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FLY Act of 2011

Bill: 112-hr-626
Sponsor: Rep. Cleaver, Emanuel [D-MO-5]
Introduced: 2011-02-10 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Education programs funding
Elementary and secondary education
Financial literacy
Teaching, teachers, curricula

Summary:
action_date: 2011-02-10
text: 
Financial Literacy for Youth Act of 2011 or FLY Act of 2011 - Directs the Secretary of Education to establish a pilot program awarding grants to 10 state or local educational agencies (LEAs) to develop financial literacy programs in elementary and secondary schools.
 
Requires grant funds to be used to: (1) integrate financial literacy programs into elementary and secondary school curricula; (2) provide financial literacy teacher training; and (3) collect, analyze, and develop the information necessary to accomplish the pilot program.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-03-04
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education.
action_date: 2011-02-10
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2011-02-10
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-02-10
text: Introduced in House
Home Energy Loss Prevention Act

Bill: 112-hr-627
Sponsor: Rep. Cleaver, Emanuel [D-MO-5]
Introduced: 2011-02-10 in the House
Policy area: Housing and Community Development
Subjects: Civil actions and liability
Consumer affairs
Energy efficiency and conservation
Government lending and loan guarantees
Government trust funds
Housing finance and home ownership
User charges and fees

Summary:
action_date: 2011-02-10
text: 
Home Energy Loss Prevention Act - Prohibits a seller of housing that will be purchased with the assistance of a federally related housing loan from selling such housing, unless: (1) no less than five years before the sale of such housing, an energy audit is conducted; (2) the seller provides the purchaser a copy of audit results; and (3) such results are submitted to the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development (HUD).
 
 
Requires such audits to be conducted by a home energy auditor or equivalent. Requires such audit results to be recorded using energy audit and disclosure forms prescribed by the Secretary and to include: (1) a standardized ratings score that allows the housing's energy efficiency to be compared to the energy efficiency of similar housing; and (2) a prioritized list, based on cost-effectiveness and energy savings, of potential energy efficiency improvements.
 
Establishes notice requirements for persons who accept such loans.
 
Exempts from such requirements the seller of housing that: (1) was constructed no more than five years before the time of sale; and (2) is Energy Star qualified or certified under the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) Green Building Rating System of the United States Green Building Council or an equivalent certification system approved by the Secretary.
 
Requires the Secretary to maintain an online, publicly accessible database containing copies of audit results.
 
Authorizes the Secretary to grant a seller an exemption from any requirement of this Act that would cause the seller undue hardship due to circumstances unique to the housing and not based on a condition caused by the seller's actions. 
 
 
Requires the Secretary to assess persons that make federally related housing loans a fee for each such loan made and to deposit such fees in the Home Energy Loss Prevention Fund (established by this Act), which shall be available to the Secretary to carry out HUD's responsibilities under this Act.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-03-23
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Insurance, Housing and Community Opportunity.
action_date: 2011-02-10
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2011-02-10
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-02-10
text: Introduced in House
To amend part A of title IV of the Social Security Act to temporarily reinstate, with certain adjustments, the Emergency Contingency Fund for State Temporary Assistance for Needy Families Programs, and for other purposes.

Bill: 112-hr-628
Sponsor: Rep. Cleaver, Emanuel [D-MO-5]
Introduced: 2011-02-10 in the House
Policy area: Social Welfare
Subjects: Employment and training programs
Government trust funds
Intergovernmental relations
Poverty and welfare assistance
State and local finance

Summary:
action_date: 2011-02-10
text: 
Amends title IV (Temporary Assistance for Needy Families) (TANF) of the Social Security Act to reestablish for FY2011-FY2018 the Emergency Contingency Fund for State Temporary Assistance for Needy Families Programs for the purpose of grants to states by the Secretary of the Treasury related to: (1) increases in TANF caseloads, and (2) increased expenditures for non-recurrent short term benefits.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-02-14
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Human Resources.
action_date: 2011-02-10
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2011-02-10
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-02-10
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to modify the private activity bond rules to except certain uses of intellectual property from the definition of private business use.

