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Personalize Your Care Act of 2011

Bill: 112-hr-1589
Sponsor: Rep. Blumenauer, Earl [D-OR-3]
Introduced: 2011-04-15 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Department of Health and Human Services
Health information and medical records
Health programs administration and funding
Long-term, rehabilitative, and terminal care
Medicaid
Medicare

Summary:
action_date: 2011-04-15
text: 
Personalize Your Care Act of 2011 - Amends titles XVIII (Medicare) and XIX (Medicaid) to cover a Voluntary Advance Care Planning Consultation.
 
Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) to make grants to eligible entities to: (1) establish statewide programs for physician orders for life-sustaining treatment, or (2) expand or enhance existing programs for physician orders for life-sustaining treatment. 
 
Directs the Secretary to adopt, by rule, standards for a qualified electronic health record, with respect to patient communications with a health care provider about values and goals of care, to adequately display the patient's current: (1) advance directive, and/or (2) physician order for life-sustaining treatment.
 
Requires under Medicare and Medicaid that an advance directive validly executed outside the state in which the directive is presented must be given effect by a service provider or an organization to the same extent as an advance directive validly executed under the law of the state in which it is presented. Requires that, in the absence of a validly executed advance directive, any authentic expression of a person's wishes with respect to health care be honored.
 

 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-04-25
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2011-04-19
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2011-04-15
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, 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: 2011-04-15
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, 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: 2011-04-15
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E737)
action_date: 2011-04-15
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-04-15
text: Introduced in House
To provide for the disposition of the Space Shuttle Discovery upon retirement.

Bill: 112-hr-1590
Sponsor: Rep. Jackson Lee, Sheila [D-TX-18]
Introduced: 2011-04-15 in the House
Policy area: Science, Technology, Communications
Subjects: Museums, exhibitions, cultural centers
Spacecraft and satellites
Texas

Summary:
action_date: 2011-04-15
text: 
Requires the Space Shuttle Discovery to be displayed at the Space Center Houston in Houston, Texas, for a period of 15 years after its retirement from service, after which time it shall be returned to Washington, D.C. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-05-06
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Space and Aeronautics.
action_date: 2011-04-15
text: Referred to the House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology.
action_date: 2011-04-15
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-04-15
text: Introduced in House
Sanctity of Eternal Rest for Veterans Act of 2011

Bill: 112-hr-1591
Sponsor: Rep. Bass, Charles F. [R-NH-2]
Introduced: 2011-04-15 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Assault and harassment offenses
Cemeteries and funerals
Civil actions and liability
Military personnel and dependents
Protest and dissent
Right of privacy
Virginia

Summary:
action_date: 2011-04-15
text: 
Sanctity of Eternal Rest for Veterans Act of 2011 or SERVE Act of 2011 - Amends the federal criminal code concerning the prohibition on disruptions of funerals of members or former members of the Armed Forces to increase the period covered under such prohibition from one to two hours before and after a military funeral. Includes within such unlawful conduct any disturbance or disruption occurring within 500 feet of the residence of a surviving member of a deceased's immediate family. Provides civil remedies, including actual and statutory damages.
 
Makes identical changes under federal veterans' provisions concerning the prohibition on certain demonstrations and disruptions at national cemeteries, including Arlington National Cemetery.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-08-25
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.
action_date: 2011-05-18
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Military Personnel.
action_date: 2011-04-29
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Disability Assistance and Memorial Affairs.
action_date: 2011-04-15
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committees on Veterans' Affairs, and Armed Services, 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: 2011-04-15
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committees on Veterans' Affairs, and Armed Services, 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: 2011-04-15
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committees on Veterans' Affairs, and Armed Services, 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: 2011-04-15
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-04-15
text: Introduced in House
To limit United States assistance to the Palestinian Authority if the Palestinian Authority unilaterally declares a Palestinian state.

