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Veterans' Efficiencies Through Savings Act of 2011

Bill: 112-hr-1298
Sponsor: Rep. LoBiondo, Frank A. [R-NJ-2]
Introduced: 2011-03-31 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Health facilities and institutions
Performance measurement
Veterans' medical care

Summary:
action_date: 2011-03-31
text: 
Veterans' Efficiencies Through Savings Act of 2011 or VETS Act of 2011 - Directs the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to conduct a cost-benefit analysis of the provision of medical care by the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) for: (1) any 75 square mile area where three or more VA outpatient clinics are located; and (2) any 100 square mile area where two or more VA hospitals are located.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-04-15
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2011-03-31
text: Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2011-03-31
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-03-31
text: Introduced in House
Billy's Law

Bill: 112-hr-1300
Sponsor: Rep. Murphy, Christopher [D-CT-5]
Introduced: 2011-03-31 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Crimes against children
Criminal justice information and records
Department of Justice
Evidence and witnesses
Government information and archives
Law enforcement administration and funding

Summary:
action_date: 2011-03-31
text: 
Billy's Law or the Help Find the Missing Act - Authorizes the Attorney General to maintain public databases, known as the National Missing and Unidentified Persons System or NamUs, to contain missing persons records and unidentified remains cases to assist in identifying missing people and solve cases of unidentified human remains. (Transfers to such System all functions, personnel, assets, liabilities, and administrative actions applicable to the National Missing and Unidentified Persons System carried out by the National Institute of Justice before enactment of this Act.)
 
Directs the Attorney General to: (1) provide for the sharing of information on missing persons and unidentified human remains contained in the National Crime Information Center (NCIC) missing and unidentified person database and the NamUs database; (2) update the online data entry format for such databases to allow states to report information to each database; (3) establish a matching grant program to assist in the reporting of missing persons and unidentified remains information to the NCIC and NamUs databases; (4) issue a report to the offices of medical examiners, offices of coroners, and federal, state, local, and tribal law enforcement agencies describing the best practices for collecting, reporting, and analyzing data and information on missing persons and unidentified human remains; and (5) report to Congress on the status of the NCIC Missing and Unidentified Person File and NamUs databases.
 
Amends the Crime Control Act of 1990 to require reports of missing children (under age 21) to NamUs databases.
 
Allows authorized agencies to remove or override information from the NamUs and NCIC databases if such information is submitted on behalf of a public user and is deemed to be inaccurate.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-07-11
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.
action_date: 2011-03-31
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2011-03-31
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-03-31
text: Introduced in House
District of Columbia Medicaid Reimbursement Act of 2011

Bill: 112-hr-1301
Sponsor: Del. Norton, Eleanor Holmes [D-DC-At Large]
Introduced: 2011-03-31 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: District of Columbia
Intergovernmental relations
Medicaid
State and local finance

Summary:
action_date: 2011-03-31
text: 
District of Columbia Medicaid Reimbursement Act of 2011 - Amends title XIX (Medicaid) of the Social Security Act to increase the Medicaid federal medical assistance percentage (FMAP) for the District of Columbia from 70% to 75%.
 

 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-04-07
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2011-03-31
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2011-03-31
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E587)
action_date: 2011-03-31
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-03-31
text: Introduced in House
Shirley Chisholm Congressional Gold Medal Act

Bill: 112-hr-1303
Sponsor: Rep. Rangel, Charles B. [D-NY-15]
Introduced: 2011-03-31 in the House
Policy area: Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Subjects: Congressional tributes
Members of Congress
Racial and ethnic relations
Women's rights

Summary:
action_date: 2011-03-31
text: 
Shirley Chisholm Congressional Gold Medal Act - Authorizes the posthumous award of a congressional gold medal in commemoration of Shirley Chisholm, in recognition of her activism, independence, and groundbreaking achievements in politics, her election as the first African-American woman in Congress, and her campaign to be the first African-American to gain the nomination of a major political party for President of the United States.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-05-02
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Domestic Monetary Policy and Technology.
action_date: 2011-03-31
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2011-03-31
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E585)
action_date: 2011-03-31
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-03-31
text: Introduced in House
Small Business Jobs Act Technical Corrections Act of 2011