Bill: 112-hr-629
Sponsor: Rep. Cleaver, Emanuel [D-MO-5]
Introduced: 2011-02-10 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Government buildings, facilities, and property
Intellectual property
Research and development
Securities
Tax administration and collection, taxpayers
Tax-exempt organizations

Summary:
action_date: 2011-02-10
text: 
Amends Internal Revenue Code provisions relating to tax-exempt private activity bond financing to exempt from the definition of &quot;private business use&quot; rights to intellectual property created by scientific research conducted by a governmental unit or tax-exempt organization.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-02-10
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2011-02-10
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-02-10
text: Introduced in House
Law Enforcement Officers' Military Service Act

Bill: 112-hr-630
Sponsor: Rep. Critz, Mark S. [D-PA-12]
Introduced: 2011-02-10 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management
Law enforcement officers
National Guard and reserves

Summary:
action_date: 2011-02-10
text: 
Law Enforcement Officers' Military Service Act - Allows a law enforcement officer who is involuntarily called or ordered to active duty or involuntarily retained on active duty for any period beginning on or after September 11, 2001, to receive credit for such period of active duty (as military service) under the Federal Employees Retirement System. Waives the requirement that such individuals deposit a specified percentage of basic pay received during such periods of military service to receive such credit. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-02-10
text: Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.
action_date: 2011-02-10
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-02-10
text: Introduced in House
WAGES Act

Bill: 112-hr-631
Sponsor: Rep. Edwards, Donna F. [D-MD-4]
Introduced: 2011-02-10 in the House
Policy area: Labor and Employment
Subjects: Wages and earnings

Summary:
action_date: 2011-02-10
text: 
Working for Adequate Gains for Employment in Services Act or WAGES Act - Amends the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 (FLSA) to establish a base minimum wage for tipped employees of at least: (1) $3.75 an hour beginning 90 days after the enactment of this Act; (2) $5.00 an hour beginning one year after the change in paragraph one takes effect; and (3) beginning two years after the change in paragraph two takes effect, and adjusted as necessary thereafter, 70% of the wage in effect under FLSA but in no case less than $5.50 an hour.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-03-04
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Workforce Protections.
action_date: 2011-02-10
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2011-02-10
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-02-10
text: Introduced in House
Highway Fairness and Reform Act of 2011

Bill: 112-hr-632
Sponsor: Rep. Flake, Jeff [R-AZ-6]
Introduced: 2011-02-10 in the House
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Government trust funds
Motor carriers
Roads and highways
Transportation programs funding
Transportation safety and security

Summary:
action_date: 2011-02-10
text: 
Highway Fairness and Reform Act of 2011 - Directs the Secretary of Transportation (DOT), beginning with FY2011, to carry out a direct federal-aid highway program to permit a state governor or chief executive officer, at least 90 days before the beginning of a fiscal year, to elect to: (1) waive the state's right to receive apportioned or allocated funds under the federal-aid highway program, and (2) receive instead a prorated amount of the taxes appropriated to the Highway Trust Fund (other than for the Mass Transit Account) which are attributable to highway users in the state. Requires a pro rata reduction of such tax-equivalent amount in order to fund contract authority for programs of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) and the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA).
 
 
Requires the Secretary to accept a state's election if: (1) the state has an interstate maintenance program; (2) it submits a plan describing the purposes, projects, and uses to which such amounts will be put and the federal-aid highway programmatic requirements the state elects to continue; (3) the state agrees to obligate program amounts exclusively for projects that would be eligible for surface transportation program funding; and (4) it continues to suballocate surface transportation program funds to urbanized and other areas using certain formulae and rules.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-02-11
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Highways and Transit.
action_date: 2011-02-10
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2011-02-10
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-02-10
text: Introduced in House
Orphan Earmarks Act of 2011

Bill: 112-hr-633
Sponsor: Rep. Flake, Jeff [R-AZ-6]
Introduced: 2011-02-10 in the House
Policy area: Economics and Public Finance
Subjects: Appropriations
Congressional oversight
Executive agency funding and structure

Summary:
action_date: 2011-02-10
text: 
Orphan Earmarks Act of 2011 - Rescinds any earmark of funds provided for any federal agency with more than 90% of the appropriated amount remaining available for obligation at the end of the 9th fiscal year after it was first made available. Authorizes the agency head to delay any such rescission if an additional obligation of the earmark is likely to occur during the following 12-month period.
 
