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Ending Corporal Punishment in Schools Act of 2011

Bill: 112-hr-3027
Sponsor: Rep. McCarthy, Carolyn [D-NY-4]
Introduced: 2011-09-22 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Child safety and welfare
Education programs funding
Elementary and secondary education
Government studies and investigations
School administration
Teaching, teachers, curricula

Summary:
action_date: 2011-09-22
text: 
Ending Corporal Punishment in Schools Act of 2011 - Amends the General Education Provisions Act to prohibit the Secretary of Education from providing education funding to any educational agency or institution that allows school personnel to inflict corporal punishment upon a student as a form of punishment or to modify undesirable behavior.
 
Requires each state to submit a plan to the Secretary, within 18 months of this Act's enactment and every third year thereafter, that describes how the state eliminates the use of corporal punishment in schools and makes school personnel and parents aware of its policies and procedures for doing so.
 
Authorizes the Secretary to award three-year grants to states and, through them, competitive subgrants to local educational agencies (LEAs) to assist them in improving school climate and culture by implementing school-wide positive behavior supports. 
 
Requires grant and subgrant funds to be used for professional training, technical assistance, research, and outreach regarding positive behavior supports. Requires LEAs to ensure that private school personnel can participate, on an equitable basis, in activities supported by such funds.
 
Authorizes the Secretary to allocate funds to the Secretary of the Interior to carry out such activities with regard to schools operated or funded by the Department of the Interior.
 
 Directs the Secretary to conduct a national assessment to determine compliance with this Act's requirements and identify best practices regarding positive behavior support professional training programs. 
 
 Gives Protection and Advocacy Systems the authority provided under the Developmental Disabilities Assistance and Bill of Rights Act of 2000 to investigate, monitor, and enforce this Act's protections for students.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-09-22
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2011-09-22
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-09-22
text: Introduced in House
Federal Employees Leave Transfer Act of 2011

Bill: 112-hr-3028
Sponsor: Rep. Moran, James P. [D-VA-8]
Introduced: 2011-09-22 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Employee leave
Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management

Summary:
action_date: 2011-09-22
text: 
Federal Employees Leave Transfer Act of 2011 - Directs the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) to modify by regulation the program for voluntary transfer of unused leave to allow federal employees to transfer unused sick leave and contribute such leave to agency leave banks for the use of other employees, on the same basis as is allowed for annual leave. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-10-03
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Federal Workforce, U.S. Postal Service, and Labor Policy     .
action_date: 2011-09-22
text: Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.
action_date: 2011-09-22
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E1688)
action_date: 2011-09-22
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-09-22
text: Introduced in House
Newtown Battlefield Special Resource Study Act

Bill: 112-hr-3031
Sponsor: Rep. Reed, Tom [R-NY-29]
Introduced: 2011-09-22 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Conflicts and wars
Europe
Government studies and investigations
Historic sites and heritage areas
Military history
New York State
Parks, recreation areas, trails
United Kingdom

Summary:
action_date: 2011-09-22
text: 
Newtown Battlefield Special Resource Study Act - Directs the Secretary of the Interior, subject to the availability of appropriations, to conduct a special resource study to evaluate the significance of the Newtown Battlefield in Chemung County, New York (where the Battle of Newtown was fought on August 29, 1779, during the Revolutionary War), as well as the suitability and feasibility of the Battlefield's inclusion in the National Park System. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-09-28
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests and Public Lands.
action_date: 2011-09-22
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2011-09-22
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-09-22
text: Introduced in House
Medicare Access to Radiology Care Act of 2011

Bill: 112-hr-3032
Sponsor: Rep. Reichert, David G. [R-WA-8]
Introduced: 2011-09-22 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Allied health services
Drug therapy
Medical tests and diagnostic methods
Medicare

Summary:
action_date: 2011-09-22
text: 
Medicare Access to Radiology Care Act of 2011 - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to authorize Medicare payment for the services of qualified radiologist assistants. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-09-28
text: Referred for a period ending not later than September 28, 2011, (or for a later time if the Chairman so designates) to the Subcommittee on Health, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the subcommittee concerned.
action_date: 2011-09-26
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2011-09-22
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: 2011-09-22
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: 2011-09-22
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-09-22
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Anti-Smuggling Act to subject vehicles, other conveyances, and instruments of international traffic to seizure and forfeiture for smuggling, and for other purposes.

