tax havens for corporations. 
 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to increase the penalties on corporations for: (1) underpayment of tax involving an undisclosed foreign financial asset located in a tax haven country; (2) reportable transaction understatements involving transactions in a tax haven country; and (3) fraud, tax evasion, or false statements involving transactions in a tax haven country.
 
Grants a preference in the award of federal contracts to contractors who have not engaged in outsourcing. Defines &quot;outsourcing&quot; as the laying off of a U.S. worker from a job and the hiring or contracting for the same job to be performed in a foreign country. 
 
Requires revenues generated by this Act to be set aside for the reduction of the public debt. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-06-29
text: Referred to House Oversight and Government Reform
action_date: 2010-06-29
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2010-06-29
text: Referred to House Ways and Means
action_date: 2010-06-29
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-06-29
text: Introduced in House
Property Owners Access to Court Act of 2010

Bill: 111-hr-5624
Sponsor: Rep. Lummis, Cynthia M. [R-WY-At Large]
Introduced: 2010-06-29 in the House
Policy area: Law
Subjects: Constitution and constitutional amendments
Federal district courts
Government information and archives
Government liability
Judicial procedure and administration
Jurisdiction and venue
Property rights
State and local courts

Summary:
action_date: 2010-06-29
text: 
Property Owners Access to Court Act of 2010 - Amends the federal judicial code to provide that, whenever a district court exercises jurisdiction in civil rights cases in which the operative facts concern the uses of real property, it shall not abstain from exercising such jurisdiction, or relinquish it to a state court, if the party seeking redress does not allege a violation of a state law, right, or privilege, and no parallel proceeding is pending in state court, at the time the action is filed in the district court, that arises out of the same operative facts as the district court proceeding.
 
Declares that in an action in which operative facts concern the uses of real property, the district court shall exercise jurisdiction even if the party seeking redress does not pursue judicial remedies provided by a state or territory. Provides for referral of an unsettled question of state law to the state's highest appellate court. Prohibits the district court from certifying a question of state law unless it is necessary to resolve the merits of the injured party's federal claim, and such question is patently unclear.
 
Declares that any claim or action to redress the deprivation of a property right or privilege secured by the Constitution shall be ripe for adjudication by the district courts upon a final decision rendered by any person acting under color of any law, regulation, custom, or usage of any state or U.S. territory that causes actual and concrete injury to the party seeking redress.
 
Declares that any claim founded upon a property right or privilege secured by the Constitution, but allegedly infringed or taken by the United States, shall be ripe for adjudication upon a final decision rendered by the United States which causes actual and concrete injury to the party seeking redress.
 
Amends the Revised Statutes of the United States and the federal judicial code with respect to certain constitutional property rights claims.
 
Provides for the liability of the United States for certain claims, brought under U.S. district court jurisdiction or Court of Federal Claims jurisdiction, where the claim is founded upon a property right or privilege secured by the Constitution.
 
 
Requires a federal agency, whenever it takes action limiting the use of private property that may be affected by the amendments made by this Act, to give notice to the owners of that property explaining their rights and the procedures for obtaining any compensation that may be due to them under such amendments. 
 

 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-06-29
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2010-06-29
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-06-29
text: Introduced in House
Permanent Prevention of Asian Carp Act of 2010

Bill: 111-hr-5625
Sponsor: Rep. Camp, Dave [R-MI-4]
Introduced: 2010-06-29 in the House
Policy area: Water Resources Development
Subjects: Aquatic ecology
Fishes
Government studies and investigations
Great Lakes
Hydrology and hydrography
Illinois
Indiana
Lakes and rivers
Marine and inland water transportation
Mississippi River
Watersheds
Wildlife conservation and habitat protection

Summary:
action_date: 2010-06-29
text: 
Permanent Prevention of Asian Carp Act of 2010 - Directs the Secretary of the Army, acting through the Chief of Engineers, to study the watersheds of the Illinois, Chicago, and Calumet Rivers, including their tributaries, that drain directly into Lake Michigan to determine the feasibility and best means of implementing the hydrologic separation of the Great Lakes and the Mississippi River Basins to prevent the introduction or establishment of populations of aquatic nuisance species between the Great Lakes and Mississippi River Basins through the Chicago Area Water System (CAWS) and other aquatic pathways.
 
Requires the study to: (1) include options to address flooding, Chicago wastewater and stormwater infrastructure, waterway safety operations, and barge and recreational vessel traffic alternatives; and (2) contain a detailed analysis of the environmental benefits and costs of each option.
 
