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Alaska Safe Families and Villages Act of 2011

Bill: 112-s-1192
Sponsor: Sen. Begich, Mark [D-AK]
Introduced: 2011-06-14 in the Senate
Policy area: Native Americans
Subjects: Alaska
Alaska Natives and Hawaiians
Correctional facilities and imprisonment
Detention of persons
Drug trafficking and controlled substances
Federal-Indian relations
Intergovernmental relations
Law enforcement administration and funding
Law enforcement officers

Summary:
action_date: 2011-06-14
text: 
Alaska Safe Families and Villages Act of 2011 - Directs the Office of Justice Programs of the Department of Justice (DOJ) to select up to nine Indian tribes in Alaska to participate in an Alaska Safe Families and Villages Demonstration Project.
 
Requires each Indian tribe that is selected to participate in the Project to complete a specified planning phase. Provides that after the Office of Tribal Justice certifies that a tribe has completed its planning phase the tribe shall exercise jurisdiction, concurrent with the civil jurisdiction of Alaska, over: (1) drug, alcohol, or related matters within the tribe's project area; and (2) persons of Indian or Alaska Native descent or other persons with consensual relationships with the Indian tribe or a member of the Indian tribe. Permits a participating tribe to impose specified sanctions. 
Requires the Office of Justice Services of the Department of the Interior to carry out a contract program for the employment by Indian tribes of Village Peace Officers in Alaska Native villages.
 
Authorizes Alaska, its political subdivisions, Indian tribes in Alaska, and the federal government to enter into intergovernmental agreements, including agreements concerning: (1) the employment of law enforcement officers, probation, and parole officers; (2) the cross-appointment and cross-deputization of tribal, state, municipal, or federal officials; (3) the detention or incarceration of offenders; and (4) jurisdictional or financial matters.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-11-10
text: Committee on Indian Affairs. Hearings held. Hearings printed: S.Hrg. 112-489.
action_date: 2011-06-14
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs. (text of measure as introduced: CR S3774-3776)
action_date: 2011-06-14
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S3773-3774)
action_date: 2011-06-14
text: Introduced in Senate
Federal-Aid Highway Preservation and Renewal Program Act of 2011

Bill: 112-s-1193
Sponsor: Sen. Cardin, Benjamin L. [D-MD]
Introduced: 2011-06-14 in the Senate
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Environmental assessment, monitoring, research
Intergovernmental relations
Pedestrians and bicycling
Roads and highways
Transportation programs funding
Transportation safety and security

Summary:
action_date: 2011-06-14
text: 
Federal-Aid Highway Preservation and Renewal Program Act of 2011 - Replaces the current Interstate (Highway System) maintenance program with a new surface transportation infrastructure preservation and renewal program.
 
Directs the Secretary of Transportation (DOT) to establish such a program to: (1) establish national priorities and goals for bringing federal-aid highways and federal-aid and non-federal-aid bridges into a state of good repair, (2) focus federal investment on preserving and improving roadway and bridge conditions, and (3) strengthen the connection between the use by a state of federal surface transportation funding.
 
Authorizes a state to use apportioned program funds for eligible highway infrastructure improvement projects and costs. Requires a state to give priority to eligible projects that help meet certain state of good repair performance standards and targets for the National Highway System (NHS).
 
Requires a state to: (1) develop an asset management process to support the development of system preservation and renewal plans for each class of infrastructure on NHS and federal-aid highways, and (2) develop and update such plans biennially for approval by the Secretary.
 
Requires each state to develop a safe streets policy that ensures that the safety and convenience of all users of a transportation system are accommodated in all phases of project planning and development.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-06-14
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works. (text of measure as introduced: CR S3777-3779)
action_date: 2011-06-14
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S3776-3777)
action_date: 2011-06-14
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to provide for a feasibility study before carrying out any Federal action relating to the Chicago Area Water System.

Bill: 112-s-1197
Sponsor: Sen. Coats, Daniel [R-IN]
Introduced: 2011-06-15 in the Senate
Policy area: Water Resources Development
Subjects: Aquatic ecology
Economic performance and conditions
Environmental assessment, monitoring, research
Floods and storm protection
Great Lakes
Illinois
Indiana
Marine and inland water transportation
Mississippi River
Unemployment
Watersheds

