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Prepaid Card Consumer Protection Act of 2010

Bill: 111-s-4041
Sponsor: Sen. Menendez, Robert [D-NJ]
Introduced: 2010-12-17 in the Senate
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: Bank accounts, deposits, capital
Banking and financial institutions regulation
Consumer credit

Summary:
action_date: 2010-12-17
text: 
Prepaid Card Consumer Protection Act of 2010 - Amends the Electronic Fund Transfer Act to extend its coverage to spending card accounts (prepaid cards) established by a consumer (or on a consumer's behalf): (1) to which recurring electronic fund transfers may be made, at the consumer's direction, and (2) from which payments may be made, at the consumer's direction, through the use of a card, code, or device. Treats as a spending card account any similar asset account operated or managed by a financial institution, or any other person, whose funds: (1) are pooled with the funds of a person other than the one who established the account, or (2) are held in a name other than that of the person who established the account.
 
Excludes from the meaning of spending card account: (1) any nonreloadable general-use prepaid card in an amount under $250; and (2) any general-use prepaid card solely associated with a certain kind of health plan, a qualified transportation fringe, a health savings account or any other healthcare benefit account, a gift certificate, a store gift card, an electronic promise, plastic card, or payment code, or device, a nonreloadable card labeled as a gift card and marketed solely as such, or a nonreloadable loyalty, rebate, or promotional card.
 
Requires a financial institution to offer electronic fund transfer services in connection with a spending card account only if the account is insured under the Federal Deposit Insurance Act and complies with its pass-through deposit insurance requirements.
 
Requires any person that accepts funds in connection with an electronic fund transfer to a spending card account to: (1) transfer them, within 24 hours after accepting them, to an account at an insured depository institution; or (2) credit the spending card account an amount equal to the amount of such funds.
 
Waives the requirement for providing a consumer with a periodic statement if a financial institution, among other things, provides the consumer with access to the account balance through a readily available telephone line and the Internet and at an electronic terminal or other device (ATM machine) that allows the consumer to make a balance inquiry. Prohibits the charging of fees for services required to meet these requirements, other than $1 for an optional periodic statement.
 
Specifies other fees which may and may not be charged in connection with a spending account card.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-12-17
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.
action_date: 2010-12-17
text: Introduced in Senate
Access to Information About Missing Children Act of 2010

Bill: 111-s-4042
Sponsor: Sen. Klobuchar, Amy [D-MN]
Introduced: 2010-12-17 in the Senate
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Child safety and welfare
Crimes against children
Criminal investigation, prosecution, interrogation

Summary:
action_date: 2010-12-17
text: 
Access to Information About Missing Children Act of 2010 - Amends the federal criminal code to allow, upon ex parte application to a federal judge or magistrate, the disclosure of any information held by any federal agency to federal officers or employees who are personally and directly engaged in an investigation, judicial or administrative proceeding, or federal grand jury proceeding relating to the case of a missing or exploited child. Prohibits the disclosure of information that would identify a confidential informant or seriously impair a civil or cirminal investigation.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-12-17
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2010-12-17
text: Introduced in Senate
Garrett Lee Smith Memorial Act Reauthorization of 2010

Bill: 111-s-4043
Sponsor: Sen. Dodd, Christopher J. [D-CT]
Introduced: 2010-12-17 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Advisory bodies
Child health
Drug, alcohol, tobacco use
Elementary and secondary education
Health care coverage and access
Health programs administration and funding
Health promotion and preventive care
Higher education
Mental health
Public-private cooperation

Summary:
action_date: 2010-12-17
text: 
Garrett Lee Smith Memorial Act Reauthorization of 2010 - Amends the Public Health Service Act to reauthorize and revise a research, training, and technical assistance resource center to prevent suicides. Expands the program's focus from youth suicides to suicides among all ages, particularly among groups that are at high risk for suicide. 
 
Reauthorizes a program of grants for the development of state or tribal youth suicide early intervention and prevention strategies.
 
Reauthorizes and revises a grant program to enhance services for students with mental health or substance use disorders at institutions of higher education. Requires (current law authorizes) the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS), acting through the Director of the Center for Mental Health Services, to award grants to enhance such services and to develop best practices for the delivery of such services. Permits grant funds to be used for the provision of such services to students and to employ appropriately trained staff. Requires the Secretary to give special consideration to applications for grants that describe programs that demonstrate the greatest need for new or additional mental and substance use disorder services and the greatest potential for replication.
 
Requires the Secretary, acting through the Administrator of the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, to convene an interagency, public-private sector working group to plan, establish, and begin coordinating and evaluating a targeted public education campaign that is designed to focus on mental health and substance use disorders on college campuses.
 
