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Keeping Our Promises Act of 2011

Bill: 112-hr-3520
Sponsor: Rep. Young, Don [R-AK-At Large]
Introduced: 2011-11-29 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Veterans' pensions and compensation

Summary:
action_date: 2011-11-29
text: 
Keeping Our Promises Act of 2011 - Makes any change regarding the entitlement of members or former members of the Armed Forces to retired or retainer pay or to the computation of such pay inapplicable to an individual who first became a member or former member before the effective date of the change, unless: (1) the member or former member affirmatively accepts the change, or (2) the change would have the effect of expanding the member's entitlement or eligibility to such pay or increasing its amount.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2012-02-07
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Military Personnel.
action_date: 2011-11-29
text: Referred to the House Committee on Armed Services.
action_date: 2011-11-29
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-11-29
text: Introduced in House
Family Act of 2011

Bill: 112-hr-3522
Sponsor: Rep. Lewis, John [D-GA-5]
Introduced: 2011-11-30 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Income tax credits
Sex and reproductive health
Women's health

Summary:
action_date: 2011-11-30
text: 
Family Act of 2011 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow an income-based tax credit for 50% of qualified infertility treatment expenses. Allows $26,720 of such expenses to be taken into account for purposes of such credit for all taxable years. Defines "qualified infertility treatment expenses" as amounts paid for the treatment of infertility via in vitro fertilization if such treatment is provided by a licensed physician, surgeon, or other medical practitioner and is administered with respect to a diagnosis of infertility by a physician licensed in the United States. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-11-30
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2011-11-30
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-11-30
text: Introduced in House
Disabled Veterans Employment Protection Act

Bill: 112-hr-3524
Sponsor: Rep. Braley, Bruce L. [D-IA-1]
Introduced: 2011-11-30 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Disability and health-based discrimination
Employee leave
Employment discrimination and employee rights
Health care costs and insurance
Veterans' education, employment, rehabilitation
Veterans' medical care

Summary:
action_date: 2011-11-30
text: 
 Disabled Veterans Employment Protection Act - Entitles a person who is absent from employment by reason of the receipt of medical treatment for a service-connected disability (absent employee) to: (1) be retained by the person's employer; (2) the seniority and other rights and benefits determined by seniority that the person had on the commencement of such treatment plus the additional seniority and rights and benefits that the person would have attained if the person had remained continuously employed; and (3) be considered on furlough or leave of absence during such treatment and therefore entitled to other rights and benefits not determined by seniority as are other persons of similar seniority, status, and pay who are on furlough or leave of absence. Terminates such entitlement when a person knowingly provides written notice of the intent not to return to such position following treatment.
 
Allows the absent employee to use any vacation, annual, medical, or similar leave with pay accrued before the commencement of the treatment.
 
Provides that an employer shall not be required to comply with the requirements of this Act if: (1) the employer's circumstances have so changed as to make such compliance impossible or unreasonable; (2) such compliance would pose an undue hardship on the employer; or (3) the employment in question is for a brief, nonrecurring period without a reasonable expectation of continuing indefinitely or for a significant period. Limits the application of this Act to periods of absence of not more than 12 workweeks during any 12-month period.
 
Applies health insurance continuation requirements to absences from employment described in this Act.
 
Prohibits any employer discrimination or acts of reprisal against an absent employee.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2012-06-28
text: Forwarded by Subcommittee to Full Committee (Amended) by Voice Vote .
action_date: 2012-06-28
text: Subcommittee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
action_date: 2012-03-08
text: Subcommittee Hearings Held.
action_date: 2011-12-06
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Economic Opportunity.
action_date: 2011-11-30
text: Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2011-11-30
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-11-30
text: Introduced in House
Healthy Food Financing Initiative

Bill: 112-hr-3525
Sponsor: Rep. Schwartz, Allyson Y. [D-PA-13]
Introduced: 2011-11-30 in the House
Policy area: Agriculture and Food
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Agricultural prices, subsidies, credit
Department of Agriculture
Economic development
Food assistance and relief
Food industry and services
Fruit and vegetables
Government lending and loan guarantees
Performance measurement
Public-private cooperation
Retail and wholesale trades
Urban and suburban affairs and development