Summary:
action_date: 2011-06-15
text: 
Directs the Chief of Engineers, prior to any major federal action to prevent the introduction or establishment of a population of aquatic nuisance species between the Great Lakes and the Mississippi River Basins that would impact the flow of commerce or commercial activity within the Chicago Area Water [
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] System, to prepare an economic impact statement regarding: (1) the impact on commerce and commercial activity and on jobs and job opportunities; (2) any adverse economic effects that could not be avoided; (3) alternatives to the proposed action; (4) the relationship between any local short-term impacts on commerce or commercial activity and maintenance and enhancement of long-term productivity and environmental values; and (5) any adverse impacts to public or private property, including damage relating to flooding or new water drainage patterns. Allows such statement to be combined with a detailed statement of environmental impacts required to be prepared under the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-06-15
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.
action_date: 2011-06-15
text: Introduced in Senate
Essex National Heritage Area Reauthorization Act

Bill: 112-s-1198
Sponsor: Sen. Kerry, John F. [D-MA]
Introduced: 2011-06-15 in the Senate
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Historic sites and heritage areas
Massachusetts

Summary:
action_date: 2011-06-15
text: 
Essex National Heritage Area Reauthorization Act - Amends the Omnibus Parks and Public Lands Management Act of 1996 to: (1) extend the authority for the Secretary of the Interior to make grants or provide assistance respecting the Essex National Heritage Area until September 30, 2027, and (2) increase the total amount that may be appropriated for the Area under the Act to $20 million. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2012-03-07
text: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources Subcommittee on National Parks. Hearings held. With printed Hearing: S.Hrg. 112-401.
action_date: 2011-06-15
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
action_date: 2011-06-15
text: Introduced in Senate
Protecting the Privacy of Social Security Numbers Act

Bill: 112-s-1199
Sponsor: Sen. Feinstein, Dianne [D-CA]
Introduced: 2011-06-15 in the Senate
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Civil actions and liability
Computer security and identity theft
Congressional oversight
Consumer affairs
Department of Justice
Fraud offenses and financial crimes
Government information and archives
Government studies and investigations
Internet and video services
Internet, web applications, social media
Retail and wholesale trades
Right of privacy
Social security and elderly assistance

Summary:
action_date: 2011-06-15
text: 
Protecting the Privacy of Social Security Numbers Act - Amends the federal criminal code to prohibit the display, sale, or purchase of Social Security numbers without the affirmatively expressed consent of the individual, except in specified circumstances. Directs the Attorney General to study all the uses of Social Security numbers permitted, required, authorized, or excepted under any federal law, including the impact of such uses on privacy and data security.
 
Establishes a public records exception to the prohibition. Directs the Comptroller General to study Social Security numbers in public records. Grants the Attorney General rulemaking authority to enforce this Act's prohibition and to implement and clarify the permitted uses occurring as a result of an interaction between businesses, governments, or business and government. 
 
Prohibits a commercial entity from requiring an individual to provide a Social Security number when purchasing a commercial good or service or denying an individual the good or service for refusing to provide that number, with exceptions. Establishes civil and criminal penalties.
 
Extends civil monetary penalties for misuse of a Social Security number.
 
Authorizes: (1) criminal penalties under SSA title II for the misuse of a Social Security number, (2) civil actions and civil penalties against persons who violate this Act, and (3) federal injunctive authority with respect to any violation by a public entity.
 

 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-06-15
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. (text of measure as introduced: CR S3817-3821)
action_date: 2011-06-15
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S3817)
action_date: 2011-06-15
text: Introduced in Senate
End Excessive Oil Speculation Now Act of 2011

Bill: 112-s-1200
Sponsor: Sen. Sanders, Bernard [I-VT]
Introduced: 2011-06-15 in the Senate
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Commodities markets
Commodity Futures Trading Commission
Energy prices
Lighting, heating, cooling
Motor fuels
Oil and gas

Summary:
action_date: 2011-06-15
text: 
End Excessive Oil Speculation Now Act of 2011 - Directs the Chairman of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) to establish speculative position limits: (1) in any registered trading entity on or through which crude oil, gasoline, diesel fuel, jet fuel, or heating oil futures or swaps are traded that are equal to the position accountability levels or position limits established by the New York Mercantile Exchange (Exchange); and (2) that are equal to the position accountability levels or position limits established by such Exchange upon the aggregate number or amount of positions in contracts based upon the same underlying commodity that may be held by any person (including any group or class of traders) for each month across specified contracts, transactions, and swap contracts.
 
 Directs the Chairman to: (1) establish margin requirements of 12% for speculative swaps and futures trading in crude oil, gasoline, diesel fuel, jet fuel, and heating oil; (2) require each bank holding company, investment bank, hedge fund, or swaps dealer trading energy futures or swaps for its own benefit, or on behalf of, or as counterparty to, an index fund, exchange traded fund, or other noncommercial participant, to register with the CFTC as a noncommercial participant and be subject to position limits and margin requirements under this Act. 
 
Exempts bona-fide hedge trading from such position limits and margin requirements. 
 
