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Life at Conception Act

Bill: 112-hr-374
Sponsor: Rep. Hunter, Duncan D. [R-CA-52]
Introduced: 2011-01-20 in the House
Policy area: Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Subjects: Abortion
Constitution and constitutional amendments

Summary:
action_date: 2011-01-20
text: 
Life at Conception Act - Declares that the right to life guaranteed by the Constitution is vested in each human being beginning at the moment of fertilization, cloning, or other moment at which an individual comes into being. Prohibits construing this Act to require the prosecution of any woman for the death of her unborn child.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-01-20
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2011-01-20
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-01-20
text: Introduced in House
Volunteer Emergency Services Recruitment and Retention Act of 2011

Bill: 112-hr-376
Sponsor: Rep. King, Peter T. [R-NY-3]
Introduced: 2011-01-20 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Department of Labor
Emergency medical services and trauma care
Employee benefits and pensions
Fires
First responders and emergency personnel
Health personnel
Income tax deferral
Social work, volunteer service, charitable organizations

Summary:
action_date: 2011-01-20
text: 
Volunteer Emergency Services Recruitment and Retention Act of 2011- Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow sponsors of certain deferred compensation plans to elect to include length of service award plans for bona fide volunteers providing firefighting and fire prevention services, emergency medical services, ambulance services, and emergency rescue services.
 
Directs the Secretary of Labor to issue regulations exempting a length of service award program from treatment as an employee pension benefit plan under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA). 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-02-25
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2011-01-20
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Education and the Workforce, 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: 2011-01-20
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Education and the Workforce, 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: 2011-01-20
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-01-20
text: Introduced in House
Food Assistance to Improve Reintegration Act of 2011

Bill: 112-hr-377
Sponsor: Rep. Lee, Barbara [D-CA-9]
Introduced: 2011-01-20 in the House
Policy area: Social Welfare
Subjects: Drug trafficking and controlled substances
Drug, alcohol, tobacco use
Food assistance and relief
Poverty and welfare assistance

Summary:
action_date: 2011-01-20
text: 
Food Assistance to Improve Reintegration Act of 2011 - Amends the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 to repeal the denial of Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP, formerly food stamps) eligibility for a person convicted of a felony which has as an element the possession, use, or distribution of a controlled substance.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-03-03
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Nutrition and Horticulture .
action_date: 2011-01-20
text: Referred to the House Committee on Agriculture.
action_date: 2011-01-20
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-01-20
text: Introduced in House
Public Housing Drug Elimination Program Reauthorization Act of 2011

Bill: 112-hr-378
Sponsor: Rep. Lee, Barbara [D-CA-9]
Introduced: 2011-01-20 in the House
Policy area: Housing and Community Development
Subjects: Child care and development
Crime prevention
Drug trafficking and controlled substances
Drug, alcohol, tobacco use
Housing and community development funding
Juvenile crime and gang violence
Public housing
Violent crime

Summary:
action_date: 2011-01-20
text: Public Housing Drug Elimination Program Reauthorization Act of 2011 - Amends the Anti-Drug Abuse Act of 1988 to authorize appropriations for the assisted housing drug elimination program. 
Limits activities for programs designed to reduce drug use in and around assisted low-income housing to: (1) providing drug abuse treatment through rehabilitation or relapse prevention, (2) providing education about the dangers and consequences of drug use or violent crime, (3) identifying drug users and assisting drug use discontinuance through education or treatment programs, (4) providing after school youth activities, and (5) providing capital improvements and security services to discourage or eliminate drug use or violent crime.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-03-23
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Domestic Monetary Policy and Technology.
action_date: 2011-01-20
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2011-01-20
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-01-20
text: Introduced in House
Community Partners Next Door Act of 2011

Bill: 112-hr-379
Sponsor: Rep. Lee, Barbara [D-CA-9]
Introduced: 2011-01-20 in the House
Policy area: Housing and Community Development
Subjects: Elementary and secondary education
Emergency medical services and trauma care
Fires
Government buildings, facilities, and property
Government information and archives
Health personnel
Housing and community development funding
Housing finance and home ownership
Law enforcement officers
Teaching, teachers, curricula

