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Interstate Horseracing Improvement Act of 2011

Bill: 112-s-886
Sponsor: Sen. Udall, Tom [D-NM]
Introduced: 2011-05-04 in the Senate
Policy area: Sports and Recreation
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Civil actions and liability
Drug, alcohol, tobacco use
Federal Trade Commission (FTC)
Professional sports
Veterinary medicine and animal diseases

Summary:
action_date: 2011-05-04
text: 
Interstate Horseracing Improvement Act of 2011 - Amends the Interstate Horseracing Act of 1978 to prohibit: (1) entering a horse in a race that is subject to an interstate off-track wager if the person knows the horse is under the influence of a performance-enhancing drug; or (2) knowingly providing a horse with such a drug if the horse, while under the influence of such drug, will participate in a race that is subject to an interstate off-track wager.
 
Prohibits a host racing association from conducting a race that is the subject of an interstate off-track wager unless it has in place a policy that: (1) bans providing a performance-enhancing drug to a horse that will participate in such race while under the influence of the drug, (2) bans the racing of a horse that is under the influence, and (3) requires that an accredited third party conformity assessment body test the first-place horse and one additional randomly selected horse for any such drug and report any test results demonstrating that a horse may have participated while under the influence to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and any host racing commission that entered into an agreement to enforce this Act's provisions.
 
Sets forth penalties for violations, including: (1) civil penalties and suspension of a person providing a horse with such drug, and (2) suspension of a horse that is provided with such a drug or that is raced in violation of this Act. Provides for enforcement of this Act through private civil actions and by the FTC, including through an agreement with a host state's racing commission.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-05-04
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. (text of measure as introduced: CR S2690-2691)
action_date: 2011-05-04
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S2689-2690)
action_date: 2011-05-04
text: Introduced in Senate
CDBG Public Services Flexibility Act of 2011

Bill: 112-s-887
Sponsor: Sen. Nelson, Bill [D-FL]
Introduced: 2011-05-04 in the Senate
Policy area: Housing and Community Development
Subjects: Child care and development
Crime prevention
Drug, alcohol, tobacco use
Education programs funding
Employment and training programs
Energy efficiency and conservation
Health programs administration and funding
Housing and community development funding
Law enforcement administration and funding
Poverty and welfare assistance

Summary:
action_date: 2011-05-04
text: 
CDBG Public Services Flexibility Act of 2011 - Amends the Housing and Community Development Act of 1974 to revise requirements for activities eligible for community development block grant (CDBG) assistance.
 
Increases from 15% to 25% the limitation on the amount of CDBG assistance that may be used to provide public services (e.g., those concerned with employment, crime prevention, child care, health, drug abuse, education, energy conservation, welfare or recreation needs).
 
(Currently, only the city and county of Los Angeles, California, and the city of Miami, Florida, are favored with the 25% limit on the amount of CDBG assistance that may be used to provide public services.)


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-05-04
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.
action_date: 2011-05-04
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to amend the Wild and Scenic Rivers Act to designate a segment of Illabot Creek in Skagit County, Washington, as a component of the National Wild and Scenic Rivers System.

Bill: 112-s-888
Sponsor: Sen. Murray, Patty [D-WA]
Introduced: 2011-05-05 in the Senate
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Washington State
Wilderness and natural areas, wildlife refuges, wild rivers, habitats

Summary:
action_date: 2011-05-05
text: 
Amends the Wild and Scenic Rivers Act to designate a specified segment of the Illabot Creek in Skagit County, Washington, as a component of the National Wild and Scenic Rivers System. 

action_date: 2012-01-13
text: 

(This measure has not been amended since it was introduced. The summary of that version is repeated here.)

 
Amends the Wild and Scenic Rivers Act to designate a specified segment of the Illabot Creek in Skagit County, Washington, as a component of the National Wild and Scenic Rivers System.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2012-01-13
text: Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 281.
action_date: 2012-01-13
text: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Reported by Senator Bingaman under authority of the order of the Senate of 12/17/2011 without amendment. With written report No. 112-119.
action_date: 2012-01-13
text: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Reported by Senator Bingaman under authority of the order of the Senate of 12/17/2011 without amendment. With written report No. 112-119.
action_date: 2011-11-10
text: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Ordered to be reported without amendment favorably.
action_date: 2011-07-28
text: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources Subcommittee on National Parks. Hearings held. With printed Hearing: S.Hrg. 112-214.
action_date: 2011-05-05
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
action_date: 2011-05-05
text: Introduced in Senate
Mother's Day Centennial Commemorative Coin Act

Bill: 112-s-889
Sponsor: Sen. Rockefeller, John D., IV [D-WV]
Introduced: 2011-05-05 in the Senate
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: Cancer
Commemorative events and holidays
Currency
Medical research
Musculoskeletal and skin diseases
Social work, volunteer service, charitable organizations
Women's health

Summary:
action_date: 2011-05-05
text: 
Mother's Day Centennial Commemorative Coin Act - Instructs the Secretary of the Treasury to mint and issue not more than 400,000 $1 coins emblematic of the 100th anniversary of President Wilson's proclamation designating the second Sunday in May as Mother's Day.
 