Bill: 112-hr-3033
Sponsor: Rep. Reyes, Silvestre [D-TX-16]
Introduced: 2011-09-22 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Criminal procedure and sentencing
Smuggling and trafficking

Summary:
action_date: 2011-09-22
text: 
Amends the Anti-Smuggling Act of 1935 to subject to seizure and forfeiture any vehicles, other conveyances, or instruments of international traffic employed to defraud U.S. revenue or to smuggle merchandise into the United States.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-09-28
text: Referred for a period ending not later than September 28, 2011, (or for a later time if the Chairman so designates) to the Subcommittee on Trade, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the subcommittee concerned.
action_date: 2011-09-22
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2011-09-22
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-09-22
text: Introduced in House
San Francisco Bay Restoration Act of 2011

Bill: 112-hr-3034
Sponsor: Rep. Speier, Jackie [D-CA-12]
Introduced: 2011-09-22 in the House
Policy area: Environmental Protection
Subjects: California
Marine and coastal resources, fisheries
Water quality
Watersheds
Wetlands

Summary:
action_date: 2011-09-22
text: 
San Francisco Bay Restoration Act of 2011 - Amends the Federal Water Pollution Control Act (commonly known as the Clean Water Act) to authorize the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to provide funding to state and local agencies, special districts, and public or nonprofit agencies, institutions, and organizations for activities, studies, and projects identified in an annual priority list that advance the goals and objectives of the comprehensive conservation and management plan for the San Francisco estuary. Limits funding to 75% of the total cost of eligible activities to be carried out using such funds. 
 
Authorizes appropriations to the Administrator to carry out this Act for each of FY2012-FY2016. Prohibits such funding from being used by a management conference under the National Estuary Program. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-09-23
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment.
action_date: 2011-09-22
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2011-09-22
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-09-22
text: Introduced in House
Mobile Informational Call Act of 2011

Bill: 112-hr-3035
Sponsor: Rep. Terry, Lee [R-NE-2]
Introduced: 2011-09-22 in the House
Policy area: Science, Technology, Communications
Subjects: Consumer affairs
Marketing and advertising
Telephone and wireless communication

Summary:
action_date: 2011-09-22
text: 
Mobile Informational Call Act of 2011 - Amends the Communications Act of 1934 to revise the categories of calls (other than a call made for emergency purposes or made with the prior express consent of the called party) in which people are prohibited from using any automatic telephone dialing system or an artificial or prerecorded voice. Prohibits such calls to any telephone number assigned to a cellular service, specialized mobile radio service, or other radio common carrier service, or any service for which the called party is charged for the call, unless the call is made for a commercial purpose that does not constitute a telephone solicitation.
 
Defines "prior express consent" as the oral or written approval of a person: (1) for the initiation of a telephone call to such person by or on behalf of an entity with which such person has an established business relationship, and (2) that is provided when such person purchases a good or service or at any other point during such relationship. 
 
Deems a person who provides a telephone number as a means of contact to have evidenced such consent.
 
Prohibits a state from imposing any requirement or prohibition with respect to the use of telephone equipment subject to federally regulated restrictions, except for telephone solicitations.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-11-04
text: Subcommittee Hearings Held.
action_date: 2011-09-26
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Communications and Technology.
action_date: 2011-09-22
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2011-09-22
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-09-22
text: Introduced in House
Ready-to-Compete Act

Bill: 112-hr-3036
Sponsor: Rep. Yarmuth, John A. [D-KY-3]
Introduced: 2011-09-22 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Adult education and literacy
Broadcasting, cable, digital technologies
Education programs funding
Educational technology and distance education
Elementary and secondary education
Employment and training programs
Preschool education
Teaching, teachers, curricula
Television and film

Summary:
action_date: 2011-09-22
text: 
Ready-to-Compete Act - Amends the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to authorize the Secretary of Education to award grants to public telecommunications entities to coordinate the development, production, and distribution of innovative multiplatform educational programming and services for young children and youth and their parents, educators, and caregivers.
 
Requires grantees to award subcontracts or enter into agreements with public television stations and producers or distributors of educational programming for the operation of Ready to Learn programs.
 
