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Pregnant and Parenting Students Access to Education Act of 2011

Bill: 112-hr-2617
Sponsor: Rep. Polis, Jared [D-CO-2]
Introduced: 2011-07-21 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Child care and development
Education programs funding
Elementary and secondary education
Minority education
Performance measurement
Preschool education
School administration
State and local government operations
Teaching, teachers, curricula
Teenage pregnancy
Transportation costs
Women's education

Summary:
action_date: 2011-07-21
text: 
Pregnant and Parenting Students Access to Education Act of 2011 - Authorizes the Secretary of Education to make formula grants to states and, through them, competitive subgrants to local educational agencies (LEAs) to establish or enhance educational programs and related services that enable pregnant and parenting students to enroll in, attend, and succeed in school. 
 
Requires state grantees to: (1) designate a Coordinator for Education of Pregnant and Parenting Students who is to develop and implement a state plan for educating pregnant and parenting students, and (2) develop and implement high-quality professional development programs for LEAs and school personnel.
 
Requires subgrantees to: (1) provide academic support services to pregnant and parenting students; (2) assist such students in accessing quality, affordable child care, and early childhood education services; (3) provide transportation services or assistance to such students and their children; (4) educate students, parents, and community members regarding the educational rights of such students; (5) train school personnel regarding the challenges facing pregnant and parenting students and their educational rights; (6) revise school policies and practices that hinder or discourage such students from continuing their education; (7) provide student parents with training and support in parenting, healthy relationship, and other life skills; and (8) provide educational and career mentoring services and peer groups to pregnant and parenting students.
 
Gives subgrant priority to LEAs in geographic areas with teen birth rates that: (1) exceed the state average; or (2) are below the state average, but higher than the state average for one or more racial or ethnic groups.
 
Directs the Secretary to conduct national activities that include: (1) providing technical assistance to states and reviewing their plans for educating pregnant and parenting students, (2) evaluating subgrantees' programs and education program service delivery models for such students, and (3) gathering and disseminating information regarding the education of such students and best practices in facilitating it.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-09-08
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education.
action_date: 2011-07-21
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2011-07-21
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-07-21
text: Introduced in House
Border Security Enhancement Act of 2011

Bill: 112-hr-2618
Sponsor: Rep. Quigley, Mike [D-IL-5]
Introduced: 2011-07-21 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Business records
Criminal justice information and records
Firearms and explosives
Fraud offenses and financial crimes

Summary:
action_date: 2011-07-21
text: 
Border Security Enhancement Act of 2011 - Amends the federal criminal code to increase the penalty (from five to ten years' inprisonment) for knowingly making a false statement or representation regarding information required to be kept in the records of a licensed firearms dealer, importer, manufacturer, or collector. 
 
Includes offenses involving misrepresentations relating to firearms within the definition of &quot;specified unlawful activity&quot; for purposes of the prohibition against financial transactions involving the proceeds of such activity.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-08-25
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.
action_date: 2011-07-21
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2011-07-21
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-07-21
text: Introduced in House
Veterans Affairs Active Shooter Training Act of 2011

Bill: 112-hr-2619
Sponsor: Rep. Rooney, Thomas J. [R-FL-16]
Introduced: 2011-07-21 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Firearms and explosives
Government buildings, facilities, and property
Health facilities and institutions
Law enforcement officers
Veterans' medical care

Summary:
action_date: 2011-07-21
text: 
Veterans Affairs Active Shooter Training Act of 2011 - Directs the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to establish policies and promulgate guidelines to ensure that law enforcement personnel charged with security functions at Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) medical centers receive active shooter training, as described in the Department of Defense (DOD) document entitled &quot;Protecting the Force: Lessons from Fort Hood.&quot;


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-07-29
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2011-07-21
text: Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2011-07-21
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-07-21
text: Introduced in House
To provide for treatment of members of a certain Indian tribe under the Native American Housing Assistance and Self-Determination Act of 1996.

Bill: 112-hr-2620
Sponsor: Rep. Schweikert, David [R-AZ-5]
Introduced: 2011-07-21 in the House
Policy area: Native Americans
Subjects: Arizona
Housing supply and affordability
Indian social and development programs
Low- and moderate-income housing

Summary:
action_date: 2011-07-21
text: 
Amends the Departments of Veterans Affairs and Housing and Urban Development, and Independent Agencies Appropriations Act, 1992, to consider members of the Pascua Yaqui Tribe who reside within the Arizona communities of Guadalupe, Tucson, Coolidge, Eloy, Chandler, and Scottsdale to be residing on an Indian reservation or area for purposes of the Native American Housing Assistance and Self-Determination Act of 1996 and any successor federal housing program.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-08-22
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Insurance, Housing and Community Opportunity.
action_date: 2011-07-21
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2011-07-21
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-07-21
text: Introduced in House
To amend title 49, United States Code, to establish a 10-year term of office for any individual appointed as the Assistant Secretary of Homeland Security (Transportation Security Administration), and for other purposes.

