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Prescription Drug Affordability Act

Bill: 112-hr-147
Sponsor: Rep. Paul, Ron [R-TX-14]
Introduced: 2011-01-05 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Administrative remedies
Department of Health and Human Services
Drug safety, medical device, and laboratory regulation
Internet and video services
Internet, web applications, social media
Licensing and registrations
Prescription drugs
Trade restrictions

Summary:
action_date: 2011-01-05
text: 
Prescription Drug Affordability Act - Amends the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (FFDCA) to repeal provisions restricting the importation of prescription drugs. Allows a person who meets applicable legal requirements to be an importer of prescription drugs upon application to the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS). Requires the Secretary to approve such an application if the drug meets all FFDCA requirements for admission into the United States, including that the drug has been approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and is not adulterated or misbranded.
 
Prohibits the Secretary from taking any action against any of the persons involved with the interstate sale of a prescription drug through an Internet site if: (1) the sale was made in compliance with FFDCA, the Controlled Substances Act, and applicable state laws; and (2) accurate information regarding compliance with such laws is posted on the Internet site.
 
Makes this Act effective one year after enactment, without regard to whether the Secretary has promulgated regulations.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-02-01
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2011-01-05
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2011-01-05
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E7)
action_date: 2011-01-05
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-01-05
text: Introduced in House
Social Security for Americans Only Act of 2011

Bill: 112-hr-148
Sponsor: Rep. Paul, Ron [R-TX-14]
Introduced: 2011-01-05 in the House
Policy area: Social Welfare
Subjects: Foreign labor
International law and treaties
Social security and elderly assistance
Wages and earnings

Summary:
action_date: 2011-01-05
text: 
Social Security for Americans Only Act of 2011 - Amends title II (Old Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance) (OASDI) of the Social Security Act to: (1) prohibit the wages earned, and self-employment income derived, by individuals who are not U.S. citizens or nationals from being credited for coverage under the OASDI program; and (2) authorize the President to enter into (totalization) agreements with other nations to resolve entitlement and participation questions about their respective social security systems, taking into account such limitation on the crediting of wages and self-employment. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-01-14
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Social Security.
action_date: 2011-01-05
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2011-01-05
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E9-10)
action_date: 2011-01-05
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-01-05
text: Introduced in House
Social Security Beneficiary Tax Reduction Act

Bill: 112-hr-149
Sponsor: Rep. Paul, Ron [R-TX-14]
Introduced: 2011-01-05 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Income tax rates
Social security and elderly assistance

Summary:
action_date: 2011-01-05
text: Social Security Beneficiary Tax Reduction Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to repeal, effective January 1, 2011, the 1993 increase in income taxes on Social Security benefits.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-01-05
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2011-01-05
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E3)
action_date: 2011-01-05
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-01-05
text: Introduced in House
Senior Citizens Tax Elimination Act

Bill: 112-hr-150
Sponsor: Rep. Paul, Ron [R-TX-14]
Introduced: 2011-01-05 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Appropriations
Employee benefits and pensions
Government trust funds
Income tax exclusion
Income tax rates
Railroads
Social security and elderly assistance
Transportation employees

Summary:
action_date: 2011-01-05
text: 
Senior Citizens Tax Elimination Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to repeal the inclusion of any social security or tier I railroad retirement benefits in gross income.
 
Appropriates funds to cover reductions in transfers to the Social Security and Railroad Retirement Trust Funds resulting from the enactment of this Act. Expresses the sense of Congress against using tax increases to provide revenue necessary to carry out this Act. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-01-05
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2011-01-05
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E4)
action_date: 2011-01-05
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-01-05
text: Introduced in House
Seniors' Health Care Freedom Act of 2010

Bill: 112-hr-151
Sponsor: Rep. Paul, Ron [R-TX-14]
Introduced: 2011-01-05 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Contracts and agency
Medicare
Social security and elderly assistance

Summary:
action_date: 2011-01-05
text: 
Seniors' Health Care Freedom Act of 2010 [
sic
] - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to remove the affidavit requirement applicable to the use of private contracts with practitioners under Medicare.
 