Requires the Secretary to establish a College Campus Task Force to discuss mental health and substance use disorder concerns on college and university campuses.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-12-17
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2010-12-17
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S10514-10515)
action_date: 2010-12-17
text: Introduced in Senate
Combating Autism Reauthorization Act of 2010

Bill: 111-s-4044
Sponsor: Sen. Dodd, Christopher J. [D-CT]
Introduced: 2010-12-17 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Child health
Congressional oversight
Department of Health and Human Services
Disability assistance
Education programs funding
Elementary and secondary education
Executive agency funding and structure
Health personnel
Health programs administration and funding
Health promotion and preventive care
Higher education
Medical education
Medical research
National Institutes of Health (NIH)
Neurological disorders

Summary:
action_date: 2010-12-17
text: 
Combating Autism Reauthorization Act of 2010 - Amends the Public Health Service Act to establish the National Institute of Autism Spectrum Disorders for 10 years to conduct and support research, training, the dissemination of health information, and other programs with respect to autism spectrum disorders. Sets forth the duties of the Director of the Institute, which include making recommendations regarding the consolidation of programs of the National Institutes of Health (NIH).
 
 Transfers NIH activities on autism spectrum disorders to the Institute. Expands such activities to include translational research. Authorizes the Director of NIH to transfer personnel, permit use of facilities, and obtain administrative support for the Institute.
 
 Extends grants and programs for autism spectrum disorders and developmental disabilities.
 
 Extends and revises provisions related to the Interagency Autism Coordinating Committee.
 
 Requires the Comptroller General to study federal progress on autism spectrum disorders and autism services, interventions, and treatments.
 
 Requires the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) to establish grant programs related to autism spectrum disorders, including to: (1) provide services to children, transitioning youth, and adults with autism spectrum disorders; (2) carry out multimedia campaigns; and (3) establish and maintain a national technical assistance center.
 
 Amends the Developmental Disabilities Assistance and Bill of Rights Act of 2000 to require the Secretary to make grants to enable protection and advocacy systems to address the needs of individuals with autism spectrum disorders.
 
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-12-17
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2010-12-17
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S10515-10516)
action_date: 2010-12-17
text: Introduced in Senate
Armed Career Criminal Sentencing Act of 2010

Bill: 111-s-4045
Sponsor: Sen. Specter, Arlen [D-PA]
Introduced: 2010-12-17 in the Senate
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Criminal procedure and sentencing
Drug trafficking and controlled substances
Firearms and explosives
Juvenile crime and gang violence
U.S. Sentencing Commission
Violent crime

Summary:
action_date: 2010-12-17
text: 
Armed Career Criminal Sentencing Act of 2010 - Amends the federal criminal code to revise provisions relating to the sentencing of repeat offenders who commit a serious drug offense or a violent crime using a firearm that is punishable by imprisonment for a term of more than one year. Requires the United States Attorney prosecuting a repeat offender to file a written notice of the previous convictions being relied upon to obtain an increased sentence against such offender.
 
Directs the United States Sentencing Commmission to review and amend federal sentencing guidelines and policy statements to reflect the amendments made by this Act. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-12-17
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2010-12-17
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S10516-10517)
action_date: 2010-12-17
text: Introduced in Senate
Workplace Religious Freedom Act of 2010

Bill: 111-s-4046
Sponsor: Sen. Kerry, John F. [D-MA]
Introduced: 2010-12-17 in the Senate
Policy area: Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Subjects: Employee leave
Employment discrimination and employee rights
Religion

Summary:
action_date: 2010-12-17
text: 
Workplace Religious Freedom Act of 2010 - Amends provisions of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 related to equal employment opportunities to include in the term &quot;religion&quot; all aspects of religious observance and practice, as well as belief, unless an employer demonstrates that the employer is unable, after initiating and engaging in an affirmative and bona fide effort to reasonably accommodate to an employee's or prospective employee's religious observance or practice without undue hardship on the conduct of the employer's business. (Current law makes no reference to an employer's affirmative and bona fide effort.)
 
Provides that an employer's accommodation of an employee's practice of wearing religious clothing or a religious hairstyle, or of taking time off for a religious reason, imposes an undue hardship on the conduct of an employer's business in accommodating such practice only if the accommodation imposes a significant difficulty or expense on the conduct of the employer's business when considered in light of specified factors set forth in the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990, including: (1) the nature and cost of the accommodation needed; (2) the financial resources and size of the business; and (3) the type of operation of the business.
 