Requires each agency head to identify and report every project that is an earmark with an unobligated balance at the end of each fiscal year to the Director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), who shall report a listing and accounting for such earmarks to Congress and to the public via the OMB website.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-02-18
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Government Organization, Efficiency, and Financial Management     .
action_date: 2011-02-10
text: Referred to the Committee on Appropriations, 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: 2011-02-10
text: Referred to the Committee on Appropriations, 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: 2011-02-10
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-02-10
text: Introduced in House
Debt Buy-Down Act of 2011

Bill: 112-hr-634
Sponsor: Rep. Flake, Jeff [R-AZ-6]
Introduced: 2011-02-10 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Budget deficits and national debt
Budget process
Government trust funds
Tax administration and collection, taxpayers

Summary:
action_date: 2011-02-10
text: 
Debt Buy-Down Act of 2011 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow individual taxpayers to designate up to 10% of their adjusted income tax liability for the reduction of the public debt.
 
Establishes in the Treasury the Public Debt Reduction Trust Fund to hold tax revenues generated by this Act for the reduction of the public debt. 
 
Amends the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 to require a sequestration of federal spending equivalent to the estimated aggregate amount designated by taxpayers under this Act to reduce the public debt. Prohibits any reduction in social security retirement benefits, veterans benefits, or interest payments on federal debt as a result of any such sequestration.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-02-10
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, 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: 2011-02-10
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, 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: 2011-02-10
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-02-10
text: Introduced in House
Parental Title Protection Act of 2011

Bill: 112-hr-635
Sponsor: Rep. Forbes, J. Randy [R-VA-4]
Introduced: 2011-02-10 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Government information and archives
Marriage and family status
Public contracts and procurement

Summary:
action_date: 2011-02-10
text: 
Parental Title Protection Act of 2011 - Requires federal agencies, contractors, or government-sponsored enterprises to use the words "mother" and "father" when describing parents, and not the words "parent 1" or "parent 2" (or similar words), in all official documents issued by such entities.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-02-18
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Technology, Information Policy, Intergovernmental Relations and Procurement Reform     .
action_date: 2011-02-10
text: Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.
action_date: 2011-02-10
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-02-10
text: Introduced in House
Fairness for Military Recruiters Act

Bill: 112-hr-637
Sponsor: Rep. Hunter, Duncan D. [R-CA-52]
Introduced: 2011-02-10 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Elementary and secondary education
Government information and archives
Higher education
Military personnel and dependents
Right of privacy
School administration

Summary:
action_date: 2011-02-10
text: 
Fairness for Military Recruiters Act - Amends the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (ESEA) to revise the process for blocking the access of military recruiters or institutions of higher education (IHEs) to secondary school student information. 
 
Requires ESEA-assisted local educational agencies (LEAs) to notify each secondary school student's parent of the option to submit a written request to the LEA that the student's name, address, and telephone listing not be released to military recruiters or IHEs without the parent's prior written consent. Prohibits LEAs from providing military recruiters or IHEs access to such information once they have received such a request, unless the student's parent provides written consent to such access. Gives students the rights accorded to their parents when they reach age 18.
 
Requires the Secretary of Defense to notify the Governor of the LEA's state and the Secretary of Education when an LEA denies access to military recruiters. Requires the Secretary of Education, upon receiving such notice, to determine whether: (1) the LEA has failed to comply substantially with the requirement to provide military recruiters with access to students and student information unless the parents have filed a prior consent request under this Act, and (2) the imposition of a penalty or remedy against the LEA is warranted.
 