Bill: 112-hr-1304
Sponsor: Del. Sablan, Gregorio Kilili Camacho [D-MP-At Large]
Introduced: 2011-03-31 in the House
Policy area: Commerce
Subjects: Competitiveness, trade promotion, trade deficits
Northern Mariana Islands
Small business
U.S. territories and protectorates

Summary:
action_date: 2011-03-31
text: 
Small Business Jobs Act Technical Corrections Act of 2011 - Amends the Small Business Jobs Act of 2010 to add the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands to the list of U.S. territories and possessions eligible for Small Business Administration (SBA) grants to carry out export programs that assist certain small businesses.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-03-31
text: Referred to the House Committee on Small Business.
action_date: 2011-03-31
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-03-31
text: Introduced in House
To prohibit Members of Congress, including the Delegates and the Resident Commissioner to the Congress, and the President from receiving pay during Government shutdowns.

Bill: 112-hr-1305
Sponsor: Rep. Shuler, Heath [D-NC-11]
Introduced: 2011-03-31 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Appropriations
Budget deficits and national debt
Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management
Members of Congress
Presidents and presidential powers, Vice Presidents

Summary:
action_date: 2011-03-31
text: 
Prohibits Members of Congress, including Delegates and the Resident Commissioner, and the President from receiving basic pay for any period in which: (1) there is more than a 24-hour lapse in appropriations for any federal agency or department as a result of a failure to enact a regular appropriations bill or continuing resolution, or (2) the federal government is unable to make payments or meet obligations because the public debt limit has been reached.
 
Prohibits retroactive payment of such forfeited pay.
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-04-01
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Federal Workforce, U.S. Postal Service, and Labor Policy.
action_date: 2011-03-31
text: Referred to the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, and in addition to the Committee on House Administration, 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: 2011-03-31
text: Referred to the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, and in addition to the Committee on House Administration, 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: 2011-03-31
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-03-31
text: Introduced in House
Unrecognized Southeast Alaska Native Communities Recognition and Compensation Act

Bill: 112-hr-1306
Sponsor: Rep. Young, Don [R-AK-At Large]
Introduced: 2011-03-31 in the House
Policy area: Native Americans
Subjects: Alaska
Alaska Natives and Hawaiians
Indian claims
Indian lands and resources rights

Summary:
action_date: 2011-03-31
text: 
Unrecognized Southeast Alaska Native Communities Recognition and Compensation Act - Amends the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act to permit the Native residents of each of the Native Villages of Haines, Ketchikan, Petersburg, Tenakee, and Wrangell, Alaska, to organize as Urban Corporations and to receive certain settlement land pursuant to this Act. 
 
Authorizes those Urban Corporations to establish a settlement trust to promote the health, education, and welfare of the trust beneficiaries, and preserve the Native heritage and culture of their communities. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-04-06
text: Referred to the Subcommittee Indian and Alaska Native Affairs.
action_date: 2011-03-31
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2011-03-31
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-03-31
text: Introduced in House
To provide that Executive Order 13166 shall have no force or effect, and to prohibit the use of funds for certain purposes.

Bill: 112-hr-1307
Sponsor: Rep. King, Peter T. [R-NY-3]
Introduced: 2011-04-01 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Appropriations
Congressional oversight
Foreign language and bilingual programs
Government information and archives
Poverty and welfare assistance
Presidents and presidential powers, Vice Presidents

Summary:
action_date: 2011-04-01
text: 
Declares Executive Order 13166, "Improving Access to Services for Persons with Limited English Proficiency," to be null and void.
 
Prohibits the use of funds for the promulgation or enforcement of an executive order that creates an entitlement to services provided in a language other than English.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-04-08
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Government Organization, Efficiency, and Financial Management     .
action_date: 2011-04-01
text: Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.
action_date: 2011-04-01
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-04-01
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to exempt certain emergency medical devices from the excise tax on medical devices, and for other purposes.

