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Ensuring Pay for Our Military Act of 2011

Bill: 112-s-721
Sponsor: Sen. Hutchison, Kay Bailey [R-TX]
Introduced: 2011-04-04 in the Senate
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Appropriations
Coast guard
Defense spending
Department of Defense
Department of Homeland Security
Military personnel and dependents
National Guard and reserves
Wages and earnings

Summary:
action_date: 2011-04-04
text: 
Ensuring Pay for Our Military Act of 2011 - Requires the Secretary of the Treasury, during a federal funding gap impacting the Armed Forces, to transfer to the Secretary of Defense (DOD), and the Secretary of Homeland Security (DHS) in the case of the Coast Guard, amounts necessary to continue to provide pay and allowances to members of the Armed Forces, including the reserves, who perform active service during the funding gap.
 
Prohibits any such transfer after December 31, 2011.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-04-04
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Appropriations.
action_date: 2011-04-04
text: Introduced in Senate
Hospice Evaluation and Legitimate Payment Act

Bill: 112-s-722
Sponsor: Sen. Wyden, Ron [D-OR]
Introduced: 2011-04-04 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Health care coverage and access
Health facilities and institutions
Long-term, rehabilitative, and terminal care
Medicare

Summary:
action_date: 2011-04-04
text: 
Hospice Evaluation and Legitimate Payment Act - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act with respect to the face-to-face encounter framework in hospice care. Allows a clinical nurse specialist, physician assistant, or other health professional (in addition to a hospice physician or a nurse practitioner, as under current law) to conduct the face-to-face encounter with an individual to determine continued eligibility for hospice care before the first 60-day (currently, 180-day) recertification period and each subsequent recertification period.
 
Requires the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) to establish a Medicare Hospice Payment Reform demonstration program to test any revisions to the methodology for determining payment rates for routine home care and other hospice care services.
 
Sets at every three years the frequency of surveys of certified hospice program entities.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-04-04
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. (text of measure as introduced: CR S2089-2090)
action_date: 2011-04-04
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S2089)
action_date: 2011-04-04
text: Introduced in Senate
Birthright Citizenship Act of 2011

Bill: 112-s-723
Sponsor: Sen. Vitter, David [R-LA]
Introduced: 2011-04-05 in the Senate
Policy area: Immigration
Subjects: Citizenship and naturalization
Military personnel and dependents

Summary:
action_date: 2011-04-05
text: 
Birthright Citizenship Act of 2011 - Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to consider a person born in the United States &quot;subject to the jurisdiction&quot; of the United States for citizenship at birth purposes only if the person is born in the United States of parents, one of whom is: (1) a U.S. citizen or national, (2) a lawful permanent resident alien whose residence is in the United States, or (3) an alien performing active service in the U.S. Armed Forces.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-04-05
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2011-04-05
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S2131-2132)
action_date: 2011-04-05
text: Introduced in Senate
Ensuring Pay for Our Military Act of 2011

Bill: 112-s-724
Sponsor: Sen. Hutchison, Kay Bailey [R-TX]
Introduced: 2011-04-05 in the Senate
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Appropriations
Coast guard
Defense spending
Department of Defense
Department of Homeland Security
Executive agency funding and structure
Military personnel and dependents
Military procurement, research, weapons development
National Guard and reserves
Public contracts and procurement
Wages and earnings

Summary:
action_date: 2011-04-05
text: 
Ensuring Pay for Our Military Act of 2011 - Requires the Secretary of the Treasury, during a federal funding gap impacting the Armed Forces, to transfer to the Secretary of Defense (DHS), and the Secretary of Homeland Security (DHS) in the case of the Coast Guard, amounts necessary to continue to provide pay and allowances to members of the Armed Forces, including the reserves, who perform active service during the funding gap. Allows for the provision of such pay and allowances, at the discretion of the Secretary of Defense, for: (1) civilian DOD personnel providing support to such members; and (2) DOD contractor personnel providing direct support to such members.
 
