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Drug Safety and Accountability Act of 2010

Bill: 111-s-3690
Sponsor: Sen. Bennet, Michael F. [D-CO]
Introduced: 2010-08-03 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Administrative remedies
Business records
Drug safety, medical device, and laboratory regulation
Employment discrimination and employee rights
Government information and archives
Prescription drugs

Summary:
action_date: 2010-08-03
text: 
Drug Safety and Accountability Act of 2010 - Amends the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (FFDCA) to require each registered drug producer to have in effect and implement a quality management plan to ensure the quality and safety of: (1) each drug; (2) each active and inactive ingredient of each drug; and (3) materials used in the manufacture of each active ingredient. Authorizes the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) to order an establishment to promptly revise its quality management plan in response to a significant threat to public health.
 
Requires each registered drug producer to report on each producer, manufacturer, distributor, and shipper involved in the production of a drug or the production or transport of the active ingredients of a drug. Requires the Secretary to develop and maintain information systems to track and assess every establishment that is involved in the manufacturing, preparation, propagation, compounding, or processing of a drug or active ingredient of a drug.
 
Deems a drug to be adulterated if it was produced in an establishment that does not comply with the requirements of this Act.
 
Gives the Secretary authority to: (1) order an immediate cessation of distribution, or a recall, of a drug; and (2) administer oaths and issue subpoenas.
 
Revises provisions regarding civil penalties for FFDCA violations related to drugs for human use, including to consider each day a violation continues to be a separate violation.
 
Authorizes the Secretary to share information subject to a trade secret exemption with: (1) other federal, state, or local agencies, foreign government agencies, and relevant international organizations; and (2) the public, as necessary to protect the public health.
 
Sets forth whistleblower protection provisions.
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-08-03
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2010-08-03
text: Introduced in Senate
Airline Baggage Transparency and Accountability Act

Bill: 111-s-3691
Sponsor: Sen. Webb, Jim [D-VA]
Introduced: 2010-08-03 in the Senate
Policy area: Commerce
Subjects: Aviation and airports
Consumer affairs
Government information and archives
Sales and excise taxes
Transportation costs

Summary:
action_date: 2010-08-03
text: 
Airline Baggage Transparency and Accountability Act - Directs the Office of Aviation Consumer Protection and Enforcement of the Department of Transportation (DOT) to establish rules to ensure that all consumers are able to compare airline ticket prices, including taxes and fees, easily and fairly.
 
Makes it an unfair or deceptive practice for a domestic or foreign air carrier or ticket agent to sell an airline ticket without displaying simultaneously in reasonable proximity to the ticket price (including on the Internet to an online purchaser) all applicable: (1) ticket taxes, fees, charges, and surcharges (including fuel surcharges); and (2) fees for checked baggage, seating assignments, and optional in-flight goods and services, and other fees that may be charged after the ticket is purchased.
 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to treat as part of the 7.5% excise tax on air transportation of a person any fees paid for checked baggage or carry-on baggage personally carried by the passenger into the cabin or overhead storage compartments of an aircraft.
 
Grants the Assistant DOT General Counsel for Aviation Enforcement and Proceedings, acting through the Aviation Consumer Protection Division, authority to carry out consumer protection compliance and enforcement with respect to passenger claims for lost, stolen, and damaged baggage. 
 
Grants the Aviation Consumer Protection Division authority also to collect, and make available on the DOT website, information from each commercial air carrier regarding its procedures and performance relating to lost, stolen, and damaged baggage.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-08-03
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2010-08-03
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to permanently extend the deductibility of mortgage insurance premiums.

Bill: 111-s-3692
Sponsor: Sen. Lincoln, Blanche L. [D-AR]
Introduced: 2010-08-03 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Housing finance and home ownership
Income tax deductions

Summary:
action_date: 2010-08-03
text: 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to make permanent the tax deduction for mortgage insurance premiums.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-08-03
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2010-08-03
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to provide funding for the settlement of lawsuits against the Federal Government for discrimination against Black Farmers.