Directs: (1) the Secretary to carry out this Act at federal expense; and (2) the President, or the Council on Environmental Quality as a designee of the President, to oversee the study to ensure its thoroughness and timely completion.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-06-30
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment.
action_date: 2010-06-29
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2010-06-29
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-06-29
text: Introduced in House
Commerce for Defenders Act of 2010

Bill: 111-hr-5627
Sponsor: Rep. Rahall, Nick J., II [D-WV-3]
Introduced: 2010-06-29 in the House
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Public contracts and procurement
Roads and highways
Small business
Transportation programs funding
Veterans' education, employment, rehabilitation

Summary:
action_date: 2010-06-29
text: 
Commerce for Defenders Act of 2010 - Amends the Hiring Incentives to Restore Employment Act to give preference to small businesses owned and controlled by veterans in the awarding of contracts and subcontracts using federal-aid highway, public transportation, commercial motor vehicle safety, the Unified Carrier Registration Act of 2005, transportation research, and highway safety research and development program funds.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-06-30
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Highways and Transit.
action_date: 2010-06-30
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E1233)
action_date: 2010-06-29
text: Referred to House Small Business
action_date: 2010-06-29
text: Referred to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, and in addition to the Committee on Small Business, 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: 2010-06-29
text: Referred to House Transportation and Infrastructure
action_date: 2010-06-29
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-06-29
text: Introduced in House
Ending Corporal Punishment in Schools Act

Bill: 111-hr-5628
Sponsor: Rep. McCarthy, Carolyn [D-NY-4]
Introduced: 2010-06-29 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Child safety and welfare
Education programs funding
Elementary and secondary education
Government studies and investigations
School administration
Teaching, teachers, curricula

Summary:
action_date: 2010-06-29
text: 
Ending Corporal Punishment in Schools Act - Amends the General Education Provisions Act to prohibit the Secretary of Education from providing education funding to any educational agency or institution that allows school personnel to inflict corporal punishment upon a student as a form of punishment or to modify undesirable behavior.
 
Requires each state to submit a plan to the Secretary, within 18 months of this Act's enactment and every third year thereafter, that describes how the state eliminates the use of corporal punishment in schools and makes school personnel and parents aware of its policies and procedures for doing so.
 
Authorizes the Secretary to award three-year grants to states and, through them, competitive subgrants to local educational agencies (LEAs) to assist them in improving school climate and culture by implementing school-wide positive behavior supports. 
 
Requires grant and subgrant funds to be used for professional training, technical assistance, research, and outreach regarding positive behavior supports. Requires LEAs to ensure that private school personnel can participate, on an equitable basis, in activities supported by such funds.
 
Authorizes the Secretary to allocate funds to the Secretary of the Interior to carry out such activities with regard to schools operated or funded by the Department of the Interior.
 
 Directs the Secretary to conduct a national assessment to determine compliance with this Act's requirements and identify best practices regarding positive behavior support professional training programs. 
 
 Gives Protection and Advocacy Systems the authority provided under the Developmental Disabilities Assistance and Bill of Rights Act of 2000 to investigate, monitor, and enforce this Act's protections for students.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-10-13
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Healthy Families and Communities.
action_date: 2010-06-29
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and Labor.
action_date: 2010-06-29
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-06-29
text: Introduced in House
Gulf Coast Conservation Corps Act of 2010

Bill: 111-hr-5631
Sponsor: Rep. Hastings, Alcee L. [D-FL-23]
Introduced: 2010-06-29 in the House
Policy area: Labor and Employment
Subjects: Accidents
Employment and training programs
Government trust funds
Gulf of Mexico
Marine and coastal resources, fisheries
Marine pollution
National and community service
Oil and gas
Pollution liability
Unemployment
Wildlife conservation and habitat protection

Summary:
action_date: 2010-06-29
text: 
Gulf Coast Conservation Corps Act of 2010 - Establishes the Gulf Coast Conservation Corps.
 
Requires the President, through the Corps, to hire individuals who meet certain requirements (unemployed, U.S. citizens or legal permanent residents, physically capable of performing work, and not enrolled as a full-time student) to carry out rehabilitation and enhancement projects involving the construction, maintenance, cleaning, and restoration in any area of the Gulf of Mexico affected by the oil discharged as a result of the Deepwater Horizon incident. Prohibits Corps participants whose positions are funded under this Act from displacing other employees whose positions are not funded under this Act.
 
Allows Oil Spill Liability Trust Fund amounts to be used for the costs of carrying out this Act.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-10-13
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Workforce Protections.
action_date: 2010-06-30
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment.
action_date: 2010-06-30
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Coast Guard and Maritime Transportation.
action_date: 2010-06-30
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E1236)
action_date: 2010-06-29
text: Referred to House Transportation and Infrastructure
action_date: 2010-06-29
text: Referred to the Committee on Education and Labor, and in addition to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, 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: 2010-06-29
text: Referred to House Education and Labor
action_date: 2010-06-29
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-06-29
text: Introduced in House
Consumer Fuels Choice Act of 2010

Bill: 111-hr-5632
Sponsor: Rep. Herseth Sandlin, Stephanie [D-SD-At Large]
Introduced: 2010-06-29 in the House
Policy area: Energy
Subjects: Alternative and renewable resources
Marketing and advertising
Motor fuels
Retail and wholesale trades

Summary:
action_date: 2010-06-29
text: 
Consumer Fuels Choice Act of 2010 - Requires the Secretary of Energy to make grants to major fuel distributors to pay the federal share of costs to install blender pump fuel infrastructure at majority-owned stations and branded stations: (1) for the direct retail sale of ethanol fuel blends (including E-85 fuel), including blender pumps and storage tanks; and (2) to directly market such fuels to gas retailers, including in-line blending equipment, pumps, storage tanks, and loadout equipment.
 