Bill: 112-hr-2622
Sponsor: Rep. Wolf, Frank R. [R-VA-10]
Introduced: 2011-07-21 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Department of Homeland Security
Department of Transportation
Executive agency funding and structure
Federal officials
Transportation safety and security

Summary:
action_date: 2011-07-21
text: 
Replaces the Under Secretary of Transportation for Security in the Department of Transportation (DOT) with the Assistant Secretary of Homeland Security as head of the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) in the Department of Homeland Security (DHS).
 
Increases the term of office of the Assistant Secretary from 5 to 10 years.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-08-03
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Transportation Security.
action_date: 2011-07-21
text: Referred to the House Committee on Homeland Security.
action_date: 2011-07-21
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-07-21
text: Introduced in House
9/11 Commission Review Act

Bill: 112-hr-2623
Sponsor: Rep. King, Peter T. [R-NY-3]
Introduced: 2011-07-22 in the House
Policy area: Emergency Management
Subjects: Advisory bodies
Congressional oversight
Government studies and investigations
Homeland security
Terrorism

Summary:
action_date: 2011-07-22
text: 
9/11 Commission Review Act - Establishes in the legislative branch a National Commission to Review the National Response Since the Terrorist Attacks of September 11, 2001. 
 
Directs the Commission to conduct a comprehensive review of the implementation of the recommendations proposed in the report issued by the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States (9/11 Commission) and to: (1) assess the progress and challenges in carrying out such recommendations; (2) analyze the trends of domestic terror attacks since the attacks of September 11, 2001, including the growing influence of domestic radicalization and how federal, state, and local agencies can deter and mitigate it; (3) investigate whether there is evidence of any conduct, relationships, or other factors which served to contribute to, facilitate, support, or assist the hijackers who carried out the attacks that was not considered by the 9/11 Commission; and (4) provide additional recommendations with regard to U.S. homeland security protection, interagency intelligence sharing, and counterterrorism policy.
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-07-22
text: Referred to the House Committee on Homeland Security.
action_date: 2011-07-22
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-07-22
text: Introduced in House
Universal College Credit Act

Bill: 112-hr-2624
Sponsor: Rep. Boswell, Leonard L. [D-IA-3]
Introduced: 2011-07-22 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Higher education
Income tax credits
Student aid and college costs

Summary:
action_date: 2011-07-22
text: 
Universal College Credit Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow a tax credit up to $5,000 annually for the qualified tuition and related expenses of an individual taxpayer, a taxpayer's spouse, or dependents for instruction at an institution of higher education. Allows such credit for four years of undergraduate education expenses and six years of graduate or professional education expenses. Excludes expenses for courses involving sports, games, or hobbies (unless part of a degree program) and expenses unrelated to an academic program (e.g., student activity fees, athletic fees, or insurance expenses).


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-07-22
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2011-07-22
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-07-22
text: Introduced in House
Research Participants Protection Modernization Act of 2011

Bill: 112-hr-2625
Sponsor: Rep. DeGette, Diana [D-CO-1]
Introduced: 2011-07-22 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Department of Health and Human Services
Disability and health-based discrimination
Executive agency funding and structure
Medical ethics
Medical research
Research administration and funding

Summary:
action_date: 2011-07-22
text: 
Research Participants Protection Modernization Act of 2011 - Amends the Public Health Service Act to require all human subject research conducted or supported by the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) or otherwise subject to HHS regulation to be conducted in accordance with HHS Human Subject Regulations and, if applicable, the vulnerable-population rules.
 
Requires all human subject research on drugs or biological products to be conducted in accordance with Food and Drug Administration (FDA) regulations and, if applicable, the vulnerable populations rule.
 
Requires the Secretary of HHS to make assistance available to any federal department or agency seeking to: (1) improve the regulation or oversight of human subject research, or (2) apply the HHS Human Subject Regulations or the vulnerable populations rules.
 