Expresses the sense of Congress that, if finalized, the proposed position limits for derivatives that the CFTC included in a specified notice of proposed rulemaking do not fulfill the requirements of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act to diminish, eliminate, or prevent excessive speculation.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-06-15
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry.
action_date: 2011-06-15
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S3821-3822)
action_date: 2011-06-15
text: Introduced in Senate
Medicare Home Infusion Therapy Coverage Act of 2011

Bill: 112-s-1203
Sponsor: Sen. Snowe, Olympia J. [R-ME]
Introduced: 2011-06-15 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Drug therapy
Home and outpatient care
Medicare

Summary:
action_date: 2011-06-15
text: 
Medicare Home Infusion Therapy Coverage Act of 2011 - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to authorize Medicare coverage of home infusion therapy and home infusion drugs.
 
Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) to implement the Medicare home infusion therapy benefit in a manner that ensures that: (1) Medicare beneficiaries have timely and appropriate access to infusion therapy in their homes, and (2) there is rapid and seamless coordination between drug coverage under Medicare part D (Voluntary Prescription Drug Benefit Program) and home infusion therapy services coverage under Medicare part B (Supplemental Security Income) (SSI).


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-06-15
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2011-06-15
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S3831-3832)
action_date: 2011-06-15
text: Introduced in Senate
Southeastern Disaster Tax Relief Act of 2011

Bill: 112-s-1205
Sponsor: Sen. Shelby, Richard C. [R-AL]
Introduced: 2011-06-15 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Alabama
Appropriations
Arkansas
Atmospheric science and weather
Disaster relief and insurance
Electric power generation and transmission
Employee benefits and pensions
Georgia
Housing finance and home ownership
Income tax credits
Income tax deductions
Income tax exclusion
Kentucky
Low- and moderate-income housing
Mississippi
Natural disasters
North Carolina
Oklahoma
Public utilities and utility rates
Securities
Social work, volunteer service, charitable organizations
Student aid and college costs
Tax administration and collection, taxpayers
Tennessee
Wages and earnings

Summary:
action_date: 2011-06-15
text: 
Southeastern Disaster Tax Relief Act of 2011 - Extends certain disaster-related tax relief provisions to the Southeastern disaster area. Defines "Southeastern disaster area" as an area with respect to which a major disaster has been declared by the President under the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act due to severe storms, tornados, or flooding occurring after April 13, 2011, and before June 7, 2011, in Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Kentucky, Mississippi, Missouri, North Carolina, Oklahoma, and Tennessee.
 
Rescinds $12 billion of appropriated discretionary unexpired and unobligated federal funds to implement this Act. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-06-15
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2011-06-15
text: Introduced in Senate
Medicare Drug Savings Act of 2011

Bill: 112-s-1206
Sponsor: Sen. Rockefeller, John D., IV [D-WV]
Introduced: 2011-06-15 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Health care costs and insurance
Medicaid
Medicare
Prescription drugs
Public contracts and procurement
Retail and wholesale trades

Summary:
action_date: 2011-06-15
text: 
Medicare Drug Savings Act of 2011 - Amends part D (Voluntary Prescription Drug Benefit Program) of title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act (SSA) to require drug manufacturers to pay the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) drug rebates for rebate eligible (low-income) individuals. Excludes from Medicare coverage as a part D drug any drug or biological manufactured by a manufacturer that has not entered into and have in effect a rebate agreement with the Secretary.
 
Requires a rebate agreement to require a drug or biological manufacturer to provide to the Secretary a rebate, determined according to a specified formula, for each rebate period ending after December 31, 2011, for any covered Medicare part D drug dispensed after that date to any rebate eligible individual for which payment was made by a prescription drug plan (PDP) sponsor or MedicareAdvantage (MA) organization for such period. 
 
Specifies a formula for determination of Medicaid rebate amounts for such drugs or biologicals.
 
Amends SSA title XIX (Medicaid) to exclude any amounts paid under a rebate agreement from the determination of best price and average manufacturer price under the Medicaid program.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-06-15
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2011-06-15
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S3836)
action_date: 2011-06-15
text: Introduced in Senate
Data Security and Breach Notification Act of 2011

Bill: 112-s-1207
Sponsor: Sen. Pryor, Mark L. [D-AR]
Introduced: 2011-06-15 in the Senate
Policy area: Commerce
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Business records
Computer security and identity theft
Computers and information technology
Consumer affairs
Consumer credit
Federal Trade Commission (FTC)
Federal preemption
Fraud offenses and financial crimes
Internet and video services
Internet, web applications, social media
Marketing and advertising
Right of privacy

Summary:
action_date: 2011-06-15
text: 
Data Security and Breach Notification Act of 2011 - Requires the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to promulgate regulations requiring each covered entity (proprietorships, partnerships, estates, trusts, cooperatives, and nonprofit and for-profit corporations) that owns or possesses data containing personal information to implement policies and procedures regarding information security practices for the treatment and protection of such information.
 