Provides for infrastructure installation subgrants to direct retailers of ethanol fuel blends (including E-85 fuel) as well as blender pumps and storage tanks.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-06-29
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2010-06-29
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-06-29
text: Introduced in House
Consumer Vehicle Choice Act of 2010

Bill: 111-hr-5633
Sponsor: Rep. Herseth Sandlin, Stephanie [D-SD-At Large]
Introduced: 2010-06-29 in the House
Policy area: Energy
Subjects: Hybrid, electric, and advanced technology vehicles
Manufacturing
Motor fuels
Motor vehicles

Summary:
action_date: 2010-06-29
text: 
Consumer Vehicle Choice Act of 2010 - Requires each manufacturer to ensure that at least 50% of 2011 and 2012 model year automobiles and light duty trucks manufactured for sale in the United States are dual fueled. Increases the minimum to 90% for later model years. (Excludes automobiles and light duty trucks that operate only on electricity.)
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-06-29
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2010-06-29
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-06-29
text: Introduced in House
Offshore Drilling Safety Improvement Act

Bill: 111-hr-5634
Sponsor: Rep. Inslee, Jay [D-WA-1]
Introduced: 2010-06-29 in the House
Policy area: Energy
Subjects: Accidents
Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Department of the Interior
Environmental technology
Marine and coastal resources, fisheries
Marine pollution
Oil and gas

Summary:
action_date: 2010-06-29
text: 
Offshore Drilling Safety Improvement Act - Amends the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act to direct the Secretary of the Interior to issue regulations requiring: (1) that all oil and gas drilling and production operations on the outer Continental Shelf have safety and environmental management systems in place, including blowout preventers and additional backup emergency shutoff equipment such as acoustic shut-off technology; and (2) that such equipment use the best available and safest technologies. Requires consideration of the need for different technology requirements in different environments and depths.
 
Applies such regulations to: (1) all new oil and gas drilling and production operations, and (2) all existing drilling and production operations six months after the issuance of the regulations.
 
Requires the Secretary, every five years thereafter, to review blowout preventer and emergency shutoff equipment technology and revise the regulations as necessary to require use of the best available technology.
 
Amends the Department of Energy Organization Act to require the Department of Energy (DOE) Assistant Secretaries to identify the best available and safest technology for offshore oil and gas exploration and production.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-07-02
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources.
action_date: 2010-06-29
text: Referred to House Energy and Commerce
action_date: 2010-06-29
text: Referred to the Committee on Natural Resources, and in addition to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, 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: 2010-06-29
text: Referred to House Natural Resources
action_date: 2010-06-29
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-06-29
text: Introduced in House
Onondaga Lake Restoration Act

Bill: 111-hr-5635
Sponsor: Rep. Maffei, Daniel B. [D-NY-25]
Introduced: 2010-06-29 in the House
Policy area: Environmental Protection
Subjects: Advisory bodies
Environmental assessment, monitoring, research
Intergovernmental relations
Lakes and rivers
New York State
Public participation and lobbying
State and local government operations
Water quality
Water resources funding
Watersheds

Summary:
action_date: 2010-06-29
text: 
Onondaga Lake Restoration Act - Amends the Federal Water Pollution Control Act (commonly known as the Clean Water Act) to require the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to establish the Onondaga Lake Watershed Council to: (1) develop and periodically revise an Adaptive Management Plan for the restoration, conservation, and management of Onondaga Lake; (2) establish and implement a program for the public's participation in the Plan's development and revision; and (3) establish and direct the Onondaga Lake Scientific Center to advise the Council on development and implementation of the Plan. 
 
Requires the Plan to: (1) identify measurable goals for the restoration, conservation, and management of Onondaga Lake and for compliance with all laws affecting the restoration and conservation of the Lake; and (2) incorporate and update the recommendations of the Onondaga Lake Management Plan to recommend strategies for management of the biological makeup of the Lake, the physical development of the Lake and its surroundings, and the use of the Lake for recreational and other purposes. Prohibits the Plan's recommendations from being carried out before it is approved by the Administrator and the governor of New York. 
 
Authorizes the Administrator to make funds available to members of the Council and the Center to carry out this Act. Authorizes the Administrator to make grants to specified governmental officials in New York and members of the Center: (1) to implement Plan strategies; (2) for research, surveys, administrative services, and studies; and (3) to gather data in support of litigation undertaken by New York or the Onondaga Nation to compel cleanup or obtain cleanup and damage costs from parties responsible for the pollution of Onondaga Lake.
 
Amends the Water Resources Development Act of 1999 to revoke provisions that require the Secretary of the Army to plan and construct projects that are consistent with the Onondaga Lake Management Plan and to provide financial assistance for the development and implementation of projects to restore, conserve, and manage the lake.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-06-30
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment.
action_date: 2010-06-29
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2010-06-29
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-06-29
text: Introduced in House