Bill: 112-hr-1310
Sponsor: Rep. Turner, Michael R. [R-OH-3]
Introduced: 2011-04-01 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Emergency medical services and trauma care
Health technology, devices, supplies
Sales and excise taxes

Summary:
action_date: 2011-04-01
text: 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to exempt a qualified emergency medical device from the excise tax on medical devices. Defines &quot;qualified emergency medical device&quot; as a medical device furnished by first responders or ambulance services in providing out-of-hospital or pre-hospital care, or transport to a medical care facility, for individuals with illnesses, injuries, or other medical emergencies or in need of medical transport, extrication, or evacuation.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-04-01
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2011-04-01
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-04-01
text: Introduced in House
Jobs for Veterans Act of 2011

Bill: 112-hr-1312
Sponsor: Rep. King, Peter T. [R-NY-3]
Introduced: 2011-04-01 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Income tax credits
Veterans' education, employment, rehabilitation

Summary:
action_date: 2011-04-01
text: 
Jobs for Veterans Act of 2011 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow an increased work opportunity tax credit for the hiring in 2011 or 2012 of veterans discharged or released from active military duty after September 11, 2001.
 
Reduces amounts authorized to be appropriated to the Department of Veterans Affairs for general administration in FY2011 and FY2012 to offset the cost of the increased credit allowed by this Act. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-04-15
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Economic Opportunity.
action_date: 2011-04-01
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Veterans' 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: 2011-04-01
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Veterans' 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: 2011-04-01
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-04-01
text: Introduced in House
Community Bank and Automotive Industry Recapitalization Act of 2011

Bill: 112-hr-1313
Sponsor: Rep. Polis, Jared [D-CO-2]
Introduced: 2011-04-01 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Bank accounts, deposits, capital
Capital gains tax
Financial services and investments
Income tax exclusion
Manufacturing
Motor vehicles
Securities

Summary:
action_date: 2011-04-01
text: 
Community Bank and Automotive Industry Recapitalization Act of 2011 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to exclude from gross income gain from the sale of qualified investment property acquired within 18 months after the enactment of this Act and held for more than five years. Defines &quot;qualified investment property&quot; as original issue stock in a community bank with less than $10 billion in assets or an automotive company.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-04-01
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2011-04-01
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-04-01
text: Introduced in House
Resource Assessment of Rare Earths Act of 2011

Bill: 112-hr-1314
Sponsor: Rep. Johnson, Henry C. "Hank," Jr. [D-GA-4]
Introduced: 2011-04-01 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Earth sciences
Government studies and investigations
Metals
Mining
Strategic materials and reserves

Summary:
action_date: 2011-04-01
text: 
Resource Assessment of Rare Earths Act of 2011 or RARE Act of 2011 - Directs the Secretary of the Interior, through the Director of the United States Geological Survey (USGS), to submit a comprehensive report on global rare earth element resources and the potential future global supply of such resources. 
 
Requires the report to include recommendations on areas of need for future geologic research related to rare earth elements and other minerals that are critical based on the impact of a potential supply restriction and the likelihood of one. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-06-03
text: Subcommittee Hearings Held.
action_date: 2011-04-06
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources.
action_date: 2011-04-01
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2011-04-01
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-04-01
text: Introduced in House
Stop Oxy Abuse Act of 2011

Bill: 112-hr-1316
Sponsor: Rep. Bono Mack, Mary [R-CA-45]
Introduced: 2011-04-01 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Drug safety, medical device, and laboratory regulation
Prescription drugs

Summary:
action_date: 2011-04-01
text: 
Stop Oxy Abuse Act of 2011 - Directs the Commissioner of Food and Drugs (FDA), within 90 days, to take such actions as may be necessary to modify the approval of, and limit any subsequent approval of, any drug containing controlled-release oxycodone hychloride to use for the relief of severe-only pain instead of moderate-to-severe pain.
 
Applies any such modification to drugs introduced into interstate commerce 180 days after enactment of this Act.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-04-07
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2011-04-01
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2011-04-01
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-04-01
text: Introduced in House
Stop Wasting Taxpayer Money on Cuba Broadcasting Act

Bill: 112-hr-1317
Sponsor: Rep. McCollum, Betty [D-MN-4]
Introduced: 2011-04-01 in the House
Policy area: International Affairs
Subjects: Caribbean area
Cuba
International exchange and broadcasting
Latin America

Summary:
action_date: 2011-04-01
text: 
Stop Wasting Taxpayer Money on Cuba Broadcasting Act - Repeals: (1) the Radio Broadcasting to Cuba Act, and (2) the Television Broadcasting to Cuba Act. (Thus eliminating Voice of America: Radio/Television Marti broadcasts to Cuba.)