Declares that no persons otherwise eligible for old-age benefits under Social Security shall be denied such benefits because of their voluntary refusal to participate in any part of the Medicare program.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-02-01
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2011-01-14
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2011-01-05
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, 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: 2011-01-05
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, 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: 2011-01-05
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E1-2)
action_date: 2011-01-05
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-01-05
text: Introduced in House
National Guard Border Enforcement Act

Bill: 112-hr-152
Sponsor: Rep. Poe, Ted [R-TX-2]
Introduced: 2011-01-05 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Border security and unlawful immigration
Military civil functions
National Guard and reserves

Summary:
action_date: 2011-01-05
text: 
National Guard Border Enforcement Act - Directs the Secretary of Defense (DOD) (Secretary) to deploy at least an additional 10,000 members of the National Guard for border control activities along the U.S.-Mexico border until the Secretary of Homeland Security (DHS) certifies that the federal government has achieved operational control of the border.
 
Authorizes the Secretary to exceed 10,000 upon the request of a state that shares a portion of the U.S.-Mexico border if, despite deployment of the additional 10,000, operational control of the border has not been achieved.
 
Requires the Secretary to provide funding to a state that submits to the Secretary of State a state border control activities plan meeting certain requirements. Limits the number of National Guard that may be so deployed.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-02-04
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Emerging Threats and Capabilities.
action_date: 2011-01-05
text: Referred to the House Committee on Armed Services.
action_date: 2011-01-05
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-01-05
text: Introduced in House
Ensuring Affordable Energy Act

Bill: 112-hr-153
Sponsor: Rep. Poe, Ted [R-TX-2]
Introduced: 2011-01-05 in the House
Policy area: Environmental Protection
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Air quality
Appropriations
Climate change and greenhouse gases
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
Environmental regulatory procedures
Executive agency funding and structure
Industrial facilities

Summary:
action_date: 2011-01-05
text: 
Ensuring Affordable Energy Act - Prohibits any funds appropriated or otherwise available for the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) from being used to implement or enforce: (1) a cap-and-trade program; or (2) any statutory or regulatory requirement pertaining to emissions of one or more greenhouse gases from stationary sources that is issued or becomes applicable or effective after January 1, 2011.
 
Defines: (1) &quot;cap-and-trade program&quot; as any regulatory program established after the date of enactment of this Act that provides for the sale, auction, or other distribution of a limited amount of allowances that permit the emission of one or more greenhouse gases; and (2) &quot;greenhouse gas&quot; to include carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, sulfur hexafluoride, hydrofluorocarbons, perfluorocarbons, or any other designated anthropogenic gas.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-02-01
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Power.
action_date: 2011-01-05
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2011-01-05
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-01-05
text: Introduced in House
Defund the Individual Mandate Act

Bill: 112-hr-154
Sponsor: Rep. Poe, Ted [R-TX-2]
Introduced: 2011-01-05 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Appropriations
Comprehensive health care
Health care costs and insurance
Health care coverage and access

Summary:
action_date: 2011-01-05
text: 
Defund the Individual Mandate Act - Prohibits any funds appropriated or otherwise made available to any federal department or agency from being used to implement or enforce any federal mandate to purchase health insurance.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-02-01
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2011-01-05
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2011-01-05
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-01-05
text: Introduced in House
Government Reform Act of 2011

Bill: 112-hr-155
Sponsor: Rep. Royce, Edward R. [R-CA-40]
Introduced: 2011-01-05 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Advisory bodies
Budget process
Congressional oversight
Executive agency funding and structure
Government information and archives
Government studies and investigations
Performance measurement

Summary:
action_date: 2011-01-05
text: 
Government Reform Act of 2011 - Establishes a Government Reform Commission to: (1) examine the current configuration of executive agencies and investigate their duties and responsibilities; (2) review agency operational jurisdictions to determine whether areas of overlap exist and whether the mission of any agency has become obsolete; (3) review and report to the President and Congress on existing Government Accountability Office (GAO), Congressional Budget Office (CBO), and Inspector General reports, together with any other existing governmental and nongovernmental recommendations, including those offered by the President's Private Sector Survey on Cost Control, for reducing waste in executive agencies; (4) submit to the President and Congress a proposed reorganization plan which shall provide for the realignment or closure of executive agencies to reduce duplication of services and increase productivity; and (5) transmit a copy of the plan to the Director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), who shall issue a public report detailing the predicted savings in federal expenditures that would result from implementing such plan. 
 