Requires the Secretary to determine whether any HHS Human Subject Regulations should be modified after considering specified matters, including financial conflicts of interest.
 
Sets forth notification requirements for investigators submitting a proposal for human subject research to an institutional review board, including regarding any significant financial interest. Requires the institution served by an institutional review board to review such significant financial interests and seek to eliminate or manage any conflict of interest.
 
Prohibits the Secretary from awarding a grant, cooperative agreement, or contract to a public entity or private academic institution for research unless the entity or institution maintains or contracts for a program to educate investigators and board members on the protection of human subjects in research.
 
Codifies the establishment of the Office for Human Research Protections in the Office of Secretary of HHS. Authorizes the Director of such Office to make grants for the development of model education programs that may be used by institutions served by institutional review boards to promote best practices in institutional management of human subject research.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-08-01
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2011-07-22
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2011-07-22
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-07-22
text: Introduced in House
To suspend temporarily the duty on certain high-performance loudspeakers.

Bill: 112-hr-2626
Sponsor: Rep. Markey, Edward J. [D-MA-7]
Introduced: 2011-07-22 in the House
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Tariffs

Summary:
action_date: 2011-07-22
text: Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to suspend temporarily the duty on certain high-performance loudspeakers.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-07-27
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Trade.
action_date: 2011-07-22
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2011-07-22
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-07-22
text: Introduced in House
To suspend temporarily the duty certain electrical transformers rated at 40VA.

Bill: 112-hr-2627
Sponsor: Rep. Markey, Edward J. [D-MA-7]
Introduced: 2011-07-22 in the House
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Tariffs

Summary:
action_date: 2011-07-22
text: Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to suspend temporarily the duty certain electrical transformers rated at 40VA.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-07-27
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Trade.
action_date: 2011-07-22
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2011-07-22
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-07-22
text: Introduced in House
Eliminating Disincentives to ROTC Participation Act

Bill: 112-hr-2628
Sponsor: Rep. Miller, Jeff [R-FL-1]
Introduced: 2011-07-22 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Education programs funding
Higher education
Military education and training
School administration
Teaching, teachers, curricula

Summary:
action_date: 2011-07-22
text: 
Eliminating Disincentives to ROTC Participation Act - Prohibits a four-year institution of higher education (IHE) from being awarded, or continuing to receive funds for performance under, a federal grant or contract unless it offers its students at least six credit hours for the successful completion of courses offered by the Senior Reserve Officers' Training Corps (ROTC) program.
 
Requires an IHE to offer its students such credit hours even if successful completion of the ROTC courses occurs elsewhere.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-09-08
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Higher Education and Workforce Training.
action_date: 2011-07-22
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2011-07-22
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-07-22
text: Introduced in House
Volunteer Firefighter Fairness Act of 2011

Bill: 112-hr-2630
Sponsor: Rep. Wu, David [D-OR-1]
Introduced: 2011-07-22 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Contracts and agency
Emergency medical services and trauma care
Employment taxes
Fires
First responders and emergency personnel
Health personnel
Social work, volunteer service, charitable organizations

Summary:
action_date: 2011-07-22
text: 
Volunteer Firefighter Fairness Act of 2011 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to treat qualified emergency service volunteers as independent contractors, not employees, for tax purposes. Defines &quot;qualified emergency service volunteers&quot; to include volunteers performing fire fighting and prevention services, emergency medical services, and ambulance services.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-07-22
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2011-07-22
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-07-22
text: Introduced in House
Livestock Marketing Fairness Act

Bill: 112-hr-2631
Sponsor: Rep. Lummis, Cynthia M. [R-WY-At Large]
Introduced: 2011-07-25 in the House
Policy area: Agriculture and Food
Subjects: Agricultural marketing and promotion
Agricultural prices, subsidies, credit
Contracts and agency
Livestock

Summary:
action_date: 2011-07-25
text: 
Livestock Marketing Fairness Act - Amends the Packers and Stockyards Act, 1921 to prohibit a livestock sale forward contract (with an exception for specified cooperatives) that: (1) does not contain a firm base price that may be equated to a fixed dollar amount on the contract day; (2) is not offered for open public bid; (3) is based on a formula price; or (4) provides for the sale of more than 40 cattle, 30 swine, or other livestock in a quantity as determined by the Secretary of Agriculture (USDA).
 