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-04-01
text: Referred to the House Committee on Foreign Affairs.
action_date: 2011-04-01
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-04-01
text: Introduced in House
South Texas Veterans Health Care Expansion Act

Bill: 112-hr-1318
Sponsor: Rep. Cuellar, Henry [D-TX-28]
Introduced: 2011-04-01 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Building construction
Health facilities and institutions
Texas
Veterans' medical care

Summary:
action_date: 2011-04-01
text: 
South Texas Veterans Health Care Expansion Act - Directs the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to include in the Strategic Capital Investment Plan of the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) a project to expand the VA medical facility in Far South Texas, by adding: (1) an urgent care center; (2) inpatient capability for 50 beds, with appropriate support services; (3) the capability to provide a full range of services to meet the needs of female veterans; and (4) the capability to provide caregiver support services, including respite.
 
Requires a report from the Secretary to the congressional veterans committees identifying and outlining estimates of cost and time necessary for the completion of such project.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-04-15
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2011-04-01
text: Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2011-04-01
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-04-01
text: Introduced in House
Global Sexual and Reproductive Health Act of 2011

Bill: 112-hr-1319
Sponsor: Rep. Clarke, Yvette D. [D-NY-11]
Introduced: 2011-04-01 in the House
Policy area: International Affairs
Subjects: Abortion
Child health
Family planning and birth control
Foreign aid and international relief
Sex and reproductive health
Women's health
World health

Summary:
action_date: 2011-04-01
text: 
Global Sexual and Reproductive Health Act of 2011 - Authorizes the President to provide assistance to: (1) support the achievement of universal access to sexual and reproductive health in developing countries and to ensure that individuals and couples can freely and responsibly determine the number, timing, and spacing of their children and have the means to do so; (2) reduce the incidence of unsafe abortion in developing countries and provide care for women experiencing injury or illness from complications of unsafe abortion; (3) ensure that sexual and reproductive health services are provided in developing countries at every phase of a humanitarian emergency; and (4) ensure access to sexual and reproductive health care for young people in developing countries.
 
Directs the President to implement a strategy to improve and create linkages among the various components of sexual and reproductive health to ensure that individual men and women are provided with a continuum of appropriate sexual and reproductive health services. 
 
States that assistance under this Act shall: (1) promote coordination between and among donors, the private sector, nongovernmental and civil society organizations, and governments in order to support sexual and reproductive health programs in developing countries; and (2) be used for the conduct of formative research and to monitor and evaluate program effectiveness.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-05-13
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Africa, Global Health, and Human Rights.
action_date: 2011-04-01
text: Referred to the House Committee on Foreign Affairs.
action_date: 2011-04-01
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-04-01
text: Introduced in House
Earned Retiree Healthcare Benefits Protection Act of 2011

Bill: 112-hr-1322
Sponsor: Rep. Tierney, John F. [D-MA-6]
Introduced: 2011-04-01 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Administrative remedies
Aging
Civil actions and liability
Department of Labor
Employee benefits and pensions
Health care costs and insurance
Health care coverage and access

Summary:
action_date: 2011-04-01
text: 
Earned Retiree Healthcare Benefits Protection Act of 2011 - Amends the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA) to establish an enforceable obligation on sponsors of group health plans to restore health benefits previously taken away from plan participants to the extent such benefits were cancelled or altered after their retirement.
 
Prohibits group health plans from reducing retiree health benefits after the retirement of a plan beneficiary. Requires such plans to adopt provisions barring post-retirement reductions in retiree health benefits.
 
Requires group health plan sponsors to grant benefit restoration to retired plan participants. Authorizes the Secretary of Labor to waive or vary requirements for benefit restoration if compliance with such requirements would: (1) be adverse to the interests of plan participants in the aggregate, (2) not be administratively feasible, and (3) cause substantial business hardship to plan sponsors.
 
Authorizes the Secretary to assess civil penalties for violations of this Act. 
 

 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-04-15
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2011-04-01
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2011-04-01
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-04-01
text: Introduced in House