Bill: 112-hr-1592
Sponsor: Rep. Berkley, Shelley [D-NV-1]
Introduced: 2011-04-15 in the House
Policy area: International Affairs
Subjects: Arab-Israeli relations
Congressional oversight
Foreign aid and international relief
Middle East
Palestinians
Sanctions
Sovereignty, recognition, national governance and status

Summary:
action_date: 2011-04-15
text: 
Prohibits assistance to the Palestinian Authority (PA) from being obligated or expended if the President certifies to Congress that the PA has unilaterally declared a Palestinian state.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-05-13
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Middle East and South Asia .
action_date: 2011-04-15
text: Referred to the House Committee on Foreign Affairs.
action_date: 2011-04-15
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-04-15
text: Introduced in House
Farmland Preservation and Land Conservation Act of 2011

Bill: 112-hr-1593
Sponsor: Rep. Bishop, Timothy H. [D-NY-1]
Introduced: 2011-04-15 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Farmland
Land transfers
Land use and conservation
Tax administration and collection, taxpayers
Transfer and inheritance taxes

Summary:
action_date: 2011-04-15
text: 
Farmland Preservation and Land Conservation Act of 2011- Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow an estate and gift tax exclusion for real property located in the United States which at the time of a decedent's death was being used as a farm for farming purposes or exclusively for conservation purposes. Imposes: (1) an additional estate or gift tax with respect to such property if an heir or donee disposes of or uses such property for other than farming or conservation purposes, and (2) a federal tax lien on such property until liability for estate or gift tax with respect to such property has been satisfied or has become unenforceable.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-04-15
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2011-04-15
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-04-15
text: Introduced in House
Open Space Preservation Promotion Act of 2011

Bill: 112-hr-1594
Sponsor: Rep. Bishop, Timothy H. [D-NY-1]
Introduced: 2011-04-15 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Capital gains tax
Income tax deferral
Land transfers
Land use and conservation
Social work, volunteer service, charitable organizations
Tax-exempt organizations

Summary:
action_date: 2011-04-15
text: 
Open Space Preservation Promotion Act of 2011 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow installment sales treatment for land sold to a governmental unit or tax-exempt charitable organization for conservation purposes even though the purchase funds for such sale are held in a sinking or similar fund, as required by state law.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-04-15
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2011-04-15
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-04-15
text: Introduced in House
Veterans' Home Loan Improvement Act of 2011

Bill: 112-hr-1595
Sponsor: Rep. Blumenauer, Earl [D-OR-3]
Introduced: 2011-04-15 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Housing finance and home ownership
Income tax exclusion
Securities
Veterans' loans, housing, homeless programs

Summary:
action_date: 2011-04-15
text: 
Veterans' Home Loan Improvement Act of 2011 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to expand the eligibility of veterans for mortgage financing under the veterans' mortgage revenue bond program by redefining &quot;qualified veteran&quot; as any veteran who served on active duty. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-04-15
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2011-04-15
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E744)
action_date: 2011-04-15
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-04-15
text: Introduced in House
Superfund Reinvestment Act

Bill: 112-hr-1596
Sponsor: Rep. Blumenauer, Earl [D-OR-3]
Introduced: 2011-04-15 in the House
Policy area: Environmental Protection
Subjects: Budget deficits and national debt
Government trust funds
Hazardous wastes and toxic substances
Income tax rates
Pollution liability
Sales and excise taxes

Summary:
action_date: 2011-04-15
text: 
Superfund Reinvestment Act - Amends the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980 (CERCLA) to authorize the use of amounts in the Hazardous Substance Superfund for environmental cleanup costs authorized by such Act. 
 