Requires Ready to Learn programs to: (1) include programming that is aligned with state academic content and achievement standards; (2) include training and materials for educators and caregivers to facilitate their use of the programming and services; (3) address specific community and school needs, ascertained via ongoing community outreach programs; and (4) include programming in reading, social and emotional development, and at least one other topic in an academic or developmentally appropriate area.
 
Amends the Workforce Investment Act of 1998 to authorize the Secretary to award competitive grants to public television stations that partner with states, state workforce investment boards, or institutions of higher education to develop, disseminate, and provide on-line and on-air education and training services for adults.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-11-18
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education.
action_date: 2011-09-22
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2011-09-22
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-09-22
text: Introduced in House
Huna Tlingit Traditional Gull Egg Use Act of 2011

Bill: 112-hr-3037
Sponsor: Rep. Young, Don [R-AK-At Large]
Introduced: 2011-09-22 in the House
Policy area: Native Americans
Subjects: Alaska
Birds
Indian lands and resources rights
Parks, recreation areas, trails

Summary:
action_date: 2011-09-22
text: 
Huna Tlingit Traditional Gull Egg Use Act of 2011 - Authorizes the Secretary of the Interior to allow members of the Hoonah Indian Association to collect the eggs of glaucous-winged gulls up to two times a year at up to five locations within Alaska's Glacier Bay National Park.
 
Requires collection schedules and locations to be based on an annual plan prepared jointly by the Secretary and the Hoonah Indian Association. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-09-29
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests and Public Lands.
action_date: 2011-09-29
text: Referred to the Subcommittee Indian and Alaska Native Affairs.
action_date: 2011-09-22
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2011-09-22
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-09-22
text: Introduced in House
To amend title 49, United States Code, to direct the Secretary of Homeland Security to approve applications submitted by airport operators for participation in the security screening opt-out program, and for other purposes.

Bill: 112-hr-3038
Sponsor: Rep. Marchant, Kenny [R-TX-24]
Introduced: 2011-09-23 in the House
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Aviation and airports
Homeland security
Transportation safety and security

Summary:
action_date: 2011-09-23
text: 
Directs the Secretary of Homeland Security (DHS) (who currently is only authorized) to approve an application of an airport operator to have the screening of passengers and property at an airport be carried out by a qualified private screening company (security screening opt-out program).


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-10-07
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Transportation Security.
action_date: 2011-09-23
text: Referred to the House Committee on Homeland Security.
action_date: 2011-09-23
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-09-23
text: Introduced in House
Welcoming Business Travelers and Tourists to America Act of 2011

Bill: 112-hr-3039
Sponsor: Rep. Heck, Joseph J. [R-NV-3]
Introduced: 2011-09-23 in the House
Policy area: Immigration
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Asia
Brazil
China
Competitiveness, trade promotion, trade deficits
Congressional oversight
Department of State
Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management
India
International law and treaties
Latin America
Telephone and wireless communication
Travel and tourism
User charges and fees
Visas and passports

Summary:
action_date: 2011-09-23
text: 
Welcoming Business Travelers and Tourists to America Act of 2011 - Directs the Secretary of State to: (1) set a visa processing standard of 12 or fewer calendar days at U.S. diplomatic and consular missions in China, Brazil, and India; and (2) use machine readable nonimmigrant visa fees to hire a sufficient number of Foreign Service officers and limited non-career appointment consular officers to maintain such standard.
 
Directs the Secretary to: (1) conduct a two-year pilot program for the processing of nonimmigrant visas using secure remote video-conferencing technology for visa interviews, and (2) work with other federal agencies that use such secure communications to help ensure security of the video-conferencing transmission and encryption. 
 
Directs the Secretary to provide Congress with an annual forecast of demand through 2020 for nonimmigrant visas in the high-growth markets of Brazil, China, and India.
 
Authorizes the Secretary to modify or enter into agreements with certain countries on a non-reciprocal basis to allow for longer visa validity periods if doing so causes no adverse effects to the United States.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2012-05-17
text: Subcommittee Hearings Held.
action_date: 2011-10-12
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration Policy and Enforcement.
action_date: 2011-09-23
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, 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: 2011-09-23
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, 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: 2011-09-23
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-09-23
text: Introduced in House
Native American Indian Education Act of 2011

Bill: 112-hr-3040
Sponsor: Rep. Tipton, Scott  R. [R-CO-3]
Introduced: 2011-09-23 in the House
Policy area: Native Americans
Subjects: Appropriations
Education programs funding
Higher education
Indian social and development programs
Minority education
Student aid and college costs

Summary:
action_date: 2011-09-23
text: 
Native American Indian Education Act of 2011 - Directs the Secretary of Education to pay four-year Native American-serving nontribal institutions of higher education the out-of-state tuition of their Indian students if those schools are required to provide a tuition-free education, with the support of their state, to Indian students in fulfillment of a condition under which the college or state received its original grant of land and facilities from the federal government.
 