Summary:
action_date: 2011-11-30
text: 
Healthy Food Financing Initiative - Amends the Department of Agriculture Reorganization Act of 1994 to establish in the Department of Agriculture (USDA) a Healthy Food Financing Initiative to: (1) improve access to healthy foods in underserved areas; (2) create quality jobs; and (3) revitalize low-income communities by providing loans and grants to eligible food retailers to overcome the higher costs and initial barriers to entry in underserved urban, suburban, and rural areas.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-11-30
text: Referred to the House Committee on Agriculture.
action_date: 2011-11-30
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-11-30
text: Introduced in House
HEART for Women Act

Bill: 112-hr-3526
Sponsor: Rep. Capps, Lois [D-CA-23]
Introduced: 2011-11-30 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Cardiovascular and respiratory health
Congressional oversight
Drug safety, medical device, and laboratory regulation
Government information and archives
Government studies and investigations
Health care quality
Health information and medical records
Health programs administration and funding
Health promotion and preventive care
Licensing and registrations
Medical education
Medical research
Minority health
Prescription drugs
Women's health

Summary:
action_date: 2011-11-30
text: 
Heart Disease Education, Analysis, Research, and Treatment for Women Act or the HEART for Women Act - Directs the Comptroller General to report on whether the presentation of clinical study safety and effectiveness data by sex, age, and racial subgroups complies with Food and Drug Administration (FDA) requirements. Requires the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) to submit a response to such report, including a corrective action plan as needed.
 
 Requires the Director of the Office of Women's Health of FDA to report on the compliance of clinical studies of women's health with such FDA requirements, including requirements regarding: (1) the adequacy of representation of females, racial and ethnic minorities, and adults of all ages in approved clinical studies; and (2) the extent to which a summary of product safety and effectiveness data disaggregated by sex, age, and racial subgroup is available to the public. Requires the Director of the Office of Minority Health of FDA to submit a report that includes such information with respect to clinical studies of minority health.
 
Amends the Public Health Service Act to require the Secretary to report on the quality of, and access to, care for women with heart disease, stroke, and other cardiovascular diseases and to include recommendations for eliminating disparities in, and improving the treatment of, heart disease, stroke, and other cardiovascular diseases in women.
 
Reauthorizes a program to award grants for preventive heath services and referrals for medical treatment for women through entities that are screening women for breast or cervical cancer. Requires the Secretary to study the impact of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act on such services and make recommendations for improvement in the provision of preventive health services, referrals, and followup services to women eligible for such services.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-12-02
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2011-11-30
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2011-11-30
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-11-30
text: Introduced in House
Hate Crimes Against the Homeless Statistics Act of 2011

Bill: 112-hr-3528
Sponsor: Rep. Johnson, Eddie Bernice [D-TX-30]
Introduced: 2011-11-30 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Criminal justice information and records
Government information and archives
Hate crimes
Homelessness and emergency shelter

Summary:
action_date: 2011-11-30
text: 
Hate Crimes Against the Homeless Statistics Act of 2011 - Amends the Hate Crime Statistics Act to include crimes against the homeless in the crime data collected by the Attorney General under such Act. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-12-05
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.
action_date: 2011-11-30
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2011-11-30
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-11-30
text: Introduced in House
Northern Border Commerce Protection Act

Bill: 112-hr-3529
Sponsor: Rep. Owens, William L. [D-NY-23]
Introduced: 2011-11-30 in the House
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Canada
Customs enforcement
Trade agreements and negotiations
User charges and fees

Summary:
action_date: 2011-11-30
text: 
Northern Border Commerce Protection Act - Amends the Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1985 to reinstate the exemption for Canada from the payment of customs user fees by arriving passengers whose journey originated in Canada or originated in the United States or a U.S. territory or possession and was limited to Canada.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-12-07
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Trade.
action_date: 2011-11-30
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2011-11-30
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-11-30
text: Introduced in House
Freddie Mac Debt Reduction Act of 2011

Bill: 112-hr-3530
Sponsor: Rep. Perlmutter, Ed [D-CO-7]
Introduced: 2011-11-30 in the House
Policy area: Housing and Community Development
Subjects: Bankruptcy
Budget deficits and national debt
Financial services and investments
Housing finance and home ownership
Securities

Summary:
action_date: 2011-11-30
text: 
Freddie Mac Debt Reduction Act of 2011 - Amends the Housing and Community Development Act of 1992 with respect to the exercise of options on mortgage-backed securities by the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation (Freddie Mac) or, during the term of any conservatorship or receivership of Freddie Mac, the Director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA).
 