Provides that receipts and disbursements of the Hazardous Substance Superfund: (1) shall not be counted as new budget authority, outlays, receipts, or deficit or surplus, for purposes of the President's budget, the congressional budget, the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, or the Statutory Pay-As-You-Go Act of 2010; (2) shall be exempt from any general budget limitations; and (3) shall be available only for the purposes specified in CERCLA. 
 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to reinstate until December 31, 2018, the Hazardous Substance Superfund financing rate and the corporate environmental income tax and extend the borrowing authority of the Superfund through 2021.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-04-25
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Environment and the Economy.
action_date: 2011-04-18
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment.
action_date: 2011-04-15
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committees on Transportation and Infrastructure, Energy and Commerce, and the Budget, 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: 2011-04-15
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committees on Transportation and Infrastructure, Energy and Commerce, and the Budget, 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: 2011-04-15
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committees on Transportation and Infrastructure, Energy and Commerce, and the Budget, 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: 2011-04-15
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committees on Transportation and Infrastructure, Energy and Commerce, and the Budget, 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: 2011-04-15
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E761)
action_date: 2011-04-15
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-04-15
text: Introduced in House
California Ocean and Coastal Protection Act

Bill: 112-hr-1597
Sponsor: Rep. Capps, Lois [D-CA-23]
Introduced: 2011-04-15 in the House
Policy area: Energy
Subjects: California
Marine and coastal resources, fisheries
Oil and gas
Pacific Ocean

Summary:
action_date: 2011-04-15
text: 
California Ocean and Coastal Protection Act - Amends the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act to prohibit oil and gas preleasing, leasing, and related activities in areas of the Outer Continental Shelf located off the coast of California.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-04-22
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources.
action_date: 2011-04-15
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2011-04-15
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-04-15
text: Introduced in House
Minimum Staffing of Air Traffic Controllers Act of 2011

Bill: 112-hr-1600
Sponsor: Rep. Jackson Lee, Sheila [D-TX-18]
Introduced: 2011-04-15 in the House
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Aviation and airports
Department of Transportation
Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management
Transportation employees
Transportation safety and security

Summary:
action_date: 2011-04-15
text: 
Minimum Staffing of Air Traffic Controllers Act of 2011 - Directs the Secretary of Transportation (DOT) to take necessary action to ensure that a commercial airport has at least two air traffic controllers on duty and physically situated within the airport's air traffic control room or tower at all times during periods of airfield operations.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-04-18
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Aviation.
action_date: 2011-04-15
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2011-04-15
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-04-15
text: Introduced in House
Tax Cuts for America Act of 2011

Bill: 112-hr-1601
Sponsor: Rep. Cuellar, Henry [D-TX-28]
Introduced: 2011-04-15 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Books and print media
Elementary and secondary education
Employee benefits and pensions
Higher education
Housing finance and home ownership
Income tax credits
Income tax deductions
Income tax exclusion
Military personnel and dependents
Sales and excise taxes
Securities
Social work, volunteer service, charitable organizations
State and local taxation
Student aid and college costs
Teaching, teachers, curricula
Wages and earnings

Summary:
action_date: 2011-04-15
text: 
Tax Cuts for America Act of 2011 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to make permanent: (1) the tax credit for differential wage payments for employees who are active duty members of the uniformed services, (2) the tax deduction for charitable contributions of book inventories to public schools, (3) the tax deduction for certain expenses of elementary and secondary school teachers, (4) the tax deduction for qualified tuition and related expenses, and (5) the tax deduction for state and local sales taxes in lieu of state and local income taxes. 
 
Amends the Housing and Economic Recovery Act of 2008 to make permanent the exclusion from income of military basic housing allowances for purposes of the low-income housing tax credit. 
 