Makes these requirements inapplicable to private secondary schools that maintain a religious objection to military service.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-03-04
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education.
action_date: 2011-03-03
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Military Personnel.
action_date: 2011-02-10
text: Referred to the Committee on Education and the Workforce, and in addition to the Committee on Armed Services, 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: 2011-02-10
text: Referred to the Committee on Education and the Workforce, and in addition to the Committee on Armed Services, 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: 2011-02-10
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E195-196)
action_date: 2011-02-10
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-02-10
text: Introduced in House
STAY PUT Act of 2011

Bill: 112-hr-638
Sponsor: Rep. Johnson, Timothy V. [R-IL-15]
Introduced: 2011-02-10 in the House
Policy area: Congress
Subjects: Appropriations
Congressional officers and employees
Congressional operations and organization
Government ethics and transparency, public corruption
Government studies and investigations
House of Representatives
Members of Congress
Transportation costs
Travel and tourism

Summary:
action_date: 2011-02-10
text: 
Suspending Travel After Years of Pleasure Trips on Unwitting Taxpayers Act of 2011 or STAY PUT Act of 2011 - Prohibits the use of appropriated funds, including official funds of the House of Representatives or funds available under any federal law, rule, or regulation, to pay for official travel outside of the United States by any Member, officer, or employee of the House, until the Comptroller General studies and reports to the Speaker of the House and the Secretaries of Defense (DOD) and of State on the use of certain appropriated funds for such travel and recommendations for appropriate restrictions on, and reporting requirements applicable to, such travel which will promote transparency and cost savings.
 
Exempts from the prohibition and requirements of this Act any travel: (1) to a military installation or to a theater of operations of the Armed Forces; and (2) by Members and employees of the Committee on Foreign Affairs or the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, if the travel is for official committee business.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-02-10
text: Referred to the House Committee on House Administration.
action_date: 2011-02-10
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-02-10
text: Introduced in House
Currency Reform for Fair Trade Act

Bill: 112-hr-639
Sponsor: Rep. Levin, Sander M. [D-MI-12]
Introduced: 2011-02-10 in the House
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Canada
Currency
International monetary system and foreign exchange
Latin America
Mexico
Tariffs

Summary:
action_date: 2011-02-10
text: 
Currency Reform for Fair Trade Act - Amends the Tariff Act of 1930 to include as a &quot;countervailable subsidy&quot; requiring action under a countervailing duty or antidumping duty proceeding the benefit conferred on merchandise imported into the United States from foreign countries with fundamentally undervalued currency.
 
Defines &quot;benefit conferred,&quot; in cases where the currency of a foreign country is exchanged for foreign currency (i.e., U.S. dollars) obtained from export transactions, as the difference between: (1) the amount of currency provided by a foreign country in which the subject merchandise is produced; and (2) the amount of currency such country would have provided if the real effective exchange rate of its currency were not fundamentally undervalued.
 
Declares that the fact that such a subsidy is also provided in circumstances not involving export shall not, for that reason alone, mean it cannot be considered export contingent and actionable under a countervailing duty and antidumping duty proceeding.
 
Requires the administering authority to determine that the currency of a foreign country is fundamentally undervalued if for an 18-month period: (1) the government of the country engages in protracted, large-scale intervention in one or more foreign exchange markets; (2) the country's real effective exchange rate is undervalued by at least 5%; (3) the country has experienced significant and persistent global current account surpluses; and (4) the country's government has foreign asset reserves exceeding the amount necessary to repay all its debt obligations falling due within the coming 12 months, 20% percent of the country's money supply, and the value of the country's imports during the previous 4 months.
 
Requires the use, for calculating a country's &quot;real effective exchange rate undervaluation,&quot; of certain guidelines of the Consultative Group on Exchange Rate Issues of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) or, if those guidelines are not available, generally accepted economic and econometric techniques and methodologies. Requires the use, also, of inflation-adjusted, trade-weighted exchange rates.
 
Applies the amendments made by this Act to goods from Canada and Mexico.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-02-14
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Trade.
action_date: 2011-02-10
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2011-02-10
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-02-10
text: Introduced in House