Summary:
action_date: 2011-01-20
text: 
Community Partners Next Door Act of 2011 - Amends the National Housing Act to provide: (1) a 50% discount for teachers, teacher assistants, administrators, and public safety officers purchasing certain eligible asset properties for use as their primary residence; (2) a $100 downpayment on any related insured mortgage; and (3) a higher Federal Housing Administration (FHA) loan limit for such purchases in high-cost areas.
 
Authorizes such sales directly to a qualifying individual or to a unit of local government or a nonprofit organization for resale to such individual.
 
Directs the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) to carry out a program to inform teachers and public safety officers about such program.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-03-23
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Insurance, Housing and Community Opportunity.
action_date: 2011-01-20
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2011-01-20
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-01-20
text: Introduced in House
Pursuit of International Education (PIE) Act of 2011

Bill: 112-hr-380
Sponsor: Rep. Lee, Barbara [D-CA-9]
Introduced: 2011-01-20 in the House
Policy area: International Affairs
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Appropriations
Area studies and international education
Caribbean area
Cuba
Department of the Treasury
Higher education
Latin America
Licensing and registrations
Sanctions
Travel and tourism

Summary:
action_date: 2011-01-20
text: 
Pursuit of International Education (PIE) Act of 2011 - Prohibits the use of funds made available to the Department of the Treasury to implement, administer, or enforce regulations to require specific licenses for travel-related transactions directly related to educational activities in Cuba.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-01-20
text: Referred to the House Committee on Foreign Affairs.
action_date: 2011-01-20
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-01-20
text: Introduced in House
Enhanced Violent Crime Community Policing Act of 2011

Bill: 112-hr-381
Sponsor: Rep. Lee, Barbara [D-CA-9]
Introduced: 2011-01-20 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Law enforcement administration and funding
Law enforcement officers
Violent crime

Summary:
action_date: 2011-01-20
text: 
Enhanced Violent Crime Community Policing Act of 2011 - Amends the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 to: (1) allow the use of public safety and community policing grants to hire and train new career law enforcement officers for deployment in communities with high incidences of violent crime; (2) direct the Attorney General to make grants to local governments to hire and train new career law enforcement officers for deployment in high crime areas to enhance community policing in such areas; and (3) authorize the Attorney General to give preference to grant applications for the hiring and training of new career law enforcement officers for deployment in high crime areas. Specifies that grant amounts shall provide for a 5% to 10% increase in the size of a grantee's sworn police force. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-02-07
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.
action_date: 2011-01-20
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2011-01-20
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-01-20
text: Introduced in House
Income Equity Act of 2011

Bill: 112-hr-382
Sponsor: Rep. Lee, Barbara [D-CA-9]
Introduced: 2011-01-20 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Business records
Employee benefits and pensions
Income tax deductions
Wages and earnings

Summary:
action_date: 2011-01-20
text: Income Equity Act of 2011- Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) deny employers a tax deduction for payments of excessive compensation to any full-time employee (i.e., compensation for services exceeding the greater of 25 times the lowest compensation paid to any other employee or $500,000), and (2) require such employers to file a report with the Secretary of the Treasury on excessive compensation (as defined by this Act) paid to their employees. Defines &quot;compensation&quot; to include wages, salary, deferred compensation, retirement contributions, options, bonuses, property, and other forms of compensation.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-01-20
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2011-01-20
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-01-20
text: Introduced in House
Peace Stamp for the Peace Corps Act

Bill: 112-hr-384
Sponsor: Rep. Lee, Barbara [D-CA-9]
Introduced: 2011-01-20 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Diplomacy, foreign officials, Americans abroad
Executive agency funding and structure
Peace Corps
Postal service
Social work, volunteer service, charitable organizations