Makes permanent provisions of the Economic Growth and Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2001 relating to the tax exclusion for employer-provided educational assistance and the tax deduction for interest on student loans. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-04-15
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2011-04-15
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-04-15
text: Introduced in House
Children's Budget Act

Bill: 112-hr-1602
Sponsor: Rep. Davis, Danny K. [D-IL-7]
Introduced: 2011-04-15 in the House
Policy area: Economics and Public Finance
Subjects: Appropriations
Budget process
Child care and development
Child health
Child safety and welfare
Congressional oversight
Education programs funding
Elementary and secondary education
Health programs administration and funding
Poverty and welfare assistance

Summary:
action_date: 2011-04-15
text: 
Children's Budget Act - Requires the President's annual budget to Congress to include a detailed, separate analysis for the prior fiscal year, the current fiscal year, the fiscal year for which the budget is submitted, and the ensuing fiscal year identifying the amounts of gross and net appropriations or obligational authority and outlays directed to children and children's programs within the United States and territories.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-04-15
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Budget.
action_date: 2011-04-15
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E757-758)
action_date: 2011-04-15
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-04-15
text: Introduced in House
To establish the Emergency Trade Deficit Commission, and for other purposes.

Bill: 112-hr-1603
Sponsor: Rep. DeFazio, Peter A. [D-OR-4]
Introduced: 2011-04-15 in the House
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Advanced technology and technological innovations
Advisory bodies
Competitiveness, trade promotion, trade deficits
Congressional oversight
Employment discrimination and employee rights
Environmental regulatory procedures
Free trade and trade barriers
International monetary system and foreign exchange
Manufacturing
Military procurement, research, weapons development
Oil and gas
Technology transfer and commercialization
Trade agreements and negotiations
U.S. and foreign investments

Summary:
action_date: 2011-04-15
text: 
Establishes the Emergency Trade Deficit Commission to examine, and report to the President and Congress on, the causes of the U.S. trade deficit, together with recommendations to address and reduce trade imbalances, such as the U.S. merchandise trade deficit, in order to promote sustainable economic growth that provides broad-based income and employment gains.
 
Prohibits the President from submitting to Congress any free trade agreement or legislation implementing one until the report has been delivered to Congress and to the President.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-04-19
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Trade.
action_date: 2011-04-15
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2011-04-15
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-04-15
text: Introduced in House
To facilitate certain activities, alleviate the extra regulatory burdens, and reduce costs related to carrying out projects of the Central Valley Project, and for other purposes.

Bill: 112-hr-1604
Sponsor: Rep. Denham, Jeff [R-CA-19]
Introduced: 2011-04-15 in the House
Policy area: Water Resources Development
Subjects: California
Environmental assessment, monitoring, research
Judicial review and appeals
Licensing and registrations
Water use and supply

Summary:
action_date: 2011-04-15
text: 
Deems the submission of a Notice of Determination for a CVP project or issuance of a permit related to such project in accordance with the California Environmental Quality Act to meet environmental impact statement requirements of the National Environmental Protection Act of 1969 for that project or permit. Declares that the Bureau of Reclamation shall not be required to cease activity on such a project pending completion of a review or legal challenge of such a Notice or issuance of such a permit.
 
Defines &quot;CVP&quot; to mean Central Valley Project and &quot;project&quot; to mean activity that: (1) is undertaken or funded by, or that requires an issuance of a permit by, a public agency; (2) has a potential to result in physical change to the environment; (3) may be subject to several discretionary approvals by governmental agencies; and (4) may include construction activities, clearing or grading of land, improvements to existing structures, and activities or equipment involving the issuance of a permit.
 
Subjects an authorized CVP project to judicial review only in the U.S. district court for a district in which the authorized project is located. Limits the length of preliminary injunctive relief and stays pending appeal covering an authorized CVP project to 60 days, subject to renewals. Directs the court, in considering an injunction to an agency action under an authorized project, to balance the impact to the ecosystem likely affected by the project of the short- and long-term effects of undertaking the action against those of not undertaking the action.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-07-11
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Courts, Commercial and Administrative Law.
action_date: 2011-04-19
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Water and Power.
action_date: 2011-04-15
text: Referred to the Committee on Natural Resources, and in addition to the Committee on the Judiciary, 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: 2011-04-15
text: Referred to the Committee on Natural Resources, and in addition to the Committee on the Judiciary, 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: 2011-04-15
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-04-15
text: Introduced in House