Limits that payment each fiscal year to the institution's total out-of-state tuition for Indian students in academic year 2010-2011.
 
Treats such payments as reimbursements to such institutions from their states.
 
Rescinds unobligated discretionary appropriations to offset the costs of this program.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-09-23
text: Referred to the Committee on Education and the Workforce, and in addition to the Committee on Appropriations, 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: 2011-09-23
text: Referred to the Committee on Education and the Workforce, and in addition to the Committee on Appropriations, 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: 2011-09-23
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-09-23
text: Introduced in House
Federal Consent Decree Fairness Act

Bill: 112-hr-3041
Sponsor: Rep. Cooper, Jim [D-TN-5]
Introduced: 2011-09-23 in the House
Policy area: Law
Subjects: Civil actions and liability
Intergovernmental relations
Judicial procedure and administration
State and local government operations

Summary:
action_date: 2011-09-23
text: 
Federal Consent Decree Fairness Act - Amends the federal judicial code to authorize any state or local government or related official (or successor) to file a motion to modify or terminate a federal consent decree upon the earliest of: (1) four years after the consent decree is originally entered; (2) in the case of a civil action in which a state or state official, or a local government or local government official, is a party, the expiration date of the term of office of the highest state or local government official who is a party to the consent decree; or (3) a date otherwise provided by law.
 
Places the burden of proof with respect to such motions on the party originally filing the action to demonstrate that the denial of the motion to modify or terminate a consent decree (or any part of it) is necessary to prevent the violation of a federal requirement that was: (1) actionable by such party, and (2) addressed in the consent decree.
 
Requires a court, within 30 days after the filing of a motion, to enter a scheduling order that: (1) limits the time of the parties to file motions and complete discovery, and (2) sets the date or dates of any necessary hearings.
 
Authorizes a court to stay the injunctive or prospective relief set forth in the consent decree if a party opposing the motion to modify or terminate it seeks any continuance or delay that prevents the court from entering a final ruling on the motion within 180 days after its filing.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2012-02-03
text: Subcommittee Hearings Held.
action_date: 2011-10-12
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Courts, Commercial and Administrative Law.
action_date: 2011-09-23
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2011-09-23
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-09-23
text: Introduced in House
Disaster Loan Fairness Act of 2011

Bill: 112-hr-3042
Sponsor: Rep. Barletta, Lou [R-PA-11]
Introduced: 2011-09-23 in the House
Policy area: Commerce
Subjects: Disaster relief and insurance
Interest, dividends, interest rates
Small business

Summary:
action_date: 2011-09-23
text: 
Disaster Loan Fairness Act of 2011 - Requires that, when the President declares a major disaster, the interest rates for any loan programs or guarantees under the Small Business Act or Small Business Investment Act of 1958, including home disaster loans, business physical disaster loans, and economic injury disaster loans, shall be 1% for eligible applicants in the declared disaster area, with or without other available credit.
 
Makes such rates applicable for the duration of all loans and guarantees made while the declaration is in effect.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-09-23
text: Referred to the House Committee on Small Business.
action_date: 2011-09-23
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-09-23
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 to reduce the discretionary spending limit for fiscal year 2013 and 2014 to the fiscal year 2012 level.

Bill: 112-hr-3043
Sponsor: Rep. Blackburn, Marsha [R-TN-7]
Introduced: 2011-09-23 in the House
Policy area: Economics and Public Finance
Subjects: Budget deficits and national debt
Budget process

Summary:
action_date: 2011-09-23
text: 
Amends the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 (Gramm-Rudman-Hollings Act) to reduce the discretionary spending limits (spending caps) for security and nonsecurity categories for FY2013-FY2014 to the FY2012 spending level of $1.43 trillion.



Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-09-23
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Budget.
action_date: 2011-09-23
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-09-23
text: Introduced in House