Defines: (1) "firm base price" as a transaction using an external source reference price; (2) "formula price" as any price term that establishes a base from which a purchase price is calculated on the basis of a price that will not be determined or reported until a date after the forward price is established (with specified exclusions); and (3) "forward contract" as a livestock purchase contract that provides for livestock delivery to a packer at a date that is more than seven days after the date on which the contract is entered into, without regard to whether the contract is for a specified lot of livestock or a specified number of livestock over a certain period of time.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-08-10
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Livestock, Dairy, and Poultry.
action_date: 2011-07-25
text: Referred to the House Committee on Agriculture.
action_date: 2011-07-25
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-07-25
text: Introduced in House
Life Sciences Jobs and Investment Act of 2011

Bill: 112-hr-2632
Sponsor: Rep. Nunes, Devin [R-CA-21]
Introduced: 2011-07-25 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Business investment and capital
Income tax credits
Income tax deductions
Interest, dividends, interest rates
Medical research
Research administration and funding
Small business
Taxation of foreign income

Summary:
action_date: 2011-07-25
text: 
Life Sciences Jobs and Investment Act of 2011 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow: (1) an increased research tax credit for qualified initial life sciences research expenses; and (2) certain corporations a tax deduction for dividends received which are reinvested solely in the United States to hire scientists and researchers engaged in life science research, fund life science research at research consortia, eligible small businesses, universities, and federal laboratories, or build or lease new facilities to be used primarily for qualified life sciences research. Terminates such tax incentives after 2016. 
 
Defines "qualified initial life sciences research expenses" as amounts, up to $150 million, attributable to the study of biology, biochemistry, biophysics, bioengineering, microbiology, genetics, or physiology, but excluding sociology or psychology. 
 
Directs the Commissioner of Internal Revenue to take necessary steps to ensure full compliance with the provisions of this Act and to report to Congress on the status of such compliance and related enforcement.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-07-25
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2011-07-25
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-07-25
text: Introduced in House
Cutting Out Inefficient and Needless Spending Act of 2011

Bill: 112-hr-2635
Sponsor: Rep. Polis, Jared [D-CO-2]
Introduced: 2011-07-25 in the House
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: Currency
Presidential administrations

Summary:
action_date: 2011-07-25
text: 
Cutting Out Inefficient and Needless Spending Act of 2011 or COINS Act of 2011 - Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to suspend issuance of circulating $1 coins honoring each of the Presidents of the United States during any period for which the surplus supply of $1 coins exceeds the reasonable circulation needs for one year.
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-08-22
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Domestic Monetary Policy and Technology.
action_date: 2011-07-25
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2011-07-25
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-07-25
text: Introduced in House
Neighborhood Preservation Act of 2011

Bill: 112-hr-2636
Sponsor: Rep. Miller, Gary G. [R-CA-42]
Introduced: 2011-07-25 in the House
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Bank accounts, deposits, capital
Banking and financial institutions regulation
Department of the Treasury
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC)
Federal Reserve System
Government corporations and government-sponsored enterprises
Housing finance and home ownership
National Credit Union Administration
Real estate business

Summary:
action_date: 2011-07-25
text: 

 Neighborhood Preservation Act of 2011 - Amends the Federal Deposit Insurance Act to authorize any depository institution (or affiliate) to lease, including lease with an option to purchase, to any individual for up to five years an interest in residential property which: (1) was or is security for an extension of credit by such depository institution (or affiliate), and (2) came under the institution's or affiliate's ownership or control through foreclosure (or a deed in lieu of foreclosure) on the extension of credit.
 
Directs the federal banking agencies to jointly prescribe specified safety and soundness regulations, including minimum capital requirements for such institutions or affiliates.
 
Permits extension of such a lease beyond five years if any federal or state law, including the Bank Holding Company Act of 1956, so permits.
 
Applies this Act only to leases entered into during the three-year period beginning on the date of the enactment of this Act.
 
Declares it is the intent of Congress that: (1) no permanent change in policy on leasing foreclosed property is being established with respect to depository institutions and depository institution holding companies, and (2) bank leasing of foreclosed property authorized under this Act should not apply to leases entered into after such three-year period.
 
Authorizes a government-sponsored enterprise (the Federal National Mortgage Association [Fannie Mae] or the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation [Freddie Mac]) to market for rental, before sale, any of its real estate owned properties and assets as the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) determines appropriate. Restricts lease agreements to five years.
 

 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-08-22
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Capital Markets and Government Sponsored Enterprises.
action_date: 2011-08-22
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Financial Institutions and Consumer Credit.
action_date: 2011-07-25
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2011-07-25
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-07-25
text: Introduced in House