Sets forth additional requirements for information brokers, including requiring brokers to: (1) submit their security policies to the FTC with a notification of a security breach or upon FTC request; (2) establish procedures to assure the accuracy of the information they collect, assemble, or maintain that is personal information or that identifies an individual; (3) provide individuals access to their personal information for review; and (4) correct inaccurate information. Authorizes the FTC to conduct information security practices audits of brokers who have had a security breach or require such brokers to conduct independent audits.
 
Directs the FTC to require information brokers to establish measures that facilitate the auditing or retracing of access to, or transmissions of, any data containing personal information. 
 
Makes it unlawful for information brokers to obtain or disclose personal information by false pretenses (pretexting).
 
Establishes procedures in the event of an information security breach. Requires a covered entity that discovers a breach to notify the FTC and affected individuals. Sets forth requirements concerning such notification, including the method of notification requirements and timeliness requirements. Allows an exemption from notification requirements if such entity determines that there is no reasonable risk of identity theft, fraud, or other unlawful conduct. Establishes a presumption that there is no such risk for encrypted data.
 
Applies this Act to nonprofit organizations.
 
Sets forth enforcement provisions.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-06-15
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
action_date: 2011-06-15
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to provide an election to terminate certain capital construction funds without penalties.

Bill: 112-s-1208
Sponsor: Sen. Wyden, Ron [D-OR]
Introduced: 2011-06-15 in the Senate
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Marine and coastal resources, fisheries
Marine and inland water transportation
Tax administration and collection, taxpayers

Summary:
action_date: 2011-06-15
text: 
Permits any person who entered into a capital construction fund agreement (an agreement to provide replacement vessels, additional vessels, or reconstructed vessels) with respect to certain vessels operated in the fisheries of the United States to make an election to terminate the capital construction fund established under such agreement. Sets forth provisions concerning the effect of such election, including the distribution and taxation of such funds, on individuals and entities.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-06-15
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2011-06-15
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S3837)
action_date: 2011-06-15
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to clarify authority granted under the Act entitled "An Act to define the exterior boundary of the Uintah and Ouray Indian Reservation in the State of Utah, and for other purposes".

Bill: 112-s-1209
Sponsor: Sen. Hatch, Orrin G. [R-UT]
Introduced: 2011-06-15 in the Senate
Policy area: Native Americans
Subjects: Indian lands and resources rights
Land transfers
Utah

Summary:
action_date: 2011-06-15
text: 
Authorizes Utah to relinquish for the benefit of the Ute Indian Tribe of the Uintah and Ouray Reservation certain of its school or subsurface mineral lands south of the border between Grand County and Uintah County, Utah, in exchange for federal subsurface mineral lands that the state requests north of that border.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-06-15
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
action_date: 2011-06-15
text: Introduced in Senate
SMART Act

Bill: 112-s-1210
Sponsor: Sen. Brown, Sherrod [D-OH]
Introduced: 2011-06-15 in the Senate
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Buy American requirements
Congressional oversight
Government information and archives
Government lending and loan guarantees
International law and treaties
Manufacturing
Public transit
Railroads
Transportation programs funding

Summary:
action_date: 2011-06-15
text: 
Strengthening Manufacturing and Rebuilding Transit Act of 2011 or SMART Act - Requires the Secretary of Transportation (DOT) to give preference to the award of discretionary or competitive grants, loans, loan guarantees, and lines of credit to transportation infrastructure projects, including the purchase of transit vehicle rolling stock, rail, and supporting equipment, in which manufactured goods to be purchased have a domestic content percentage that: (1) exceeds applicable federal requirements; and (2) in the case of rolling stock, is consistent with industry-recognized standards, if available. 
 
Directs the Secretary to establish a centralized website that provides rules and guidance, waiver notices, and agency actions of the domestic content (Buy America) standards for DOT federal-aid programs.
 
Requires the Secretary to subject to public notice and comment any request for waiver, and to publication in the Federal Register and notification to Director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) of any waiver, of Buy America requirements involving: (1) public transportation projects, (2) AMTRAK acquisition and maintenance of equipment and facilities, and (3) intercity passenger rail service corridor capital assistance projects.
 
Directs the DOT Inspector General to report annually to Congress on acquisitions funded by federal transportation infrastructure investments that do not comply with Buy American requirements.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-06-15
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.
action_date: 2011-06-15
text: Introduced in Senate