 Requires an employer's accomodation, before it may be considered a reasonable accomodation, to remove the conflict between employment requirements and the employee's religious practice. Prohibits an accomodation from being a reasonable accomodation if it requires an employee to be segregated from customers or the general public.
 

 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-12-17
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. (text of measure as introduced: CR S10518)
action_date: 2010-12-17
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S10517)
action_date: 2010-12-17
text: Introduced in Senate
FAST Deployment Act of 2010

Bill: 111-s-4047
Sponsor: Sen. Bennett, Robert F. [R-UT]
Introduced: 2010-12-17 in the Senate
Policy area: Science, Technology, Communications
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Advanced technology and technological innovations
Business investment and capital
Department of Commerce
Economic development
Government information and archives
Intellectual property
Manufacturing
Research administration and funding
Research and development
Small business
Technology transfer and commercialization

Summary:
action_date: 2010-12-17
text: 
Federal Acceleration of State Technologies Deployment Act of 2009 or the FAST Deployment Act of 2010 - Directs the Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Economic Development to establish a Federal Acceleration of State Technologies (FAST) Deployment Program to distribute matching federal funds to qualifying states. 
 
Requires each qualified state to use FAST grant funds exclusively for making assistance grants to small manufacturing enterprises for approved technology development projects.
 
Establishes a national manufacturing technology database to disseminate to U.S. manufacturers information related to new U.S. manufacturing technologies.
 
Requires an annual assessment of small manufacturing technology needs and information from such assessment to be incorporated into the database.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-12-17
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
action_date: 2010-12-17
text: Introduced in Senate
FISA Sunsets Extension Act of 2010

Bill: 111-s-4048
Sponsor: Sen. Feinstein, Dianne [D-CA]
Introduced: 2010-12-17 in the Senate
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Business records
Congressional oversight
Criminal investigation, prosecution, interrogation
Intelligence activities, surveillance, classified information
Terrorism

Summary:
action_date: 2010-12-17
text: 
FISA Sunsets Extension Act of 2010 - Amends the USA PATRIOT Improvement and Reauthorization Act of 2005 to extend through December 31, 2013, a provision granting roving electronic surveillance authority.
 
Amends the Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act of 2004 to extend until December 31, 2013, a provision revising the definition of an &quot;agent of a foreign power&quot; to include any non-U.S. person who engages in international terrorism or preparatory activities (&quot;lone wolf&quot; provision).
 
Amends the FISA Amendments Act of 2008 to extend through December 31, 2013, certain additional procedures concerning the electronic surveillance of certain persons outside the United States for foreign intelligence information purposes.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-12-17
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2010-12-17
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S10518-10519)
action_date: 2010-12-17
text: Introduced in Senate
Forest Jobs and Recreation Act of 2010

Bill: 111-s-4049
Sponsor: Sen. Tester, Jon [D-MT]
Introduced: 2010-12-18 in the Senate
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Administrative remedies
Congressional oversight
Environmental assessment, monitoring, research
Fires
Forests, forestry, trees
Lakes and rivers
Land transfers
Land use and conservation
Montana
Outdoor recreation
Parks, recreation areas, trails
Roads and highways
Watersheds
Wilderness and natural areas, wildlife refuges, wild rivers, habitats

Summary:
action_date: 2010-12-18
text: 
Forest Jobs and Recreation Act of 2010 - Establishes the Montana Forest Jobs and Restoration Pilot Initiative under which the Secretary of Agriculture (USDA), through the Chief of the Forest Service, shall implement authorized forest and watershed restoration projects and other land management projects on certain eligible lands within the Beaverhead-Deerlodge and Kootenai National Forests in Montana to achieve the specified purposes of the Initiative and specified performance requirements within such forests. 
 
Permits the inclusion of the Seeley Ranger District of the Lolo National Forest within the Initiative. 
 
Requires the identification of one or more collaborative groups or resource advisory committees for each national forest within the Initiative. 
 
Requires the Secretary to provide annual summaries to Congress on the Initiative's progress, and every five years, reports assessing such progress. 
 
Requires the Secretary to: (1) annually implement one or more authorized forest and watershed restoration projects on the eligible lands; and (2) implement in, one or more certain watershed areas, those projects that provide landscape-scale work in order to minimize entries into the watershed or watersheds; and (3) enter into stewardship contracts or agreements to carry out authorized forest and watershed restoration projects. 
 
Designates specified lands administered by the Forest Service or the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) in Montana as wilderness areas and as components of the National Wilderness Preservation System (NWPS). 
 
Releases: (1) certain BLM wilderness study areas from further study for designation as wilderness; and (2) the Sapphire and West Pioneer Wilderness Study Areas from further study for inclusion as components of the NWPS. 
 