Sets forth separate provisions for presidential and congressional consideration of and actions on the proposed reorganization plan.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-02-08
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Government Organization, Efficiency, and Financial Management     .
action_date: 2011-01-05
text: Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.
action_date: 2011-01-05
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-01-05
text: Introduced in House
Health Care Safety Net Enhancement Act of 2011

Bill: 112-hr-157
Sponsor: Rep. Sessions, Pete [R-TX-32]
Introduced: 2011-01-05 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Civil actions and liability
Emergency medical services and trauma care
Health care coverage and access
Health facilities and institutions
Health personnel

Summary:
action_date: 2011-01-05
text: 
Health Care Safety Net Enhancement Act of 2011 - Amends the Public Health Service Act to deem a hospital or an emergency department and a physician or physician group of such hospital or emergency department to be an employee of the Public Health Service for purposes of any civil action that may arise due to providing emergency and post-stabilization services on or after January 1, 2012.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-02-01
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2011-01-05
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2011-01-05
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-01-05
text: Introduced in House
EXPENSE Act of 2011

Bill: 112-hr-158
Sponsor: Rep. Sessions, Pete [R-TX-32]
Introduced: 2011-01-05 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Business investment and capital
Income tax deductions

Summary:
action_date: 2011-01-05
text: 
Expensing Property Expands our Nation's Strong Economy Act of 2011 or the EXPENSE Act of 2011 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) repeal the limitations on the expensing of depreciable business assets; and (2) allow taxpayers to elect a two-year recovery period for depreciable property.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-01-05
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2011-01-05
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-01-05
text: Introduced in House
TBI Treatment Act

Bill: 112-hr-159
Sponsor: Rep. Sessions, Pete [R-TX-32]
Introduced: 2011-01-05 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Government information and archives
Health information and medical records
Health programs administration and funding
Hospital care
Mental health
Military medicine
Neurological disorders
Veterans' medical care

Summary:
action_date: 2011-01-05
text: 
TBI Treatment Act - Directs the Secretaries of Defense (DOD) and Veterans Affairs (Secretaries) to carry out a five-year pilot program under which each Secretary establishes a process for providing payments to facilities for treatments of traumatic brain injury (TBI) or post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) received by members of the Armed Forces and veterans in facilities other than military treatment facilities or Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) medical facilities. Subjects such payments to specified conditions, including approved treatment or study protocols. Requires the VA Secretary to notify each veteran with a service-connected injury or disability of the opportunity to receive such treatment or study protocol.
 
Requires the Secretaries to jointly: (1) develop and maintain a database containing data from each patient case involving the use of such treatments; and (2) report annually to Congress on the implementation of this Act.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-02-18
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Disability Assistance and Memorial Affairs.
action_date: 2011-02-04
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Military Personnel.
action_date: 2011-01-05
text: Referred to the Committee on Armed Services, and in addition to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2011-01-05
text: Referred to the Committee on Armed Services, and in addition to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2011-01-05
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-01-05
text: Introduced in House
Social Security Fairness for the Terminally Ill Act of 2011

Bill: 112-hr-160
Sponsor: Rep. Shuler, Heath [D-NC-11]
Introduced: 2011-01-05 in the House
Policy area: Social Welfare
Subjects: Long-term, rehabilitative, and terminal care
Social security and elderly assistance

Summary:
action_date: 2011-01-05
text: 
Social Security Fairness for the Terminally Ill Act of 2011 - Amends title II (Old Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance) (OASDI) of the Social Security Act to eliminate the waiting period for disability insurance benefits for terminally ill individuals. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-01-14
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Social Security.
action_date: 2011-01-05
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2011-01-05
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-01-05
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow Head Start teachers the same above-the-line deduction for supplies as is allowed to elementary and secondary school teachers.

Bill: 112-hr-161
Sponsor: Rep. Shuler, Heath [D-NC-11]
Introduced: 2011-01-05 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Income tax deductions
Preschool education
Teaching, teachers, curricula

Summary:
action_date: 2011-01-05
text: 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to define a teacher who works in a Head Start program for at least 700 hours during a school year as an eligible educator for purposes of the tax deduction for educational supplies (books, computer equipment, and other equipment and supplementary materials used in the classroom).