Bill: 111-s-3693
Sponsor: Sen. Grassley, Chuck [R-IA]
Introduced: 2010-08-03 in the Senate
Policy area: Agriculture and Food
Subjects: Agricultural prices, subsidies, credit
Civil actions and liability
Department of Agriculture
Government liability
Minority and disadvantaged businesses
Racial and ethnic relations

Summary:
action_date: 2010-08-03
text: 
Appropriates to the Department of Agriculture $1.15 billion to carry out the terms of a Settlement Agreement executed by In re Black Farmers Discrimination Litigation that is approved by a court order that has become final and nonappealable, and that is comprehensive and provides for the final settlement of all remaining Pigford claims (relating to a racial discrimination action against the Department of Agriculture). Provides that the $1.15 billion shall be in addition to the $100 million in funds of the Commodity Credit Corporation (CCC) made available for the payment of Pigford claims and are available only after such CCC funds have been fully obligated. Provides that if such Settlement Agreement is not executed and approved as provided above, then the sole funding available for Pigford claims shall be the $100 million of CCC funds.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-08-03
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry.
action_date: 2010-08-03
text: Introduced in Senate
Great Ape Protection Act of 2010

Bill: 111-s-3694
Sponsor: Sen. Cantwell, Maria [D-WA]
Introduced: 2010-08-03 in the Senate
Policy area: Animals
Subjects: Animal protection and human-animal relationships
Civil actions and liability
Mammals
Medical research
Research administration and funding
Research ethics

Summary:
action_date: 2010-08-03
text: 
Great Ape Protection Act of 2010 - Prohibits: (1) conducting invasive research on great apes; (2) knowingly breeding, possessing, renting, loaning, donating, purchasing, selling, housing, maintaining, leasing, borrowing, transporting, moving, delivering, or receiving a great ape for the purpose of conducting such research; or (3) using federal funds to conduct such research.
 
Defines &quot;invasive research&quot; as research that may cause death, bodily injury, pain, distress, fear, injury, or trauma to great apes, including drug testing or exposure to a substance that may be detrimental to the ape's health or psychological well-being. 
 
Requires the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) and other appropriate federal authorities to provide for the permanent retirement of all great apes that are owned or under the control of the federal government and that are being maintained in any facility for the purpose of breeding for, holding for, or conducting invasive research.
 
Sets forth civil penalties for violations of this Act.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-08-03
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.
action_date: 2010-08-03
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S6652-6653)
action_date: 2010-08-03
text: Introduced in Senate
Direct Care Workforce Empowerment Act

Bill: 111-s-3696
Sponsor: Sen. Casey, Robert P., Jr. [D-PA]
Introduced: 2010-08-03 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Allied health services
Employee benefits and pensions
Employment and training programs
Government information and archives
Health personnel
Health programs administration and funding
Labor standards
Long-term, rehabilitative, and terminal care
Personnel records
Wages and earnings

Summary:
action_date: 2010-08-03
text: 
Direct Care Workforce Empowerment Act - Amends the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 to exempt from minimum wage and maximum hour requirements any employee employed on a casual basis in domestic service employment to provide companionship services for individuals who because of disability (or because of age or infirmity, as under current law) are unable to care for themselves.
 
 Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) to establish: (1) a direct care workforce monitoring program; and (2) a National Advisory Council on the Direct Care Workforce.
 
Directs the Secretary to award three-year grants to states and other eligible entities to improve the recruitment, retention, and education of the direct care workforce.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-08-03
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2010-08-03
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S6653)
action_date: 2010-08-03
text: Introduced in Senate
Creating Hope Act of 2010

Bill: 111-s-3697
Sponsor: Sen. Brownback, Sam [R-KS]
Introduced: 2010-08-04 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Child health
Drug safety, medical device, and laboratory regulation
Health promotion and preventive care
Infectious and parasitic diseases

Summary:
action_date: 2010-08-04
text: 
Creating Hope Act of 2010 - Amends the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to revise the priority review voucher program for tropical diseases to: (1) include rare pediatric diseases; (2) allow unlimited transfers of vouchers under the program; and (3) require a sponsor intending to use a voucher to notify the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) at least 90 days (currently, 365 days) before submission of the application.
 
Revises provisions regarding the priority review user fee, including to make it payable upon notification of the Secretary of intent to use the voucher.
 
Authorizes the Secretary, upon request of the manufacturer or sponsor of a new drug, to designate that a new drug is: (1) for a rare pediatric disease; and (2) an innovative treatment.
 
Requires the Secretary to deem a rare pediatric disease product application to be incomplete if it does not contain a description of the sponsor's plan to market the product in the United States. Authorizes the Secretary to refuse to issue a priority review voucher upon the approval of a rare pediatric disease application if the Secretary finds that the sponsor lacks a good faith intention to produce and distribute the product.
 