Prohibits any such transfer after December 31, 2011.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-04-08
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S2291, S2291-2292, S2322-2323)
action_date: 2011-04-07
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S2257-2258)
action_date: 2011-04-06
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S2152-2153)
action_date: 2011-04-05
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Appropriations.
action_date: 2011-04-05
text: Introduced in Senate
Medicare Safe Needle Disposal Coverage Act of 2011

Bill: 112-s-725
Sponsor: Sen. Isakson, Johnny [R-GA]
Introduced: 2011-04-05 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Health technology, devices, supplies
Home and outpatient care
Medicare
Prescription drugs
Solid waste and recycling

Summary:
action_date: 2011-04-05
text: 
Medicare Safe Needle Disposal Coverage Act of 2011 - Amends part D (Voluntary Prescription Drug Benefit Program) of title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to cover as a part D drug any devices approved for home use by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for the safe and effective containment, removal, decontamination, and disposal of home-generated needles, syringes, and other sharps through a sharps container, decontamination/destructive device, or sharps-by-mail program or similar program.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-04-05
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2011-04-05
text: Introduced in Senate
Decrease Spending Now Act

Bill: 112-s-726
Sponsor: Sen. Rubio, Marco [R-FL]
Introduced: 2011-04-05 in the Senate
Policy area: Economics and Public Finance
Subjects: Appropriations
Budget deficits and national debt

Summary:
action_date: 2011-04-05
text: 
Decrease Spending Now Act - Rescinds $45 billion of unobligated balances of current discretionary appropriations.
 
Requires the Director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) to: (1) determine which appropriation accounts the rescission shall apply to and the amount that each such account shall be reduced, and (2) report to the Secretary of the Treasury and Congress a list of the accounts reduced by the rescission, including the amounts rescinded from each such account.
 
Exempts from such rescission the Department of Defense (DOD), the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), and the Social Security Administration (SSA).
 

 
 

 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-04-05
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Budget.
action_date: 2011-04-05
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to grant a Federal charter to the National American Indian Veterans, Incorporated.

Bill: 112-s-728
Sponsor: Sen. Johnson, Tim [D-SD]
Introduced: 2011-04-05 in the Senate
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Alaska Natives and Hawaiians
Federally chartered organizations
Indian social and development programs
Veterans' education, employment, rehabilitation

Summary:
action_date: 2011-04-05
text: 
Grants a federal charter to the National American Indian Veterans, Incorporated (a nonprofit corporation organized in the United States). 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-04-05
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2011-04-05
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to validate final patent number 27-2005-0081, and for other purposes.

Bill: 112-s-729
Sponsor: Sen. Ensign, John [R-NV]
Introduced: 2011-04-05 in the Senate
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Endangered and threatened species
Environmental assessment, monitoring, research
Land transfers
Nevada
Reptiles
Wildlife conservation and habitat protection

Summary:
action_date: 2011-04-05
text: 
Affirms and validates a specified patent and the associated land reconfiguration issued by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) as having been issued in compliance with the Nevada-Florida Land Exchange Authorization Act of 1988, the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969, and the Federal Land Policy Management Act of 1976 for the benefit and recovery of the desert tortoise and other species and related habitat. Ratifies: (1) the process used by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the BLM in reconfiguring the land as shown in a specified environmental impact statement, and (2) the reconfiguration provided for in a specified Army Corps of Engineers permit.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-05-18
text: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources Subcommittee on Public Lands and Forests. Hearings held. With printed Hearing: S.Hrg. 112-39.
action_date: 2011-04-05
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
action_date: 2011-04-05
text: Introduced in Senate
Southeast Alaska Native Land Entitlement Finalization and Jobs Protection Act

Bill: 112-s-730
Sponsor: Sen. Murkowski, Lisa [R-AK]
Introduced: 2011-04-05 in the Senate
Policy area: Native Americans
Subjects: Alaska
Alaska Natives and Hawaiians
Alternative and renewable resources
Economic development
Forests, forestry, trees
Historic sites and heritage areas
Historical and cultural resources
Indian lands and resources rights
Land transfers
Land use and conservation
Parks, recreation areas, trails
Roads and highways
Wilderness and natural areas, wildlife refuges, wild rivers, habitats

Summary:
action_date: 2011-04-05
text: 
Southeast Alaska Native Land Entitlement Finalization and Jobs Protection Act - Authorizes Sealaska, the regional Alaska Native Corporation for southeast Alaska, subject to certain conditions and restrictions, to select and receive conveyance of its remaining land entitlement under the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act (ANCSA) from federal land in southeast Alaska that is outside the areas for selection delineated by the ANCSA. 
 