Authorizes the Secretary to issue such coins beginning on January 1, 2014, except that the Secretary may initiate sales of such coins, without issuance, before such date.
 
Terminates such minting authority after December 31, 2014. 
 
Requires coin sales to include a $10 surcharge per coin, with distribution of such surcharges to the Susan G. Komen for the Cure and the National Osteoporosis Foundation for the purpose of furthering research. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-05-05
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.
action_date: 2011-05-05
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S2733)
action_date: 2011-05-05
text: Introduced in Senate
Medicare Hospice Care Access Act of 2011

Bill: 112-s-891
Sponsor: Sen. Grassley, Chuck [R-IA]
Introduced: 2011-05-05 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Health personnel
Long-term, rehabilitative, and terminal care
Medicare

Summary:
action_date: 2011-05-05
text: 
Medicare Hospice Care Access Act of 2011 - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to recognize attending physician assistants as attending physicians to serve hospice patients. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-05-05
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2011-05-05
text: Introduced in Senate
Feral Swine Eradication and Control Pilot Program Act of 2011

Bill: 112-s-893
Sponsor: Sen. Landrieu, Mary L. [D-LA]
Introduced: 2011-05-05 in the Senate
Policy area: Water Resources Development
Subjects: Ecology
Floods and storm protection
Louisiana
Mammals
Water resources funding
Wetlands

Summary:
action_date: 2011-05-05
text: 
Feral Swine Eradication and Control Pilot Program Act of 2011 - Authorizes the Secretary of the Interior to provide financial assistance to Louisiana to pay the federal share of the cost of a pilot program to: (1) study the damage to wetlands in Louisiana caused by feral swine, and (2) develop methods to eradicate or control feral swine and to restore damaged wetlands.
 
Requires the Secretary to ensure that the pilot program uses the knowledge and expertise gained through activities carried out under the Coastal Wetlands Planning, Protection and Restoration Act and the Nutria Eradication and Control Act of 2003.
 
Limits: (1) the federal share of total pilot program costs to 75%, and (2) the amount of the federal financial assistance that may for used for administrative expenses to 10%.

action_date: 2012-01-26
text: 

(This measure has not been amended since it was introduced. The summary of that version is repeated here.)

 
Feral Swine Eradication and Control Pilot Program Act of 2011 - Authorizes the Secretary of the Interior to provide financial assistance to Louisiana to pay the federal share of the cost of a pilot program to: (1) study the damage to wetlands in Louisiana caused by feral swine, and (2) develop methods to eradicate or control feral swine and to restore damaged wetlands.
 
Requires the Secretary to ensure that the pilot program uses the knowledge and expertise gained through activities carried out under the Coastal Wetlands Planning, Protection and Restoration Act and the Nutria Eradication and Control Act of 2003.
 
Limits: (1) the federal share of total pilot program costs to 75%, and (2) the amount of the federal financial assistance that may for used for administrative expenses to 10%.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2012-01-26
text: Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 303.
action_date: 2012-01-26
text: Committee on Environment and Public Works. Reported by Senator Boxer without amendment. With written report No. 112-137.
action_date: 2012-01-26
text: Committee on Environment and Public Works. Reported by Senator Boxer without amendment. With written report No. 112-137.
action_date: 2011-09-21
text: Committee on Environment and Public Works. Ordered to be reported without amendment favorably.
action_date: 2011-05-05
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.
action_date: 2011-05-05
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S2735-2736)
action_date: 2011-05-05
text: Introduced in Senate
Investing in Innovation for Education Act of 2011

Bill: 112-s-895
Sponsor: Sen. Begich, Mark [D-AK]
Introduced: 2011-05-05 in the Senate
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Academic performance and assessments
Education of the disadvantaged
Education programs funding
Elementary and secondary education
Performance measurement
Rural conditions and development
Teaching, teachers, curricula

Summary:
action_date: 2011-05-05
text: 
Investing in Innovation for Education Act of 2011 - Amends the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to direct the Secretary of Education to award competitive grants to local educational agencies (LEAs), educational service agencies, and nonprofit organizations to support the school innovation efforts of public schools and LEAs.
 
Requires at least 25% of the grant funds to be awarded for projects in rural areas. 
 
Requires each grant applicant to demonstrate that it has partnered with at least one private, nonprofit, or community-based organization that will provide matching funds. Allows the Secretary to waive the matching funds requirement upon a showing of exceptional circumstances.
 