Directs Freddie Mac (or FHFA as its conservator or receiver) to exercise any option on a mortgage-backed security with a clean-up call option Freddie Mac has issued if the residual holder of the security is willing to share at least 50% of any excess proceeds from the exercise of the option with FHFA as conservator or receiver, which would thereby reduce the liability of taxpayers.
 
(A clean-up call option allows a transferor of assets, in this case mortgage assets, to buy them back after the outstanding asset values have been reduced substantially.)
 
Defines mortgage-backed security with a clean-up call option as any mortgage-backed security under which there is an option or right to redeem all remaining classes of the security whenever the aggregate remaining principal of the mortgage would be less than the optional redemption or clean-up call percentage.
 
Directs the Director to prohibit Freddie Mac and the Federal National Mortgage Association (Fannie Mae) from issuing any mortgage-backed security with a clean-up call option.
 
Directs the Director to ensure that any excess proceeds received as a result of the exercise of any clean-up call options be used only to reduce the budget deficit of the federal government.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2012-01-12
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Capital Markets and Government Sponsored Enterprises.
action_date: 2011-11-30
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2011-11-30
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-11-30
text: Introduced in House
Foreign Business Bribery Prohibition Act of 2011

Bill: 112-hr-3531
Sponsor: Rep. Perlmutter, Ed [D-CO-7]
Introduced: 2011-11-30 in the House
Policy area: Commerce
Subjects: Business ethics
Civil actions and liability
Foreign and international corporations
Government ethics and transparency, public corruption

Summary:
action_date: 2011-11-30
text: 
Foreign Business Bribery Prohibition Act of 2011 - Amends the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act of 1977 to make a foreign concern liable for up to treble damages to any issuer, domestic concern, or U.S. person as a result of violating certain anti-bribery prohibitions. (In effect, authorizes a private right of action against such concerns.)


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-12-05
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Courts, Commercial and Administrative Law.
action_date: 2011-12-02
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Commerce, Manufacturing, and Trade.
action_date: 2011-11-30
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on the Judiciary, 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: 2011-11-30
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on the Judiciary, 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: 2011-11-30
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-11-30
text: Introduced in House
American Indian Empowerment Act of 2011

Bill: 112-hr-3532
Sponsor: Rep. Young, Don [R-AK-At Large]
Introduced: 2011-11-30 in the House
Policy area: Native Americans
Subjects: Federal-Indian relations
Indian lands and resources rights
Land transfers

Summary:
action_date: 2011-11-30
text: 
American Indian Empowerment Act of 2011 - Requires the Secretary of the Interior to transfer land the federal government holds in trust for a federally recognized Indian tribe to such tribe as restricted fee tribal land, subject to a restriction against alienation and taxation, after receiving the Indian tribe's request for such transfer. (Restricted fee tribal land is land to which a tribe holds legal title, but which carries legal restrictions against alienation or encumbrance.)
 
Allows Indian tribes to lease, or grant an easement or right-of-way on, restricted fee tribal land for any period of time without the Secretary's review and approval.
 
Gives the laws of a federally recognized Indian tribe that establish a system of land tenure governing the use of the land it holds precedence over any federal law or regulation governing the use of such land, excepting a federal restriction against its alienation and taxation.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2012-02-07
text: Subcommittee Hearings Held.
action_date: 2011-12-05
text: Referred to the Subcommittee Indian and Alaska Native Affairs.
action_date: 2011-11-30
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2011-11-30
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-11-30
text: Introduced in House
ACE Act

Bill: 112-hr-3535
Sponsor: Rep. Polis, Jared [D-CO-2]
Introduced: 2011-12-01 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Academic performance and assessments
Education of the disadvantaged
Education programs funding
Elementary and secondary education
School administration
Teaching, teachers, curricula

Summary:
action_date: 2011-12-01
text: 
Achieving Change in Education Act or ACE Act - Amends the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (ESEA) to require states to identify public elementary or secondary schools as reward schools if they are making significant progress in closing the achievement gap and increasing student academic achievement, growth, and high school graduation rates for students in the aggregate and for the poor, minority, disabled, and limited English proficient student subgroups. 
 
Allows reward schools to use ESEA funds, except those related to serving special populations, in a comprehensive and coordinated manner for innovative programs.
 
Directs the Secretary of Education to award formula grants to states and, through them, subgrants to local educational agencies (LEAs) to provide: (1) tangible rewards to reward school staff, and (2) reward schools with financial rewards and increased budgeting and staffing flexibility. 
 