Summary:
action_date: 2011-01-20
text: 
Peace Stamp for the Peace Corps Act - Directs the U.S. Postal Service to issue a semipostal (a postage stamp sold at a premium in order to help provide funding for certain causes) to benefit the Peace Corps.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-02-08
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Federal Workforce, U.S. Postal Service, and Labor Policy     .
action_date: 2011-01-20
text: Referred to the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, 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: 2011-01-20
text: Referred to the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, 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: 2011-01-20
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-01-20
text: Introduced in House
Poverty Impact Trigger Act of 2011

Bill: 112-hr-385
Sponsor: Rep. Lee, Barbara [D-CA-9]
Introduced: 2011-01-20 in the House
Policy area: Congress
Subjects: Congressional Budget Office (CBO)
Congressional agencies
Congressional operations and organization
Executive agency funding and structure
Government information and archives
House of Representatives
Legislative rules and procedure
Poverty and welfare assistance

Summary:
action_date: 2011-01-20
text: 
Poverty Impact Trigger Act of 2011 - Amends Rule XXI (Restrictions on Certain Bills) of the Rules of the House of Representatives to make it out of order to consider a public bill or joint resolution authorizing an appropriation of $10 million or more, unless: (1) the accompanying committee report includes a Congressional Budget Office (CBO) Poverty Impact Division impact statement, or (2) the chair of the committee reporting the legislation submits such statement for publication in the Congressional Record before consideration of the measure.
 
Amends the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 to establish the CBO Poverty Impact Division to prepare and submit poverty impact statements to the chair of House committees.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-01-20
text: Referred to the Committee on Rules, and in addition to the Committee on the Budget, 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: 2011-01-20
text: Referred to the Committee on Rules, and in addition to the Committee on the Budget, 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: 2011-01-20
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-01-20
text: Introduced in House
Charitable Driving Tax Relief Act of 2011

Bill: 112-hr-387
Sponsor: Rep. Petri, Thomas E. [R-WI-6]
Introduced: 2011-01-20 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Income tax exclusion
Motor vehicles
Social work, volunteer service, charitable organizations
Tax-exempt organizations
Transportation costs

Summary:
action_date: 2011-01-20
text: 
Charitable Driving Tax Relief Act of 2011- Amends the Internal Revenue Code to provide that volunteers who use their automobiles for the benefit of a charitable organization may exclude from their gross income reimbursements for their automobile operating expenses at the same level as business employees (i.e., 51 cents per mile in 2011).


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-01-20
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2011-01-20
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E89)
action_date: 2011-01-20
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-01-20
text: Introduced in House
Detainee Trials at Gitmo Act

Bill: 112-hr-388
Sponsor: Rep. Rooney, Thomas J. [R-FL-16]
Introduced: 2011-01-20 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Caribbean area
Correctional facilities and imprisonment
Cuba
Detention of persons
Latin America
Military facilities and property
Military law

Summary:
action_date: 2011-01-20
text: 
Detainee Trials at Gitmo Act - Provides that: (1) the detention facility at Naval Station, Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, shall remain in use indefinitely by the United States as a detention facility; and (2) any individual who is detained at Naval Station, Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, may only be tried by military commission which shall be conducted at Naval Station, Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-02-07
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on the Constitution.
action_date: 2011-01-20
text: Referred to the Committee on Armed Services, 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: 2011-01-20
text: Referred to the Committee on Armed Services, 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: 2011-01-20
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-01-20
text: Introduced in House
End the Stimulus Advertisement Act

Bill: 112-hr-389
Sponsor: Rep. Schock, Aaron [R-IL-18]
Introduced: 2011-01-20 in the House
Policy area: Economics and Public Finance
Subjects: Appropriations
Budget deficits and national debt
Congressional oversight
Financial crises and stabilization
Government information and archives

Summary:
action_date: 2011-01-20
text: 
 End the Stimulus Advertisement Act - Prohibits the use of funds appropriated or otherwise made available under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA) for physical signage indicating that a project is funded by such Act.
 