Designates specified federal lands in Montana as special management or recreation management areas. 
 
Requires a specified all-terrain vehicle study and report.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-12-18
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
action_date: 2010-12-18
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S10685-10686)
action_date: 2010-12-18
text: Introduced in Senate
Classified Information Procedures Reform and Improvement Act of 2010

Bill: 111-s-4050
Sponsor: Sen. Cardin, Benjamin L. [D-MD]
Introduced: 2010-12-20 in the Senate
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Criminal procedure and sentencing
Evidence and witnesses
Intelligence activities, surveillance, classified information

Summary:
action_date: 2010-12-20
text: 
Classified Information Procedures Reform and Improvement Act of 2010 - Amends the Classified Information Procedures Act, with respect to the use and disclosure of classified information in legal proceedings, to: (1) allow ex parte pretrial conferences to protect national security; (2) expand protective orders to limit the use of or access to classified information; (3) expand discovery rules to restrict access to classified information, other than documents; (4) expand a defendant's notice requirement to include intent to use classified information; (5) establish additional standards for the admissibility, use, and disclosure of classified information at trial; (6) expand the interlocutory appeal rights of the United States; and (7) allow a court to fashion alternative procedures to prevent unnecessary disclosures of classified information at trial.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-12-20
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. (text of measure as introduced: CR S10816-10817)
action_date: 2010-12-20
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S10816)
action_date: 2010-12-20
text: Introduced in Senate
Espionage Statutes Modernization Act of 2010

Bill: 111-s-4051
Sponsor: Sen. Cardin, Benjamin L. [D-MD]
Introduced: 2010-12-21 in the Senate
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Criminal procedure and sentencing
Employment discrimination and employee rights
Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management
Intelligence activities, surveillance, classified information
Jurisdiction and venue
Subversive activities
U.S. Sentencing Commission

Summary:
action_date: 2010-12-21
text: 
Espionage Statutes Modernization Act of 2010 - Amends the federal criminal code to impose a fine and/or prison term of up to five years on a covered individual who intentionally discloses, delivers, communicates, or transmits classified information, without authorization, knowing or having reason to know that such action is a violation of the terms of the classified information nondisclosure agreement entered into by such individual. Defines "covered individual" as an officer, employee, contractor, or consultant of a federal agency who agrees to be legally bound by the terms of a classified information nondisclosure agreement. Exempts from such prohibition disclosures made in accordance with a federal whistleblower protection statute or regulation.
 
Directs the United States Sentencing Commission to review and, if appropriate, amend federal sentencing guidelines and policy statements applicable to a person convicted of an offense under this Act.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-12-21
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. (text of measure as introduced: CR S10931-10932)
action_date: 2010-12-21
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S10930-10931)
action_date: 2010-12-21
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to require the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation to fully insure Interest on Lawyers Trust Accounts.

Bill: 111-s-4052
Sponsor: Sen. Merkley, Jeff [D-OR]
Introduced: 2010-12-22 in the Senate
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: Bank accounts, deposits, capital
Interest, dividends, interest rates
Lawyers and legal services

Summary:
action_date: 2010-12-22
text: 
Amends the Federal Deposit Insurance Act, as amended by the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, to treat as a noninterest-bearing transaction account fully insurable by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) any Interest on Lawyers Trust Account (or functionally equivalent account) established by an attorney or law firm on behalf of a client.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-12-22
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.
action_date: 2010-12-22
text: Introduced in Senate
Notice Pleading Restoration Act of 2010

Bill: 111-s-4054
Sponsor: Sen. Specter, Arlen [D-PA]
Introduced: 2010-12-22 in the Senate
Policy area: Law
Subjects: Civil actions and liability
Judicial procedure and administration

Summary:
action_date: 2010-12-22
text: 
Notice Pleading Restoration Act of 2010 - States that the law governing a dismissal or striking of all or any part of a pleading containing a claim for failure to state a claim, indefiniteness, or insufficiency or a judgment on the pleadings shall be in accordance with the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure as interpreted by the Supreme Court in decisions issued before May 20, 2007, except as provided expressly by an Act of Congress enacted before, on, or after enactment of this Act, including the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. (Thus finds 
Bell Atlantic Corp. v. Twombly
, decided on May 21, 2007, and 
Ashcroft v. Iqbal
 to be inconsistent with the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure and finds further that the appropriate procedure for disposing of factually unmeritorious claims is summary judgment as the Supreme Court held in 
Swierkiewicz v. Sorema N.A.
 and 
Leatherman v. Tarrant County
.)


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-12-22
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2010-12-22
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S11037-11038)
action_date: 2010-12-22
text: Introduced in Senate