 Requires states to identify public schools as persistently low-performing schools if they are not making progress in improving the academic performance of their students and are performing in the bottom 5% of the state's elementary and secondary schools or have secondary school graduation rates below 60%.
 
Requires the Secretary to make formula grants to states and, through them, competitive subgrants to LEAs and LEAs that partner with experienced turnaround partners to: (1) implement one of six intervention models at each persistently low-performing school, and (2) identify and address issues that may contribute to low academic achievement in such schools. Sets forth the intervention actions required under the transformation, restart, school closure, turnaround, school engagement, and expanded school choice models. Makes LEAs eligible for a subgrant extension if they make significant annual progress on certain core academic indicators and leading indicators.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2012-03-29
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education.
action_date: 2011-12-01
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2011-12-01
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-12-01
text: Introduced in House
Safe Roads for America Act of 2011

Bill: 112-hr-3536
Sponsor: Rep. Johnson, Henry C. "Hank," Jr. [D-GA-4]
Introduced: 2011-12-01 in the House
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Department of Transportation
Roads and highways
Transportation programs funding
Transportation safety and security

Summary:
action_date: 2011-12-01
text: 
Safe Roads for America Act of 2011 - Requires the Secretary of Transportation to modify the target compliance dates for the following minimum retroreflectivity level standards: (1) implementation and continued use of an assessment or management method that is designed to maintain traffic sign retroreflectivity at or above the established minimum levels; (2) replacement of regulatory, warning, and post-mounted guide (except street name) signs identified using the assessment or management method as failing to meet the established minimum levels; and (3) replacement of street name signs and overhead guide signs that are identified using the assessment or management method as failing to meet the established minimum levels.
 
 Requires the Secretary to revise the notice of proposed amendments published in the Federal Register on August 31, 2011, to incorporate the new target compliance dates.
 
Includes measures designed to meet a state-established performance standard, federal regulation, or requirement contained in the Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices relating to minimum levels of retroreflectivity as projects for purposes of the highway safety improvement program.
 
Allows a maximum 100% federal share of the costs of construction related to maintaining minimum levels of retroreflectivity of highway signs or pavement markings.
 
Directs the Secretary to issue standards for the use of funds apportioned to a state for highway safety improvement projects to upgrade highway signs and pavement markings in order to meet or exceed minimum maintained levels of retroreflectivity. Requires such standards to prohibit fund use for maintenance activities.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-12-02
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Highways and Transit.
action_date: 2011-12-01
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2011-12-01
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-12-01
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Railway Labor Act to direct the National Mediation Board to apply the same procedures, including voting standards, to the direct decertification of a labor organization as is applied to elections to certify a representative, and for other purposes.

Bill: 112-hr-3538
Sponsor: Rep. Mica, John L. [R-FL-7]
Introduced: 2011-12-01 in the House
Policy area: Labor and Employment
Subjects: Labor-management relations
National Mediation Board
Railroads
Transportation employees

Summary:
action_date: 2011-12-01
text: 
Amends the Railway Labor Act to require the National Mediation Board to apply the same procedures, including voting standards, to the direct decertification of a labor organization as are applied to elections to certify a representative.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-12-02
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Railroads, Pipelines, and Hazardous Materials.
action_date: 2011-12-01
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2011-12-01
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-12-01
text: Introduced in House
HOPE VI Program Termination Act of 2011

Bill: 112-hr-3539
Sponsor: Rep. Canseco, Francisco "Quico" [R-TX-23]
Introduced: 2011-12-01 in the House
Policy area: Housing and Community Development
Subjects: Budget deficits and national debt
Housing and community development funding
Low- and moderate-income housing
Public housing

Summary:
action_date: 2011-12-01
text: 
HOPE VI Program Termination Act of 2011 - Amends the United States Housing Act of 1937 to repeal the authority of the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) to provide assistance to public housing agencies for demolition, site revitalization, replacement housing, and tenant-based assistance grants for projects (HOPE VI program).
 
Rescinds and permanently cancels all unobligated balances remaining available under the Act for the program, and terminates it.
 
Requires all such unobligated balances so rescinded and permanently canceled to be covered in the general fund of the Treasury for reducing the budget deficit of the federal government.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2012-01-12
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Insurance, Housing and Community Opportunity.
action_date: 2011-12-01
text: Referred to the Committee on Financial Services, 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: 2011-12-01
text: Referred to the Committee on Financial Services, 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: 2011-12-01
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-12-01
text: Introduced in House