Includes in these lands certain sites: (1) identified on specified maps as having traditional, recreational, and renewable energy use value; and (2) identified by Sealaska as having sacred, cultural, traditional, or historic significance. 
 
Prohibits Sealaska from selecting: (1) sacred, cultural, traditional, or historic sites that are within the National Park System; or (2) land from the mapped sites, other than trade and migration route land, that lies within a conservation system unit. (A conservation system unit includes any unit of the National Park System, National Wildlife Refuge System, National Wild and Scenic Rivers Systems, National Trails System, National Wilderness Preservation System, or a National Forest Monument.)
 
Amends the Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act to designate specified lands within Tongass National Forest as conservation areas that are to be given Land Use Designation II status and managed by the Secretary of Agriculture to protect subsistence activities and unique biological and geological resources, and prohibit commercial timber harvests or new road construction.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-05-25
text: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources Subcommittee on Public Lands and Forests. Hearings held. With printed Hearing: S.Hrg. 112-131.
action_date: 2011-04-05
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. (text of measure as introduced: CR S2136-2138)
action_date: 2011-04-05
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S2135-2136)
action_date: 2011-04-05
text: Introduced in Senate
Travel Reimbursement for Inactive Duty Training Personnel (TRIP) Act of 2011

Bill: 112-s-731
Sponsor: Sen. Begich, Mark [D-AK]
Introduced: 2011-04-05 in the Senate
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Military personnel and dependents
National Guard and reserves
Transportation costs

Summary:
action_date: 2011-04-05
text: 
 Travel Reimbursement for Inactive Duty Training Personnel (TRIP) Act of 2011 - Directs the Secretary of the military department concerned to reimburse a member of the reserves for transportation expenses incurred in connection with: (1) round-trip travel in excess of 100 miles to an inactive duty training location, regardless of the method of transportation; and (2) round-trip travel of any distance to an inactive duty training location, if such travel requires a commercial method of transportation other than ground transportation. Requires the Secretary, in determining the amount of the allowance or reimbursement, to use the reimbursement rate for the use of privately-owned vehicles by government employees on official business. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-04-05
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Armed Services.
action_date: 2011-04-05
text: Introduced in Senate
Cell Phone Bill Shock Act of 2011

Bill: 112-s-732
Sponsor: Sen. Udall, Tom [D-NM]
Introduced: 2011-04-05 in the Senate
Policy area: Science, Technology, Communications
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Federal Communications Commission (FCC)
Telecommunication rates and fees
Telephone and wireless communication

Summary:
action_date: 2011-04-05
text: 
Cell Phone Bill Shock Act of 2011 - Requires the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to promulgate regulations requiring a commercial mobile service provider to: (1) notify a subscriber who has used in excess of a certain percentage of the monthly limit of specified services (voice minutes, text messages, or data megabytes) agreed to in a service contract; (2) obtain a subscriber's consent before it allows the subscriber to use such services in excess of the monthly limit; and (3) ensure that the subscriber is not charged for any such notice or any consent.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-04-05
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. (text of measure as introduced: CR S2139)
action_date: 2011-04-05
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S2139)
action_date: 2011-04-05
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to amend part B of title XVIII of the Social Security Act to exclude customary prompt pay discounts from manufacturers to wholesalers from the average sales price for drugs and biologicals under Medicare.

Bill: 112-s-733
Sponsor: Sen. Roberts, Pat [R-KS]
Introduced: 2011-04-05 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Medicare
Prescription drugs

Summary:
action_date: 2011-04-05
text: 
Amends part B (Supplementary Medical Insurance) of title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to exclude from the average sales price in calculating Medicare payments for drugs and biologicals any customary prompt pay discounts from manufacturers to wholesalers.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-04-05
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. (text of measure as introduced: CR S2140)
action_date: 2011-04-05
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S2139-2140)
action_date: 2011-04-05
text: Introduced in Senate
Belarus Democracy Reauthorization Act of 2011

Bill: 112-s-735
Sponsor: Sen. Kerry, John F. [D-MA]
Introduced: 2011-04-06 in the Senate
Policy area: International Affairs
Subjects: Belarus
Congressional oversight
Europe
European Union
Foreign aid and international relief
Human rights
International exchange and broadcasting
International organizations and cooperation
Internet and video services
Internet, web applications, social media
News media and reporting
Political parties and affiliation
Protest and dissent
Rule of law and government transparency
Russia
Sanctions
Sovereignty, recognition, national governance and status

Summary:
action_date: 2011-04-06
text: 
Belarus Democracy Reauthorization Act of 2011 - Amends the Belarus Democracy Act of 2004 to authorize assistance to promote democracy and civil society in Belarus.
 