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-01-05
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2011-01-05
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-01-05
text: Introduced in House
Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals Judgeship and Reorganization Act of 2011

Bill: 112-hr-162
Sponsor: Rep. Simpson, Michael K. [R-ID-2]
Introduced: 2011-01-05 in the House
Policy area: Law
Subjects: Alaska
Arizona
California
Federal appellate courts
Guam
Hawaii
Idaho
Judges
Judicial procedure and administration
Montana
Nevada
Northern Mariana Islands
Oregon
Washington State

Summary:
action_date: 2011-01-05
text: 
Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals Judgeship and Reorganization Act of 2011 - Divides the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit into: (1) the Ninth Circuit, composed of California, Guam, Hawaii, and Northern Mariana Islands; and (2) the Twelfth Circuit, composed of Alaska, Arizona, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, Oregon, and Washington.
 
Directs the President to appoint two additional judges for the former Ninth Circuit, three judges for the new Ninth Circuit, and two additional temporary judges for the former Ninth Circuit. 
 
Specifies the locations where new circuits are to hold regular sessions. 
 
Distributes active circuit judges of the former Ninth Circuit to the new circuits. Allows senior circuit judges of the former Ninth Circuit to elect assignment. 
 
Provides for the disposition of cases pending in the former Ninth Circuit before the effective date of this Act as follows: (1) proceedings in matters that have been submitted for decision shall continue without regard to this Act; (2) matters not yet submitted for decision must be transferred to the court to which they would have been submitted under this Act; and (3) proceedings on petitions for rehearing or rehearing en banc in matters submitted or decided shall continue without regard to this Act. 
 
Authorizes the temporary assignment of circuit and district judges of the former Ninth Circuit between the new circuits. Authorizes administrative coordination between any two contiguous new circuits. 
 
Directs that the former Ninth Circuit shall cease to exist for administrative purposes two years after enactment of this Act.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-01-24
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Courts, Commercial and Administrative Law.
action_date: 2011-01-05
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2011-01-05
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-01-05
text: Introduced in House
Central Idaho Economic Development and Recreation Act

Bill: 112-hr-163
Sponsor: Rep. Simpson, Michael K. [R-ID-2]
Introduced: 2011-01-05 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Forests, forestry, trees
Idaho
Land transfers
Parks, recreation areas, trails
Water use and supply
Wilderness and natural areas, wildlife refuges, wild rivers, habitats

Summary:
action_date: 2011-01-05
text: 
Central Idaho Economic Development and Recreation Act - Designates specified parcels of federal land in central Idaho as wilderness areas and as components of the National Wilderness Preservation System (NWPS). 
 
Repeals existing law requiring review of portions of the Sawtooth National Recreation Area (SNRA) for possible inclusion in the NWPS. 
 
Provides for the use of an appropriate site in the vicinity of the Smiley Creek community in Blaine County in central Idaho for construction and use of a fire station for the Smiley Creek Rural Fire Protection District. Authorizes: (1) the use of such site through a special use permit or conveyance to the District; and (2) the issuance of a special use permit to the District for development of a well for fire protection and other public purposes. 
 
Requires the conveyance of specified parcels of federal land to Blaine and Custer Counties and the cities of Challis and Clayton in central Idaho. 
 
Sets forth requirements regarding trail management in Germania Creek Trail, Forest Service Trails 109 and 671, and Frog Lake Loop Trail. 
 
Authorizes such improvements as may be necessary for maintenance of the first mile of the Murdock Creek Trail as a primitive, nonpaved, and wheel-chair accessible trail.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-01-26
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests and Public Lands.
action_date: 2011-01-05
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2011-01-05
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-01-05
text: Introduced in House
Damaged Vehicle Information Act

Bill: 112-hr-164
Sponsor: Rep. Stearns, Cliff [R-FL-6]
Introduced: 2011-01-05 in the House
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Consumer affairs
Contracts and agency
Department of Transportation
Motor vehicles
Product safety and quality

Summary:
action_date: 2011-01-05
text: 
Damaged Vehicle Information Act - Directs the Secretary of Transportation (DOT), through the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), to issue a regulation to require persons who terminate a motor vehicle contract due to flood or water damage, collision, fire damage, theft and recovery, or any circumstance that adversely affects the fair market value of the vehicle to disclose information of such vehicle damage to the public.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-02-01
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Commerce, Manufacturing, and Trade.
action_date: 2011-01-05
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2011-01-05
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-01-05
text: Introduced in House