Requires each grant to be used to address at least one of the following areas of school innovation: (1) improving the effectiveness of teachers and school leaders and promoting their equitable distribution, (2) strengthening the use of data to improve education, (3) providing high-quality instruction that is based on rigorous standards and measuring students' proficiency using high-quality assessments that are aligned to those standards, (4) turning around the lowest-performing schools, and (5) any other area of school innovation the Secretary chooses.
 
Directs the Secretary to establish performance measures for tracking each grantee's progress in: (1) improving the academic performance of public elementary and secondary school students, and specified subgroups of those students; and (2) implementing its project in rural schools, as applicable. Requires grantees to use grant funds to develop or expand strategies to improve high-need students' showing on those performance measures.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-05-05
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2011-05-05
text: Introduced in Senate
Safe Treatment of Polluted Stormwater Runoff Act

Bill: 112-s-898
Sponsor: Sen. Cardin, Benjamin L. [D-MD]
Introduced: 2011-05-05 in the Senate
Policy area: Environmental Protection
Subjects: Hazardous wastes and toxic substances
Hydrology and hydrography
Licensing and registrations
Roads and highways
Water quality
Watersheds

Summary:
action_date: 2011-05-05
text: 
Safe Treatment of Polluted Stormwater Runoff Act or STOPS Runoff Act - Directs the Secretary of Transportation (DOT), with the concurrence of the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), to establish a federal-aid highway runoff pollution avoidance and management program to ensure that covered federal-aid highway projects are sited, constructed, and maintained in accordance with certain design standards to control and treat polluted stormwater runoff from federal-aid highways. 
 
Authorizes the Secretary to approve state covered highway projects receiving federal funding only if the state provides assurances that it will site, design, and construct the project in accordance with such standards.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-05-05
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.
action_date: 2011-05-05
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S2737-2738)
action_date: 2011-05-05
text: Introduced in Senate
Simon Wiesenthal Holocaust Education Assistance Act

Bill: 112-s-900
Sponsor: Sen. Menendez, Robert [D-NJ]
Introduced: 2011-05-05 in the Senate
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Education programs funding
Elementary and secondary education
Religion
War crimes, genocide, crimes against humanity
World history

Summary:
action_date: 2011-05-05
text: 
Amends the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to authorize the Secretary of Education to award competitive grants to educational organizations to carry out proposed or existing Holocaust education programs.
 
Prohibits such grants from being used to supplant nonfederal funds the grantees would otherwise have used for Holocaust education programs.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-05-05
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2011-05-05
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S2740)
action_date: 2011-05-05
text: Introduced in Senate
Making Public Lands Public Access Act

Bill: 112-s-901
Sponsor: Sen. Tester, Jon [D-MT]
Introduced: 2011-05-05 in the Senate
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Appropriations
Hunting and fishing
Land transfers
Land use and conservation
Outdoor recreation

Summary:
action_date: 2011-05-05
text: 
Making Public Lands Public Access Act - Amends the Land and Water Conservation Fund Act of 1965 to direct the Secretary of the Interior and the Secretary of Agriculture (USDA) to ensure, from amounts requested for the Land and Water Conservation Fund per fiscal year, that not less than the greater of 1.5% of the requested amounts or $10 million be made available for certain projects identified on an annual priority list to be developed pursuant to this Act. 
 
Requires projects identified on such a list to secure, through rights-of-way or the acquisition of lands or interests from willing sellers, recreational public access to existing federal public lands that have significantly restricted access to hunting, fishing, and other recreational purposes. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-05-05
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
action_date: 2011-05-05
text: Introduced in Senate
School Building Fairness Act of 2011

Bill: 112-s-902
Sponsor: Sen. Harkin, Tom [D-IA]
Introduced: 2011-05-05 in the Senate
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Air quality
Child safety and welfare
Education of the disadvantaged
Education programs funding
Educational facilities and institutions
Educational technology and distance education
Elementary and secondary education
Energy efficiency and conservation
Government information and archives
Government studies and investigations
Hazardous wastes and toxic substances
Higher education
Noise pollution
Preschool education
Rural conditions and development

Summary:
action_date: 2011-05-05
text: 
School Building Fairness Act of 2011 - Amends the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (ESEA) to direct the Secretary of Education to allocate funds to states for competitive matching grants to local educational agencies (LEAs) for school repair, renovation, and construction. 
 
Reserves 1% of the grant funds for assistance to outlying areas and Indian schools.
 
 Requires each state, in awarding such grants to LEAs, to consider: (1) the percentage of poor children each LEA serves; (2) the condition of their public schools or need for additional schools; (3) the extent to which they will comply with certain green building standards; (4) their fiscal capacity to cover repairs, renovations, and construction without such a grant; and (5) the likelihood that they will maintain repaired, renovated, or newly constructed schools in good condition.
 