Requires sponsors of applications under the priority review voucher program to report to the Secretary within five years after the approval of the application on the demand and distribution of the product within the United States.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-08-04
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2010-08-04
text: Introduced in Senate
Positive Aging Act of 2010

Bill: 111-s-3698
Sponsor: Sen. Collins, Susan M. [R-ME]
Introduced: 2010-08-04 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Advisory bodies
Aging
Department of Health and Human Services
Drug, alcohol, tobacco use
Executive agency funding and structure
Federal officials
Health care coverage and access
Health programs administration and funding
Health promotion and preventive care
Home and outpatient care
Homelessness and emergency shelter
Medical research
Medical tests and diagnostic methods
Mental health

Summary:
action_date: 2010-08-04
text: 
Positive Aging Act of 2010 - Amends the Public Health Service Act to require the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) to make grants to public and private nonprofit entities to: (1) demonstrate ways of integrating mental health services for older adults into primary care settings; and (2) support the establishment and maintenance of interdisciplinary geriatric mental health outreach teams in community settings where older adults reside or receive social services.
 
Requires the Director of the Center for Mental Health Services to designate a Deputy Director for Older Adult Mental Health Services to develop and implement initiatives to address the mental health needs of older adults.
 
Includes representatives of older adults or their families and geriatric mental health professionals on the Advisory Council for the Center.
 
Directs the Secretary to give special consideration to providing treatment for older adults with substance abuse disorders when developing program priorities for addressing priority substance abuse treatment needs of regional and national significance.
 
Requires state plans for community mental health services grants to describe: (1) the state's outreach to, and services for, older individuals, individuals who are homeless, and individuals living in rural areas; and (2) how community-based services will be provided to these individuals.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-08-04
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2010-08-04
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S6738)
action_date: 2010-08-04
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to prohibit the regulation of carbon dioxide emissions in the United States until China, India, and Russia implement similar reductions.

Bill: 111-s-3699
Sponsor: Sen. Vitter, David [R-LA]
Introduced: 2010-08-04 in the Senate
Policy area: Environmental Protection
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Air quality
Asia
China
Climate change and greenhouse gases
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
India
Russia

Summary:
action_date: 2010-08-04
text: 
Prohibits the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) or the head of any other federal agency from regulating carbon dioxide emissions until the Secretary of Commerce certifies that China, India, and Russia have initiated measures that require carbon dioxide emission reductions that are substantially similar to those proposed for the United States.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-08-04
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.
action_date: 2010-08-04
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to increase the maximum mortgage amount limitations under the Federal Housing Administration mortgage insurance programs for multi-family housing projects with elevators and for extremely high-cost areas.

Bill: 111-s-3700
Sponsor: Sen. Schumer, Charles E. [D-NY]
Introduced: 2010-08-04 in the Senate
Policy area: Housing and Community Development
Subjects: Cooperative and condominium housing
Government lending and loan guarantees
Housing finance and home ownership
Housing for the elderly and disabled
Low- and moderate-income housing

Summary:
action_date: 2010-08-04
text: 
Amends the National Housing Act to revise the maximum mortgage loan principal amounts the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) may insure for elevator-type multifamily structures for: (1) rental housing; (2) cooperative housing; (3) rehabilitation and neighborhood conservation housing; (4) housing for moderate income and displaced families; (5) housing for elderly persons; and (6) condominiums.
 
Replaces the current specific dollar amount limitations per family unit by which the insurable mortgage principal obligation for elevator-type multifamily structures may be increased. Prescribes instead an increase limitation per family unit of up to 50% higher than the corresponding limitations for non-elevator-type multifamily structures.
 
Authorizes the Secretary to prescribe a higher maximum (up to 50%) for the principal obligation of mortgages insured for multifamily projects located in an extremely high-cost area (similar to that for mortgage insurance for property in Alaska, Guam, Hawaii, and the Virgin Islands).


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-08-04
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.
action_date: 2010-08-04
text: Introduced in Senate
Rural America Preservation Act of 2010

Bill: 111-s-3701
Sponsor: Sen. Grassley, Chuck [R-IA]
Introduced: 2010-08-04 in the Senate
Policy area: Agriculture and Food
Subjects: Agricultural prices, subsidies, credit

Summary:
action_date: 2010-08-04
text: 
Rural America Preservation Act of 2010 - Amends the Food Security Act of 1985 to cap maximum annual direct and counter-cyclical payments to an individual (for covered commodities and peanuts) at $20,000 and $30,000, respectively. Revises limitation provisions for marketing loan gains, loan deficiency payments, and commodity certificate transactions, and establishes an annual combined limitation of $75,000 for such payments. Doubles payment limitations for single farming operations. Limits an individual or a legal entity to a combined annual payment of $250,000. 
 
Sets forth attribution of payment provisions for: (1) individuals; (2) legal entities; and (3) embedded legal entities.
 
Revises provisions respecting limitation of benefits to active farmers.
 