States that under appropriations Acts providing funds for each of FY2012 and FY2013, the total amount available for obligation for administrative expenses of an affected agency shall be the amount that would otherwise be available, reduced by 50% of the amount reported to have been expended before the enactment of this Act for such signage. Requires the head of each affected agency to report to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) a determination of such amount. Requires OMB to determine the allocation of such reduction among the accounts, and programs, projects, and activities within the accounts, of each affected agency. Requires the head of each affected agency to deposit such reduction amount in the general fund of the Treasury for purposes of deficit reduction. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-02-08
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Government Organization, Efficiency, and Financial Management     .
action_date: 2011-01-21
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Highways and Transit.
action_date: 2011-01-20
text: Referred to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, and in addition to the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, 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: 2011-01-20
text: Referred to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, and in addition to the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, 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: 2011-01-20
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-01-20
text: Introduced in House
Family Farm Preservation and Conservation Estate Tax Act

Bill: 112-hr-390
Sponsor: Rep. Thompson, Mike [D-CA-1]
Introduced: 2011-01-20 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Contracts and agency
Farmland
Land transfers
Land use and conservation
Transfer and inheritance taxes

Summary:
action_date: 2011-01-20
text: 
Family Farm Preservation and Conservation Estate Tax Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) exclude from the gross estate the value of property used by a decedent and the decedent's family as a farm for farming purposes and certain qualified conservation easements; and (2) impose a recapture tax if such farmland is sold outside the decedent's family or is no longer used for farming purposes or if a qualified conservation easement is likewise sold or used in violation of the terms of such easement.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-01-20
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2011-01-20
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-01-20
text: Introduced in House
For the relief of Emilio Maya.

Bill: 112-hr-391
Sponsor: Rep. Hinchey, Maurice D. [D-NY-22]
Introduced: 2011-01-20 in the House
Policy area: Private Legislation

Summary:
action_date: 2011-01-20
text: Provides for the relief of Emilio Maya.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-02-11
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration Policy and Enforcement.
action_date: 2011-01-20
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2011-01-20
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-01-20
text: Introduced in House
For the relief of Geert Botzen.

Bill: 112-hr-392
Sponsor: Rep. Lee, Barbara [D-CA-9]
Introduced: 2011-01-20 in the House
Policy area: Private Legislation

Summary:
action_date: 2011-01-20
text: Provides for the relief of Geert Botzen.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-02-11
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration Policy and Enforcement.
action_date: 2011-01-20
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2011-01-20
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-01-20
text: Introduced in House
For the relief of Maria Eva Duran, Jessica Duran Cortes, Daniel Ivan Duran Cortes, and Jose Antonio Duran Cortes.

Bill: 112-hr-393
Sponsor: Rep. Roybal-Allard, Lucille [D-CA-34]
Introduced: 2011-01-20 in the House
Policy area: Private Legislation

Summary:
action_date: 2011-01-20
text: Provides for the relief of Maria Eva Duran, Jessica Duran Cortes, Daniel Ivan Duran Cortes, and Jose Antonio Duran Cortes.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-02-11
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration Policy and Enforcement.
action_date: 2011-01-20
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2011-01-20
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-01-20
text: Introduced in House
Healthy Communities Water Supply Act of 2011

Bill: 112-hr-395
Sponsor: Rep. McNerney, Jerry [D-CA-11]
Introduced: 2011-01-24 in the House
Policy area: Water Resources Development
Subjects: Water quality
Water resources funding
Water use and supply

Summary:
action_date: 2011-01-24
text: 
Healthy Communities Water Supply Act of 2011 - Amends the Federal Water Pollution Control Act (commonly known as the Clean Water Act) to authorize appropriations for the pilot program for alternative water source projects. Requires the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), in making grants under the program, to consider whether a project is located in an area which is served by a public water system serving 10,000 individuals or fewer.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-01-25
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment.
action_date: 2011-01-24
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2011-01-24
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-01-24
text: Introduced in House