Requires each state to award high-need and rural LEAs, in the aggregate, at least the same proportion of this Act's LEA funds for the state that they received of total LEA school improvement funds for the state under part A of Title I of the ESEA.
 
Directs each state to reserve a portion of their allocation for a state-level database of public school facility inventory, condition, design, and utilization.
 
Requires the National Center for Education Statistics to study the condition of public elementary and secondary schools, including an analysis of trends in spending for their repair, renovation, and construction. 
 
Directs the Secretary to provide for the establishment of a clearinghouse of information on the best educational practices from nursery school through higher education, and the latest research regarding the construction, improvement, and maintenance of safe, healthy, and high-performance public schools.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-05-05
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. (text of measure as introduced: CR S2741-2743)
action_date: 2011-05-05
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S2740-2741)
action_date: 2011-05-05
text: Introduced in Senate
Citrus Disease Research and Development Trust Fund Act of 2011

Bill: 112-s-903
Sponsor: Sen. Nelson, Bill [D-FL]
Introduced: 2011-05-05 in the Senate
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Agricultural research
Agricultural trade
Animal and plant health
Congressional oversight
Fruit and vegetables
Government trust funds
Pest management
Research administration and funding
Research and development
Tariffs
Trade agreements and negotiations

Summary:
action_date: 2011-05-05
text: 
Citrus Disease Research and Development Trust Fund Act of 2011 - Amends the Trade Act of 1974 to establish the Citrus Disease Research and Development Trust Fund, consisting of revenues from duties paid on imported citrus or citrus products, to support scientific research, technical assistance, and development activities to combat both domestic and invasive citrus diseases and pests harming the United States.
 
 Establishes the Citrus Disease Research and Development Board.
 
Makes Fund amounts available to the Board to develop a coordinated program of research and product development relating to: (1) scientific research of both domestic and invasive diseases and pests afflicting the citrus industry; and (2) support for the dissemination and commercialization of relevant information, techniques, and technologies discovered through Fund research or other research projects intended to solve problems caused by citrus production diseases and invasive pests.
 
Requires the President to notify certain congressional committees before entering into a trade agreement that could result in a decrease in the amount of: (1) duties paid on imported citrus or citrus products; and (2) funds transferred into the Fund.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-05-05
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2011-05-05
text: Introduced in Senate
Hearing Aid Assistance Tax Credit Act

Bill: 112-s-905
Sponsor: Sen. Harkin, Tom [D-IA]
Introduced: 2011-05-05 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Aging
Health technology, devices, supplies
Hearing, speech, and vision care
Income tax credits
Tax treatment of families

Summary:
action_date: 2011-05-05
text: Hearing Aid Assistance Tax Credit Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow an individual taxpayer to elect once every five years a nonrefundable income tax credit of up to $500 for the purchase of a qualified hearing aid for use by the taxpayer or a dependent.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-05-05
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2011-05-05
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to repeal the reduction in the deductible portion of expenses for business meals and entertainment.

Bill: 112-s-907
Sponsor: Sen. Inouye, Daniel K. [D-HI]
Introduced: 2011-05-05 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Income tax deductions

Summary:
action_date: 2011-05-05
text: Amends the Internal Revenue Code to increase the income tax deduction for business meals and entertainment expenses from 50% to 80% of such expenses after 2011.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-05-05
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. (text of measure as introduced: CR S2743-2744)
action_date: 2011-05-05
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S2743)
action_date: 2011-05-05
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to provide for the addition of certain real property to the reservation of the Siletz Tribe in the State of Oregon.

Bill: 112-s-908
Sponsor: Sen. Wyden, Ron [D-OR]
Introduced: 2011-05-05 in the Senate
Policy area: Native Americans
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Department of the Interior
Gambling
Indian lands and resources rights
Land transfers
Oregon

Summary:
action_date: 2011-05-05
text: 
Amends the Siletz Tribe Indian Restoration Act to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to take into trust for the Siletz Tribe additional lands that lie within the original 1855 Siletz Coast Reservation and are located in Benton, Douglas, Lane, Lincoln, Tillamook, or Yamhill County in Oregon.
 
Requires such land to be considered and evaluated as an on-reservation acquisition and become part of the Tribe's reservation if the county in which the land is located submits a written approval of such evaluation and consideration to the Secretary. (Off-reservation land acquisition requests require the Secretary to give greater scrutiny to the tribe's justification of the anticipated benefits from the acquisition.)
 
Prohibits gaming on lands taken into trust pursuant to this Act.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2012-02-02
text: Committee on Indian Affairs. Hearings held. Hearings printed: S.Hrg. 112-626.
action_date: 2011-05-05
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs.
action_date: 2011-05-05
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S2744)
action_date: 2011-05-05
text: Introduced in Senate