Makes a person who commits fraud in connection with a scheme or device to evade certain program limitations ineligible for farm benefits for six years.
 
Makes foreign individuals and foreign entities ineligible for agricultural program benefits.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-08-04
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry.
action_date: 2010-08-04
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to provide for the adjustment of status for certain long-term conditional residents.

Bill: 111-s-3702
Sponsor: Sen. Sessions, Jeff [R-AL]
Introduced: 2010-08-04 in the Senate
Policy area: Immigration
Subjects: Business investment and capital
Foreign labor
Immigration status and procedures
Small business

Summary:
action_date: 2010-08-04
text: 
Directs the Secretary of Homeland Security (DHS) to adjust the status of an eligible alien entrepreneur, alien spouse, or alien child to that of an alien lawfully admitted for permanent residency if the alien: (1) applies for such adjustment; (2) is present in the United States on the date of the application's filing; (3) is admissible as an immigrant; and (4) pays the appropriate fee.
 
Requires that an eligible alien: (1) became a conditional resident as an alien entrepreneur, alien spouse, or alien child on or before December 31, 1998; (2) applied to remove his or her conditional resident status (I-829 form) on or before December 31, 2000; and (3) had such form or a motion to reopen or reconsider the denial of such form pending before DHS as of the date of the enactment of this Act.
 
Authorizes the Secretary to waive grounds of inadmissibility (other than criminal or security grounds) with regard to such aliens for humanitarian, family unity, or public interest purposes.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-08-04
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2010-08-04
text: Introduced in Senate
Pulmonary Fibrosis Research Enhancement Act

Bill: 111-s-3703
Sponsor: Sen. Murray, Patty [D-WA]
Introduced: 2010-08-04 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Advisory bodies
Cardiovascular and respiratory health
Government information and archives
Health information and medical records
Health programs administration and funding
Medical research
Research administration and funding

Summary:
action_date: 2010-08-04
text: 
Pulmonary Fibrosis Research Enhancement Act - Amends the Public Health Service Act to require the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS), acting through the Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), to: (1) establish the National Pulmonary Fibrosis Advisory Board; (2) develop a system to collect data on pulmonary fibrosis and other interstitial lung diseases; and (3) establish the National PF Registry.
 
Requires the Secretary, in developing the Registry, to: (1) expand and coordinate existing data and surveillance systems, surveys, registries, and other federal public health and environmental infrastructure; and (2) provide for research access to pulmonary fibrosis data.
 
Directs the Secretary to ensure that epidemiological and other types of information are made available to the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA).
 
Requires the Director of CDC to prepare the National Pulmonary Fibrosis Education and Awareness Plan, which shall: (1) focus on strategies to increase public education and awareness of pulmonary fibrosis; (2) address the need for new physician education strategies to improve diagnosis and treatment standards; and (3) assess and monitor the costs of pulmonary fibrosis and its burden on patients and families.
 
Encourages the Director of the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute to expand, intensify, and coordinate Institute pulmonary fibrosis research activities.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-08-04
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2010-08-04
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S6738-6739)
action_date: 2010-08-04
text: Introduced in Senate
Safe and Efficient Transportation Act of 2010

Bill: 111-s-3705
Sponsor: Sen. Crapo, Mike [R-ID]
Introduced: 2010-08-04 in the Senate
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Government trust funds
Infrastructure development
Motor carriers
Motor vehicles
Roads and highways
Tax administration and collection, taxpayers
Transportation programs funding
Transportation safety and security

Summary:
action_date: 2010-08-04
text: 
Safe and Efficient Transportation Act of 2010 - Allows a state to authorize a vehicle with a maximum gross weight (including enforcement tolerances) exceeding certain federal weight limitations to operate on Interstate Highway System (IHS) routes in the state if: (1) the vehicle is equipped with at least six axles; (2) the weight of any single axle does not exceed 20,000 pounds; (3) the weight of any tandem axle does not exceed 34,000 pounds; (4) the weight of any group of 3 or more axles does not exceed 51,000 pounds; and (5) the gross weight of the vehicle does not exceed 97,000 pounds.
 
Directs the Secretary of Transportation to establish a safe and efficient vehicle bridge infrastructure improvement program. Requires the Secretary to apportion amounts from the Safe and Efficient Vehicle Trust Fund to states for eligible bridge replacement or rehabilitation projects.
 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) impose an overweight vehicle tax on any vehicles that exceed federal weight limitations operating on the IHS; and (2) establish the Safe and Efficient Vehicle Trust Fund.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-08-04
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2010-08-04
text: Introduced in Senate