Includes Internet broadcasting within the scope of support and funding for broadcasting from within and to Belarus. 
 
Expresses the sense of Congress that the President should continue to support Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty and Voice of America broadcasting to the people of Belarus to ensure access to objective and timely information about domestic and global public affairs.
 
Includes among the criteria that the government of Belarus must meet in order to end U.S. sanctions the release of individuals who were jailed based on political beliefs or human rights violations in connection with the repression that attended the December 2010 presidential election.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-04-06
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations.
action_date: 2011-04-06
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to improve the Fugitive Safe Surrender Program.

Bill: 112-s-736
Sponsor: Sen. Brown, Sherrod [D-OH]
Introduced: 2011-04-06 in the Senate
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Criminal investigation, prosecution, interrogation
Law enforcement administration and funding

Summary:
action_date: 2011-04-06
text: 
Amends the Adam Walsh Child Protection and Safety Act of 2006 to place the Fugitive Safe Surrender Program under the direction of the Attorney General (currently, the United States Marshals Service) and to authorize appropriations for the Program for FY2012-FY2016.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-04-06
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2011-04-06
text: Introduced in Senate
Responsible Consumer Financial Protection Regulations Act of 2011

Bill: 112-s-737
Sponsor: Sen. Moran, Jerry [R-KS]
Introduced: 2011-04-06 in the Senate
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: Appropriations
Banking and financial institutions regulation
Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
Consumer affairs
Consumer credit
Executive agency funding and structure
Federal Reserve System
Federal officials
Financial services and investments

Summary:
action_date: 2011-04-06
text: 
Responsible Consumer Financial Protection Regulations Act of 2011 - Amends the Consumer Financial Protection Act of 2010, title X of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, to replace the position of Director of the Bureau of Consumer Financial Protection with a five-member Commission whose members are appointed by the President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate.
 
Prohibits the Chair of the Commission from making requests for estimates related to appropriations without the prior approval of the Commission.
 
Revises procedures for funding the Bureau. Eliminates the Consumer Financial Protection Fund and the requirement that the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System transfer funds to the Bureau from the combined earnings of the Federal Reserve System. Authorizes appropriations for FY2011-FY2012.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-04-06
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.
action_date: 2011-04-06
text: Introduced in Senate
Health Outcomes, Planning, and Education for Alzheimer's Act

Bill: 112-s-738
Sponsor: Sen. Stabenow, Debbie [D-MI]
Introduced: 2011-04-06 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Health care coverage and access
Health information and medical records
Medical tests and diagnostic methods
Medicare
Neurological disorders

Summary:
action_date: 2011-04-06
text: 
Health Outcomes, Planning, and Education for Alzheimer's Act - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to cover comprehensive Alzheimer's disease and related dementia diagnosis and services.
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-04-06
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2011-04-06
text: Introduced in Senate
Garrett Lee Smith Memorial Act Reauthorization of 2011

Bill: 112-s-740
Sponsor: Sen. Reed, Jack [D-RI]
Introduced: 2011-04-06 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: 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: 2011-04-06
text: 
Garrett Lee Smith Memorial Act Reauthorization of 2011 - Amends the Public Health Service Act to reauthorize and revise a research, training, and technical assistance resource center to prevent suicides (the Suicide Prevention Resource Center). Expands the program's focus from youth suicides to suicides among all ages, particularly among groups that are at high risk for suicide. Repeals provisions providing for grants to establish research, training, and technical assistance centers related to mental health, substance abuse and the justice system. 
 
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.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-04-06
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. (text of measure as introduced: CR S2190-2192)
action_date: 2011-04-06
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S2190, S2192-2193)
action_date: 2011-04-06
text: Introduced in Senate